Ron GorchovVertical Tabs Works Video Kossak Painting Fellowship Presents: Ron Gorchov Video of Kossak Painting Fellowship Presents: Ron Gorchov Biography Full CV Ron Gorchov, Painter Who Challenged Viewers’ Perceptions - The New York TimesRon Gorchov was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1930. He attended the University of Mississippi in 1947, spend the following two years at the Roosevelt College & Art Institute in Chicago and rounded up his studies at the University of Illinois in 1951.As a groundbreaking artist, Ron bridged sculpture and abstract painting, developing a singular artistic vocabulary over decades of practice. He belonged to a generation of painters who removed their canvases from the rectangular stretcher seeking a new pictorial field, and within his signature curved canvases he united form and content while preserving their tensions. His hybrid painting sculptures created new dimensions and depth, disorienting the viewer’s perception.Having had the honour to work closely with Ron on his three solo exhibitions at our galleries, we witnessed first-hand the passion and joy he found through his art. There is no doubt that his greatest legacy will be the people he continues to inspire through his work. Gorchov’s paintings are included in renowned collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Detroit Institutes of Art, Michigan; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Everson Museum of Art, New York. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 Ron Gorchov, The Shade Between, MARUANI MERCIER Ron Gorchov, Modern Art, London 2018 Ron Gorchov, Max Hetzler, Berlin Ron Gorchov: Solo Booth, MARUANI MERCIER, EXPO Chicago 2017 Ron Gorchov, Cheim & Read, New York Ron Gorchov, MARUANI MERCIER, Knokke, Belgium 2016 Ron Gorchov: Works from the 1970s, Vito Schnabel Projects, New York Ron Gorchov: Stacks, ADAA: The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York Ron Gorchov: Concord, Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland 2015 Ron Gorchov, curated by Vito Schnabel, Sotheby’s S|2, London Ron Gorchov - Recent Works, Thomas Brambilla, Bergamo, Italy 2014 Ron Gorchov: Serapis, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri Entrance, Cheim & Read, Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2013 Ron Gorchov, 39 Great Jones, New York Ron Gorchov, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York Ron Gorchov, Monsieur X., Vito Schnabel, New York Ron Gorchov, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland HONORS AND AWARDS Skowhegan Medal for Painting, 2010 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Painting, 1994 National Endowment for the Arts Award for Painting, 1975 CAPS Award, 1975 Ingram Merrill Award, 1059 SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine Detroit Art Museum, Detroit, Michigan Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia Wadsworth Athenium, Hartford, Connecticut Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
