John Mendelsohn has shown his paintings in solo exhibitions at Kook Projects, New York; Artists Space, New York; Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn; Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York; Michael Walls Gallery, New York; Hal Bromm Gallery, New York; Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Neward. Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, Nordiska Kompanient, Stockholm.

Mendelsohn has received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Tree of Life Foundation. His exhibitions have been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, The Huffington Post, The New Criterion, Arts Magazin, Artnet, and d’Art International Magazine. He received a BA from Columbia University in 1971, an MFA from Rutgers University in 1974, and participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He is an adjunct professor at Fairfield University in the Studio Art Program.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015
The Passing Paintings, Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery
Six Movements, The Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT

2014
Drawing, Studies, and Works on Paper, Kook Projects, New York
21 Paintings, 1065 Sixth Avenue, curated by Ombretta Agro Andruff

2013
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, New Paintings, John Mendelsohn + Dana Gordon

2012
Riverfront, Cambridge, MA

2010
Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ

2009
Root [Brooklyn], Brooklyn, NY

2004
Perkinson Gallery, Milliken University, Decatur, IL

2003
Cheryl Palavin Fine Arts, New York

1997
Penny Liebman Contemporary Art, New York

1994
Fairfield University, Fiarfield, CT
Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York

1988
Michael Walls Gallery, New York

1983
Concord Gallery, New York

1982
Hal Bromm Gallery, New York

1977
Artists Space, New York
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015
The Art of Invisibility: Religion and the Secular in Contemporary Art, Brown University

2014
Artists in the Library, Mulberry St. Library, New York
Time Frames Marking Time, Westbeth Gallery, New York
Three Artists, Hallway Arts, New York

2013
There’s Nothing Like Painting, 490 Atlantic Gallery, curated by Victor Kord

2012
The Language of Form and Color, 750 Seventh Avenue, New York, curated by Ombretta Argo
Cutting Edge, curated by Stefan Eins, Fashion Moda, Peekskill, NY
The Brucecennial 2012, New York

2011
CREON Gallery @ KI, New York

2010
Nature Calls, Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
The Brucecennial 2010, New York

2009
Forever Summer, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Platform Space

2008
Boson Exotics, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