RESUME & BIOGRAPHY
Education
BFA Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA1958 Painting
Studied color with Josef Albers

MFA Hunter College New York, N.Y. 1963
Studied with Fritz Bultman, Gabor Peterdi and Sculptor Tony Smith

Recent Professional Position:
Manhattanville College, Purchase, N.Y.
Clinical Field Supervisor in Art Education, 2002-2007

Proclamations:
Office of the Westchester County Executive, N. Y.
“For the artist’s contributions to the field of visual arts.”     May 1990
Westchester County Board of Legislators
“salutes the artist’s work for showing Long Island Sound as it was and as it can be.”
  For an environmental exhibition at The Rye Arts Center Sept. 1994

National Awards:
2006 The Henry Faurest Memorial Fellowship, Indiana
1999 The Puffin Foundation, New York
1992 The Fulbright Fellowship to The Netherlands
1992 The National Endowment for the Arts & The Getty Foundation to paint in Italy
1988 Christa McAuliffe Fellowship, United States Government

Regional Awards
2007 Arts Alive Artist Grant, Westchester Arts Council, funded by the New York State        Council on the Arts for “Creating an Exhibition of the Bronx River as a Great  Community Resource in Westchester.”
2007 Certificate of Merit, New York State Board of Legislators for Achievement in the Arts.
2006 Strategic Opportunity Stipend (SOS) New York Foundation for the Arts, New  York State Council on the Arts and Garrison Art Center for  presentation of her art  at  the  Fulbright Conference in Morocco.
2006 Manhattanville College Faculty Award for travel to Morocco
2005  Strategic Opportunity Stipend (SOS) Travel to Costa Rica: exhibition in National  Gallery
2000  SOS  Drawing the coast of California
1999  SOS  Grant to China: research on women artists

Residency Awards:
2010 Cill Rialaig Residency, Ireland
2008 U.S. Department of the Interior to Acadia National Park, Maine
2007 Andy Warhol Visual Arts Residency, Montauk, N.Y.
2006 The Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, Mount St. Francis, IN
2005 The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, N.Y.
2004 The Julia & David White Artists’ Colony, Costa Rica
2003 The Ragdale Foundation, IL
2003 2002 The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VA
1999 Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain
1989    - 1988  The Vermont Studio. Johnson, VT
1987 Rhode Island School of Design

Solo(*) and Group Exhibitions:
2010   * Schoodic Arts for All, Winter Harbor, ME Aug. 16-Sept. 1
2009   * Sheldrake Environmental Center  Larchmont, N.Y. March-May
          Katonah Museum Artists Assoc. Juried Exhibition Mar11-29.
2008    * Becket Arts Center, Becket, NY July
          * Pleiades Gallery,” Water Eats Stone” NYC Nov. 25- Dec. 27
2007    *Mamaroneck Artists Guild, Nature in Flux: Paintings of Waterfalls”
         * “The Bronx River: A Great Community Resource in Westchester County”
            The Eastchester Library Gallery, Nov.
         * Pleiades Gallery, “Out of the Blue: Rivers of New York” May
         “From Heaven to Earth” White Plains Library.
2006    Regina Gouger Miller Gallery Carnegie Mellon University Jan. 10-28
         The Schoolhouse Gallery, Croton Falls, NY.
         Katonah Museum Artists Association .Oct 20- Nov. 12
         Pleiades Gallery “Celebrating 32 Years” NYC
2005   *The Arts Center Gallery, Saratoga County Council of the Arts June-July
         *Galeria National, San Jose, Costa Rica
         Sophia Wanamaker Gallery, San Pedro, Costa Rica
         *Pleiades Gallery NYC
          Pen & Brush Gallery NYC
         The Rye Nature Center ”Long Island Sound Effects”
2004   Hammond Museum, Salem, NY
         Zoe & Floyd Gallery, Seymour, CT
        *Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
         Krasdale Gallery, Bronx, NY
        *Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
        *Pleiades Gallery, NYC
        Mamaroneck Artists Guild Gallery, Larchmont, NY
2003   Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
         Jules Place Gallery, Boston, MA
        *Pleiades Gallery, NYC
        Xerox International Art Showcase, Stamford, CT
        Manhattan Borough President’s Gallery
2002   * Pace University   New York, NY Feb 25-March 23
       Pen & Brush Gallery New York, NY Juried exhibition November
       Jules Place Gallery, Boston, MA December
       Mamaroneck Artists’ Guild Gallery, Larchmont, NY December
2001    Pleiades Gallery, NYC  Sept. 25- Oct. 13
      *Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Newton, MA July 23-Aug. 28
       Manhattan Borough President’s Gallery New York, NY March
       Fine Arts Gallery, Westchester Community College Valhalla, NY April
      *Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY September
2000    *Fordham University Lincoln Center Gallery, New York, NY Mar2-30
      *Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Newton, MA July 23-Aug 28
      *Womens’ News Corporate Headquarters, Harrison, NY Oct.-Nov.
       The Rosenberg Gallery, New York University May 17-30

Hilda Green Demsky