MIKE SOLOMON
CV
1975, Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting, Skowhegan, Maine
1978, Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, Connecticut
1978, Independent study with Ray Parker and David Budd, New York, New York
1979, Bachelor of Arts, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
1980-1984 Assistant to John Chamberlain
1989 Masters of Fine Art, Hunter College, New York, New York
1990 - 1991 Assistant to Alfonso Ossorio
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC (forthcoming September 2018)
Alfstad & Contemporary, Sarasota, FL (forthcoming March, 2018)
Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY, 2017
Kathryn Markel Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY, 2015
Alfstad & Contemporary, Sarasota, FL, 2015
Allyn Gallup Contemporary, Sarasota, FL, 2014
Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY, 2012
Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, NY, 2008
John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY, 2008
Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, NY, 2006
Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, FL, 2006
The Green Barn, Sagaponack, NY, 2002
Heckscher Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, 1999
Ann Harper Gallery, Amagansett, NY, 1996
Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY, 1993
Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY, 1992
Hunter College, New York, NY, 1989
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, 1988
Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY, 1986
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 1979
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Palm Beach, FL January 11- 15, 2018
Alfstad & Contemporary, Aqua Art Fair, Miami FL December 6 - 10, 1017
Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, “Summer Selections,” July 13 - August 18, 2017
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, " Supreme Friction," June 3 – July 1, 2017
Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL, Berry Campbell Gallery, January 20 -24, 2017
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, “48th Collectors Show and Sale,” November 11, 2016 - January 8, 2017
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, “First 5 Years of the Art of Our Time,” November 4, 2016 – Nov 30, 2017
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, “Hanging Paper,” August 6 - 27, 2016
Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, “Summer Selections,” July 5-August 28, 2016
Alfstad & Contemporary, Sarasota, FL “/& Editions,” June 3-July 15, 2016
Art Southampton, Southampton, New York, Berry Campbell Gallery, July 5-10, 2016
Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, “Something,” Curated by Noah Becker, January 7- February 6, 2016.
Art Wynwood, Miami, FL, Berry Campbell Gallery, February 12 - 16, 2016
Allyn Gallup Contemporary, Sarasota, FL, “Small and Big,” January, 2016
Art Silicon Valley, San Mateo, CA, Berry Campbell Gallery, October 9 - 11, 2015
Ringling College of Art and Design, Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL, “Defining Abstraction,” July 10 – August 5, 2015
Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, “Summer Selections,” June 30 - September 14, 2015
Allyn Gallup Contemporary, Sarasota, FL, “The Lightness of Being: Abstracts: Part 1,” May 1 - June 13, 2015
Sara Nightingale Fine Art, Water Mill, NY, 2015
Hamptons Art Markt, Sara Nightingale Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY, 2015
Allyn Gallup Contemporary, Sarasota, FL, “A Few Great, Big Pictures,” May 16 - July 28, 2014
McNeill Art Group, Southampton, NY, “Mark Makers,” July 4 - August 4, 2014
Dallas Art Fair, Ashley Tatum Fine Art, Dallas, TX, 2013
Allyn Gallup Contemporary, Sarasota, FL, "Some Wonderful Abstractions," August 15- October 5, 2013
Devil's Heaven: The 20th Annual Watermill Center Benefit, Water Mill, NY, July 27, 2013
Hamptons Art Market, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, July 11 – 14, 2013
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, “Artists & Writers They Played in the Game,” June 15 - July 28, 2013
Sarah Nightingale Gallery Water Mill, NY, April - May 30, 2013
Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, “Abstract, adj.; Expressing a quality apart from an object,” Feb 21- April 3, 2013
Fireplace Project, Springs, NY, “Inside Outsiders,” June 29 – July 16, 2012 (Curated by Mary Heilmann)
Harper’s Books, East Hampton, NY, “Open for the Stones,“ May 26th – June 25, 2012
Dallas Art Fair, Salomon Contemporary Booth, Dallas, TX, 2012
Harper’s Books East Hampton, NY, “Group Therapy,” April 21 – May 21, 2012
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, “Artists Chose Artists,” August 21 – October 9, 2011 (Chosen by sculptor Alice Aycock)
Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY, “Flag Day,” June 15 – September 4, 2011
John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY, “Local 87,” July 2 – September 15, 2011
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY, “Hampton’s Artists: Then and Now,” May 5 – June 5, 2011
Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY, “Plank Road,” 2010
McNeill Art Group Project Space, New York, NY, “Plastic, Rubber, Wood,” October 21 – December 14, 2009
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, “Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor,” June 29 - September 14, 2008
Scope Hamptons, East Hampton, NY, July 24 – 27, 2008
Anelle Gandelman Gallery, Larchmont, NY, 2008
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA , “East End Artists: Past and Present,” October 17, 2007 – January 6, 2008
Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, FL, “Assemblage,”August 3 - September 1, 2007
Scope Art Fair, East Hampton, NY, July 26 – July 29, 2007
Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, NY, “Water,” February 7 – June 4, 2007 (Curated by Blair Voltz Clark)
Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, “The Food Show: The Hungry Eye,” Nov 16 – Feb 24, 2006 (Curated by Rob Edleman)
Spanierman Modern, New York, NY, “Long Island Abstraction 1950 to the Present,” September 7 – October 28, 2006
Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, NY, “Hanging Out: A Re-visitation of Summer 2006,” September 10 – October 7, 2006
Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, NY, October – December, 2005
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, “People, Places And Things: Works from the Collection,” April 2 – May 15, 2005
Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, NY, “Then and Now: Hampton Artists,“March 31 – April 16, 2005
Hampton Road Gallery, Southampton, NY, “Works on Paper,” Mar 6 - Mar 17, 2005
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, “Recent Acquisitions: Framing the Collection,” September- December, 2004
Hampton Road Gallery, Southampton, NY, “Fresh Paint,”September 11 – October 11, 2004
Milk Gallery, New York, NY, “Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing,” July, 2004
(Originated at Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna, CA, traveled to Honolulu Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HI), 2004
The Work Space, New York, NY, September 19- November 16, 2002 (Curated by Leslie Heller)
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller East Hampton, NY, “The Sea,” May 25 – June 24, 2002
Glenn Horowitz BooksellerEast Hampton, NY, “Surf’s Up: Pop Culture and Beyond,” July 14 – August 16, 2001
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, “The Global Village: 9 Artists of East Hampton,” April 14 – May 27, 2001
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, traveled to Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, “Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America,” 1999
Staller Art Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, South Fork Artists, 1995
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, “Young Blood,” 1993
O.K. HarrisNew York, NY, Centennial Biennial Invitational, 1991
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Edward Albee
Beth Rudin deWoody
Barnett Bank, Tampa, FL
Cantor Fitzgerald Collection, New York, NY
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Dan Flavin, Jr.
Tom and Darlene Furst
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton,NY
J Crew
Richard Meier
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Prince
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Pricilla Rattazzi Whittle
AWARDS
2001 Pollock – Krasner Foundation Grant
2012 Pollock – Krasner Foundation Grant