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Shalom Tomáš Neuman (born July 27, 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech born American artist, museum founder, and the driving force behind the visual arts concept of "fusionism".[1]
Biography
Neuman was born into a Jewish family in Prague in what was then Czechoslovakia. Under the Nazis much of his family was killed and then during the Iron curtain era which followed many of the remaining members of his clan were given the choice of Siberia or death.[2] Subsequently, Neuman along with his family moved to Israel. At the age of 12 Neuman then emigrated to the United States with his family. Neumann studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia before going on to get dual BFAs and MFAs from Carnegie Mellon University in Sculpture and painting.[3]
Neuman has taught at Cooper Union and Parsons School of Design and been a visiting lecturer at The School of Visual Arts, the Pratt Institute, and Yale University.[4]
Neuman is a member of the Rivington School.[5] Neuman is a 2015 recipient of a Premio Galileo Giglio d'Oro award in art upon which occasion he produced a Fusionism even at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence.[3] Neuman is closely associated with he New York City literary collective The Unbearables[6]
From August to November of 2011 his work was the subject of the exhibition "The Fusion Art of Shalom Neuman" at the National Gallery of Prague.[7]
His wife Karen is a professor of art at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Work
Neuman is represented by the Van Der Plas gallery in New York City.[4] Neuman's work has been written about by critics such as Donald Kuspit,[8] and Robert C. Morgan who has described Neuman's work as "Humanism in exile".[9] his work is held in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Prague, Museum Kamp and the Kafka Museum in the Czech Republic as well as the Ellis Island Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[2]
Museums
Sometime after moving to New York City Neuman bought an abandoned building on Stanton Street in Manhattan for $100,000.[9] Therein Neuman founded the FusionArts museum on the Lower East Side of New York City and subsequently in two other locations; Prague, Czech Republic, and Easton, Pennsylvania
References
- ^ "Shalom Neuman". Saatchi Art.
- ^ a b Higgins, Tim. "New York 'Fusion' artist Shalom Neuman brings philosophy to Easton". mcall.com.
- ^ a b Chau, Lisa; Forbes, ContributorPublished over 100 times in; News, U. S.; SXSW 2018, World Report as well as Huffington Post TED-Ed Lesson Creator (November 26, 2013). "Interview With Shalom Tomas Neuman, Winner of Italy's Prize for Art, Giglio d'Oro 2013". HuffPost.
{{cite web}}:|first2=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "Shalom Neuman".
- ^ "Rivington School : 80s New York Underground". Printed Matter.
- ^ Stosuy, Brandon; Cooper, Dennis; Myles, Eileen (October 1, 2006). Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814783580 – via Google Books.
- ^ "IAM unlimited - produkce uměleckých, společenských i zábavních akcí". www.iam.cz.
- ^ "ESSAY: Reconciling The Irreconcilable: Shalom Neuman's Fusion Art by Donald Kuspit". shalom-art.com.
- ^ a b "Shalom Neuman's Art in Exile". Dissent Magazine.