Jack Sal
Born: Waterbury, Connecticut 1954
Lives and Works: New York, NY & Todi (PG), Italy

Education

 

Art Institute of Chicago

Master of Fine Arts

1978

Philadelphia College of Art

Bachelor of Fine Arts

1976

 

Publications:

 

As Author/Artist/Book Design:

 

White/Wash II

Oficyna Scriptum Kielce, Poland

Texts by Sam Gruber and Jack Sal

Malgorzata Bielecka, Project Coordinator

2005

Cafè/Caffè

Combo Press New York, NY

Caffè Quadro Venice, Italy

2005

White/Wash

Oficyna Scriptum Kielce, Poland

Text by Jack Sal

Malgorzata Bielecka, Project Coordinator

2003

New York Drawings

Galleria Multigraphic Venice, Italy

Text by Geràrd A. Goodrow

2001

The Primary Drawings

3+1

Maschietto&Musolino Florence, Italy

Poetry by Bruno Corà & a text by Jack Sal

2001

Wire/Works

Salon Verlag Köln, Germany

Reiner Speck & Gerhard Theewen, Editors

2001

Haus/House - Probe/Be

Schuster Verlag Gelnhausen, Germany &

Neue Kunst Konstanz, Germany

2000

Pos/Neg

Museum Ludwig Köln, Germany

Verlag Locher Köln, Germany

Texts by Reinhold Mißelbeck & Jack Sal

2000

Re/Place

Edizioni Genoma Città di Castello, Italy

Texts by Jack Sal

Petra Volkwien, Project Coordinator

1998

Re/Flection

Avivson Books London, England/

Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt, Germany

Texts by Jack Sal

1997

Project/Projekt

Museum Ludwig Köln, Germany

Texts by Reinhold Mißelbeck, Bruno Corà, and Jack Sal

1995

Re/Action

A.E.I.U.O. Editrice Inonia Rome, Italy

Texts by Jack Sal

Bruno Corà, Editor

1993

Mark/Making

Combinations Press New York, NY

Texts by Jack Sal

Additional text by Roger Baldwin

Mary Ann Lynch, Editor

1983

 

Exhibition Catalogues:

 

Progetto per Foligno

Auditorium San Domenico

Foligno, Italy

2005

Cooking Art Museum

Comune di Collazzone

Colazzone, Italy

2005

White/Wash II

United States Commission for The Preservation of Americas Heritage Abroad/City of Kielce Poland

2005

Impermanenza

Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista

Venice, Italy

Giancarlo Vianello, Curator

2004

Wandering Library; Temporary Edition/Markers IV

Biennale Di Venezia/Museo Ebraico di Venezia

Venice, Italy

Doron Polak, Curator/Project Coordinator

2003

VerSantiSibillini

Comune di Cascia

Cascia, Italy

Daniele Di Lodovico & Fulvia Porena, Curators

2003

Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia

Galleria Comunale D'Arte Moderna

Spoleto, Italy

Franco Troiani, Project Coordinator

2003

Collezione Permanente; Nuove Acquisizioni

Centro Per L'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci

Prato, Italy

Bruno Corà, Curator

2002

Salt-Menneske

Denmarks Saltcenter

Mariager, Denmark

Steen Rasmussen & Finn Have, Project Coordinators

2002

Markers II

EAM  Kassel

Kassel, Germany

Doron Polak, Curator/Project Coordinator

2002

Lo Spirito Del Lago

LPdL E.V. Isola Bella, Italy

Verlag Locher Köln, Germany

Peter Gilles & Brigit Kahle, Project Coordinators

2002

Markers

Biennale Di Venezia

Venice, Italy

Doron Polak, Curator/Project Coordinator

2001

Milestones for Peace

Biennale Di Venezia

Venice, Italy

Iris Elhanani, Curator/Project Coordinator

2001

Hicetnunc

Ressegna di Arte Contemporanea

X Edition

San Vito al Tagliamento Italy

Edizioni Biblioteca  dell’Immagine

2001

Dieci Anni 1990-2000

Albornoz Palace Hotel

Spoleto Italy

2000

Il Pensiero Dell'Arte

CERP/Rocca Paolina

Perugia, Italy

Antonio Carlo Ponti, Curator

2000

Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia

Galleria Comunale D'Arte Moderna

Spoleto, Italy

Franco Troiani, Project Coordinator

2000

Construction in Process - The Earth is a Flower

International Artists’ Museum

Bydgoszcz Poland

2000

Kuratoren zu Gast

Galerie Olaf Stüber

Berlin, Germany

Stefanie Hering, Curator

2000

Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia

Galleria Comunale D'Arte Moderna

Spoleto, Italy

Giuliano Macchia & Franco Troiani, Coordinators

1999

Hafia International Installation Triennale

Haifa Museum of Art  Haifa, Israel

Daniella Talmor, Curator

1999

Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia

Galleria Comunale D'Arte Moderna

Spoleto, Italy

Franco Troiani, Project Coordinator

1998

Licht

Das Material Des Bilderhauers

Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden e.V.

Wiesbaden, Germany

Gottfried Hafermann, Curator

1998

Tempo e Forma nell'arte Contemporanea

Università degli Studi di Cassino Cassino, Italy

Bruno Corà & Raffaele Bruno, Curators

1997

Opera 1986-1992

Opera

Associazione Culturale per le Arti Visive Perugia, Italy

Bruno Corà, Curator

1996

Mary Judge/Jack Sal

Fondazione Marguerite Arp

Locarno, Switzerland

1995

Projects

Galerie Brigitte Schenk

Köln, Germany

1995

László Moholy-Nagy; Idee und Wirkung

Kunsthalle Bielefeld  Bielefeld, Germany

Gottfried Jäger & Juta Hülsewig-Johnen, Curators

1995

Re/Format

Kunstverein Lippstadt

Lippstadt, Germany

Tyfun Belgin, Curator

1995

Construction in Process-Co-Existence

The Artist Museum

Mitzpe Ramon, Israel

1995

Sign/Segno

Fondazione Lungarotti

Torgiano, Italy

1994

Deutsche Fototages

Postmuseum

Frankfurt/Main Germany

1993

Presenze 93

Villa Fidelia

Spello, Italy

Giorgio Bonomi, Curator

1993

Arte Domani

1992 punti di vista

Incontro Internazionli d'Arte

Ex-Hospital di San Matteo degli Infermi

Spoleto, Italy

Maria Ausilia Binda, Curator

1992

Breda Photographica

Staddt Musesum

Breda The Netherlands

1992

New Jersey Arts Annual

The Noyes Museum

Oceanville, New Jersey

Robert J. Koenig, Director

1992

The Easton Circle

The Gallery/State Theatre Center for the Arts

Easton, Pennsylvania

Karl Stirner, Exhibition Coordinator

1991

Clichè-verre

Galerie Shiofusaya

Chiba-shi Chiba-ken Japan

1990

Das Foto als autonomes Bild; Experimentelle Gestatung 1839-1989

Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Bielefeld, Germany

Juta Hülsewig-Johnen, Curator

1989

New Art/New Material

North Carolina State University Gallery

Raleigh, North Carolina

1989

A.E.I.U.O

anno VII No. 20-22

Rome, Italy

Bruno Corà, Director

1987

4 da Roma

Antiquarium Comunale

Sezze, Italy

1987

Bildshaffende Konzepte

Fotografische Akademie GDL

Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany

Gottfried Jäger, Curator

1987

Sol LeWitt/Jack Sal

Opera

Associazione Culturale per le Arti Visive Perugia, Italy

Bruno Corà, Curator

1987

Magazzini Generali

Genazzano ‘86

Internazionale d’Arte

Castello Colonna di Genazzano

Genazzano Italy

A. Bonito Oliva, Curator

1986

The Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Phillip Dennis Cate, Director

1983

Lensless Photography

IBM Gallery of Science and Art

New York, NY

Franklin Institute

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1983

Synergy/Artists 1+1=3

Thorpe Intermedia Gallery

Sparkill, New York

Dominique Nahas, Exhibition Organizer

1982

New American Graphics 2

Madison Art Center

Madison, Wisconsin

1982

Clichè-verre: Hand Drawn, Light Printed

Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit, Michigan

& Museum of Fine Arts 

Houston, Texas

Marilyn F. Symmes & Elizabeth Glassman, Curators

1981

The Independent Eye

JCC Gallery

New Haven, Connecticut

Roger Balwdwin, Curator

1981

Photographer As Printmaker

Arts Council of Great Britian

Traveling Exhibition

Gerry Badger, Curator

 

First They Wrought: New England’s Teaching Photographers

Carlson Gallery

University of Bridgeport

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Roger Balwdwin, Curator

1981

Contemporary Clichè-verre Prints

Detroit Institute of Arts

Traveling Exhibition 

Detroit, Michigan

Marilyn F. Symmes, Curator

1981

Contemporay Young American Photography

Museum of Contemporary Photography

Chicago, Illinois

1981

Photofusion

Pratt Institute

New York and Brooklyn, NY

Text by A.D. Coleman

1981

Connecticut Photographers

Art Resources of Connecticut

New Haven, Connecticut

1980

The Photographer’s Hand

The Smithsonian Institute

Washington D.C.

