JUNE LEAF
Born: 1929, Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
Institute of Design, Art Education, M.A. 1954
Roosevelt University, Art Education, B.A. 1954
New Bauhaus, Institute of Design, Chicago, IL, 1947-8
AWARDS
Honorary Degree, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Hallifax, 1996
Alumni Award, Chicago Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 1996
National Endowment for the Arts in painting, 1989
Englehard Award, 1986
Honorary Doctorate, Humane Letters, DePaul University, 1984
Distinguished Artists Awards, Canadian Council, 1984
Canada Council Senior Grant, 1983-85
Lippincott Art Fabricators Sculpture Commission, 1978
Canada Council Grant for Painting, 1978
Fulbright Government Grant to Paris for painting, 1958-59
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2004 Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Drawings: Past and Present”
2002 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2001 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
2000 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, June Leaf: Mining Mabou
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, Recent Paintings and Sculpture
1995 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, June Leaf: Prints 1952-1990
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, Recent Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1991 Virginia Lust Gallery, New York, NY, Works on Paper, 1969-1970.
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C. "A Survey of Painting, Sculpture and Works on paper,1948-1991; Travelled to:
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1988 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Optica Gallery, Montreal, Canada
College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
1983 North Dakota Museum of Art, North Forks, ND
1982 Dalhousie Art Gallery, Nova Scotia, Canada
1981 Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1978 Young -Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1976 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Madison Art Center, Madison WI
1973 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY
1972 Gallery Bernard, Greenwich, CT
1970 Alan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
1969 Reed College, Portland, OR
Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago
1968 Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1966 Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1951 Momentum Gallery, Chicago, IL
1948 Sam Bordelon Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 “The Anxious Image,” (curated by Jimmy Wright) The Painting Center, New York, NY
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Gallery Group Exhibition”
2003 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Gallery Group Exhibition”
2002 “Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
“VitalForms,” Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Aviary”
1999 Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina "Water"
1998 Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY "Body Double"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Galleryt Group Exhibition"
1997 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"
Champion International Corp., Stamford, CT "Making Music"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"
1996 Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL "Women Chicago Imagists" Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL "Women Chicgo Imagists"
1996 Owens Art Gallery at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada,"Small As A Way Of Working"
1995 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York,“September Gallery Group”
Bard College, New York, “Sniper’s Nest: Art that has lived with Lucy R. Lippard”
Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford, IL, “Prodigal Daughter”
1994-95 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY,“Winter Gallery Group Exhibition”
1994 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY,“Waterworks”
La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, “Deplacements”
1993 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY “Gallery Group Exhibition”
Art Gallery, Mt. St. Vincent Univ., Nova Scotia, Canada, “Terra Firma - Five Immigrant Artists”
1992 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"
Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL, “Collector’s Choice - 1992”
1991 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"
1990 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Summer"
1989 Phyllis Kind Gallery, "Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art", Travelled to Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Face-Off"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Summer"
1988 Pratt Institute, Manhattan Gallery, "Fantasist Realists", Travelling to: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY, "Drawing: 1987"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
49th Parallel, New York, NY, "The Idea of the North"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Gallery Group Exhibition”
1986 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, "Art on Paper"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Gallery Group Exhibition”
1986 Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, "NYC: New Work"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY, "The Painterly Figure, Veteran Expressionist Figure Painters"Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
1981 The Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, "Alternative
Realities in Contemporary American Painting"
1976 Yajima Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Kutztown State College, PA
1975 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Hawthorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY,
"Contemporary Drawings"
1974 Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, MI, "Drawings by Contemporary American Artists"
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
The Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA, "Works on Paper"
1973 Lerner Heller Gallery, New York, NY, "Voices of Alarm"
New York Cultural Center, "Women Choose Women"
1972 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Byron Gallery, New York
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1970 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Human Concern and Personal Torment"
Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1965 Galerie Rue du Dragon, Paris, France
1954 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1952 Momentum Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
1951 Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
1950 Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
1948 Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL
The Singer Collection
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Marina City Bank, Chicago, IL
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
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