Ilya Lerner

 

4732 Deerfield Pl., Vestal, NY 13850

(607) 772-8713

ilerner@hotmail.com

www.paintingsdirect.com www.lernerart.com

 

Born 1966, Moscow, Russia

 

Education

Pending           St. Petersburg Arts Academy, Russia, MFA, painting 

2001                Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, George Nick’s Painting Master Class

2000                Art League of Houston, Sculpture, with Wei Li Wang

1991-92           Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York and City University of New York, graphic design courses     

1979-88           Perovo Art School and Private Studios, Moscow, Russia, studio art

1988                Moscow Communications Academy, MS, computer science 

 

Teaching experience

2001-
 
2001
1988 –
1988 - 89

Owner/Principal Artist teaching painting, drawing and sculpture, Lerner Art Academy, Vestal, New York

 Visiting artists included Hall Groat II, Shane Van Pelt, Marina Zelesski, Bente Elizabeth Endressen

 Painting and advanced drawing, Lee College, Baytown, Texas

 Private lessons, painting and drawing

 Informatix Computer Class, Novoe Kosino High School, Moscow, Russia

 

 Selected Exhibitions

                                                                   

 One Person

2007                Performing Arts Center, Norman, Oklahoma (part of International Visions Festival)

2005        Eddie Griffith Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ilya Lerner: Recent Paintings

2004-2005

2004

 

2002

 

2000

1998 

1996

1994

1983

Roberson Museum, Binghamton, New York, Ilya Lerner: Paintings, retrospective of 100 paintings and drawings

Crane Collection Gallery, Wellesley, Massachusetts, On the Road: landscapes of Spain, Santa Fe and

New England by Ilya Lerner

Maturango Museum, Ridgecrest, California, Ilya Lerner:  Landscapes

Jewish Community Center, Binghamton, New York, From Moscow to Binghamton

Lee College, Baytown, Texas 

Eclipse Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

Naz Art Gallery, Newton, Massachusetts

Tsvetaeva Russian Heritage Museum*, Somerville, Massachusetts

Perovo Youth Center, Moscow, Russia 

 

 Group

       *private museum affiliated with the Tufts University, currently closed

 

2006

2004-

2002-

1998 -          2005

2002,  2003

 

 

2000,  2001

 

 

 

 

1999 – 2001

2001

 

2000

1997 - 1999

 

1995, 1996

 

 

1994

1993

 

1992

1991

1990

 

 

1988,  1989

1986 - 1989

Foxhall Gallery, Washington, DC

Eddie Griffith Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Hensley Galleries, Taos, New Mexico

Crane Collection Gallery, Wellesley, Massachusetts

Blaire Carnahan Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY

West End Gallery, Corning, New York

M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma

International Museum Of Art, El Paso, Texas

Millioud Gallery, Houston, Texas

Art On The 5th Gallery, Austin, Texas

Zarks Gallery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Young & Constantine Gallery, Wilmington, Vermont

New Orleans Art Association Open Juried Show

Memphis Art Festival Juried Show, Memphis, Tennessee

Houston Visual Arts Alliance Open Juried Show

Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts

Wilson Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

Renjeau Gallery, Concord, Massachusetts

Raven Gallery, Marblehead, Massachusetts

Frieda’s Gallery, Rockport, Massachusetts

Chaim’s Gallery, Brookline, Massachusetts

Temple Israel, Brookline, Massachusetts

Hillel Academy, Marblehead, Massachusetts

Yeshiva University, New York, New York

Chassidic Art Institute, Brooklyn, New York

New York Association of New Americans, New York, New York

Galleria Claudio, Rimini, Italy

Galleria delle Ponte, Venice, Italy

Smolenskaya Gallery, Moscow, Russia

 Moskovskoe Tovarischestvo Hudojnikov (Independent Union of Moscow Artists), Moscow, Russia

 

Current Representation

Eddie Griffith Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Hensley Galleries, Taos, New Mexico

 PaintingsDirect.com

 

 Selected museum, public and corporate collections

International Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas

Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain

National Park Service, Harrison, Arkansas 
Southside Bank, Dallas, Texas
Pucillo collection, Moscow, Russia

 

 Selected Awards

2003                Special Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts

2001

2000

 

1981

Cultural Connections Grant, Texas Commission on the Art / Arts Council of Houston 

Purchase Award, International Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas

Shirl Smithson Memorial Scholarship, Oil Painters of America 

Art History Award, Kremlin Museum, Moscow

 

 

Full residency fellowships from the foundations below

 

 Residencies

2003

2002

2001

2000

Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain

Mill Atelier Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Buffalo River National Park, Arkansas

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont  (partial fellowship)                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected bibliography and publications

Ilya Lerner: Paintings, Roberson Museum show catalog, essay by Carol Wood, September 2004, ISBN 0-937318-27-2

Russian Art, by John Guiane, Binghamton Channel 34 News @ 11, February 20, 2006

Featured Painting, ARTnews, October 2004

Shows Take Varying Views of Nature, by Andrei Gurianu, Binghamton  Press & Sun - Bulletin, September 16, 2004

Different Strokes, by Christian Czerwinski, Twin Tier Times, September 16, 2004

Downtown Community, by Kirsten VanSlike and James Winslow, WICZ FOX40 News, March 24, 2004

Vestal Artist to Teach in Spain, Binghamton  Press & Sun - Bulletin, October 26, 2003

Featured Paintings, The Vestal Review, issues 14 – 17, 19 (July 2003 – October 2004)

Artist’s Profile: Ilya Lerner, by Maggie Martin, Arty Types, winter 2003

Artist’s lecture at the Maturango Museum, video by Carroll Evans Jr., March 2002

Gallery to Feature Landscapes, Ridgecrest News Review, March 6, 2002

From Moscow to Binghamton: Artist Ilya Lerner, by Robin Cook-Mervis, The Reporter, March 1, 2002

Warmer Shade of Paint, by John Everett, Houston Chronicle, January 5, 2001

Artist of the Month, True Colors, PaintingsDirect.com, various issues, 1998 – 2005

Ilya Lerner at the Tsvetaeva Museum, Bostonskoe Vremia (Boston Times in Russian), by Igor Tufeld, November 1994

 

Lectures, workshops, demonstrations, critiques, gallery talks

2007             Artist’s lecture, plein-air and studio painting workshops, Performing Arts Center, Norman, Oklahoma,

                    in conjunction with solo show

2006             “Being Working Artist”, Lerner Art Academy, lecture for students of the Broome Community College    

                    “Color Theory through Work of Ilya Lerner”, lecture the Lerner Art Academy for students of the Broome Community

                     College by professor Hall Groat II 

2005              Solo Show Gallery Talk, Eddie Griffith Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2004           Artist’s lecture, Roberson Museum, Binghamton, New York, in conjunction with retrospective exhibit

2003              Artist’s lecture, critiques, panel discussions and plein-air demonstrations, Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar,

                                                                                                                                                                            Spain

2002              Painting critiques and demonstrations, Mill Atelier Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

                     Artist’s lecture, Maturango Museum, Ridgecrest, California (see above for publication information)

2000              Artist’s lecture, Lee College, Baytown, Texas

                     “Introduction to History of Russian Art”, Lecture at the Art League of Houston

1981              “Ivan The Great Bell Tower”, student art history conference, Moscow Kremlin Armory (Orujeinaya Palata), Museum, Russia

 

Other professional experience

1993 – 98       computer consultant for several major Boston companies including John Hancock Insurance,

                 BayBank, Bank of Boston, NYNEX, Sheraton.

1989 – 90   tour guide for Russian groups in Florence (including Uffizi gallery), Venice and Rome

 

 

Languages Russian (native), some Italian and Hebrew 

 

 

References available upon request