EDUCATION
1980 MFA, Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1971 BA, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1965–69 Studied with Leo Garel
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Prints, Jo Ann Rothschild, The Newton Free Library, Newton, MA 2021 Hope for the Future, HallSpace, Boston, MA
2019 Only Your Loves Matter: A Retrospective, AREA at the Yard, Boston, MA
2017 Visual Conversations, Akillian Gallery, Massasoit Community College–Canton Campus, Canton, MA
2014 An Important Day, The Painting Center, New York, NY, and HallSpace, Boston, MA
2013 Painting, Lavendar Door Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
2012 Garfield Park, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2012 6 Drawings: 1 Oil, Vessels Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 Waverly Road, Hallspace, Boston, MA
2005 Jo Ann Rothschild: Paintings and Drawings 2003–2005, South End Gallery, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
2003 Jo Ann Rothschild: A Retrospective, Thirty Years of Painting and Etching, MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA
2001 Retrospectiva de una Pintora Americana, Galería Imago, Havana, Cuba
1995 Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
1992 Cambridge Arts Council, Gallery 57, City Hall, Cambridge, MA
1990 Daniel Broder Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Allusions: Jo Ann Rothschild Reflects Manet and Matisse; An Exhibition of Paintings 1983–1988, Gallery Eleven, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1987 Walter Bischoff Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Van Buren/Brazelton/Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1985 Van Buren/Brazelton/Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1982 Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA
Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
1980 Gallery Eleven, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1979 Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Old Friends, Rigoberto Mena and Jo Ann Rothschild, The Painting Center, New York, NY Unplanned Order,Philip Gerstein and Jo Ann Rothschild, Licht and Fire, New York, NY 2023 Old Friends, Rigoberto Mena and Jo Ann Rothschild, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas, Kendall, Miami FL 2020 Parallel Tracks, Jo Ann Rothschild and Jeff Hull, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
2017 The Immediacy of Abstraction: Diane Novetsky and Jo Ann Rothschild, Duxbury Art Complex, Duxbury, MA
2016 Two Painters: Jo Ann Rothschild and Elizabeth Yamin, Salena Gallery, Long Island University Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Abstract Gratitude: Jo Ann Rothschild and Lieby Miedema, UnchArted Gallery, Lowell, MA
2007 Zeichnung/Drawing: Jo Ann Rothschild, Susanne Runge, E-Werk, Freiburg, Germany
2006 Great Paintings from the 21st Century: James Kinny and Jo Ann Rothschild, Gallery 535, Boston, MA
2003 Jo Ann Rothschild and Rigoberto Mena, Taller Experimental de Gráfica de la Habana, Havana, Cuba
2001 Two Painters: Jo Ann Rothschild, Matthew Kolodziej, Art Advisory Boston, Milton, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 100 Women of Spirit, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY Permanent Collection, The National Gallery, Washington DC 2023 3 Abstract Painters, Michael Eder, James Kinny, Jo Ann Rothschild, Gallery 535, Boston, MA 2023 11 Women of Spirit, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY 2022 Space Color Movement: Philip Gerstein, Jo Ann Rothschild, Alexandra Rozenman, Brickbottom Gallery, Sommerville MA 2021 CONNECT: Small Prints by Members of The Boston Printmakers (traveling exhibition)
One in a Year, The Painting Center, New York, NY (online)
2019 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2018 Chain Reaction, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Sacred Asymmetry: Abstraction Boston/New York, HallSpace, Boston, MA
Stand Together, Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA
2017 Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters, 1950 to Now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2016 Painting Is Not a Good Idea, HallSpace, Boston, MA
Sit Still with a Presence, Deane Carriage Barn, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
2014 The Intuitionists, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2012- The Boston Drawing Project, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA, link
2012 Paint! Contemporary Abstraction, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, MA
2011 Charged Brushes, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Imagination, education gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Zerstreut in alle Welt, Inselgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2004 Tres Pintores Abstractos, Galería Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
2000 Boston Triennial, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
1999 Selections, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA
Unlocking the Grid (Concerning the Grid in Recent Painting), Main Gallery, The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
1998 Common Ground, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Four Artists: The Lois Foster Exhibition of Boston Area Artists, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1996 Boston Triennial, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
1993 Contemporary Connections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1989 The 10th Annual Boston Drawing Show, The Cyclorama, Boston, MA
1982 A Boston School: Four Artists, Gallery Eleven, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Art of the State, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1977 Art of the State, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1975 Boston 200, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 “Making Her Mark: In Conversation with Jo Ann Rothschild on Forms in Motion and the Perpetual Emergence of Women Artists”, Boston Art Review, Issue 11, Words by Michelle Millar Fisher and Anna Nasi, photography by Zhidong Zhang, 2022 James Fortunato “Rozenman, Gerstein & Rothschild at Brickbottom,” Artscope, January/February 2021 Elizabeth Michelman, “Jo Ann Rothschild at HallSpace: A Year of Looking Back and Painting Forward,” Artscope, May/June
2020 Tom Wachunas, “One Language, Two Dialects,” Artwach, blog, March 19, http://artwach.blogspot.com/ January 20, article
2019 Elizabeth Michelman, “Jo Ann Rothschild: Only Your Loves Matter,” Delicious Line, November 4
2018 “Meet Jo Ann Rothschild,” BostonVoyager online, September 18, article
2016 Cate McQuaid, “Spinning Paint into Gold at HallSpace,” The Boston Globe, December 30
2014 John Goodrich, “Greyhound Abstraction and Lyrical Expressionism at the Painting Center,” Hyperallergic, October 21, article
Thomas Michelli, “Story Lines: The Intuitionists at the Drawing Center,” Hyperallergic, July 19, article
2012 Cate McQuaid, “Winter Whites,” The Boston Globe, December 19
2011 Susan Stoops, “Learning to See,” Waverly Road, exh. cat. (Boston: HallSpace Gallery)
Cate McQuaid, “Luminescent Dreaming,” The Boston Globe, November 9
2010 Geoff Edgers, “MFA Shelving of Award Draws Artists’ Ire,” The Boston Globe, December 8
Annie Gottlieb, “My Favorite Feminist Tract,” Big Red and Shiny, February 14, article
2009 Harry Cooper, afterword to The Book of PENIS!, by Jo Ann Rothschild (Boston: Pressed Wafer Press)
2007 Ulrike Duwell, “Zeichnung lässt die Zeit gerinnen: Jo Ann Rothschild und Susanne Runge in E-Werk,” Badische Zeitung, July 4
2005 Christine Temin, “A Closer Look at an Abstract Explorer: Rothschild Paints with Subtlety and Style,” The Boston Globe, March 23
2004 Thomas Garvey, “Drawing on Patriotism: Local Artists Respond to the Patriot Act,” South End News, April 29
Cate McQuaid, “Abstract Pair,” The Boston Globe, June 22
2003 Cate McQuaid, “Miniature Paintings Convey Great Power,” The Boston Globe, October 17
Rigoberto Mena, Obra Gráfica Reciente, exh. cat. (Havana: Taller Experimental de Gráfica de La Habana)
Mary Jo Palumbo, “Straight from the Art: Award-winning Painting Teacher Helps Homeless Women Find Their Voice,” Boston Herald, November 29
D’Lynne Plummer, “Speaking Through Paint,” South End News, October 30
Jorge Rivas Rodriguez, “Realidades espirituales,” Trabajadores (Havana), June
2002 Cate McQuaid, “Galleries,” The Boston Globe, June 22
Rachel Strutt, “The Boston Havana Connection,” Art New England, August/September
2001 Jorge Rivas Rodriguez, “Artista de emociones,” Granma (Havana), January 29
1997 Jeff Perrott, “The Eighth Triennial Exhibition,” ArtsMedia, January/February
Meredith Fife Day, “ ‘Abstracts,’ Tufts University, Gallery Eleven/Medford, Jo Ann Rothschild,” Art New England, March 1989
Jo Ann Rothschild, “Artist Visit,”Arts Media, July/August
1996 Katy Kline, Ron Platt, and Helaine Posner, Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting (Cambridge, MA: MIT List Visual Arts Center)
1993 Nancy Stapen, “Small Paintings Make a Big Impression,” The Boston Globe, April 8
Christine Temin, “MFA Discovers That Boston Women Can Paint, Too,” The Boston Globe, August 8
1991 Nancy Stapen, “Unusual Works of Art in Unlikely Places,” The Boston Globe, March 21
1990 Konrad Oberhuber, Jo Ann Rothschild (New York: Daniel Broder Gallery)
1989 Christine Temin, “Women Still Fight for Acceptance”, The Boston Globe, March 5
1988 Madeline H. Caviness, Renata Hejduk, and Yasuko Tsuchikane, Allusions: Jo Ann Rothschild Reflects Manet and Matisse; An Exhibition of Paintings 1983–1988 (Medford, MA: Tufts University)
1986 Christine Temin, “Abstract Views at the Galleries,” The Boston Globe, November 20
1985 Nancy Doll, “Jo Ann Rothschild,” Art New England*
Christine Temin, “Rothschild’s Heroic Emotions; Lewis’ Monuments of Doom,” The Boston Globe, January 10
1982 Pamela Allara, A Boston School (Medford, MA: Tufts University)
Madeline H. Caviness, “Jo Ann Rothschild: Paintings and Drawings,” Art New England, Summer
PUBLICATIONS BY JO ANN ROTHSCHILD
2024 The Book of Penis! 2nd Edition 2021 “Then and Now, Now and Then, Unstretched Paintings 1989-2006 2009 The Book of PENIS! (Boston: Pressed Wafer Press)
2001 “Voices from the Wilderness: The Prinzhorn Collection,” Art New England, December 2000/January 2001
1988 “The Invisible Woman Artist,” Art New England*
AWARDS
1998 Grant in Painting, The New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston, MA
1993 Maud Morgan Purchase Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1978 Award, Dana Pond Competition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1975 Honorarium, Boston 200, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Massasoit Community College, Brockton and West Bridgewater, MA Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
The MIT Permanent Collection, Cambridge, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Roxbury Community College, Boston, MA
Taller Gráfico Experimental de la Habana, Havana, Cuba
Tufts University, Medford, MA
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2021 Interviewer, Sue Collier and Paula Heisen, The Painting Center, New York, NY, accessed May 24, 2021, video
2020–present Member, The Boston Printmakers
2019 Juror, RAA&M National, Rockport Art Association and Museum, Rockport, MA
2016–present Board Member, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2016 Curator, Painting Is Not a Good Idea, HallSpace, Boston, MA
Co-curator, Big Idea, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2015 Co-curator, Variations in Paint, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2013 Co-curator, Working It Out, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2011–16 Member, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2004 Co-organizer, e(VENT), a collective drawing project in response to the USA Patriot Act, to benefit the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
2003–13 Director, Gallery 535, Boston, MA
2001 Founder, Pine Street Inn Art Program, Boston, MA
1983–2004 Member, Tutor Street Etching Studio
1998–2019 Donor (of over 120 works) to nonprofit organizations, through the Art Connection and privately
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019 Guest artist, in conjunction with Women Take the Floor, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2012–14 Visiting artist, United South End Settlements, Boston, MA
2006 Visiting artist, Creativity Seminar, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA
2004 Visiting artist, MCI–Framingham, Framingham, MA
2003–4 Mentor, BA and MFA programs, Leslie University, Boston, MA 2001–12 Instructor, Pine Street Inn Art Program, Boston, MA
2001 Visiting artist, Gran Teatro de la Habana, Havana, Cuba
2000 Visiting artist, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA
Visiting artist, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Visiting artist, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
1997 Guest lecturer, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
1995 Visiting artist, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI
1993 Visiting artist, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
1992 Visiting artist, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
1978–80 Teaching assistant, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Instructor, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
* Because of library restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was not possible to verify the precise dates of these citations.