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. Gregory Amenoff was born in Saint Charles, Illinois, in 1948 to Beatice and C.V. Amenoff. He received a B.A. in history from Beloit College in 1970. He moved to Boston in 1971 where he began his career, showing at the

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on Newbury Street. He relocated to New York in 1979. In 1980 he began showing with Robert Miller Gallery on

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. Amenoff was included in the 1981, 1985 biennials at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was also included in ''An International Survey of Recent Paintings and Sculpture'' at Museum of Modern Art in 1984 and the ''40th Biennial Exhibition of American Contemporary Painting'' at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in 1987. In the 1990s Amenoff had three traveling solo exhibitions. A retrospective of works on paper originating at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, titled ''Gregory Amenoff, Works on Paper 1975–1992'' traveled to Massachusetts, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, Wellington Gray Gallery, and

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, in Greenville, North Carolina. An exhibition of 19 large scaled paintings called ''The Sky Below'' traveled to University of Tennessee Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee,

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, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California and the Ringling School of Art Gallery, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Florida. Amenoff was also the subject of a two-year traveling show of small paintings ''Thirty Views'', which originated in Syracuse, New York and went to venues in Boston, San Francisco, and elsewhere. From 1986 to 1993 Amenoff showed with Hirschl & Adler Modern on

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. He showed at Salander O'Reilly on East 79th Street from 1998 to 2004. He is currently represented by the Alexandre Gallery on 57th Street. He has had several one-person exhibitions at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, California, James Corcoran Gallery in Los Angeles, California, Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Texas Gallery in Houston, Texas. Amenoff was president of the National Academy of Design from 2001 to 2005. He is a founding member of th
CUE Art Foundation
where he served as the curator/governor from 2002 to 2015. He has taught at Columbia University since 1994, where he holds the endowed Chair as the Eve and Herman Gelman Professor of the Visual Arts Program. He served as chair of the Visual Arts Department from 2007 to 2013. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Massachusetts College of Art.

Personal life

Gregory Alexander Amenoff lives and works in New York City and Ulster County. For many years he spent his summers in El Rito, New Mexico. He is married to Sonia Phillips Resika and has three children: Arielle Alexandra Amenoff (born 1984), August Paul Amenoff (born 2001), and Georgia Phillips Amenoff (born 2005)

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* 2011,

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

* 1997, 1995, 1993 American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award * 1989, 1981, 1980 National Endowment for the Arts Award (Painting) * 1981, C.A.P.S. (New York State Council on the Arts Award) * 1980, The Louis B. Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award * 1979, The Artist Foundation of Massachusetts Award * 1976, Massachusetts Bicentennial Painting Award
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Official websiteGregory Amenoff at Alexandre Gallery
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