Matthew Turov

Swirling Octagon VortexLa FortunaPrism of PinnaclesEye of the DayFire and IceDay Surges, Night MergesRoseheart in LimelightProgressive ExpansionClustered LifelinesRibbon Dance

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017: 9th Annual Blue Door Artist Association Members Juried Exhibition – Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY
–Juror: Leigh Taylor Mickelson, Executive Director, Clay Art Center

2016: Survey of Regional Artists – Gallery 66 NY, Cold Spring, NY
8th Annual Blue Door Artist Association Members Juried Exhibition – Blue Door Gallery
–Juror: Barbara Galazzo, Director, Gallery 66 NY, Cold Spring, NY

2015: ONE PERSON SHOW: Figurative & Geometric Abstracts– Gallery 18, Riverdale YM-YWHA– Bronx, NY
Cross-Atlantic Visions, Four person show – MZ Urban Art, NYC (Chelsea)
7th Annual Blue Door Artist Association Members Juried Exhibition – Blue Door Gallery
–Juror: Susan Hoeltzel, Director, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2013: BAU 100+1 – Beacon Artist Union, Beacon, NY

2012:
Spring Fling – Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY. Juried by curator Yuko Nii
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Figure Drawings done in the Studio – Spring Studio, NYC (Soho)

2010-11: Three person show – Monkdogz Urban Art, NYC (150 East 52nd Street lobby)

2010: 56th Annual National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic – Salmagundi Club, NYC (West Village)

2009: Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation– Lenore Segan Visual Arts Awards Reception – Hollis Taggart Galleries, NYC

2006:
Came to Believe, Five person international exhibit – Monkdogz Urban Art, NYC (Chelsea)
Musical Visions – Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, NY. Curated by Wendie Garber

2005:Riverdale Art Association – Art Gallery at St. Cabrini Nursing Home, Dobbs Ferry, NY

2003: Brave Destiny – Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. Sponsored by the Society for Art of the Imagination

2001: ONE PERSON SHOW: Present Views, Past Renewed – Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill, NY

1999: Dia de Los Muertos – Crosby Painting Studio, NYC (Soho)

1997: The Ocean Show – Floyd Bennett Field, Gateway National Recreation Area, Brooklyn, NY, Organized by the Rockaway Artists Alliance

1993: Figurative Poetics: The Union of Psyche and Myth – Organization of Independent Artists, NYC (Tribeca). Four person show; Curated by the artist

1992: The Artist as Outsider – Newark Museum, Newark, NJ. Curated by Denny Levy

1989: ONE PERSON SHOW: Visceral Symbolism – Nicholas Roerich Museum, NYC

1984: Fourth Annual Miniatures Competition – BACA, Brooklyn, NY. Juror: Dore Ashton

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Leo Bisgard Andersen, Vinderup, Denmark
Wendie Garber, Owner, Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill, NY
Gunnar Kjems, Copenhagen, Denmark
Councilwoman Julia MacDermott, New Providence, NJ
Marjorie Slavin, MSW, Family Counselor, Riverdale, NY
New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation (Bellevue Hospital Center) through Percent for Art

AWARDS AND HONORS
2010: National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic – Howard Mandel & Ed Graham Memorial Award

2009: Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation, Inc. – Co-First Place, Lenore Segan Visual Arts Awards Competition

1989:
Artist Grant, Artists Space, NYC (Soho)
Merit Scholarship, Art Students League of NY

1987: Juror’s Award, Small Wall Works show, Amos Eno Gallery, NYC (Soho)

EDUCATION
1972-2004: Art Students League of NY (at various intervals, studied drawing, painting & sculpture)
1975-1979: B.A., Studio Art, Hunter College, CUNY (painting, photography, design & printmaking)
1999-2000: Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY (for computer art in Photoshop & Illustrator)

turlan@optonline.net