JUDITH BERNSTEIN / Hard

Judith Bernstein
Hard  2018
Black and White Photocopy, 16 pages
13 x 19cm
Edition 29 of 150
Innen, Zurich

Condition: Very Good, shows minimal signs of wear

Published on the occasion of Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1
September 21-23, 2018. Out of print. 

Since receiving her MFA from Yale in 1967, Judith Bernstein has developed a reputation as one of the most unwaveringly provocative artists of her generation. For over 50 years, her work has been an autobiographical exploration of the connection between the political and the sexual. Steadfast in her cultural, political and social critique throughout her career, Bernstein surged into art world prominence in the early 1970s with her monumental anti-war and Feminist charcoal drawings of penis-screw hybrids; early incarnations of which were exhibited at AIR Gallery; Brooks Jackson Iolas Gallery, New York; Brooklyn Museum; and MoMA P.S.1, among other institutions.

Solo exhibitions include GASLIGTING FOREVER at Kasmin, NY (2021-22); Hot Hands at The Box, LA (2020); Blue Balls at Karma International, Zurich (2019); Money Shot at Kasmin, NY (2018); Cabinet of Horrors at The Drawing Center, NY (2017); Cock in a Box at The Box, LA (2017); Dicks of Death at Mary Boone Gallery, NY (2016); Voyeur at Mary Boone Gallery, NY (2015); Judith Bernstein: Rising at Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway (2016); Birth of the Universe at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, NY (2014); Rising at Studio Voltaire, London (2014); Judith Bernstein: HARD at the New Museum, NY (2012); and Fuck Vietnam at The Box, LA (2011).

Bernstein has work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece; the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; Jewish Museum, NY; Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland; Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Sammlung Verbund, Vienna; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Neuberger Museum, New York; and Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont. She was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fine Arts Fellowship in 2016.