b. in 1945 in New York City, USA 

lives and works in New York City, USA

 

Selected solo And Group exhibitions 

2024

NYC | MUC | BER : Destination Murnau, Groupshow, PULPO GALLERY, Murnau, Germany

 

2022

Somewhere Downtown, Groupshow, UCCA Beijing, China

 

2021

Room of One's Own, Groupshow, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

A Glance Through the Rearview Mirrow, PULPO GALLERY, Murnau, Germany

 

2019  

Ionic Ironic, Core Club, New York, USA 

 

2017  

Selected Survey, Merage Gallery, at Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, USA 

 

2016  

Judy Rifka : Retro Active Retrospective, One-Woman Retrospective Exhibition, Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 

Judy Rifka's Retrospective, The Amstel Gallery at the Yard, New York, USA 

 

2015  

Comparative Retrospective with Jay Milder, The Amstel Gallery at the Yard, New York, USA  

 

2014  

Trestle Projects, BAS , New York, USA  

 

2013  

106 BLDG30, video show, New York, USA  

 

2011  

Art6 Gallery, Richmond, USA 

 

2007  

The Chocolate Factory, New York, USA 

 

2001  

Gallery X, New York, USA 

 

1997  

Alley Culture Gallery, Detroit, USA 

 

1996  

Hofstra University, Collins Gallery, New York, USA 

 

1994  

Judy Rifka, Information Gallery, New York, USA 

Judy Rifka, Cade Tompkins, Bridgehampton, USA 

 

1992  

Bistro 100, Nations Bank Building, Charlotte, USA 

 

1991  

Real Art, New York, Judy Rifka Drawings 1980-1990, Brooke Alexander, New York, USA 

Judy Rifka: Paintings and Works on Paper, Ratner Gallery, Chicago, USA 

Galerie Tobias Hirshmann, Frankfurt, Germany 

Ann Jaffee Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, USA 

 

1989  

Executive Reception Area, Madison Square Garden, New York, USA 

Bistro 110, Chicago, USA 

Saxon Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 

Piramide Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy 

 

1988  

Union Square Cafe, New York, USA 

Galerie Tobias Hischmann, Frankfurt, Germany 

Gallery Ninety-Nine, Miami, USA 

 

1987  

Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 

Brooke Alexander, New York, USA 

 

1986  

Anna Friebe Galerie, Cologne, Germany 

Judy Rifka Paintings, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA 

Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, USA 

Gallery Ninety-Nine, Miami, USA 

 

1985  

Standard Oil of Ohio, headquarters, Cleveland, USA 

Brooke Alexander, New York, USA 

Anna Friebe Galerie, New York, USA 

Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, USA 

 

1984  

Judy Rifka: Major Works 1981-84:. Knight Gallery. Spirit Square Art Center, Charlotte, USA 

Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA 

Galerie de France, Paris, France 

Brooke Alexander, New York, USA 

51x Gallery, New York, USA 

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, USA 

 

1983  

Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK 

Brooke Alexander, New York, USA 

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, USA 

 

1982  

Brooke Alexander, New York, USA 

Judy Rifka Paintings, Reed College, Portland, USA 

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, USA 

 

1981  

Museum (Sub) Kultur, Berlin and Hamburg, Germany 

 

1980  

Printed Matter, New York, USA 

 

1978  

Jean Paul Najar, Paris Name Gallery, Chicago, USA 

 

1977  

Franklin Furnace, New York, USA 

 

1976  

Susan Caldwell, New York, USA 

 

1975  

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, USA 

Artists Space, New York, USA 

 

1974  

John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, USA 

 

Selected group exhibitions 

2018 

New York Studio School, New York, USA 

Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, USA 

 

2016  

Chesapeake Film Festival, Easton, USA 

Greenpoint Film Festival, New York, USA 

 

2015  

Lost Cat, Cape Cod Museum, Dennis, USA 

Amstel Yard, New York, USA 

 

2014  

Madness, Lodge Gallery, New York, USA 

Colab Show, 4 Lodge Gallery, New York, USA 

 

2013  

Trestle Gallery, New York, USA 

ASC Gallery Chelsea, New York, USA 

 

2012  

Beyond Bling, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, USA 

 

2011  

Herb and Dorothy Vogel Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, USA 

Herb and Dorothy Vogel Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA 

 

2010  

Herb and Dorothy Vogel Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, USA 

Herb and Dorothy Vogel Exhibition, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, USA 

Herb and Dorothy Vogel Exhibition, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, USA 

Herb and Dorothy Vogel Exhibition, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, USA 

Herb and Dorothy Vogel Exhibition, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, USA 

Tom of Finland and Then Some, Feature inc, New York, USA 

 

2008  

Red Saw Gallery, Newark, USA 

 

2007  

Alley Culture, Detroit, USA 

 

2006  

The Downtown Show, Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA 

Selections from the Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, USA 

 

2005  

Red White Blue, Spencer Brownstone, New York, USA 

Drawing Show, Alley Culture, Detroit, USA 

The Continuous Mark, Studio School, New York, USA 

 

2004  

Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, USA 

 

2003  

Drawings, Alley Culture, Detroit, USA 

 

2001  

Extreme Exteriors, Gallery X Harlem, New York, USA 

 

1998  

Herb and Dorothy Vogel Exhibition, Washington, USA 

 

1996  

Nora Haime Gallery, Group Exhibition, New York, USA 

Vogel Collection; University of Atlanta Gallery, Georgia, USA 

 

1995  

Mint Museum, Charlote, USA 

 

1994  

Beyond the Pale, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 

Inaugural Exhibition, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA 

Charlotee Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City, USA 

Group Exhibition, Joel Kessler Fine Art, Miami, USA 

Time Out Youth Auction & Exhibition, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, USA 

Metrolina Aids Project Exhibition, Knight Gallery/Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, USA 

 

1993  

Nature Morte: Alumni, New York Studio School Gallery, New York, USA 

 

1992  

Group Exhibitions, Jerald Melberg Gallery Inc., Charlotte, USA 

Arts at Friends, Bitter Larkin Gallery, Friends Se, USA 

A feast for the Eyes, Associated American Artists, New York, USA 

 

1991  

On the Move, Champion Gallery, Stamford, USA 

Art for Your Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, USA 

 

1989  

At the Water's Edge: 19th Century American beach Scenes, Tampa Museum of Art Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, USA 

At the Water's Edge: 19th Century American beach Scenes, Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, USA 

At the Water's Edge: 19th Century American beach Scenes, Arkansas Arts Center, Litle Rock, USA 

Skowhegan Retrospective 1975-1985, Portland Museum of Art, Maine, USA 

Sounding The Depths: 150 Years of American Seascape, American Federation of Art, New York, USA 

The Future Now, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA 

 

1988  

6 Contemporary Viewpoins in Painting and Sculpture, St. Paul's School, Concord, USA 

 

1987  

The Gleaning Eye: Sandy Seawright Collection, Rowe Gallery, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA 

Borrowed Embellishments, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA 

Group Show, Fashion Moda, Bronx, New York, USA 

 

1986  

Between Painting and Sculpture, Cultural Center, Palo Alto, USA 

Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986, Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA 

An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, USA 

 

1985  

Correspondences: New York Art Now, Laforet Museum, Harajuku, Tokyo; traveled to Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya and Tagaki Hall Espace Media, Kobe, Japan 

Anniottanta, Castel Sismondo, Pazazzina Mostre, Chiesa di Santa Maria ad Nives, Rimini, Italy 

Kunst Mit Eigen-Sinn, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria 

 

1984  

The Human Condition, Museum of Modern Art Biennial III, San Francisco, USA 

American Neo-Expressionists, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgfield, USA 

Painting and Sculpture Today: 1984, Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA 

 

1983  

Back to the USA, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Schweiz; traveled to Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany 

Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 

New York Painting Today, Carnegie Melton University, Pittsburg, USA 

Painting, Sculpture, Totems and 3-D, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA 

 

1982  

The Image Scavengers, Insitute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA 

Urban Kisses, Institute of Contmeporary Art, London, UK 

Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany 

New York Now, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany 

 

1981  

Represent, Representation, Representative, Brooke Alexander, New York, USA 

Stay Tuned, The New Museum, New York, USA 

35 Artists Return to Artists Space, Artists Space, New York, USA 

Lisson Gallery, London, UK 

 

1980  

Times Square Show, New York, USA 

Collaboative Projects Theme Shows a Benefit at Brooke Alexander Inc., New York, USA 

 

1979  

Collaborative Projects Theme Shows, 591 Broadway, New York, USA 

 

1978  

Opening Exhibition,' Insitute for Art & Urban Resources at P.S.1, New York, USA 

 

1975  

Idea Warehouse, New York, USA 

The Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA 

1975 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 

 

1974  

Bykert Gallery, New York, USA 

 

Public collections 

Academy Art Museum, Maryland, USA 

Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA 

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA 

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, USA 

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 

Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, USA 

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA 

Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, USA 

Delaware Art Museum, Delaware, USA 

Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles, USA 

Fleming Museum of Art, Vermont, USA 

Fogg Museum, Harvard, USA 

Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota, USA 

Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, USA 

Harvard Art Museums, Harvard, USA 

Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii, USA 

Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire, USA 

Huntington Art Gallery, Texas, USA 

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA 

Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA 

Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, USA 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA 

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 

New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA 

New Mexico Museum of Art, New Mexico, USA 

New York Public Library, New York, USA 

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, USA 

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma, USA 

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania, USA 

Plains Art Museum, North Dakota, USA 

Portland Museum of Art, Maine, USA 

RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, USA 

Seattle Art Museum, Washington, USA 

South Dakota Art Museum, South Dakota, USA 

Staatliches Museum, Berlin, Deutschland 

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, USA 

The Danheisser Foundation, New York, USA 

The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri, USA 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 

The Mint Museum, Charlotte, USA 

Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA 

University of Alaska Museum of the North, Alaska, USA 

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia, USA 

Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA 

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 

 

Corporate Collections 

ARCO, Los Angeles, USA 

American Express, New York, USA 

Bank of America, San Francisco, USA 

Bear Stearns, New York, USA 

The Boston Company, Inc., New York, USA 

Chemical Bank, New York, USA 

Exxon Corporation, New York, USA 

Goldman Sachs, New York, USA 

General Electric Company, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA 

Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, USA 

J.C. Penny, Stamford, Connecticut, USA 

The Levy Organization, Chicago, USA 

Standard Oil of Ohio, USA 

Madison Square Garden Corporation, New York, USA 

Merril Lynch, New York, USA 

Nations Bank, Charlotte, USA 

Needham, Harper & Speers, New York, USA 

Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, USA 

Readers' Digest, Pleasantville, New York, USA 

Wadsworth Publishing Company, San Francisco, USA