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Biography - April Gornik

Born

April 20, 1953 Cleveland, OH. Currently lives in New York, NY.

Education

1971-75 Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
1976 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Nova Scotia, Canada, B.F.A

Solo Exhibitions

2006 “April Gornik: Paintings and Drawings”, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
2003 Pace Prints, New York, NY
1999 Glen Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
1998 The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Museum of American Art of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Turner & Ruynon, Dallas, TX
1996 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Prints,” Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1988 The Sable‑Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1987 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1985 The Sable‑Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
“April Gornik: Bilder und Pastelle,” Galerie Springer, Berlin, Germany
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1984 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1983 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
University of Colorado Art Galleries, Boulder, CO
1981 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

1999 Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
1999-98 Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
“After Nature,” Amherst, MA
The Atlanta College of Art Gallery and the City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA
1998 Edward Thorp Gallery, Gallery Group Exhibition,” New York, NY
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, “Cleveland Collects”
Winston Wachter Fine Art, “Moments of Grace: Spirit in the American Landscape,” New York, NY
Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston- Salem, NC, “Divining Nature”
Plattsburgh Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY, “The Joe Wilfer Show: Collaboration in Paper and Printmaking”
“Prints by Painters,” Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
“Paper +” Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
Yje Parrish Art Museum, “The Centennial Open, Southampton, NY
“The Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in Conversation with 27 of his subjects”Dorfman Projects,” New York, NY
1997 Meyerson & Nowinski, “Landscapes,” Seattle, WA
Turner and Runyon Gallery, “A Reversal of Scale,” Dallas, TX
Emily Fisher Landau Center, “Wood Work,” Long Island City, NY
“In Plain Sight,” Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY
“Eight From Ohio: In and Out of Bounds,” The Hammond Galleries, Lancaster, OH
“Landscapes: Katherine Bowling, April Gornik & Wade Hoefer,” David Floria Gallery, Woody Creek, CO
1996 Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas, TX
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Paintings in the Nineties,” University of Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainsville, FL
“20/20: The Visionary Legacy of Doris Freedman,” Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
American Academy in Rome, Italy
“Water,” James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
“By the Sea,” Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Magic,” Eugene Cucalon Gallery, New York, NY
“Master Workshop Exhibition,” Fine Art Gallery at Southampton College, Southampton, NY
“The Paris Review Print and Poster Series,” Viridian Artists Inc., New York, NY
1995 Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York, NY
“Down the Garden Path,” The Work Space at Dolgenos Newman & CroninLLP, New York, NY
“Revisiting Landscape” California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
“Elementum,” May Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
“American Art Tonight: New Paintings,” Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
“Light and Shadow: The Changing Season,” Lizan- Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“100 Personal Heros Part 2,” Gallerie de la Tour, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1994 “A Woman’s Nature,” Jan Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 “Celestial,” Champion lobby exhibition, Stamford, CT
“Timely and Timeless,” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1992 “Four Friends: Fischl, Gibson, Gornik, Hunt,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
“44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition,” American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
“Prints from Pace,” Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
“Important Contemporary Prints,” Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
“Illumination,” Capital Cities/ABC, Art Advisory Service, MoMA, New York, NY
1991 “Contemporary Woodblock Prints From Crown Point Press, The Leif E. Johnson Memorial Exhibition, Edison Community College, Fort Myers, FL
“Concerning Nature,” Zen Center Hospice House, San Francisco, CA
1990 Bank of America Concourse Gallery Exhibition, New York, NY
“Prints of the Eighties,” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, traveling to Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1989 “Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painting,” organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Traveling to: Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, TX; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Albright‑Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Milwaulkee Art Museum, WI; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Artists Union Hall of the Tretyakov Embankment, Moscow, USSR; State Picture Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Central Exhibition Hall, Leningrad, USSR
“Water,” The Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service, Mezzanine of the Corporate Conference Center
“10 + 10,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
“Contemporary Environment,” General Electric Company
1988 “Imprimatur,” Greenville County Museum of Art, SC, traveling to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
“Prints by Contemporary American Women Artists,” Mary Ryan Gallery, NY
1987 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“The Masters II,” Art Gallery, Lopng Island University, Southampton, NY
“The Great Outdoors,” Chemical Bank Gallery, New York, NY
“Boundless Realism: Contemporary Landscape Painting in the West,” The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
“Disquiet in the Landscape,” Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
“The New Romantic Landscape,” Whitney Museum, Fairfield County Branch, Stamford, CT
“Night Light/Night Life,” Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
“Landscapes: Real and Imagined,” Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
“A View of Nature,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1986 “Manor in the Landscape,” Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, NY
“Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Univeristy of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
“The Freedman Gallery: The First Decade,” Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
“Landscape in the Age of Anxiety,” Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
“Still Life/Life Still,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“New Narrative Painting: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
“The American Landscape,” Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Watercolors,” Luhring, Augustine & Hodes, NY
“Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape,” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
“Artists Pick Artists,” jus de pomme Gallery, New York, NY
“Public and Private: American Prints Today,” The Brooklyn Museum, NY
“New Prints,” Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
“Spectrum, Natural Settings,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1985 “American Paintings 1975‑1985,” Aspen Art Gallery, Aspen, CO
“Night Lights,” The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH
“real surreal,” Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, NY
“Views,” Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The New Expressive Landscape,” Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes‑Barre, PA
“Luminist Show,” The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984 “Rediscovering Romanticism in NYC 1984,” New Math Gallery, NY
“The Elements: Weather in Art,” Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, NJ
“Night Lights,” Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Personal Visions,” Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained,” The American Pavillion, 1984
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Traveled to Lisbon, Portugal; Madrid, Spain; Athens, Greece; Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and Budapest, Hungary
“A Celebration of American Women Artists Part II: The Recent Generation,” Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
“Inaugural Exhibition,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“New Vistas: Contemporary American Landscapes,” The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, and Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ
“New Directions for the Michener Collection 1984,” Archer Huntington
Art Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
1983 “Appearing,” Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson College of New Jersey, Wayne, NJ
“Gallery Artists,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Gallery Light,” Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
“Nocturne,” Siegel Contemporary Art, New York, NY
“Contemporary Landscape Painting,” Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA and Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, CT
1982 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Landscapes/Cityscapes,” Josef Gallery, New York, NY
“Edge of Night,” Galerie Yves Arman, New York, NY
“Views on Landscape,” Davis Art Gallery, University of Akron, OH
1981 “The Reality of Perception,” Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1977 Halifax Festival of the Arts, Halifax, Canada
1976 “Women’s Invitational,” Buxler Institute, Youngstown, OH
1974 “Print and Drawing Show,” New Organization for Visual Arts, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH