Altoon Sultan
b. 1948, Brooklyn, USA
lives and works in Groton, Vermont, USA
EDUCATION
1971
MFA – Brooklyn College, City University of New York, New York, USA
1970
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, USA
1969
BA – Brooklyn College, City University of New York, New York, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
“Paintings”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2024
“New Paintings”, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2023
Hollybush Gardens, London, UK
2022
Robischon Gallery, Denver, USA
2021
“Paintings”, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
McKenzie Fine Art, New York, USA
2020
“Drawings and a Painting”, Feuilleton, Los Angeles, USA
2019
McKenzie Fine Art, New York, USA
2018
Gray Contemporary, Houston, USA
2017
McKenzie Fine Art, New York, USA
2015
David Hall Fine Art, Wellesley, USA
2014
McKenzie Fine Art, New York, USA
Some Walls, Oakland, USA
2009
Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, USA
2007
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
2004
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
Clarke Galleries, Stowe, USA
2001
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, USA
2000
Clarke Galleries, Stowe, USA
1999
Galleria Marieschi, Monza, IT
1998
Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
1997
Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, USA
1995
Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, USA
1993
Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
1992
D.P. Fong & Spratt Galleries, San Jose, USA
The Paris-New York-Kent Gallery, South Kent, USA
1991
Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, USA
1990
Webb & Parsons, Burlington, USA
1988
Hokin Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, USA
Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, USA
1987
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, USA
Middendorf Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
Marlborough Fine Art Graphics Gallery, London, UK
J.L. Becker Gallery, Provincetown, USA
1986
Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Associated American Artists, New York, USA
1985
Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
1984
Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Raymond J. Hage Gallery, Huntington, USA
1982
Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
1980
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, USA
1979
Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
1977
Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
“The Hands that Shut the Sun”, Hollybush Gardens, London, UK
2022
“Still Life and the Poetry of Place”, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, USA
“A Minor Constellation”, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
“Small Paintings”, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, USA
2021
”The Stubborn Influence of Painting”, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, USA
2019
“The Heat of the Moment”, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, USA
“For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design”, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, USA; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, USA; The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, USA; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, USA; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, USA; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, USA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, USA
2018
“50th Collectors Show and Sale””, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, USA
“Through Line: Drawing and Weaving by 19 Artists”, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, USA
“New England Now”, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, USA
2017
“Philip Pearlstein: A Legacy of Influence”, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, USA
“The Ritual of Construction”, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, USA
2016
“Construction Site”, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, USA
“Looking Out, Looking In: Windows in Art”, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, USA
“Confluence/Influence: Mingei in Contemporary Abstraction”, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island, USA
2015
“Going Big”, Central Booking Gallery, New York, USA
2014
“The Annual 2014: Redefining Tradition”, National Academy Museum, New York, USA
“Beyond Measure”, SEABA Gallery, Burlington, USA
“Spotlight on Small”, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, USA
2013
“Introductions”, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, USA
“Folk Appeal”, Mingo Gallery, Beverly, USA
“Woven”, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, USA
2012
“Focused Field”,Curating Contemporary.com, Online
“Occupying Potato: The Cult of Potato 2012”, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, USA
“Meta Decorative”, Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects at Scope Art Fair, New York, USA
“Lois Dodd and Her Students”, The Firehouse Center for the Falcon Foundation, Damariscotta, USA
2011
“Mic: Check”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
2010
“Egg Tempera: Contemporary Masters”, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, USA
“Contemporary Voices from Vermont”, Fleming Museum, Burlington, USA
“The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression”, National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington, USA
2008
“Directions”, Projex-Mtl Galerie, Montreal, Canada
2007
“Icons from the Heartland”, United States Embassy, Kyiv, UKR
“The Wonder of Intaglio, Center for Contemporary Graphic Art, Fukushima, JP
“Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection”, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, USA
2006
“Vistas and Visions: Selected Landscapes from the Permanent Collection”, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
“Three New York Realists”, Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, USA
2005
“Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
“Alumni Exhibitions: Celebrating the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of Brooklyn College”, The Brooklyn College Art Gallery at the Brooklyn War Memorial, Brooklyn, USA
2004
“The Artist’s Eye: Wolf Kahn as Curator”, National Academy of Design, New York, USA
“Altered Eden: Contemporary Visions of the Landscape”, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, USA
2002
“The Contemporary Landscape, The College of Wooster Art Museum”, Wooster, USA; Fine Arts Center Galleries, Bowling Green, USA
2001
“ReAppearance: Realism in Contemporary Art”, Simmons Visual Arts Gallery, Gainesville, USA
Invited!: Works on Paper, First Street Gallery, New York, USA
1999
“Green Woods and Crystal Waters: the American Landscape Tradition”, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, USA; The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, USA; The Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, USA
“American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture”, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
“Enduring Visio”!, Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady, USA
1998
“Post-Pastoral: New Images of the New England Landscape”, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, USA
1996
“Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists”, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, USA; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, USA; National Academy of Design, New York, USA
“Partners in Printmaking: Works from SOLO Impression”, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
“Women in the Visual Arts”, Hollins College, Roanoke, USA
“Women and Landscape”, Sleeth Gallery, Buckhannon, USA
“A Personal Gathering: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of William Koch”, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, USA
1995
“Women in Print: Prints for 3M by Contemporary Women Printmakers”, Traveling exhibition, USA (multiple venues including St. Paul, Duluth, Fort Dodge, Milwaukee, Austin, Collegeville, Grand Forks)
“Watercolors”, Gallery West, Brentwood, USA
1994
“Prints from Solo Impression, Inc.”, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, USA
“Graphic Legacy”, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
1993
“Rural America: Prints from the Collection of Steven Schmidt”, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, USA; Salina Art Center, Salina, USA
1992
“Academy-Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture”, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
1991
“Exquisite Paintings”, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, USA
“The Landscape in 20th Century American Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, USA
“Landscapes”, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, USA
“New Horizons in American Realism”, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, USA
1990
“Vistas: Landscape Prints”, Peden Gallery, Raleigh, USA
“Landscape Painting, 1960–1990: The Italian Tradition in American Art”, Spoleto Festival, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, USA; Bayly Museum, Charlottesville, USA
1989
“Art in Art”, Associated American Artists, New York, USA
“Art & Leisure”, Associated American Artists, New York, USA
“The Transformative Vision: Contemporary American Landscape Painting”, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, USA
1988
“Manhattan: Views of New York”, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, USA
“Progressions”, The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings-on-Hudson, USA
“Inaugural Show”, Boise Art Museum, Boise, USA
“Landscape–Common Ground: A Continuity of Spirit”, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1987
“Mainstream America: The Collection of Phil Desind”, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, USA
1986
“Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape”, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA; New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
“The Foundation Veranneman Invites Marlborough”, The Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium
“Hot off the Press”, Associated American Artists, New York, USA
“The Animal Kingdom”, Associated American Artists, New York, USA
“The Discerning Eye”, Associated American Artists, New York, USA
“Self-Portraits”, G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, USA
“50th National Midyear Exhibition”, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, USA
1984
“Mood in Landscape”, Sherry French Gallery, New York, USA
“American Scene: Contemporary American Artists View America”, Adams Middleton Gallery, Dallas, USA
“Landscape”, Matthews Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
“Small Works”, Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, USA
“American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
“The Collectors Show”, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, USA
“Back Streets/Back Yards”, Associated American Artists, New York, USA
“Contemporary American Still Life”, One Penn Plaza, New York, USA
1983
“Realistic Directions”, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
“Painted Light”, The Reading Public Museum, Reading, USA; Queens Museum, Queens, USA; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, USA; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, USA
“American Realism, 1930s/1980s: A Comparative Perspective”, Summit Art Center, Summit, USA
“Born in Brooklyn”, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
“Bodies and Souls”, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
1982
“A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
“Lower Manhattan From Street to Sky”, Whitney Museum of American Art (Downtown Branch), New York, USA
“Small Pictures”, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, USA
“Architectural Images”, Summit Art Center, Summit, USA
1981
“New York Showcase”, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, USA
“Contemporary Realism”, Gallery 609, Denver, USA
“Collectors Gallery”, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA
1980
“New York Realists 1980”, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, USA
1979
“Toward a Revival of Classicism”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, USA
“The Opposite Sex: A Realistic Viewpoint”, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA
1978
“Seven by Nine”, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, USA
1977
“Brooklyn College Faculty: Past and Present 1942–1977”, Davis and Long Gallery, New York, USA
1975
“Sons and Others: Women Artists See Men”, traveling exhibition organized by the Queens Museum, Queens, USA
1974
“First Person”, First Street Gallery, New York, USA
1972
“75 Gallery Artists”, First Street Gallery, New York, USA
1971
“Contemporary Figure: The New Realism”, Suffolk Museum, Stony Brook, USA
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2012
Walter Cerf Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, Vermont Council on the Arts, USA
2001
J. Sanford Saltus Gold Medal for Painting, National Academy of Design, USA
1999
Prix Duc de Valverde d’Ayala Valva, Fondation Monaco
Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, USA
Purchase Award – Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Fund, American Academy of Arts and Letters
1995
Elected Member of the National Academy of Design, USA
1989
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant, USA
1983
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant, USA
