Barbara Takenaga
Born North Platte, Nebraska Download PDF
Represented by:
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Shark's Ink, Lyons, CO
Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Whatsis, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
2023
Two Storied, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY (catalogue)
2022
Outliers, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Odyssey: Rob Wynne & Barbara Takenaga (2 person show), Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
2021
Tracers, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2019
Barbara Takenaga: Manifold, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Barbara Takenaga: Looking at Blue, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2018
Barbara Takenaga: Outset, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
Barbara Takenaga, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
2017
Barbara Takenaga, a 20-year survey curated by Debra Bricker Balken, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (catalogue)
Barbara Takenaga: Outburst, SPACE 42, Neuberger Museum of Art in New York City
Barbara Takenaga, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
Barbara Takenaga: Recent Work, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
Barbara Takenaga, Lithographs, Goodwin Fine Art, Denver, CO
Waiting in the Sky II, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Waiting in the Sky, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
2015-17
Nebraska, wall project, Hunter Center Lobby, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2014
Barbara Takenaga, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Barbara Takenaga, Bennington Art Museum, Bennington, VT
2013
New Paintings, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
2012
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011
New Paintings, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
2010
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
Barbara Takenaga: last blue wheel, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
Barbara Takenaga: Fade Away and Radiate, Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
2008
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Brattleboro Art Museum, Brattleboro, VT
McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE (catalogue)
Gallery of Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
2006
Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, CO
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
CU Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder (brochure)
2004
New Works Space, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TC
2003
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
2001
James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
1997
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
1993
Cambridge Mulitcultural Center, Cambridge, MA
College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
Art in General, New York, NY
1992
Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Mabel Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1991
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Godzilla: Echoes from the 1990’s Asian American Arts Network, Eric Firestone, NY, NY
2023
The Fall of ’23, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Visible Rhythms: Pattern and Color, Grace Ross Shanley Gallery, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
45+ Anniversary Exhibition Series Part II, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Come A Little Closer, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2022
Inspired Encounters, organized by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the National Academy of Design, David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center, Poncantico, Tarrytown, NY
A Point Stretched in Time, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
All Small, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
Gravity of Beauty, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA
Cosmic Geometries, organized by Hilma’s Ghost, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, NY
Askew, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Mining Form and Meaning, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Onward and Upward: Shark’s Ink, CU Museum, Boulder, CO
Form, Figure, Abstraction, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Positive Fragmentation, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Global Asias, Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and Family Foundation, Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University, State College, PA and the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Applied Matter, Robischon Gallery, Denver CO
Love Devotion Surrender Dedication, Rick Wester Fine Arts, New York, NY
In Conversation, curated by Katie DeGroot, Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
2020
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, the Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
2019
Blue in Green, curated by Alyssa Fanning, Platform Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Stars, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
The Unusual Suspects: A View of Abstraction, curated by Richard Kalina, DC Moore Gallery, NY
The “X” Factor, Bernay Fine Arts, Great Barrington, MA
Dance with Me, a group show curated by Kyle Staver, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY
Labyrinths of the Mind, a group show curated by Sara Lynn Henry, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
2018
Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
beginning. break. rapid, Kenji Fujita and Barbara Takenaga, curated by Sheila Pepe, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2017
Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists, Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Victory Over the Sun: The Poetics and Politics of Eclipse, KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY
Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters, 1950 to Now, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Art on Paper: 10 Women Artists from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University
New New York Continuum, the Curator Gallery, New York, NY
2016
105th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art: Threatening Beauty, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
Bedazzled: The Glitter and Gold in Contemporary Art, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Representing Rainbows, curated by Lisa Corinne Davis, Gerald Peters Gallery, NY, NY
Staying Power, Art & Culture, Albany International Airport Galleries, Albany, NY
Introductions, La Mama Galleria, curated by Roberto Juarez, New York, NY
Red @ Rule, Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
It Was Never Linear…Recent Painting, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Overgrowth, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
The Swerve, Ortega y Gasset, curated by Jennifer Coates, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Printer’s Proof: 30 Years at Wingate Studio, Stone Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
Alchemy, DC Moore, New York, NY
Painting Is Not Doomed to Repeat Itself, curated by John Yau, Hollis Taggart Gallery, NY, NY
This Big Land, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE
New New York: Abstract Painting in the 21st Century, Manoa Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, H
Tiny but Mighty, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Multiverse, DC Moore, New York, NY
Selection from the Collection 1981-2015, Museum of Outdoor Art, Denver, CO
40 Years of the Vermont Studio Center, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
20 x 16, curated by Geoffrey Young, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
#2: A Graphite Exhibition, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Shuffle: Contemporary Art @ PAFA Remixed, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Restless Universe, David Findlay Gallery, New York, NY
Authentic Form, Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO
MAC @20 Part I, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Repetitive Motion, curated by Jennifer Samet, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY
Shark’s Ink: Collaborations, Pattern Shop Studio, Denver, CO
2013
Congregation, curated by Sheila Pepe, 106 Green Street, Brooklyn, NY
Approaching Infinity: The Collection of Richard Green, The Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA (catalogue)
Ink Paper Scissors, the Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
2012
Affinity Atlas, Wellin Museum of Art, curated by Ian Berry, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (catalogue)
The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
Hat Trick, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Cosmologies, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Liminality, Luminosity, and the Everyday, CU Museum, Boulder, CO
Local Color, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Size Matters: Small Works from the Fine Art Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Cut, Drawn, Painted: Works on Paper, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
CTRL+P, New Directions in Printmaking, curated by Julie Chae, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
San Antonio Collects: Contemporary, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio TX
Grey Full, curated by Geoffrey Young, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
Emergence and Structure, curated by Daniel Hill and Ron Janowich, Lafayette College, Easton, PA (catalogue) Also traveled to:
Miami Dade College, Miami, Fl
University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
More or Less, Art & Culture at the Albany International Airport Galleries
2011
Shapeshifters, curated by Laurel Sparks, 443 PAS, New York, NY
White-Hot, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Major Grey, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Never the Same Twice, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY
Goldmine, Works from the Contemporary Collection of Michael and Sirje Gold, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach (catalogue)
2010
Inscrutable, University of Delaware @Crane, Philadelphia, PA
I Am the Cosmos, curated by Sara Lynn Henry, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Vivid: Female Currents in Painting, curated by Janet Phelps, Schroeder Romero & Shredder, New York, NY
Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, City of Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery, Lancaster, CA and Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
Shark’s Ink, Creative Arts Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2009
Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Economies of Scale, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
New Prints, Winter, International Print Center New York. Traveled to Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2008
183rd Annual Invitational Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Horror Vacui, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
Midnight Full of Stars, curated by Sara Lynn Henry, Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ (catalogue)
It’s Gouache and Gouache Only, curated by Geoffrey Young, Andrea Meislin, NYC
RSVP, Invitational Exhibition, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney (catalogue)
2007
Workspace Program, 2001-07, Dieu Donne, New York, NY
Prelude, Julie Chae Gallery, Boston, MA
Cut, Copy, Fold, Cover, curated by Kim Beck, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA
Block Party II, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
To the Left, CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX
Natured Anew, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI (brochure)
Big Bang! Paintings for the 21st Century, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (catalogue)
2006
Patternings: Ed Epping and Barbara Takenaga, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
ZusammenKunst, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany
Dieu Donne: 30th Anniversary Exhibition, CG Boerner Gallery, New York, NY
Block Party, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Decades of Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO (catalogue)
Selection from the Cultural Corridor, Storefront Projects, Pittsfield, MA,
Jack, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
2005
A Cooperation of Pleasures: Barbara Takenaga and Julie Evans, Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, SC
National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR (catalogue)
How Bad Do You Want It? Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Collecting Contemporary Prints, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Good Vibrations, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
2005
Annual Invitational Exhibition, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (catalogue)
Group Exhibition, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
From Natural to Techno Universes: Our Brave New Worlds, curated by Sara Henry, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program, Long Island City, NY (brochure)
Eye Tattoos, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
2004
and now they aren’t, but they are. Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Anxious Image, The Painting Center, New York, NY (catalogue)
Good Fortune, benefit exhibition, Dieu Donne, New York, NY
About Painting, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (catalogue)
Mindscape, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
I Want to Take You Higher, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
Border Crossing: Artists from the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (catalogue)
179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of Design, New York, NY (catalogue)
Radial Gradient, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA (brochure)
Hard and Soft, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Four Abstract Paintings, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2003
Works on Paper: Variations and Themes, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY
Round, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
Obsessive Pleasures, Pavel Zoubok, New York, NY
Flicker, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art, New York, NY
New Prints 2003/Winter, International Print Center, New York, NY
Beautiful Recession, Red Dot, New York, NY
2002
Accumulations, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY (catalogue)
Vermont Studio Center Press, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT (catalogue)
Artists to Artists, A Decade of the Sharpe Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
Cascade of Scales, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
2001
Alterations, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
Revival, Bridewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Figstract Explosionism, Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York
2000
Elbows and Tea Leaves, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO (catalogue)
Small Pleasures in Idleness, Gallery 456, New York, NY
Battenfield, Harder, Lambert, Takenaga, Nightingale-Bamford School, New York
1999
Xmas Show, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
Trippy World, Baron/Boisante Gallery, New York, NY
Size Matters, Gale Gates, Et. Al., Brooklyn, NY
NEFA Fellowship Recipients, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Split/Shift: Williams and Bennington Faculty Show, Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA
1998
Group Exhibition, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Contemporary Asian Women Artists, the Taipei Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
1997
Threshold: Limits of Perception, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
Fermented, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1:One, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
The Intimate Brush, Palo Alto Arts Center, Palo Alto, CA
1996
Pulse: Works on Paper, No.B.I.A.S., Bennington, VT
Repetition Compulsion, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series,
Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (catalogue)
1995
In and Out of Character, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY
Redefining Legacies, 1203 Art Space, San Antonio, TX
Beyond Boundaries and Traditions, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
1994
Pasando La Mano, (5 person show) Soho 20 Gallery, New York, NY
Art to Art: Expressions by Asian American Women, Asia Society, New York, NY
1993
Art to Art: Expressions by Asian American Women, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Visible Meaning, Ise Art Foundation, New York, NY (2 person)
The Choice of Painting, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT (brochure)
And He Was Looking for Asia: Alternatives to the Christopher Columbus
Story, Asian American Arts Center, New York, NY
NEFA Painting Fellows, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
1992
Rudolfo Abularach, Nachume Miller, Barbara Takenaga, Brattleboro Art Museum, Brattleboro, VT
1990-94
Ancestors Known and Unknown: Boxworks, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY. (catalogue) Itinerary includes: Art in General, New York, NY
The Wooster College Museum, Wooster, OH
Kean College, New Jersey
Bruce Watkins Center, Kansas City, MO
Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
1991
Inaugural Awards by the Alice Baber Art Fund: Carnwath, Gillespie, McCoy, Pitt, Takenaga, Helander Gallery, New York, NY
1990
In the Spirit, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Permanent Public Installations
2021
Cascade (caeruleus), glass mosaic, NYU Langone Art Collection, New York, NY
2021
MTA Metro-North Railroad Station, White Plains, MTA Arts & Design, mosaic: Forte: Quarropas 2020, glass railings: Blue Rails (White Plains) 2020
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Bischoff, Dan, “Stars in Their Eyes,” The Star-Ledger, New Jersey, April 20, 2008
Henry, Sara Lynn, “Midnight Full of Stars,” Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 2008
Castillo, Jane, Line: 7 Elements of Art, Reina Publishing and Morgan James Publishing, NY, NY 2008
Jancar, Ava, “Op Parts,” ArtSlant, San Francisco, March 14, 2008
Brown, Brice, Barbara Takenaga (catalogue), McKenzie Fine Art, NY, NY 2007
Phillips, Patricia C., “In the Making,” Workspace Program 2001-07, Dieu Donne, 2007
Nagorka, Stefanie, “Cosmic Weaver,” Gay City News, Dec. 12, 2007
MacMillan, Kyle, “1 More Art Show,” The Denver Post, Oct. 27, 2007
Krug, Margaret, An Artist’s Handbook, Abrams, 2007
McQuaid, Cate, “At Three Sites, New Management and Fresh Ideas” Boston Globe, Oct. 4, 2007
Cohen, David, “Gallery Going,” The New York Sun, Sept. 19, 2007
Lake, Eva, interview and podcast, Voice America, August 22, 2007
Petersen, Amy, “To the Left” Houston Press, July 19, 2007
Stickney, Dane, “Artist Takenaga Revels in Colorful Circles,” Omaha World-Herald, June 14, 2007
Cook, Greg, “Act Natural,” The Boston Phoenix, June 12, 2007
McQuaid, Cate, “Revealing Creative Nature,” The Boston Globe, June 21, 2007
Van Siclen, Bill, “Forces of Nature and Art,” The Providence Journal, RI, June 21, 2007
MacAdam, Barbara A., “The New Abstraction,” Art News, April 2007
Johnson, Ken, “Seeing a Pattern,” Boston Globe, February 2, 2007
Cook, Greg, “Ah, Painting!” The Boston Phoenix, January 29, 2007
Whitman, Arthur, “Big Bang! Abstract Paintings…,” Big Red & Shiny, Issue 61
Capasso, Nick, Big Bang! Painting in the 21st Century, (catalogue), DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, January 2007
Lord, Jennifer, “Canvas Cosmology” Metrowest Daily News Tribune, Boston, Jan. 24, 2007
Dantzic, Cynthia, 100 New York Painters, published by Schiffer Books, 2007
Paglia, Michael, “Basis Loaded, Decades of Influence,” Westword, June 29, 2006
Berlind, Robert & David Cohen, Eleanor Heartney, Mark Stevens, (panel discussion) The Review Panel: Nancy Spero, Hans Haacke, Barbara Takenaga, Duncan Hannah, National Academy of Art, New York, NY, December 2, 2005, documented on ArtCritical.com
MacMillan, Kyle, “Art of the State,” The Denver Post, June 25, 2006 (photograph)
MacMillan, Kyle, “Decades of Influence: Colorado 1985 – Present,” The Denver Post, June 8, 2006 (photograph)
Baker, R.C., The Village Voice, November 7-14, 2005
Cohen, David, “Barbara Takenaga,” New York Sun, November 17, 2005
Kushner, Robert, Barbara Takenaga, (catalogue essay) McKenzie Fine Art, 2005
Perry, Vicky, Abstract Painting, published by Watson-Guptali, 2005
Young, Bryan, catalogue “National Drawing Exhibition”, Arkansas Art Center, 2005
Smith, Nick, “Rave Party,” Charleston City Paper, Nov. 2, 2005
Drake, Nicholas, Interview: Julie Evans, Brian Rutenberg, Barbara Takenaga, “Talk About” WSCI radio (NPR affiliate), Charleston, SC, October, 2005
Hagood, Catherine, “Cooperation of Pleasures,” The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC, October 20, 2005
Johnson, Ken, “Good Vibrations,” New York Times, July 15, 2005
Chandler, Mary Voelz, “Art by Numbers,” Rocky Mountain News, July 14, 2005
Cohen, David, “Gallery Going” The New York Sun, July 7, 2005
Marglin, Elizabeth, “Artful Transformation,” Boulder Daily Camera, July 3, 2005
Becker, Lisa Tamiris, Micro/Macro: Barbara Takenaga, (brochure) CU Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder 2005
Lynch, Mark, 2005 DeCordova Artist Interview, WICN radio, October,2005
Temin, Christine, “Variety blooms at DeCordova Annual,” Boston Globe, May 27, 2005
Millis, Christopher, “The 2005 DeCordova Annual Exhibition,” Boston Phoenix, May 16, 2005
Hopkins, Randi, “Perennials and Obsessions,” Boston Phoenix, April 22, 2005
“DeCordova Annual Exhibit,” Lincoln Journal, Acton, MA, April 21, 2005
Novina, Alexandra, The 2005 DeCordova Annual Exhbition, (catalogue) curated by Rachel Lafo, Nick Capasso, & others, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Meyers, Laura, “LA Hosts Art Fairs Trifecta,” Art Business News, April 2005
Thompson, Joe and others, Ten Years of Artist’s Resource Trust, 2005
Baker, Kenneth, “Radial Gradient,” Art News, February 2005
Johnson, Ken, “179th Annual,” New York Times, May 14, 2004
Kushner, Robert, “Barbara Takenaga,” Art In America, February 2004
Henry, Sara Lynn, Brave New Worlds, (brochure) Dorsky Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY 2004
The Anxious Image, (catalogue) curated by Jimmy Wright and David Sharpe, The Painting Center, New York, NY 2004
The 179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, (catalogue)
Nancy Malloy, The National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 2004
Berry, Ian, About Painting, (catalogue) Tang Teaching Museum, 2004
Walker, Sarah, Radial Gradient, (brochure) Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, 2004
Buhman, Stefanie, “Barbara Takenaga,” Artcritical.com, October, 2003
Schmerier, Sarah, “Affordable Art Fair,” Time Out, New York, October 30, 2003
“Affordable Art Fair,” In New York, October 2003
Johnson, Ken, “Obsessive Pleasures,” The New York Times, May 9, 2003
Hirsch, Faye, “Working Proof: Print Reviews,” Art on Paper, April 2003
Korotkin, Joyce, “Beautiful Recession,” The New York Art World, April 2003
Artists to Artists, A Decade of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, (catalogue) 2002
Shaw, Karen, Accumulations, (catalogue) Islip Art Museum, 2002
Newhall, Edith, “Night in the City,” New York, January 7, 2002
Johnson, Ken, “Barbara Takenaga,” The New York Times, December 28, 2001
Johnson, Ken, “Alterations,” The New York Times, August 10, 2001
“Figstract Explosionism,” The New Yorker, February 19 & 26, 2001
Vermont Studio Center Press Catalog 3, 2001
Gluckstern, J., “Frontrange Women,” Daily Camera, Boulder, CO, June, 2000
Payton, Cydney, Marsha Semmel, Lucy Lippard, Margo Espenlaub, Elbows and Tea Leaves, Frontrange Women in the Visual Arts, Boulder Center for Contemporary Art, 2000
Johnson, Ken, “Trippy World” The New York Times, October 22, 1999
Levin, Kim, “Choices” Village Voice, October 19, 1999
“People Are Talking About.”., Vogue Magazine, September, 1999 (photograph)
“Trippy World,” Shout Magazine, New York, NY, September, 1999
Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, April 24, 1998
Lien, Fu-Chia-Wen, Contemporary Asian Women Artists, (catalogue) Taipei Gallery, 1998
Pelli, Denis, “Seeing Is Easy,” New York Arts Magazine, October 1997
Pelli, Denis & Ana Maria Torres, Threshold: Limits of Perception (catalogue), New York University, 1997
Cheng, Amy, “Would You Mind Repeating That Again?” NY Soho Arts Magazine, Oct 1996
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series: 25 Years of Feminism, Rutgers University, 1996
Broude, Norma and Mary Garrard, The Power of Feminist Art, Abrams, 1994 (group photograph), p. 114
“Gathering Medicine,” Manual, Art In General, 1994, p. 47, 100
Raven, Arlene, "The Conversation: Barbara Takenaga," Manual, Art In General, 1993
The Choice of Painting, Lyman Allen Art Museum, Natalie Coletta-Sanford, 1993
"Five Chapters: Barbara Takenaga," video by Christine Choy, 1993
Cloud, Laura, “Lyman Allyn Art Museum...," Art New England, June/July 1993
Zimmer, William, "Invention Hews to Yankee Tradition," The New York Times, March 14, 1993
Sherman, Mary, "Fellowship Recipients...", Boston Herald, Sept. 13, 1992
Becker, Jacqueline, “Visions of Nature and Culture," Art New England, Oct/Nov 1992
Spence, Pamela Richards, Retrospective Catalog of the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, 1992
Smith, Beryl, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, (catalogue) Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ, 1991
Fellowships, Awards, Residencies
2020
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY
2013
Elected Academician of the National Academy of Art, New York, NY
2012
Printmaking workshop residency, Smith College, Northampton, MA
2009
Wauson Fellowship, FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2008
Eric Isenburger Annual Award, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2005
Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Awards, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
2004
Workspace Program, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
2000
Printmaking Residency, Vermont Studio Center Press
1998
Massachusetts Artist Fellowship in painting, Massachusetts Cultural Council and the New England Foundation for the Arts
1993
Artist's Residency Grant, Art In General, NY State Council on the Arts
New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (regional NEA) in painting
1992
Studio Grant, Space Program in New York City, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
1992
Asian Women United Grant for collaborative video with Christine Choi
Alice Baber Art Fund Grant, New York, NY
Public Collections
The Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, CO
The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
The Fine Art Program at the Federal Reserve Board, Washington D,C,
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
The Library of Congress, Washington DC
Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, CO
Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Neuberger Museum, Purchase College SUNY, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Sheldon Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
United States Embassy in Algeria
UNL/University of Nebraska Medical Center Health Science Education Building
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Corporate Collections
Bank of American, Boston, MA
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
The Capital Group Companies, Los Angeles, CA
Citibank, New York, NY
Citigroup, New York, NY
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
The Four Seasons Hotel, Maui, HI
The Hallmark Fine Arts Program, Kansas City, MO
The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas, NE
Neuberger Berman, New York, NY
The News Corporation, New York, NY
Polsinelli Art Collection, USA
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
UBS Art Collection, USA
The Oculus, an installation at Williams and Connolly, Washington DC
Education
1978 MFA University of Colorado at Boulder
1972 BFA University of Colorado at Boulder (Art and English)
1969 summer, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Teaching Experience
1985-2018 Mary A. & William Wirt Warren Professor of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, (Emeritus)
1982-85 Assistant Professor, University of Denver, Denver, CO
1981-82 Lecturer and Research Associate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO