This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Gregory Amenoff was born in St. Charles, Illinois in 1948. He studied at Beloit College where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. He served as Professor of Graduate Painting in the School of Visual Arts (in 1987) and Yale University School of Art (in 1991). He won the Massachusetts Bicentennial Painting Award (in 1979) and the National Endowment for the Arts in 1980, 1981 and 1989.
Amenoff relates his earliest interest in art, which began with a television show on art therapy, and copying images from art magazines he found in his home town. Then an art history teacher in college sealed his fate with an enthusiastic approach to a 20th Century course. He has taught at the Tyler School of Art, The Skowhegan School, American University, the Florida International University, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, California State University, Rhode Island School of Design, School of Visual Arts and is Professor of Art at Columbia University.
Sources include:
Who's Who in American Art, R.R. Bowker, 1993-4
ARTnews, January 1996
ISA Biographies on the Internet:
From a 1993 review in ArtForum written by Donald Kuspit
Written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in St. Charles, Illinois, Gregory Amenoff became a noted abstract artist in the late 20th century. He is a physical, gestural painter who covers his canvases with thick, dense, heavy paint, and seems to attack his work with vigorous, impulsive strokes, using his fingers to make deep furrows and ridges on the surface.
He has said that his work is inspired by nature, that the shapes are biomorphic and organic, and that he is concerned with nature's patterns and rhythms and contours.
He attended Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, and then lived for a period in Boston before moving in 1980 to New York City where his work has been exhibited at Hirschl & Adler Gallery.
He also spent some time in New Mexico and has taught special classes at the Yale University School of Art in 1991.
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Biography from Rogallery.com:
| Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and New Mexico. His BA is from Beloit College. In 1994 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Fine Art in Boston. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Tiffany Foundation, and The Artist Foundation of Massachusetts.
He has had one person exhibitions in scores of museums, public spaces and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums, including the Whitney Museum of America Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
He has been a Professor of Art at Columbia since 1994 and holds the Eve and Herman Gelman Chair of Visual Arts. He has also taught at The School of Visual Arts in New York, Rhode Island School of Design, Yale, Showhegan and numerous other schools.
He has served as President of the National Academy of Design in New York since 2001.
He serves on the Board of Directors of the Cue Art Foundation and additionally serves as the Foundation Curator Governor. | Source:
rogallery.com |
Biography from Boca Raton Museum of Art:
| Gregory Amenoff (American, born Illinois 1948 - )
He is best known for his animated, organic abstractions inspired by his responses to landscapes. He credits the works of American modernists Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley as early models for his paintings and drawings, but his working methods also are influenced by Abstract Expressionism. "My content varies: it describes an inner world and inner life," he explains.
His paintings fuse traditional subject matter with contemporary consciousness and a reverence for American visionary painting from the turn of the century. Critic Donald Kuspit has written: "In Amenoff's paintings, modern romantic nature mysticism makes one of its strongest, most defiant statements . . . . sublimity commemorates -- mourns -- a nature that has come to seem doomed."
The artist has had one-person exhibitions at national and international museums and galleries, has received grants from the NEA and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation among others.
His work is represented in many collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the 1981 Biennial at the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
A Professor at Columbia University, Amenoff lives and paints in New York.
Information provided by The Boca Raton Museum of Art
Catalina Torres (Intern)
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