Alan Neider: There Will Be Lamps - Artist Resume

 

Alan Neider received an AA from El Camino Community College in Torrance CA; a BA in Ceramics from California State University at Long Beach CA; and an MFA in Sculpture from Washington University in St. Louis MO. While in graduate school, he received a Robert Rauschenberg Change Inc. Work Grant and was accepted into the MacDowell Artists Colony.

Moving to Chicago, he continued to paint. There, he was represented by the Jan Cicero Gallery and later the Nancy Lurie Gallery, where he had several solo exhibitions. He was commissioned to create a free-standing painting on top of Navy Pier, and was selected to the CETA Artists-in-Residency program. He was also represented by the Henri Gallery in Washington, DC with three solo exhibitions there.

Neider moved to the East Coast in 1980. He has had solo shows at Gallery 305K in Bridgeport CT (2011); Art 3 Gallery in Brooklyn NY ( 2016); Gallery L in Montclair NJ (2017); and Real Art Ways in Hartford CT (2023). His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Galerie Kremers in Berlin Germany, 490 Atlantic Gallery in Brooklyn NY, Overlook Gallery in Chicago IL, Carter-Burden Gallery in New York NY, Equity Gallery in New York NY, and Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami FL.

In 2002 Neider received a grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. His group of ten paintings titled ‘Hot Loops’ was installed in five large windows at Saks Fifth Avenue, Toronto Canada, in 2019. He was invited to the 2014 Cutlog Art Fair New York, the 2020 Spring Break Art Fair New York, and the 2022 Parallel Vienna Art Fair in Austria.

Neider lives and works in Hamden, Connecticut.

 

Pictured: Alan Neider, Tapestry 21 - Fabric, paper collage, older drawings reworked, glitter - 56" x 33" x 1/2" - 2022