Select Solo Exhibitions
2025
• Jo Sandman: Skin Deep, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2024
• Jo Sandman: Folded Fabric, 1971-1974, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
• Jo Sandman: A Life in Art, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
• Traces, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
• Jo Sandman: School House Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2023
• Jo Sandman: Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection, Traces, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2022
• Jo Sandman: Traces, Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville, NC
2021
• One Hand Clapping: Jo Sandman, Ogunquit Museum, Ogunquit, ME
2020
•Jo Sandman: The Photographic Work, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2014
•Transmissions, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2008
• Jo Sandman: Once Removed, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2007
• Heat/Light, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2003
• Inside the Image, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2002
• New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, Boston, MA
2001
• Photo/Drawing, 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC
• O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC
1998 • Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
• DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1995
• Andrea Marquit Gallery, Boston, MA
1994
• O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC
1989
• Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1988
• Mobius, Boston, MA
1986
• Locus, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1985
• Van Buren/Brazelton/Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA
• Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1984
• Gallery 11, Tufts University, Medford, MA
• Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1983
• Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
• Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1982
• O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC
1981
• Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
1980
• Galeria, Liga Estudiantes del Art, San Juan, P.R.
1978
• Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, NYC
1977
•Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1976
• Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA
• Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA
1975
• O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC
• Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1974
• Gallery of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
• Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA
1973 • O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC
Select Traveling Exhibitions
2004-05
• Diagnostic Arts, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, Mass. College of Pharmacy, Boston, MA, and Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
1975-76
• Eleven Boston Artists, US Information Agency, Washington, DC and Europe
1973-75
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA and other venues
Select Group Exhibitions
2025
• Better on Paper: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2024
• Tender Loving Care, Contemporary Art from the Collection, MFA, Boston, MA
2023
• Women in Abstraction, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2022
• Helen Frankenthaler and Jo Sandman: Unlimited, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
2017
• Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters, 1950 to Now, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2013
• Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
• Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2012
• Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA • Written & Rendered, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2011
• Color Study, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
2010
• University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
• Going Forward, Looking Back, Simmons College, Boston, MA
• Black & White, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
• Limners to Facebook, Ashville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
2009
• Fusion: Science and Art, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, MI
• Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
• Out Of The Box, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
• EDGE, ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard, MA
2008
• Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA,
2007
• Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
• New England Photography Biennial, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2006
• Outside the Box, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
• Concord Art Association, Concord, MA• Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2004
• Refigured, McMullen Museum, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
• Concerning the Spiritual in Photography, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA,
2003
• Photography: Past & Present, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
• Under the Influence, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
• Seven Concord Artists, Concord Art Associations, Concord, MA
2002
• Eleven New Objects, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
2001
• Terrors and Wonders, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2001
• I Love New York, Benefit Exhibition for World Trade Center, OK Harris, NYC
2000
• Visual Memoirs, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1999
• Students of Hans Hofmann, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
1998
• The Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
1997
• Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
1996
• DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1995
• Dialogues Past and Present, Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA
• A Taste of Honey, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Sculpture Invitational, Gedney Farm, New Marlborough, MA
• 2 in b + w, Andrea Marquit Gallery, Boston, MA
•Single Fire, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1994
• Material Transformations, Tuft University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
• Temporal Systems, The New Arts Center, Newton, MA
1993
• Small Works, Andrea Marquit Gallery, Boston, MA
1992
• Master Drawings by 8 Boston Artists, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
• It's About Time, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA
• Laundry Lines, a Reclamation Artists Collaboration, Government Center Plaza, Boston
1991
• Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
• O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC
• Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990
• Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
1989
• 10th Annual Boston Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
1988
• Boston Now: Works on Paper, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1987
• Drawings for Sculpture, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
• Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1986
• Insights: A Look at the Development of Six Boston Artists, North Hall Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
• Inaugural, Stux Gallery, NYC
1985
• Screens, Van Buren/Brazelton/Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA
• Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
• Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1984
• Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1983
• Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL • Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1982
• Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
• Being and Nothingness, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
• Clark University, Worcester, MA
1981
• Boston Now: Abstract Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
• Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
1980
• Up for the Summer, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1979
• Prospectus: Art in the Seventies, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1978
• Borderline Drawings, Iolas Gallery, New York, NY
• Geometry as Structure in Contemporary Art, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
1977
• Drawings and Collage, New York University, NYC
1976
• Art on Paper, 1976, Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC, Greensboro, NC
• On the Wall, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (installation)
• TV Workshop Showcase, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (video)
• Five New York Artists: A Selection, Leah Levy and the Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975
• Bicentennial Art Commission Awards Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
• New England Women, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1974
• Thirteen Boston Artists, Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland, UK
•TV Workshop Showcases, video produced at The New Television Workshop, WGBH, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
1973
• Unstretched Paintings, Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA
1972
• Stretched, Unstretched and Folded, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
• Big Bad Show, Thayer Academy, Braintree, MA
1971
• Flush with the Walls, Men’s Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Public Collections (Selected)
• Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
• Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
• Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
• Berkeley College Museum of Art
• Black Mountain College Museum of Art, Asheville, NC
• Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
• Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
• Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
• Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
• Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
• Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
• Davis Museum, Wellesley College
• DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
• De Young Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
• Eleanor D. Wilson Museum of Art, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
• Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
• Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
• Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
• Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
• Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
• Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
• Mead Museum of Art, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
• Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
• Mt. Holyoke Museum of Art, Hadley, MA
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• New York University, NYC
• Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
• Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME
• Portland Museum of Fine Art, Portland, OR
• Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
• RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
• Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
• Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
• UNH Art Museum, Durham, NH
• Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
• Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
AWARDS
2006
• Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2002
• Best Mid-Career Exhibit, International Association of Art Critics, New England
1990
• Citation for Excellence, Boston Society of Architects
1986-87
• Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute/Harvard College, Cambridge MA
1984
• Fellowship in Sculpture, Massachusetts Artists Foundation
1975
• WGBH’s New Television Workshop-video production grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation and Massachusetts Arts Council
• Painting Commission, Boston 200 Bicentennial Celebration, Boston
Education
•Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
•University of California Berkeley, CA
•Hunter College, New York, NY (Robert Motherwell)
•Hans Hofmann School, New York, NY
•Hans Hofmann School, Provincetown, MA
•Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
•Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC
Teaching Experience
•Massachusetts College of Art
•Art Institute of Chicago
•University of Texas at Dallas
•University of Cincinnati
•Wellesley College