Ross Bleckner
Artist
Ross Bleckner is an artist currently living and working in New York City. He received a Bachelor of Arts from New York University in 1971, a Master of Fine Arts from Cal Arts in 1973.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum held a major retrospective of his works in 1995, summarizing two decades of solo shows at internationally acclaimed exhibition venues such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Works by Bleckner are also held in esteemed public collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Not only has Bleckner had a profound impact on the shaping of the New York art world, his philanthropic efforts have enabled many community organizations to perform their vital work. For ten years. Bleckner served as president of the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA), a non-profit community-based research and treatment education center. More recently, he has been working with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Northern Uganda to help rehabilitate and raise money for ex-child soldiers. In May 2009, Bleckner was awarded the title of Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations.
Mr. Bleckner was hosted by The Common Good in 2011: The Quest for "It": Desert Flower Premieres – Sunday, March 20, 2011.
Read more:
‘Ross Bleckner: Pharmaceutria at Petzel Gallery’, ‘ArtFuse’, 15 May 2019
Ted Loos, ‘Ross Bleckner on His Comback and Mary Boone’ New York Times, 25 April 2019
‘Ross Bleckner at Dallas Contemporary’, Broadway World, 12 January 2017
Ken Johnson, ‘Searching for Light in the Darkness of the ‘80s’, New York Times, 18 August 2016
