Richard Bosman was born in Madras, India, and currently lives in Esopus, NY.

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2007

“Rough Terrain”, Elizabeth Harris Gallery , New York , NY

2005

"New Paintings", Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

2004

"Richard Bosman", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY

"Richard Bosman", Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2003

"Richard Bosman", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY

"Just Below the Surface: Current and Early Relief Prints", Solo Impression Inc, New York, NY

1996

"Prints by Richard Bosman From the Collection of Wilson Nolen, The Century Association, New York, NY

1995

"Prints by Richard Bosman", Quartet Editions, Chicago, IL

1994

"Richard Bosman: Fragments", Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY

1993

"Richard Bosman: Nocturnes; New Paintings", Thimmesh Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

1992

"Richard Bosman", Galleria Toselli, Milan

1991

"Richard Bosman", Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY

"Richard Bosman, Holzshnitte und Radierungen 1980-1989", Galerie Biedermann, Munich

1990

"Richard Bosman", Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Madrid

"Richard Bosman: Recent Paintings", John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1989

"Richard Bosman", The Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu, Tokyo and Osaka

"Richard Bosman", Brooke Alexander, New York, NY

"Richard Bosman, Gifts of the Sea", Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego

"Richard Bosman Prints 1978-1988", Elvehjem Museum of Art, Univ. of WI-Madison;

1988

Galerie Lucien Bilinelli, Brussels

Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA

Galeria Temple, Valencia, Spain

1987

Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY

Sala Parpallo, Valencia Spain

Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL

1986

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY

Galeria Toselli, Milan

1985

Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

"Richard Bosman Prints", Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

"Richard Bosman Prints", Blond Fine Art, London

1984

"Shipwreck: A Narrative", Brooke Alexander, New York, NY

Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL

Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY

1983

The Mayor Gallery, London

Reconnaissance, Melbourne

Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY

1982

"Focus: Richard Bosman", The Fort Worth Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX

Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY

Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL

1981

Brooke Alexander, New York, NY

1980

Brooke Alexander, New York, NY

TWO PERSON EXHIBITION

1996

"Close to the Surface - The Expressionist Prints of Eduard Munch and Richard Bosman", The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004

"Contemporary Painting: Curated by Alex Katz", Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

"Nature", Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2002

"Solo Impression", Print Publisher's Spotlight, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

"The Sea, the Sea....", Art Upstairs @ GHB, East Hampton, NY

2001

"Hidden Identity", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY

2000

"The Figure, Another Side of Modernism", curated by Lily Wei, Snugharbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

1998

"Beyond the Mountain, Contemporary Landscapes", curated by Michael Klein

1996

"Thinking Print: Books to Billboards", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1994

Brooke Alexander, New York, NY

Hartman and Company, La Jolla, CA

1993

"Animals", curated by Molly Barnes and James Knowles, The Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY

"Sea Fever", Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA

"Sculpture and Multiples", Brooke Alexander, New York, NY

1991

American Academy of Arts & Letters Purchase Exhibition, New York, NY

1990

"Images of Death in Contemporary Art", Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI

1989

"Richard Bosman, Barbara Ess, Mark Tansey, Michael Zwack", Galeria La Macquina Espanola, Madrid

"First Impressions", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, traveled to the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY

1988

"Works on Paper", Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

"Prints in Parts", Crown Point Press, New York, NY

1987

"Sammlung Thomas: Kunst aus den achtziger Jahren", A Art 11 Forum Thomas, Munich

1986

"Selected Works from MOCA's Lowen Collection", Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA

"Public & Private: American Prints Today", The Brooklyn Museum

"Donald Baechler, Richard Bosman, Donald Lipski", Galerie Montenay-Delsol, Paris

"Painting & Sculpture Today, 1986", Indianapolis Museum of Art

"Face It", Anders Tornberg gallery, Lund, Sweden

1985

"State of War", Seattle Art Museum

1984

"Narrative Art", Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

"International Survey of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

"New Narrative Painting, Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art"

"Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained, American Visions of the New Decade", Venice Bienale

"The Human Condition", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Biennial III, San Francisco

"American Neo-Expressionism", Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

"Images & Impressions", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

"Pressures of the Hand, Expressionist Impulses in Recent America Art", Brainerd Art Gallery, State University of Arts and Science, Potsdam, NY

1983

"The End of the World, Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse", The New Museum of contemporary Art, New York, NY

"Back to the USA" Kunstmuseum, Luzern

"New York Painting Today", Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh

"Turbulences", American Center, Paris

"The American Artist as Printmaker: 23rd National Exhibit", The Brooklyn Museum

"Prints from Blocks, Gauguin to Now", Museum of Modern Art, New York

"New York I Dag-Arbejder Pa Papir", Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Sweden

1982

"Body Language", Hayden Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA

"New York Now", Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany

"The Image Scavengers", Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

"New Figuration in America", Milwaukee Art Museum

"Painting and Sculpture Today, 1982", Indianapolis Museum of Art

"74th American Exhibition", Art Institute of Chicago

"Projects: Artist's Books", Museum of Modern Art, New York

"Block Prints", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

"Awards in the Visual Arts 1", National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; traveled to Des Moines Art Center; Denver Art Museum

"Focus on the Figure: 20 Years", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1981

"22nd National Print Exhibition", The Brooklyn Museum, NY

"Real Life Magazine Presents", Nigel Greenwood, Inc., London

"Represent, Representation, Representative", Brooke Alexander, New York

1980

"Illustration & Allegory", Brooke Alexander, New York

"The Times Square Show", Times Square, New York

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2004

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2003

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2001

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1994

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1992

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1991

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1990

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1989

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1988

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1987

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1986

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1985

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1984

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1983

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1982

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1981

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1980

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PUBLICATIONS

1987

The Captivity Narrative of Hannah Duston, Related by Cotton Mather, John Greenleaf Whitter, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau, Woodcuts by Richard Bosman, published by The Arion Press, San Francisco

1985

Grasping at Emptiness, Poems by John Giorno, Drawings by Richard Bosman, published by the Kulchur Fondation, New York

1982

Exit the Face, Poems by Ted Greenwald, Drawings by Richard Bosman, Published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York

AWARDS

1994

Guggenheim Fellowship

1981

Awards in the Visual Arts

EDUCATION

1964-1969

The Bryam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing, London

1969-1971

The New York Studio School, New York

1970

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
• Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
• Baltimore Museum of Art
• Bibliotheque National, Paris
• Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles
• The Brooklyn Museum
• Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
• Colby College, Waterville, ME
• The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
• Des Moines Arts Center
• Detroit Institute of Art
• Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas,
• Indianapolis Museum of Art
• IV AM, Valencia, Spain
• Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
• Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
• Memphis Brooks Museum
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
• Milwaukee Art Museum
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
• Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
• New York Public Library, New York
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
• Renaissance Society, Chicago
• Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC -
• Wesleyan University, Division Art Center, Middletown, CT
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven