Born August 23, 1934 in Savoy Texas, died December 13, 2003 in Albuquerque New Mexico.
EDUCATION
Western State College, Gunnison CO: BS, Music, 1956
Fort Hays State College, Hays KS: MA, Art, 1970 (thesis)
COLLECTIONS
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs CA
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque
Rockwell Museum, Corning NY
Harwood Foundation, Taos NM
Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco
Museum of New Mexico Photo Archives, Santa Fe
Tucson Museum of Art
The Anschutz Collection
EXHIBITIONS
Museums
2019 Harold Joe Waldrum: Las Sombras
2017 The Carved Line: Block Printmaking in New Mexico (group)
2011 A Passionate Light: Polaroids by H. Joe Waldrum (one man)
2004 SoQ (group)
2003 Miniatures (group)
1986 The Prints of Harold Joe Waldrum
2017 Contemporary Positions in the USA and Mexico
2013 Simpler, Brighter, Stronger: Early Modernism and Southwest American Art (group)
2007 Treasures of the West: Art from Desert Collections
2004 Contemporary Art in Southern New Mexico (group)
1997 Prints of Albuquerque (group show)
1990 Harold Joe Waldrum: Gallery as Printmaking Studio (one man)
1988 High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX
1987 Lakeview Museum of Arts & Science, Peoria IL
1986 Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa FL
1985 American Museum of Natural History, New York NY
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ
The Rockwell Museum, Corning NY
1988 Small Paintings of Churches & Windows From the Past (one man)
1986 Ranchos, Ranchos
1983 Spiva Art Center, Joplin MO
Salina Art Center, Salina KS
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City IA
Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene TX
1982-83 Ranchos de Taos: A Photographic History (group)
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth TX
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln NE
1982 Images of Ranchos de Taos Church (group)
1977 Made in New Mexico (group)
1979 Gold (group)
on exhibition at Freeport Minerals Company, Pan Am Building, NY
Galleries & Art Centers
2019 Sombras – the first twelve aquatint etchings (one man)
2017 Selections from the Estate of Harold Joe Waldrum (one man)
1990 Harold Joe Waldrum, New Paintings (one man)
1985 Waldrum: New Paintings (one man)
2011 Form, Color and Shadow (one man)
2004 Harold Joe Waldrum: A Life Examined (one man)
2003 H. Joe Waldrum: Prints & New Paintings (one man)
2002 Churches of New Mexico (one man)
2001 Iglesias y Ventanas (one man)
1996 H. Joe Waldrum: New Work (one man)
1994 H. Joe Waldrum (one man)
1993 Aquatints and Linocuts (one man)
1992 Joe Waldrum: An Exhibition of Aquatint Etchings (one man)
1992 Joe Waldrum: Recent Works (one man)
1989 Small Paintings of Churches & Windows from the Past (one man)
1985The New West (group)
Taos Invites Taos (group)
Taos Arts Festival, Taos NM
1984 Ongoing Show ’84 (one man)
1984 50 Artists – 50 States (group)
1984 Artists of the Rio Grande Valley (group)
1984Black and White: An Invitational Exhibition (group)
1984 The Etchings and Concomitant Pieces (one man)
1982 The Churches (one man)
1983 Harold Joe Waldrum: New Mexico (one man)
1982 Taos to Tucson (group)
1982 La iglesia de Arroyo Hondo (one man)
1982 Photographers of New Mexico (group)
1982 Taos Today: A Survey (group)
1982 Evolving Images (group)
1981 New Mexico Photography (group)
1979 Festival of the Arts (group)
1981 Windows and Landscapes (one man)
1981 Ventanas y uno paisaje (group)
1981 One of a Kind / Prints and Paper (group)
1981 Moradas, iglesias y flores: SX-70 Images (one man)
1980 American Landscape (one man)
1979 New Mexico from New York (one man)
1979 Art on Paper (group)
1975 Fourteen from New Mexico (group)
1975 Erotic Art in Santa Fe (group)
1974 Iron Show (group)
1973 Puertas y ventanas (one man)
1971 Master’s Thesis (one man)
1966 Harold Waldrum (one man)
1962 Harold Waldrum (one man)
1961 Harold Waldrum (one man)