Bio

Harvey Tulcensky in his studio, MacDowell colony, 2014
Harvey Tulcensky in his studio, MacDowell colony, 2014

Harvey Tulcensky is an artist based in New York and Provence, whose obsessive notebook drawings have recently been shown at The Drawing Center and at The Center for Book Arts. Over the last few years he has been making prints with handmade rubber stamps, as well as with digital imagery lifted from the urban environment, which he refers to as “accidental drawings.” His drawings have been exhibited with the Edward Thorp Gallery in New York, the Daniel Weinberg Gallery in Los Angeles, as well as included in various exhibitions in the United States, Europe and South America over the past 25 years. In addition to drawings already held in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, fifteen of his notebook drawings were recently acquired by the Department of Drawings & Prints. He collects Outsider art and vernacular photography and has authored the seminal book on the topic of Real Photo Postcards, published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Selected exhibitions and fellowships

  1. Les Chemins Infinis, Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs, Vence

  2. Opulence: Not that glitters is gold, Center for Book Arts

  3. Drawing, Kerry Schuss gallery, New York

    Measure, Gesture, Form, Portland Art Museum, Oregon

    Tempus Project, The Moleskine Postal Mailer Project, Tampa, FL

  4. Redux, Center for Book Arts 40th Anniversary

    Yaddo residency, Saratoga Springs, New York

  5. The McDowell Colony residency, Peterborough, NH

    The Notebook Project, installation at Moleskine corporate offices, New York, NY

    Day After Day: the Diaristic Impulse, University Art Museum, SUNY at Albany, NY

  6. Winter Reading, Lines of Poetry, group show, Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT

    Yaddo residency, Saratoga Springs, New York

    Day Job, group show, traveling through the U.S.

  7. Day Job, group show, The Drawing Center, New York

    Notebook Project, exhibited, Maison Dora Maar, Ménerbes, France

  8. Brown Foundation, Houston Museum of Art, Maison Dora Maar residency, Ménerbes

  9. A Storied Line, One-man show, the Center for Book Arts, New York

    Put it on Paper, group show, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York

    New Works, Gallery Artists, group show, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York

  10. 66 Pieces on the Wall, group show, Haim Chanin Fine Arts, New York

  11. Paris Art fair, represented by Haim Chanin Fine Arts, New York

    Block Party II, group exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

    Every which way, group show, Edward Thorpe Gallery, New York

  12. Block Party, group show, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  13. Drawing on the wrong side of the brain, group show, Haim Chanin Fine Arts, NY

    On paper, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    One-man exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  14. Colored pencil, K.S. Art, New York, NY

  15. One-man exhibition, Galerie La Serre, Saint-Etienne, France

    Ballpoint Inklings, K.S. Art, New York

  16. Group exhibition, Arena, New York

    Group exhibition, Arena, New York

  17. Exchange show, Arena, New York

  18. Group exhibition, Arena, New York

  19. Exchange show, Arena, New York

    Group show, Arena, New York

  20. Paint Royale, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York

    Painting, Arena, New York

  21. Autumn Salon, Arena, New York

    Black & White, Schmidt Contemporary, St. Louis

  22. Contemporary Drawings Part 3, Arena, New York

  23. Contemporary Drawings Part 2, Arena, New York

  24. One-man exhibition, Arena, New York

    Contemporary Drawings Part 1, Arena, New York

    Update 1991, White Columns, New York

  25. White Room, one-man exhibition, White Columns, New York

  26. Black, Grey & White II, Henry Feiwel, New York

  27. Black, Grey & White, Henry Feiwel, New York

    Syn-Service, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago

  28. New Territories of Art: Europe/America, Rome, Pescara, Italy

    Group exhibition, Bette Stoler, New York

  29. Invitational exhibition, Stux Gallery, New York

    One-person exhibition, Bette Stoler, New York

    Group exhibition, Bette Stoler, New York

  30. Squared Off, Michael Klein, New York

    A Life of Signs, Michael Klein, New York

  31. One-man exhibition, Bette Stoler, New York

    Group exhibition, Bette Stoler, New York

  32. Arabesque: Grand gestures in painting, Bette Stoler, New York

  33. Ars ex Machina, Bette Stoler, New York

    Group exhibition, Barbara Toll, New York

  34. Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, U. of N.C. Greensboro

    Group exhibition, Barbara Toll, New York

  35. Group exhibition, Barbara Toll, New York

    Group exhibition, Art Latitude, New York

    Art for the Eighties, Galerie Durban, Caracas, Venezuela