Arthur Bruso
Arthur Bruso is an artist, curator and arts writer. He received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. His work is sometimes based on his studies in esoteric symbolism and sometimes based on his upbringing in an Italian-American community in Albany, NY. He constantly revisits the past whether in European Medieval cathedrals, defunct victorian museums, abandoned cemeteries or his antique arm chair. He has exhibited in the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, the Rice Gallery at Albany Institute of History and Art, LaMamma LaGalleria in New York and many other venues. He currently is co-Director of Curious Matter, a non-profit project space. www.curiousmatter.org
Galaxy
4"w x 4"h x 3"d
nickel plated brass, gold plated brass, glass crystal, plastic, steel wire, archival mat board, cardboard, rag paper, acrylic paint, glass
Education
MFA University of Pennsylvania
BS State University College of New York at New Paltz
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Penumbra, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2013 Additional Narrative Possibilities, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2011 Falling City, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2009 A Lesser Doxology, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2008 ÆTHER, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2007 Into the Magic Space, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2004 Association Sublimation, The Gallery-Studios, Jersey City, NJ
2000 Open Studio, The Gallery-Studios, Jersey City, NJ
1990 Arthur Bruso Hamilton Art Center, Schenectady, NY
1989 Arthur Bruso First Unitarian Society, Schenectady, NY
1988 Arthur Bruso Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY
1987 Arthur Bruso Capitol Rep Gallery, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
Invitational Exhibitions
2021 The Big Show, My Pet Ram, New York, NY curated by Marcello Ricci, Director My Pet Ram
2019 Along the Nerve, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Raymond E. Mingst, Co-Director Curious Matter
2016 Exchange Rates 2016, The Dorado Project at The Buggy Factory, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Enrico Gomez, Director of The Dorado Project
2014 The Tale Tellers: A Clean Well Lighted Place, by Ernest Hemingway, The Tale Tellers online exhibition, curated by Enrico Gomez, Director of the Dorado Project
1999 Remembering, Responding, Renewing, Visions Gallery, Albany, NY
Invitational Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
1998 Post PENNism, Meyerson Gallery, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Flights of Fancy, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Styles & Aesthetics VII, LaMamma La Galleria, New York, NY
1995 Visions of Chelsea, The Hudson Guild, New York, NY
Spirits & Heroes, Peter Madero Gallery, New York, NY
ArtGroup: First Outing, Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY
1994 A Sensibility and the Senses, The Hudson Guild, New York, NY
Female Portraiture, Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY
The Artists, hosted by Morrison Cohen Singer and Weinstein Law Offices, New York, NY
1994 New Work, Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY
1992 Alumni Show, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Group Show, Philopatrian Literary Society, Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibitions
2017-2016 A Dark Wood, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter,
The Noyes Art Museum at Stockton University, Atlantic City
2016-2015 Every Personal Savior, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2015 Sanctus, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2014 Obsolescence, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ & Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
Terra Incognita, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2013 There’s a Moon in the Sky, It’s Called the Moon, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
A Time in Arcadia, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2012 Dangerous Toys, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ - curated by Sasha Chavchavadze
The Fool’s Journey, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2011 Dividing Light, Measuring Darkness, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
Naming the Animals, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2010 Psychopomp, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ - curated by Vincent Como
Estatic, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2009 Nyktomorph, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
Poison, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2008 Between Worlds, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
Hocus Pocus, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
Soho Show-off, Penn Design New York Alumni Show, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Apparition, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
Minnie’s Message - Steroscopic Views, The Gallery Studios, Jersey City, NJ
2002 Fine Arts Alumni/ae Virtual Exhibition 2002, www.upenn.edu, University of Pennsylvania
Hallowed Ground Fertile Ground, The Gallery-Studios, Jersey City, NJ
2001 Recent Work/Sketches & Plans (The Alchemist’s Garden), The Gallery-Studios, Jersey City, NJ
Photography Exhibition, Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY, juried
2000 Altars and Other Sacred Sites, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
Universal Diversity 8 (ATE), Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
1999 Universal Diversity 7: We Create, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY -
curated by Devorah Sperver
1999 International Juried Show, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ; curated by
Lisa Dennison, Chief Curator/Deputy Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Landscape, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
New Works by Members, New Century Artists, New York, NY
1998 Independents Biennial IV, Charas/El Bohio, New York, NY
Photo Exhibition, Greene County Council of the Arts, Mountaintop Gallery, Windham, NY
Berkshire Art Association 1998 Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Berkshire Art Museum,
Pittsfield, MA; curator, Laura Hoptman, Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings, Museum of
Modern Art
1998 Universal Diversity 6: Our Voices Carry, Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
New Works by Members, New Century Artists, New York, NY
1998 National Works on Paper: Poverty, University Gallery, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY
ArtGroup Exhibition, Vincent Louis Galleries, New York, NY
Out On The Edge Festival Exhibition, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
1998 Emerging Artist Juried Exhibition, Nexus Gallery, New York, NY
1997 22nd Annual Juried Fine Arts Competition, Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, NY
A Time to Heal, Visions Gallery, Albany, NY
Universal Diversity 5, La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY
Third Annual Art Exhibition, Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT
Strength in Unity, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY
6th Photography Annual, Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
1996 Me, Myself & I, LaMamma La Galleria, New York, NY
Universal Diversity 4: Freedom of Expression, Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
NonPlussed, Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
Independents Biennial III, Charas/El Bohio, New York, NY
Community/Family, the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY
1995 Little Pieces, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY
The Fourth Photo Annual, Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
Universal Diversity 3: Increased Visibility, Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
1994 ArtGroup Addresses A.I.D.S., Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
Universal Diversity 2: Our Vision Ourselves, Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
1993 Universal Diversity: Images Through Our Own Eyes, Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
1992 Group Exhibition, Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA
1988 Group Exhibition, Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
1986 Group Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Media
2021-2010 Who’s Who in American Art
2019 “Along the Nerve” Curious Matter, Raymond E. Mingst, curator, exhibition brochure July 2019
“Plenty of Art to Go Around this Weekend” Jersey Journal (print) and NJ.com (web), April 12, 2019
“Exhibition Celebrates Faith, Hope, Tradition, Art - and What Should be the Sanctity of Sacred
Spaces,” Jersey Journal (print) and NJ.com (web), January 19, 2019
2018 The Daily Pennsylvanian, “Reflecting on Penn and the AIDS Epidemic” by Jeff Baker, 7/20/2018
issue. My photographs were used as the basis of the article.
2016 NJTV News, New Jersey, For One Jersey City Galley, Art is a Curious Matter, aired 11/3/16
2009 WMBC Nightly News, New Jersey, Nyktomorph exhibition, aired 10/6/09
“Photography for the Heavens,” The Jersey City Reporter, Jersey City, NJ, 7/19/09 edition
WMBC Nightly News, New Jersey, Poison, aired 4/22/09
WMBC Nightly News, New Jersey, The Line Holds, the Space Beckons, aired 2/13/09
2008 WMBC Nightly News, New Jersey, Between Worlds, aired 10/16/08
WMBC Nightly News, New Jersey, THER, aired 7/3/08
WMBC Nightly News, New Jersey, Hocus Pocus, aired 4/7/08
WMBC Nightly News, New Jersey, Work of the Penitent, aired 1/8/08
2007 “A Matter of Creativity,” Current, Jersey City, NJ, 6/21/07 edition
2005 New York Times New Jersey Edition, April 3, “Putting Down Roots in the City”
Who’s Who in America
2006 Who’s Who in America
2004 Who’s Who In America
1999 November Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA), Minneapolis, MN
1998 December Pen In Ink; “Alumni News,” Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA
September Berkshire Art Association 1998 Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture catalog;
The Berkshire Art Association, Pittsfield, MA
1996 Summer Ignite magazine
1995 April “David Wojnarowitz,”ArtGroup Newsletter
June Vice Magazine
February “Hugh Steers”ArtGroup Newsletter
1994 February exhibition reviews: Huganot Herald, New Paltz, NY, The Woodstock Times, Woodstock, NY
Publications/Bibliography
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Communion & Community. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2021, exhibition brochure
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Home Altars. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2020, exhibition brochure
Bruso, A., Each Age a Lens. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2019, a monograpgh of photographic art work with essay
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., A Flawed Trinity. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2019, exhibition brochure
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., To Some Point True and Unproven. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2019, exhibition brochure
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Every Sacred Place. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2018, exhibition brochure
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Not Life Alone. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2018, exhibition brochure
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Artists and Other Friends. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2018, cookbook
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Unreliable Narrator. Jersey City, NJ: Art House Gallery, 2017, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., A World Where We Belong. Benjamin J. Dineen III and Dennis C. Hull Galley,
Hudson County Community College Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2017, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., A Dark Wood. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2017, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., After. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2016, exhibition brochure
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Errand Into the Maze. Jersey City, NJ: Art House Gallery, 2016,
exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Vanishing Point. Jersey City, NJ: Art House Gallery, 2016, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., 3: Patricia Dahlamn, Robin Ellenbogen, Julie McHargue. Jersey City, NJ:
Art House Gallery, 2015, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Every Personal Savior. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2015, exhibition brochure
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., After Image. Jersey City, NJ: Art House Gallery, 2015, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Sanctus. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2015, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Joe Velez: SIgnal Loss. Jersey City, NJ: Art House Gallery, 2015,
exhibition brochure
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., An Imperfect Grace. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2014, exhibition brochure
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Obsolescence. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2014, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Terra Incognita. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2014, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Angels and Minimalists. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2014, exhibition brochure
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., There’s a Moon in the Sky and it’s called the Moon. Jersey City, NJ:
Curious Matter 2013, exhibition brochure
