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SAM
MESSER
1993
- now Living and working in California
1955 Born New York, NY
Education
1981
M.F.A, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1977 B.F.A, Cooper Union, New York, NY
1967-71 Studies at The Art Students League of New York, NY
Honors
1996
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award
1995 Englehard Foundation Program in Bequia
1993 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
Purchase Award and Exhibition, Academy of Arts and Letters
1985 The Engelhard Award, Cambridge, MA
1984 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
1982-84 National Studio Program, Institute for Art and Urban Resources,
P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
1981-82 Fellowship, The Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1980 Grant for Painting, The Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
Phelps Berdan Award for Painting, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1977 Ethel Cram Memorial Prize for Painting, Cooper Union, New York, NY
1974 Fellowship, Skowhengan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhengan,
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One
Person Exhibitions
1999
"Positively Fowl," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1998
"Sam Messer," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
1997
"Small Self-Portraits," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
"The Four Seasons," Shoshanna Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995
"Sam Messer: One Man By Himself," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
(catalog)
1994
"Sam Messer - Work Death Play", David Beitzel Gallery, New York,
NY
1993
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1992
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Stellar Gallery, Paris, France
1991
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Compass Rose Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selected
Group Exhibitions
1998
"Knowing Children" David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
"Invitational : Portraits," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Boston International Fine Art Show, Boston, MA
1996
"July 1996," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
1995
"Ordinary Object - Extraordinary Experience," Summer Invitational,
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
"Inside Out - Psychological Self-Portraiture," The Aldrich Museum
of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
"Fresh Paint," Berman - E.N., New York, NY
"Insight," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
"A Tribute to Stephen Greene," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1994
'Masterworks from Private Connecticut Collections," Wadsworth Atheneum,
Hartford, CT
"Small Works,: Gallery II, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1993
Art on Paper, Weather-Spoon Guild, Greenboro, NC
"Crossing the Line: Abstraction/Figuration," InvitationalNielsen
Gallery, Boston, MA
"Yale Collects Yale," exhibition of work by Yale artists(graduates
& faculty of the school of art), collected byUniversity Alumni, New
Haven, CT
"SELF-aMUSED: The Contemporary Artists as Observer and Oberved,"
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA "Paintings from New York,"
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1992
"44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition," American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters,New York, NY
"Paper Houses," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
"Apocalpse and Resurrection," Amfar Benefit, The Gallery Three
Zero, New York, NY
"Good Work," Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, Cooper Union, New
York, NY
"Art Show," New York Downtown Hospital, New York, NY
1991
"USA/JAPAN/CHINA: Drawings 1991," Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center,
New York, NY, traveled to Canada & Japan
"New Work," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
"Cruciformed: Images of the Cross in Contemporary Art,"
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1990
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
"Prints: Choice for the 90's," Santa Monica Heritage Museum,
Santa Monica, CA
"Faces," Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"The Unique Print: The 70's into the 90's," Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, MA
Selected Bibliography, 1990-Present
Anon
"Critics Choice," The New York Times, December 23, 1994.
Cotter,Holland. "Sam Messer," ArtNews, March 1990, vol. 89,
no. 3.
Gerrit, Henry. "Sam Messer," ArtNews, September, 1991.
"Sam Messer," Art in America, March 1990.
Johnson,Denis and Gaver, Eleanor E. "One Man by Himself: Portraits
of Jon Serl by Sam Messer," exhibition catalog, Hard Press, Inc.,
West Stockbridge, MA.
Litt, Steven. "Using or Abusing a Powerful Symbol?," The Cleveland
Plain Dealer, September 8, 1991.
Mahoney, Robert. "Sam Messer," Arts Magazine, January 1990,
vol. 64, no. 5.
Masters, Greg "Grisly Grandeur: Sam Messer," Cover, Summer 1991.
Morris, Randall "Self Taught Ethics: Regarding Culture," New
Art Examiner, September 1994.
Pacheco, Patrick. "The New Faith in Painting," Art & Antiques,
May 1991.
Piazza, Robert. "Nielsen Art Shocks," Heights, 1991.
Princenthal, Nancy "Sam Messer," Art in America, June 1994.
"Sam Messer," The Boston Herald, November 19, 1992.
Raczka, Robert. "Five Painters," New Art Examiner (East Coast
Edition), March 1984, vol. II, no. 6. Rubinstein, Raphael. "Sam Messer,"
Art News, September 1991.
Selected
Public Collections
Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Archer J. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
BankAmerica Corporation Art Collection, San Francisco, CA
Criterion Investment Management Company of America, Houson, TX
David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence,
RI
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
McCrory Corporation, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Paine Webber, New York, NY
Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
Yale University Art Gallery Museum, New Haven, CT
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