RESUMÉ
EDUCATION
1993-95 Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpellier VT.
Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art, 1995
1965-66 Brooklyn Museum School of Art, Brooklyn, NY (Max Beckmann
Memorial Scholarship)
1960-65 Hornsey College of Art, London, England: National Diploma in
Design (N.D.D.), 1965
REPRESENTED BY
Suzanne Randolph Fine Art, New York, NY
Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY
EXHIBITIONS
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2012
“52 Weeks II” The Four Seasons Restaurant, New York, NY
2010
“52 Weeks II” The Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
2003-04
“Gloamings” Nese Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY
2002
“Gloamings” Avram Gallery, Southampton College, Southampton, NY
2001
“New Work” Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1999
“From the Garden: Paintings by Roy Nicholson,” Rathbone Gallery, The
Sage Colleges, Albany, NY
1998
“52 Weeks,” Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington,New York.
“52 Weeks,” Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
1995
Fine Arts Gallery, Southampton College of Long Island University,
Southampton, NY
1993
“Four Solo Exhibitions” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1992
“Three Solo Exhibitions” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1991
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1987
Genest Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
American Consulates, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo and Brasilia, Brazil
1985
Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
Hargrave Vineyard, Cutchogue, NY
Canio’s Books, Sag Harbor, NY
1984
Art Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
Fine Arts Gallery, Southampton College, LIU, Southampton, NY
1981
Burnside Gallery, Greenport, NY
Artist’s Forum Gallery, Centerport, NY
1980
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1979
Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal, England
1978
Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
TWO-PERSON AND SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Re-Natured, Roy Nicholson and Cui Fei” University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
2000
“Fox,/Nicholson/Shields/Mardoyan-Smyth,” Lizan Tops Gallery,
East Hampton, NY
1999
Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
1997
“Cadmium Glens,” Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
“The Poetic Landscape, Three American Painters,” Nancy Moore Fine Art,
New York, NY.
“Room With a View,” Gallery North, Setauket, NY
1989
“Nicholson/Kline/Gavenchak,” Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1988
“Nicholson/Frank/Gavenchak,” Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1987
“Ferren/Nicholson/Grippe/Chalif,” Ashawagh Hall, Springs, NY
“Nicholson/Welden,” Peconic Gallery, Suffolk County Community College,
Riverhead, NY
“Friedberg/Nicholson/Tarr,” Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1986
“Nicholson/Hunt/Buckner,” Vered gallery, East Hampton, NY
1983
Bologna/Landi Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1982
Louise Himelfarb Gallery, Southampton, NY
1981
“4/11: A Shifting Focus,” Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
“Enclosures,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
“The Ordered Vision,” Loft Gallery, Southampton, NY
1971
Coelfrith Arts Centre, Sunderland, England
1969
Bondgate Gallery, Alnwick, England
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2008
“Light of Spring” Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“HistoRAY Johnson Fan Club Meeting” Mistretta Galleries, Locust
Valley, NY and at Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary. www.artpool.hu/Ray/2008HistoRAYMG.html
“The Springs Invitational” Springs, NY, since 1980
2007
“East End Artists: Past and Present” The Telfair Museum of Art,
Savannah, GA.
2006
“Men’s Work” Lief Hope Restaurant, East Hampton, NY
2005
” Art and the Garden: Post-War and Contemporary Paintings of the Garden,
“Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Artists and Nature on Eastern Long Island: 1940s to the Present,”
Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“The Little Continent of Long Island,”
The Long Island Museum of American Art, Stony Brook, NY
“Abstraction at 40,” Gallery North, Setauket, NY
“Point of View,” Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY
2004
“Picturing Hampton Gardens: A 350-Year Legacy,” Guild Hall Museum,
East Hampton, NY
“Time and Again,” Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
“The Springs Invitational,” Springs, New York, since 1980
2003
“Winter Selections,” Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
2002
“Re/Opening,” Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY
Faculty Exhibition, Avram Gallery, Southampton College, Southampton, NY
2001
“Long Island: Morning Noon and Night,” The Long Island Museum of American Art,
Stony Brook, NY
“Local Color,” Gallery North, Setauket, NY
2000-02
Doral Bank, New York, N Y
2000
“Labscapes 2000,” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
“Synecdoche,” Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
“Multiples,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Of Nature,” Nese Alpen Gallery, Roslyn, NY
“Winter Exhibition,” Nese Alpen Gallery, Roslyn, NY
“Husbands and Wives,” Nightingale Gallery, Watermill, NY
1999
“Re-Viewing Nature, Long Island Landscape Painting Today,” Sidney Mishkin Gallery,
Baruch College,New York NY
“Summer Selections 1999,” Nese Alpan Gallery, Roslyn, NY
“94 Days of Summer: A Survey of Long Island Painters,” Omni Gallery, Uniondale NY
“Artists Against Abuse 1999 Plate Auction,” Elaine Benson Gallery Bridgehampton, NY
1998
“East Hampton Artists: Scene and Seen,” Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
“Nature’s Beat,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1997
Faculty Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, Southampton College, LIU, S/hampton NY.
