MIMI ORITSKY
moritsky@comcast.net
Education
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, MFA Painting and Pintmaking
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, BFA Painting (cum laude)
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, (Sculpture Major)
One Person Exhibitions
2021 The Hidden Edge, (Audra Lambert), Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Above and Below (curated by Christian Camacho Light), AIR Gallery, Brooklyn. NY
2019 Soft Wet to Hard Dry (curated by Mary Gagler), Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Crushing on the Quarry (curated by Mary Gagler), Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
https://wsimag.com/art/45720-mimi-oritsky
2017 Floating Trails, (co-curated by Emily Harris, Roxana Fabius), A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Inside 200, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Rock and Tree Debris, (Alex Wixon), Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 New Work, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2010 New Paintings and Works on Paper, A.I R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 AVE and Ronda Shadow Series, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Ronda and Pacific Shadow Series, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY; The AVÉ, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Fromm Gallery, Reading, PA
2004 Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
2003 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY; A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Maria Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA
1998 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Maria Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA; The Rittenhouse Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Kimberton Gallery, Kimberton, PA
1989 Kauffman Gallery, Huber Art Center, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA;
Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Germantown Academy Arts Center Gallery, Fort Washington, PA;
Hahnemann University Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1986 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Pennsylvania Landscapes, Callowhill Art Gallery, Reading, PA
1982 Gross-McCleaf Gallery (Hahnemann University), Philadelphia, PA
1980 Fells Point Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022-2021 Traveling Project, EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, The Nevada Museum of Art; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
2021 Fractal Nature (curated by Patricia M. Hernandez), The A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021-20 Where'er Silent Beams Instrude: "Small Works" (curated by Audra Lambert), Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Suffrage 100 (co-curated by Jennifer McCandless, Ellyn Weiss), The Mercy Gallery, The Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT; Forever is Composed of Nows (curated by Co-Founders of Assembly Room), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Looking for Justice, Beauty and Love, 8th Annual, iMPeRFeCT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA;
SALON DE REFUSES PHILADELPHIA (co-curated by Virginia Maksymowicz, Simone Spicer), iMPeRFeCT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA;
Active directions of the mind (curated by Alexis Wilkinson), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Berks Art Alliance Annual (Georganna Lenssen), GoggleWorks, Schmidt Gallery, Reading, PA;
Facing Disjunction: Making Sense of a Fragmented World (curated by Judith Tolnick Champa), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Unique to the Nature, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Gathering Differences, (selected by Helga Christoffersen), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY;
Only Connect, an installation by Alison Owen, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY;
Chromacide, An Exhibition in Grayscale, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016-17 Cooperative Consciousness, A.I.R @ Kochi-Muzris Biennale
(co-curated by Kathryn Myers/Jayanthi Moorthy), Kerala, INDIA
2016 Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2016, The State Museum of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, PA;
In the Secret Garden (curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY;
2015 Transformed Viewpoints (curated by Charlotta Kotik), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY;
MICA: Then//Now, Noyes Museum, NJ
2014 Liminal Communities (curated by Lucy Li), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 MICA:Then//Now (curated by Barry Nemett), Ethan Cohen Gallery, Chelsea, NY; Beacon, NY
2010-13 Philadelphia Public Art: The Full Spectrum, William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (curated by
Abington Art Center)
2012 Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2012, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
2011 A woman’s work is never done (curated by Susanne Altmann), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 …and sweeps me away (curated by Barbara O’Brien), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Precedent: A Contemporary Survey of Fine Arts Through PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania, Lower Gallery Meyerson, Philadelphia, PA;
Contemporary Humanism (curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Structured Incidents (curated by Charlotta Kotik), A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Nakazato Show, Ice Box projects space, Philadelphia, PA; Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA;
Made Out of the Ordinary, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2005 JMS Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Betsy Meyer Memorial, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA;
Cluster, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts Annual, Wilmington, DE;
condition:environ, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2003, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA; 14th National Juried Exhibition, Viridian Gallery, New York, NY; A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2002-04 The American River National traveling exhibition: Brattleboro Museum, VT;
TW Wood Museum, Montpelier, VT; Montshire Museum, Hanover, NH; The
Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA; Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
2002 Berks Art Alliance 25th Annual, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; New York - DC, Gallery
10 Ltd, Washington, DC; Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show (Lisa Dennison), Lowell Street and University Place Galleries, Cambridge, MA; 3rd Annual National Exhibition, Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA; Horton Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2001 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY; Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
2000 National Drawing ‘00, College Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ
1999 Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ; Works on Paper Biennial,
Abington ArtCenter, Jenkintown, PA
1998 National Competition, First Street Gallery (curated by Sydney Goodman), New York, NY; 9th National Juried Exhibition (curated by Lisa Phillips), Viridian Gallery, New York, NY;
Through the Heart of the City, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA; 56th Annual,
Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA;
Drawings,Yearsley Spring Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; National Drawing ‘98, College Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ; Annual Juried, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
1997 First National Juried Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA; Art of the State:
Pennsylvania ‘97, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA; Women Painters of Pennsylvania, Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA; Annual Juried, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
1996 7th BiAnnual Juried Painting Exhibition, David E. Rodale Gallery, Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA;
Art of the State: Pennsylvania ‘96, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA; National
Drawing ‘96, College Art Gallery, Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ; MAXIMUM-minimums,
National Juried Exhibition, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; New, NewYork, 750 Gallery,
Sacramento, CA
1995 National Competition, First Street Gallery, New York, NY;
54th Annual, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA;
Works on Paper National Juried Exhibition, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1994 CHIAROSCURO: The Manipulation of Light, Works on Paper Exhibition, Main Line Art Center,
Haverford, PA; Annual Juried, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA; Rocks, Rills, Woods, & TempledHills, The Rittenhouse Galleries, Philadelphia, PA; PICACOC, Rodger Lapelle Galleries and 479 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1993-94 Artists of Amos Eno, Krasdale Gallery, Bronx, NY;
Philadelphia All, The Rittenhouse Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
1993 Fall 1993, The Rittenhouse Galleries, Philadelphia, PA; ARC Invitational, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, Il; Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford PA;
Inside the Landscape, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
1992 The Summer of ‘92, The Rittenhouse Galleries, Philadelphia, PA; Galerie Nadeau, Philadelphia, PA;
A Breath of Spring, The Rittenhouse Galleries, Philadelphia, PA; Small Oil Paintings Annual,
Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA; 1992 Juried Art Exhibition, William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, PA; Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
1991 Recent Work Part 1, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY; Summer Group Show, Galerie Nadeau,
Philadelphia, PA; Small Oil Paintings Annual, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA; Penn
Prints: Thirty Years of Printmaking at the University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Ross Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
1990 Newer Space/Newer Work, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Amos Eno/Nexus Exchange, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA; Scenic River Days Annual, Reading, PA; Art Today, Maria Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA;
Markings Plus, Pavilion Gallery, Mount Holly, NJ
1988 Scenic River Days Annual, Reading, PA; SOHO in DC, Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC; 21st
