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Nicolas Carone

Nicolas Carone studied at the National Academy of Design, Art Students League, Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, and the Rome Academy of Fine Arts. He has won the Rome Prize, Fulbright Fellowship, William Copely Grant and the Childe Hassam Grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Carone has had solo exhibitions at Frumkin Gallery, Stable Gallery, and Staempfli Gallery, and has shown in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Rome, the Brussels World's Fair, the Venice Biennale, the Tate Gallery, and the Geitain Group in Japan. His work is in the collections of museums including the Whitney, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Mr. Carone has taught at universities including Yale, Columbia, Brandeis, and Cornell, and at Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, and Skowhegan School. He was a founding faculty member of the New York Studio School, where he taught for more than 20 years.



Helaine Treitman

Having studied drawing and sculpture at the New York Studio School and Bard College, where she graduated in 1979, Helaine Treitman ran youth programs for Russian immigrants in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. For seven years she worked in New York's financial services industry, as an executive administrator and business systems analyst. She left Wall Street in 1988 to develop and direct the International School of Art. Ms. Treitman exhibits her drawings and sculptures in Umbria, Italy, where she has been living since 1990. She has studied dance since 1994 and travels each year to study and dance in Bologna, the Netherlands, Miami, and Buenos Aires.

An exhibition of works by Helaine Treitman



Marc Servin

Marc Servin studied painting and drawing at Binghamton University and at the New York Studio School, where he was awarded a full scholarship. After organizing an artist's theater in a Brooklyn loft and exhibiting his paintings in New York, he began a career in the book business, where he worked for 10 years, finally as a buyer for Macy's. In 1989 Mr. Servin left his executive position at Macy's to join the International School of Art. He has had solo exhibitions at Galleria ISA in Montecastello and has exhibited in group shows in New York, San Francisco and Italy. He has lived and worked in Montecastello di Vibio since 1990.

An exhibiton of works by Marc Servin



Gregory Amenoff
Painter

Gregory Amenoff was born in Illinois, and studied at Beloit College. His exhibitions include solo shows at the Universities of Tennessee and Wisconsin, Nielsen Gallery in Boston, Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Robert Miller, and Betsy Senior Galleries in NY, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Boston, Tampa Museum, Norton Gallery of Art in West Palm Beach, and in Chicago, Philadelphia, Santa Fe, and Paris. His work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of American Art in Washington DC, Neuberger Museum, New York Public Library, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Phoenix Art Museum, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Mr. Amenoff has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Tiffany Foundation, and was named Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by Massachusetts College of Fine Arts. Gregory Amenoff has taught at the Tyler School of Art, Skowhegan School, Yale University, American University, Florida International University, Pennsylvania Academy, California State University, Long Branch, Rhode Island School of Design, School of Visual Arts, and is currently Professor of Art at Columbia University. He lives and works in New York City.

An exhibition of works by Gregory Amenoff.



David Anderson
Painter

David Anderson attended Antioch College, the New York Studio School, and Yale Summer School of Art and Music before receiving his M.F.A. at Parsons School of Design. His work has been shown in group exhibitions in New York City at The Painting Center, Bowery Gallery, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, National Arts Club, New York Studio School, and Brooklyn Museum of Art, and at Wright State University Art Galleries in Ohio. He has had solo exhibitions at the Sussex County Community College Gallery in New Jersey and at Noyes Gallery at Antioch College. David Anderson has been a Visiting Artist or a Guest Lecturer at Savannah College of Art and Design, The College of St. Rose, Parsons School of Design M.F.A. Program, and the New York Studio School. He also worked in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Urban Outreach Program. He has received grants from the Helena Rubinstein Fellowship, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Charles Revson Foundation Grant, Hohenberg Travel Grant, and an award from the National Arts Club. Recently Mr. Anderson was invited to be Artist-in-Residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut.



Lennart Anderson
Painter

Lennart Anderson studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cranbrook Academy, and at the Art Students League under Edwin Dickinson. He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and is an Associate of the American Academy of Design. He has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Tiffany Foundation grant, the Rome Prize, and awards from the National Academy of Design and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Anderson has had solo exhibitions at Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Davis & Langdale, Rotunda Gallery, Swain School of Design, Graham Gallery, and Tanager Gallery. His work is in the Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Whitney Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Delaware Art Museum. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and Princeton Universities, at Pratt Institute, Skowhegan School, Art Students League, and New York Studio School. He is now a Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College.



William Bailey
Painter

William Bailey studied with Josef Albers at Yale School of Art, where he earned his BFA and MFA . He has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe and his work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Joseph Hirshhorn Muesum. He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Mr. Bailey has taught at Yale and the University of Indiana, and later served as Dean of the Yale School of Art, where he currently teaches painting and drawing. He is represented in New York by Emmerich Gallery.

An exhibiton of works by William Bailey.



James Beck
Art Historian

James Beck studied at Oberlin College, at New York University and at Columbia University, where he earned his PhD. He has taught at Harvard University, Princeton University, and Brooklyn College and for 25 years at Columbia University, where he has held several positions as director and chairman. Among his many awards are a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Mr. Beck's writings include books on Italian Renaissance Painting , Jacopo Della Quercia , Raphael (Masters of Art) , the Florence Baptistry Doors, Leonardo's Rules of Painting , Masaccio, and Michelangelo . Author of over 65 articles on Renaissance and modern art, he is a regular contributor to Arts Magazine and to important European art journals. Mr. Beck is currently Chairman of the Department of Art History and Archaelogy at Columbia University.



Jake Berthot
Painter

Jake Berthot was born in Niagara Falls, NY and studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He has had one-person exhibitions at O.K. Harris and David McKee Gallery in New York, and at Nina Nielsen in Boston, and at the Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, the Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, FL, and Dartmouth College. Mr. Berthot's work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Museum of Modern Art in NY, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the La Jolla Art Museum in California, the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in NY. Jake Berthot was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Grant, the Academy Institute Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and was designated "Academician" by the National Academy of Design. He has taught at Cooper Union, Yale University, and presently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in NY. He lives and works in upstate New York.



Phong Bui
Painter

Phong Bui was born in Hue, Vietnam and came to the United States in 1980. He studied at Philadelphia College of Art (now The University of the Arts) and at the New York Studio School. His work has been in group exhibitions in Philadelphia and New York. In 1994 he had a solo exhibition at Galleria ISA in Montecastello, and in 1995 had a solo exhibition at Sussex County Community College Gallery in New Jersey. Mr. Bui has lectured and critiqued at Parsons School of Design and taught at the International School of Art. He has won an Arcadia Traveling Fellowship, a Hobenberg Traveling Fellowship and a Charles Revson Foundation Grant. In 1994 he won the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship.



Roberto Caracciolo
Painter

Roberto Caracciolo lives and works in Rome. He studied at the United World College of the Atlantic, at the Institute of Art of Urbino, and at the New York Studio School. He has had solo exhibitions at Janie C. Lee Gallery in Houston, Andre' Emmerich Gallery in New York, Galleria Valeria Belvedere in Milan, Galleria Totem - Il Canale in Venice, Galerie Alessandro Vivas in Paris, the Earl McGrath gallery in NY where he is currently represented, and other galleries in Rome, Mantua, Turin, Catania, and Milan. He has shown in group exhibitions throughout Italy and in France, Germany, New York, Florida and California. Mr. Caracciolo has lectured or critiqued at the Accademia di Belli Arti in Torino, the University of Siena, the Accademia di Belli Arti in Perugia, Rhode Island School of Design program in Rome, New York University Masters in Art Program in Venice. He presently teaches at New York University in Florence and the International School of Art.



Claude Carone
Painter

Claude Carone studied at the New York Studio School and the Maryland Institute College of Art, after which he worked and studied independently in Rome, Italy. He has had solo exhibitions at McIntyre Gallery in Dorset, Vermont, at Leonarda Di Mauro Gallery in New York City, at Carone Gallery in Ft. Lauderdale, and at Odette Gilbert Gallery in London. He has shown in many group exhibitions in New York City, including Kouros Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum, in New York State and Connecticut, and in Italy and England.



Nino Caruso
Ceramic Sculptor

Nino Caruso has studios in both Rome and Todi, where he creates large architectural sculptures. He has taught ceramics at art schools and universities across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. In these countries he has also exhibited widely in galleries and museums, installed work in public spaces, and has works in permanent collections. Nino Caruso has published several books on ceramics, which have been distributed internationally. He has recently finished a large commission for a public park in Italy.



Bruno Ceccobelli
Painter, Sculptor

Bruno Cecobelli was born in 1952 in Todi, where he currently lives and works. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and later, independently, ancient and modern philosophies and religions. His first show was in 1972. He has had 120 solo exhibitions, and 320 group exhibitions, in 25 different countries and in 63 Italian cities. His works are exhibited in 13 museums around the world. Recently Ceccobelli has been working on sculptures -- metaphysics and symbolic shapes in bronze and marble. His spiritual poetics are expressed in symbolic, iconographic shapes with soft colors.



Sandro Chia
Painter, Sculptor

Sandro Chia was born in Florence, and studied at the Istituto d'Arte and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. He traveled extensively in India, Turkey and throughout Europe before settling in Rome. He won a scholarship from the city of Mönchengladbach and lived in Germany, before moving to New York and working between New York and Ronciglione.

Mr. Chia has had numerous solo exhibitions both in Europe and America, including Rome at the Academie de France, Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Galleria La Salita, Palazzo delle Esposizioni; in New York at Larry Gagosian/Leo Castelli, Leo Castelli Gallery, Sidney Janis Gallery, The Mezzanine Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sperone Westwater Fischer; in Venice at the Museo della Biennale, and Palazzo Grassi; the Nationalgalerie, and the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Fischer Fine Art, London; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the XXI Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto.

His works appeared in various exhibitions dedicated to the so-called "transavantgarde", about which, however, he says: "The transavantgarde means nothing to me, signifies nothing, just as neo-expressionism signifies nothing..." (Flash Art, 1984). Sandro Chia now lives and works between New York City, London, and Montalcino, Italy.

Sandro Chia web site with an exhibition of works.



Ronald Christ
Painter

Ronald Christ was born in St. Louis, MO, and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and Indiana University, where he was awarded a full scholarship and received his MFA. He has received grants to work in Umbria, Sansepolcro, England and Scotland, and has received the Governor's Award, the Kansas Cultural Trust Fellowship, and the Excellence in Creative and Scholarly Activity Award from Wichita State University. He has had over 40 solo exhibitions, and is presently represented in St. Louis by Elliot Smith and in Santa Fe by Van de Griff Galleries. He has been a Visiting Artist and Lecturer at the Wichita Center for the Arts, Ulrich Museum of Art, Salina Art Center, Mitchell Museum, Biblioteca Comunale of Sansepolcro, and the International School of Art. Ronald Christ has taught for over 25 years: at Indiana University, and since 1976, at Wichita State University, where he is a Professor of Painting and Drawing.



Nino Cordio
Fresco Painter and Printmaker

Nino Cordio (1937-2000) in Santa Ninfa in the province of Trapani in Sicily. He lived and worked in Todi and Rome. He studied at Istituto d'arte di Catania in Sicily, at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, and in Paris at the Friedlaender Atelier. He taught for many years at the Liceo Artistico di Roma. Mr. Cordio has exhibited in various Biennali and Quadriennali in Rome and at the Biennale dell'Incisione Contemporanea in Venice. He has had more than thirty solo exhibitions: in New York at Marisa del Re; in Rome, at galleries including Il Narciso, Il Gabbiano, Il Torcoliere, Le Jardin des Arts, La Nuova Pesa; in Milan at Galleria dell'Orso, Galleria La Linea, Trans'Art; and in other cities throughout Italy, in Paris, Germany, Austria, and Brazil. His last retrospective, "Incisioni 1957 - 1997", curated by the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica and the Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali, took place in the Calcografia Nazionale in Rome, the Fondazione Orestiadi in Gibellina and at Le Ciminiere in Catania.

An exhibition of frescoes by Nino Cordio.



Piero Dorazio
Painter

Piero Dorazio was born in Rome, and studied architecture at the University degli Studi. He co-organized the gallery Age d'Or in Rome and Florence, a cooperative international avant-garde gallery. As the Chairman of the Fine Arts Department of the University of Pennsylvania, he established there the Institute of Contemporary Art. Mr. Dorazio's awards include Prix Kandinsky and Prix De Peinture. He ahs had solo exhibitions at Wittenborn One-Wall Gallery, Andre' Emmerich Gallery, Galleria La Tartaruga in Rome, Galerie Springer in Berlin, and the Venice Biennale, including the 1988 exhibition. He has had retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. Mr. Dorazio lives and works in Todi.



Alan Feltus
Painter

Alan Feltus was born in Washington, DC. He received his BFA from Cooper Union and his MFA from Yale University. He has received numerous awards and grants including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Benjamin Altman Prize, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louis Tiffany Foundation, and the Rome Prize. His work is in the collections of the American Academy in Rome, the Arkansas Art Center, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Florida, the Dayton Art Institute, the Hirshhorn Museum, the National Academy Museum, the NJ State Museum, the Oklahoma City Art Museum, the Springfield Museum and the Wichita Art Museum. Since 1972 Mr. Feltus has had solo exhibitions in NY, Atlanta, Massachusetts, Kansas, New Orleans, Washington DC and Rome. He is currently represented in NY by the Forum and in Chicago by the Ann Nathan Galleries.



Ariel Fenster
Chemist

Ariel Fenster was born in France where he obtained a B.Sc. and Master in Science from the University of Paris. After coming to Canada, he earned a Ph.D. from McGill University. Prof. Fenster is well known for his work to popularize chemistry as part of the "Chemistry for the Public" program. This multifaceted program includes stage shows, public lectures, radio and TV presentations as well as credit courses at McGill University and Vanier College. As part of this endeavor he has given over 250 lectures and 100 radio and T.V. presentations across North America on a variety of topics of general concern. In 1995, he was one of the main developers of the "Chemistry Show'" at the Old Port in Montreal. The exhibition with a total attendance of over 370,000, represents the biggest event of this kind ever.

His work in the field of teaching and popularization of science has earned him numerous awards. In particular, he was presented with the prestigious "Award for Excellence in Chemistry Teaching" by the U.S. Chemical Manufacturers Association and was, together with his colleagues, the first recipient of the "McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science" awarded by the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Fenster has been teaching chemistry for over 20 years and is presently on staff at Vanier College and McGill University.

Chemistry for the Public web site at McGill.



Andrew Forge
Painter

Andrew Forge studied at Camberwell School of Art in London. He has taught at the New York Studio School and Cooper Union in New York, at Goldsmith's College in London, and at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he was a lecturer from 1950 to 1964. His work is in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Corcoran Gallery, Yale Gallery of Art and in private collections in England and the United States. A Guggenheim Fellowship is among his awards. Mr. Forge has published books on Klee, Soutine, Rauschenberg, Monet, Francis Bacon and Degas. He has been a trustee of the Tate Gallery, the National Gallery, London, and the American Academy in Rome. His recent solo exhibitions in New York include shows at Ruggero Gallery and the New York Studio School, and at Robert Morrison Gallery in 1993 and 1994. From 1975 to 1994 Mr. Forge was Professor of Painting at Yale University. He received the 1995 College Art Association Art Teacher Award.



Bruce Gagnier
Painter and Sculptor

Bruce Gagnier studied at Williams College and received his MFA from Columbia University, where he was sculpture assistant to Peter Agostini. He has had solo exhibitions in New York at M-13 Gallery and Leslie Cecil Gallery, in Ft. Lauderdale at Gaumann Cicchino Gallery, and at the University of Kentucky and Haverford College. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in New York City and around New York State, in Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Wisconsin. Mr. Gagnier won a New Jersey State Council Fellowship Grant, a Brevoort Eikenmeyer Fellowship, a Columbia University School of Engineering Purchase Prize and a Skowhegan Painting Prize. For 25 years Mr. Gagnier has taught painting, sculpture, drawing and art history in schools including Yale University, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of North Carolina, City University of New York, Haverford College, Parsons School of Design MFA program, New York Studio School, Chautauqua Institution School of Art. He was Dean of the New York Studio School from 1979-87 and acting chairman of Parsons School of Design's MFA painting program from 1990-93. He currently teaches at the New York Studio School.

An exhibition of works by Bruce Gagnier.



Sidney Geist
Sculptor

Sidney Geist studied at St. Stephen's College, at the Art Students League with William Zorach, and in Paris with Ossip Zadkine. His awards include two Guggenheim Fellowships and an Olivetti Award. Mr. Geist has had solo exhibitions in Tokyo, Osaka, Paris and San Francisco, and in New York at Hacker Gallery, Tanager Gallery, Artists Space and Ingber Gallery and in 1992 he had a seven-decade retrospective at the New York Studio School. He has shown in over fifty group exhibitions around the United States and in Paris. He has taught at Brooklyn College, University of California at Berkeley, Southern Illinois University, Pratt Institute, and the Vermont Studio School. From 1968-81 he taught at Vassar College, and from 1964-1987 at the New York Studio School, where he was its first director. Mr. Geist's art criticism articles have appeared in publications including Artforum, Art International, Artscribe, The Saturday Review, and The New Criterion. He has written several books on Brancusi, and his 1988 book, Interpreting Cezanne, was published by Harvard University Press.



Piero Guccione

Piero Guccione studied at Istituto d'Arte di Catania in Sicily and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. He has exhibited three times at the Venice Biennale and at various Quadriennali in Rome. His awards include the Ilba Mediterraneo prize for graphics, the Ulivo d'Argento, and the Premio Ragusa. He has had solo exibitions in major Italian galleries and has exhibitied at Claude Bernard Gallery in Paris and other galleries internationally. Mr. Guccione's work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, in corporate collections in Europe and the U.S. and on "Scicli on the Web". He is represented in Rome by Il Gabbiano Gallery.



Dan Gustin
Painter

Dan Gustin studied at Kansas City Art Institute and at Yale University. He has had solo exhibitions at the Lyons Weir, Bowery, Forum, Alpha, J. Rosenthal, Weatherburn, and Munson Galleries, the Paul Mellon Arts Center, and the Rockford Art Museum. He has shown in over fifty group exhibitions throughout the United States. His work is in the Joseph Hirshhorn Collection, Worcester Art Museum, Buffalo College Museum, Miller Drawing Collection, Richard and Jalene Davidson Drawing Collection, the Art Institute of Chicago, and in private collections in New York and Chicago. Mr. Gustin has won grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Faculty Enrichment Grants and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1972 he was teaching assistant to William Bailey at Yale University. He has taught or lectured and critiqued at Kansas City Art Institute, Knox College, University of Indiana, University of Chicago, Choate Rosemary Hall, Fisher's Island, Guilford Craft School, Vermont Studio School, Northwestern University, University of Iowa, The American University and the International School of Art. Since 1984, Mr. Gustin has taught painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

An exhibiton of works by Dan Gustin.



Louise Hamlin
Painter, Printmaker

Louise Hamlin received her BFA at the University of Pennsylvania, and studied at the Skowhegan School, the New York Studio School, and L'Universite d'Aix-en-Provence. She has received the Dartmouth College Jerome Goldstein Award, the Vermont Council on the Arts Individual Fellowship Award, a Mellon Foundation Research Grant, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, and has had solo and group exhibitions throughout the northeastern US. Ms. Hamlin has been teaching for 25 years: at SUNY Purchase, Union College, the NY Studio School, Queens College, Vassar, Choate-Rosemary Hall School, and the Hartford Art School. She is presently the Department Chair of Dartmouth College, where she teaches painting, drawing and printmaking.



Israel Hershberg
Painter

Israel Hershberg was born in 1948 in a Displaced Persons camp in Linz, Austria. In 1949 he emigrated to Israel with his family and in 1958 moved with them to the United States, where he attended the Brooklyn Museum School in New York. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and his M.F.A. from the State University of New York in Albany. He then taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the New York Academy of Art. His awards include: the Sandberg prize for Israel Art, 1991; and the Tel-Aviv Museum Prize for Israel Art, 1997. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. He is currently reperestented by the Marlborough Gallery in NY. Mr. Hershberg lives in Jerusalem and works as founder, artistic director and instructor at the Jerusalem Studio School.



Joseph Hirsch
Painter

Joseph Hirsch studied Fine Art from an early age in Germany, and after matriculation, he studied drawing in Berlin. In the wake of the "Kristallnacht", he emigrated to Holland, and then to Palestine, where he studied at the Bezalel Academy with painter Mordechai Ardon. He then served in the British Army, and continued drawing and painting. Since his first solo exhibition in 1960, he has exhibited frequently in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. For seventeen years Mr. Hirsch taught drawing in the Fine Art Department of the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. Since retiring from Bezalel in 1981, he painted and taught in Jerusalem until his passing in 1998.



Diana Horowitz
Painter

Diana Horowitz received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art Rome Program, and also from Brooklyn College. She has received awards and grants from the Ballinglen Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Rosenthal Foundation of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Ingraham Merrill Foundation, and was awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony and at Yaddo. Ms. Howowitz has had one-person exhibitions in NY, Chicago and San Francisco, most recently at MB Modern in NY. Diana Horowitz has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Tyler School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design in Rome, the NY Academy Graduate School, Brooklyn College, Boston University and SUNY Purchase.



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