MAX FERGUSON

Born: New York City, 1959

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The British Museum, London
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• Chris Columbus
• Martin Scorsese
• George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
• Michael Jesselson
• Laurence Mark
• The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
• Richard Brown Baker Collection, Yale
• The New York Historical Society
• The City of Amsterdam
• Martin Margulies
• Edward Asner
• Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism
• The Dubi Shiff Art Collectrion
• Michigan Bell Telephone
• Spencer Museum, University of Kansas
• Mr. and Mrs. Eric Javits
• Richard McKenzie, Seven Bridges Foundation
• Richard Massey
• Yeshiva University Museum, New York
• The New York Public Library
• Hebrew Union College Museum, New York
• The Museum of the City of New York
• Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
• Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich
• Albertina, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna
• Forbes Magazine Collection, New York
• MTA, New York
• Robert Shaye
• Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon
• Hofstra University Museum, New York
• Margo Feiden
• The Brooklyn Historical Society
• U.S. State Department
• Lawrence Van Gelder
• King’s College, New York
• Racine Museum of Art, Wisconsin
• Estate of H.W. Janson
• Gail Levin
• Carol Feinberg and Ken Gilman
• Reflex Museum of Miniature Art, Netherlands

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

• 2014 Touring Solo Exhibition, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles
  Tough and Tender, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 2013 “By the Book” curator Shlomit Steinberg The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• 2012 Painting My Father, Hebrew Union College Museum, curator Laura Kruger, New York (solo)
• 2011 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas
  E.G. Conference (presenter), Monterey, California
  Reflex Museum of Miniature Art, Netherlands
  From the Hand: Drawings from the Collection, Hofstra University Museum, New York
  Dallas Art Fair, Texas
• 2010 Paintings of Urban Intimacy, Gallery Henoch, New York (solo)
  Dallas Art Fair, Texas
• 2009 Art of the Twentieth Century, New York
  Los Angeles Art Fair, California
• 2008 Art of the Twentieth Century, New York
• 2006 The Eye of the Collector, Hebrew Union College Museum, curator Laura Kruger, New York
• 2005 Yeshiva University Museum (solo), curator Reba Wulkan, New York
  Impressions of New York, New-York Historical Society, curator Marilyn Symmes, New York
  Beauty and the Book, The Israel Museum, curator Hagit Alon, Jerusalem
• 2004 The Art of Sport, The Israel Museum, curator Efrat Natan, Jerusalem
  The Art of Aging, (national tour) Hebrew Union College, curator Laura Kruger, New York
  92nd Street Y, New York (solo)
• 2003 ACA Galleries, New York (solo)
• 2002 Summer in the City, ACA Galleries, New York
  Madison Art Partners, New York (solo)
• 2000 Cow Parade, New York
  Art for Embassies Program U.S. State Department
• 1999 First Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
• 1998 Realism, Amarillo Museum of Fine Arts, curator Jay Fletcher, Amarillo
  TDI Bus Poster, International public awareness campaign
• 1997 20th Century Realism, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Qgunquit
  Contemporary Realism, Van Der Griff Gallery, Santa Fe
• 1996 Gallery Henoch, New York (solo)
• 1995 Virtual Reality, The Armory, New York
  Picturing New York, The Museum of the City of New York
• 1994 New York Realism—Touring exhibition, curator Douglass Dreishpoon, Japan
• 1993 Gallery Henoch, New York (solo)
• 1992 Urban Realities, Fairfield University, curator Amy Simon
• 1991 Monochrome/Polychrome, Florida State University Museum,
  curator Allys Palladino-Craig, Tallahassee
  Artists Love New York, City Arts, New York
  Art Cologne, Galerie Ulrich Gering, Cologne
  Basel Art Fair, Galerie Igne Baecker
• 1990 Coney Island, Gallery Henoch, New York (solo)
  Self-Portraits, John Szoke Graphics, New York
• 1988 Art at the Armory, New York
• 1987 Contemporary New York Urban Visions, Adelphi University, curator Amy Simon,
  Garden City, New York
  Nocturnes and Nightmares, Florida State University Museum, curator Allys Palladino-Craig, Tallahassee
  Prints in Motion, Associated American Artists, New York
  Mainstream America: The Collection of Phil Dessing, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
  Mural Project, Canal Street Post Office, New York
• 1986 Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York (solo)
  Musee D’Arte Contemporain de Dunkurque, France
  Nocturnal Imagery, OK Harris Works of Art, New York
  Pratt/Silvermine International Print Competition, curator William S. Lieberman, Purchase Award,
  New Canaan, Connecticut
• 1985 Starved for Art, School of Visual Arts Museum, curator Lowery Sims, New York
• 1984 Gallery Henoch, New York (solo)
• 1983 Audubon Artists Annual Stefan Hirsch Award, New York
• 1981 Gallery Mokum, Amsterdam
• 1980 Small Works, New York University Washington Square East Galleries, New York
• 1979 Koopt Kunst, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam

SELECTED PERIODICALS

• 2013 Empty Magazine (Australia), January
• 2012 Gula (Brazil), Luara Skrzek
  London Times, Times Literary Supplement, August 31
  The New York Times, Marie Elena Martinez, April 15
  The Wall Street Journal, Sameer Reddy, April 16
  Fine Art Connoisseur, Peter Trippi, April
  Crystal Bridges Museum Magazine, Linda DeBerry, September
  American Artist, June
  City Arts, Valerie Gladstone, April 18
  Robb Report (online) May 8
  Fathers and Sons: Max Ferguson’s “Paintings of My Father,” 1982-2011, June 17
  Huffington Post, Jeanine Barone, June 17
  Worth Magazine, June
  The Jewish Press Magazine, Menachem Wecker, March 23
• 2011 ARTnews, Gerard Haggerty, February
  New York University Alumni Magazine, Megan Doll, Spring
  The Artist’s Magazine, BJ Foreman, September
  Professional Artist Magazine (cover story), Louise Buyo, September
• 2010 The Daily News, Patrick Huguenin, November 8
  Huffington Post, Jesse Kornbluth, November 12
• 2009 Logos, (Italy), June
• 2008 Super Interessante, (Brazil), December
  New York Spaces, June
  Focus, (Italy), May
• 2007 Art & Antiques, Collector’s Sourcebook, Joseph Jacobs, December
• 2004 In New York, July
• 2002 The Robb Report, December
• 2000 Harper’s Magazine, January
• 1999 The New York Times, May 18
• 1998 ARTnews, Milton Esterow, April
  The New York Post, Neil Travis, April 12
  The New York Post, Cindy Adams, January 28
  Artspeak, Ed McCormack, January
  The Villager, Jerry Tallmer, January 21
  The Dublin Examiner, (Ireland), Sean McCarthaigh, January 8
  The Evening Herald, (Great Britain), Smantha McCaughren, January 6
• 1997 The Forward, May 16
• 1996 New York Magazine, John Connolly, September 9
  The Daily News, Salvatore Arena, September 2
  The Forward, Douglas Century, May 17
  Where Magazine, Paulette Weiss, May
  The New York Post, Matt Tader, May 14
  The New York Post, Philip Messing, May 8
  The Daily News, George Rush, Joanna Molloy, May 3
  Our Town, April 25
• 1994 Hadassah Magazine, Joan Schwartz-Michel, March
• 1993 Yiddish Forverts, Miriam Schmulevitz-Hoffman, May 28
  The Jewish Week, May 21
  The New York Post, Jerry Tallmer, April 30
• 1992 Manhattan Spirit, Tim Cavanaugh, September
  The New York Times, (Westchester Edition), Vivien Raynor, March 15
• 1991 The New York Times, (Westchester Edition), William Zimmer, August 4
  Art & Antiques, Patrick Pacheco, May
• 1990 The New York Post, Jerry Tallmer, June 15
  Downtown, June 6
  The New York Times, Lonnie Schlein, May 27
• 1987 The New York Times, Richard Levine, December 9
  The New York Times, (Connecticut Edition), Phyllis Braff, October 25
  The New York Times, Vivien Raynor, August 14
  New York Newsday, Scott Ladd, May 11
  X Man Magazine, (Japan), Hajima Koyama, March
• 1986 Arts Magazine, John Loughery, November
  The New Yorker, September 29
  New York Newsday, Stuart Troup, September 3
  The New York Times, (Connecticut Edition), William Zimmer, February 16
• 1981 New Israelitisch Weekblad, (Netherlands), June 26

