About the artist:

Born:Chicago, Illinois Ray Ciarrocchi is a New York-based figurative painter. Ciarrocchi has presented numerous solo exhibitions in New York, additional US cities and Italy as well as dozens of group exhibitions in varied locations and venues. His paintings, watercolors, drawings and monotypes are in many museum and private collections both nationally and abroad. He is married to painter Sandra Caplan. Their daughter Maya Ciarrocchi is an interdisciplinary artist. Education: Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Certificate Washington University, B.F.A., 1959 Boston University, M.F.A., 1961 One-Person Exhibitions: 2004"Latitudes of Light (Latitudini della Luce), Pictorial Visions of America and Europe," a travelling exhibition shown at Civitella del Tronto, Teramo and Atri, Italy, curated by Francesco Tentarelli. 1996Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York City 1993Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York City 1991"Ray Ciarrocchi - Landscapes 1978-91," Marsh Gallery, Modlin Fine Arts Center, University of Richmond, Virginia 1989Fischbach Gallery, New York City 1987Fischbach Gallery, New York City "Winter White," New York Stock Exchange 1985Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City 1983Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City 1981-1982"Nijinsky--A View," Sixteen Monotypes, Joan Whitney Payson, Gallery of Art, Westbrook College, Portland, Maine and the Gotham Book Mark Gallery, New York City 1980Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City 1978Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City 1976Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City 1974Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City 1972Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City 1971Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City Selected Group Exhibitions: 1995"A Legacy of Excellence - The Brooklyn College Art Department," Images Gallery, New York City 1995"Drawings - Celebrating Forty Years of the Visual Arts at Boston University," Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 1994"The Art of Italian Americans," Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, New York 1994"Earth and Sky - Landscape Revisited," Gallery 53 Artworks, Cooperstown, New York 1991"Against the Grain: Images in American Art, 1960 - 1990," Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loreto, Pennsylvania 1990"A Little Night Music - New York City at Night," Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York City 1988"The Contemporary Landscape," Associated American Artists, New York City "The Face of the Land," Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loreto, Pennsylvania 24th Annual Art on Paper Exhibition," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina "Contemporary Landscape and Still Life," Gallery 53, Cooperstown, New York "Artists East: Sixteen Artists," The Gallery, Oneonta, New York 1987"Art Against AIDS," Fischbach Gallery, New York City 1984"The Landscape," Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, Texas "Works on Paper Invitational," University of Tennessee, Knoxville 1983"Monotypes," The State University at Purchase, New York 1982"Architectural Images," The Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey "Hudson River Update," The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 1980"Monotypes," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City 1979"The Urban Landscape, Still Life and Figurative Painting," Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York "Painterly Realism," A Traveling Exhibition Originating at Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, Texas 1978Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, Texas "Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina 1978"118 Artists," Landmark Gallery, New York Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine 1977"Artists Choice - Figurative Painting in New York City," SoHo Center for Visual Arts, New York City "Works on Paper from the Ciba-Geigy Collection," Neuberger Museum, NY and Wichita Falls Museum, Texas "Works on Paper from the Ciba-Geigy Collection," Neuberger Museum, NY and Wichita Falls Museum, Texas "Works on Paper from the Ciba-Geigy Collection," Neuberger Museum, NY and Wichita Falls Museum, Texas "Brooklyn College Art Department, Past and Present," Schoelkopf and Davis & Langdale Galleries, New York City 1976Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, Texas Amarillo Art Centre, Amarillo, Texas "Expressions from Maine," Pepperdine University, Malibu, California and the Headley Museum, Kentucky "76 Artists - A Bicentennial Exhibition," Augusta Museum, Maine "American Watercolors: 1800 to the Present," The Brooklyn Museum, New York 1976"The Open Window," Fort Wayne Museum, Indiana 1975American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York 1974Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, Texas "Works On Paper From The Ciba-Geigy Collection," Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey 1972"Art Acquisitions," University of Massachusetts, Amherst "A.I.R. Artists in Residence," Glassboro State College, New Jersey American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, Texas 1971"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina 1964"Artisti Fulbright," Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy Selected Collections: Allied Banks, Texas American Telephone and Telegraph Bristol, Meyers, Squibb Company The Brooklyn Museum Choate Memorial Hospital, Boston The Ciba - Geigy Collection Citibank, NA The Columbus Museum of Art Commerce Bancshares, Missouri Ernst & Whinney, New York First Illinois Bank of Evanston, Illinois Glickenhaus & Company, New York Greenwich Public Library, Connecticut Hale & Dorr, Boston Heublein, Incorporated The Hospital Corporation of America Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Incorporated Lumber Mutual Marsh & McLennan, Incorporated, New York Milbank, Tweed, Hadly & McCloy, New York Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing NYNEX Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York The Prudential Insurance Company of America Purolator Corporation R.J. Reynolds Industries, North Carolina Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York Triangle Industries, New York The United States Department of State The University of Massachusetts, Amherst Western Electric Corporation The World Bank Selected Bibliography: Tentarelli, Francesco. "Latitudes of Light (Latitudini della Luce) Pictorial Visions of America and Europe", (Catalogue Essay), August, September 2004. Gladstone, Valerie. "Ray Ciarrocchi at Katharina Rich Perlow, Art News, November 1996. Mallory, Nina A. "Ray Ciarrocchi: Italian Landscapes," (Catalogue Essay), Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, September 1996. Bass, Ruth. "New York, New York!," ART-TALK, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 1996. Raynor, Vivien. "Exhibit by Italian - Americans," The New York Times, December 25, 1994. Henry, Gerrit. "Ray Ciarrocchi at Katharina Rich Perlow," ARTnews, November 1993. Proctor, Roy. "Ciarrocchi's Water Binds Land, Sky Into Unity," The Richmond New Leader, November 23, 1991. Merritt, Robert. "Ciarrocchi's Painting Captures Response," The Richmond Times - Dispatch, November 16, 1991. Campbell, Lawrence. "Ray Ciarrocchi at Fischbach," Art in America, October 1989. Saez, Richard. "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," Arts, March 1985. Combs, Tram. "Ray Ciarrocchi, New Artist in Town," The Woodstock Times, February 3, 1983. Mallory, Nina A. "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," Arts, January 1983. Beem, Edgar Allen. "Ray Ciarrocchi: Nijinsky - A View," Art - New England, July/August, Volume 2, No. 8, 1981. Lubell, Ellen. "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," SoHo News, February 23, 1978. Frank, Peter. "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," ARTnews, September 1976. Kannenstine, Lou. "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," The 57th Street Review, March 1976. Campbell Lawrence. "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," ARTnews, April 1974. Kramer, Hilton. "SoHo: Figures At An Exhibition," The New York Times, March 2, 1974. Lubell, Ellen. "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," Arts, March 1974. Schwartz, Barbara. "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," ARTnews, April 1972. Mellow, James R. "Ray Ciarrocchi," The New York Times, March 1, 1972. Scofield, Gerald E. "Ray Ciarrocchi At Tibor De Nagy," Pictures On Exhibit, May - June 1972. Mikotajuk, Andrea. "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," Arts, Summer 1971. Gruen, John. "Ray Ciarrocchi," New York Magazine, June 7, 1971. Ayres, Julia. Monotype - Painterly Printmaking, Watson - Guptill, May 1991. Listed in Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in the East, Printworld, and Who's Who in American Education 1992 -1993. Awards & Scholarships: 1982Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship Award 1977Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship Award 1967Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant 1965The MacDowell Colony 1963Fulbright Grant, Florence, Italy 1962The MacDowell Colony