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., A Time in Arcadia. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2013, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Petite Voie. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2012, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., The Fool’s Journey. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2012, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Our Father and the Tiny Guardian. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2012, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Dividing Light, Measuring Darkness . Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2011, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Naming the Animals. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2011, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., The Estatic. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2010, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A., Structure of the Church. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter 2010, a monograph of photographic art work
Bruso, A., The Line Holds, the Space Beckons. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2009 monograph of photographic art work
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E., Nyktomorph. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2009, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E. Poison. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A., Into the Magic Space. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2008 a monograph of photographic art work
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E. Between Worlds. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E. Hocus Pocus. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, exhibition catalog
Bruso, A. and Mingst, R. E. Apparition. Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2007 exhibition catalog
Curatorial
2022 Our Sacred Hearts, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ co-curated with Raymond Mingst
Where is Here, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ co-curated with Raymond Mingst
2021 Communion & Community, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ co-curated with Raymond Mingst
2020 Home Altars: creating a personal refuge, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ co-curated with Raymond Mingst
2019 A Flawed Trinity, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ co-curated with Raymond Mingst
To Some Point True and Unproven, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ co-curated with Raymond Mingst
2018 Every Sacred Place, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
Not Life Alone, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
2017 Unreliable Narrator, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
Curators Choice 2, Pro Arts at Harborside Atrium, Jersey City, NJ co-curated with Henone Girma, Art in Flux;
Donna Gustafson, Zimmerli Museum; Emily Johnsen, William Paterson University; Jo-El Lopez, Independent
Curator; Anne Novado, Novado Gallery; Fayemi Shakur, City Without Walls; Dexter Wimberly, Aljira.
A World Where We Belong. Benjamin J. Dineen III and Dennis C. Hull Galley, Hudson County Community College:
co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
A Dark Wood, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, The Noyes Arts Garage, Atlantic City:
co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
2016 Errand Into the Maze, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ: co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
Ecco Domus, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, guest curator Enrico Gomez
Vanishing Point, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, co-curated with Raymond E. Mings
The Broad and Narrow Way, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
2015 After, Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
Every Personal Savior, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
Sanctus, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
An Imperfect Grace, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
3: Patricia Dahlamn, Robin Ellenbogen, Julie McHargue. Jersey City, NJ, Art House Gallery, co-curated
with Raymond E. Mingst
Your Move: Dance Photography, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
and Samuel Pott
Joe Velez: Signal Loss, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
After Image, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
2014 Obsolescence, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
Terra Incognita, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
Angels and Minimalists, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
2013 There’s a Moon in the Sky and it’s called the Moon, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter,
co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
A Time in Arcadia, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-cureated with Raymond E. Mingst
2012 Petite Voie, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, Co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
The Fool’s Journey, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
Our Father and the Tiny Guardian, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
2011 Dividing Light, Measuring Darkness, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
Naming the Animals, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
2010 Psychoomp, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
The Estatic, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
2009 The Relic of 41st Street, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
Nyktomorph, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
Poison, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
2008 The Madonna Fragment, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
Between Worlds, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
Hocus Pocus, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
2007 Work of the Penitent, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter
Apparition, Jersey City, NJ, Curious Matter, co-curated with Raymond E. Mingst
2000 Altars and Other Sacred Sites, ArtGroup at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
Universal Diversity 8 (ATE), ArtGroup at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
1999 The Landscape, ArtGroup at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
1998 Universal Diversity 6: Our Voices Carry, ArtGroup at the Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
ArtGroup Exhibition, Vincent Louis Galleries, New York, NY
Out On The Edge Festival Exhibition, ArtGroup at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
Scott Holman, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY
Lesbian Artist’s Group, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Universal Diversity 5, ArtGroup at La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY
Strength in Unity, ArtGroup at 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Me, Myself & I, ArtGroup at the LaMamma La Galleria, New York, NY
Universal Diversity 4: Freedom of Expression, ArtGroup at the Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
NonPlussed, ArtGroup at the Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
Community/Family, ArtGroup at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY
1995 Universal Diversity 3: Increased Visibility, ArtGroup at the Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
1994 ArtGroup Addresses A.I.D.S., ArtGroup at the Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY
Universal Diversity 2: Our Vision Ourselves, ArtGroup at the Leslie-Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY