Judith Scott (Alum)

Born in 1943, Columbus, Ohio; died 2005, Dutch Flat, California
Practiced at Creative Growth 1987-2005

Judith Scott was born in Ohio with her fraternal twin sister Joyce in 1943. Scott was institutionalized at the age of seven at the Columbus State School. She would remain in state institutions until 1985, when Joyce became her legal guardian and brought her to California. Scott entered the Creative Growth Studio in 1987, initially displaying little artistic interest until a visiting artist workshop with the sculptor Sylvia Seventy, during which Scott discovered the medium of fiber art. Her wrapped sculptures, abstract in shape, were sourced from handbuilt armatures from discarded or found materials, often concealing an inner structure or a cache of items. Her practice was marked by her independence, self-direction, and for never repeating a form or color scheme in her multi-media textile sculptures. Scott created nearly 100 sculptures during her tenure in the Creative Growth Studio, where she practiced until her death in 2005.

Scott’s work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum in New York in a retrospective exhibition and is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Smithsonian in Washington DC, among many others. She has also shown at Gugging, Austria; the Museum of Everything, London; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; White Columns, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Ricco Maresca, New York: and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco.

Judith Scott nació en Ohio con su hermana gemela fraterna Joyce en 1943. Scott fue institucionalizada a la edad de siete años en la Escuela Estatal de Columbus. Permanecería en instituciones estatales hasta 1985, cuando Joyce se convirtió en su tutora legal y la trajo a California. Scott ingresó al Estudio de Creative Growth en 1987, inicialmente mostrando poco interés artístico hasta que visitó un taller de artistas con la escultora Sylvia Seventy, durante el cual Scott descubrió el medio del arte de fibra. Sus esculturas envueltas, de forma abstracta, se obtuvieron de armaduras hechas a mano con materiales desechados o encontrados, a menudo ocultando una estructura interna o un alijo de artículos. Su práctica estuvo marcada por su independencia, autodirección y por nunca repetir una forma o esquema de color en sus esculturas textiles multimedia. Scott creó casi 100 esculturas durante su permanencia en el Estudio de Creative Growth, donde practicó hasta su muerte en 2005.

El trabajo de Scott ha sido expuesto en el Museo de Brooklyn de Nueva York en una exposición retrospectiva y forma parte de la colección permanente del Museo de Arte Moderna de Nueva York, el Centre Pompidou en París y el Smithsoniano de Washington DC, entre muchos otros. También ha mostrado en Gugging, Austria; el Museo de Todo, Londres; la Institución Smithsoniana, Washington DC; White Columns, Galería Barbara Gladstone, empresa de Gavin Brown, Ricco Maresca, Nueva York: y Galería Rena Bransten, San Francisco.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022
Multitudes, American Folk Art Museum, New York
Gesture of Lines, Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Tokyo

2021
Figure Out: Abstraction in Self-Taught Art, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
Super-Rough, Outsider Art Fair, New York, curated by Takashi Murakami
Coloring, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington

2020
Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Manifesta Biennial, Marseille

2019
The Doors of Perception, Frieze, New York, curated by Javier Tellez
Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler, American Folk Art Museum, New York
Flying High: Women Artists of Art Brut, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna

2018
Odradek, Malmö Konstholl, Malmö, Sweden
Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Untitled Art Fair, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
Woman Outsider, Musee Visionnaire, Zurich, Switzerland
Fundacion ONCE Bienal, Madrid
Process and Presence, Grand Rapids
RE/Configurations, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island

2017
Outsider Art Fair, Paris
Viva Arte Viva, 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, curated by Christine Macel
Vive l’Art: Dan Miller and Judith Scott, 836M, San Francisco

2016
Drawing for Sculpture, TSA New York, Brooklyn
Celebrating a Vision: Art and Disability, SFO Museum, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Bound and Unbound: Judith Scott, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen

2015
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, curated by Katy Grannan
Forget Me Not, Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw

2014
New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, Miami
Purple States, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, curated by Sam Gordon
Bound and Unbound, Brooklyn Museum, New York, curated by Matthew Higgs and Catherine Morris
Henrik Olesen: Abandon the Parents, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, curated by Christopher Müller, Henrik Olesen, and Daniel Buchholz
Outsider Art Fair, New York

2013
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Dan Miller and Judith Scott: Creative Growth, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, curated by Matthew Higgs
Ten Years, Wallspace Gallery, New York
Decorum, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Frieze Masters, Thomas Dane Gallery, London

2012
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Independent Art Fair, New York
Frieze Art Fair, White Columns, New York
Connivences Secrètes, Espace Topographie de l’art, Paris
B. Wurtz & Co., Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, curated by Matthew Higgs
Rosemarie Trockel: un cosmos, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte: Reina Sofia, Madrid, curated by Lynne Cooke and Rosemarie Trockel
Creative Growth, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, curated by Amie Scally
John Hiltunen +1, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, curated by Matthew Higgs

2011
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Create, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
Exhibition #4.1, Museum of Everything, London
Objet Secrets, Collège des Bernardins, Paris
New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, Miami

2010
Judith & Shields! – Judith Scott Meets Tribal Art, Museum Gugging, Gugging, Austria
White Room: Judith Scott, White Columns, New York
International VSA Exhibition, Kennedy Center, Washington DC

2009
Creative Growth, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, curated by Matthew Higgs
Approaching Abstraction, American Folk Art Museum, New York

2008
Galerie Impaire, Paris
L’envers et l’endroit, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland

2007
Creative Growth, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Creative Growth Art Center, abcd la galerie, Montreuil, France
Perfect Man Show, White Columns, New York, curated by Rita Ackermann
Retrospective, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York

2006
Dereconstruction, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Collection de Museum de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Forming Lines, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York

2005
Leon Borensztein and his Friends, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, curated by Tom di Maria
Intuit Fair, Chicago
All People Are Me, Headfooters Gallery, Columbus
Outsider Art Fair, New York

2004
Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco
Outsider Art Fair, New York

2002
Judith Scott: Cocoon, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York

2001
Fiber Art of Judith Scott, Musée de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
Judith Scott, Palais Joyce, Paris
Judith Scott, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York

2000
Treasures of the Soul, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore
Metamorphosis: The Fiber Art of Judith Scott, Intuit Gallery, Chicago