ROY WILLIAM NICHOLSON • 760 East Hampton Turnpike • Sag Harbor, NY 11963
Phone and fax. (631) 725-3695 • e-mail: roy.nicholson@liu.edu
Listed in Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in The
East, Who’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, Strathmore’s Who’s Who and
New York Art Review
EDUCATION
1993-95 Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpellier VT. Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art, 1995
1965-66 Brooklyn Museum School of Art, Brooklyn, NY (Max Beckmann Memorial Scholarship)
1960-65 Hornsey College of Art, London, England: National Diploma in Design (N.D.D.), 1965
REPRESENTED BY
Suzanne Randolph Fine Art, New York, NY
Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY
EXHIBITIONS
One Person exhibitions:
2003-04 “Gloamings” Nese Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY
2002 “Gloamings” Avram Gallery, Southampton College, Southampton, NY
2001 “New Work” Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1999
“From the Garden: Paintings by Roy Nicholson,” Rathbone Gallery, The Sage Colleges, Albany, NY
1998 “52 Weeks,” Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington,New York.
“52 Weeks,” Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
1995 Fine Arts Gallery, Southampton College of Long Island University, Southampton, NY
1993 “Four Solo Exhibitions” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1992 “Three Solo Exhibitions” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1991 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1987 Genest Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
American Consulates, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo & Brasilia, Brazil
1985 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
Hargrave Vineyard, Cutchogue, NY
Canio’s Books, Sag Harbor, NY
1984 Art Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
Fine Arts Gallery, Southampton College, LIU, Southampton, NY
1981 Burnside Gallery, Greenport, NY
Artist’s Forum Gallery, Centerport, NY
1980 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1979 Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal, England
1978 Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
Two-person and small group exhibitions
2000 “Fox,/Nicholson/Shields/Mardoyan-Smyth,” Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1999 Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
1997 “Cadmium Glens,” Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
“The Poetic Landscape, Three American Painters,” Nancy Moore Fine Art, New York, NY.
“Room With a View,” Gallery North, Setauket, NY
1989 “Nicholson/Kline/Gavenchak,” Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1988 “Nicholson/Frank/Gavenchak,” Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1987 “Ferren/Nicholson/Grippe/Chalif,” Ashawagh Hall, Springs, NY
“Nicholson/Welden,” Peconic Gallery, Suffolk County Community College, Riverhead, NY
“Friedberg/Nicholson/Tarr,” Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1986 “Nicholson/Hunt/Buckner,” Vered gallery, East Hampton, NY
1983 Bologna/Landi Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1982 Louise Himelfarb Gallery, Southampton, NY
1981 “4/11: A Shifting Focus,” Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
“Enclosures,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
“The Ordered Vision,” Loft Gallery, Southampton, NY
1971 Coelfrith Arts Centre, Sunderland, England
1969 Bondgate Gallery, Alnwick, England
Group exhibitions:
2005 “ Art and the Garden: Post-War and Contemporary Paintings of the Garden,”
Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Artists and Nature on Eastern Long Island: 1940s to the Present,” Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton,
NY
“The Little Continent of Long Island,” The Long Island Museum of American Art, Stony Brook, NY
“Abstraction at 40,” Gallery North, Setauket, NY
“Point of View,” Alpan Gallery,x Huntington, NY
2004 “Picturing Hampton Gardens: A 350-Year Legacy,” Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
“Time and Again,” Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
“The Springs Invitational,” Springs, New York, since 1980
2003 “Winter Selections,” Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
2002 “Re/Opening,” Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY
Faculty Exhibition, Avram Gallery, Southampton College, Southampton, NY
2001 “Long Island: Morning Noon and Night,” The Long Island Museum of American Art, Stony Brook, NY
“Local Color,” Gallery North, Setauket, NY
2000-02 Doral Bank, New York, N Y
2000 “Labscapes 2000,” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
“Synecdoche,” Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
“Multiples,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Of Nature,” Nese Alpen Gallery, Roslyn, NY
“Winter Exhibition,” Nese Alpen Gallery, Roslyn, NY
“Husbands and Wives,” Nightingale Gallery, Watermill, NY
1999 “Re-Viewing Nature, Long Island Landscape Painting Today,”
Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College,New York NY
“Summer Selections 1999,” Nese Alpan Gallery, Roslyn, NY
“94 Days of Summer: A Survey of Long Island Painters,” Omni Gallery, Uniondale NY
“Artists Against Abuse 1999 Plate Auction,” Elaine Benson Gallery Bridgehampton, NY
1998 “East Hampton Artists: Scene and Seen,” Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
“Nature’s Beat,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1997 Faculty Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, Southampton College, LIU, S/hampton NY.
1996 “Paperworks: 20th Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection,”
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
1995 Faculty Exhibition, Southampton College, Southampton, NY
1994
1993
“75 Years of Collecting,” Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
“18 Suffolk Artists,” University Art Gallery, State University at Stony Brook, NY
“CoNtRaDIcToRY CoNcLuSiOnS,” The Gallery at Northampton,
Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA
“Multiples,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Winter Light,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Object into Subject,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
“Autumn Light,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Drawing : a Contemporary View,” Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“In a New Light: Seven Artists from the Heckscher Collection,” Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
“The Screen Print Workshop,” Bill Bace Gallery, Southampton, NY
“Woman!,” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1992 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, NY
Miami International Art Fair, Miami FL
“Approaches to Abstraction,” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
“Landscape Observed: Landscape Transformed,” Islip Art Museum, E. Islip, NY
“Women on Paper,” Studio 3, East Hampton, NY
“20th Century Prints on the East End,” Renée Fotouhi Fine Art, East Hampton, NY
1991 Member’s Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
“Partitions,” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
“On Paper/Of Paper,” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
Los Angeles International Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
“New Work: 8 Painters,” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1990 “Long Island Landscape: The Twentieth Century,” Heckscher Museum, Huntington NY
1989 “Drawings from the Figure,” East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY
“Hamptons Artists,” The Hodson Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, MD
1988 “Recent Acquisitions,” Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1986 “Let’s Play House,” Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1985-87 “AdoRnmenTs,” Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY (national tour)
1984 Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
“Unaffiliated Artists II,” Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, Greenvale,
NY
1982 Ludlow-Hyland Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Leopold Hoesch Gallery, Düren, West Germany
1973
Studio Kaush, Kassel, West Germany
DANCE
1996
1994
“Strata,” Collaboration with choreographer Karla Wolfangle. At DIA, SOHO, NYC
“Temperaments,” Collaboration with choreographer Karla Wolfangle. Décor and costumes.
Performed at the Boston Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA
“Petit Sensations,” Collaboration with choreographer Karla Wolfangle. 28 foot long folding screen and
costumes. Performed at the 92nd Street Y, New York, and The North Carolina School of the Arts (1998)
COLLECTIONS
Public and corporate
Renaissance Technologies, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Holder Properties, Meridian Building, Columbia, SC
The Long Island Museum of American Art, Stony Brook, NY
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta GA
Brauner, Baron, Rosenzweig & Klein, LLP, New York, NY
Royal College of Heralds, London, England
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, England (Gulbenkian Foundation Purchase)
L.Y.C. Museum, Brampton, England
Coelfrith Arts Centre, Sunderland, England
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
Texas Commerce Bank, Houston, TX
New Jersey Bell
Southampton Hospital, Southampton, NY
Private (selected)
Count Robin de la Lanne-Mirlees, London, England
The Hon. Seaton Shanley, East Hampton and New York, NY
Dr. and Mrs. L Dubin, Southampton and New York
Mr. James Galway, Basel, Switzerland
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Greenhouse, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hargrave, Cutchogue, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Schwabacher, Sag Harbor and New York, NY
Dr. Ian MacDonald, London, England
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Emmerson, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Moses, Greenvale, NY
Ms. Eleanor Cohen, Southampton, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ellis, Sea Island, GA
Mr. and Mrs. Marc George Gershwin, East Hampton and New York, NY
Ms. Orel Protopopescou, Miller Place, NY
Mr. Steven J. Harrison, Augusta, GA
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Larson, Southampton, NY
Estate of Elaine de Kooning
Ms. Carol Ebert, Southampton, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Landau, Shaker Heights, OH
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jenkins, Paris and New York
Mr. and Mrs. James Larocca, Southampton, NY
COMMISSIONS
2006 Los Angeles MTA MetroArt, Union Station, Gold Line Portal, Two 55 ft long glass mosaics plus skywell
2004 Holder Properties, “Post Meridian: Twilight in the Garden.” Nine 4 x 4 Ft. paintings for Meridian
Building, Columbia SC
2000-02 MTA Arts for Transit, Hicksville Station, Long Island Rail Road. Two 7 x 33 foot glass mosaics.
