Resume

ENID BLECHMAN

enid.blechman@gmail.com

EDUCATION

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

Savannah, Georgia

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

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

1967-69 New York University, New York, New York

AWARDS

2024 Best in Show, Day in the Life Palm Beach

2018 ”Slices of the Sea”,Permanent Installation,August 2018, MD Anderson/Baptist Cancer Hospital, Jacksonville, FL., main hospital lobby, 10,000 hand-painted, microscope slides on forty wood panels, 24’x12’.

2017 Artwork Slices of the Sea commissioned for new cancer hospital in Jacksonville,FL 

2017 Chosen for Creative Capital Development Program, Jupiter, Florida

2017 Best in Show, Juried Biennial-Art and Culture Center, open to all Florida

residents, cash awarded- $5,000., Hollywood, 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 Thomas McCabe Scholarship for Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design,

Savannah, Georgia

2010-13 Honors Graduate Scholarship, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia

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

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

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

SOLO SHOWS

2020 Mountain Space Gallery, Lake Worth, FL

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 Seach for Fat, Hampden Gallery,

University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

2013 Installation, Power Station at Night, Alexander Gallery, Savannah College of Art

and Design, Savannah, GA.

2013 Adipose Industries Presents Pataphysics, Savannah College of Art and Design,

Fahm Gallery, 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 York1997 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

GROUP SHOWS

2025 Drawing Discourses, State University of North Caroling/Asheville

2024 A Day in the Life of Palm Beach, Armory, West Palm Beach, Fl, Best in Show

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, Stuart Courthouse Gallery, featured artist, Stuart, Fl.

2021 “Eden”, Mountain Space Gallery, Lake Worth, FL

2021 Group Show, Mountain Space Gallery, Lake Worth , Fl 

2019 29^th All Florida Show, Stuart, FL

2019 A Sense of Place, Brunswick, Georgia

1. 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.

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

2013 Installation, Power Station at Night, Alexander Gallery, Savannah College of Art

and Design, Savannah, GA.

2013 Adipose Industries Presents Pataphysics, Savannah College of Art and Design,

Fahm Gallery, 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

2016 JF Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida

2016 International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska.

2016 Artsynergy, Palm Beach Convention Center, Florida

2015 Vanderbilt University, May 2015 three person show, Nashville, TN

2014 Studios of Key West, Key West, Florida, June 2014

2013 Installation, The Top Scientist Is In, Savannah College of Art and Design,

Savannah, Georgia

2012 DeFINE Art Exhibition, Curated by Paul Bloodgood, Savannah College of Art and

Design, Savannah, Georgia

2012 Installation, Underwater Museum, Savannah College of Art and Design,

Savannah,Georgia

2011 Open Studio, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia

Mr. Beast Gallery, Savannah, Georgia

Mr. Beast Gallery, Savannah, Georgia

2010 Open Studio, Savannah, Georgia

2004 Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York

Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, New York

2003 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, New York

1997 University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, New York

1994 University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, New York

1992 Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York

1983 Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, New YorkNew Art from Kingston, Five Person Invitational, Kingston, New York

1981 Master of Arts Thesis Show, State University of New York, Albany, New York

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

Savannah, Georgia

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

Design, Savannah, Georgia

2000  “The Art of Healing”, published by Baptist/MD Anderson Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL.

2000  “The ART OF HEALING,” vimeo, Baptist/MD Anderson Cancer Center

Private Collections national and international. Museum of the State of New York at Albany and Museum of Savannah College of Art and Design

hhtp://www.browardpalmbeach.com/arts/ten-best-visual-artists-in-palm-beach-county-7691099, Broward Times April 2016

Numerous commissions for new construction, University of Miami, 2024,2025