Juried Show, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
1987 Scenic River Days Annual, Reading, PA; Small Oil Paintings Annual, Philadelphia Sketch Club,
Philadelphia, PA; Landscapes, Giannetta Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1986 Berks Art Alliance Annual, The Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; 10 on 8, 8th Avenue
between 53rd & 54th Streets (Artists Space/Artists Grant), New York, NY;
Small Oil Paintings Annual, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
1985 Presence/Presents, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY; Eno’s Choice, Amos Eno Gallery, New
York,NY; Works on Paper Annual, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
1984 Berks Art Alliance Annual, The Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; Mirrors of Nature, The
Gallery, York, PA; The Landscape, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA;
Tri-State Juried Exhibition, The Gallery, York, PA
1983-84 Works on Paper Annual, (Marie Keller, The Drawing Center, NY, NY),
Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
1983 Berks Art Alliance Annual, The Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; Women: Self Image,Women's Caucus for Art, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1982 Landscape Paintings and Prints, Gross-McCleaf Gallery (Hahnemann University),
Philadelphia, PA
1981-83 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE:
Sales/Rental Galleries
1981 St. David’s Annual Art Exhibition, Wayne, PA; On the Road, Gross-McCleaf Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA; Along the Schuylkill, Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA;
New Generation Artists 1981, Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1980 19/80 Current Representational Painting in Philadelphia, United States Courthouse;
Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1979-80 Albert J. Wood Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
1979 Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1973 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Awards and Fellowships
2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who
2007 Residence Fellowship, The Heliker-LaHotan Foundation, Inc, Cranberry Isles, ME
1998 Leonard B. Belber Award “Best of Show”, Lisa M. Panzera, Curator, Levy Gallery, Moore College
of Art and Design, Abington Art Center Annual
1994 Irma Rosenau Memorial Award in Painting, Richard Torchia, Curator, Levy Gallery, Moore College
of Art and Design, Abington Art Center Annual
1984 Purchase Award to The Reading Public Museum, Berks Art Alliance Annual
1983 Purchase Award, PA Council on the Arts and Arcadia University, Works on Paper Annual
1983 Residence Fellowship, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
1980 Residence Fellowship, Artists for Environment Foundation, Delaware Water Gap, National Park, NJ
Collections
The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
The Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
Helping Up Mission, Inc., Baltimore, MD
PNC Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Wells Fargo Bank, Philadelphia, PA
GlaxoSmithKline Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
UBS/Art for Aids, New York, NY
Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Primavera Systems, Inc., Bala Cynwyd, PA
Private Collections
Reviews and Publications
Book, EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss
Saltz, Jerry. "2020 Featured Artists/Recent Work", New American Paintings Magazine, Issue 146, 2020, illus. and back cover, illus.
Newhall, Edith. "It Worked in Paris for Manet and Cezanne. Now Philly has its own Salon des Refuses."
The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 20, 2019, illus.
Sherf, Barbara. "Local artists 'refuse to be refused!': Rejected by Woodmeere, they stage their own art exhibit"
Chestnut Hill Local, June 27, 2019, illus.
Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who, February 16, 2018
Gaston, Diana, Director, Tamarind Institute. Studio Visit Magazine, The Open Studios Press, 2017, illus.
Killary, Katie. "Abstraction Without The Distraction: Exile on Bogart Street", Bushwick Daily October 8, 2015, illus.
Rile, Karen, Founding Editor. “Mimi Oritsky, Inside Rex”, Cleaver Magazine Issue 8, December 2014, illus.
"Rock and Tree Debris", New York Spaces, Mimi Oritsky @ Amos Eno Gallery, 2013, illus.
Richardson, Trevor. Director of Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Studio Visit Magazine, The Open Studios Press, 2012, illus.
Schira, Ron. “Capturing the world from the clouds.” Reading Eagle, Reading, PA, May 29, 2005, illus.
Zevitas, Steven T. New American Paintings Number 57. The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2005, illus. Fish, Larry. “Hidden Treats.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 8, 2004, illus.
Korobkin, Rob. “Main Line Art-Center”. The BiCollege News Online, www.biconews.com, Sep 21, 2004.
Cimms, Karen. “New Show Opens at Maria Feliz Gallery.” Times News, Lehighton, PA, July 31, 2000, illus.
Zevitas, Steven T. New American Paintings Number 27. The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2000, illus.
Donohoe, Victoria. “The Arts: Artists unleash the creative powers of paper in Abington display.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 9, 1999.
Johnson, Ken. “Art Guide.” The New York Times, Nov. 27, 1998.
Dormont, Linda. “Mimi Oritsky Paints the Landscapes of Her Dreams.” Art Matters, March 1998, illus.
Haggerty, Gerard. “Art: Mimi Oritsky at Amos Eno.” Cover, Summer 1996, illus.
moritsky@comcast.net
Education
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, MFA Painting and Pintmaking
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, BFA Painting (cum laude)
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, (Sculpture Major)
One Person Exhibitions
2021 The Hidden Edge, (Audra Lambert), Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Above and Below (curated by Christian Camacho Light), AIR Gallery, Brooklyn. NY
2019 Soft Wet to Hard Dry (curated by Mary Gagler), Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Crushing on the Quarry (curated by Mary Gagler), Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
https://wsimag.com/art/45720-mimi-oritsky
2017 Floating Trails, (co-curated by Emily Harris, Roxana Fabius), A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Inside 200, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Rock and Tree Debris, (Alex Wixon), Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 New Work, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2010 New Paintings and Works on Paper, A.I R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 AVE and Ronda Shadow Series, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Ronda and Pacific Shadow Series, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY; The AVÉ, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Fromm Gallery, Reading, PA
2004 Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
2003 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY; A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Maria Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA
1998 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Maria Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA; The Rittenhouse Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Kimberton Gallery, Kimberton, PA
1989 Kauffman Gallery, Huber Art Center, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA;
Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Germantown Academy Arts Center Gallery, Fort Washington, PA;
Hahnemann University Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1986 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Pennsylvania Landscapes, Callowhill Art Gallery, Reading, PA
1982 Gross-McCleaf Gallery (Hahnemann University), Philadelphia, PA
1980 Fells Point Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022-2021 Traveling Project, EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, The Nevada Museum of Art; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
2021 Fractal Nature (curated by Patricia M. Hernandez), The A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021-20 Where'er Silent Beams Instrude: "Small Works" (curated by Audra Lambert), Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Suffrage 100 (co-curated by Jennifer McCandless, Ellyn Weiss), The Mercy Gallery, The Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT; Forever is Composed of Nows (curated by Co-Founders of Assembly Room), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Looking for Justice, Beauty and Love, 8th Annual, iMPeRFeCT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA;
SALON DE REFUSES PHILADELPHIA (co-curated by Virginia Maksymowicz, Simone Spicer), iMPeRFeCT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA;
Active directions of the mind (curated by Alexis Wilkinson), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Berks Art Alliance Annual (Georganna Lenssen), GoggleWorks, Schmidt Gallery, Reading, PA;
Facing Disjunction: Making Sense of a Fragmented World (curated by Judith Tolnick Champa), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Unique to the Nature, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Gathering Differences, (selected by Helga Christoffersen), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY;
Only Connect, an installation by Alison Owen, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY;
Chromacide, An Exhibition in Grayscale, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016-17 Cooperative Consciousness, A.I.R @ Kochi-Muzris Biennale
(co-curated by Kathryn Myers/Jayanthi Moorthy), Kerala, INDIA
2016 Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2016, The State Museum of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, PA;
In the Secret Garden (curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY;
2015 Transformed Viewpoints (curated by Charlotta Kotik), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY;
MICA: Then//Now, Noyes Museum, NJ
2014 Liminal Communities (curated by Lucy Li), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 MICA:Then//Now (curated by Barry Nemett), Ethan Cohen Gallery, Chelsea, NY; Beacon, NY
2010-13 Philadelphia Public Art: The Full Spectrum, William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (curated by
Abington Art Center)
2012 Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2012, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
2011 A woman’s work is never done (curated by Susanne Altmann), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 …and sweeps me away (curated by Barbara O’Brien), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Precedent: A Contemporary Survey of Fine Arts Through PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania, Lower Gallery Meyerson, Philadelphia, PA;
Contemporary Humanism (curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Structured Incidents (curated by Charlotta Kotik), A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Nakazato Show, Ice Box projects space, Philadelphia, PA; Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA;
Made Out of the Ordinary, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2005 JMS Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Betsy Meyer Memorial, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA;
Cluster, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts Annual, Wilmington, DE;
condition:environ, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2003, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA; 14th National Juried Exhibition, Viridian Gallery, New York, NY; A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2002-04 The American River National traveling exhibition: Brattleboro Museum, VT;
TW Wood Museum, Montpelier, VT; Montshire Museum, Hanover, NH; The
Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA; Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
2002 Berks Art Alliance 25th Annual, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; New York - DC, Gallery
10 Ltd, Washington, DC; Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show (Lisa Dennison), Lowell Street and University Place Galleries, Cambridge, MA; 3rd Annual National Exhibition, Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA; Horton Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2001 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY; Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
2000 National Drawing ‘00, College Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ
1999 Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ; Works on Paper Biennial,
Abington ArtCenter, Jenkintown, PA
1998 National Competition, First Street Gallery (curated by Sydney Goodman), New York, NY; 9th National Juried Exhibition (curated by Lisa Phillips), Viridian Gallery, New York, NY;
Through the Heart of the City, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA; 56th Annual,
Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA;
Drawings,Yearsley Spring Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; National Drawing ‘98, College Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ; Annual Juried, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
1997 First National Juried Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA; Art of the State:
Pennsylvania ‘97, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA; Women Painters of Pennsylvania, Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA; Annual Juried, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
1996 7th BiAnnual Juried Painting Exhibition, David E. Rodale Gallery, Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA;
Art of the State: Pennsylvania ‘96, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA; National
Drawing ‘96, College Art Gallery, Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ; MAXIMUM-minimums,
National Juried Exhibition, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; New, NewYork, 750 Gallery,
Sacramento, CA
1995 National Competition, First Street Gallery, New York, NY;
54th Annual, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA;
Works on Paper National Juried Exhibition, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1994 CHIAROSCURO: The Manipulation of Light, Works on Paper Exhibition, Main Line Art Center,
Haverford, PA; Annual Juried, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA; Rocks, Rills, Woods, & TempledHills, The Rittenhouse Galleries, Philadelphia, PA; PICACOC, Rodger Lapelle Galleries and 479 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1993-94 Artists of Amos Eno, Krasdale Gallery, Bronx, NY;
Philadelphia All, The Rittenhouse Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
1993 Fall 1993, The Rittenhouse Galleries, Philadelphia, PA; ARC Invitational, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, Il; Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford PA;
Inside the Landscape, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
1992 The Summer of ‘92, The Rittenhouse Galleries, Philadelphia, PA; Galerie Nadeau, Philadelphia, PA;
A Breath of Spring, The Rittenhouse Galleries, Philadelphia, PA; Small Oil Paintings Annual,
Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA; 1992 Juried Art Exhibition, William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, PA; Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
1991 Recent Work Part 1, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY; Summer Group Show, Galerie Nadeau,
Philadelphia, PA; Small Oil Paintings Annual, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA; Penn
Prints: Thirty Years of Printmaking at the University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Ross Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
1990 Newer Space/Newer Work, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Amos Eno/Nexus Exchange, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA; Scenic River Days Annual, Reading, PA; Art Today, Maria Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA;
Markings Plus, Pavilion Gallery, Mount Holly, NJ
1988 Scenic River Days Annual, Reading, PA; SOHO in DC, Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC; 21st
Juried Show, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
1987 Scenic River Days Annual, Reading, PA; Small Oil Paintings Annual, Philadelphia Sketch Club,
Philadelphia, PA; Landscapes, Giannetta Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1986 Berks Art Alliance Annual, The Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; 10 on 8, 8th Avenue
between 53rd & 54th Streets (Artists Space/Artists Grant), New York, NY;
Small Oil Paintings Annual, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
1985 Presence/Presents, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY; Eno’s Choice, Amos Eno Gallery, New
York,NY; Works on Paper Annual, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
1984 Berks Art Alliance Annual, The Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; Mirrors of Nature, The
Gallery, York, PA; The Landscape, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA;
Tri-State Juried Exhibition, The Gallery, York, PA
1983-84 Works on Paper Annual, (Marie Keller, The Drawing Center, NY, NY),
Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
1983 Berks Art Alliance Annual, The Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; Women: Self Image,Women's Caucus for Art, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1982 Landscape Paintings and Prints, Gross-McCleaf Gallery (Hahnemann University),
Philadelphia, PA
1981-83 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE:
Sales/Rental Galleries
1981 St. David’s Annual Art Exhibition, Wayne, PA; On the Road, Gross-McCleaf Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA; Along the Schuylkill, Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA;
New Generation Artists 1981, Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1980 19/80 Current Representational Painting in Philadelphia, United States Courthouse;
Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1979-80 Albert J. Wood Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
1979 Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1973 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Awards and Fellowships
2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who
2007 Residence Fellowship, The Heliker-LaHotan Foundation, Inc, Cranberry Isles, ME
1998 Leonard B. Belber Award “Best of Show”, Lisa M. Panzera, Curator, Levy Gallery, Moore College
of Art and Design, Abington Art Center Annual
1994 Irma Rosenau Memorial Award in Painting, Richard Torchia, Curator, Levy Gallery, Moore College
of Art and Design, Abington Art Center Annual
1984 Purchase Award to The Reading Public Museum, Berks Art Alliance Annual
1983 Purchase Award, PA Council on the Arts and Arcadia University, Works on Paper Annual
1983 Residence Fellowship, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
1980 Residence Fellowship, Artists for Environment Foundation, Delaware Water Gap, National Park, NJ
Collections
The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
The Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
Helping Up Mission, Inc., Baltimore, MD
PNC Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Wells Fargo Bank, Philadelphia, PA
GlaxoSmithKline Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
UBS/Art for Aids, New York, NY
Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Primavera Systems, Inc., Bala Cynwyd, PA
Private Collections
Reviews and Publications
Book, EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss
Saltz, Jerry. "2020 Featured Artists/Recent Work", New American Paintings Magazine, Issue 146, 2020, illus. and back cover, illus.
Newhall, Edith. "It Worked in Paris for Manet and Cezanne. Now Philly has its own Salon des Refuses."
The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 20, 2019, illus.
Sherf, Barbara. "Local artists 'refuse to be refused!': Rejected by Woodmeere, they stage their own art exhibit"
Chestnut Hill Local, June 27, 2019, illus.
Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who, February 16, 2018
Gaston, Diana, Director, Tamarind Institute. Studio Visit Magazine, The Open Studios Press, 2017, illus.
Killary, Katie. "Abstraction Without The Distraction: Exile on Bogart Street", Bushwick Daily October 8, 2015, illus.
Rile, Karen, Founding Editor. “Mimi Oritsky, Inside Rex”, Cleaver Magazine Issue 8, December 2014, illus.
"Rock and Tree Debris", New York Spaces, Mimi Oritsky @ Amos Eno Gallery, 2013, illus.
Richardson, Trevor. Director of Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Studio Visit Magazine, The Open Studios Press, 2012, illus.
Schira, Ron. “Capturing the world from the clouds.” Reading Eagle, Reading, PA, May 29, 2005, illus.
Zevitas, Steven T. New American Paintings Number 57. The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2005, illus. Fish, Larry. “Hidden Treats.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 8, 2004, illus.
Korobkin, Rob. “Main Line Art-Center”. The BiCollege News Online, www.biconews.com, Sep 21, 2004.
Cimms, Karen. “New Show Opens at Maria Feliz Gallery.” Times News, Lehighton, PA, July 31, 2000, illus.
Zevitas, Steven T. New American Paintings Number 27. The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2000, illus.
