MICHAEL SINGLETARY
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Born in New York,NY
Education
| 1974 | New School for Social Research studied with Walter Kendra |
| 1975 | New School for Social Research studied with John B. Dobbs |
| 1976 | New School for Social Research studied with Benny Andrews |
| 1977 | New School for Social Research studied with Benny Andrews |
| 1978 | New School for Social Research independent study |
| 1972 | Syracuse University BFA |
Selected Post degree art training
| 1973 | Rhodes Island School of Design Graduate School |
| 1976 | WNET Television and Film Training School |
| 1972 | Lehman College New York |
| 1988 | State University of New York Puchase. New York |
| 1987 | Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop |
Summer Education
| 2000 | Arts Students League at Vermont Academy studied with Hughie Lee Smith, Mahler Ryder, Ben Delaney, Al Hollingworth, Valerie Maynard and John Torres |
| 2001 | University of Ghana, West Africa |
| 2002 | Guadalajara University, Guadalajara Mexico |
| 2003 | Ecole de Beaux Art, Fountainbleau, France (Damroach scholarship) |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2004 | "The Chocolate Hip Hop Exhibit" | Lord Van Gallery Chelsea NYC |
| 2003 | "The Chocolate Show" | The Metropolitan Pavilion NYC |
| 2002 | "Jazz and Blues" | Happy Dog Gallery Piermont, New York |
| 2001 | "Endangered Species" | Joseph I Lubin Art Gallery NYC |
| 2000 | "Arts for Brainerd" | The Brainerd Heritage Fund Manhattan Town Hall |
| 1998 | "United Nations Exhbition" | Ghanian Embassy NYC |
| 1997 | "Eat, Drink, Man,Woman the art show" | Lubin House Gallery NYC |
| 1997 | "Hunger and Thrist " | Brooklyn Brewery Gallery NYC |
| 1972 | "Hunger and Thrist" | Lubin House Gallery NYC |
| 1994 | "Jazz Series 2" | Metropolis Cafe Gallery NYC |
| 1994 | "What you say GIRLFRIEND series" | Langston Hughes Library NY |
| 1995 | "Art of Michael Singletary" | Main Street Gallery N. Rochelle NY |
| 1995 | "Les Nues Noires" | series Reza Namazi Gallery Soho NY |
| 1994 | "Michael J.Singletary" | Seraphim Gallery Tenafly New Jesrsey |
| 1993 | "The Black Nude" | Main Street Gallery New Rochelle Gallery NY |
| 1993 | "Jazz" | The Hudson River Museum Yonkers NY |
| 1993 | "Jazz" | Victoria Franklin Gallery Brooklyn NY |
| 1993 | "Jazz" | LTD Gallery Soho New York |
| 1993 | "Black History: M. Singletary" | PEPSI COLA Headquarters Somers |
| 1993 | "Michael J. Singletary" | ACBAW Gallery Mount Vernon NY |
| 1993 | "Feeding the Pidgeons" | St John Cathedral Church Gallery NYC |
| 1993 | "Feeding the Pidgeons" | 8 Bond Street Gallery NYC |
| 1992 | "Singletary" | Yale University A.A.Students Art exhibit Yale University |
| 1992 | "Feeding the Pigeons Series" | Tusbaki Gallery Soho NYC |
| 1992 | "Jazz and Nancy Wilson" | Aaron Davis Hall Art Gallery NY |
| 1992 | "Jazz Raz Za Ma Tazz" | WBGO Gallery Newark New Jersey |
| 1992 | "Michael J. Singletary" | Keepsake Gallery Newark New Jersey |
| 1992 | "Michael J. Singletary" | Baruch College NY |
| 1990 | "The Jazz Series" | 112 Greene Street Gallery Soho, NYC |
| 1990 | "Jazz Prints" | Dalcour Fine Arts and Collectibles Soho, NYC |
| 1990 | "Song and Dance" | Bridge Gallery White Plains New York |
| 1990 | "Painting Etc. 1990" | Mercy College Dobbs Ferry New York |
| 1990 | "Michael Singletary" | Iona College New Rochelle , New York |
| 1990 | "The Heritage Show" | New York University NYC |
| 1990 | "Paintings from Mo Better Blues" | Victoria Franklin Gallery Bylyn |
| 1990 | "Black Image" | Avon Products Inc. Rye New York |
| 1990 | "Feeding the Pidgeons" series | Norma Jean Smiley Gallery NYC |
