NEWS AND MEDIA


May – June 2025
Solo Exhibition – June Kelly Gallery, New York City – Bruce Dorfman: "...To Whom do We Tell...". May 15 – June 24, 2025.


Red Edo, 2025
canvas, steel, wood, fabric, metal, papers, joss paper, acrylic
72 x 47 x 6 inches

March 2025
Artist Talk – University of Iowa alum, Bruce Dorfman, has been invited to speak at the Stanly Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa.


January 2025
Honoree – Grant – $100,000 has been awarded as an extension to the Bruce Dorfman Grant for Assemblage and Mixed Media at The Art Students League of New York. The grant, now extended by the Niner Foundation, was originally established by artist and business leader Ron Strackbein.


Aria, 2021
combined media on canvas
40 x 70 x 4 inches
September 2024
Catalog Dedication in honor of sixty years of teaching at The Art Students League of New York.

"This year's catalog is dedicated to the beloved artist and instructor Bruce Dorfman, who has taught at the League for sixty years – a tenure that is unrivaled by any other instructor in our history."

June 2024
Video Interview – Bruce Dorfman: Reflections on the Artist Life. Video Interview with Marshall Jones and Sophia Kayafas of Art Grind Podcast.
Recorded at The Art Students League of New York, June 2024.


May 2024
Robin Frank, Board of Control President of The Art Students League of New York, presenting award to Bruce Dorfman in acknowlegment of his 60 years as Instructor and Mentor at the League. bytgIncluded with this award is a two-week residency to La Maison de Beaumont in Provence, France. Scheduled for Spring of 2025.


February 2024
Interview with Professor Shun Ito, Yasuo Kuniyoshi Study Center, University of Okayama, Okayama, Japan.
Professor Ito was introduced to Dorfman by Historian/Curator, Tom Wolf.

November 2023
Panel Discussion – A League of Nations – Panel Discussion with Bruce Dorfman, Midori Moshimoto and Sue Williamson
The Art Students League of New York. Moderated by Dr. Ksenia Nouril, ASL Gallery Director and Curator.


October 2023
Art Taipei, Taiwan – Carrie Chen Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts – (7 works)

The Courtesan Okichi, 2017
canvas, metal, wood, paper, acrylic
65 x 49 x 3 inches


September 2023
Acquisition – Permanent Collection: Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida:
Bruce Dorfman's Hachimantaro, 1964, (acrylic and magna on canvas, 72 x 36 inches).

Pictured with Hachimantaro is Arden Sherman – Glenn W. & Cornelia T. Bailey Senior Curator of Contemporary Art,
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida



September 2023
Acquisition – Permanent Collection: The Art Students League of New York, New York City.


Propellor, 2007
Assemblage Painting
55 x 71 x 4 inches


September 2023
Acquitision – Permanent Collection: Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY.

Cameo, 1969
canvas, oil, wood, glass
46 x 48 inches


February 2023
Dorfman greets former student, Ai WeiWei, at The Art Students League of New York during filming of WeiWei interview for 'Firing Line with Margaret Hoover.' Margaret Hoover also pictured.

February 2023
Review - High Tension: Kemper Museum explores tactile realms with Tensile Strength exhibit by Emily Cox.
Review appears in The Pitch, Kansas City, Missouri.

Installation photo of Tensile Strength at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Artists (left to right): Jaume Plensa, Chakaia Booker, Bruce Dorfman (2 works).

November 2022-February 2023
Extended through June 2023
Tensile Strength – Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art – Curator: Krista Alba – Kansas City, Missouri

Enso, 2011
canvas, metal, fabric, paper, acrylic
64 x 61 x 6 inches
The Weight of Light, 2016
canvas, metal, wood, fabric, paper, acrylic
65 x 62 x 6 inches
October-November, 2022
Arriving at Byrdcliffe – Group Exhibition co-curated by Henry T. Ford and Bruce Weber – Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, New York.

Cameo, 1969
canvas, oil, wood, glass
46 x 48 inches
June-July, 2022
June Kelly Gallery – Solo Exhibition; June 16 - July 29, 2022. Opening Reception: June 16th, 2022.

Affirmation, 2022
combined media on canvas
37 x 33 x 4 inches
January 2022
Artist Interview in Linea: Studio Notes from The Art Students League of NY

October 2021
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, acquired three combined media paintings.
Enso, 2011
canvas, metal, fabric, paper, acrylic
64 x 61 x 6 inches
The Weight of Light, 2016
canvas, metal, wood, fabric, paper, acrylic
65 x 62 x 6 inches
Kizuki, 2016
canvas, metal, wood, fabric, paper, acrylic
62 x 60 x 6 inches
September 2021
Featured Artist Honoree (scroll down) at Hamptons Fine Art Fair with Liz Clement Contemporary.
The Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY.


Koniro, 2017
canvas, metal, wood, fabric, paper, acrylic
56 x 31 x 3 inches
April – September, 2021
Celebrating the Centennial: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Woodstock Artists Association, Part 2,
The Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Phoebe & Belmont Towbin Wing, Woodstock, NY
Curated by Tom Wolf. Catalog available.

Discussion (virtual) July 10: Bruce Dorfman, Mary Frank, Elliott Landy with Curator Tom Wolf.



Woodstock Poster, 1968
serigraph-litho
Hand signed
36 x 24 inches
September 2019 – October 2019
The Art Students League in Woodstock 1947–79, Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY
Curated by Jenne M. Currie
Part of 'Woodstock Collects', a collaborative exhibit with Center for Photography at Woodstock, Historical Society of Woodstock, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and Woodstock Artists Association and Museum
Catalog available.

October Rising, 2017
canvas, metal, wood, paper, acrylic
56 x 36 x 6 inches
September 2019 – October 2019
The League of Masters, Past + Present
Curated by Robin Frank
THE GALLERY AT 200 LEX
Catalog available.


Portuguese Doorway, 1993
paper, metal, wood, pencil, gouache, acrylic
30 x 20 inches
October 2018 – January 2019
Gallery of the American Fine Arts Society, The Art Students League of New York, NYC
Solo Exhibition: "Inclusive Moments" – Selected Works
Catalog available.

Flite VIII, 2015
canvas, wood, metal, paper, acrylic
58 x 45 x 6 inches
November 2018 – December 2018
The Masters: Art Students League Teachers and their Students
The Art Students League of New York, Phyliss Harriman Mason Gallery, NYC

Enso, 2011
canvas, metal, paper, acrylic
64 x 61 x 6 inches
October 2018
Article: "More Than The Sum of Its Parts" by Simone Johnson. The Riverdale Press, October 18, 2018

Bernini's Dream, 2011
canvas, metal, paper, fabric, acrylic
60 x 60 x 6 inches

October 2018 – November 2018
June Kelly Gallery, NYC
Solo Exhibition
"Currents" – Paintings in Combined Media, 2016-2018
Catalog available.

3:30 at Noon, 2018
cavas metal, wood, paper, pencil, acrylic
63 x 31 x 5 inches
October 2018
"On the Cover – Bruce Dorfman on view at June Kelly Gallery, New York"
Blouin Gallery Guide, October 2018.
Cover; reproductions; article; listing.

The Courtesan Okichi, 2017
canvas, wood, metal, paper, acrylic
65 x 49 x 3 inches
March 2018
Woman, Early Stripes, 1968 to be published in a catalog of recent gifts to the Harn Museum, at the University of Florida.
As reported in Linea: The Artists' Voice: "The lithographer for this work was the historic Atelier Mourlot, Paris, when they set up shop in New York City, working with artists over a period of two years. Dorfman had his own studio, with an assigned master print assistant in 1968. During that time, he developed friendships with Jose Cuevas, Robert Rauschenberg, Alex Katz, and Francois Gilot, who were all working on editions there. Dorfman completed a total of five separate commissions at Mourlot." This print was commissioned by Kennedy Galleries, NYC.

Woman, Early Stripes, 1968
color lithograph
30 x 22 inches
Collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
January 2018
Artistic Vanguard: The 1960's at The Art Students League; Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, The Art Students League of New York, NYC

Cameo, 1969
canvas, glass, wood, oil
46 x 48 inches
2017 – 2018
Celebrating 30 Years: Group Show, Drawings and Photographs; June Kelly Gallery, NYC
Exhibition review in Art Daily, December 23, 2017. Reproduction.

Torso, 2009
paper, pencil, gouache, acrylic
24 x 18 inches
May 2017
Gold Hermes International Creative Award – Bruce Dorfman: Past Present catalogue.
PDF version of catalogue available here.
March 2017
Bruce Dorfman Retrospective Exhibition 2016 - A Short Film Visit

January 2017
Recipient of 2017-2018 Pollock Krasner Foundation individual grant.
September - December 2016
Past / Present: The Years 1988 - 2016
Retrospective exhibition at Monmouth University, Monmouth, New Jersey
September 6 - December 18, 2016
July 2016
Art, Work, and the Workaday
'Hyperallergic' review of the Ways and Means exhibition written by Thomas Micchelli.
July 2016
The Critic's Notebook
'The New Criterion' review of Ways and Means exhibition.
July - October, 2016
Ways and Means: A New Look at Process and Materials in Art
1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York City.
Group exhibition curated by Jason Andrew. Exhibition catalog.
September 2015
Nine Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week
ARTNEWS
September 2015
12 Must-See Lower East Side and SoHo Gallery Shows
Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA)
September 2015
Bruce Dorfman, Artist & Mentor
Maureen Mullarkey in Studio Matters – Review of solo exhibition at June Kelly Gallery, New York City
September 2015
Bruce Dorfman Solo Exhibition 2015
Video walk-through of solo exhibition at June Kelly Gallery, New York City

April 2015
Bruce Dorfman Recalls Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Smithsonian American Art Museum interview on the occasion of the exhibition The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi.