EDUCATION:
1970-72 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL,
MFA: Painting; studied with Ray Yoshida, Ken Josephson, Stan Brakhage
1967-70 University of Hartford/ Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT,
BFA: Painting; Summa Cum Laude
1965-67 Southern Connecticut University, New Haven, CT
1964-65 University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2004 Joseph Bernard: Fever Dream, Fine Arts Gallery, CCS, Detroit, MI
Joseph Bernard: The Boxed Set ‘86-‘04, Batista Gallery, Ferndale, MI
Projections…A Selection of Films by Joseph Bernard, Batista Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2001 Experimental Films of Joseph Bernard, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Joseph Bernard: In Other Words, Posner Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2000 Joseph Bernard: The One-Stop Tour, Charleston Heights Art Center, Las Vegas, NV
1999 J.B. / A Test of Time: A Selection of Short Films Made 20 Years Ago, CCS, Detroit, MI
1997 Joseph Bernard: Collage Paintings, Posner Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1995 Joseph Bernard: 14 Paintings, Main Street Billiards, Rochester, MI
1993 Joseph Bernard: Euphoric Haunt, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1992 Joseph Bernard: Paintings, Coker College, Hartsville, SC
1990 Joseph Bernard, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1989 Joseph Bernard: Collage Paintings, Saint Peter’s Church Gallery, New York, NY
Joseph Bernard, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1985 The Detroit Films: Joseph Bernard, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1984 Film Screening, An Evening with Joseph Bernard, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Film Screening, Joseph Bernard, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1983 Film Screening, Variant Chants, Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA
1982 Film Screening, Provincetown Pieces, CCS, Detroit, MI
1981 Film Screening, Five Films, CCS, Detroit, MI
Film Screening, Academy of Science, Arts & Letters, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1980 Film Screening, PROJECTIONS II: Films by Joseph Bernard, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
Film Screening, Joseph Bernard – In Person, Funnel Film Theatre, Toronto, Canada
1979 Joseph Bernard – In Person, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
Joseph Bernard Films at Focus, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1978 Films by Joseph Bernard, Canterbury House, Ann Arbor, MI
1974 Joseph Bernard Drawings, Birmingham Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1973 Joseph Bernard Drawings, Birmingham Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1972 Joseph Bernard Body Prints, Illini Gallery, University Illinois, Chicago, IL
1971 Joseph Bernard Body Prints, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1969 Joseph Bernard: Paintings, Regional Art Center Gallery, New Haven, CT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2006 CCS at 100: Part I, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
D’Art for Art, Women’s Committee, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (donation)
Celebrate Life 2006, Congregational Church of Bloomfield Hills, MI (Best of Show Award)
Supa-Sweet, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
That DAM Box Show, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI (donation)
24th Detroit Wine Auction/Benefit for CCS, Detroit, MI (donation)
2005 10th Annual Artworks for Life, MAPP, The Masonic Temple, Detroit, MI (donation)
The Seventh Show, 101up Gallery, Detroit, MI
Small Works, Neal Davis Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
2004 Artworks for Life 2004, MAPP, The Masonic Temple, Detroit, MI (donation)
23rd Detroit Wine Auction/Benefit for CCS, GM Headquarters, Detroit, MI (donation)
Open Edition, Batista Gallery, Ferndale, MI
Selected Short Films from the Detroit Film Center, Detroit Film Theatre, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2003 2003 Statewide Juried Exhibition, Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI (Mixed Media Award)
Artworks for Life 2003, MAPP, Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe , MI (donation)
Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, CCS, Detroit, MI
2002 Birmingham Galleries Exhibition, Jacobson’s, Birmingham, MI
Fine Arts Faculty, Spring Exhibition, V.I.P. Reception Room, CCS, Detroit, MI
Grand Opening: Gallery Artists, J. Carroll Gallery, Taos, NM
2001 On Language – Text and Beyond, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI (catalog)
Hello Grasshopper, Arena Gallery, Chicago, IL
influence CHICAGO influence, Arena Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalog)
Five Short Films/Bernard, Independent Film Program, Zurich, Switzerland
Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, CCS, Detroit, MI
Works from Chicago, Color Connection Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2000 12 x 12 x 12 x 2000 National, San Jacinto College, Houston, TX
Wood Memorial Biennial, South Windsor, CT
Our Town 2000, Community House, Birmingham, MI
