Josh Goldberg is an exhibiting artist and author. He has been a museum curator, art historian, educator, and a book critic. Besides painting and drawing, writing poems and essays, he translates Japanese poetry.
Josh Goldberg was born in 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He lives, works, and teaches in Tucson, AZ.
Education
University of Arizona, MA Asian Studies, 1975
University of California Los Angeles, 1968-70
Michigan State University, MA Asian Studies/Art History, 1968
Tyler School of Fine Arts, Temple University, BFA, 1966
Awards and Grants
New American Paintings, Number XVIII, The Open Studios 1998 Western Competition.
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery Sam Houston State University National Juried Competition 2nd Place Winner, 1998.
Arizona Commission on the Arts, Artist-in- Residence, 1994.
Idaho State University Museum of Art Purchase Award, 1992.
Tucson Pima Arts Council, 1987.
Arizona Commission on Arts, 1982.
National Endowment on the Humanities, 1980.
National Endowment on the Humanities, 1977.
National Endowment on the Humanities, 1975.
Japan Foundation, 1974.
Sally Star Memorial Award for Painting, 1965.
Select Exhibitions
Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Az. One & Two Person shows, 1995-2018
Hansen-Stern Fine Arts, NYC, 2012
Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ. one-person show, 2011
Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ. one-person show, 2009
The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ. Faculty show, 2009
Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ. one-person show, 2009
The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ. Faculty show, 2008
Etherton Gallery Invitational, Tucson, AZ. 2008
Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ. one-person show, 2007
The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ. Faculty show, 2007
Susan Street Gallery, Solana Beach, CA, 3 person show, February, 2006
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Invitational, April 2006
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Invitational, April 2005
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Invitational, April 2004
The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ Small Works Exhibition, November 2004, December 2005, December 2006
The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ, Faculty Exhibition, 2003-2017
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Black and White Invitational, April 2003
Marshall Arts Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, solo show, March 2003
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, A Public Trust: Recent Acquisitions at the Museum of Art, December 2002
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, Art Faculty Exhibition, October 2002
Marshall Arts Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, group show, October 2002
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ Invitational, Embodied Metaphors of Self group, April 2002
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ Invitational, Van Gogh Fakes, April 2001
Tucson Jewish Community Center, Tucson, AZ Invitational, Tucson, AZ December 30, 1999
Tucson Jewish Community Center, Tucson, AZ, 18 Artists/Israel At 50 Invitational April 1998
Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 14th Biennial Drawing Invitational August 1997
University of Arizona Gross Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Territories of Grace one-person show May 1997
Site Gallery, Los Angeles CA, juried show, Sept. 1996
Pima Community College Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ, three-person show Oct. 1995
Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson AZ, 6th Southwest Biennial, juried show 1995
Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Small Works Invitational 1993-2017
Idaho State University Museum of Art, Boise, ID, juried show 1992
Universities of Arizona Student Union Gallery, Tucson, AZ group show 1992
Artist of the Month Gallery Unitarian Universalist Church, Tucson, AZ 1996, 1992
Dinnerware Artist’s Cooperative, Tucson AZ, Invitational 1992, 1990, 1989
Jewish Community Center Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ, one-person show, 1990
Select Collections
NCH/Transwest Properties
Empresas Joffroy y CIA, S.C. Nogales, Mexico
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
The Streich Lang Tucson Collection, Tucson, AZ
Utterback Middle School for Creative and Performing Arts, Tucson, AZ
Idaho State University Museum of Art, Boise, Idaho
Private collections in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico
Book Covers
“Subversive Scriptures: Critical Reflections on the Use of the Bible” by Beth Hawkins Benedix, 2009
“Time, Space, and Soul” by Ken Rosenstein, 2014
CD Album Cover
“Piazzolla da Camera”, Centaur Records, 2018
Books
“Eight Beggars: Concatenating Verses of Separation and Repair” (Albion-Andalus Press, 2016)
“Beggar at the Door: The Shorter and Longer Psalms” (Albion-Andalus Press, 2015)
“Tibetan Tankas” (University of Arizona/Museum of Art, 1980)
Hands-On: Japan (University of Arizona/Museum of Art, 1980)