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Judith Bernstein

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  • Biography
    View works. Judith Bernstein, Evil Has the Upper Hand #1, 2022
    Evil Has the Upper Hand #1, 2022
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    Born in Newark, New Jersey, 1942
    Lives & Works in New York, New York
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  • Since receiving her MFA from Yale in 1967, Judith Bernstein has developed a reputation as one of the most unwaveringly...
    Portrait by Max Montgomery.

    Since receiving her MFA from Yale in 1967, Judith Bernstein has developed a reputation as one of the most unwaveringly provocative artists of her generation. For over 50 years, her work has been an autobiographical exploration of the connection between the political and the sexual. Steadfast in her cultural, political and social critique throughout her career, Bernstein surged into art world prominence in the early 1970s with her monumental anti-war and Feminist charcoal drawings of penis-screw hybrids; early incarnations of which were exhibited at AIR Gallery; Brooks Jackson Iolas Gallery, New York; Brooklyn Museum; and MoMA P.S.1, among other institutions.

  • Solo exhibitions include GASLIGTING FOREVER at Kasmin, NY (2021-22); Hot Hands at The Box, LA (2020); Blue Balls at Karma... Solo exhibitions include GASLIGTING FOREVER at Kasmin, NY (2021-22); Hot Hands at The Box, LA (2020); Blue Balls at Karma... Solo exhibitions include GASLIGTING FOREVER at Kasmin, NY (2021-22); Hot Hands at The Box, LA (2020); Blue Balls at Karma...
    Solo exhibitions include GASLIGTING FOREVER at Kasmin, NY (2021-22); Hot Hands at The Box, LA (2020); Blue Balls at Karma International, Zurich (2019); Money Shot at Kasmin, NY (2018); Cabinet of Horrors at The Drawing Center, NY (2017); Cock in a Box at The Box, LA (2017); Dicks of Death at Mary Boone Gallery, NY (2016); Voyeur at Mary Boone Gallery, NY (2015); Judith Bernstein: Rising at Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway (2016); Birth of the Universe at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, NY (2014); Rising at Studio Voltaire, London (2014); Judith Bernstein: HARD at the New Museum, NY (2012); and Fuck Vietnam at The Box, LA (2011). 

    Bernstein has work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece; the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; Jewish Museum, NY; Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland; Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Sammlung Verbund, Vienna; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Neuberger Museum, New York; and Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont. She was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fine Arts Fellowship in 2016.
  • Works
    Judith Bernstein, Gaslighting Forever #2, 2021

    Judith Bernstein

    Gaslighting Forever #2, 2021
    acrylic on canvas
    48 x 48 inches
    121.9 x 121.9 cms
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  • Exhibitions
    • Judith Bernstein: Angry Bitches

      Judith Bernstein: Angry Bitches

      Independent Art Fair May 11 – 14, 2023
      Kasmin is thrilled to present ANGRY BITCHES, the first focused exhibition of Judith Bernstein’s Word Drawings (1989-2009) on the occasion of the Independent Art Fair in May 2023. Expressionistically rendered in charcoal on paper, these works depict texts in an explosively gestural manner, recalling the artist’s iconic anthropomorphic screw drawings from 1969 onwards, as well as Signature Piece (1986), a mural-scaled drawing of the artist’s own name. Bernstein’s choices of words range from the stately Truth, Justice, and Liberty to the more sinister Evil and Fear (all 1995), and the humorous and outrageous Angry Bitches (2009).
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    • Judith Bernstein: GASLIGTING FOREVER

      Judith Bernstein: GASLIGTING FOREVER

      November 18, 2021 – January 8, 2022 514 West 28th Street, New York
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    • Judith Bernstein: Money Shot

      Judith Bernstein: Money Shot

      January 18 – March 3, 2018
      Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Judith Bernstein, who has joined the gallery’s roster of artists. The exhibition, entitled Money Shot, is on view from January 18 to March 3, 2018 at 293 Tenth Avenue and features eight new large-scale paintings that emphatically continue the artist’s incendiary political critique of the current Trump administration. In the artist’s words, “I am showing Trump for what he is: a fool, a monster, a jester, a sexist, a racist. Donald Trump is a con artist, using the White House as his own personal cash machine.”
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  • News
    • Judith Bernstein interviewed in Cultured Magazine

      Judith Bernstein interviewed in Cultured Magazine

      by Cultured Staff May 12, 2023 View More
    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires Horizontal (1973) by Judith Bernstein

      The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires Horizontal (1973) by Judith Bernstein

      April 24, 2023 View More
    • Judith Bernstein featured in T Magazine

      Judith Bernstein featured in T Magazine

      by Rachel Corbett October 31, 2017
      THIS SUMMER IN LOS ANGELES, a hairy, phallic-looking screw painted by Judith Bernstein extended across 180 feet of the exterior of Venus gallery in Boyle...
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    • Judith Bernstein featured in Artnet News

      Judith Bernstein featured in Artnet News

      by Julia Halperin October 12, 2017
      The firebrand feminist artist Judith Bernstein has joined Paul Kasmin Gallery’s roster—and she is planning a rip-roaring debut. For her first exhibition with the gallery,...
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    • Judith Bernstein featured in Financial Times

      Judith Bernstein featured in Financial Times

      by Julie L Belcove September 27, 2017
      When Betty Tompkins moved to New York in 1969 after graduate school to paint, she regularly made the rounds of the galleries, then clustered within...
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