Jim Torok
Education
1981
M.F.A. Brooklyn College, New York,
1979
B.F.A. Indiana University,
Solo Exhibitions
2010
• Jim Torok: Clowns and Portraits, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
• Jim Torok, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• Jim Torok, Everything is Breaking Apart, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
2008
• Jim Torok: Life is Good, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
2007
• Jim Torok, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York
2006
• Portraits Organized by Paul Morris and Marc Selwyn, Marc Selwyn Fine Art Art, Los Angeles
2005
• Artists are Great, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2004
• Everything is Great!, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York
2003
• A Family: Portraits by Jim Torok, Denver Art Museum
• Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
2002
• Story Boards and Self Portraits, Bill Maynes Gallery
2001
• Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
2000
• Up Close and Personal: Portraits by Jim Torok, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, Kansas
1999
• hi tech lo tech, Bill Maynes Gallery
• Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica
• Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin
1998
• Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto
1997
• Bill Maynes Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
• About Face: Portraiture as Subject, The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2010
• Do I Know You, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
• Size Does Matter, curated by Shquille O'Neal, FLAG Art Foundation, NYC
• One for All, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
• LOL, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2009-10
• Portraiture Now: Communities, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
2008
• Attention to Detail, curated by Chuck Close, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
2007
• Pierogi Flatfiling, Artnews Projects, Berlin
• Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
2006
• Subject, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut
• Summer Group Show, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
2005
• Star Star - Toward the center of attention, CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
2004
• Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art
2003
• One-On-One, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York
• Painter's Forms, The Work Space, New York
• American Art Today: Faces and Figures, Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami
• Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh (curated by Vicky Clark and Barbara Bloemink); travels to CCA, New Orleans, and the University of North Texas
• Brooklyn on 57th Street, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
2002
• Works on Paper, Bill Maynes Gallery
• Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
2001
• Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art
• Picture This, Flipside, New York Self-Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York
• Meat Market Art Fair, Pierogi, New York
• Haulin' Ass: Pierogi in LA, Post, Los Angeles
• Good Humor, EPC, New York
2000
• Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
• Reconfigured, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, New York
• Inaugural Exhibit, Indiana University Art Gallery, Southbend
• Drawing from Pierogi: Selection from the Flat File, Bennington College, Vermont
• Stop That Racket, Dixon Place, New York
• Rage for Art, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn
• Face to Face, Concordia College, Bronxville, New York
1999
• Portraits, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
• Popcorn, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California
• Changing Faces: Contemporary Portraiture, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York
• Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
• Traditions, Transitions, and Transformations: Exploration of Art Making with Pinholes, Pixels, and Moving Pictures, Samuel Chen Fine Art Center, Central Connecticut State University Galleries, New Britain
• Salute to Animation, Concourse Gallery, John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, California
• Avant Garde-O-Rama, PS 122, New York
• Short Stuff, Film Festival, Huntington Beach Art Center, California
• Trench Waveforms, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York (curated by Norman Douglas)
• Benefit Auction, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York
1998
• River of Mud, The Kitchen, New York
• International Short Film & Video Festival, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University Art Museum
