1945
Born September 14 in Asheville, North Carolina
1963-1966
Attends Richmond Professional Institute, Virginia
1967
Moves to New York City with husband Joe Haske and son Youngblood Haske
1974
Daughter Savannah Haske born
1979
Joins Willard Gallery, New York
1984
Moves to Costa Rica and meets Tom Sather
1986
Daughter Budhi Sather born
1991
Moves to Bisbee, Arizona
1993
Joins McKee Gallery, New York
1999
Moves to Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003
Receives John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship
Moves to Costa Rica
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1979
Willard Gallery, New York
1981
Willard Gallery
1983
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1985
Barbara Gladstone Gallery
1991
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
1992
Beaver College, Glenside, Pennsylvania
1993
McKee Gallery, New York
1996
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1999
McKee Gallery
2004
A Selection of Works 1975-2003, McKee Gallery
2004-2005
Standing Gorilla, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Miami, FL
2006-2007
Standing Gorilla, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Miami, FL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1981
Figuratively Speaking, Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
1982
John Torreano / Daisy Youngblood, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
Animals in American Art: 1880s-1980s, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
1983
American Clay Artists: Philadelphia '83, Clay Studio, PA
The Sixth Day, Bergman Gallery, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL
Inside / Out, Bronx River Restoration Art Center, Bronx, NY
Personification, Massachusetts College of Art, Carreiro Gallery, Boston
Sculpture Now, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
1984
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Beauties and Beasts, Pratt Art Galleries, Brooklyn & New York
Modern Masks, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
50 Artists / 50 States, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985
Memento Mori, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia
In the Eye of the Beholder, College Art Gallery, SUNY, New Paltz, NY
The Figure Renewed, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
Not Just Black and White, City Gallery, New York
1986
Memento Mori, Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
1987
Standing Ground: Sculpture by American Women, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1988
Painting and Sculpting by Candidates of Art Awards and Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards, American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York
1990
Nature's Materials, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
1993
Here's Looking at Me: Contemporary Self-Portraiture, Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
1995
Next of Kin: Looking at the Great Apes, M.I.T. - List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
1996
A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Daisy Youngblood, Peter Cain, Jane Hammond and David Deutsch, Claudia Gian Ferrari Contemporary Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
1997
Strong Spirits, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Figure and Fragility, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
1998
The Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
1999
Powder: The Myth of Mortality, Aspen Art Museum
2000
The Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, New York
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
American Art Today: Fantasies and Curiosities, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami
Symbols of Survival: Animal Sculpture In Recent Art, Dorsky Gallery, New York
Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection, Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC
NEW works, McKee Gallery, New York
Sculpture 2000, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
2002-2003
lugar(es) la urbe y lo contemporáneo, (Place(s), the Metropolis and the Contemporary),
Acervo artístico Fundación Televisa, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City
Aviary, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
2003
Magic Makers: Objects of Transformation, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
2004
Bare Clay, Ceramic Nudes in 20th Century Art, Garth Clark Gallery, New York
2005
Explorations in Bronze, Degas and New Mexico Sculptors, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
To See the Magic, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany
Zoo Story: An Exhibition of Animals in Art – For the Young and the Young at Heart, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
From the Neck Up, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
2006
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu HI
Greenville Museum of Art, NC
Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC
Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
North Carolina Museum of Art
Georgia and David K. Welles Sculpture Garden, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
CATALOGUES
Richard Flood, The Sixth Day, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Illinois, 1983.
Julie Boyd, Sculpture Now, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1983.
Susan Lubowsky, Modern Masks, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, 1984.
Helen Ferrulli, Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, 1984.
Judith Tannenbaum, The Figure Renewed, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading,
Pennsylvania, 1985.
Richard Flood, Memento Mori, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 1985.
Sarah Rogers-Lafferty, Standing Ground: Sculpture by American Women, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1987.
Laurel Reuter, Nature’s Materials, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, 1990.
Judith Stein, "Soul-States: The Art of Daisy Youngblood," Daisy Youngblood, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania, 1992.
Ron Platt, Next of Kin: looking at the Great Apes, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1995.
Regina Coppola, Daisy Youngblood, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 1996.
Marcia Tucker, A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1996.
Mary F. Douglas, Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection, Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC, 2000.
José Luis Barrios, lugar(es) la urbe y lo contemporáneo, (Place(s), the Metropolis and the Contemporary), Acervo artístico Fundación Televisa, Museo Nacional De Arte, Mexico, D.F., Mexico, 2002.
Magic Makers: Objects of Transformation, Essays by Jeff Fleming, Stanley Cavell, and Malcolm Warner, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, 2003.
A Selection of Works 1975-2003, Statements by Daisy Youngblood and Tom Sather, McKee Gallery, New York, 2004.
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006.
REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
William Zimmer, "Stalking Heads," SOHO Weekly News, October 18, 1979.
Grace Glueck, "Art: The Beasts of Daisy Youngblood," The New York Times, October 19, 1979.
Kay Larson, "Pluto's Retreat: Reaching the Necro-Nadir," The Village Voice, October 22, 1979.
Prudence Carlson, "Daisy Youngblood at Willard," Art in America, February 1980.
Vivien Raynor, "Corporation Builds a Collection That Stresses Youth," The New York Times,
February 3, 1980.
Michael Donahue, "Wealth of Images Dot Modern Show," Memphis Press Scimitar, December 4, 1980.
Robert Merrit, "A New Bestiary (Virginia Museum)," Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 2, 1981.
Ann Schoenfeld, Review of Willard Gallery Show, Arts Magazine, June 1981.
Matthew Collings, "Nothing Deep," Artscribe, August 1981.
Deborah C. Phillips, Review of Willard Gallery show, ARTnews, September 1981.
Ann Schoenfeld, Review of Willard Gallery show, Art Press, September - October 1981.
Kay Larson, "Sculpting Figuratively," New York Magazine, November 16, 1981.
John Perreault, "Food for Figure," SOHO Weekly News, November 25, 1981.
Janice Parente and Phyllis Stigliano, "Animals in American Art: 1880’s-1980’s," (Catalogue text).
Vivien Raynor, "Art: Zabriskie Offers a Sculpture Twin Bill," The New York Times, January 29, 1982.
Regan Upshaw, "'Figuratively Sculpting,' at P.S.1," Art in America, March 1982.
Grace Glueck, "A Critic's Guide to the Outdoor Sculpture Shows," The New York Times, June 11, 1982.
Peter Schjeldahl, "Situations," The Village Voice, June 22, 1982.
Grace Glueck, "Daisy Youngblood," The New York Times, December 23, 1983.
Jeanne Silverthorne, "Reviews, Daisy Youngblood," ARTFORUM, March 1984.
Stephen Westfall, "Daisy Youngblood," Arts Magazine, March 1984.
Gerritt Henry, "Daisy Youngblood at Barbara Gladstone," Art in America, April 1984.
Michael Brenson, "Art: 'Modern Masks,' An Assembly of Sculpture on Display," The New York Times, December 28, 1984.
Mikhail Horowitz, "Behold, Clay Comes of Age," Sunday Freeman, Kingston, New York, March 31, 1985.
Gary Indiana, "Framing Creatures," The Village Voice, May 7, 1985.
Jean Fisher, "Daisy Youngblood," ARTFORUM, October 1985.
"Banking on Art," American Craft, February - March 1988.
Gretchen Adkins, "Daisy Youngblood: Offerings to the Forces Beyond," American Ceramics, Fall 1989.
Mary Jones, "Daisy Youngblood," Arts Magazine, Summer 1991.
Janet Koplos, "An Anatomy of Melancholy," Art in America, October 1991.
Eileen Neff, "Daisy Youngblood," ARTFORUM, May 1992.
George Melrod, "Daisy Youngblood," American Ceramics, Volume II, No. I, 1993.
Patricia C. Phillips, "Daisy Youngblood," ARTFORUM, November 1993.
Joanne Silver, "MIT exhibit explores our kinship with ‘Apes’,” The Boston Herald, October 13,1995.
Robert Taylor, "Gorillas in Our Midst," The Boston Globe, November 16, 1995.
Vicki Croke, "The Draw of the Wild," The Boston Globe, November 25, 1995.
Sally Vallongo, "Seven Female Sculptors Display ‘Strong Spirits’ in BGSU Exhibit," November 1997.
Everett, "McKee Gallery," NY Arts, Vol. 3, No. 4, April 1999.
Grace Glueck, "Daisy Youngblood," Weekend Fine Arts / Leisure, The New York Times, Friday,
May 7, 1999.
Alexi Worth, "Goings On About Town ‘Daisy Youngblood’," The New Yorker, May 10 & 31, 1999.
Mario Naves, "Three Inch Heads, Not Without Sentiment," The New York Observer, May 31, 1999.
"Arizona & New Mexico American Sculpture Tour," Sculpture, July - August 1999.
David Frankel, "Daisy Youngblood McKee Gallery," ARTFORUM, October 1999.
Eleanor Heartney, "Daisy Youngblood at David McKee," Art in America, November 1999.
Lisa McGinley, "Monumental Effort," The Day, November 14, 1999.
Robin Cembalest, "The Woman in the Mirror," Elle, January 2000.
Rachel Youens, "The Likeness of Being, Contemporary Self-Portraits by 60 Women," NY Arts,
Vol. 5 No. 1, January 2000.
Grace Glueck, "The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self-Portraits by 60 Women," The New York Times,
Friday, January 21, 2000.
Joel Silverstein, "Women Painters: Gender Identity and the Integration of Paint into Feminism," Review,
February 1, 2000.
"The Likeness of Being," ARTnewsroom.com, Winter 2000.
Joyce B. Korotkin, "The Likeness of Being," The New York Art World, February 2000.
Carol Diehl, "The Likeness of Being," ARTnews, April 2000.
“Daisy Youngblood,” GalleryGuide.org: Artist Portfolio, [web page]; http://www.galleryguide.org/
ArtistPortfolios/mckee/youngblood/youngblood.asp. [Accessed August 15, 2001].
"The MacArthur Fellows Program 2003," [web page]; http://www.macfound.org/programs/fel/fellows/
youngblood_daisy.htm [Accessed October 7, 2003].
David Cohen, "Gallery - Goings," Arts & Letterrs, The New York Sun, May 6, 2004.
Ken Johnson, "Is Sculpture Too Free for Its Own Good?," The New York Times, Weekend, E33, Friday, May 7, 2004. [web page]; http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/07/arts/design/07JOHN.htmll; audio slide show, http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2004/05/07/arts/20040507_SCULPTURE_
AUDIOSS.html. [Accessed, May 7, 2004].
David Cohen, "Daisy Youngblood," artcritical.com, Gallery Going, (A version first appeared in The New York Sun, May 6, 2004), [web page]; http://www.artcritical.com/DavidCohen/SUN51.htm. [Accessed, May 11, 2004].
Mario Naves, "Victim of Minimalism Triumphs With Bold Ceramic Sculpture," The Observatory, Currently Hanging, The New York Observer, May 17, 2004.
Ken Johnson, "Daisy Youngblood," Galleries: 57th Street, Art Guide, The New York Times, Friday, May 14, 2004.
Ken Johnson, "Daisy Youngblood," Galleries: 57th Street, Art Guide, The New York Times, Friday, May 21, 2004.
Jan Riley, "New York, Daisy Youngblood, McKee Gallery," Sculpture, December 2004.