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In 1975, Callner came to the University at Albany to begin the MFA program, where he taught until retirement in 1993. His paintings display a complex use of color and texture. Throughout his half-century career, he has ranged through motifs in Hebrew mythology, landscape, and abstraction.Callner has been the subject of major retrospectives at UAlbany’s University Art Museum and the Albany Institute of History & Art. His work is in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Chicago Art Institute, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia.“The Lucca Paintings and Color Abstraction Series” are his most recent works.
Richard Callner (born 1927- )
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin, Madison, B.F.A, 1946-48
Academie Julian, Paris, Certificate, 1948-49
Columbia University, New York, M.F.A., 1952
RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2003 Richard Callner: 50 Year Retrospective Exhibition, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany New York
1997 Richard Callner, A Retrospective Exhibition, Bertha V. B. Lederer Gallery, State University of New York College of Geneseo, Geneseo, New York
1988 Richard Callner: Thirty Year Retrospective, University Art Museum, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York
1970 Richard Callner: Ten Year Retrospective, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1963 Richard Callner: Ten Year Retrospective, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1960 Richard Callner: Eight Year Retrospective, Milwaukee Jewish Cultural Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2001 Richard Callner, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, New York
1999 Richard Callner: Then and Now, Yates Gallery, J. Spencer & Patricia Standish Library, Siena College, Latham, New York
1998 Richard Callner: Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolor, Gouache, and Oil, Art Gallery, Snowden Library, Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania
1995 Richard Callner '95: Oils and Watercolors, Concordia College Art Gallery, Bronxville, New York
1994 Richard Callner: Small Works, Paintings and Drawings, Russell Sage College Art Gallery, Troy, New York
1990 Richard Callner: Selected Works, Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York, New York
1988 Richard Callner: Selected Works 1951-1988, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, New York (catalogue)
1984 Alpha Gallery, Split, Yugoslavia
1984 Atrium Gallery, General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center, Schenectady, New York
1980 Cork Arts Society, County Cork, Ireland
1975 Bristol Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island
1974 National Academy of Science, Washington, D. C.
1970 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1964 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1998 Works On Paper, Kendall Art & Design, Hudson, New York
1997 The Contemporary Landscape, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
1997 Drawings, The Pelham Arts Center, Pelham, New York
1997 Memory and Mourning, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, New York
1997 Invitational Exhibition, Phoenix Insurance Company, Albany, New York
1997 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, New York
1995 Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York, New York
1995 Rensselaer County Council for the Arts, Troy, New York
1995 Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York
1994 Creating After Teaching: Three Faculty Emeriti, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, New York
1993 The Atmosphere: Art, Native Wisdom and Science, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, New York
1984, 85, 87 Premio Internazionale Per L'Incisione, Biella, Italy
1981, 83, 85 Print Biennale, Llubljana, Yugoslavia
1963 Walker Art Institute Invitational, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1958, 59, 61, 63 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Istanbul, Turkey
Herbert E. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Walker Art Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Kalamazoo Art Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Gallery of Modern Art, Pristina, Yugoslavia
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
COMMISSIONS
Three Tapestries (Gobelin-style) completed at Mambush Tapestries, Ein Hod, Israel
FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS
1998 Richard Florsheim Art Fund Foundation
1985 USIA grants, Soviet Union and Finland (Ampar Grant)
1984 USIA grant, Soviet Union (Ampar Grant). Lectured at the
Hermitage Museum and Pushkin Museum.
1983-84 USIA grant, Hungary and East Germany
1981 Fulbright Professorship, Yugoslavia
1980-81 USIA grant, Yugoslavia
1973 USIA grant, Turkey
1958-60 John Simon Guggenheim Painting Fellowship, England and France
FACULTY POSITIONS
University at Albany, State University of New York (Chairman of Fine Arts Department, 1975-81)
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy (Founding Director) Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Professor
Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan, Professor
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Instructor
VISITING ARTIST and/or LECTURER
State Department Visiting Artist, U.S.I.S. Turkey
Kalamazoo Art Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Olivet College Fine Arts Workshop, Olivet, Michigan
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Cambridge University, King's College, Cambridge, England
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Academy of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Poets & Painters Society, Cote d' Azur, France
Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy
Museum of Fine Arts, Skopjia, Yugoslavia
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, Maine
Invited seminar participant in the 15th Jubilee International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljublajana, Yugoslavia
Guest Lecturer at the Repin Art Institute, Moscow, and the Hermitage, Leningrad, USSR
Project Director for 1984 USIA Grant to organize an exhibition of American Graphics for the Leningrad residence of the US Consul General