John Newman (American)

Born 1956

Lives and works in New York, NY

John Newman became known in the 1980’s as a sculptor and printmaker whose images came out of a resurgence of biomprphic abstraction. It models artistic design elements on naturally occurring patterns or shapes reminiscent of nature and living organisms.

John Newman has had over 40 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He is represented in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Tate Gallery in London; and the Albertina in Vienna. He has received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rome Prize, the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as other organizations.