EDWARD LELAND ROTHFARB
236 South Orange Drive
Los Angeles, CA. 90036
(310) 951 3366
edroth1@mac.com
BORN, 1950
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2010 Ph.D | University of California, Los Angeles, Art History
2003 M.A. | University of California, Los Angeles, Art History
1972 B.F.A | School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Tufts University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1989 Sculpture Center, Gallery Two, New York, NY
1987 Edward Rothfarb: New Drawing and Sculpture, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
1982 Monumenta Merziana, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
1981 A Chamber Piece, Donnelly and Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
1980 Saint-Gaudens Memorial Museum, Cornish, NH
1978 Studio Show, sponsored by Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
City at the Center, Goodrich Gallery, Williams College, Williamstown, MA and Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Alterations / Activation / Abstraction, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Artists @ Home, Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY
Models and Drawings of Finalists, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1988 Everson Museum Biennial, Syracuse, NY
1987 Artists Choose Artists, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Small Works, Sculpture Center Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Creighton Michael / Ed Rothfarb, East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY
1985 Summer Selections, Part I, Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
1984 Eight Artists at Northside, Brooklyn, NY
Sited Sculpture at Walt Whitman Park, Brooklyn, NY
1983 Recent Acquisitions, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
1980 Architectural Sculpture, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Art of the State-Sculpture, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA
Two Views: Two Sculptors, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Six Sculptors, ICA, Boston, MA
1978 Luminations, Nobe Gallery, New York, NY
Models for Large-Scale Sculptural Proposals, Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA
A Dream That My Friend Told Me, PS1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY
1977 Current Concerns, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
Alan Motch / Ed Rothfarb, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1975 Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Substance / Presence, Boston Visual Artist’s Union Gallery, Boston, MA
Whitney Biennial – Five Artists, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gallery, Boston, MA
PUBLIC SCULPTURE
1985 Athos, Walt Whitman Park, Brooklyn, NY
1983 Istra, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1980 Story: A Walk in the Woods, St Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH
AWARDS
2005 Asian Cultural Council: Art and Religion Fellowship
1993 Indo-American Fellowship Program
1992 Penny McCall Foundation Fellowship
1986 The Pollock Krasner Foundation
1982 New Works, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
1981 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
1980 Blanche Coleman Award
1978 Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship in Sculpture
The Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship
1975 Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship in Sculpture
Works in Progress (NEA, ICA Boston, Boston 200) Boston, MA
RESIDENCIES
1993 Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME
1992 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1989 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1986 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Orchha and Beyond: Design at the Court of Raja Bir Singh Dev Bundela, Marg Foundation
1998 In the Land of the Taj Mahal, Henry Holt
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1987 Zimmer, William. “Review.” The New York Times, April 12
1986 Harrison, Helen A. “Review.” The New York Times, May 25
1983 McFadden, Sarah. “Report From Boston.” Art in America, May
Allara, Pamela. “Review.” Art New England, January
1981 Allara, Pamela. “The Boston Art Party”, Art News, November
1980 Leja, Michael. “Review.” Art in America, January
Burchett, Debra / Larson, Susan / Lippard Lucy. Architectural Sculpture. LAICA
1979 Halbreich, Kathy. Two Views: Two Sculptors. Hayden Gallery, MIT
Onorato, Ronald. “Review.” Artforum, October
1978 Schwartz, Ellen. “Review.” Art News, November