Regina Bogat
(b. 1928, lives and works in New Jersey). A part of the 10th Street art scene, Regina Bogat was the only woman artist working in the Bowery Studio building with Mark Rothko, James Brooks, Ray Parker and other Abstract Expressionists. A friend of Ad Reinhardt and Eva Hesse, Regina subsequently married the painter Alfred Jensen and has continuously painted throughout her life.
Christie’s Education Panel with Regina Bogat, Gwenolee Zürcher, Barbara Stehle, and Floriane de St. Pierre: “Four Creative Women”, Sep 14, 2020.
Bogat has exhibited across the United States and in Europe and her work is included in prominent collections. She was included in the 1973 exhibition, Women choose Women curated by Lucy Lippard at the New York Cultural Center. In 2014, the Blanton Museum (Austin, TX) acquired a major work Cord Painting 14, 1977. In 2015, Regina Bogat was shown by Zürcher Gallery in a solo show at Frieze New York (Spotlight Section curated by Adriano Pedrosa). Zürcher Gallery was one of the 5 shortlisted galleries for the Pommery Stand Prize at Frieze NY, highly commended for its presentation of Regina’s works from 1967-77. In 2015, Regina Bogat was invited by Sarah Cain to be part of her solo exhibition, SARAH CAIN Blue in your Body, Red when it hits the Air, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. In 2017, Karen Wright invited Regina Bogat to participate in Entangled: Threads & Making at the Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK). In 2017, Kelly Baum, the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY) included Regina in the major exhibition, Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950 – 1980 at the Met Breuer with Cord Painting 15, 1977, a work which had just been acquired by The Metropolitan Museum. In 2017, her work The Phoenix and The Mountain no. 2,1980, was acquired by the Musée National d'Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Press
2019
"Le peinture en trio féminin et new-yorkais", review by Claude Lorent in La Libre Belgique
"Trois Américaines à Bruxelles", review by Muriel de Crayencour in In the MuCity Visual Arts Magazine
2018
"Maximizing Minimalism", review by John Haber, Haberarts.com
"In Transition: Regina Bogat in the 90s", Anna Bogat Jensen, Two Coats of Paint
2015
“ArtRX NYC”, essay in Hyperallergic by Jillian Steinhauer"
“9 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before October 9”, essay in the Observer by Paul Laster
Regina Bogat: Works from the 70s and 80s, interview by Veronica Roberts, Zürcher Gallery
“Frieze Art Fair at Randalls Island Park Offers a Bit of Everything”, The New York Times by Martha Schwendener
“Frieze New York: An environment for discovery”, Paul Laster in Christie’s The Art People
"The stakes are high at NADA", The Art Newspaper
2014
“Regina Bogat”, essay in Art in America by Faye Hirsch
“Single Point Perspective: Regina Bogat Earthly Divination”, essay in Hyperallergic by Tim Keane
“If You’re Accidentally Not Included, Don’t Worry About it”, essay in The New York Times by Karen Rosenberg
“Stargazing in Brooklyn: New Art at Trestle Gallery”, Essay by Tim Keane
2013
Regina Bogat: The New York Years 1960 – 1970, essays by Stephen Westfall and Bernard Zürcher, Zürcher Gallery
“Regina Bogat”, essay in Wall Street International
2012
“Art, Life, Commercialism and Sexism in the New York School: Regina Bogat’s Story”, interview in Hyperallergic by Jillian Steinhauer
“Regina Bogat Keeps It Fresh After 60 Years”, essay on the exhibition at Art 101 in Hyperallergic by Howard Hurst
2006
“Regina Bogat and Fausto Sevila”, essay in The Brooklyn Rail by James Kalm
1962
“Fifty California Artists,” essay on the exhibition at the Whitney Museum, Artforum, Los Angeles, CA, Winter
“E Pluribus Unum,” Catalog essay for the exhibition at the Graham Gallery, NYC
“Art: Education or Entertainment?” Lecture, Colby Jr. College, NH
“An Approach to Art,” Lecture, Riverside Hospital for Narcotics Addiction, NYC
1958-59
Reviews of current exhibitions, East, a publication, NYC