Biography & Exhibitions
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
Cape Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, 2022
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 $100,000 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.
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
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, Thomas Schwarz, and Dr. Abbot Kaplan, 2003
Publications
Murray Zimiles, Paintings, Drawings and Prints, 1964 - 2020 self-published
Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer, or BUM, 2023, Amazon
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
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
Provincetown Independent, War in Ukraine, John Addario, 2022
Ray Elman, ArtSpeak video interview , 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 Jour
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 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 BroadcaBMG Gallery Exhibition, Murray Zimiles, Adelaide Australia, 2000 broadsting Corporation, The Philip Satchel Show, one hour interview about
Rosenblum, Sylvia, Arts Magazine, Eastside Radio 89.7 interview about lectur and workshop at College of Fine Art, University of New South Wale, 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 Holocaust, 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 Solo Exhibitions
2023 Victor Gallery, NY
2022 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2017 Shchukin 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
Cape Museum of Art, Dennis, 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
Philadelphia College of Art, National Invitational, "Experiments 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
