{{Short description|American photographer (1934–2023)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Judith Golden | birth_name = Judith Walters Greene | birth_date = November 29, 1934 | birth_place = Chicago, U.S. | death_date = January 27, 2023 | death_place = Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. | education = School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA), University of California, Davis (MFA) | occupation = Photographer, educator, mixed media artist, book artist, printmaker, painter | years_active = 1973–2017 | known_for = Conceptual portait photography | children = 2 | awards = NEA Fellow (1979) }} '''Judith Golden''' (née '''Judith Walters Greene'''; November 29, 1934 – January 27, 2023) was an American photographer and educator. She was known for her portraits of women, and her artwork dealt with themes of gender, identity, and media culture. She taught at the University of Arizona in Tucson for many years.
== Life and career == Judith Golden was born on November 29, 1934, in Chicago.<ref name="Heller-2013">{{Cite book |last=Heller |first=Jules |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/North_American_Women_Artists_of_the_Twen/AYxmAgAAQBAJ |title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary |last2=Heller |first2=Nancy G. |date=December 19, 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-63882-5 |pages=213–214 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Chesnick-2025">{{Cite web |last=Chesnick |first=Michael |date=July 8, 2025 |title=Remembering faculty member Judith Golden |url=https://art.arizona.edu/remembering-faculty-member-judith-golden/ |access-date=2026-02-27 |website=School of Art |publisher=University of Arizona |language=en-US}}</ref> She was Jewish.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goodman |first=Helen |title=The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women: Photographers in the United States |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/photographers-in-united-states |access-date= |website=Jewish Women's Archive |language=en}}</ref> Golden graduated with a BFA degree in 1973 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a MFA degree in 1975 from the University of California, Davis, where she studied under William T. Wiley, Manuel Neri, Roy De Forest, Wayne Thiebaud, and Robert Arneson.<ref name="Chesnick-2025" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bibber |first=Jack Van |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/California_Artists_Cook_Book/9k4-AQAAIAAJ |title=California Artists Cook Book |last2=Sonino |first2=Michael |date=1982 |publisher=Abbeville Press |isbn=978-0-89659-246-9 |pages=207 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref>
From 1975 to 1979, Golden created a series of self-portraits in black-and-white with collage and hand-colored. Her cycle series from the mid-1980s were photographic portraits of "feral" children and adults blended into their environment.<ref name="Cauthorn-1987">{{Cite news |last=Cauthorn |first=Robert S. |date=July 19, 1987 |title=Shows on exhibit are two studies in contrast |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-shows-on-exhibit-are/192292024/ |access-date=2026-02-27 |work=Arizona Daily Star |pages=21 |type=review |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="Montini-1985">{{Cite news |last=Montini |first=E. J. |date=June 30, 1985 |title=Skylight to the soul |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-republic-skylight-to-the-soul/192297013/ |access-date=2026-02-27 |work=Arizona Republic |pages=79 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Her work in the retrospective traveling exhibition, ''Judith Golden: Myths and Masquerades'' (1986–1987), was focused on photographic self portraits in meticulously observed character roles.<ref name="McDonald-1986" />
Golden taught photography within the school of art at the University of Arizona, from 1981 until 1996.<ref name="Chesnick-2025" /><ref name="Regan-1996">{{Cite web |last=Regan |first=Margaret |date=September 12, 1996 |title=Review: A Life With Light (September 12 – September 18, 1996) |url=https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/09-12-96/review2.htm |access-date=2026-02-27 |website=Tucson Weekly}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lierz |first=Virginia Lee |title=Judith Golden (American, 1934– ) |url=https://www.newmexicoculture.org/mfa/ideaphotographic/artists_goldenj.html |website=Museum of New Mexico}}</ref>
She received a National Endowment for the Arts photography's fellowship in 1979; and an Arizona Foundation grant in 1984.<ref name="Heller-2013" /><ref name="Regan-1996" /> She was a member of the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies from 1976 to 1979, and served as a trustee from 1977 to 1979.
== Collections == Her work is in museum collections, including at the Fogg Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts;<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kao |first=Deborah Martin |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chasing_Shadows/fcZLAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Judith+Golden%22+1923&dq=%22Judith+Golden%22+1923&printsec=frontcover |title=Chasing Shadows: Photographs from the Collection : Fogg Art Museum, 21 January–2 April 1995 |date=1995 |publisher=Publications Department, Harvard University Art Museums |pages=8 |language=en}}</ref> the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Judith Golden |url=https://collections.eastman.org/people/68358/judith-golden/objects |access-date=2026-02-27 |website=George Eastman Museum}}</ref> the University of Arizona in Tucson;<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 1, 1981 |title=The Archive (University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography), no. 14 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10150/641061 |website=Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona}}</ref> the Minneapolis Institute of Art;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Unititled |url=https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2501/untitled-judith-golden |access-date=2026-02-27 |website=MIA}}</ref> the Art Institute of Chicago;<ref>{{Cite web |date=1934 |title=Judith Golden |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/34685/judith-golden |access-date=2026-02-27 |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |language=en}}</ref> the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA);<ref>{{Cite web |title=Untitled, from Magazine Series |url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/196354 |access-date=2026-02-27 |website=LACMA Collections}}</ref> the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Judith Golden |url=https://www.moca.org/artist/judith-golden |access-date=2026-02-27 |website=Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |language=en}}</ref> and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Untitled (Anne) |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/85.794/ |access-date=2026-02-27 |website=SFMOMA |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |first= |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Facets_of_the_Collection/fopLAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Judith+Golden%22+1923&dq=%22Judith+Golden%22+1923&printsec=frontcover |title=Facets of the Collection |date=1987 |publisher=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |isbn=978-0-918471-11-6 |pages=6 |language=en}}</ref>
== Exhibitions ==
=== Solo exhibitions ===
* 1981 – ''Judith Golden: Portraits of Women'', Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fischer |first=Hal |date=December 10, 1981 |title=Judith Golden |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/judith-golden-227974/ |access-date=2026-02-27 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref> * 1985 – ''Violation: Exhibition on Rape and Violence'', Union Gallery, Student Union at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 25, 1985 |title=UA Gallery Exhibit on Rape Chillingly Effective |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-ua-gallery-exhibit-on/192294932/ |access-date=2026-02-27 |work=Arizona Daily Star |pages=87 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> * 1986 – ''Judith Golden: Myths and Masquerades'', Museum of Photographic Arts, Balboa Park, San Diego, California<ref name="McDonald-1986">{{Cite news |last=McDonald |first=Robert |date=March 28, 1986 |title=At The Galleries |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-at-the-galleries/192293722/ |access-date=2026-02-27 |work=The Los Angeles Times |pages=89 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> * 1987 – ''Judith Golden: Photography, 1972–1987'', Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona<ref name="Cauthorn-1987" /> * 1987 – ''Judith Golden: Myths and Masquerades'', University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 30, 1987 |title=Et Cetera |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/albuquerque-journal-et-cetera/192293406/ |access-date=2026-02-27 |work=Albuquerque Journal |pages=27}}</ref> * 1996 – ''Crossings: A Celebration of Judith Golden'', Center for Creative Photography Library, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona<ref name="Regan-1996" /> * 2005 – ''Judith Golden: Elusive Realities'', Temple Gallery, Tucson, Arizona<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 13, 2005 |title=Sketches |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-sketches/192299160/ |access-date=2026-02-27 |work=Arizona Daily Star |pages=57}}</ref>
=== Group exhibitions ===
* 1979 – ''The Altered Photograph'', MoMA PS1, Queens, New York<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Altered Photograph |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/4108 |access-date=2026-02-27 |website=The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) |language=en}}</ref> * 1985 – Phoenix Biennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; including artists Judith Golden, Roger Asay, Rebecca Davis, Fred Borcherdt, Edward Putzer, Pamela Marks, Tamarra Kaida, Suzanne Klotz–Reilly, R. Edward Lowe, Fox Joy McGrew, Mary Peck, Garrison Roots, Susanne Tilger, Kenji Umeda, Susan Weller, Gregory West, Charles Braendle, and Linda Mundwiler<ref name="Montini-1985" /><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Phoenix_Biennial/zIpIAQAAIAAJ |title=The Phoenix Biennial: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, July 6 to August 4, 1985 |date=1985 |publisher=The Phoenix Art Museum |isbn=978-0-910407-16-8 |language=en}}</ref> * 1985 – ''Women Who Create: An Exhibition of Arizona Artists'', group exhibition, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona; including artists Judith Golden, Tamarra Kaida, Lynn Tabor–Borcherdt, Claribel Cone, Victoria Kinshella, and Joy Fox McGrew<ref>{{Cite news |last=Montini |first=E. J. |date=June 2, 1985 |title=Imperfect list |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-republic-imperfect-list/192296005/ |access-date=2026-02-27 |work=Arizona Republic |pages=81 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> * 1985 – ''The Big Picture'', touring group exhibition, University Art Gallery, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio; including artists Judith Golden, Chris Enos, Sandi Fellman, Barbara Kasten, Rosamond Purcell, Lucas Samaras, William Wegman, Robert Heinecken, Marsha Burns, Jack Welpott, Jerry Burchard, Suda House, Luciano Franchi de Alfaro III, Frank Gillette, Olivia Parker, Vicki Lee Ragan, John Reuter, John Gutkowski, and Patrick Nagatani<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cullinan |first=Helen |date=February 22, 1985 |title=Polaroid instant art on view |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-plain-dealer-polaroid-instant-art-on/192260012/ |access-date=2026-02-27 |work=The Plain Dealer |pages=74 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> * 1988 – ''University of Arizona Art Faculty Exhibition'', University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; including artists Judith Golden, Margaret Bailey Doogan, Harold Jones, James Davis, Andrew Polk, Aurore Chabot, Alfred Quiroz, Michael Croft, Andrew Rush, Chuck Hitner, Robert Colescott, and John Heric<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 13, 1988 |title=Attractions are scant at UA faculty show |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-attractions-are-scant/192297846/ |access-date=2026-02-27 |work=Arizona Daily Star |pages=51 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
== Publications == * {{Cite book |last=Golden |first=Judith |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Photo_trans_forms/Fo1LAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=inauthor:%22Judith+Golden%22&dq=inauthor:%22Judith+Golden%22&printsec=frontcover |title=Photo/trans/forms: Exhibition August 21-October 11, 1981, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |last2=Leonard |first2=Joanne |date=1981 |publisher=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |language=en |type=exhibition catalogue}} * {{Cite book |last=Golden |first=Judith |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Judith_Golden/3gt9swEACAAJ?hl=en |title=Judith Golden: Photography, 1972–1987 |last2=Peeps |first2=Claire |last3=Tucson Museum of Art |first3= |date=1987 |publisher=Tucson Museum of Art |language=en |type=exhibition catalogue}} * {{Cite book |last=Golden |first=Judith |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Judith_Golden/ZsJb0AEACAAJ |title=Judith Golden: Cycles, a Decade of Photographs |date=1988 |publisher=Friends of Photography |language=en}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20230306190018/http://judithgolden.com/ Official website (archived)] * [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/items/detail/judith-golden-response-to-what-feminist-art-22393 Judith Golden response to "What is Feminist Art?", between 1976 and 1977, from the Woman's Building records, 1970-1992], Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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