| 1990 | "Painting Etc" | Maher Hall Gallery Mercy College NY |
| 1989 | "Michael Singletary" | Gallery 50 Bridgeton, New Jersey |
| 1989 | "Michael Singletary" | new art Francis Laterman Gallery NYC |
| 1989 | "Rhythmic Visions" | Pyramid Gallery Soho NY |
| 1989 | "Art of Michael J. Singletary" | Atelier Gallery Buffalo New York |
| 1987 | "Michael J. Singletary" | Mayor's Gallery Washington D.C. |
| 1984 | "The Humanimals series" | Alain Bilhaud Gallery Soho, NYC |
| 1983 | "The Humanimals series" | Cicchinelli Gallery NYC |
| 1983 | "The Humanimals series" | U.S. Federal Court House NYC |
| 1983 | "Michael J. Singletary's animals" | Alain Bilhaud Gallery Soho NY |
| 1982 | "The Humanimals series" | Kenco Gallery Nyack New York |
Group Exhibitions
| 2004 | "National Black Art Show" | Martha Henry Gallery NYC | |
| 2004 | "Seeing Jazz: A tribute to Master Artists" | Russ Berrie Pavilion and Countee Cullen Library/ Gallery | |
| 2004 | "Swing, Bebop to Hip Hop" | Essie Green Gallery, New York | |
| 2003 | "Art of the Plate " | American Craft Museum | |
| 2003 | " JVC Jazz Art Exhibit" | Atelier Art Gallery NYC | |
| 2003 | "Rhythm, Color & Harmony" | Savacou Art Gallery NYC | |
| 2003 | "Jazz Show" | Jazz Gallery NYC | |
| 2003 | "Exhibition of the Masters" | C. Virginia Field Borough Pres Gallery | |
| 2001 | "Black Face/Whiteface" | Lew Allen Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico | |
| 2001 | "The Politics of Racism" | Fire Patrol No.5 Art Gallery NYC | |
| 2001 | "Buying time Nourishing Excellence" | Sothebys NYC | |
| 2000 | "Hair" | Northern Westchester Art Center | |
| 2000 | "Harlem Week-from bebop" | Fire patrol #5 Gallery Harlem NYC | |
| 2000 | "National Black Art Show" | Puck Bldg NYC | |
| 2000 | "Family Tales" | Pelham Art Center Pelham NY | |
| 1999 | "To Honor Don Pullen" | Jazz Museum NYC | |
| 1972 | "Third World " | Lucia Chen Art GallerySoho NY | |
| 1973 | "Words and Images" | Reader's Digest Art Gallery Chappaqua NY | |
| 1997 | "Art Show" | Simply Art Gallery Bklyn | |
| 1996 | "Black American Perspective" | Mt Kisco Art Center N.Y. | |
| 1996 | "Art Auction" | Westchester Council for the Art Neiman Marcus | |
| 1996 | "Tribute to Sax Players" | Jazz Gallery NYC | |
| 1996 | "Children Art Ball" | Liberty State Park New Jersey | |
| 1995 | "Black Art Show" | Emerging Collector Gallery NY | |
| 1995 | "African American Art" | Simply Art Gallery Bklyn | |
| 1995 | "Fantasy" | Choate House Gallery Pace University Pleasantville | |
| 1995 | "Fantasy" | Rye Art Center Rye NY | |
| 1994 | "City Life" | Pelham Art Center Pelham NY | |
| 1994 | "Harlem Dowling Benefit" | Sotheby's | |
| 1994 | "1st Annual Collectors and Artists" | Clinton Hill Simply Art Gallery | |
| 1993 | "Group Representations" | Francis Laterman Art Salon NY | |
| 2000 | "Conversations Between Cultures" | Readers Digest Gallery | |
| 1993 | "Images from the Spirit" | Gutman Gallery Greenburgh Conn | |
| 1993 | "Conversations Between Cultures" | Kraft Food Inc Gallery W. Plains | |
| 1992 | "Words and Images" | Readers Digest Art Gallery | |
| 1992 | "William S. Paley Collection" | Sotheby | |
| 1992 | "Daughters Show" | Ted Gallery Albany New York | |
| 1992 | "In the Spirit" | N. Salem Vineyard Gallery N. Salem NY | |
| 1992 | "Jazz of Michael J. Singletary" | Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville | |
| 1992 | "Group" | Looks like me Gallery Portland Oregon | |
| 1992 | "Very Special Arts" | Art Extravanganza Baton Rouge, La | |
| 1996 | "Arts and Entertainment Alliance" | Brooke Alexandra Gallery Soho | |
| 1991 | "Back St. Gallery" auction | Newark Museum Newark N.J. | |
| 1991 | "The Color of Jazz and Blues" | w/Miles Davis art Rye Art Center Rye | |