Donohoe, Victoria. “The Arts: Artists unleash the creative powers of paper in Abington display.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 9, 1999.
Johnson, Ken. “Art Guide.” The New York Times, Nov. 27, 1998.
Dormont, Linda. “Mimi Oritsky Paints the Landscapes of Her Dreams.” Art Matters, March 1998, illus.
Haggerty, Gerard. “Art: Mimi Oritsky at Amos Eno.” Cover, Summer 1996, illus.
Morales, Tina. “Outings: Art from off the Beaten Path.” New York Newsday, April 14, 1996, illus.
Beyer, Rita. “‘Inside Landscape’ at Abington Art Center.” Chestnut Hill Local, Philadelphia, PA,
Feb. 4, 1993, illus.
DeSantis, Tullio Francesco. “Callowhill Exhibits Pennsylvania Vistas.” Reading Eagle, Reading, PA,
March 8, 1985, illus
Schuylkill River News, (Schuylkill River Greenway Association), Reading Public Museum, December 1984, illus.
Garfield, PhD, Eugene. "Essays of an Information Scientist", Vol:5, p.443-454, 1981-82. Current Contents, #11, p.5-16, The Philadelphia Transit Story Continued---How We Improve Our Subway Station, Phildadelphia, PA
March 15, 1982, illus.
Williams, Edgar. “In- Depth Studies: University City Scenes Grace 34th St. Subway Station.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sep. 23, 1981, illus.
Williams, Edgar. “Tunnel Visions: Subway Murals Bring Art to Mass Transit.” The Philadelphia Inquirer,
Oct.1, 1980, illus.
Professional Appointments
2021-15 Board of Directors. Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Online Interview. "AEG History Interview with Mimi Oritsky".
Mary Gagler (Director) and Kathy Putnam (Artist), Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Visiting Artist. Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2013 Visiting Artist. Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2011 Visiting Artist. Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1989-09 Instructor. Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
2008 Instructor, substitute. Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2006 Visiting Artist. University of the Arts, Fine Arts Department, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Instructor, substitute. Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
1993-04 Instructor. Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
2000 Instructor, substitute. Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
1997 Panelist. “Women in the Arts”, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA
1989-93 Instructor. University of the Arts, Philadelphia College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Juror. “Third Annual Lansdale Festival of the Arts”, Lansdale, PA
1989 Visiting Lecturer/Critic. Brown University, Visual Art Department, Providence, RI
Juror. “Regional Fine Arts Show”, Center for the Creative Arts, Yorklyn, DE
Guest Lecturer. St. Anthony’s School, New York, NY
1988 Visiting Lecturer/Critic. Brown University, Visual Art Department, Providence, RI
Instructor. Art in Progress, Harcum Junior College, Bryn Mawr, PA
1986 Instructor. Art in Progress, Harcum Junior College, Bryn Mawr, PA
1984 Instructor. Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts), Philadelphia, PA
Panelist. “Drawing in the ‘80's” Symposium, Beaver College (Arcadia University), Glenside, PA
1981-83 Visiting Artist/Lecturer. New Jersey Council on the Arts and National Endowment for the
Arts. Artists for Environment Foundation, Delaware Water Gap National Park, NJ
Artist/Supervisor. “34th Street Subway Mural Project”. Conceived and co-developed
“Living Philadelphia”, a project for installation of panel murals in the subway stations.
This program was used as a basis for similar projects in Los Angeles and Detroit.
Crisis Intervention Network, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
1981 Instructor. University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1980 Artist-in-Residence. Artists for Environment Foundation, Delaware Water Gap National
Park, NJ
Artist/Project Consultant. “19th Street Subway Project”. Commissioned by City to design
and create “Street Scenes”, a project for installation of panel murals in the subway
station. Crisis Intervention Network, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
1978-79 Artist; Monitor/Coordinator. Designed and created urban murals.
