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John Salvest
BORN: Kearny, NJ Resides: Jonesboro, AR


EDUCATION
1983  MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1979  MA, English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1977  BA, Duke University, Durham, NC


AWARDS/HONORS
2004 Public Art Network's 2004 Public Art Year in Review, Americans for the Arts, Washington, DC
2003  Middle East Studies Travel Grant (Tunisia), Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
2001  Faculty Research Grant, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR (also 1998, 95)
2000  National Endowment for the Arts Selection Panelist for Museum Grants
1998  Pollock-Krasner Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
1993  National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Sculpture
1992  Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship Award in Sculpture
1991  NEA-Regional Artists Project Grant, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
1988  New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Award
             Fellowship Award, Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, New Brunswick, NJ


PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2004  Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta, GA
2003  Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, Memphis, TN
2002  American State Bank, Jonesboro, AR
2001  Memphis/Shelby County Public Library, Memphis, TN


SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITINS/INSTALLATIONS
2006
No Time for Sorrow, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY

2005
FLY etc., Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL

2002
New Glory, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
John Salvest: TEXTure, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

2000
Undercurrent, Rudolph Projects, New York, NY
Undercurrent, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX

1999
John Salvest: Time on His Hands, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Words To Live By, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
Busy Hands, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

1998
Nothing Endures, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Kindling, Smoky Hill River Festival, Salina, KS

1997
Meditation 7.21, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
John Salvest: Recent Work, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX

1996
Inventory, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA

1995
John Salvest: Sculpture, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
ExtraOrdinary Objects, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN

1993
John Salvest: New Work, I Space, Chicago, IL
Black River, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR

1992
Kafka Kaffee Kalendar, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO

1991
The Myth of Sisyphus, Lincoln American Tower, Memphis, TN

1989
Boxes, Coup de Grace Gallery, New York, NY
John Salvest: Recent Work, Memphis Center for Contemporary Art, Memphis, TN


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Past Imperfect: Future Tense, New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY
A Timely Response, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Au Courant, National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Georgetown, Grand Cayman Island
Adelman, Christensen, Salvest, Ubias, Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
Horizons, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR

2005
What Business Are You In?, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
South X East: Contemporary Southeastern Art, Art Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Riverbend Sculpture Biennial, Owensboro Museum of Art, Owensboro, KY
Sweet Basil, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL

2004
Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA. Traveled to
     Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL and The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Brown v. Topeka, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN
Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Findings, Diboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
Critical Mass, Art Gallery, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

2003
Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR (also 2001, 1999, 97, 96, 95, 94, 92)
Harper College National Art Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL
Public Art Projects: The Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN

2002
Side By Side, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Snapshot, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT
Bree-koh-lahzh, Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
MOAK 2002, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

2001
Perspectives, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Daily Life, Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
All About Paint, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN
New American Talent 17, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX

2000
Red Clay Survey of Contemporary Southern Art, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
27th Juried Exhibition, Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
Texas National, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX

1999
Big Muddy: Too Thick to Drink, Too Thin to Plow, Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Southeastern Triennial, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
3 Divided by 2, Baum Gallery, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
The Other Book, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH

1998
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
MAX:98, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN
Imaginary Friend, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY
Found, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
Ticking, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
Art of the Multiple, Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN

1997
Obsessions, SPACES Contemporary Art Center, Cleveland, OH
X Marks the Spot, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN
New American Talent 13, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX

1996
Southeastern Triennial, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
LaGrange National, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA
Tree as Icon, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
New American Talent 12, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX

1995
Tijd Tekens (Marking Time), Gallery Quartair, The Hague, Netherlands
Seven Deadly Sins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Galleries, Little Rock, AR
John Salvest & Les Christensen, Clough-Hansen Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN

1994
Little Things, Art in General, New York, NY
Self-Possessed, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Southern Invitational, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Multiples, Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis, TN

1993
National Showcase Exhibition, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Contacts/Proofs, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Windows of the Dream, Exhibition of Temporary Public Art Projects, Memphis, TN

1992
Brooks Biennial, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Assemblage, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
New Jersey Arts Annual, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
The Sleeping Beauty, CB's 313 Gallery, New York, NY

1991
National Sculpture Exhibition, DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, FL
New Jersey Artists Series, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Sculpture Invitational, Forum Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

1990
Selections, Artists Space, New York, NY
Multiples, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
New Life, Coup de Grace Gallery, New York, NY
Revelations, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anthes, Bill. “John Salvest: TEXTure,” Art Papers, September/October 2002, p. 37.
Anthes, Bill. “The Hidden Significance of a Clothespin,” NUMBER: 44, Spring 2003, pp. 13-14.
Bookhardt, D. Eric. “Found and Lost,” New Orleans Gambit Weekly, 9 November 2004, p. 36.
Baker, R. C.  “Best in Show,” The Village Voice, 7-13 June 2006, p. 83.
Baker, R. C.  “Spring Arts Review,” The Village Voice, 8-14 March 2006, p. 84.
Connors, Thomas.  Review, Sculpture, January/February 1994, p. 54.
Duffy, Robert. “A Study in Contrasting Sensibilities,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 9 February 1997, pp. C4 & 7.
Dugan, Cory. “Art Infinitum,” Memphis Flyer, 19 February 1998, pp. 33 & 35.
Dugan, Cory. “Playful Sculpture Brings Public & Private Spaces Together,” Memphis Commercial Appeal,
     7 March 2004, pp. F1 & 4.
Falkowski, Andrew.  “Big Muddy: Too Thick to Drink, Too Thin to Plow,” New Art Examiner, October 1999, p. 44.
Feaster, Felicia. Inventory: John Salvest & Michael Banicki.  Atlanta, Georgia: City Gallery at Chastain, 1996.
Feaster, Felicia. “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” Creative Loafing Atlanta, 17 February 2005, p. 47.
Fox, Catherine. “Doing Business,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 20 February 2005, p. L10.      
French, Christopher. “John Salvest: Undercurrent,” ArtLies, Summer 2000, p. 74.
Hall, David. “Kim Levin: Itineraries,” Art Papers, March/April 2004, p. 43.
Irvine, Madeline.  Review, Austin American-Statesman, 10 June 1996, p. E8.
Johnson, Ken.  “Postcards from Cutting Edge of Downtown’s Art Scene,” New York Times, 18 January 2006, p. E3. 
Johnson, Patricia.  “Emotion, Hidden Issues Come Forward in Show,” Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2000, p. D1.
Kessinger, Jeff.  "Interview  with John Salvest," SECAC Review, Vol. 12., No. 1, 1991, pp. 27-32.
Kotik, Charlotta. 1998 New Orleans Triennial.  New Orleans, Louisiana: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1998.  
Lennie, Janaki.  “Bree-koh-lahzh,” ArtLies, Fall 2002, pp. 82-83.
Levin, Kim. John Salvest: Time on His Hands. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1999.
Linn, John. “John Salvest: Black River,” Art Papers, May/June 1993, p. 40.
McCarthy, David. "John Salvest," New Art Examiner, May 1994, pp. 50-51.
McGowan, Robert.  Review, Art Papers, May/June 1994, pp. 62-63.
Melkisethian, Angela. “Commissions: Cannon Center for the Performing Arts,” Sculpture, July/August 2004,
     p. 27.
Morgan, Cynthia & D. McCarthy. Tijd Tekens. The Hague, The Netherlands: Galerie Quartair, 1995.
Plante, Michael. “Southern Discomfort,” Art in America, March 1999, pp.67-69.
Reeve, Charles. “Clashes of Civilization,” ArtLies, Winter 2005, p. 40.
Rubin, David. Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary. New Orleans, LA: Contemporary Arts Center, 2004.
Rubinstein, Raphael.  “Critic’s Beat,” Art in America, March 2006, p. 55. 
Salvest, John et al. Composition Book. Salina, Kansas: Salina Art Center, 1995.
Steiner, Urs.  “Rollenstauch (Role Reversal),” Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 23 June 2006, p. 44.
Storr, Robert. New American Talent 13. Austin, Texas: Texas Fine Arts Association, 1997.
Trieschmann, Werner.  “Junk Jewels,” Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 28 April 2002, pp. E1-2
Weeden, John. “MAX: 98 Review,” NUMBER: 35, Fall 1998, p.17.
Wilbur, Debra.  "Studio View: John Salvest," New Art Examiner, March 1998, p. 47.

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