Visiting Artists & Scholars Bios
Will Cotton
Zach Feuer
James Hillman
Matvey Levenstein
Margot McLean
Steve Mumford
Jerry Saltz
Peter Schjeldahl
Will Cotton was born in Massachusetts in 1965. He received a BFA from Cooper Union in 1987 and attended the New York Academy of Art in 1988.
Cotton has had solo exhibitions at Mary Boone Gallery in New York City (2000, 2000, 2002, 2004), Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris (2003), Mario Diacono Gallery in Boston (2003), Jablonka Galerie in Brussels (2001), I-20 Gallery in New York City (1999), and Silverstein Gallery (1995, 1996, 1998).
He has been in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany (2004), Salon 94 in New York City (2003), Seattle Art Museum (2002), Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle (2000), San Francisco Museum of Art (2000), Tate in New York City (1999), and Sixth @ Prince Fine Art in New York City (1999).
Will Cotton lives and works in New York City.
Zach Feuer is the owner of Zach Feuer Gallery (formerly LFL Gallery) as well as a cofounder of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA). Artists represented by Zach Feuer have been exhibited in major museums and biennials around the world. He has been profiled in The New York Times, Art Newspaper, Art Review, Power 100, Issue Magazine, The Boston Globe, and on PBS.
James Hillman - The pioneering imaginative psychology of James Hillman that soon will span five decades has entered cultural history, affecting lives and minds in a wide range of fields. He is the author of more than twenty books, including A Terrible Love of War, The Force of Character, The Soul’s Code, which debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list in 1996 and the Pulitzer Prize nominated Re-Visioning Psychology. The originator of Archetypal Psychology he has received many honors, including the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic. He is an internationally renowned lecturer, teacher and psychologist and has held distinguished lectureships at Yale, Princeton, Syracuse and the University of Chicago. His books have been published in twenty-one languages.
Matvey Levenstein was born in Moscow, the USSR, in 1960. He attended Moscow Architectural Institute from 1987 until 1989. He immigrated to the US in 1980. In 1983 he received a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. He attended Yale School of Art and received an MFA in 1987.
Solo exhibitions: at Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC in 1995 and 1997, at Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin, Italy in 2005. Selected group exhibitions: Galleria Lorcan O’Neal, Rome, Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin, Esso Gallery, New York, Ace Gallery, NY, Fine Arts Gallery, The College of Santa Fe, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Mathew Marks Gallery, NY, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY, Witherspoon Art Gallery, Veknin and Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, Apex Art, NY, Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Richard Anderson Gallery, NY, Lauren Wittels Gallery, NY, White Columns, NY, The Sculpture Center, NY, The Drawing Center, NY, Berland/Hall Gallery, NY, New Jersey Center for Visual Art, Summit, Bess Cutler Gallery NY.
Matvey has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, New York University, The Cooper Union School for the Advancements of Science and Art, Yale School of Art, Tyler School of Art, Yale at Norfolk Summer School of Art, Princeton University, Parsons School of Design.
He has been awarded: Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, 2003, Penny McCall Foundation Award, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Grant, Katherine J. Horwitch Grant, Anne Louise Raymond Traveling Fellowship.
Margot McLean was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1952 and has lived and worked in NYC since the late 1970’s. As an artist and teacher, she has long addressed environmental issues focusing on the animal and botanical worlds. She has exhibited internationally and is the recipient of grants and fellowships in New York and Italy. Her most recent exhibition (May-Oct 2004) was held at La Specola Natural History Museum in Florence, Italy entitled “catching light, migrations, water flow, extinctions...” A book of her work was published by Vitali & Moretti, Bergamo, Italy, 2002. Other publications include Dream Animals, a collaboration with psychologist James Hillman, Chronicle Books.
Steve Mumford was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1960. In 1986, he received a MA from the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and in 1994, a MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1994.
Mumford has had solo exhibitions at the University of Akron in Ohio (2004), Postmasters Gallery in New York City (2000, 2002, 2003), and Tricia Collins Contemporary Art in New York City (1997, 1999).
He has been in group exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery in Greensboro, NC (2004), SVA Art Gallery in New York City (2004), Van Brunt Gallery in New York City (2004), and Gigantic Art Space in New York City (2004).
Jerry Saltz has been the Senior Art Critic for the Village Voice since 1998. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2001, he is the author of Seeing Out Loud: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1998-2003; Elizabeth Murray: New Paintings; and co-author of Beyond Boundaries: New York’s New Art with Roberta Smith and Peter Halley. Saltz has lectured widely and has written for many periodicals including Frieze, Parkett, Art in America, Flash Art, and Time Out New York.
For examples of Jerry Saltz’s work, please see:
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0207/saltz.php
Peter Schjeldahl was born in North Dakota, and grew up in Minnesota. He attended Carleton College and the New School. He has lived in New York since 1965. He has been a columnist for The Village Voice and a contributing editor at Art in America and has worked as a regular art critic for The New York Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, and Seven Days. His books include Columns & Catalogues (1994), The Seven Days Art Columns (1991), both from Figures, and Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978-1990 (University of California at Berkeley, 1991), as well as several books of poetry. He was the recipient of the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinguished art criticism and a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is presently the art critic for The New Yorker.
