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ED RATH

Born in 1952 in Minneapolis, MN.
Education: MFA - Yale University - New Haven, CT, Winner of Phelps-Berdan Award, 1976.
BFA - Minneapolis College of Art and Design - Minneapolis, MN, 1974.
Brighton Polytechnic Art and Design - Brighton, United Kingdom, 1972-74.
Studio 70, Fine Art Atelier - Fort Thomas, Kentucky, Certificate, 1991.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

http://edrath.com/

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2007        “New Work by Ed Rath” 55 Mercer gallery, NYC (February, 2007)
2006        “Remembering 911”  Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey
                “Imagination”  Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT curator Wendy Kelley
2005        “Grieved and Bereaved in Brooklyn” 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC
                “Ed Rath: A Story from D.U.M.B.O.”  H.A.C. Gallery, Kobe, Japan
2004        “New Paintings, Crisis in the White House”  55 Mercer Gallery                                                                                                               
2002        “Paintings” 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC
                “Messages from Ground Zero in New York”  Shimin Plaza Gallery, Himeji, Japan
2001        “New Work” 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC
2000        “Exploring Ideas through Drawing” Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St.  Louis, Missouri
1997        “New Work”  The Project Room, Thread Waxing Space, NYC
1996        “Ed Rath” The Landmark at East View, Tarrytown, NY, Curator Wendy Kelly
                “Human, Nature” University of Connecticut at Storrs, NY Times Review by Bill Zimmer
1994        “Ed Rath Paintings” Gallery B.A.I., NYC
1992        “Decade”  1982-91, Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center, Brooklyn, NY
1991        “Paintings”  WEBO Gallery, NYC
1987        “Ed Rath”   Vassar College Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
1980        “Ed Rath Paintings”  Art Galaxy, NYC
                “Ed Rath Paintings”   Drew University Gallery, Madison, NJ

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

1998-99   NYC BOE & SCA   “Jump Rope”   brick mural at P.S. 7, Brooklyn, NY
1998-99   NYC BOE & SCA  “We Are the Future”   ceramic tile, P.S. 7, Brooklyn, NY

COLLECTIONS

2005        John Wesley, NYC
2001        Sage Hill, Cambridge, MA, Corporate Art Collection)
2000        Centre Investment Services, Pembroke, Bermuda, Corporate Art Collection
1999        Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar, Boston, MA, Corporate Art Collection
1998        Hale and Dorr, Washington DC, Corporate Art Collection
1994        Brooklyn Union Gas, Brooklyn, NY, Corporate Art Collection
1992        NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, Coney Island Hospital

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006        “Grand Allusions”     The Painting Center, NYC
                “New York Contemporary, Art Times Squared” Hangart-7  Salzburg, Austria  (Catalogue, TV interview, newspaper essay)
                “East Wind West Wind” Ed Rath, Meridith McNeil, Shiro Sasaki, HAC Gallery, Kobe City, Japan
2005        “Project Diversity” Magnolia Tree Gallery, Brooklyn, New York                                                                                                               
2004        “Hibiki, A Conversation With Nature”, City Hall, Phoenix, Arizona
                “Reduce/Reuse/Reexamine”, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003        “Rivington Beach” Gallery One Twenty Eight, NYC
2002        “A Wall of Prayer – A Crisis In New York” (traveling show) Himeji,
                Osaka, and Yamasaki, Japan                                                                                                   
2001         “River Styx Poetry Magazine Benefit Show” St. Louis Missouri.
                “Young At Art: Youthful Inspiration” Morgan Industrial center, Jersey City, NJ
2000        “Narratives, Tanya Hartman, Ruth Moritz, Ed Rath” Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas,
                 curated by Saralyn Reece Hardy. Catalog.
1999        “Outer Boroughs” White Columns, NYC
                “Size Matters” Gayle Gates Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Mike Weiss
1998        “Cityscapes”   HBO Gallery, NYC, curated by Wendy Kelley                                   
1996
        “On the Waterfront”   Kentler International, Brooklyn, NY
1996        “The Crest Hardware Show”   Brooklyn, NY, Curator Gene Pool
                Scratch”   Thread Waxing Space, NYC, Catalogue
                “Benefit Exhibition”  The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1995        Split Level”   Art In General, Curator Lisa Corinne Davis, Catalogue
                “Drawings”  Soho Biennial  450 Broadway, Curator Matt Meyers
1993-94  “The Machine in the Garden Revisited”  Kingsborough College Gallery, Catalogue essay by Curator Janet Riker
1993        Bronx River Art Center Gallery, Curator Mariella Bisson
1991-92   Frank J. Miele Gallery, NYC
1991        “Selections"   55 Mercer Gallery, Curator Connie Butler
                “Portraits and People”   Frank J. Miele Gallery
1990        “Who Laughs...Last?”   Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, Curator Karen Harris
1989        “Rainforest Benefit Show”  NYC  Curator Robert Costa
                “The Live Ones”   Boathouse Gallery, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Curator Mariella Bisson
                “Wanted Dead or Alive"   10 on 8,  NYC
1983-98   Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Annual Shows
1986        BWAC Group Show  NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs City Gallery, Curator Charlotta Kotik
1985-86   Parsons School of Design Gallery   NYC
1984        The Brooklyn Museum Community Gallery  Brooklyn, NY
1983        “The Grand Gallop”   Artists Space, NYC, Catalogue essay by Curator Jim Casebere
1982        Holly Solomon Gallery traveling show at Mark Twain Bank, Kansas City, MO
1981        P.S 122 Gallery, NYC
1980        “Two Demensions”  Guilford College Gallery, Greensboro, NC