Robert Simon

Resume: Robert Simon

EXHIBITIONS:

2003 Solo Exhibition, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty Exhibit, New York Academy of Art, NYC
2001 Felicity R. Benoliel Memorial Exhibit, Philadelphia Foundation
Drawn from the Figure, MFA Faculty Exhibit, NYAA, NYC
1998 Drawn from the Faculty, State University College at Buffalo
1997 Derriere Guard: An Exhibition, The Kitchen: Center for Music, Dance and Video, NYC
1996 The M.F.A. Faculty of N.Y. Academy of Art, Plaza Gallery, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, NYC
1995 A Good Likeness: Contemporary Portrait Sculpture, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Fellowship Exhibition, American College, Bryn Mawr, PA
1994 Fellowship Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Contemporary Sculpture Directions, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
1993 Fellowship Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia
Faculty Exhibition, Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA
Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
1992 Group Show, Jefferson Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Group Show, Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Sculpture Exhibit, Sun Oil Co. and Creative Artists' Network Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Group Show, USX Tower, Pittsburgh, PA
1991 Group Show, Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, PA
Group Show, Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Group Show, Sun Oil Co. and Creative Artists' Network, Co-sponsors
Group Show, Bell of Pennsylvania and Creative Artists' Network, Co-sponsors
Group Show, Provident National Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Fellowship Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum
1990 Group Show, Creative Artists' Network Gallery, Philadelphia

HONORS AND AWARDS:

From Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts:Purchase Prize, PAFA Fellowship Exhibition, Mary Butler Award
From Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Stimson Competition, Dutrow Award, Stewardson Competition, Honorable Mention, Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship
From Creative Artists' Network: Honorary membership by peer review, Sponsorship of open studio event, James Wilburt Johnston Competition, 2nd Place, Johnston Foundation, held at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.


COMMISSIONS:

1989Three bronze bas-reliefs for New Jersey Law Center, State Bar Association, New Brunswick, NJ
1983-88 Numerous portrait busts including Dr. Peter G. Bullough, Chair, Orthopedic Pathology, New York Hospital, New York, NY



COLLECTIONS:

Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Amsterdam, Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Peter G. Bullough, New York, NY
Mr. George Doan, Philadelphia, PA
Mr. Stephen Frishberg, Philadelphia, PA
Dr. John Goodfellow, Oxford, England
Mr. Donald Hootstein, Boston, MA
Mr. Bartom H. Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA
Mr. Norman Osherman, Chicago, IL
Fellowship Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Mr. Frank Saul, Philadelphia, PA
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Teufel, Emmaus, PA
Mr. Robert G. Wilder, Philadelphia, PA

TEACHING POSITIONS:

1995-present
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF FIGURATIVE ART OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART, New York, NY, ADJUNCT FACULTY

1995
COOPER UNION COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, New York, NY, INSTRUCTOR GENERAL STUDIES DIVISION

1992 to 1995
BAUM SCHOOL OF ART, Allentown, PA, INSTRUCTOR IN SCULPTURE AND FIGURE DRAWING

CHESTERWOOD, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Stockbridge, MA.
SCULPTOR/DEMONSTRATOR - Developed and performed a series of 30-minute lecture/demonstrations on sculpture techniques for small and large audiences of museum patrons in a studio setting, and fielded questions of a technical and aesthetic nature concurrent with the progress of the work.

EDUCATION:

Washington University, St. Louis, MO - BA History of Art
Senior Thesis: The Relation of Lorenzetti Brothers fresco Allegory of Good and Bad
Government in Palazzo Ducale, Sienna to Aristotle's Ethics
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA - 4 year certificate