Alfredo Gisholt

Associate Professor of Fine Arts

Departments/Programs

Fine Arts

Degrees

Boston University, M.F.A.
Florida International University, B.F.A.

Expertise

Painting, Drawing and Printmaking

www.alfredogisholt.com

Profile

“I look at where things accumulate, where people leave things. Every house has a corner like that.”

Excerpt from Beer with a Painter. Interview by Jennifer Samet

"Alfredo Gisholt is a painter of “pictures,” a rarity in today's art world. Unabashed in his embrace of the history of painting, Gisholt paints timeless, poetic worlds where the everyday and the grand tradition of painting merge..."

Brett Baker, Painter's Table Blog

“Look at any inspired painting,” Philip Guston said. “It’s like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.” One can almost hear Alfredo Gisholt’s latest series, Canto General, pulsating with this same aftershock of rhythmic duress. In these canvases, scribbles, zips, and coarse gestural passages, often painted wet into wet, populate both large and small-scale compositions in a frenzy of energy and intent...."

Kara L. Rooney, The Brooklyn Rail

Courses Taught

FA	3a	Introduction to Drawing I
FA	3b	Introduction to Drawing II
FA	11a	Beginning Painting
FA	11b	Beginning Painting II
FA	13a	Intermediate Drawing I
FA	13b	Intermediate Drawing II
FA	14a	Intermediate Painting
FA	14b	Intermediate Painting II
FA	105a	Introduction to Printmaking: Intaglio
FA	116a	Intermediate Printmaking

Awards and Honors

Norman Award, Brandeis University, Painting (2017)

Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant. Painting. Finalist (2016)

Norman Award, Brandeis University, Painting (2013)

Blanche E. Colman Foundation Award. Painting. (2009)

Norman Award. Brandeis University. Painting (2009)

George and Helen Segal FoundationFellowship, Painitng (2004 - 2005)

Guggenheim Fellowship (2002)

Dedalus Foundation Fellowship. Painting. (2000 - 2001)

Scholarship

Gisholt, Alfredo, George Kinghorn, Curator. Flash Back. Group Show, September - November. University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME.. (forthcoming)

Gisholt, Alfredo, Antonio Lastrade, Curator. Latitud, 40 Artistas. Group Show, March 29th - July 30th. Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporaneo, Cuernavaca, Morelos. Mexico..

Gisholt, Alfredo. Night Studio. Solo Show, January 24th - February 27th. Schiltkamp Gallery. Clark University, Worcester.

Jennifer Samet. "Beer with a Painter: Alfredo Gisholt." Hyperallergic (2019): <https://hyperallergic.com/452261/beer-with-a-painter-alfredo-gisholt/>.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Within the Frame. Solo Show, September - November. Forma 110, Houston, TX.

Gisholt, Alfredo, Alex Sewell, Curator. High Rock Tower. Group Show, May. Ess, Ef, Eff Curatorial Collective, Brooklyn, NY.

Gisholt, Alfredo, Michael Holden, Curator. Beyond. Group Show, October. Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Latin American Art, Gala Exhibition and Auction. Group Show, March. Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Recent Acquisitions. Group Show, January - April 2017. University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Recent Work. Solo Show, November - January. Lunder Center for the Arts, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Canto y Calavera. Solo Show, September - November 2015. Houston Community College, Houston.

Gisholt, Alfredo. For The Love of Paper. Solo Show, November 2016 - December 2017. Katy Contemporary Art Museum, Fort Wort, TX.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Paper Today. Group Show, September 2015. Houston Art Fair, Houston, Texas.

Gisholt, Alfredo. "Galeria." Inventio.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Canto y Calavera. Solo Show, January 2015. Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Ficcion Particular. Solo Show, November 2014. NM Contemporaneo, Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Alfredo Gisholt. "Canto General." Rev. of Alfredo Gisholt Canto General, by Kara L. Rooney. Brooklyn, New York. The Brooklyn Rail March 2014 : March 2014.

Brett Baker. "A Conversation with Alfredo Gisholt." Painter's Table Blog (2014): <http://painters-table.com/blog/alfredo-gisholt-interview-cue-art-foundation#.UzlzH9xQYeM>.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Canto General - a suite of etchings. February 2014. University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Canto General. Solo Exhibition Show, January 30th - March 8th. CUE Art Foundation, New York.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Sequence and Seriality, Group Exhibition, curated by Bartek Waliki. February 2014. Calico, Brooklyn, NY.

Leah Triplett. "Where Imagination Resides, Alfredo Gisholt's Canto General." Alfredo Gisholt, Canto General (exhibition catalogue), Essay by Leah Triplett. CUE Art Foundation, 2014

Gisholt, Alfredo. Alfredo Gisholt: Recent work. Solo Show, September 2013. The Shed, New Harbor, Maine.

Gisholt, Alfredo, Curated by Susan Metrican. Hung Jury. Group Exhibition Show, 2012. 225 Friends Street, Boston.

Gisholt, Alfredo, Essays by Dushko Petrovich and Federico Marquez Padilla. Barrancos de escaleras, Exhibition catalogue. Recinto Editorial, 2011.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Obra reciente, Recent Work. 2011. Galeria Navarro Valdez, Valle de Bravo, Mexico. (Solo Exhibition).

Gisholt, Alfredo. Barrancos de escaleras. Solo Show, 2010. Recinto Project Room, Mexico City, Mexico.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Ceremonies of Mud. Solo Exhibition Show, 2010. University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Reunited : Boston University Alumni. Group show Show, 2010. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Recent Work. 2009. Waltham, MA.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Tradition / Invention, 5 Emerging Artists. 2009. Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY.

Gisholt, Alfredo. La Romeria, Two Paintings and an Exhibiiton of Recent Work. 2008. The Lincoln Building, Waltham, MA.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Summer Invitational. 2008. Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA.

Gisholt, Alfredo. "Lasting Imprints." State of the Arts Winter 2007: 1.

Gisholt, Alfredo. The South Press Print Show. 2007. The Carillon Gallery, Frot Worth, TX.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Boston Printmakers Biennale. 2005. Boston University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Monks, Warriors and Revolutions. 2004. The Richard and Dolly Mass Gallery, Purchase College (SUNY), Purchase, NY.

Gisholt, Alfredo. Seven Mexican Painters. 2004. Palacio de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.