Susan Dodge Peters, Curator

1980

New Photographics/76

Central Washington State

College  Ellensburg, Washington

1976

 

Permanent Works:

 

United States Commission for The Preservation of Americas Heritage Abroad/City of Kielce Poland

Post-Holocaust Monument

City of München Max Weber Platz Munich Germany

Post-Holocaust Monument

Santa Maria della Maternità/Gandini Chapel

Padua Italy

CAMeC- Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea

La Spezia Italy

Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci

Prato Italy

Comune di Collazzone

Collazzone Italy

Sony Deutschland GmbH

Köln Germany

Siempelkamp Giesserei GmbH

Krefeld Germany

Katamasu USA Inc

New York NY

Fraz. Piedecolle Comune di Collazzone

Collazzone Italy

The Artist Museum

Bydgoszcz Poland

The Artist Museum

Mitzpe Ramon Israel

Vintage

Köln Germany

Albornoz Palace Hotel

Spoleto Italy

Hotel Chelsea

Köln Germany

 

Art Fairs:

 

Art Cologne

Köln, Germany 1994-Present

Art Frankfurt

Frankfurt, Germany 2000-2004

Art Köln-Alternative

Köln, Germany 2004

City of Jerusalem Fair

Jerusalem, Israel 2002

Arte Roma

Rome, Italy 1992

 

Video/Audio (as subject):

 

Kulturnyt

Danish State Radio

2003

White/Wash

KvP-Polish Private Television

2003

Re/Pose

Marco Prati Productions (Italy)

2003

White/Wash

Radio Kielce

2003

Red/White

Senko Studio (Denmark)

2003

Piedecolle

TEF-(Italian Private Television)

2002

Max-Weber-Platz

Aleph Film for RAI Tre (Italian National Television)

2000

Stable/Unstable

BvP-Polish Private Television

2000

Construction in Process VII

TvP- Polish Private Television

2000

KulturSW

SW-German State Televesion

1999

Kulturwelt

ARD (Germany)

1998

Roxy Bar

Tele Monte Carlo-TMC (Italian Private Television) 

1998

Up/Side/Down

TV-Werbestudio Räth (Germany)

1997

 

Photographic Portrait Book:

 

Souvenirs by Benjamin Katz

Verlag Könemann Köln Germany

1996

 

Text Books & Critical Essays:

 

Moholy: 100 jahr

Photographer & Illustrated

Gottfried Jäger, Editor

Biel Verlag

1998

über moholy-nagy

 

Photographer & Illustrated

Jäger, Gottfried / Wessing, Gudrun, Editors

Kerber Verlag

1997

Photography

Contributing Editor, Photographer & Illustrated

Upton & Upton/B. London Chief Editor 5 Editions

Little Brown Books

1984-1993

Fotoästhetik

Photographer & Illustrated

Gottfried Jäger, Editor

Verlag Laterna Magica

1991

Generative Foto

Photographer & Illustrated

Gottfried Jäger, Editor

Manzona Verlag

1990

Bildgebende Fotografie

Photographer & Illustrated

Gottfried Jäger, Editor

DuMont Buchverlag

1988

The New Photography

Photographer & Illustrated

Reeve and Sward, Editors

Prentice-Hall, Inc

1984

 

Magazine & Newspaper Reviews:

 

Il Giornale dell’ Umbria

(Italy)

April 18, 2004

“Artisti all’Aperto” (Foligno)

Corriere dell’ Umbria

(Italy)

June 7, 2003

“Al teatro romano di Spoleto Jack Sal ricordo David Smith”

Corriere dell’ Umbria

(Italy)

June 6, 2003 (Photo)

“Al Romano una Mostra, quaranta’ anni dopo”

Kielekie Echo Dnia N. 117

(Poland)

May 22, 2003

Sztuka ze wszystkiego  (Photo)

Gazeta Wyborcza

(Poland)

May 20, 2003

„Skandal-tylko na zamówienie” (Photo)

Text by Juliusz Cwieluch

Viborg

(Denmark)

May 19, 2003

“Jack-fra New York” (Photo)

Text by Thea Jessen Kristensen

Corriere dell’ Umbria

(Italy)

January 4, 2003

“Un artista ispirato da Zabaglia” (Photo)

Text by Daniele Di Lodovico

Nordjyske Stiftstidende

(Denmark)

August 30, 2002

“10 Internationale kunstnere…” (Photo)

Text by Maj Bjerring Sørensen

Berliner Zeitung

(Germany)

July 8, 2000

“Es raunt der Dialektiker des Materials”

Text by Vera Görgen

Corriere dell’ Umbria

(Italy)

April 2, 2002

“Mary e Jack, coniugi e artisti” (Photo)

Text by Antonio Carlo Ponti

In Viaggio

(Italy)

February 2002          2002 N. 53

Special Umbria: Personaggi…(Photo)

Text & Photo by Sandro Vaninni

Südkurier

 (Germany)

October 2001

Big Cities auf der Tüte 

Text by Erich Gropper

Titolo

(Italy)

Fall 2001           Anno XII N. 36

“Spigolature bibliografiche” (Photo)

Text by Giorgio Bonomi

Class

(Italy)

November 2001 2001 N. 11

“Camera con vista. Sull’atelier” (Photo)

Berliner Morgenpost

(Germany)

May 29, 2001

“Bilder im Raum die den Raum ins Bild rücken”

Text by Christiane Meixner

Art in America

(USA)

March 2001

“Woodstock on the Breda” (Photo)

Text by Richard Vine

Frankfrter Allgemeine Zeitung

(Germany)

May 14, 1999

“Überall in Ort Umrisse von Wohnräumen”(Photo)

Text by Beate Taudte-Repp

Südkurier

 (Germany)

May 11, 1999

“Vom Wesen vergoldeter Kontaktstife” (Photo)

Text by Erich Gropper

Gelnhäuser Tageblatt

(Germany)

May 3, 1999

“Kunststoff als Stoff für moderne Kunst”(Photo)

Text by Jochen Schneider

Wiesbaden Tageblatt

(Germany)

January 17, 1998

“”Licht” wirft Schatten voraus” (Photo)

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

(Germany)

September 27/28, 1997

“Die Sparsamkeit schafft freiheit”

Text by Beate Eickhoff

Westfalen-Blatt Bielefeld

(Germany)

May 26, 1996

“Alles verändert sich” (Photo)

Text by Kerstin Dierks

Il Messaggero

(Italy)

May 14, 1996

“Artisti contemporanei, la città diventa un museo”

Westfalen-Blatt Bielefeld

(Germany)

May 5, 1996

“Installiert und begrübelt:IN/SIDE/OUT” (Photo)

Bonner General-Anzeiger

(Germany)

April 24, 1996

“Bilder sprudeln ins Leere: Jack Sal Im Hering Raum”

Text by Martin Seidel

TAZ-Die Tageszietung Berlin

(Germany)

March 3, 1996

“Die Spuren kaum sichtbar vergangener Ziet”

Text by Hajo Schiff

Hamurger Morgenpost

(Germany)

February 22, 1996

“Fotos, die die Welt verstecken” (Photo)

Text by Kai-Uwe Scholz

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

(Germany)

September 14, 1995

“Ein schönes Speil mit Linie und Licht” (Photo)

Text by Andrea Jonas-Edel

Patroit-Lippstadt

(Germany)

May 12, 1995

“Bodenobject made in Lippstadt” (Photo)

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

(Germany)

July 5, 1994

“Ein Reise durch die Zeit”

Text by Justus Jonas

Eikon

(Austria)

1995/1996         1995/96 N. 16/17

“Interview with Jack Sal” (English)

Art News

(USA)

October 1993

“Germany: Things are Moving” (Photo)

Impulse

(Germany)

March 1993       1993 N. 3

“Bei Kunst haben jetzt die Käufer das Sagen” (Photo)

Unsigned

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

(Germany)

January 23/24, 1993

“Die zweite Natur der Stücke” (Photo)

Text by Beate Eickhoff

Forever Moore

(USA)

October 1991

“Moore’s Soviet Connection; Jack Sal in Moscow”

Text by Beverly Almgren

Popular Photography

(USA)

October 1984

“Seeing through Photography”

Text by Jack Sal

Groundswell

1984

University of Bridgeport

Cover Art and a text by Jack Sal

Camera Arts

(USA)

May 1983   Vol. 3 No. 5

“Photography’s Alter Ego”

Text by Charles Hagen

PrintNews

April/May 1980  Vol. 2 No. 2

Cliches-verre: Prints made without ink or press

Text by Marilyn Symmes

Image

(USA)

September 1981  Vol. 24 No.1

“Jack Sal”

Text by Marianne Fulton

Portfolio

(USA)

Fall 1979    Vol. 1 No. 2

"Clichè-verre; Camerless Imagery by Jack Sal"

Text by Jack Sal

 

Cover Art:

 

Calliope Teething     by Luigi Attardi
Alessandro Matteo Cassin Editore     Firenze/New York/Roma



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