Mark Podwal is a native New Yorker who is a brilliant, creative and original artist. There are nine published books by the artist, and eighteen more by others which he illustrated, including four by Elie Wiesel. Since 1971, Mark Podwal’s drawings and watercolors have been exhibited at galleries and museums from New York to Prague, Paris and beyond, including one-person exhibitions at The Jewish Museum (New York), the Judah L. Magnes Museum (Berkeley, CA), the Skirball Museum (Los Angeles), the Wolfson Museum in Jerusalem and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Mark Podwal’s drawings have appeared in The New York Times since 1972 and have been widely reproduced in other publications worldwide. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), the Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA), Haifa Museum of Modern Art, The Israel Museum, The Library of Congress, The Jewish Museum (NY), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), The National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic; and Princeton University. In 1995, Mark Podwal designed the Aubusson tapestry woven for Temple Emanu-El in New York, for which he was later asked to design five Torah mantles. Mark Podwal was the illustrator and creative consultant for the television video A Passover Seder Presented by Elie Wiesel and created the cover painting for Itzhak Perlman’s compact disc recording, Live in the Fiddler’s House (Angel Records). In 1998, Mark Podwal was selected as the Brooklyn Academy of Music spring season BAMbill cover artist. Mark Podwal has exhibited at Forum Gallery since 1977.
