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Biography

PHILIP GEIGER


Born: 1956; Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Education:

1978 Washington University, BFA
1980 Yale University, MFA

Solo Exhibitions:

2014 Washington and Lee University, Holecamp Gallery, Lexington VA
2013 Beverly Street Studio School, Stuanton, VA
2010 Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2007 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
2006 Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions (SCAPE), Corona Del Mar, CA
2005 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
2004 Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
2003 Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC; also 2002
Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; also 2001, 1998, 1996, 1994
2002 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA; also 2000
1997 Tatistcheff Gallery, New York; also 1995, 1994, 1993, 1990, 1988, 1986
1991 Tatistcheff & Co., Santa Monica, CA
1988 Fayerweather Hall Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1987 Swarthmore College Gallery of Art, Swarthmore, PA
1983 The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; also 1982
1982 Directions Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado; also 1980

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2014 Observation and Invention: The Space of Desire, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Site Specific: A Selection of American Perceptual Paintings, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2012 15th Anniversary Show, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2012 Summer Solstice, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Va2011
Art and Writing, Beverly Street Studio School, Staunton, VA
2012 MFA Invitational Exhibition, University of New Hampshire Museum, Durham, VT
2009 Faculty Collects, Pennsylvania, Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Worth a Thousand Words, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
2006 Three Realists: Altoon Sultan, George Nick, Philip Geiger, Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, CA
The Figure in American Painting & Drawing, 1985 – 2005, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2005 Human Measures, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2004 George Nick Selects, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2003 Interior Dialogs, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2002 Imaginative Affinities, Pennsylvania Academy of Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
30th Anniversary Show, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2001 Visibily Told, Delaware College of Art and Design, Willmington, DE
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
George Nick Selects, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2000 Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
The Virginia Landscape, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA
1999 Peninsular Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
Principe Gallery, Alexandria, VA
1998 9 at Altamont, Charlottesville, VA
Philip and Euz Geiger, Beverly Street Studio School, Staunton, VA
Embodies Fictions, St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s MD
Smart, Tatitcheff & Co. New York, NY
One think on top of Another, Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff/ Rogers, Santa Monica, CA
Three Realists, Miami Dad Community College, Miami, FL
1996 Faculty Choice, New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
Representation Today Everhart Museum, Seranton, PA
Charlottesville Paintings, Nunley Art Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1995 Contemporary Virginia Realism, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Re-presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
Harvest Moon, Tatistcheff/ Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 Hearth and Home, Champion International, Stamford, CT
New Realities, New Perspectives in Realist Painting, Tatistcheff/ Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 20th Century American Realism from the Collection of Phil Desind, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Location, Layton Gallery of Art, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
Interior Outlook, Hastings Creative Arts Coucil, Hastings-on Hudson, NY
Anniversary Show, Tatistcheff-Rogers, Santa Monica, CA
Recent Work- Crozier, Geiger, O’Kane, Tandem School, Charlottesville, VA
1992 44th Annual Academy- Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Art, New York
Under the Influence, Mentors / Teachers / Colleagues, Tahistcheff Gallery, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Portrait / Self Portrait, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA
Group Show, Dwight Frederic Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s College, MD
Through a Glass Darkly, First Street Gallery, New York
Isolation, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York
1990 Drawing: The Figure, Olin Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, VA
Against the Grain, Images in American Art, 1960-1990, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Paintings and Sculptures by Candidates for Art Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
The Evidence of the Senses, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Landscape Painting 1960-1990, The Italian Tradition in American Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
1989 Drawing in Virginia, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Paintings and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards, American Academy of Arts Letters, New York
Tributary, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
New Artists, Cudahy’s, Richmond, VA
1986 Works on Paper, School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Studied From Life, Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
Black and White, Museum of Modern Art Associate Council for the General Electric Corporation, New York
Summer Group Show, Tatistcheff & Co., New York
Six Realists, Harris Samuel & Company Gallery, Miami, FL
Spectrum, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Collectors Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Contemporary Nudes, One Penn Plaza Gallery, New York
American Art Today: The Figure in the Landscape, Florida International University, Miami, FL
1985 Contemporary Narrative Figure Painting, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Belthlehem, PA
The New American Scene, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
Group Show, Tatistcheff & Company, New York
Personal and Intimate Drawings, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1984 City Visions, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Drawings, Drawings, Drawings, Forum Gallery, New York
Painterly Realism, Fontbonne College, St. Louis, MO
Portraits, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1982 Bodies and Souls, The Artists’ Choice Museum, New York
Allegorical and Narrative Painting, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Day and Night, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Allied Artists of America Exhibit, Arkansas Annual Exhibit, Pine Bluff, AK
1980 MFA Thesis Show, Yale A & A Gallery, New Haven, CT

Public Collections:

ARA Services, Philadelphia, PA
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
The Boston Company, Boston, MA
Buena Vista College Art Museum, Storm Lake, IA
Chemical Bank, New York
Citibank, New York
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA
General Mills, Minneapolis, MN
Hollins College, Art Gallery, University School of Law, Charlottesville, VA
McKinsey & Co., New York
Southeast Bank, Miami, FL
Stevens, Inc., Little Rock, AK
Virginia State Bar, Richmond, VA

Awards:

1991 Academic Appointment, Sequicentennial Association
1987 Academic Appointment, Sequicentennial Association
Biography included in Who’s Who in American Art
1981 John-Hunter Memorial Award, Allied Artists of America, New York
1980 Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Prize
1978 Tanasko Milovich Award, Washington University School of Fine Arts
1975 John T. Milliken Award, Washington University School of Fine Art

Bibliography:

2002 Davis, Lynn. Review. Southwest Art, November
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Maschal, Richard. Review. Charlotte Observer, May
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1996 Cohen, Ronnie. Review. Artforum, May
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Bethlehem, PA: Moravian College. (catalogue)
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