1996
“Paperworks: 20th Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection,”
Heckscher Museum,
Huntington, NY
1995
Faculty Exhibition, Southampton College, Southampton, NY
“75 Years of Collecting,” Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
“18 Suffolk Artists,” University Art Gallery, State University at Stony Brook, NY
“CoNtRaDIcToRY CoNcLuSiOnS,” The Gallery at Northampton,
Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA
“Multiples,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Winter Light,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Object into Subject,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1994
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
“Autumn Light,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Drawing : a Contemporary View,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1993
“In a New Light: Seven Artists from the Heckscher Collection,”
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
“The Screen Print Workshop,” Bill Bace Gallery, Southampton, NY
“Woman!,” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1992
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, NY
Miami International Art Fair, Miami FL
“Approaches to Abstraction,” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
“Landscape Observed: Landscape Transformed,” Islip Art Museum,
E. Islip, NY
“Women on Paper,” Studio 3, East Hampton, NY
“20th Century Prints on the East End,” Ren?©e Fotouhi Fine Art,
East Hampton, NY
1991
Member’s Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
“Partitions,” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
“On Paper/Of Paper,” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
Los Angeles International Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
“New Work: 8 Painters,” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1990
“Long Island Landscape: The Twentieth Century,” Heckscher Museum,
Huntington NY
1989
“Drawings from the Figure,” East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art,
East Hampton, NY
“Hamptons Artists,” The Hodson Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, MD
1988
“Recent Acquisitions,” Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1986
“Let’s Play House,” Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1985-87
“AdoRnmenTs,” Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY (national tour)
1985
“Waterworks: The Long Island Legacy” curated by Ronald Pisano, Heckscher Museum,
Huntington, NY.
1984
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
“Unaffiliated Artists II,” Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post Campus,
Long Island University, Greenvale, NY
1982
Ludlow-Hyland Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Leopold Hoesch Gallery, D?ºren, West Germany
1973
Studio Kaush, Kassel, West Germany
DANCE
2009
“Roy Nicholson” Projections and collaboration with choreographer Karla Wolfangle.
Performed at The Richard Stockton College College of New Jersey.
1996
“Strata,” Collaboration with choreographer Karla Wolfangle.
At DIA, SOHO, NYC
“Temperaments,” Collaboration with choreographer Karla Wolfangle.
Decor and costumes. Performed at the Boston Conservatory of Music,
Boston, MA
1994
“Petit Sensations,” Collaboration with choreographer Karla Wolfangle.
28 foot long folding screen and costumes. Performed at the 92nd Street Y,
New York, and The North Carolina School of the Arts (1998)
COLLECTIONS
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE
MTA, Metro Art, Los Angeles, CA
MTA, Arts for Transit, New York, NY
Renaissance Technologies, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Holder Properties, Meridian Building, Columbia, SC
The Long Island Museum of American Art, Stony Brook, NY
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta GA
Brauner, Baron, Rosenzweig and Klein, LLP, New York, NY
Royal College of Heralds, London, England
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, England (Gulbenkian Foundation Purchase)
L.Y.C. Museum, Brampton, England
Coelfrith Arts Centre, Sunderland, England
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
Texas Commerce Bank, Houston, TX
New Jersey Bell
Southampton Hospital, Southampton, NY
PRIVATE (SELECTED)
Count Robin de la Lanne-Mirlees, London, England
The Hon. Seaton Shanley, East Hampton and New York, NY
Dr. and Mrs. L Dubin, Southampton and New York
Mr. James Galway, Basel, Switzerland
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Greenhouse, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hargrave, Cutchogue, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Schwabacher, Sag Harbor and New York, NY
Mr. Stanley Hamilton, London, England
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Emmerson, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Moses, Greenvale, NY
Ms. Eleanor Cohen, Southampton, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ellis, Sea Island, GA
Mr. and Mrs. Marc George Gershwin, East Hampton and New York, NY
Ms. Orel Protopopescou, Miller Place, NY
Mr. Steven J. Harrison, Augusta, GA
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Larson, Southampton, NY
Estate of Elaine de Kooning
Ms. Carol Ebert, Southampton, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Landau, Shaker Heights, OH
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jenkins, Paris and New York
Mr. and Mrs. James Larocca, Southampton, NY
COMMISSIONS
2006
Los Angeles MTA MetroArt, Union Station, Gold Line Portal,
Two 55 ft long glass mosaics plus skywell
2004
Holder Properties, “Post Meridian: Twilight in the Garden.”
