Michael Chelminski - Curriculum Vitae

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Education

1971-72India: painting, travel and study

1965-66Painted in New York. Assistant printer for Chiron Press

1964-65Independent work and study in Paris

1962-64MFA, Yale University, studied with Albers, Peterdi, Chaet,

Sillman, Welliver, Finkelstein, Bailey

1962BFA, Yale University

1956-58Hartford Art School, Hartford CT

1956-57Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

1952-56Taft School. Watertown, CT

Exhibitions

2003Woodward Gallery, New York, "Paper 6 2003"

200250th Anniversary Show, WAA, Washington, CT

2001Group show, "vertical", Blue Mountain Gallery, New York

2000One man show Blue Mountain Gallery, New York

1999"Memory" Blue Mountain Gallery, New York

1998One man show, Blue Mountain gallery, New York

1997Group show, Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College

1997Group show, Chelsea gallery, University of North Carolina

1995Allegory show, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York

1994One man show, Kosciuszko Foundation, New York

1992Trenton Art Museum, Trenton, NJ. Group show

1991Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT. "Watercolor today"

1991One man show, Blue Mountain gallery, New York

1991One man show, Kent School Art gallery, Kent, CT

1991Three person show, Tiglieto Gallery, Kent, CT

1990Three person show, Washington Art Association, Washington, Depot, CT

1990Hok Gallery, St. Louis MO., мBraving the elementsо

1989One man show, Blue Mountain Gallery

1989мPoets and Paintersо, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York

1988Still Life show, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI

1985м25 Artists and One Cameraо, Paris-New York Gallery, Kent, CT

1985Group Drawing show, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York

1985"20 years of faculty work", Wooster Community Art Center, Danbury, CT

1985Green Mountain Retrospective, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York

1985One man show, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York

1985Curated "Works on Paper" WAA Gallery, Washington Depot, CT

1983One man show, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York

1982Group Show, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York

1980Two person show, Silo Gallery, New Milford, CT

1978One man show, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York

1978"Fantasy," Blue Mountain gallery, New York

1977"New Directions in Figurative Painting", Green Mountain Gallery, New York

1977"Spaces Beyond," WAA Gallery Washington Depot, CT

1977Three person show, Bethel Gallery, Bethel, CT

1976One man show, Green Mountain Gallery, New York

1975One man show, Kent School Art Gallery, Kent, CT

1974"Four Watercolor Painters", Green Mountain gallery, New York

1968One man show, University Art museum, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

1962"Drawings from American Art Schools", Louisiana State University

1962One Man show, Taft School, Watertown, CT

1962New Haven Arts Festival

1959-62Yale student shows, Art gallery, Yale University

Artist residency programs

Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire

Crescent "H" Ranch, Wilson, Wyoming

Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

Public Collections

Indiana University Art Museum

FT. Lauderdale Museum of Art

Yale University Art Museum

Publications, Reviews, Lectures, Organizations

2002 Guest artist Western Ct. University graduate school

Michael Kimmelman, The New York times Review of 50th

Anniversary Show, Washington Art Assoc.

1995 Organized and curated watercolor show for the Washington

Art Association, Washington Depot, CT

1994 Lecture, "Nature, the artist and the spirit world," The Kosciuszko

Foundation, New York, NY

1975 In Praise of Space, The Landscape in American Art. Published by

Westminister College

The Art of Drawing By Bernard Chaet, Yale University Press, 1-2-3 editions