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• 2012 Marquis Who’s Who in American Art
• 2011 Art Journey America: Landscapes, North Light Books, Cincinatti
  From the Hand, Hofstra University Museum, Karen T. Albert, New York
  Richard Brown Baker Collection, Yale University
  Art and Freedom VI, Arte Libro Gallery, Spain, 290 pp.
  Reflex Museum of Miniature Art, Catalogue, Netherlands
• 2010 Paintings of Urban Intimacy, Introduction by Christian Viveros-FaunО, New York, 32 pp.
  Yeshiva University Museum: The First 35 Years, Sylvia Herskowitz, New York, 256 pp.
• 2008 Seven Bridges Collection: The First 15 Years, 389 pp.
  Intorno Alla Pittura, Dario Lodi, Piccola Bilioteca, Italy, 106 pp.
• 2006 Going, Going, Gone Paintings of a Vanishing New York, 48 pp.
  The Eye of the Collector: The Jewish Vision of Sigmund R. Balka
  Hebrew Union College, Laura Kruger, New York, 220 pp.
  40 Years: A Dealer’s Collection, Gallery Henoch, New York, 32 pp.
• 2005 Impressions of New York, New York Historical Society, Marilyn Symmes,New York, 304 pp.
  Beauty and the Book, Israel Museum, Hagit Alon, Jerusalem, 24 pp.
• 2003 The Art of Aging Hebrew, Union College, Laura Kruger, New York, 102 pp
  Max Ferguson, exhibition catalogue ACA Galleries, New York, 32 pp.
• 2001 Love: A Celebration in Art and Literature, Edited by Jane Lahr Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York, 240 pp.
• 2000 Painting the Town, Paintings from the Museum of the City of New York, Yale University Press, 374 pp.
• 1999 Monochrome/Polychrome, exhibition catalogue, Jerome Sternn, Florida State University Gallery and Museum, 48 pp.
• 1996 Great Jewish Quotations, edited by Alfred J. Kolatch, Jonathan David, Inc, New York, 612 pp.
  Max Ferguson, exhibition catalogue, Gallery Henoch, New York, 24 pp.
• 1994 New York Realism-Past and Present, exhibition catalogue, Doulas Dreishpoon, Ph.D.,166 pp.
  (touring exhibition of five museums in Japan and the United States).
• 1993 Yiddish II, textbook, Mordekhe Schaechter, Yiddish Language Resource Center, New York, 561 pp.
• 1987 Nocturnes and Nightmares, exhibition catalogue, Allys Palladino-Craig, Florida State University Gallery and Museum, 56 pp.
  Prints in Motion, exhibition catalogue, Robert P. Conway, Associated American Artists, New York, 12 pp.
• 1986 International Prints, exhibition catalogue, Pratt Graphics Center and the Silvermine Guild Center for the
  Arts, William S. Lieberman, Silvermine, Connecticut, 2
• 1983 Audubon Artists Annual, exhibition catalogue, New York, 16 pp.
• 1978 Koopt Kunst, exhibition catalogue, Gemeentekunstaankopen, Amsterdam, 264 pp.

TELEVISION / RADIO

•  2013 WKCR FM New York, Mahima Chablani
• 2012 NBC, Today in New York, June 17
  NBC Evening News with Chuck Scarborough, June 5
• 1996 ABC, New York Views with Roz Abrams, July
• 1992 ARD Television, (Germany), Brighton Beach, April
• 1991 National Geographic Explorer Series, The Subways, September

EDUCATION

•  1980 New York University, B.S.
• 1979 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam