Gregory Amenoff (born 1948) is an American painter. He is located in the tradition of the early American Modernist painters

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and

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. In the early 80s his work was often associated with a style of painting called organic abstraction and exhibited alongside artists

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and Terry Winters. Gregory Amenoff was born in Saint Charles, Illinois, in 1948 to Beatice and C.V. Amenoff. He received a B.A. in history from

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in 1970. He moved to Boston in 1971 where he began his career, showing at the

Nielsen Gallery Nielsen Gallery is a commercial art gallery originally located on Newbury Street in the Back Bay, Boston, Back Bay area of Boston, United States. Founded in 1963 by Nina Nielsen and John Baker, the gallery won “Best Show in a Commercial Gallery in ...

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. He relocated to New York in 1979. In 1980 he began showing with Robert Miller Gallery on

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. Amenoff was included in the 1981, 1985 biennials at the

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. He was also included in ''An International Survey of Recent Paintings and Sculpture'' at

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

in 1984 and the ''40th Biennial Exhibition of American Contemporary Painting'' at the

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, Washington, D.C., in 1987. In the 1990s Amenoff had three traveling solo exhibitions. A retrospective of works on paper originating at the

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in Lincoln, Massachusetts, titled ''Gregory Amenoff, Works on Paper 1975–1992'' traveled to Massachusetts,

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, Tampa, Florida, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, Wellington Gray Gallery, and

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, in Greenville, North Carolina. An exhibition of 19 large scaled paintings called ''The Sky Below'' traveled to University of Tennessee Gallery,

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, Tennessee, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California and the Ringling School of Art Gallery,

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, Florida. Amenoff was also the subject of a two-year traveling show of small paintings ''Thirty Views'', which originated in Syracuse, New York and went to venues in Boston, San Francisco, and elsewhere. From 1986 to 1993 Amenoff showed with Hirschl & Adler Modern on

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. He showed at Salander O'Reilly on East 79th Street from 1998 to 2004. He is currently represented by the Alexandre Gallery on 57th Street. He has had several one-person exhibitions at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in

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, California, James Corcoran Gallery in

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, California, Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Texas Gallery in Houston, Texas. Amenoff was president of the

National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Frederick Styles Agate, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, an ...

from 2001 to 2005. He is a founding member of th
CUE Art Foundation
where he served as the curator/governor from 2002 to 2015. He has taught at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

since 1994, where he holds the endowed Chair as the Eve and Herman Gelman Professor of the Visual Arts Program. He served as chair of the Visual Arts Department from 2007 to 2013. He holds an honorary doctorate from the

Massachusetts College of Art Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation's oldest art schools, and the only publicly funded independent art sch ...

Personal life

Gregory Alexander Amenoff lives and works in New York City and

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. For many years he spent his summers in El Rito, New Mexico. He is married to Sonia Phillips Resika and has three children: Arielle Alexandra Amenoff (born 1984), August Paul Amenoff (born 2001), and Georgia Phillips Amenoff (born 2005)

Collections

Awards

* 2011,

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

* 1997, 1995, 1993

American Academy of Arts and Letters The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, Music of the United States, music, and Visual art of the United States, art. Its fixed number ...

Purchase Award * 1989, 1981, 1980

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the feder ...

Award (Painting) * 1981, C.A.P.S. (New York State Council on the Arts Award) * 1980,

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Award * 1979, The Artist Foundation of Massachusetts Award * 1976, Massachusetts Bicentennial Painting Award
Gregory Amenoff Resume

References

External links

Official websiteGregory Amenoff at Alexandre Gallery
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