Cathy Josefowitz (1956 – 28 June 2014) was an international artist with US and Swiss citizenship.
Life and work Josefowitz was born in New York City and moved with her parents at an early age to Switzerland. She studied set design at the National Theatre of Strasbourg before moving to Paris where she earned a degree in visual arts at the École des Beaux-Arts.Cathy Josefowitz: The Thinking Body, 16 March – 19 June 2022 Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. In 1987, she attended the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Later in her life she worked and lived in Paris, Boston, Amsterdam and Italy.
Her work included paintings and drawings in conversation with choreography. Her extensive work is increasingly exhibited in the context of current discourses on figuration, gender, the body, otherness and identity.
In 2007, Josefowitz was diagnosed with cancer.Tessa Solomon (29 March 2023), Cathy Josefowitz, Who Dismantled the Border of Painting and Dance, Makes Posthumous Debut With Hauser & Wirth ARTnews. She died in Geneva.
Since 2023, Josefowitz's estate has been represented by Hauser & Wirth.
Exhibitions 2022: The Thinking Body, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome 2021/22: The Thinking Body, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris 2021: The Thinking Body, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal 2021: Empty rooms full of love, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims 2007: Espace Hippomène, Genf 2003: Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris 1994: Palazzo Pinucci, Galleria Via Larga, Florence
Publications Cathy Josefowitz, Monograph, Textes from Ludovic Delalande, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Elise Lammer, Mousse Publishing, 2019, Cathy Josefowitz. Dance Eat Love, Monograph, Text by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Editions Dilecta, 2018,
Films Painting dancing: Cathy Josefowitz, a film by François Lévy Kuentz, Fotografien von Mara De Wit, Pierre Yves Dhinaut, 52min, 2011 Cathy Josefowitz, a film by François Lévy Kuentz, 31min, 2004
References
External links www.cathyjosefowitz.ch Cathy Josefowitz in the catalogs of the DNB