Eric Fischl

Eric Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island. He attended Phoenix College and earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. While living in Chicago, Fischl worked as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art before moving to Halifax to teach painting at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. In 1975, he had his first solo show and returned to New York City a few years later. A keen observer of the relationships between people, and between people and their surroundings, Fischl made his reputation in the 1980s with large-scale figurative oil paintings depicting ambiguous, erotically charged scenarios set in the American suburbs. Among his public works are the statue Soul in Flight: Memorial to Arthur Ashe and the wallpainting at Penn Station in New York, The Garden of Circus Delights .

Fischl is an internationally acclaimed, both as a painter and a sculptor. He has been featured in over one thousand publications and his artwork is represented in many distinguished museums, including the the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. He is a Fellow at both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Science.

Fischl lives and works in Sag Harbor, NY with his wife, the painter April Gornik.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016

• Rift Raft, Skarstedt Gallery, NYC, NY

2015

• Eric Fischl, Westport Arts Center, Wesport, CT, United States
• Eric Fischl: Art Fair Paintings, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2014

• Eric Fischl: Art Fair Paintings, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
• Eric Fischl, Jablonka Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
• Eric Fischl: Friends, Lovers and other Constellations, Albertina, Vienna, Austria

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
• American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
• Eli Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
• Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
• Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
• Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
• Dannheisser Foundation, New York, NY
• Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
• Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
• Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
• Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
• Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
• Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
• Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
• Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
• The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
• Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OK
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
• The Saatchi Gallery, London, England
• St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
• San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
• Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. 
• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• The Toledo Museum of Art, OH
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY