Biography

Judy Pfaff was born in London, England in 1946.  She received her B.F.A. from Washington University, Saint Louis (1971) and her M.F.A. from Yale University (1973).  Pfaff has received many awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (Sculpture, 1983), a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (Sculpture, 1986), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit Gold Medal for Sculpture (2002), a Nancy Graves Foundation Grant (2003), the highly prestigious Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award (2004), and the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship (2006).  Pfaff was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2009.  She represented the United States in the 1982 Venice Biennale and in the 1998 Sao Paolo Bienal.  Her work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and publications nationally and internationally and included in the collections of the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; The Brooklyn Art Museum; Detroit Institute of Art; The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; St. Louis Art Museum; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.  Pfaff currently lives and works in Kingston and Tivoli, New York. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2011)

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