Discipline: Visual Art

John Newman

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993
John Newman is a New York-based artist. He was born in Flushing, New York, and received his B.A. from Oberlin College. He attended the Whitney Museum Study Program in 1972, received his M.F.A. in 1975 from the Yale School of Art, and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT from 1975-78. He has had more than 50 one-person shows and participated in numerous group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Newman’s sculpture, drawings, and prints are represented in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum, The Tate Modern in London, the National Gallery in Canberra, the Alberina Museum in Vienna, among many others. John is the recipient of many awards and residencies, including the Rome Prize, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, the NEA, and a Senior Research Fulbright Grant to India.

Studios

Firth

John Newman worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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