| 1953 | born Pasadena, California Lives and works in New York City and San Diego, CA |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2004 | University of California, Santa Barbara Sex, Love & Dutch Flower Painting |
| Cleary, Gottlieb, New York, NY curated by Elizabeth Levine | |
| Lincoln Center, New York, NY; Big Red Kiss, Light Projection for The Journey, John Ollom Dance Theater, | |
| 2003 | DBX Gallery, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2000 | Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA, Curator: Linda Benet |
| 1997 | New Arts Salon, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1996 | Metlife Building, New York, NY |
| 1995 | Saint Peter’s Church, Citicorp Center, Women in Predicaments, New York, NY |
| 1990 | Connecticut College, New London, CT |
| 1989 | ZONE Billboard Project, Urban Battlescene, , New York, NY |
| 1988 | BACA/DOWNTOWN Divine Comedy, 3-floor, installation painting |
| Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY | |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2007 | Artists Space, Night of a Thousand Drawings, New York, NY |
| 2006 | Wheeler Gallery, Secretive, Providence, RI. curated by Annette Cyr | 2005 | North Dakota Museum of Art, Benefit Auction, Grand Forks, ND |
| 2004 | Brooklyn Fire Proof, Intimacy, Brooklyn, NY, curated by David Gibson |
| 2002-03 | Temple Gallery, Fables of La Fontaine, Rome; Institute for American Universities, Aix, France; Maryland Art Institute & elsewhere in USA |
| 2003 | d.u.m.b.o arts festival, Bi-Polar, video installation, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1999 | New Jersey State Museum, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Trenton, NJ |
| The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, curated by Townsend Wolfe | |
| 1996 | New Jersey State Museum, New Acquisitions, Trenton, NJ |
| 1993 | Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME |
| The Arkansas Arts Center, Collectors Exhibition, Little Rock, AR, Curator: Townsend Wolfe | |
| 1992 | Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New and Old Faces, N.Y., NY |
| 1991 | Hillwood Museum, Original Sin, Brookville, NY |
| Art in General, OutLoud, New York, NY | |
| 1988 | White Columns, N.Y., NY |
| 1987 | One Penn Plaza, Movietone Muse, N.Y., NY |
| 1986 | Center on Contemporary Art Museum, Misogynists & Feminists, Together at Last, Seattle, WA |
| Yale University Gallery, New Haven, CT | |
AWARDS | |
| 1996 | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Painting |
| 1982-94 | Residency Fellowships at: Yaddo, NY; MacDowell, NH; Dorland Mountain Colony, CA; |
| Hambidge Center, GA; Art Awareness, NY; Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony, NY. | |
| 1990 | Art Matters, Inc. Grant, NYSCA Grant |
| 1988 | NYSCA & Art Matters Inc. funding for Divine Comedy, Brooklyn Arts Council |
| 1981 | The Helen Winternitz Excellence in Painting Award, Yale University |
| 1979-81 | Yale Tuition Scholarships |
| 1976 | The Arthur O. Anderson Tuition Scholarship, Skowhegan School |
SELECTED COLLECTIONS | |
| Alamo Rental, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL | |
| American Express, Minneapolis, MN | |
| New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ | |
| North Dakota Museum of Art, ND | |
| Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME | |
| Yale University, New Haven, CT | |
EDUCATION | |
| 1981 | MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| Studied with: William Bailey, Mel Bochner, Judy Pfaff, Natalie Charkow, Rackstraw Downes, Bernard Chaet | 1976 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
| 1976 | BA, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA | Studied with: Charles Garabedian, Michael Mazur, Robert Birmelin |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| Woodard, Josef 10 Best Art Shows, The Critics review of the best of 2004, Santa Barbara News Press, Dec. 26, 2004 | |
| Woodard, Josef Flowering Investigations, review of solo exhibition at UCSB, Santa Barbara News Press, Aug. 13, 2004 | |
| Berkus, Carey Santa Barbara Magazine, August-September 2004 | |
| The Fox News Channel The Horse Paintings of Annette Cyr, Pet News, Jan. 24, 1998 | |
| Sippel, Christopher 7 Against the Grain, catalogue, Showcase X, NY, NY, 1998 | |
| Couture, Andrea Like a Ride on a Runaway, Review of Horse Paintings, Spur, Dec. 1997. | |
| Fitzgerald, Nora An artist's 'Allegories' of the city, Review of solo exhibition at Connecticut College, The Day, Sunday, Feb. 17, 1990. | |
Selected Lectures/Panels | |
| 2005 | 10/05 Lecture on my Women in Predicaments paintings and Late Bloomers, my documentary film to the Women s Project Faculty Group, Nassau County Community College, NY |
| 2004 | 11/04 Panel discussion On Creativity, moderated by choreographer John Ollom, McBurney YMCA, NY, NY |
| 2003 | 10/03 Panel discussion of artists in the group show, Intimacy, moderated by curator, David Gibson, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Williamsburg, NY |
| 2001 | Slide lecture on Art History Influences in my Painting, Visual Literacy Program, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Related Professional Experience | |
| 1998 | Curatorial Assistant, Forbes Collection |
| 1987 | Studio assistant to sculptor Mierle Laderman Ukeles |
| 1985-6 | Assistant to Isamu Noguchi, Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, NY |