Crisis Intervention Network, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
1977-79 Assistant Instructor. University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
1978 Visiting Artist/Lecturer. Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Artist-in-Schools Program,
National Endowment for the Arts, Community-Voyage School, Philadelphia, PA
1975-76 Instructor. Founded and developed private art school for college preparatory students,
Mansion House School, Baltimore, MD
Beyer, Rita. “‘Inside Landscape’ at Abington Art Center.” Chestnut Hill Local, Philadelphia, PA,
Feb. 4, 1993, illus.
DeSantis, Tullio Francesco. “Callowhill Exhibits Pennsylvania Vistas.” Reading Eagle, Reading, PA,
March 8, 1985, illus
Schuylkill River News, (Schuylkill River Greenway Association), Reading Public Museum, December 1984, illus.
Garfield, PhD, Eugene. "Essays of an Information Scientist", Vol:5, p.443-454, 1981-82. Current Contents, #11, p.5-16, The Philadelphia Transit Story Continued---How We Improve Our Subway Station, Phildadelphia, PA
March 15, 1982, illus.
Williams, Edgar. “In- Depth Studies: University City Scenes Grace 34th St. Subway Station.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sep. 23, 1981, illus.
Williams, Edgar. “Tunnel Visions: Subway Murals Bring Art to Mass Transit.” The Philadelphia Inquirer,
Oct.1, 1980, illus.
Professional Appointments
2021-15 Board of Directors. Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Online Interview. "AEG History Interview with Mimi Oritsky".
Mary Gagler (Director) and Kathy Putnam (Artist), Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Visiting Artist. Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2013 Visiting Artist. Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2011 Visiting Artist. Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1989-09 Instructor. Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
2008 Instructor, substitute. Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2006 Visiting Artist. University of the Arts, Fine Arts Department, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Instructor, substitute. Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
1993-04 Instructor. Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
2000 Instructor, substitute. Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
1997 Panelist. “Women in the Arts”, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA
1989-93 Instructor. University of the Arts, Philadelphia College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Juror. “Third Annual Lansdale Festival of the Arts”, Lansdale, PA
1989 Visiting Lecturer/Critic. Brown University, Visual Art Department, Providence, RI
Juror. “Regional Fine Arts Show”, Center for the Creative Arts, Yorklyn, DE
Guest Lecturer. St. Anthony’s School, New York, NY
1988 Visiting Lecturer/Critic. Brown University, Visual Art Department, Providence, RI
Instructor. Art in Progress, Harcum Junior College, Bryn Mawr, PA
1986 Instructor. Art in Progress, Harcum Junior College, Bryn Mawr, PA
1984 Instructor. Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts), Philadelphia, PA
Panelist. “Drawing in the ‘80's” Symposium, Beaver College (Arcadia University), Glenside, PA
1981-83 Visiting Artist/Lecturer. New Jersey Council on the Arts and National Endowment for the
Arts. Artists for Environment Foundation, Delaware Water Gap National Park, NJ
Artist/Supervisor. “34th Street Subway Mural Project”. Conceived and co-developed
“Living Philadelphia”, a project for installation of panel murals in the subway stations.
This program was used as a basis for similar projects in Los Angeles and Detroit.
Crisis Intervention Network, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
1981 Instructor. University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1980 Artist-in-Residence. Artists for Environment Foundation, Delaware Water Gap National
Park, NJ
Artist/Project Consultant. “19th Street Subway Project”. Commissioned by City to design
and create “Street Scenes”, a project for installation of panel murals in the subway
station. Crisis Intervention Network, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
1978-79 Artist; Monitor/Coordinator. Designed and created urban murals.
Crisis Intervention Network, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
1977-79 Assistant Instructor. University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
1978 Visiting Artist/Lecturer. Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Artist-in-Schools Program,
National Endowment for the Arts, Community-Voyage School, Philadelphia, PA
1975-76 Instructor. Founded and developed private art school for college preparatory students,
Mansion House School, Baltimore, MD
