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Shalom Neuman

Czech Republic

Shalom Tomas Neuman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of WW II. He is the last surviving male of a large Jewish family, most of whom perished in Auschwitz during Nazi Germany’s Holocaust. His family escaped from Prague towards the end of the war and emigrated to Haifa, Israel where he spent his childhood. The family emigrated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States when he was an adolescent. He has lived in the United States ever since. Shalom studied painting and sculpture at the Tyler School of Art - Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. where he received dual BFAs and MFAs in painting and sculpture. He was awarded the Damrosch Scholarship to study at the Fountainebleau School of Fine Arts in France where he won the Fountainebleau Beaux Arts Painting Prize. Shalom did his postgraduate fellowship studies in the sculpture department of Indiana University. He has made New York City his home after being encouraged to move there by Elaine de Kooning. He lives and works in Prague, CZ and Brooklyn, NY. Shalom has taught and lectured at a number of universities including Parsons The New School for Design, The Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts and Yale University. He currently teaches at The Pratt Institute’s Manhattan campus. Shalom’s art has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, Asia, South America, and Israel including The Museum of Modern Art (Carnegie Institute, PA), Musée de l’Homme (Paris, France), Mishima Eco Museum (Mishima, Japan), Zimmerli Museum (NJ) and The Ukrainian Museum (NY), Jewish Museum of Prague (CZ) and Kampa Museum (Prague, CZ). His work is in the collections of The National Gallery in Prague, The Ellis Island Museum (NY), Guggenheim Museum Library (NY), Museum of Modern Art (Nice, France), Museu Da Imagem E Do Som (Sao Paolo, Brazil), Museum of Modern Art (Buenas Aires, Argentina) and in the private collections of Elaine de Kooning (East Hampton, NY), Enrico Baj (Milano, Italy), Rosa Easman (UBU Gallery, NY), Chemical Bank (NY), Paolo Martini (Rome, Italy), Miguel Cardia (Portugal), Ann Gibson, (Baltimore, MA), Ivan Karp (OK Harris Gallery, NY) and Madonna. Shalom is President of Converging Arts Media Organization, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit visual arts organization and New York State registered charity. The organization’s exhibition space, FusionArts Museum is located at 57 Stanton Street on the Lower East Side of NYC, USA. FusionArts Museum is the only contemporary art space in In New York that is dedicated solely to the exhibition and archiving of multidisciplinary art. He is also developing IF Museum in the Czech Republic which will be housed in an 11th century basilica which he owns. It is located approximately 30 kilometers from Prague. Partial Exhibitions 09.10 National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic 07.10 Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic 06.10 Space Womb Gallery, NYC* 05.10 Atelier Belziger, Berlin, Germany 03.10 Space Womb Gallery, NYC 01.10 FusionArts Museum, NYC* 11.09 Blurrr 5, Contemporary Art Center, Tel Aviv, Israel 11.09 Machon Hamayim Gallery, Givatayim, Israel* 06.09 2009 Venice Biennale (Israeli exhibition), Venice, Italy 01.09 FusionArts Museum* (dual solo exhibitions) 09.08 CV Gallery, Woodstock, NY 04.08 National Museum, Yaoundé, Camaroon, Africa 04.08 Gallery Africrea, Yaoundé, Camaroon, Africa 04.08 Oyenga Cultural Space, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Africa 02.08 Ginza Art & Concept Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan 02.08 Cargo Gallery, Paris, France 01.08 FusionArts Museum* (dual solo exhibitions) 12.07 DRAP Art 07, Barcelona, Spain 05.07 Cargo Gallery, Paris, France 03.07 Pratt Manhattan Galleries, NYC* 11.06 FusionArts Museum, NYC 10.06 Ginza Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 06.06 Chateau de Chevigny, Burgundy, France 05.06 City Hall, Paris, France 04.06 Grey Gallery, NYC 03.06 Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ 03.06 Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France 02.06 PLP Gallery, NYC 10.05 Creek Art Center, Shanghai, China 09.05 FusionArts Museum, NYC 09.05 ArtMap Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic 09.05 ArtMap Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic