Select Solo Exhibitions

2025
Jo Sandman: Skin Deep, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

2024
Jo Sandman: Folded Fabric, 1971-1974, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
Jo Sandman: A Life in Art, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Traces, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Jo Sandman: Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2023
Jo Sandman: Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection, Traces, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

2022
Jo Sandman: Traces, Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville, NC

2021
One Hand Clapping: Jo Sandman, Ogunquit Museum, Ogunquit, ME

2020
Jo Sandman: The Photographic Work, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

2014
Transmissions, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA

2008
Jo Sandman: Once Removed, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

2007
Heat/Light, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA

2003
Inside the Image, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA

2002
New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, Boston, MA

2001
Photo/Drawing, 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC
O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC

1998
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1995
Andrea Marquit Gallery, Boston, MA

1994
O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC

1989
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA

1988
Mobius, Boston, MA

1986
Locus, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

1985
Van Buren/Brazelton/Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1984
Gallery 11, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1983
Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1982
O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC

1981
Stux Gallery, Boston, MA

1980
Galeria, Liga Estudiantes del Art, San Juan, P.R.

1978
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, NYC

1977
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

1976
Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA
Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA

1975
O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

1974
Gallery of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA

1973
O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC

Select Traveling Exhibitions

2004-05
Diagnostic Arts, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, Mass. College of Pharmacy, Boston, MA, and Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

1975-76
Eleven Boston Artists, US Information Agency, Washington, DC and Europe

1973-75
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA and other venues

Select Group Exhibitions

2025
Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Ascendant Women in the Johnson Collection, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
Better on Paper: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

2024
Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Ascendant Women in the Johnson Collection, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Tender Loving Care, Contemporary Art from the Collection, MFA, Boston, MA

2023
Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Ascendant Women in the Johnson Collection, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Women in Abstraction, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

2022
Helen Frankenthaler and Jo Sandman: Unlimited, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

2017
Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters, 1950 to Now, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA

2013
Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

2012
Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA • Written & Rendered, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA

2011
Color Study, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

2010
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
Going Forward, Looking Back, Simmons College, Boston, MA
Black & White, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
Limners to Facebook, Ashville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

2009
Fusion: Science and Art, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, MI
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Out Of The Box, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
EDGE, ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard, MA

2008
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA,

2007
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
New England Photography Biennial, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

2006
Outside the Box, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Concord Art Association, Concord, MA• Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

2004
Refigured, McMullen Museum, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Concerning the Spiritual in Photography, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA,

2003
Photography: Past & Present, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Under the Influence, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
Seven Concord Artists, Concord Art Associations, Concord, MA

2002
Eleven New Objects, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA

2001
Terrors and Wonders, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA

2001
I Love New York, Benefit Exhibition for World Trade Center, OK Harris, NYC

2000
Visual Memoirs, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

1999
Students of Hans Hofmann, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA

1998
The Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA

1997
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA

1996
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1995
Dialogues Past and Present, Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA
A Taste of Honey, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sculpture Invitational, Gedney Farm, New Marlborough, MA
2 in b + w, Andrea Marquit Gallery, Boston, MA
Single Fire, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

1994
Material Transformations, Tuft University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
Temporal Systems, The New Arts Center, Newton, MA

1993
Small Works, Andrea Marquit Gallery, Boston, MA

1992
Master Drawings by 8 Boston Artists, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
It's About Time, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA
Laundry Lines, a Reclamation Artists Collaboration, Government Center Plaza, Boston

1991
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1990
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

1989
10th Annual Boston Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

1988
Boston Now: Works on Paper, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

1987
Drawings for Sculpture, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA

1986
Insights: A Look at the Development of Six Boston Artists, North Hall Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Inaugural, Stux Gallery, NYC

1985
Screens, Van Buren/Brazelton/Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1984
Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA

1983
Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL • Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1982
Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
Being and Nothingness, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Clark University, Worcester, MA

1981
Boston Now: Abstract Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

1980
Up for the Summer, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL

1979
Prospectus: Art in the Seventies, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

1978
Borderline Drawings, Iolas Gallery, New York, NY
Geometry as Structure in Contemporary Art, Wheaton College, Norton, MA

1977
Drawings and Collage, New York University, NYC

1976
Art on Paper, 1976, Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC, Greensboro, NC
On the Wall, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (installation)
TV Workshop Showcase, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (video)
Five New York Artists: A Selection, Leah Levy and the Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1975
Bicentennial Art Commission Awards Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
New England Women, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

1974
Thirteen Boston Artists, Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland, UK
TV Workshop Showcases, video produced at The New Television Workshop, WGBH, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA

1973
Unstretched Paintings, Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA

1972
Stretched, Unstretched and Folded, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
Big Bad Show, Thayer Academy, Braintree, MA

1971
Flush with the Walls, Men’s Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Public Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Black Mountain College Museum of Art, Asheville, NC
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum of Art, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/de Young, San Francisco, CA
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Mead Museum of Art, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI
Mount Holyoke Museum of Art, Hadley, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
New York University, New York, NY
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Portland Museum of Fine Art, Portland, ME
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA
University of New Hampshire Art Museum, Durham, NH
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Awards

2006
Concord Art Association, Concord, MA

2002
Best Mid-Career Exhibit, International Association of Art Critics, New England

1990
Citation for Excellence, Boston Society of Architects

1986-87
Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute/Harvard College, Cambridge MA

1984
Fellowship in Sculpture, Massachusetts Artists Foundation

1975
WGBH’s New Television Workshop-video production grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation and Massachusetts Arts Council
Painting Commission, Boston 200 Bicentennial Celebration, Boston

Education

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
University of California Berkeley, CA
Hunter College, New York, NY (Robert Motherwell)
Hans Hofmann School, New York, NY
Hans Hofmann School, Provincetown, MA
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC

Teaching Experience

Massachusetts College of Art
Art Institute of Chicago
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Cincinnati
Wellesley College