Timeline

1932

Born: Montreal, Canada

1950 - 1955

Studied at Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC

1955

Moved to New York City, NY

1957

Walter Gutman Emerging Artist Award

1971

First solo exhibition at the Bykert Gallery

1972

Guggenheim Fellowship
Painting Award, The Art Institute of Chicago Guggenheim Fellowship, Sculpture

1974

National Endowment for the Arts Award

1976

The Art Institute of Chicago, Witowsky Painting Award

1984

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Visiting Artist

1985

Brandeis University, Creative Arts Award
Visiting Lecturer, "Working with the Golden Section", American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy.

1986

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Milton and Sally Avery Distinguished Professor
Visiting Lecturer, An Artist’s Approach to Creativity, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

1988

Visiting Lecturer, "Calculated Character: Concepts of Desire," organized and moderated by Rainer Crone, Columbia University, New York
Visiting Lecturer, The New York Studio School, New York, Summer 1988
Panelist, "The Redefinition of "Art: the Collision of Cultures in the Post-Modern World," New York University, New York, NY
Lecture, The Nelson Gallery Foundation

1989

Panelist, "Artists Discuss Creativity and the Art Market, " Art News World Art Market conference, Milton Esterow, Chairman
"Contemporary Art in Context," gallery talk entitled "Matisse: Memories of Oceania/ Memories of Egypt," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1990

Visiting Artist Lecture, "Dorothea Rockburne", The School of Visual Arts

Becomes a United States citizen

1991

Artist in Residence, American Academy in Rome
Visiting Lecturer, "Lecture," San Francisco Art Institute

1992

Lecture, "Henri Matisse: A Retrospective," The Museum of Modern Art
Lecture, "Uncommon Sense," Kansas City Art Institute
Lecture, American Academy in Rome, In the Year of the Visual Artist
Lecture, Public lecture and studio time, Lafayette College
Lecture, The Studio School
Visiting Lecturer, "Artists’ Visions (moderated by Nan Rosenthal)," 92nd Street YMHA

1995

Lecture, "Considering Joseph Beuys", panel discussion, Moderator Marcia Tucker, Panelists, Camille Billops, Mary Miss, Dorothea Rockburne
Lecture, for the Independent Curators Inc., "Some Recent Work"

1996

ecture, "Bare Bones," TZ’Art & Company

1997

Artist in Residence, Bellagio Study Center, Italy
Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Inc. Award
Lecture, College Art Association, New York
Lecture, for Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, Italy
Lecture, Raab Gallerie, Berlin Germany

1998

Lecture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Panelist, "Artistic Process," Artist Talk on Art

1999

American Academy of Arts and Letters, Jimmy Ernst Lifetime Achievement Award in Art
Lecture, CCNY Community College of N.Y., New York, NY

2000

Commission: “The Virtues of Good Government – Part II,” Stamford Courthouse, Stamford, Connecticut
Panelist, "Dorothea Rockburne, Ten Years of Astronomy Drawing," Artists Talk on Art, The Phoenix Gallery, with Roberta Olsen and Jay Paschoff
Panelist, "Geometries in Art and Science," New York Studio School for Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, moderated by Patricia Railing, with Fre Ligen, Rhonda Shearer, Stephen J. Gould
Completes General Service Commission, "Einstein's Cross," at the Brooklyn Courthouse, Brooklyn, New York, NY

2001

American Academy of Arts and Letters, Department of Art
Panelist, "The Contemporary Mural," Artist Conversations at the National Academy of Design, moderated by Richard Haas, with: Ellen Lanyon, Craig McPherson, and Lincoln Perry

2002

College for Creative Studies, Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts Degree
National Academy of Design, Pike Award for Watercolor
National Academy of Design, Adolph & Clara Abrig Prize for Watercolor
Lecture, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida, "Art and Art Museum Architecture"
Lecture, Montclair Art Museum, Babson Lecture Series with Victoria Newhouse
Panelist, “The Black Mountain College Experience, Points of View IV”, Camp Rockmont, Asheville, NC
Panelist, “WATERCOLOR”, New York Studio School, New York City, NY

2003

Lee Krasner Award, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Art Omi International, Francis J. Greenburger Award
Lecture, Brown Univerity, Providence, Rhode Island, “The Black Mountain Matrix”

2004

Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, “Perspective, Perception, and the Fourth Dimension - A Painter’s Point of View”
Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, “Perspective, Perception, and the Fourth Dimension - A Painter’s Point of View”

2006

Work on view in lobby of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Teacher in residence at the Vermont Studio Center

2007

Awarded Commission from the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies: wall painting to be executed at the United States Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.

2009

National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, Lifetime Achievement Award

Lives and works in New York