Recipient of the Municipal Arts Society of New York’s, 2003 Masterworks Award to the MTA
HONORS
2005 Professor Emeritus of Art, Long Island University
2000 Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement (Lifetime Achievement in the Arts), Long Island University
BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected)
2004 John Esten, Hamptons Gardens: A 350-Year Legacy. New York: Rizzoli
Robert Long, review, “Two Centuries of Gardens in Paint,” East Hampton Star, Sept. 2
John Norwich, feature article, “Artist Perspective: Roy Nicholson,” Hampton Jitney Magazine, Aug. 12
2003 Kim Volpe, “A Room With a View,” Long Island University Magazine, Vol. 11, #1 (Spring)
“Metropolitan Mosaic for New York,” The Letter, Issue 21(July), Middlesex University
2002 Bob Colacello & Jonathan Becker, Studios by the Sea. New York: Abrams
Marina Delaney, “Public Art on the Block,” Newsday, February 24
2001 Barbara Delatiner, “The Commuters May Rush,” The New York Times, Dec. 2
2000 “Labscapes 2000.” Exhibition Catalogue. Curators, Anne Cohen DePietro, Mel Pekarsky, Ron Pisano.
Foreword by James D. Watson
2004 Piri Halasz, on line review, From the Mayor’s Doorstep, October.
Phyllis Braff, review, The New York Times, September 5
“From the Garden.” Exhibition brochure, Rathbone Gallery, Albany, NY
1998 “52 Weeks: An Installation by Roy Nicholson.” Exhibition brochure, Heckscher Museum of Art,
Huntington, NY
Ariella Budick, “Local Color,” Newsday, September 6
Phyllis Braff, “Landscapes of the Earth and the Mind” (review), The New York Times, October 4
Amei Wallach, “Long Island: Our Story,” Newsday, March 22
1997 Marion Wolberg Weiss, “Honoring the Artist, Roy Nicholson,” (with front cover)
Dan’s Papers, September 26
Phyllis Braff, review, The New York Times, July 27
1996 Phyllis Braff, review, The New York Times, February 11
Carey Lovelace, review, Newsday, February 2
Elaine Cobos, Eighteen Suffolk Artists. Exhibition catalogue,
University Art Gallery, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
Phyllis Braff, review, The New York Times, March 12.
Marion Wolberg Weiss, “Artist Profile: Roy Nicholson,” Country, May
1994 Rose Slivka, “From the Studio”(review), East Hampton Star, October 6
Phyllis Braff, The New York Times, November 20
1993 Karin Lipson, review, Newsday, January 29
Phyllis Braff, review, The New York Times, March 7
Marion Wolberg Weiss, “Art Commentary” (review), October 8
1990 Ronald G. Pisano, Long Island Landscape Painting: The Twentieth Century. Boston: Little, Brown