Nine 4 x 4 Ft. paintings for Meridian Building, Columbia SC
2000-02 MTA Arts for Transit, Hicksville Station, Long Island Rail Road.
Two 7 x 33 foot glass mosaics. Recipient of the Municipal Arts Society
of New York’s 2003 Masterworks Award to the MTA
HONORS
2005
Professor Emeritus of Art, Long Island University
2000
Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement (Lifetime Achievement in the Arts),
Long Island University
BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected)
2009
Colin M. Graham, “Guild Hall Hosts Preview of Garden as Art” Hamptons.com, August 18, 2009, http://www.Hamptons.com/Home-And-Garden/Main-Articles/8649/Guild-Hall-Hosts-Preview-Of-Garden-As-Art.html
2008
Joan Baum, “Spectacular ‘Light of Spring’ at Spanierman East Glows with Surprises” Hamptons.com. April 2.
2006
Sandra Bloodworth %26 William Ayres, “Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit” (Monacelli Press, 2006)
2004
John Esten, Hamptons Gardens: A 350-Year Legacy. New York: Rizzoli Robert Long,
review, “Two Centuries of Gardens in Paint,” East Hampton Star, Sept. 2 John Norwich,
feature article, “Artist Perspective: Roy Nicholson,” Hampton Jitney Magazine, Aug. 12
2003
Kim Volpe, “A Room With a View,” Long Island University Magazine, Vol. 11, #1 (Spring)
“Metropolitan Mosaic for New York,” The Letter, Issue 21(July), Middlesex University
2002
Bob Colacello and Jonathan Becker, Studios by the Sea. New York: Abrams
Marina Delaney, “Public Art on the Block,” Newsday, February 24
2001
Barbara Delatiner, “The Commuters May Rush,” The New York Times, Dec. 2
2000
“Labscapes 2000.” Exhibition Catalogue. Curators, Anne Cohen DePietro, Mel Pekarsky,
Ron Pisano. Foreword by James D. Watson
2004
Piri Halasz, on line review, From the Mayor’s Doorstep, October. Phyllis Braff,
review, The New York Times, September 5″ From the Garden.” Exhibition brochure,
Rathbone Gallery, Albany, NY
1998
“52 Weeks: An Installation by Roy Nicholson.” Exhibition brochure,
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Ariella Budick, “Local Color,” Newsday, September 6
Phyllis Braff, “Landscapes of the Earth and the Mind” (review), The New York Times,
October 4
Amei Wallach, “Long Island: Our Story,” Newsday, March 22
1997
Marion Wolberg Weiss, “Honoring the Artist, Roy Nicholson,” (with front cover)
Dan’s Papers,September 26
Phyllis Braff, review, The New York Times, July 27
1996
Phyllis Braff, review, The New York Times, February 11
Carey Lovelace, review, Newsday, February 2
Elaine Cobos, Eighteen Suffolk Artists.
Exhibition catalogue, University Art Gallery, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
Phyllis Braff, review, The New York Times, March 12.
Marion Wolberg Weiss, “Artist Profile: Roy Nicholson,” Country, May
1994
Rose Slivka, “From the Studio”(review), East Hampton Star, October 6
Phyllis Braff, The New York Times, November 20
1993
Karin Lipson, review, Newsday, January 29
Phyllis Braff, review, The New York Times, March 7
Marion Wolberg Weiss, “Art Commentary” (review), October 8
1990
Ronald G. Pisano, Long Island Landscape Painting: The Twentieth Century.
Boston: Little, Brown