Tony Bluestone
b. 1979 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA
EDUCATION
2001 B.A, Department of Art, Bard College, Annandale, NY
2014 MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 <JET LAG>, Azulejo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2022 <The Passenger>, Freight & Volume, New York, NY
2021 <Yoga Body>, Prattsville Art Center, Prattsville, NY
2019 <Critter Sitters>, La Mama Gallery, New York, NY
2018 <An Instant’s Compass>, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State, Detroit, MI
2017 <Action Paintings>, Larrie (Curated by Ashton Cooper), New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 (Forthcoming) (Curated by Ashton Cooper), Night Gallery, Los Angelos, CA
2023 <Philosophical Investigations> (Curated by Franklin Evans), Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2022 <27 Orchard st>, Larrie Gallery, New York, NY
<Plays Well With Others>, Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, NY
2021 <GMT, White Columns Online>, (Curated by Sahal Hassan), New York, NY
<Where I End and You Begin>, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY
2020 <Pungent Dystopia>, Freight & Volume, New York, NY
2019 <RomCom>, Good Naked, Brooklyn NY
<Detroit Art Book Fair>, AWHRHWAR, Detroit, MI
<Highway Blues> (Curated by JJ Manford), Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2018 <Cast of Characters> (Curated by Liz Collins), Bureau of General Services-Queer, Division, New York, NY
<Wanderings and Wonderings>, performance at Storm King Art Center, Windsor, NY
<Drawings> (Curated by Jason Fox), Frieze Art Fair; Canada Gallery, Randall’s Island, NY
2017 <Other Romances Rachel Uffner> Curated by Em Rooney Gallery New York, NY
<The Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards>, The Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
<Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts>, Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
<Spread>, Left Field Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
2016 <Syntagma>, Eugene Lang at The New School, New York, NY
<Verb List>, Etay Gallery, New York, NY
<Wild Seeds>, Temporary Agency, Brooklyn, NY
2015 <Bacon Friday, Performance with Amanda Pohan> (curated by Guadalupe Marvilla), Present Company, New York, NY
<Her(e) & Now> (curated by Judy Pfaff), N.A.W.A, New York, NY
<Alliance Biennial> (curated by Kat Griefan), St. Nicks Alliance, Brooklyn NY
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / LECTURES
2022 Artist Lecture, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
DNA Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA
2021 DNA Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA
Create Community Arts Grant, Greene County, NY
2020 DNA Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA
2020/21 Prattsville Art Center Community Residency, Prattsville, NY
2019 Rema Hort Mann Nominee
2018 Artist Lecture, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Basil Alkazzi Detroit Residency, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2017 Resident at The Shandaken Project at Storm King
John Koch Award, Academy of Arts and Letters
Panelist at No Man’s Land Panel Discussion, Temporary Agency, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Finalist The Basil H. Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting
2014 Resident at Vermont Studio Center
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Short Cuts by Em Rooney with Husni-Bey, Workneh, Bluestone
2020 Hoosac Journal #6, Wheel of Fortune 1 and 2!
2018 Lavender Review, Issue 18
Hoosac Journal #2, Dear Lover in writing
Maake Magazine, Conversation with Mark Epstein
2016 Ginger Zine Volume IV.
2012 Exit Strada print volume II
COLLECTIONS
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Wayne State University Art Collection
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 Critic in Painting, Rhode Island School of Art and Design, Providence, RI
2020-Present Adjunct Associate Professor of Painting, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2020-2021 Adjunct Associate Professor of Painting, SUNY Purchase, Harrison NY
2018-Present Adjunct Associate Professor of Painting, Hunter College, New York NY
2019 Adjunct Associate Professor of Painting, Marymount College, New York NY
Visiting Critic, Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Visiting Artist, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI979