John Udvardy, Large Mixed Media Mod Fabric Collage Textile Painting Modernist Art Wall Hanging, 1963

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John Udvardy (American 1936-) Hungarian American artist. known for sculpture and painting. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting … more John Udvardy (American 1936-) Hungarian American artist. known for sculpture and painting. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. He earned his MFA from Yale University. The Mary C. Page Scholarship allowed him to travel through Europe, Scandinavia, Spain and North Africa. He has worked at a variety of different jobs, including working in the steel mills of Lorain, Ohio with his father, as well as being a brakeman on the New Haven Railroad while he was a graduate student at Yale. During the late fifties while living in Greenwich Village, he worked in a snap factory in the Garment District of New York and in a spindle shop in Brooklyn. To maintain his studio and support himself while living in Boston, he worked as a sign painter there and in Cambridge, Mass. He was a specialist in an artillery battalion while serving in the Army.
John Udvardy has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Yale University, Brown University and he was Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College. He was made Professor emeritus and has taught Three Dimensional Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, as well as being the Chairman of the Foundation Studies Program and Director of the Summer Transfer Program for many years. He was at Risd with Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, Andrea Zittel, Nicole Eisenman, Bruce Helander, Julie Mehretu, Richard Merkin and Ross palmer Beecher. For several years John Udvardy served as RISD's Liaison Officer to the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico as well as teaching there as a visiting Critic. For a three year term he served as juror on the National Screening Committee for the Fulbright Awards at the Institute of International Education in New York.
Udvardy has an extensive exhibition record, exhibiting widely throughout the United States in over 200 group shows and in 40 one person exhibits.

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Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Jewett Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, New York
Syracuse Museum of Fine Art, Syracuse, New York
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
The Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, Rhode Island
Obelisk Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, California
The Sara Roby Foundation, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
The Roland Gibson Art Foundation, Potsdam, New York
Suzette Schochet Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island
The Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York
Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida less