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EDUCATION

1977-9 Yale University, New Haven, CT, M.F.A.
1977 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1973-6 Maryland Institute/College of Art, Baltimore, MD, B.F.A.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2021 CollexArt Grand Prize and Purchase Award, Everyday Battles Competition ( CollexArt
2020 Award for First Place “Covid Dreams”, Artavita Competition ( artavita.com
2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
2004, 8,11 PRATT Institute Faculty Development Grant
2007 MTA Arts for Transit Finalist
1998 Thomas B. Clarke Award in Painting, National Academy Museum
1995 Ingram Merrill Award in Painting
1992 Art Matters Inc. Fellowship
1989 Ingram Merrill Award in Painting
1988 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1988, 1986, 1984)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 CATACLYSM PAINTINGS, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY 
2020 PUNCHINELLO STORIES, Ray Wiggs Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2020 PUNCHINELLO IN CRISIS, Leslie Lohman Project Space, NYC, NY
2019 TINKER TAILOR SERIES, Pfizer Building Brooklyn in honor of Stonewall 50
2018 WHAT MAKES THE ENGINE GO?, IPTAR, NYC, NY
2018 PUNCHINELLO AT HOME, Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2015 TINKER TAILOR SERIES, Part I & II, The Painting Center, NYC, NY
2014 FIRE! Rice Polack Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2013 LOVE’S PROGRESS: 1989-2013, The Painting Center, NYC, NY
2012 ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT, The Painting Center, NYC, NY
2012 PAINTINGS, Rice Polack Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2011 NIGHT & DAY, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2010 PUNCHINELLO AS OTHER, The Painting Center, NYC, NY
2008 25 YEARS OF WORK, Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA
2007 PROVINCETOWN-NEW YORK, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2005 CHEAT, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2003 HOME, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2002 PUNCHINELLO’S CITY, CJG Projects, NYC, NY
2001 PUNCHINELLO YOUNG , Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1999 IN NEW YORK WITH PUNCHINELLO, Erector Square Gallery , NH, CT
1999 PUNCHINELLO UNDRESSED, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1998 PUNCHINELLO WORKS OUT (PWO), Cortland Jessup Gallery, NYC
1996 PUNCHINELLO GOES WEST, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1995 PUNCHINELLO IN AMERICA, 55 Mercer Gallery , NYC, NY
1993 PUNCHINELLO PAINTINGS, Amos Eno Gallery, NYC, NY
1990 FORUM GALLERY, Minneapolis, MN
1988 CAPRICORN GALLERIES, Bethesda, MD
1987, 1985 ALPHA GALLERY, Boston, MA
1985, 1989 KENDALL GALLERY, Wellfleet, MA
1981 ALLEN PRIEBE GALLERY, Univ. of Wis., Oshkosh, WI
1980 RIPON COLLEGE, Ripon, WI

TWO PERSON SHOWS

1997 AN INTRODUCTION, CORTLAND JESSUP GALLERY, NYC, NY
1995 FOOL’S DAY, WEBB & IVIE , TATISTCHEFF-ROGERS GALLERY, CA
1992, 1993 PROVINCETOWN GROUP GALLERY, Provincetown, MA
1988, 1987 EAST END GALLERIES, Provincetown, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 MIGHTY REAL QUEER DETROIT, Scarab Club, CCS Center Galleries , Collected Detroit , Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI
2022 THE MALE FORM, Bonhams Auctions, NYC, NY 
2019 THREESOME Webb, Taddei & Harvey Jadite Gallery, NYC, NY
2015-17 ART AIDS AMERICA, curators Jonathan David Katz & Rock Hushka, ONE
Archives Gallery and Museum and the West Hollywood Library ; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; WA Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, GA; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY
2015ON THE DOMESTIC FRONT curator James Saslow, Leslie Lohman Museum NYC, NY
2015 DOGS AND CATS, curator Grimes and Lalehzar, Mark Miller Gallery, NYC, NY
2015 I WANTED BODY AS FORM AND VICE VERSA, cur Stiegler, Visual AIDS web
2014 SECRETLY, FREQUENTLY (COWBOY DRAG), cur Easton, Visual AIDS web
2014 CAPE COD ARTIST: PEOPLE, Cape Cod Museum Of Art, Dennis, MA
2014 PRATT FOUNDATION FACULTY EXHIBITS, PRATT Inst., Bklyn ( 2001,2,5,7,9,11)
2013 AMERICAN NOIR INTO A DARK PAST, curator Atkins, Visual AIDS web
2013 RECENT ACQUISITIONS, Leslie Lohman Museum ,NYC, NY
2011 THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES, curator Webb, The Painting Center ,NYC, NY
2012 NO WASTED WORDS NO ILLUSIONS, curator Northrop, Visual AIDS web
2011 THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES, The Painting Center, NYC, NY
2010 SMALL WORKS INVITATIONAL,The Painting Center, NYC, NY
2010 NEW WALLS /FRESH PAINT,The Painting Center, NYC, NY
2010 LIC GRID, Acumen , LIC , NY
2010 I REMEMBER, Julie Heller East Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2009 INTERIORS, Julie Heller East Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2009 MUDHEAD,S Julie Heller East Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2009 SEASCAPE, Julie Heller East Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2009 TOP TO BOTTOM:A HUDSON RIVER ARTS MAP, Hopper House, Nyack NY
2009 THE BINS EXHIBITION, Fine Arts Work Center , Provincetown MA
2008 CARBONE. GRIMES & WEBB, THE PAINTING CENTER , NYC NY
2007 LIFEDRAWING, LGBT Center, New York City, NY
2006 WEBBWORKS, Fine Arts work Center, Provincetown, MA
2005 MALE DESIRE, Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC, NY
2005 CROSSING DISCIPLINES, curator Donna Moran, Schaffler Gallery
PRATT Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2005 THE BODY AND ITS DANGERS, curator by Patrick Webb, The Painting Center, NYC NY
2004 ARTIVIST FILM & ART FESTIVAL, Egyptian Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2004 NEO QUEER, CoCA, Seattle, WA
2002 TRANSFORMATIONS, Sakia City Museum Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2002 PRATT RESPONDS TO 9/11, Schaffler Gallery PRATT Institute Bklyn NY
2001 RITUAL , DAM , Detroit , MI
2001 ALUMNI CHOICE, Works on Paper, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2001 Self Interest: Autobiography and Myth In Recent Figurative Art, curator Nancy Grimes, RC FINE ARTS, Maplewood NJ
1998 THE 173rd ANNUAL EXHIBITION, National Academy Of Design, NYC, NY
1998 EMBODIED FICTIONS, Saint Mary’s College, Park Hall, MD ( catalog)
1998 TROUBLING CUSTOMS, Ontario College of Art & Design Gallery
Katherine Lane Weeds Center, The Sch.of the MFA , Boston
1997 PROVINCETOWN IN HUDSON, Carrie Haddad Gallery, HUDSON NY
1995 THE NEW AMERICAN FAMILY, SUNY , Stoneybrook Gal, Stoneybrook, LI
1995 THE COMMON MYTH: icon and symbol in art today, curator Ludwig Datone´, Park Avenue Atrium, NYC, NY
1995 SPIRITS AND HEROES, Peter Madero Gallery, NYC, NY
1994 A SENSIBILITY AND THE SENSES, Lowe at the Hudson Guild, NYC, NY
1994 TONGUE ‘N CHEEK, 450 Broadway Gallery, NYC, NY
1993 MEMENTO MORI: remembering in t the age of AIDS, Open Space Gallery Allentown, PA
1993 NEW OLD MASTER,, curator Paula Escobar, Marymount Col., NYC, NY
1993 ASPECTS OF FIGURATION: SELECTIONS FROM THE NEW YORK ACADEMY, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 FIGURING IT OUT, curator Nancy Grimes, Daniel Quinn Gal, LIC,. NY
1991 TOMPKINS, WEBB, ZAZARRO, RINALDI, VIOLA , Claude Gallery, East Chester, NY
1990 SELECTIONS curator Connie Butler, 55 Mercer St., NYC, NY
1990 POSITIVE ACTIONS: VISUAL AIDS, Clocktower Gallery, Longwood
Gallery, D.C. 37 Gallery, New York, NY
1989-90 ART AND THE LAW; West Co., Bally’s Casino, Reno NV; AK Univ
Jonesboro AK; Robert I. Kahn Gallery, Houston , TX ; MN Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN (catalog)
1988-9 ART AND THE LAW, West Co. ; Metro Toronto convention Center,
Toronto CAN; Virginia Commonwealth U., Richmond VA; Temple U, Phil. PA; Rose Art Mus , Waltham ,MA(cat)
1989 “…the Subject is AIDS”, Nexus Art Center, Atlanta, GA(cat)
1987 “CURATOR’S CHOICE”, curator Bill Arning, BWAC, Bklyn, NY
1987 MAINSTREAM AMERICA; THE COLLECTION OF PHIL DESIND;
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH(catalog)
1984 “MODERN MASTERS OF CLASSICAL REALISM”, Priebe Gal, UW-O, WI
1983 SUMMER SHOW, Odyssia Galleries, New York, NY
1983 NEW TALENT, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1982 EVERSON BIENNALE, curator Nancy Hoffman, Everson Mus, Syr , NY

COMMISSIONS

2007 PUNCHINELLO JUGGLES FOR LOLLY POP, Milwaukee, WI
1995 ART MATTERS, 2 Lithographs, NYC, NY
1995 Barry Skovgaard., Landscape, Watermill, NY
1993 William Jennings Doyle. portrait, Boston, MA
1992 Phillip Gambone, portrait, Boston, MA
1988 SHARF MARKETING GROUP, installation, Boston
1987 SHARF MARKETING GROUP, installation, New York
1986 GLICKENHAUSE & CO., mural installation, New York
1980 Donna Kennedy, portrait, Las Vegas, NV

SELECTED PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

FRED ALGER & CO., New York, NY
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, Boston, MA
CHEMICAL BANK, New York, NY
GLICKENHAUS & CO., New York, NY
HORTON & CALAMIFDE, New York, NY
INTERNEURON INC., Boston, MA
JANE VOORHEES ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM, RUGERS UNIVERSITY, New Brunswick
LESLIE LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND LESBIAN ART. NYC , NY
OTIS ELEVATOR, New York, NY
PIER-FINE ASSOCIATES, New York, NY (
PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION & MUSEUM, Provincetown, MA
QUEENSBORO COLLEGE MUSEUM, CUNY, Queens, NY
MICHELLE ROSENFELD, INC., FINE ARTS, Ramsey, NJ
SHARF MARKETING GROUP, New York & Boston
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-OSHKOSH, Oshkosh, WI

PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Protest, Memorial: AIDS in the Art World by Barbara Pollack, Art News May 2014
Patrick Webb ; The Heroic Journey of Punchinello, Philip Gambone. ,Provincetown Arts Magazine ,2012/13
New York One interview “Sword of Damocles “ 11/29/1
“ Punchinello Hits the Gym”, David Cohen, NY Sun, 9/24/10
“Patrick Webb: Punchinello as Other and Caren Canier “ John Goodrich, City Arts, 9/14/10
“ Stripped” & “Completely Stripped”, Bruno Gmunder Publication, 7/ 09
“David Carbone, Nancy Grimes & Patrick Webb” Alex Taylor, Art News , 1/09
“Treasures of Gay Art from the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation” edited Peter Weierman.All Saints Press, 2008
“Webb Finds Truth in Anonymity of an Everyman” Sue Harrison, Provincetown Banner 3/15/08
Kunitz, Stanley “ Patrick Webb:: 25 Years of Work” , catalog notes , PAAM, 2008
” Nancy Webb by Patrick Webb”, catalog essay Provincetown Art Assoc. & Museum3/06
reprinted in 2006 summer issue of Provincetown Arts
” The Body and Its Dangers” , Robert Ayers, Art News, summer 2005
” Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art” Jonathan Weinberg, Abrams 2005
“Webb Takes an Outsider’s Look”. Deborah Minsky, Provincetown Banner, 7/17/03
Cover, reproductions and introduction, The Georgia Review, summer 2002
“Punchinello Works Out”, Jonathan Weinberg, catalog essay 5/98
Listings, New Yorker Magazine , April 6, 1998
“Provincetown On Hudson”, Ned Depew, Provincetown Arts, 1997-8
“A Punchinello Page” (illustration) ; College Art Association) Journal , winter 1996-7
“Patrick Webb’s Adventures With Punchinello” , Stephen Greco, POZ Dec 96/January 97
“Portrait of an Artist”, Lynn Stanley, Provincetown Magazine, 8/22/96
“Punchinello Goes West”, Mark Doty, catalog essay 8/96
“A Life Reinvented: The Paintings of Patrick Webb”, Laurie Fitzpatrick, A & U1/96
“Punchinello In America”, Laurie Fitzpatrick, Art & Understanding, 10/95
“Eros and Angst”, Phillip Gambone, Bay Windows 7/29/93
“Punchinello Paintings, by Patrick Webb”, Nancy Grimes, catalog essay,12/92
“Stonewalling”, Thomas J. Jackson, New York Native, 2/93,6/95
“Finding Those Who Fall Before”, Gambone , Bay Windows, 8/20/92
“Real Implications”, Mary Verrill, New North Artscape, 2/90
“Coat of Many Colors”, Mary Abbe, Star Tribune, Minneapolis., MN, 1/25/90
“…the subject is AIDS”, Art South 5/89
“Alone and Embattled”, Walter Wadas, Bay Windows, Boston , MA 12/86
“Painterly Realists”, St. Louis Courier, St. Louis, MO,86
“Rhythms of New York and Promising Young Talent”, C. Temin, Boston Globe, 6/23/83

