Born: Chicago, IL, 1933
Lives: New York, NY
Education
1961 Boston University, MFA
1959 Washington University, BFA
Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Certificate
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Ray Ciarrocchi, August Moonrise, Harper's Chelsea 534, New York,NY
2023 Sandra Caplan + Ray Ciarrocchi, Two Paths, Harper's Apartment, New York, NY
2015 Seeking the Darkness and the Light, Drawings of Italy, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA
2009 Sentieri (Paths), Palazzina Azzurra, S. Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
2004 Latitudini della Luce (Latitudes of Light), Pictorial Visions of America and Europe,a travelling exhibition
shown at Civitella del Tronto, Teramo and Atri, Italy, curated by Francesco Tentarelli
1996 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Ray Ciarrocchi - Landscapes 1978-91, Marsh Gallery, Modlin Fine Arts Center, University of Richmond,
Richmond, VA
1989 Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
Winter White, New York Stock Exchange
1985 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Nijinsky--A View," Sixteen Monotypes, Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art, Westbrook College, Portland,
ME and Gotham BookMark Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1972 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1971 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Honors
2014 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2010 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1996 Gottlieb Foundation Grant
1993 Listed in Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in the East,
Printworld, and Who's Who in American Education 1992 -1993.
1982 Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship Award
1977 Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship Award
1967 Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant
1965 The MacDowell Colony
1963 Fulbright Grant, Florence, Italy
1962 The MacDowell Colony
Museum and Public Collections
Allied Banks, Houston, TX
AT & T, Bedminster, NJ
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Boston Paper Board Company, Boston, MA
Bristol Meyers Squibb, New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
C & F Underwriters, Portland, ME
Choate Memorial Hospital. Boston, MA
The Ciba-Geigy Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Citibank, NA, New York, NY
The City of San Benedetto del Tronto (AP), Italy
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Commerce Bancshares, Kansas City, MO
Continental National Bank, Houston, TX
Dance Collection, Lincoln Center, New York Public Library, New York, NY
Ernst and Whinney, New York, NY
First Illinois Bank of Evanston, IL
Form Press Publications
Glickenhaus & Company, New York, NY
Greenwich Public Library, Greenwich, CT
Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA
Hess Corporation, New York, NY
Heublein Incorporated, Hartford, CT
The Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, TN
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, Pittsburgh, PA
Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Inc., New York, NY
Lumber Mutual Insurance Co., Framingham, MA
Marsh & McLennan Incorporated, New York, NY
Milbank, Tweed, Hadly & McCloy, New York, NY
Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN
NYNEX (Verizon Corporation), New York, NY
Owens-Corning, Toledo, OH
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY
The Prudential Financial, Newark, NJ
Purolator Corporation, Missasaugua, Canada
RJ Reynolds, Winston-Salem, NC
Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett, New York, NY
Smithsonian Institute Archives of American Art, Washington, DC
Triangle Industries, New York, NY
The United States Department of State, Washington DC
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Vesty Corporation, Surrey, UK
Western Electric Corporation, Rossville, GA
The World Bank, Washington, DC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Night and Day the River Flows: Waterscapes, Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
A Celebration of the Harnett Print Study Center, Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
2016 Looking at the Overlooked, Contemporary Still Life Painting, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2012 All About Drawing, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2005 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1995 A Legacy of Excellence - The Brooklyn College Art Department, Images Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings - Celebrating Forty Years of the Visual Arts at Boston University, Boston University Art Gallery,
Boston, MA
1994 The Art of Italian Americans, Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY
Earth and Sky - Landscape Revisited, Gallery 53 Artworks, Cooperstown, NY
1991 Against the Grain: Images in American Art 1960 - 1990, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loreto, PA
1990 A Little Night Music - New York City at Night, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY
1988 The Contemporary Landscape, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
The Face of the Land, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loreto, PA
24th Annual Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Contemporary Landscape and Still Life, Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY
Artists East: Sixteen Artists, The Gallery, Oneonta, NY
1987 Art Against AIDS, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
1984 The Landscape, Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, TX
Works on Paper Invitational, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1983 Monotypes, State University New York Purchase, Purchase, NY
1982 Architectural Images, The Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
Hudson River Update," The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
1980 Monotypes," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1979 The Urban Landscape, Still Life and Figurative Painting," Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Painterly Realism, Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, TX
1978 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
118 Artists," Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1977 Artists Choice - Figurative Painting in New York City," SoHo Center for Visual Arts, New York, NY
Works on Paper from the Ciba-Geigy Collection, Neuberger Museum, NY and Wichita Falls Museum,
Wichita Falls, TX
Brooklyn College Art Department, Past and Present, Schoelkopf, Davis & Langdale Galleries, New York, NY
1976 The Landscape, Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, TX
The Landscape, Amarillo Art Centre, Amarillo, TX
Expressions from Maine, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA and Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY
76 Artists - A Bicentennial Exhibition," Augusta Museum, Augusta, ME
American Watercolors: 1800 to the Present, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Open Window, Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, IN
1975 Invitational, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1974 Invitational, Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, TX
Works on Paper from The Ciba-Geigy Collection, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
1972 Art Acquisitions, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
A.I.R. Artists in Residence, Glassboro State College (Rowan University), Glassboro, NJ
Invitational, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
Invitational, Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, TX
1971 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
1964 Artisti Fulbright, Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy
Teaching
1976 – 1994 Baruch College, Department of Art, The City University of New York, Adjunct Associate Professor
1990 University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Art Department, Visiting Artist
1976 – 1989 Columbia University, Division of Painting and Sculpture, Adjunct Assistant Professor
1972 – 1980 Pratt Institute, School of Art and Design, Visiting Professor
1972 – 1980 Brooklyn College, Department of Art, The City University of New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor
1971 – 1972 Maryland Institute, College of Art, Visiting Artist
1965 – 1970 Parsons School of Design, Instructor
Selected Bibliography
Richard Waller, Seeking the Darkness and the Light, Drawings of Italy by Ray Ciarrocchi, (catalog essay) January 2015.
Simona Clementoni,"Paths" (catalog essay) September 2009.
Francesco Tentarelli, "Latitudes of Light (Latitudini della Luce) Pictorial Visions of America and Europe", (catalog essay), August, September 2004.
Valerie Gladstone, "Ray Ciarrocchi at Katharina Rich Perlow,“ ARTnews, November 1996.
Nina A. Mallory,"Ray Ciarrocchi: Italian Landscapes," (catalog essay), Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, September 1996.
Ruth Bass, "New York, New York!," ART-TALK, Scottsdale, AZ, October 1996.
Vivien Raynor, "Exhibit by Italian - Americans," The New York Times, December 25, 1994.
Gerrit Henry, "Ray Ciarrocchi at Katharina Rich Perlow,” ARTnews, November 1993.
Julia Ayres, Monotype - Painterly Printmaking, Watson - Guptill, May 1991.
Roy Proctor, "Ciarrocchi's Water Binds Land, Sky into Unity," The Richmond New Leader, November 23, 1991.
Robert Merritt, "Ciarrocchi's Painting Captures Response," The Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 16, 1991.
Lawrence Campbell, "Ray Ciarrocchi at Fischbach," Art in America, October 1989.
Richard Saez,"Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," Arts, March 1985.
Tram Combs, "Ray Ciarrocchi, New Artist in Town," The Woodstock Times, February 3, 1983.
Nina A. Mallory, "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," Arts, January 1983.
Edgar Allen Beem, "Ray Ciarrocchi: Nijinsky - A View," Art - New England, July/August, Volume 2, No. 8, 1981.
Ellen Lubell, "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," SoHo News, February 23, 1978.
Peter Frank, "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," ARTnews, September 1976.
Lou Kannenstine, "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," The 57th Street Review, March 1976.
Lawrence Campbell, "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," ARTnews, April 1974.
Hilton Kramer, "SoHo: Figures At An Exhibition," The New York Times, March 2, 1974.
Ellen Lubell, "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," Arts, March 1974.
Barbara Schwartz, "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," ARTnews, April 1972.
James R. Mellow, "Ray Ciarrocchi," The New York Times, March 1, 1972.
Gerald E. Scofield, "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor De Nagy," Pictures on Exhibit, May - June 1972.
Andrea Mikotajuk, "Ray Ciarrocchi at Tibor de Nagy," Arts, Summer 1971.
John Gruen, "Ray Ciarrocchi," New York Magazine, June 7, 1971.