SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Kim Foster Gallery Islands NY, NY

2008 Kim Foster Gallery At the Mercy of the Gate NY, NY

Linked But Separate, An interactive kinetic sound Installation

and collaboration with sound artist Noah Vawter

May The Center for Cultural Arts San Jose, Costa Rica

June &July, 2008 Omar Dengo Foundation San Jose, Costa Rica

2006 Kim Foster Gallery, Dawn NY, NY

2005 Haines Gallery, Spore San Francisco, CA

2004 Kim Foster Gallery NY, NY

Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson University Wayne, NJ

The Piet Project

2002 Kim Foster Gallery NY, NY groundwork

2002 Hunterdon Museum Clinton, NJ groundwork

2000 Kim Foster Gallery NY, NY

When Uncle Vincenzo was a Fish

1997 Kim Foster Gallery NY, NY

1997 Yearsley Spring Gallery Philadelphia, Pa Sycamore

1996 The Morris Museum Morristown, NJ Outdoor Works

1995 Spazi Contemporary Art Housatonic, Ma

1993 Centenary College Hackettstown, NJ

1993 Montclair State University Montclair, NJ

Sculpture garden installation From the Woods

1992 SVA Gallery NY, NY Sculptures

1992 Spazi Contemporary Art Housatonic, MA

Vine Installation

1991 Port Authority Bus Terminal NY, NY Public Proof

1987 Gallery Patisserie Jersey City, NJ Urban Renewal

1986 Torn Awning Gallery NY, NY

Encaustic Relief

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2009 Undercover: Disguise & Deception Rahway, NJ

in Contemporary Art. Curated by Donna Gustafson

2008 DrawingPainting Kim Foster Gallery NY, NY

2007 Extreme 1967, Int. Museum of Art and Science McAllen, TX

2007 Landscape & Memory II, Haines Gallery San Francisco, CA

2006 on Paper Haines Gallery San Francisco, CA

2006 Intercontinental Biennial of Small Graphics, Inter-Art Aiud, Romania

2006 Terrain Kim Foster Gallery June 3-July 1 NY, NY

2006 The Mind of Nature: Structures and Processes Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei Artists’ Village International, Taipei, Taiwan

2006 Digitized: Chen-Lin University Art Gallery Taipei, Taiwan

2004 Temporalscape Haines Gallery San Francisco, CA

2004 Metomorphosis The Kohler Institute Sheboygan, WI

2004 Kim Foster Gallery Summer Group Exhibition NY, NY

SmART Gallery - Inaugural group exhibition Munich, Germany

2003 Inaugural Exhibition, The Red Collaborative Great Barrington, MA

2003 The For-Site Foundation - Inaugural Exhibition Grass Valley, CA

Organic”, 2 person exhibition with Illia Barger

curated by Tricia Fagan, Mercer Community College. Trenton, NJ

2002 Made With Nature. Curated by Robert Mattison.

David Dorsky Foundation Queens, NY

2002 Eco Show, The Meeting House Gallery New Marlborough, MA

2002 Hors D’oeurves. Kim Foster Gallery NY, NY

Nature, a Different Perspective, Formed Objects,

Low Relief. MCS Gallery, curated by Tom Burke Easton, PA

Artists and the Art of the Book.

Traveling exhibition

from the Experimental Print Institute,

Lafayette College Easton, PA

10/02 Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo San Jose, Costa Rica

6/02 Foreland Street Studio Cleveland, OH

5/02 Artists' Image Resource Center Pittsburgh, PA

2/02 Banana Factory Bethlehem, PA

2001 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Member’s Gallery Buffalo, NY

2001 Black and White Kim Foster Gallery NY, NY

2001 3. The Gruss Center of Visual Arts Lawrenceville, NJ

2001 “Selections from the Collection” Pittsburgh, PA

Artists Image Resource

2000 Where are the Books? Lafayette College Easton, PA

1999 A Book in Hand

Brooklyn Public Library & Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY

1999 In View of Nature Lehman College Art Gallery Bronx, NY

1999 Small Abstractions Kim Foster Gallery NY, NY

1999 Libreria Pegaso Gallery Mexico City, Mexico

1999 Kent State University Gallery Kent State, OH

1999 Banana Factory Bethlehem, PA

1998 Heinz Project Skillman Gallery, Morris College Randolph, NJ

1997 Drawings Yearsley Spring Gallery Philadelphia, PA

1997 Drawings On Paper and Off Cedar Crest College Allentown, PA

1996 Il Politecnico XX Arte Rome, Italy

1996 Kim Foster Gallery NY, NY

1996 450 Broadway Gallery NY, NY

1995 Image and Text Rathbone Gallery Albany, NY

1995 Buoys Bill Bace Renegade Space NY, NY

1994 Art of Italian Americans Lehman College White Plains, NY

1993 Three Sculptors Grossman Center, Lawrenceville, NJ

1992 Books by Artists Spazi Contemporary Art, Housatonic MA

1992 Enigma Visual Arts Gallery NY, NY

1992 Rituals The Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center NY, NY

1992 Breaking Space A.J. Lederman Gallery Hoboken, NJ

1992 Range Visual Arts Gallery NY, NY

1991 Dreams and Ambiguities Spazi Contemporary Art Housatonic, MA

1990 Wallworks City Hall Jersey City, NJ

1990 New Jersey Arts Annual Jersey City Museum Jersey City, NJ

1989 Prints and Multiples Erector Square Gallery New Haven, CT

1989 Selections 1989 Erector Square Gallery New Haven, CT

1989 The Milk Bar NY, NY

1986 The Metro Show City Without Walls Newark, NJ

1986 No Lo Contendere NY, NY

1986 The Torn Awning Gallery NY, NY

1985 The Four Man Show Series The Torn Awning Gallery NY, NY

1985 Red Spot Outdoor Slide Theater NY, NY

REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS

2009 The Process Principle, Style Magazine, pg. 33 Bethlehem, PA

2006 Art In America, Reviews, October, p.193 NY, NY

2005 Artweek- Alison Bing San Francisco, CA

2003 Carol Rosen- Sculpture Magazine, May ’03 Washington, DC

2002 Tova Beck-Friedman- NY Arts Magazine Vol. 7 #7 NY, NY

2002 William Zimmer- New York Times, 3/24 NY, NY

“Finding Meaning in Mushrooms Served Up as Art”

Dan Bischoff- Star Ledger , 3/31 Newark, NJ

“Nature Mushrooms into Art at Clinton Museum”

2002 Susan Van Dongen- Princeton Packett, 3/21 Princeton, NJ

“Magical Mushrooms”

2002 Sculpture Magazine, 4/02 Washington, DC

2001 Erica-Lynn Huberty, Sculpture Magazine, Jan/Feb Washington, DC

2000 Ken Johnson, New York Times, June 21 NY, NY

2000 Kim Levin, The Village Voice, June 19 NY, NY

1998 New Jersey Network, Artist Spotlight, NJN TV Trenton, NJ

1997 "Strokes of Inspiraton"

Bill Zimmer- New York Times, Sept. 28 NY, NY

1997 "Manhattan Avant Garde Galleries" Sept. 14

Kunstmarket Newspaper Berlin, Germany

1997 Time Out New York, Sept. NY, NY

1997 Review Magazine Sept. NY, NY

1996 Lucio Cillis- Oct. 3 La Repubblica Rome, Italy

1996 "Sculptor Who Collaborates With Nature"

Vivien Raynor- New York Times, Sept. 1 NY, NY

1996 David Gibson- Oct. Cover Magazine NY, NY

1996 "Sculptor's Creations Are Second Nature"

Eileen Watkins- The Star Ledger, Aug. 21 Newark, NJ

1994 "Italian-Americans Pose Questions about Ethnicity"

Vivien Raynor- New York Times, Dec. 25^th NY, NY

1992 "Two Artists Inspired by Nature"

Pat Nichols- The Advocate Stockbridge, MA

1992 "Imagery with Surrealistic Accent"

Vivien Raynor- New York Times NY, NY

1992 "The Trancendent Vine" Andrew Badalamente

Sound Effects Newsletter Hackettstown, NJ

1988 Jackie Brody- Vol. X1X, No. 4

The Print Collector's Newsletter NY, NY

1985 Beef Magazine San Francisco, CA

Vol. 5, No. 17, Winter 1985, p.8

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES and RESIDENCIES

RESIDENCIES

2008 Costa Rica Cultural Arts Center, San Jose, Costa Rica

2007 U. Texas, Pan American, Edinburg, TX

2006 Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

2005 University of California, San Jose

2003 FOR-SITE Foundation, Nevada City, California

1999 Drury College, Springfield, Mo.

1997 Lafayette College, Easton, PA. 1994

1996 The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ

LECTURES

U. Texas, Pan American, Edinburg, TX

Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

School of Visual Arts, NY,NY

Lafayette College, Easton, PA

Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ

William Paterson

Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ.

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

AT&T, Basking Ridge, NJ.

Spazi Contemporary Art, Housatonic, MA

Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ

Drury College, Springfield, MO

The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ

Mercer County Community College, West Windsor, NJ

North Hampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA

Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA

GRANTS & AWARDS

2005 Morris Area Council on the Arts Foundation Grant– Morristown, NJ

2002 A.P. Kirby, Jr. Foundation, Inc.

2001 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant

1996 Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grant

1991-‘93 Merit Award, School of Visual Arts

1985 Suzanne Zimmer Award, Bard College

AFFILIATIONS

Member – Board of Directors, The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ

EDUCATION

1993 MFA School of Visual Arts NY, NY

1987 School of Visual Arts Studio Program Urbino, Italy

1985 BA Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Artist’s statement

“I seek to convey the absolute brilliance of circumstance and contingency. When successful, the viewer becomes aware of the fragility of the moment, realizes the miracle of our predicament, and bends to the fascination of pure experience”.

Toia Summation:

Jim Toia makes his home in the hills of northwestern New Jersey. He sought this location out as both refuge from the metropolitan area and for its proximity to the center of the contemporary art world. He is represented in New York City by the Kim Foster Gallery in Chelsea (kimfostergallery.com). He received his BA from Bard College and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and the Far East. He is in many collections including the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ, the AT&T Collection, and the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Hunterdon Museum of Art to name a few. He is the recipient of a 2000 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship and a Geraldine Dodge Foundation Grant.

-Jim Toia