Murray Zimiles

78 Charlie Hill Road

Millerton, N.Y. 12546

E-mail: murray@murrayzimiles.com

(518) 789-3552

Education

MFA/Painting and Printmaking, Cornell University, 1965

BFA/Painting and Printmaking, University of Illinois, 1963

Additional Professional Training:

Atelier Clot - Bramson, Paris, France, 1966

Advanced training in lithography at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts,

             Paris, France,1965                                                                                                                           

Professional Experience

Elected a member of The National Academy of Design, New York, 2009

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities for Academic Year 2007-8

Guest Curator, American Folk Art Museum, NY,  for the exhibition,

            Gilded Lions and  Jeweled Horses, From the Synagogue to the Carousel, 2007-8

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

            Guest Lecturer

Bonhams Auction House, NY 2013

American Folk Art Museum, New York, 2006, 2007

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

Franconia College, Franconia, NH, 1970

            Other Professional Experience

Guest Curator, American Folk Art Museum, NY,

             Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses, From the Synagogue to the Carousel,

            2007-08

Selected to head the Purchase College delegation to Technos International Week, 2007 in

             Japan supported by the Tanaka Foundation

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. The $100 thousand budget was raised privately. 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

 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, 2006, 2013

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 of

            Edvard 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

Collections (partial listing)

            911 Memorial and Museum, NYC

            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

            Florida Holocaust Museum, Saint Petersberg, FL.

            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

            Nicholls State University, Louisiana

            Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

            Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

            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

            University of Central Florida

            University of Colorado

            University of Louisiana at Lafayette

            Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

Commissioned to paint the official portraits of former Purchase College Presidents

             Michael Hammond, and Dr. Abbot Kaplan, 2003

Publications

Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses, From the Synagogue to the Carousel, book/catalogue

             for the 2007-08 exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, NY.

Winner, National Jewish Book Award, Visual Arts Category, 2007

            The exhibition was reviewed by over 20 publications worldwide. Bloomberg

            Television and WBAI and other TV and radio outlets have done interviews where can i buy cialis.

Murray Zimiles, The Fire Paintings, The Book of Fire, Exhibition catalogue for the

             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

Baigel, Matthew,  Jewish Art in America, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007,

             pgs. 171, 179-180, fig. 180

Baigell, Matthew, Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust, 1997, Cover,

             pgs. 51, 62, 71-72, 114-115, fig. 9.

Reviews

Ray Elman, Inspicio video interview: https://goo.gl/n5K2rv, May 1, 2018

van der Wende, Artscope, pg. 26, , Murray Zimiles: Recent Paintings, Berta Walker Gallery, 2013

Cembalest, Robin, Art Talk, Putting the Ark Before the Horse, Art News, pg. 39, December, 2007

McGee, Celia, Faith and Fantacy at the Carousel, Art, New York Times, Sunday, September 30, 2007                

Schwendener, Martha, Sacred Skills Thrive On a Merry-Go-Round, Art Review,

             The New York Times, Friday, October 5, 2007

Gouveia, Georgette, A History of Carving Works of Art, Life and Style, The Journal

             News, Front page, Sunday, November 18, 2007

Mascolo, Frances McQueeney, Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses, Antiques and the Arts

             Weekly, October 5, 2007

Herschthal, Eric, The Arts, From Synagogue Ark To Amusement Park, The Jewish Week

             September 20, 2007

WPYX, Ion Media Networks, Albany, NY, half hour broadcast, Subject Matters with

            Gary McLouth, Artist Murray Zimiles, 2006

MacMillan, Sunny, An Artist Who Leaves No Shadows, The Country and Abroad

            Magazine, pgs. 90-95, Winter 2005-2006

William Zimmer, Art Review, Paintings Whose Figures Tell Tales, Murray Zimiles, A

             Retrospective, New York Times, November 23, 2003

Consoli, Grace, Murray Zimiles, A Retrospective, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Arts

            Media, New England’s Guide to the Visual Arts, March 15 – April 15, 2003

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Philip Satchel Show, one hour

            interview about BMG Gallery Exhibition, Murray Zimiles, Adelaide Australia, 2000

Rosenblum, Sylvia, Arts Magazine, Eastside Radio 89.7 interview about lecture

            and workshop at College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales

            Sydney, Australia, 2000

Donelly, Marea, “War crimes fire a burning passion”, The Book of Fire exhibition at the

Sydney Jewish Museum, The Daily Telegraph, Arts Section, Sydney, Australia, March 8, 1996

Rothwell, Nicolas, “Eternal Flame”, The Book of Fire exhibition at the Sydney Jewish

            Museum, The Australian Magazine, Showcase, March 2-3, 1996

“Best of it”, The Book of Fire, exhibition at the Sydney Jewish Museum, The Australian

            Financial Review, Weekend Review of the Arts, March 15, 1996

 Michaels, Dannielle, “My passion, my obsession, The Book of Fire exhibition at the

            Sydney Jewish Museum, The Australian Jewish News, March 15, 1996

Lowe, Jillen, “The Zimiles”, Compelling Art, Dutchess Magazine, Dutchess County, NY,

            Spring, 1996

Wix, Elizabeth, “A Fiery Echo of the Hollocaust, Murray Zimiles”, New York Newsday,

            Manhattan and Long Island Editions, 1993

Dworkin,"Murray Zimiles", Art News, April 1992

Paine, Piera,"Murray Zimiles", 30 minute broadcast interview for

            the program Conversations in the Arts, WBAI, February 20, 1992

Raynor, Vivien,"Krasdale Foods...Gallery Project...", New York Times, Sunday, May 5,  1991

Busa, Chris, "Murray Zimiles", New England Arts, August, 1986

Caldwell, John, "Murray Zimiles", New York Times, Sunday, January 4, 1978

Justin, Gale, "Murray Zimiles", Arts Magazine, January, 1978

"A Portfolio of Prints by Young Printmakers", Artist Proof, 1971

Selected One-Man Exhibitions

2022                Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA

2017                Schukin Gallery, Paris, France

2015                Shchukin Gallery, New York

2014                Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersberg, Florida

2013                Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2008                Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT

2007-08          Guest Curator of Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses, American Folk Art

                        Museum, NY,  traveled to the Fennimore Museum, Cooperstown, NY

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                Wellfleet Art Gallery, Wellfleet, 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

1971-2022       Over one hundred group exhibitions across the United States and abroad   

                        including:

                        Alfred College, NY

                        Associated American Artists Gallery, New York, NY

                        Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

                        Central Connecticut State University

                        Dusseldorf Art Multiples, Invitational, 1992, Germany

                        Forum Gallery, New York, NY

                        Graham Gallery, New York, NY

                        Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA

                        Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

                        Hartford School of Art, Hartford, CT

                        Hicks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX

                        Idaho State University, ID

                        Illinois State University, IL

                        International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2012 ROC

                        Kansas State University, KS

                        Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY

                        National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, International Biennial Print  

                                    Exhibition 2012

                        New Arts Gallery, CT

                        Nichols State University, Louisiana

                        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

                        Stuart Levy Gallery, NY

                        SUNY Gallery, Albany, NY

                        SUNY Gallery, Purchase, NY

                        University of Arizona, Tempe, AZ

                        University of Central Florida

                        University of Colorado

                        University of Louisiana at Lafayette

                        University of Massachusetts

                        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