ENID BLECHMAN

Enid.blechman@gmail.com

Website: Enidblechman.com

EDUCATION

2013 M.F.A. Painting, summa cum laude, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah, Georgia

1981 M.A. Studio Art with honors, State University of New York (SUNY), Albany, New York

1971 B.F.A. Drawing/Painting/Graphics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1967–1969 New York University, New York, New York

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS

2024 Best in Show, A Day in the Life of Palm Beach, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL

2017 Best in Show, Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida (cash awarded)

2017 Chosen for Creative Capital Development Program, Jupiter, Florida

2016 Top Ten Visual Artists in Palm Beach County, Broward New Times

2012 New American Painting, Issue #100 Southern Painters on the Rise

2011–2013 Honors Graduate Scholarship, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia

2011 Thomas McCabe Scholarship for Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia

1985 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Drawing, New York, New York

1986 University Art Gallery Award, State University of New York, Albany, New York

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 The Red Divers of the Everglades: The battle continues…, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, Savannah, Georgia

2014 Enid Blechman and Adipose Industries presents A Pataphysical Conversation, Underwater Research and the Everglades: The Search for Fat, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

2013 Installation, Power Station at Night, Alexander Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, GA

2013 Adipose Industries Presents Pataphysics, Fahm Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, GA

2012 Installation Alexander Gallery, The Top Scientist Is In, SCAD, Savannah, GA

2003 Marcuse Gallery, Kingston, New York

2002 Marcuse Gallery, Kingston, New York

1997 The Grange, Kingston, New York

1995 Donskoj Gallery, Kingston, New York

1987 Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York

1983 Ulster County Council of the Arts, Kingston, New York

1982 University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Drawing Discourses, State University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC

2023 All Florida Biennial Group Show, Stuart, FL

2023 Manatee Center, West Palm Beach, FL

2022 MTN Space Gallery, Lake Worth, FL

2021 Court Sessions, three-person show (featured artist), Stuart Courthouse Gallery, Stuart, FL

2021 Eden, Mountain Space Gallery, Lake Worth, FL

2019 29th All Florida Show, Stuart, FL

2019 A Sense of Place, Brunswick, Georgia

2018 National Art Encounters, Naples, FL

2017 Martin County Biennial, Art Center of Martin County, Stuart, FL

2017 Hollywood Council of the Arts, Biennial, Hollywood, FL (Best in Show awarded)

2016 International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska

2016 Artsynergy, Palm Beach Convention Center, FL

2015 Three-person show, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

2012 DeFINE Art Exhibition, curated by Paul Bloodgood, SCAD, Savannah, GA

1983 New Art from Kingston, Five Person Invitational, Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY

RESIDENCIES

2018 Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts Residency, Saratoga, Wyoming

2017 Red Gate Residency, Beijing, China

2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

2014 Studio at Key West, Key West, Florida

COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS

2024-25 Commissions for University of Miami Health Center and University of Miami, Sole Mia Health Center, North Miami, FL

2018 Slices of the Sea, Permanent Installation, MD Anderson/Baptist Cancer Hospital, Jacksonville, FL. Main hospital lobby; 10,000 hand-painted microscope slides on forty wood panels (24’ x 12’).

Public Collections:
Museum of the State of New York at Albany
Museum of the Savannah College of Art and Design
Private collections nationally and internationally.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2013 Teaching Assistant in Introduction to Oil Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

2012 Teaching Assistant in Color Theory, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA