JOHN CHRISTIAN ANDERSON


Awards:

Traveling Fellowship, Tufts University, 2017

Professional Development Award, Framingham State College,

Framingham, Massachusetts

A.R.T Fund, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, 2001

A.R.T.Fund, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, 2006

A.R.T.Fund, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, 2016

Visiting Artist:

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont

University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts

The Boston Museum School, Boston, Massachusetts

DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln, Massachusetts

Workshops – Art New England at Bennington College (1987-1988-1991-1999)

Solo Exhibitions:

2022 It's Only Temporary, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston,MA

2019 Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston,MA

2017 Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston,MA

2006 Arthur Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College

2004 The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts

2003 The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art

1999 Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1989 Mills Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1988 Hoyle Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1987 Framingham State College, Framingham, Massachusetts

1981 Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, New York

1979 Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, New York

1978 Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2020, Through The Month of August, AreaCode Art Fair

2019/2020 Fuller Craft Museum, Human Impact:Stories From the Opioid Crisis

2019 Attleboro Museum of Art, Opposites

2018 Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston,MA, Breathe & Matter

2016 room83 Spring, Facsimile, Curated by John Christian Anderson, Watertown, MA

2015 Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro VT

2014 room83spring, Watertown, MA

2011 Framingham State University

2008 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts

2006 artStrand, Eleven+Eleven, Provincetown, Massachusetts

2004 DNA Gallery, Invitational, Provincetown, Massachusetts

2004 The Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts

2004 Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 18th Drawing Show

2003 Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts

2002 New Arts Gallery, Summer 2002, Litchfield, CT

2001 Tufts University, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA

2000 New Arts Gallery, “Boston in Bantam,” Bantam, CT

1999 DNA Gallery, “Escape,” Provincetown, Massachusetts

1999 New Arts Gallery, Bantam, Connecticut

1998 Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts

1997 Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1991 “Toys By Artists,” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts

1990 Sixth Triennial Exhibition, Fuller Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts

1989 “Sculpture on the Edge,” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts

1988 “Bits and Pieces,” Brockton Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts

1988 “Assemblage and Construction,” Danforth Museum

Framingham, Massachusetts

1987 Artist Foundation at City Place, Boston, Massachusetts

1987 University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire

March 1985 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1985 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

1984 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts

1983 Harvard University, Graduate School of Design,

Cambridge, Massachusetts

1982 University of Texas, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery

1981 University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

1980 “Young Artists Show,” Provincetown Art Association

and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts

1980 “John Christian Anderson, Fred Sandback,” Provincetown Group Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts and the Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, New York

Selected Bibliography:

Cate McQaid, The Boston Globe, Weekend Galleries, Dec 20 , 2019

Cate McQaid, The Boston Globe, Sunday Arts, July 25, 2004

Wes Mills: Arts Media, October 199

Fran Kaplow: Art New England, February 1985

Michael Leja: Art in America, July-August 1978

Eleanor Munro: Art New England, October 1980

Eugene Narrett: Art New England, July-August 1988

Harold Olejarz: Arts, November 1978

Lois Tarlow, Featured Artist: Art New England, July-August 1987

Robert Taylor: Boston Globe, December 11, 1980

Judy Feins Wasserman: Equal Times, August 14, 1978

Mara Witzliung: Art New England, June 1987

William Zimmer: Soho News, December 20, 1979

Commonwealth Review, Featured Artist, May 1989

Nancy Stapen, The Boston Sunday Herald, July 2, 1989

Education:

M.F.A., Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts - 1985

Boston University, Program in Artisanry, Graduate School

of Furniture Design - 1981

B.F.A. in Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,

California - 1972

Film Festivals:

Ideas:10 The Digital Narrative

Emily Carr University, Vancouver British Colombia, Oct, 2010

Santa Cruz Film Festival, Santa Cruz, California, May 2008

Utopia Film Festival, Maryland, October 2007

Santa Cruz Film Festival, Santa Cruz California, May 2006:

“DARGONTOOSAY” 3min30seconds, 2005/06

“La Vision” 5 min.50seconds 2005/06

SOWA Film Festival, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2006:

“DARGONTOOSAY” and “La Vision”

Selected Collections:

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Scott Bennett, Litchfield, Connecticut

Ms. Gaye Breakstone, New York, New York

Justin Ebersman, New York, New York

Pres. Ehman, Boston, Massachusetts

Mr. And Mrs. Martin Falk, Waban, Massachusetts

Mr. Robert Freidus, New York, New York - Commission

Index Group, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts

Narinjan Khalso, Medway, Massachusetts

Mr. Robert Laplant, Boston, Massachusetts

Norman and Legh Raben, Boston, Massachusetts

Ms. Anne Columbia Lester, Brookline, Massachusetts

Dr. Robert Slott, London, England

Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts - Commission

Bob and Blaikie Worth, New York, New York

Fuller Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts

Index Group, Inc., San Francisco, California

Bill and Nancy Osgood, Brookline, Massachusetts

Robert Dunlop, Boston, Massachusetts

Dr. Saul Levin, Washington, D.C.

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

Karen Moss and Dennis Livingston, Brookline, Massachusetts