• Reflex and Reverie, The Kitchen, New York
• Carousel, The Brooklyn Museum
• 1998 New York State Biennial, New York State Museum, Albany
• Benefit Auction, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York
• Current/Undercurrent, The Brooklyn Museum
1997
• Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• When the Whim sicle, Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Venice; Ice House Gallery, Belgium
• New York Drawers, The Gasworks, London; Corner House, Manchester
• Moonworks Festival, Stella Adler Conservatory, New York
1996
• Invitational +, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York
• The Art Exchange Show, New York
• Slide Masters, Dixon Place, New York
• Too Many Clothes, The Kitchen, New York
1995
• Avant Garde-O-Rama, P.S. 122, New York
• The Film Club, Four Walls, Brooklyn
• Yikes!, Cucaracha, New York
1994
• Open Book, 450 Broadway Gallery, NewYork
• Whateva, Dru Arstark Gallery, New York
• The Faust Festival, Nada, New York
• The Jupiter Project, Four Walls, Brooklyn
• Aaron's Cabaret, Nada, New York
• Promotional Copy Event, The Kitchen, Printed Matter, New York
1993
• Bad Girls, The Reading Lounge, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
• Promotional Copy Opening, The Guggenheim Downtown, New York
• Drawing Show, Park Slope Gallery, Brooklyn
1992
• City Life, Bridgewater/Lustberg, New York
• Columbus, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York
1991
• The Eccentric Object, Bridgewater/Lustberg, New York
• Wings, Park Slope Gallery, Brooklyn
1990
• Feast Your Eyes, Park Slope Gallery, Brooklyn
• Between the Parks, Park Slope Gallery, Brooklyn
Selected Bibliography
• California Literary Review,Judkis, Maura. The Sound and the Fury of Portraiture Now: Communities,Washington City Paper, January 12, 2010
• McKenna, Alix. Portraiture Now: Communities at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, January 11, 2010
• Genocchio, Benjamin. Catching the Imagination in Language and Imagery, TheNew York Times, February 24, 2008
• Bors, Chris. Studio Visit: Jim Torok, Artillery, Summer 2007
• Bors, Chris. "What's in Your Studio, Jim Torok?" ARTINFO.com, September 2,
2007
• Clark, Vicky A. Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, exhibition catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, 2003
• Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, September 19, 1997
• Denton, Monroe. TimeLine (On Some Portraits by Jim Torok), essay for exhibition brochure, Denver Art Museum, October 2003
• _______. Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, September 15, 1997
• _______. Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, December 20, 1999
• Glueck, Grace. "Self-Made Men," The New York Times, April 27, 2001
• Gomez, Edward. The New York Times, September 16, 2001
• Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, November 8, 2002
• Johnson, Ken. "Painter's Forms," The New York Times, January 9, 2004
• Kalm, James. "Picture This." NYArts, March 2001
• Kennedy, Margaret. "Hold that Pose," House Beautiful, September 1999
• Kino, Carol. Time Out New York, October 2-9, 1997
• Kino, Carol. "Jim Torok at Bill Maynes," Art in America, May, 2000
• Kino, Carol. "Self-Made Men at DC Moore," Art in America, December, 2001
• Kunitz, Daniel. Changing Faces, ArtNews, March 1999
• Meyers, Holly. Art Reviews, Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2001
• Murdock, Robert. Review Magazine, September 15, 1997
• Murdock, Robert. Jim Torok: Portraits, essay for exhibition catalogue, November 1999
• Ollman, Leah. "A Bountiful Exhibition That Gets White Glove Treatment." Los Angeles Times, December 8, 2000
• Ollman, Leah. "Art of Portraiture in Concentrate," Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2003
• Ortiz, Lori. "Brooklyn Art Scene." The Brooklyn Rail, February/March 2001
• Powhida, William. "One-On-One," The Brooklyn Rail, November 2003
• Princenthal, Nancy. Print Collector's Newsletter, August 1993
• Richard, Frances. "Jim Torok at Bill Maynes," Review, Artforum, February 1999
• Rosoff, Patricia. "Pixels and Pinholes: Where Do We go from here?" The Hartford Advocate, April 1-7, 1999
• Schudel, Matt. "Go Figure," South Florida Sun-Sentinel, February 2, 2003
• Schull, Chris. "Go See It!" The Wichita Eagle, November 26, 2000
• Smith, Roberta. The New York Times, Art in Review, February 19, 1999
• Smith, Roberta. The New York Times, Art in Review, October 10, 1997
• Turner, Eliza. "Sharp FIU exhibit nails complex human condition," The Herald, January 19, 2003
• Voelz Chandler, Mary. "Painters meet lost art face to face," Rocky Mountain News, November 11, 2003
• Yablonsky, Linda, "Artist Self Portraits," ARTnews, November 2003
Public Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York