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MURRAY ZIMILIES | Bio

Educational Background

• MFA/Painting and Printmaking, Cornell University, 1965
• BFA/Painting and Printmaking, University of Illinois, 1963
• Atelier Clot - Bramson, Paris, France, 1966
• Advanced training in lithography at the Ecole Nationale
• Superiere des Beaux Arts, Paris, France, 1965
• State University of New York at Purchase – Kempner Distinguished Professor, 1997
• State University of New York at Purchase - Professor, 1977 to present
• State University of New York at New Paltz - Assistant Professor, 1972-76
• Silvermine-Lacoste School of Art, Lacoste, France - Director, 1972
• Lehman College, City University of New York - Lecturer, 1972
• Silvermine College of Art - Chairman, Graphics Department, Assistant Professor, 1969-71
• Pratt Graphics Center - Instructor, 1968-71
• Cornell University - Teaching Assistant, 1963-65
• Selected to head the Purchase College delegation to Technos International Week, 2007 in Japan supported by the Tanaka Foundation
• Guest Curator, American Folk Art Museum to prepare an exhibition The Synagogue and Carousel, an exhibition of Jewish Folk Art, scheduled for 2007 in their new building adjacent to MOMA on 53rd Street, NY
• Atelier Project: Proposed, developed, and coordinated the publication of sixteen original prints by internationally known artists for a study collection for the 64-campus system of the State University of New York. 1983-86
• Design and Historical Consultant for Building Project, Western Heritable Investment Corporation. 1985-86
• Advisory Council, School of Art, Architecture, and Planning, Cornell University. 1978-84

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2006 Houston Holocaust Museum, Houston, Texas
• 2004 New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT
• 2003 Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
• 2003 Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
• 2002 Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT
• 2001 Elmhurst College, IL
• 2001 Warner Gallery, Holbrook Center, Millbrook School, NY
• 1998, 2000 BMG Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
• 1999 DFN Gallery, New York, NY
• 1996 Sydney Jewish Museum, Sydney, Australia, 1996
• 1994 Holocaust Memorial Museum and Educational Center, Madeira Beach, FL
• 1993 Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY
• 1992 Cathedral of Saint John The Divine, New York, NY
• 1992 Stuart Levy Gallery, New York, NY
• 1989 National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA
• 1987 Hahn Gallery, Chestnut Hill, PA
• 1985 Vorpal Galleries, San Francisco, CA
• 1984 Vorpal Galleries, New York, NY
  1983 Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland
• 1982-86 Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA
• 1981 Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• 1980-2003 Neuberger Museum, SUNY College at Purchase, NY
• 1978 Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
  Sindin Galleries, New York, NY
• 1977,88 Kent School, Kent, CT
• 1976 Welfleet Art Gallery, Welfleet, MA
• 1974 State University of New York at New Paltz, NY
• 1972 Kunstnerfaorbundet Gallery, Oslo, Norway
• 1971 Zingale Gallery, New York, NY
• 1966 Centre Cultural de la Cite Universitaire, Paris, France
• 1965 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 1971-2006 Over one hundred group exhibitions across the United States and abroad including:
• Alfred College, NY
• Associated American Artists Gallery, New York, NY
• Dusseldorff Art Multiples, Invitational, 1992, Germany
• Forum Gallery, New York, NY
• Graham Gallery, New York, NY
• Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA
• Hartford School of Art, Hartford, CT
• Idaho State University, ID
• Illinois State University, IL
• Kansas State University, KS
• Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
• New Arts Gallery, CT
• North Carolina State University, NC
• Pratt Graphics Center, National Show of Cast Paper Objects, New York, NY
• Philadelphia College of Art, National Invitational, "Experiences in Offset
• Lithography", Philadelphia, PA
• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• P.S.1 "International Post Card Show", New York, NY
• Rockland Center for the Arts, NY
• Sindin Gallery, New York, NY
• Society of American Graphic Artists, New York, NY
• SUNY Gallery, Albany, NY
• SUNY Gallery, Purchase, NY
• University of Arizona, Tempe, AZ
• University of Southern California, CA
• University of Tennessee, TN
• Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
• Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
• Wisconsin State University, WI

Lectures

• American Folk Art Museum, New York, 2006
• Houston Holocaust Museum, Houston, Texas, 2006
• Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, 1989, 1992, 2003, 2005
• Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois, 2001
• Millbrook School, Millbrook, New York, 2001
• Central School of Art, Adelaide, Australia, 2000
• College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2000
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 1996
• The Sydney Jewish Museum, Sydney, Australia, 1996
• University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1996
• The Jewish Museum, Friedman Lecture Series, New York, NY, 1995
• Holocaust Memorial Museum and Educational Center, Madeira Beach, FL, 1994
• Rockland Center for the Arts, NY, 1994
• Purchase College, Jewish Studies Program, Purchase NY, 1994
• Amsterdam School of the Arts, Amsterdam, Holland, 1993
• Suffolk Community College, Selden NY, 1993
• University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1993
• National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA, 1989
• S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, NY, 1989
• Haifa University, Haifa, Israel, 1988
• Aberdeen Print Studio, Aberdeen, Scotland, 1983
• Duncan of Jordan Stone School of Art, Dundee, Scotland, 1983
• Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, 1983
• Saint Martins School of Art, London, England, 1981
• Chelsea School of Art, London, England, 1981
• Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1973, 1975, 1977
• Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1970

Fellowships and Grants

• Richard Florshiem Art Fund , funding for the catalogue for retrospective exhibition, 2002
• New York State Council on the Arts Grant for Artists’ Books Fellowship, 1995-96
• Museum of American Folk Art Travel Grant to Romania for the Synagogue and the Carousel Project, 1995 and to the Ukraine, 1996
• Smart Foundation for the Synagogue and the Carousel, Jewish Folk Art project, NY, 1995, 1996
• Dorot Foundation grant for The Synagogue and The Carousel, Jewish folk art project, 1993-4
• U.U.P./S.U.N.Y. travel to collections award, 1993, 2000
• Dutchess County Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship in Artists Books, 1991
• Visiting Artist Fellowship Program, to publish a suite of prints on the Holocaust, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, 1987, 1998
• Faculty Award, SUNY at Purchase, 1986, '88, '91, '92, 96, 06
• Dutchess County Arts Council Award for the mural for the
  Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1980-81
• State University of New York Research Award, for experimentation in high relief collage, drawings, prints, and cast paper, 1976
• Fellowship to Oslo, Norway, given by the Royal Norwegian Government for the study ofEdvard Munch's art, 1971
• Fellowship to Paris France, given to the winners of a national competition sponsored by the Harriet Hale Wooley Foundation, administered at the Fondation des Etats-Unis, Cite Universitaire, Paris, France, 1965-66

Selected Public Collections

• Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
• Brooklyn Museum, NYC
• College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, CT
• Elmhurst College, IL
• First National Bank, Chicago, IL
• Jewish Museum, NYC
• Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NYC
• Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
• Museum of Modern Art, NYC
• Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
• National Collection, Washington, DC
• National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA
• Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
• New York Public Library, NYC
• Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
• Ronald Lauder Collection, NYC
• Royal Norwegian Government Collection, Oslo, Norway
• Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
• University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
• Rosenwald Collection, Philadelphia, PA
• U.S.I.A. Collections
• Commissioned to paint the official portrait of former Purchase College President, Michael Hammond, 2003

Bibliography

• The Synagogue and the Carousel, book/catalogue for the exhibition scheduled for 2007 American Folk Art Museum
• Murray Zimiles, The Fire Paintings, The Book of Fire, Exhibition catalogue for exhibition held at the Stuart Levy Gallery, New York City, Essays by Murray Zimiles and Christopher Busa 1992
• "Boris", catalogue essay in Boris Margo, A Retrospective, curated by Murray Zimiles for the Provincetown Art Association and Museum Provincetown, MA, and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, 1988
• "Atelier Project", Provincetown Arts, 1986
• "Windmills: Energy Without Pollution, Historic Preservation, 1975
• The Lithographic Workshop Around The World, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1974
• Early American Mills, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1973
• The Technique of Fine Art Lithography, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1970