PERFORMANCE

SETS & LIBRETTO, STRAVINSKY’S PULCINELLA, Kloppenberg Dance, EVENTS at Dancespace, St. Mark’s Church, NYC, NY 3/00
SETS for Kloppenberg Dance, STREETS OF GOLD, Kloppenberg Dance music by Britten, Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC, NY, 4/98
SETS for Kloppenberg Dance, JOURNEY, Kloppenberg Dance, music by Wes York, EVENTS Danspace , St. Mark’s Church, NYC, NY, 5/97
PERFORMANCE, NOT QUITE A SONATA, solo for Patrick Webb, Kloppenberg Dance, EVENTS Danspace , St. Mark’s Church, NYC, NY, 5/97
SETS for Kloppenberg Dance, RATMAN, performed by Brian Kloppenberg, music byEleanor Hovda, commissioned by the Jerome Foundation, Freud Festival 1997, Washington Square Church & EVENTS Danspace , St. Mark’s Church, NYC, NY 5/97
SETS for Kloppenberg Dance, FAULT, performed by Brian Kloppenberg, Kloppenberg Dance, Mulberry Street Theater, 4/97
SETS & INSTALLATION & PERFORMANCE, LIFE DRAWING,
Choreography Brian Kloppenberg, Dancers: Brian Kloppenberg & Patrick Webb, Music: Puccini, Swarthmore College Faculty Concert 1995; Kloppenberg Dance, Mulberry Street Theatre 5/96 NYC, NY & PTAPS Theater, Columbus, Ohio 6/96

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2011- present PRATT INSTITUTE, Brooklyn, NY, Tenured Professor
2009-11 PRATT INSTITUTE, Brooklyn, NY, Professor
2004-2009 PRATT INSTITUTE, Brooklyn, NY, Associate Professor
2007 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE , Durham , NH Visiting Artist
2000-2004 PRATT INSTITUTE, Brooklyn, NY, Adjunct Associate Professor
1995-2000 PRATT INSTITUTE, Brooklyn, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor
1998 &2003 MARYLAND INSTITUTE/ COLLEGE OF ART. Balt., MD, Visiting Artist
1998&2003JOHNS HOPKINS, Baltimore, MD, Visiting Lecturer
1996 SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, Swarthmore, PA, Visiting Artist
1995&85 YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT, Visiting Artist
1995&90 ST. MARY’S COLLEGE, St. Mary’s, MD, Visiting Artist
1994&2 CRANBROOK, Detroit, MI, Visiting Artist
1992-4 NY ACADEMY OF ART, NYC, NY, Instructor
1993 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Miami, Visiting Artist
1993 RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Providence, Visiting Artist
1989 MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, Visiting Artist
1988 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Waltham, MA, Visiting Artist
1981-3 CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, NY, Assistant Professor
1979-81 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-OSHKOSH, Oshkosh, WI, Lecturer