| 1991 | "Jazz art:Beardon, Tolbert, Singletary" | Art Entertainment Alliance NY | |
| 1990 | "Humanistic Icon" | Bayly Art Museum Charlottesville Virginia | |
| 1990 | "Humanistic Icon" | New York Academy of Art | |
| 1990 | "Humanistic Icon" | Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art Wichita, Kansas | |
| 1990 | "Printmaker's Show" | Kent State University | |
| 1990 | "Expression in Black Art" | American Express Gallery NYC | |
| 1989 | "City Life" | Pelham Art Center Pelham, New York | |
| 1989 | "Dogmatic" | (Lowell Nesbitt curator) Ted Galery Albany New York | |
| 1989 | "Westchester Artist" | (curated by Romare Bearden) Hudson River Museum | |
| 1989 | "Printmakers Show" | Flushing Art Gallery NY | |
| 1989 | "Atlanta Life 9th Annual" | Atlanta Life Lobby Atrium Atlanta Ga. | |
| 1989 | "Genesis" | ACBAW Gallery Mt. Vernon, New York | |
| 1989 | "Women Center. Art Show and Auction" | Kenkelba Gallery NYC | |
| 1989 | "Printmakers Show" | Flushing Art Gallery Flushing N.Y. | |
| 1989 | "Black American Art" | Mayor's Art Gallery Stamford Conn. | |
| 1989 | "Printmakers" | Bedford Stuyvesant Center for the Arts and Culture, Brooklyn New York | |
| 1989 | "Blazzen" | Ennis Francis Gallery The Pow Wow Group NYC | |
| 1989 | "Expression" | 100 Black Women Organization Stamford Conn. | |
| 1988 | "New Artist" | Adept Museum Mt. Vernon N.Y. | |
| 1988 | "Frame of Mind" | Harlem Renaissance Gallery NYC | |
| 1988 | "Black Art Show" | Savacou Gallery NYC | |
| 1987 | "Apartheid Defined" | ACBAW Gallery Mt. Vernon NY | |
| 1987 | "Art Auction" | B. Smith Art Gallery NYC | |
| 1987 | "Coming Back Home" | Folk Art Museum Syracuse New York | |
| 1986 | "Nzingha Society auction" | Park Plaza Gallery NYC | |
| 1986 | "Art" | Kuros Gallery Madison Ave NYC | |
| 1986 | "Juried" | 1st prize Bridgeport Museum of Art and Science Bridgeport Conn. | |
| 1985 | "Art show" | Gallery of Western Art Washington D.C. | |
| 1985 | " American Arts" | Nueberger Museum of Art Purchase NY | |
| 1985 | "Bronx Artists" | Bronx Museum of the Arts Bronx NY | |
| 1984 | "Black Art" | Smith Mason Gallery Washington D.C. | |
| 1982 | "Whitney Counterweight3 Exhbition" | Alain Bilhaud Gallery Soho NY | |
| 1982 | "Westchester Arts" | Museum of Arts and Science Bridgeport Conn | |
| 1981 | "Art Exhibit" | M.A.R.C. Gallery New York | |
| 1975 | "New York Realities" | Cicchinelli Art Gallery NYC | |
| 1970 | "All Praises Due" | Harlem Studio Museum NYC | |
| 1970-80 | Many art exhibits in throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe including exhibits at the University of Guadalajara (mural drawings),Vermont, Fountainbleau and Paris and throughout many universities in the U.S. including University of Illinois, Cornell University, Ithaca College, Syracuse University, Boston University and the University of Vermont , University of New Hampshire and Darthmouth. Galleries including the Gallery of Western art Washington D,C. State office buildings in Keene, New Hampshire, Harlem, White Plains, Stamford Conn. Yonkers New York City. etc. | ||
Collections
U.S. Library of Congress collection,
William S. Paley (Chairman - CBS) collection,
Phylicia Rashad collection,
Don King collection,
Debbie Allen collection,
Arthur Mitchell collection,
Gregory Generet and Tamara Dobson collection,
Noel Frackman collection,
Dizzy Gillespie collection,
Larry Tisch collection,
Katherine Dunham collection,
JoeDumar collection,
Artur Mitchell collection,
Kim Alexiscollection,
Arthur Thompson jazz collection,
Bruce Hopewell collection,
Richhard Lieblner Collection,
Bernard King collection and other private collections.
Teaching experiences
| 1989-90 | Sarah Lawrence College Gallery School Bronxville New York |
| 1972 | Artist in the School Program- Council for the Arts InWestchester |
| 2000 | Art teacher: at the Metropolitan Museuam of Art (Closisters)master teacher. Art teacher: at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Hospital Audiences, Hudson River Museum, YWCA (Yonders), ACBAW Gallery (Mt. Vernon), Mount Vernon Board of Education and Wiltwyck School for boys |
| 1996 | Art teacher: New York City Bd of Education and the Bronx Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art (3 for the Arts programs) and the Kelly Street Creativ Arts Center (SouthBronx), Olatunji Center for African culture, |
Lectures
Panelist: 5 Annual African Voices Magazine Cultural Conference 2004
Keynote speaker at the U.S, Department of Labor AfricanAmerican Black History month Celebration Feb 18,1999 "High Achievements of Leadership past and present"
NY Foundation of the Arts Common ground Art Conference 1989
Arts Advisory Committee "Beyond the Big Apple " Conference 1988
Art advisory committee for the art council of Rockland/Westchester 1988
Iona College, New Rochelle 1988
Syracuse University Syracuse N.Y. 1987
Hampton University, Hampton Virginia 1987
Arts and Entertainment Alliances NYC. 1988
American Cancer Society "dual Careers" 1988
Barauch College NYC 1988
Pepsi Cola 1993
Society of African American MBAs "Collecting Black Art" 1993
100 Black Women Stamford Conn.
Artist in residence at the Arts and Humanities conference at Kiamesha Lake 1973
Media Coverage and Bibliography
| 2004 | BET Nightly News | "The Chocolate Hip Hop Art" (April 22) |
| 2004 | Gotham Magazine | "Seeing is Believing" (April issue) |
| 2004 | Westchester Suburban News Arts & Culture | "Art-i-sun" (April 25) |
| 2004 | Phat Literature Literary TV Meet the Artist and Writers | |
| 2002 | The Journal News | "Remembering the Losses.." (May 26) |
| 2001 | The Journal News | "Gaining insight on Impressionist" (June 28) |
| 2000 | WNET 13 | "The Jazz Painter:Michael J. Singletary " Metro Arts |
| 2001 | The Journal News Lifestyle | "Art work with an ear for jazz" (Jan 30) |
| 1998 | Collecting African American Art Crown Press Publishing | |
| 1997 | Art Insights | "Bkyln. Cable Interview" Python Channel (Oct) |
| 1997 | American Visions Magazine | "Portfolio" (Aug issue) |
| 1996 | Gannett Newspaers | "Portrait of an artist at work" (Dec 1) |
| 1996 | The Village Newspaper Volume 65 #30 (Jan 3) | |
| 1996 | Manhattan Cable | "Black Media/Plight of Black Art" (May 5) |
| 1996 | Manhattan Cable | "Looking for Exposure for Black Arts" (May 25) |
| 1995 | CNN News | "Black Male Show controversy" (Feb 27) |
| 1995 | NBC News Interview with Don Johnson (Blk Art/Male) (Feb 26) | |
| 1995 | Newsday Magazine- Letters | "Black Male or Black Mail" written by Michael J. Singletary (Nov 23) |
| 1993 | Gannett Suburban | "An unusual new exhibit..black nudes" (May16) |
| 1993 | Gannett Suburban | "Images at Gutman gallery" (Jan 15) |
| 1994 | Amsterdam News | "Jazz painter host." (May 7) |
| 1992 | New York Times | "Behind every.hangs a bit of art history" Feb 23) |
| 1992 | Westchester Cable Art news African American Art Expression (Feb) | |
| 1992 | N.J. Cable Lace Production | "Art of Singletary" |
| 1992 | Kiro Films (Tokyo) | "The Jazz Painter" documentary of the jazz series of Michael J. Singletary |
| 1992 | Amsterdam News | "Nancy Wilson..Max Roach host." (Nov. 28) |
| 1992 | The Star Ledger | "A Break from realism" (June 22) |
| 1991 | New York Daily News | "The Art of Basketball" (Sept 24) |
