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Bruce Dorfman
Combined Media, Assemblage, Art in Three Dimensions

Bruce Dorfman has had forty-six solo exhibitions in New York and throughout the U.S. and abroad. His most recent solo exhibitions, in 2008 and 2010, were of new works at Kouros Gallery, New York City. During 2005, two exhibitions of his assemblage paintings and combined media works were also held at Kouros Gallery. For decades his work has also been included in numerous notable museum and gallery group exhibitions worldwide.
Mr. Dorfman’s art is in museum, corporate and major private collections across the U.S. and Europe. In Japan and Korea, the artist and his work have been the subject of periodicals and films.
He is the recipient of many awards, grants and fellowships including New York State Council on the Arts, Fulbright Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, U.S. Department of State, Arts East Foundation, New York World’s Fair Invitational, National Academy of Design, Des Moines Art Center, Butler Institute of American Art, and Atelier Mourlot. In 2004, he was the recipient of the Artists Fellowship Grant, New York. Most recently, Mr. Dorfman was the recipient of a major grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 2007-2008.
Mr. Dorfman’s work has been written about extensively, including recent reviews in The New York Times, Art in America and ARTnews. His art has also received critical attention in a wide range of periodicals, catalogs and monographs.
Mr. Dorfman has been teaching at the Art Students League since 1964, including the League summer school in Woodstock from 1964 to 1972. He has also taught at the New School, Syracuse University, the Everson Museum and was artist-in-residence at the Norton Museum, where he founded and taught the Experimental Print Workshop. From 1993 to 1996, the artist was a guest artist and lecturer at museums and art institutions in Venezuela, Portugal and France. He is the author of the book Color Mixing published by Grosset & Dunlap.
Mr. Dorfman studied at the Art Students League with Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Arnold Blanch and Charles H. Alston. He is a graduate of Iowa University, where he worked with Mauricio Lasansky and Stuart Edie.