April Gornik

American, born 1953

(not assigned)New York, New York

SchoolContemporary Landscape Painting

BiographyApril Gornik lives and works in New York City, where she has been a resident since 1978. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1953, she received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1976. She has work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, the Cincinnati Museum, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Modern Art Museum of Art of Fort Worth, the Orlando Museum of Art, and other major public and private collections. She has shown extensively, in one-person and group shows, in the United States and abroad.

Some noteworthy one-person shows have been at the Pennslyvania Academy of the Fine Arts in conjunction with the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1998, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, 1994, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 1993, and the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 1988. She had work represented in the 1989 Whitney Biennial in NY, the 10+10 Show of American and Soviet Painters originating at the Fort Worth Museum in 1989, the Art Museum of the Rhode Island School of Art and Design in 1988, and "Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained" at the American Pavillion of the Venice Biennale in 1984. April Gornik is represented by the Danese Gallery in New York City, and has had one-person shows in New York regularly since 1981. Her most recent show was at the Danese Gallery in October, 2001, and a new show is scheduled for fall, 2003. (Source: http://www.aprilgornik.com/biographicalsketch.html, Accessed April 14, 2004)

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