SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
State University of New York, Fine Arts Gallery, Oneonta, NY, 1998
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, 1995, 1993, 1991, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1985
Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL, 1992, 1990
Hokin Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1988
Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI (& Visiting Artist), 1983
Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, 1981
Sponsored by a grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC (& Visiting Artist), 1980
Sponsored by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (& Visiting Artist), 1979
Sponsored by a grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1976, 1972, 1969
Razor Gallery, New York, NY, 1977, 1975
Spectrum Gallery, New York, NY, 1973, 1971, 1969, 1968
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, 1972
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, "Illusionary Space & Other Encounters,"Keene State College, Keene NH, 2007
Heuser Art Center Gallery"Abstract Image Makers,"Bradley University, Peoria, IL, 2001
Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Is., FL, 1997
Jaffe Baker Blau Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, 1995
Islip Art Museum,“Thick and Thin,” East Islip, NY, 1993
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, “20th Anniversary Exhibition,” New York, NY, 1988
69th Regiment Armory, “Art at the Armory,” New York, NY, 1988
Summit Art Center, “Interplay, Painted Sculpture and Constructions,”
Invitational, Summit, NJ, 1985
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, “Abstract Painting,” New York, NY, 1985
Jayne Baum Gallery and Hudson Center Galleries, “The Razor Show,” NYC, 1985,
sponsored by the Organization of Independent Artists
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, “4 x 3,” New York, NY, 1984 (three-person show)
Ball State Art Gallery, “Contemporaries I,” Invitational, Muncie, IN, 1983, (three-person)
Neill Gallery, “Ten Abstract Artists,” New York, NY, 1980
Razor Gallery, New York, NY, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1975
Corcoran Gallery, “33rd Corcoran Biennial of Contemporary American Painting,”
Invitational, Washington, DC, 1973 (8 paintings)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Greenfield Energy Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Best Products Company, Inc., Richmond, VA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
City National Bank, Detroit, MI
Indiana University Museum of Fine Arts, Bloomington, IN
Brandeis University, Riverside Museum Collection, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
Lipson, Alport, Glass & Assoc., Northbrook, IL
SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS
NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship
Michigan Council for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
Chautauqua Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua, NY, Awarded First Prize
Detroit Institute of Arts, Fifty-eighth Exhibition for Michigan Artists, Awarded First
Prize:
the Founders Purchase Prize and One-Man Show
Michigan State University, All-University Research Grant
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Nouvel Objet VI,"Tony DeBlasi," pp. 138-141, essay & illustrations, Design House Publishers, Seoul, Korea, 2001
The New York Times, Helen Harrison. “Beyond Showing Textural Extremes in Painting,”
p.30, Nov. 28, 1993 L.I. ed.
Kresge Art Museum Bulletin, Louise McCagg, “An Interview with Tony DeBlasi Regarding Broken
Loose,” Vol. VII, pp.87-91, Michigan State University, East Lansing,
MI, 1992
Color Consulting - A Survey of International Color Design, Harold Linton,
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY, p.149, ill. p.150,
1991
The New York Art Review, Les Krantz, American References, Inc., Chicago, IL, p.446, Ill.
p.540, 1988
The New York Times, William Zimmer, “Summit: A Meeting of Pigment and Sculptural
Material,”
Dec. 1, 1985, N.J. ed.
“Interplay, Painted Sculpture & Constructions,” Catalog, Mary D. Wickliffe, with reproduction,
Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ, 1985
The Detroit News, Joy Hakanson Colby, Review with reproduction, Michigan Artists
80/81 Exhibition,
Detroit Inst. of Arts, July 25, 1982
New Art Examiner, Penelope Friedman, Review, Midwest Edition, June, 1981
Arts Magazine, Robert Yoskowitz, Review, “Ten Abstract Painters,” March, 1981
Arts Magazine, Ellen Lubell, Review, February, 1978
Arts Magazine, Ellen Lubell, Review, January, 1976
Thirty-third Corcoran Biennial Exhibition Catalog, Gene Baro, with reproduction,
Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington D.C. 1973.
Art News, “The National Scene: Washington,” Benjamin Forgey, April, 1973
EDUCATION
Indiana University, M.F.A., Studies with William Bailey, James McGarrel, Albert
Elsen,
Rudy Pozzatti, Henry Hope,
University of Rhode Island, B.A., Studied with William Leete, Jo Cain
Art Students League of New York, no degree offered. Studied with Sidney Dickinson, Will Barnet,
Frank Mason
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