Fine Arts Faculty, Fine Arts Gallery, CCS, Detroit, MI
Of Nature Of, Arena Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Focus on Faculty Sabbatical Exhibition, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
Fine Arts Faculty, Installation Space Gallery, CCS, Detroit, MI
Other Dimensions, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
1999 Celebrate Michigan Artists, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI;
CMA exhibit extended to Daimler-Chrysler Headquarters, Auburn Hills, MI
Fine Arts Faculty, Installation Space Gallery, CCS, Detroit, MI
Friends and Family, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
1998 Two Painters; Helen Evans Feebo and Joseph Bernard, Posner Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Films, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, February 1998 – December 1999, (catalog)
Flora Botanica/An Exhibition to Benefit the Belle Isle Botanical Society, Detroit, MI
1997 Gallery Artists, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, NY
Artists and Poets, Grayson Gallery, Woodstock, VT
1996 Disegno Al Dente, Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI
The 1996 Designers’ Show House, Grosse Pointe, MI
The New Millennium, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
10th Annual Celebrate Michigan Artists, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
Art for Today, 51 Greene Street, New York, NY
1995 Exit 55, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
Interventions, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1994 Sketchbooks, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI (catalog)
Linear Thinking, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI (catalog)
Group Show, Bell Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI
8th Annual Celebrate Michigan Artists, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
Premiere Exhibit, Bell Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1993 Group Show, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
BBAA 12th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham, MI
Joseph Bernard & Joseph Wesner, Herr-Chambliss Fine Arts, Hot Springs, AR (catalog)
Group Show, Bell Gallery, Memphis, TN
1992 Generators & Transmissions, Edwin Street Loft, Hamtramck, MI
1991 Focus on Faculty: Bernard, Johnson, Molyneaux, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
American Experimental Films, Cine Fantom Festival / Parallel Cinema,
Tour of Screenings; Germany and the Netherlands
1990 Winter 90 Exhibition, Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Fine Arts Faculty, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
Gallery Selections: Part 1 and Part 2, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Art for Life: Aid for AIDS Research, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI (donation)
1989 Fine Arts Faculty, Sarkis Gallery, CCS, Detroit, MI
Fall Exhibition, The Society Gallery, CCS, Detroit, MI
New Work, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Fine Arts Faculty, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
1988 Creative Confrontations, Artlink Contemporary Artspace, Ft. Wayne, IN
Michigan Annual XVI, The Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI
1987 CCS Faculty, Overbrook Gallery, Muskegon Community College, Muskegon, MI
Fine Arts Faculty, Sarkis Gallery, CCS, Detroit, MI
Gardens and Flowers, Gryphon Gallery, Grosse Pointe, MI
1985 Fine Arts Faculty, Sarkis Gallery, CCS, Detroit, MI
1984 22nd Annual 16mm Ann Arbor Film Festival, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1982 Black and White, Money for Food Press, New York, NY
MCA Grants Recipients Exhibition, Pontiac Art Center, Pontiac, MI
12th Annual 8 and Super 8mm Film Festival, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1980 PROJECTIONS II-XIV, The Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
Mail Art, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY
Three Filmmakers at 117 Hudson, New York, NY
1979 Reverse Paintings on Transparent Support, Kohler Museum of Art, Sheboygan, WI
1978 8th Annual 8 and Super 8mm Film Festival, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1977 Selected from Detroit, Pontiac Art Center, Pontiac, MI
Ann Arbor Invitational, Filmmakers Co-op, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1976 Bicentennial Print Portfolio, Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Bicentennial Print Portfolio, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1975 S.A.I.C. Traveling Exhibit, Texas/Mexico Art Association, multiple sites
1974 Focus/Michigan Annual, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI (catalog)
Arts and Crafts, Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI
1973 19th Drawing and Sculpture Show, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
1972 Annual Fine Arts Faculty Exhibit, Arts and Crafts, Detroit, MI
1971 Four From S.A.I.C., Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
1970 Group Exhibition, Dorsky Galleries, Ltd., New York, NY
Young Chicago Artists, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
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