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Jeanne Siegel
Chair emeritus, BFA Fine Arts Department, School
of Visual Arts. Formerly, president, American Section International
Association of Art Critics
educAtion: BA, Barnard College; MA, Columbia University;
CUNY Graduate Center
Books include: Artwords: Discourse on the 60s and 70s;
Artwords 2: Discourse on the Early 80s; Painting After Pollock:
Structures of Influence
puBlicAtions include: Artforum, artnet, zingmagazine, Art
Press, ARTI
curAtor: “8 Years/8 Artists/SVA,” “Collage Expanded,” “Coming
Home Again/SVA,” “Diversity Plus–Emerging Artists in a Rapid
World,” “Big American Figure Drawings”
George Siejka
Fine artist
educAtion: BS, cum laude, MA, New York University
exhiBitions include: Fischbach Gallery; Nancy Hoffman Gallery;
Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans; Sherry French
Gallery; Anchorage Museum of History and Art; Fitchburg Art
Museum, MA; Rockford College Art Gallery, IL
collections include: Brown & Wood; Commerce Bank; Philip
Morris, Inc.
puBlicAtions include: Gambit, Times-Picayune, Vogue
Decoration
grAnt: Pollock-Krasner Foundation
James Siena
Fine artist
educAtion: BFA, Cornell University
represented By: The Pace Gallery
one-person exhiBitions include: The Pace Gallery; Daniel
Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles; University of Akron, OH; Gorney
Bravin + Lee; Cristinerose Gallery; Pierogi 2000; J. Noblett Gallery,
Sonoma, CA; San Francisco Art Institute; Herbert F. Johnson
Museum of Art, Cornell University
group exhiBitions include: Danese; Triple Candie; DC Moore
Gallery; American Academy of Arts and Letters; Kent State
University; Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; P.S.1 Contemporary Art
Center; Mario Diacono, Boston; Phyllis Kind Gallery; Nolan Judin,
Berlin; David Nolan Gallery; Larissa Goldston Gallery; National
Academy of Design Museum
collections include: Museum of Fine Art, Boston; San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan
Museum of Art; Yale University Art Gallery; Milwaukee Art
Museum; McNay Art Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art
puBlicAtions include: The New York Times, Bomb, The New
Yorker, ARTnews, The Art Newspaper, The Village Voice, New
York Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, Brooklyn Rail, Art on Paper,
Washington Post, Boston Globe, Art in America, Tricycle
AwArds And honors include: American Academy of Arts and
Letters; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation; Charles Goodwin Sands
Medal, Cornell University; Eisner Artist of the Year Award, Cornell
Council for the Arts; Edward Durrell Stone Award, Cornell
University; New York Foundation of the Arts. Member, board of
directors: The Corporation of Yaddo; advisory council, Herbert F.
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; member, National
Academy Museum & School, New York
Jay Sienkwicz
Graphic designer, Possible Worlds
educAtion: BFA, School of Visual Arts
clients include: Nickelodeon, Noggin, MTV, Warner Brothers,
Wild Brain
puBlicAtions include: Graphis New Talent Annual
AwArd: New Media
Jeanne Silverthorne
Fine artist
educAtion: BA, magna cum laude, MA, Temple University
represented By: McKee Gallery
one-person exhiBitions include: Whitney Museum at Philip
Morris; McKee Gallery; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles;
Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris; Institute of Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia; Wright Museum, Beloit, WI; Seomi Gallery, Seoul;
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland; P.S.1 Contemporary Art
Center; Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco
group exhiBitions include: Williams College Museum,
Williamstown, MA; Deste Foundation, Athens; Scottsdale Museum,
Phoenix; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Tang Museum,
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Weatherspoon Art
Museum, Greensboro, NC; Museum of Modern Art; Museum of
Art, Rhode Island School of Design
puBlicAtions include: Sculpture, The New York Times, The Village
Voice, Titolo, Art Press, Irish Times, ARTnews, Los Angeles Times,
San Francisco Chronicle, Art in America, Artforum, Jeanne
Silverthorne (monograph)
Gary Simmons
Visual artist
educAtion: BFA, School of Visual Arts ; California Institute of
the Arts
one-person exhiBitions include: Metro Pictures; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago; Studio Museum in Harlem; Jan Weiner
Gallery, Kansas City, MO; Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles;
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco; SITE Santa Fe, NM
group exhiBitions include: Center for Art and Visual Culture,
University of Maryland, Baltimore; Krannert Art Museum,
Champaign, IL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum
Villa Stuck, Munich
collections include: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden;
Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center; Portland Art Museum,
OR; Saint Louis Art Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art
AwArds And honors include: Interarts Grant, National
Endowment for the Arts USA Gund Foundation Fellowship; Penny
McCall Foundation Grant
Steve Simon
Documentary/editorial photographer, author
educAtion: BA, Concordia University
clients include: Colors, Mother Jones, Harper’s, Apple Computer
one-person exhiBitions include: Leica Gallery; Sol Mednick
Gallery, Philadelphia; George Eastman House, London; Silver Eye
Gallery, Pittsburgh; Gallery One, Toronto; Muestra Fotografica,
Zapala, Argentina
group exhiBitions include: International Center for
Photography; Visa Pour L’Image Projection, Perpignan, France;
International Fototage, Mannheim, Germany; Photographic Center
Northwest, Seattle
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