Discipline: Visual Art

Joe Fyfe

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998

Joe Fyfe has exhibited worldwide since the early 1980s. He has shown internationally throughout the last three decades. Recent solo exhibitions include Longhouse Projects, New York, White Columns, New York; Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne; ACME, Los Angeles; Graham, New York; Ryllega, Hanoi, Vietnam; and Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg. Fyfe was awarded a Fulbright in 2006, spending six months in Vietnam and Cambodia and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. He has also received several Pollock-Krasner and Gottleib foundation awards and most recently (2015) received an award from the Artadia Foundation.

In 2010, he curated the widely recognized "Le Tableau" at Cheim & Read, New York, that re-introduced a number of French abstractionists, including Claude Viallat into a contemporary dialogue with American abstraction. Additionally, he has curated 12 exhibitions at venues including Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton; Zurcher Studio, New York; and Apex Art, New York.
Fyfe has written reviews and essays for Artforum, Art in America, Arts AsiaPacific, Artnet.com, Hyperallergic, Modern Matter, Kilimanjaro and BOMB as well as numerous catalog essays. He is represented by Galerie Christian Lethert in Cologne, Germany and Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg, Geneva, Paris and St. Etienne.

Studios

Cheney

Joe Fyfe worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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