Born: Chicago, IL, 1933

Lives: New York, NY


Education

1961  Boston University, MFA

1959  Washington University, BFA

Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Certificate


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


Solo Exhibitions

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


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 GalleryNew 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.