Ross Neher
American, born 1949, Kingston, New York.


EXHIBITIONS

Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY, September 2002.
Howard Scott/M-13 Gallery, New York, NY, November 1999.
Howard Scott/M-13 Gallery, New York, NY, February 1997.
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, October-November 1993.
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, November-December 1991.
Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, April 1991.
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, May 1990.
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, October-November, 1989.
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, December 1988-January 1989.
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, May 1987.
Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, NY, May 1981.
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, May 1979.
Italiaander Gallery, New York, NY, May 1974.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

“Through Our Eyes: Belfast/New York,” Belfast Northern Ireland, October-November 2006.
“Painting Abstraction,” New York Studio School, New York, NY, March 2000.
“Preview,” Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY, June 1999.
“The Fanelli Show,” OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY, Summer 1988.
“Interior Landscapes: Art from the Collection of Clifford Diver,” Delaware Art Museum,Wilmington, DE, April 1998.
“Abstraction, A Pleasured Reticence,” Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY, February 1998.
“Faculty Exhibition,” Schaffler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, February 1998.
“Intimate Universe (Revisited),” Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY, April 1997.
“The Wall Project,” The Sculpture Center, New York, NY, April 1992.
“Illumination,” Pfizer Inc., curated by Erica Behrens, Museum of Modern Art, Art Advisory
Service, New York, NY, February-March 1992.
“Art for Your Collection XXVII,” Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, December 1991.
“Contemporary Painting,” Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT, September 1991.
“New Work,” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, July-August, 1991.
“Group Show,” Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, May-June 1990.
“Group Show,” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, December 1989.
“Small and Stellar,” Ruth Siegal Gallery, New York, N Y, November-December 1989.
“Artists of the ‘80s: Selected Works from the Maslow Collection,” Sidoni Art Gallery,Wilkes-Barre, PA, April-May, 1989.
“The Chemical Collection,” Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, February-March, 1989,
xxxx curated Janice Oresman.
“Life Forces: Nature in Abstraction,” Lintas Worldwide, New York, NY, February-April, 1989,
xxxx curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson.
“New Work,” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, June-July 1988.
“Abstract Paintings,” New York Studio School, New York, NY, November 1987.
“Abstract Paintings,” Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annondale-on-Hudson, NY, October- November, 1986,
xxxx curated by Barry Schwabsky.
“Natural Desire,” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, June-October 1986.
“An Invitational,” Condeso-Lawler Gallery, New York, NY, June 1986, curated by Richard Pugliese.
“Group Exhibition,” Lever-Myerson Gallery, New York, NY, May 1986.
“Neher, Freelander and Venezia,” Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY, April 1986.
“The Art of Drawing,” Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY, February 1986.
“The New Response: Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River,” Vassar College Art Gallery
and the Albany Institute of Art, November 1985-March 1986.
“New Work, New York,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 1985.
“2. Smart Art Too,” 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY, January 1985, curated by Joseph Masheck.
“Drawings,” Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY, February 1984.
“Newcastle Salutes New York,” Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle, England,October 1983.
“Recent Acquisitions,” Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, 1983.
“Third Anniversary Group Exhibition,” John Davis Gallery, Akron, OH, September 1983.
“Floeter, Lieberman and Neher,” Ellen Price Gallery, New York, NY, September 1982.
“Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, November 1981.
“The New Spiritualism,” Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, NY, September 1980.
“A Drawing Show,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, Spring 1980.
“Inaugural Exhibition,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, February 1979.
“Group Exhibition,” Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY, September 1978.
“Recent Abstract Paintings,” State University of New York at Brockport, 1976, traveled.
“Hard Edged and Shaped Canvas Paintings,” The Public Works Gallery, St. Louis, MO, June-July 1970.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aidan Dune, “Review of Through Our Eyes, Belfast Northern Ireland,” The Irish Times, October 31, 2006.
Lyle Rexer, “Ross Neher and Jeff Way at Mitchell Algus,” Art in America, February 2003, p. 119.
Ken Johnson, “Jump,” The New York Times, November 15, 2002.
Mario Naves, “Jump Factor,” The New York Observer, November 18, 2002.
Mario Naves, “Review of Exhibition at Mitchell Algus,” The New York Observer, September 30, 2002, p. 18.
Mario Naves, “Painting Abstraction,” The New York Observer, March 27, 2000, p. 16.
Robert C. Morgan, “Painting Abstraction,” Review, March 15, 2000.
Michael Brennan, “Ross Neher at M-13,” Painter’s Journal, www.artnet.com, January, 2000.
Mario Naves, “A Portrait of an Artist in Gubbio, Italy,” The New York Observer, November 29, 1999, p. 18.
Avi Brisman, “Review of Blindfolding the Muse,” CAA Reviews, www.caareviews.org. November 29, 1999,
Robert C. Morgan, “Ross Neher at M-13,” Review, November 15, 1999, p. 42.
Mark Daniel Cohen, “A Pleasured Reticence,” Review, February 1, 1998, p. 36.
Robert C. Morgan, “A Pleasured Reticence,” Review, February 1, 1998, p. 37.
Anthony DiMaggio, “Ross Neher: Searching Through Structure -- A Review of New Work,”
The Prattler, Vol. 2, No. 10, February 15, 1997, pp. 9-13.
“The Importance of Being Neher: Five Critical Comments,” individual reviews of an exhibition
xxxx at Howard Scott/M-13 by Dominique Nahas, Barry Schwabsky, Jeanne C. Wilkinson,
J. Power Bell and Robert C. Morgan, Review, Vol. 2, No. 10, February 15, 1997 pp. 9-13.
Simon Watson, “Ross Neher: New Paintings at Howard Scott/M-13 Gallery,” Simon Says, February 1997.
Mario Naves, “No Fuss or Muss: Elsworth Kelly at the Rotunda,” The New Criterion, December 1996, p. 50.
Interior Design, June 1996, illustration p. 113.
Barry Schwabsky, “Ross Neher,” Artforum, March 1994, p. 88.
Jeanne C. Wilkinson, “Ross Neher,” Cover Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2. February 1994.
Edith Newhall, “Galleries,” New York Magazine, September 1993, pp. 58, 63.
Robert C. Morgan, “Ross Neher,” Arts, February 1992, p. 62.
Barry Schwabsky, “Forwarding Address: Abstract Painting in Some Recent Manifestations,” Arts, February 1992, p. 62.
Peggy Cyphers, “Ross Neher,” Arts, September 1990, p. 99.
“The Gallereies: Santa Monica,” The Los Angeles Times, November 3, 1989.
Peter Frank, “Art Pick of the Week: Robert Hudson, Ross Neher, Bill Woodrow, John M.
Miller,” L.A. Weekly, November 3-9, 1989.
Gregory Galligan, “New York: Rescripting the Sublime,” Arts International, Summer 1989, pp. 56-59.
Mario Naves, “History Subsumed: The Paintings of Ross Neher,” Arts, Summer 1989, pp. 70-73.
Pamela Lee, “Ross Neher,” Artnews, April 1989, p. 212.
Robert Mahoney, “Ross Neher,” Arts, March 1989, p.96.
Michael Brenson, “Straightened Landscapes of a Post-Modern Era,” The New York Times, January 13, 1989.
Barry Schwabsky, “Ross Neher,” Flash Art, October 1987, p. 107.
John Yau, “Ross Neher,” Artforum, October 1987, pp. 129-130.
John Yau, “Light and Dark -- The Art of Ross Neher,” Sulpher 18, Winter 1987, pp. 179-185.
Amy Slaton, “Ross Neher at Beitzel,” Art in America, July 1987, p. 131.
Roberta Smith, “Ross Neher,” The New York Times, May 29, 1987.
Art and Antiques, April 1987, illustration p. 50.
John Yau, The New Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River,” exhibition catalog,
xxxx Albany Institute of History and Art, 1985, pp. 56-57.
Valatin Tatransky, “Ross Neher...” Arts, February 1983.
April Kingsley, “The New Spiritualism,” exhibition catalog, 1981.
Craig Fisher and Adrian Goddard, “Ross Neher: Painting Behavior,” Artforum, December 1989, pp. 59-61.
Jane Bell, “Gallery Review,” ARTnews, May 1979, p. 174.
Rosemary Teres, “Recent Abstract Painting,” The Albany Times-Union, February 7, 1976, p. 12C.


AWARDS

National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Grant, 1989.
Washington University, Paris Residency at Cité des Arts, May-June 1986.
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, 1985.


BOOKS

Blindfolding the Muse: The Plight of Painting in the Age of Conceptual Art, Prenom Press,
New York, NY, 1999.


PUBLISHED ARTICLES

“As Stupid as a Painter: Jackson Pollock and the Politics of Self,” Art Criticism, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1995, pp. 55-68.
“George Sakier/Correspondences,” Sakier, The Sakier Foundation, 1995, pp. 7-14.
“Robert Ryman: The Great White Hope,” The New York Review of Art, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 1994, pp. 10-12.
“Van Gogh and the Problem with Tradition,” Arts, January 1989, pp. 43-48.
“About Dreamer,” Splash, January 1989.
“Painting and Urban Culture: The Legacy of Picasso,” Issue 2, 1985.
“Painting and Urban Culture: The Death of Perception,” Issue 1, 1984.
“Mentalism Versus Painting,” Artforum, February 1979, pp. 40-47.
“Bathysiderodromophobia,” The Fox 3, New York, 1976.


TEACHING

Professor of Graduate Painting, Pratt Institute, 1980-present.


CURATING

Jump, an exhibition of contemporary abstract painting, The Painting Center, New York, NY,
October 29 - November 23, 2002.

EDUCATION

Pratt Institute, MFA, 1975.
Washington University School of Fine Arts, BFA, Final Honors, 1971.
Group 212, Woodstock, NY, 1967.
Art Students League (with Fletcher Martin and Henry Billings), 1964-67.
John Pike Watercolor School, Woodstock, NY, 1964.


COLLECTIONS

Best Products, Richmond, VA
Binney & Smith, Easton, PA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Citibank, New York, NY
Commonwealth Electric Company, Lincoln, NB
Dewey, Ballantine, New York, NY
Fisher, Francis, Trees & Watts, New York, NY
IBM, Armonk, NY
InterMetro Industries, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Neiman Marcus, Dallas, TX
Nynex, White Plains, NY
Progressive Corporation, Pepperpike, OH
Proskauer, Rose Mendelsohn & Goetz, New York, NY
Prudential Insurance Corporation, Newark, NJ
Dar Reedy, Dellwood, MN
Sherman & Sterling, New York, NY
Société Générale, New York, NY
Richard Swanson, Minnetonka, MN
Harriet and Ronald Weintraub, New York, NY