Born in Hibbing, Minnesota.
Currently resides in Houston, TX
EDUCATION
1980
M.F.A., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
B.F.A., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
AWARDS AND GRANTS
1999
Individual Artist Grand Fellowship, Cultural Arts Council of Houston
1994
Fellowship Award in Painting & Works on Paper, Mid America Arts Alliance, National Endowment for the Arts
1980
Ford Foundation Research Grant for Painting
1978
Ford Foundation Research Grant for Encaustic Painting and Color Intaglio Printmaking
1977
Ford Foundation Fellowship, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1974-77
Creative Arts Award, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2001
Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
Concrete Abstractions: a Mid-Career Survey of Painting and Sculpture by Joe Mancuso, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX
2000
Drawings and Working Drawings, University of Houston, Downtown, Houston, TX
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
1998
Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1997
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
1996
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
1995
Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
1994
The Jung Center, Houston, TX
1993
Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
1992
Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
1991
The Council for the Visual and Performing Arts, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX
1990
Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
1985
Introductions 85, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
1980
Arbutus Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Wilson College Gallery, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2001
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2000
Crossing State Lines: Texas Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Joe Mancuso, Brian Portman and William Steen, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Miniatures, Hooks Epstein Gallery, Houston TX
Barbara Andrus/Joe Mancuso, Gallery at UTA, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
Group Show, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX
1999
It Moves, Artful Garden, Houston, TX
Joe Mancuso and Steve Murphy, Transco Tower, Houston, TX
1998
DAS LEBEN IST EINE BAUSTELLE, Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany
Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
1997
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany, represented by Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe, Germany
Simply Beautiful, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
Composure, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Flora Bella, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
1996
Common Ground, A Collaboration between James Von Minor and Joe Mancuso, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
Hot Saturdays, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX
Material + Spirit, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
The Texas Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Modern and Postmodern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1995
Texas Abstract: New Painting in the Nineties, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Jan Frank, Herb Jackson, Joe Mancuso, Parchman/Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Known and Underknown, An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Allen Center Gallery, Houston, TX
Simple Things, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Timeless Abstraction, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
1994
Process, Strategy, Irony, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
The Big Show, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX
Low Tech, Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
Essentials, Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1993
Richard Lodwig, Joe Mancuso, John Swanger, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Edward Albee's Other Eye: Selections from the Albee Collection, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, NY
Darkness and Light, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
1992
The Big Show, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX
Constructive/Constructivist, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
1991
Abstract Methods, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
1990
Small Works, 80 Square East Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
1989
Synergy'89, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Purchase Award, juried by Marti Mayo, Edward Albee and Virgil Grotfeldt
1987
Texas Annual 1987, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
Houston Artists, Gallery on the Tracks, Pensacola, FL
Twenty-First Juried Art Exhibition, Jewish Community Center, Houston, TX
1986
Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
1980
World Print Three, San Francisco, CA
Postdam Prints, Postdam, NY
1979
RoadShow 79, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
79 National Print Exhibition in Texas, University of Texas at Austin
1978
New Works Exhibition, New Images Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Footprint International, Seattle, WA
1977
Dulin National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Knoxville, TN
SouthWest Print and Drawing Exhibition, Las Cruces, NM
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Anspon, Catherine D. "Joe Mancuso, Brian Portman, William Steen." ARTnews, April 2000.
______. "Houston's Art Haven." Public News, October 29, 1997. Chadwick, Susan. "Joe Mancuso reaches new minimalist heights." The Houston Post, April 12, 1995.
______. "Essentials." Houston Post, February 2, 1994.
______. "Geometric Abstractions Bind Together 7 In Diverse Works Show." Houston Post, September 24, 1994.
______. "Sculptor Lovingly Shapes and Forms Wood." The Houston Post, September 18, 1993.
______. "Artist's Leave Some Things to Chance." The Houston Post, March 28, 1991.
______. "Abstract Methods." The Houston Post, March 24, 1991. Colpitt, Frances.
"REPORT FROM TEXAS / Going against the Grain." Art in America, April 1995.
Davenport, Bill. "Joe Mancuso at Barbara Davis Gallery." Art Letter, October 5, 1996.
Dorsey, John. "Art Works in Harmony." The Baltimore Sun, December 17, 1996.
Ennis, Michael. "The Mod Squad." Texas Monthly, March 1996.
Fagaly, William. "2001 New Orleans Triennial." Arts Quarterly, April, May, June 2001.
Friis-Hansen, Dana. "Not So Simple Pleasures." Simply Beautiful, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 1997.
Giuliano, Mike. "Dynamic Duo." City Paper, Baltimore, MD, January 1, 1997.
Greene, Alison de Lima. "TEXAS: 150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston." The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000.
Harrison, Helen A. "Edward Albee's Ideas About Sculpture as an Idea." The New York Times, July 11, 1993.
Hutchison, Collin. "Joe Mancuso, New Work." Artlies, Fall 2000.
"In der Galerie Rottloff: Birkenrinde und 'Betoni'". Karlsruhe, June 2001.
Johnson, Patricia C. "Exhibits Craft Alternate Reality." Houston Chronicle, September 2000.
______. "Concrete turns lyrical in Mancuso's art." Houston Chronicle, September 16, 1998.
______. "Interesting use of materials highlights three exhibits." Houston Chronicle, September 11, 1996.
______. "Material of Choice." The Houston Chronicle. April 25, 1996.
______. "Glassell Shows Minimalism's Softer Edges." Houston Chronicle, February 17, 1994.
______. "Castoffs Become Fodder for the Artist." Houston Chronicle, September 21, 1991.
Kalil, Susie. "Barbara Andrus and Joe Mancuso at the Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington." May 2001.
______. "Concrete Abstractions." Houston Press, October 1, 1998.
______. "Abstraction Without Shame." Houston Press, October 6-12, 1994.
Kandel, Susan. " Rubbery Feats." Los Angeles Times, July 15, 1993.
Martin, Laura Carey. "American Images: The SBC Collection of Twentieth-Century American Art." Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: New York, New York, 1996.
Michalski, Jennifer J. "Double Vision." Baltimore Alternative, January 1997.
Olsen, Valerie Loupe. "Posttension: A Compelling Refinement by Joe Mancuso." The Glassell School of Art of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 11, 1998.
Rubin, David S. "1998 Phoenix Triennial." Phoenix Art Museum, August 15, 1998.
Tramel, Greg. "Joe Mancuso at Barbara Davis Gallery." Art Letter, October 5, 1996.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Breco Holdings, Inc., Houston, Texas
Exxon Mobil, Houston, Texas
Jacobs Engineering, Houston, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Neiman Marcus, Dallas, Texas
Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe, Germany
The SBC Collection, San Antonio, Texas
Schnitzius & Vaughan, Houston, Texas
University of Houston, Downtown, Houston, Texas
The Welch Foundation, Houston, Texas