| 1991 | The Artist Magazine Artist Life: | "A master of improvisation" (March) |
| 1991 | Soap Opera Digest Inside Track: Singletary: | "GL Gets Jazzy" (June) |
| 1991 | United Visions | "the Black History Minute" Jocelyn Brown producer |
| 1990 | OWN WAY (Japan) | "M.Singletary:Jazz" (Autumn issue) |
| 1990 | Charlottesville Press | "Soho comes to the Bayly" (March 20) |
| 1990 | WDMC Featured Artist State of the Art Show | |
| 1990 | Gannett Westchester Newspapers | "All that Jazz" (June 29) |
| 1990 | Washington Post | "Spike Lee's Blues.." art shown (Aug 3) |
| 1990 | Syracuse Record | "Blue Note" (Dec issue) |
| 1990 | New York Amsterdam News | "Dizzey and Singletary" (April 21 1990) |
| 1989 | New York Times | "Visions of Communal life in 2 shows" (July 30) |
| 1989 | Emerge Magazine | "Fine Art and Collectible" (Oct issue) |
| 1989 | The Press (Bridgeton) | "..Gallery host renowned artist.." (Feb12) |
| 1989 | Decor Magazine (November 1989) | |
| 1988 | New York Magazine | "Ruth recommends: In and around town" (Feb) |
| 1988 | New York Daily News Art Scene (Feb) | |
| 1988 | WPIX TV Best Talk in town | "Black Artist/White Gallery" |
| 1988 | Gannett Westchester News | "The Great Pumpkins" (Sunday Oct 30) |
| 1988 | New York Amsterdam News | "Singletary lectures..Collectors" (Feb 20) |
| 1987 | WPIX TV Best Talk in Town | "If my fiends could see me now" |
| 1987 | Gannett Suburban Sunday Magazine Cover Story Year in Review (Jan) | |
| 1987 | Daily Argus News | "Art ties that bind" (July) |
| 1987 | Equal Opportunity Magazine (Urban League) | "To paint or not to Paint" Winter issue |
| 1987 | Westchester Suburban People Sunday Magazine Cover Story: | "Year in Review" special issue (January) |
| 1987 | New York Newsday | "Men who Cook" (July) |
| 1987 | Daily Argus (Mt. Vernon) | "Art Ties that Bind" (July) |
| 1986 | EBONY MAGAZINE | "Creative Marriage" (July issue) |
| 1986 | Suburban People (Gannett) | "Sharing the Love of Art" (Sept 28) |
| 1986 | Westchester Suburban People Magazine Cover Story | "Painting Partners" (September) |
| 1986 | Syracuse Record | "Singletary Lectures" (Septmeber) |
| 1986 | EBONY Magazine | "Creative marriage" (July) |
| 1986 | WTOP TV The Panarama Show | "interviewing Michael Singletary" |
| 1986 | Gannett Sunday Magazine Cover Story | "Painting Partners" (Sept) |
| 1986 | Syracuse Record | "Singletary Lectures" (September) |
| 1985 | WSYR 6:00 News | "New York Painter comes home" |
| 1981 | Black Art International Quarterly Magazine | "Profile Michael Singletary" vol 3 & 4 (Jan) |
| 1972 | 250 years of Afro-American Art- An Annoted Bibliography Lynn Moody Igoe R.R. Bowker Company 1981 | |
| 1973 | Afro-American Artists Boston Public Library Publishing Cedar Press | |
| 1969 | New York Times (Feb) |
Honors and Awards
| 2004 | U.S, Library of Congress Collection "Cottonfield Blues" print |
| 2003 | American Craft Museum Selected finalist for the "Art of the Plate" Dixie Georgia-Pacific inc |
| 2000 | New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting |
| 1989 | Original Member of the POW WOW GROUP: a consortium of internationally known premier black artists: David Hammons, H. Glenn Bennett, Arthur Coppedge, Adger Cowans, Ray Grist, George Mingo, Tyrone Mitchell, Charles Searles, Michael J. Singletary and Luther Vann |
| 1988 | Visiting Artist Award Printmaker Workshop |
| 1987 | Mayor Proclamation from the District of Columbia "Singletary Day" |
| 1974 | Artist in residence Bronx Museum |
| 1973 | Artist in residence Studio Museum in Harlem |
| 1971 | Damrosch Scholarship; Fountainebleau Music and Fine Arts Conservatoire, France for painting td> |
