Solo Exhibitions
2024 Second Sight, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2022 A Meaning Made of Trees, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2021 The Rhythm of Silence, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2020 Axis Mundi, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Light takes the Tree -Drawings, New York Studio School, New York, NY
Circumstances, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2018 Upland, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
upland downtown, CDR Studio Gallery, New York, NY
2013 The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2005 George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2003 George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2002 George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1999 Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Connecticut
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 In Nature’s Grasp, Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
Elizabeth Harris Presents Kaufmann Galley, Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania
An Observant Nature, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
2023 ALL small, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2022 The Artist’s Hand: Selections from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, Naples Art, Naples, Florida
Still Life and the Poetry of Place, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
ALL small, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2021 Drawing Challenge XIX, Jason McCoy Gallery Virtual Exhibition, New York, NY
Landscape and Memory, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2019 Parent Portraits, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Return to Light, Green Door Gallery at the Divine Mercy Cultural Center, Brooklyn, NY
2017 New Gallery / New Work, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2015 SEEN, Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, NY
New York, I Love You, But . . . , Gallatin Galleries, New York University, New York, NY
The Presence of Form, New York Studio School, NY
METROPOLIS, Paintings of the Contemporary Urban Landscape, Edward Tyler Nahem, NY
2014 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
City as Subject, Westbeth Gallery, NY
2012 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Silent Auction, New York, NY
Painting Governors Island, Governors Island, NY
2011 First in Translation - Faculty Drawing Show, New York Studio School. New York, NY
Painting Governors Island, Building 20A Gallery, Governors Island, NY
The Buildings Of New York, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
Governors Island Art Fair 2011, 4Heads. Governors Island, NY
2010 Group Show, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Painting Governors Island, Building 408 Gallery, Governors Island, NY
Governors Island Art Fair 2010, 4Heads, Governors Island, NY
2009 New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition curated by Sean Scully, New York, NY
Urban Landscapes, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
83rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy
Museum, New York
2007 Small is Beautiful, Flowers, New York, NY
LMCC / CB Richard Ellis, New York, NY
2006 In the City, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
Contrappunto, Bau Institute Gallery at Richard Sena Projects, Hudson, NY
2005 The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New York Studio School, The New York Studio School,
New York, NY, curatedby Jennifer Sachs Samet
Visual Ground, Firehouse Plaza Gallery, Nassau Community College, New York, NY
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London, England
2004 Night New York, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Industrial Beauty, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Searching for the Image: Six Artists from the New York Studio School, The Von Liebig Art Center,
Naples Florida, Elliot Gallery; Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida
Selections, Albright – Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
2002 New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY, curated by
Karen Wilkin and Judd Tully
Gallery MAC, New York, NY
2001 New York, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Realism 2001, The Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY, curated by Peter Tatistcheff
Beckoning Vision: Annual Alumni Exhibition, New York Studio School, New York, NY, curated by
Karen Wilkin
2000 Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY, curated by Tricia Collins
New York, New York, Nabisco Gallery, East Hanover, New Jersey
On the City: Urban Realities and Fantasies, New York Studio School, New York, NY, curated by
Irving Sandler
1999 World Views, A Retrospective Exhibition of Selected Work, One World Trade Center Mezzanine,
New York, NY
1998 Vertigo, from the top of the World Trade Center, New York Studio School, NY, NY
Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
1997 World Views, Lower Manhattan Cultutral Center, New York, NY
1995 Bowery Gallery, New York, NY curated by Jane Frielicher
1994 Union College, Schenectady, New York
The Perceptual Pursuit, Plaza Gallery, Fordham University, New York, NY
Awards and Residencies
2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting from The New York Foundation for the Arts
2011 4Heads Governors Island Residency Program
2006 Bau Institute Artist Residency. Otranto Italy
1999 Cornell Council for the Arts Grant
1997-98 World Trade Center Artist Residency
1994 Hohenberg Travel Grant, New York Studio School
Vera List Endowment Scholarship, New York Studio School
Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship, New York Studio School
1992-93 Speyer Foundation Scholarship, New York Studio School
1986 Post- Graduate William Kinnes fellows Traveling Fellowship, Columbia University
1983 Sampson Fine Arts Prize, Cornell University
Phi Beta Kappa, Cornell University
Bibliography and Lectures
2024 Brennan, Michael “Ron Milewicz’s Thoreauvian Sensibility”, Two Coats of Paint, May 3
2022 Ebony, David, “ David Ebony’s Top 10 / NYC Spring Snap Edition’s Snapshot of the Art World”, April 29
Dorsey, Dave, a meaning made of trees, The Dorsey Post, May 6
Yau, John, The Hidden Poetry of Everyday Life, Hyperallergic, September 28
2021 Peter Malone, “The spaces between trees”, The New Criterion, July 15
2020 Ebony, David, “ Top 10 New York Gallery Exhibitions Caught in the Covid-19 Shutdown”, Snap Edition’s Snapshot
of the Art World, May 20
Greenwald, Xico “Ron Milewicz: Axis Mundi”, Deliciousline, March 23
Neal, Patrick “The Ghost in the Trees / Ron Milewicz at Elizabeth Harris Gallery”, Whitehot Magazine, March
Panero, James “The Critic’s Notebook”, The New Criterion, February 19
Yaniv, Etty, “Ron Milewicz - Axis Mundi at Elizabeth Harris”, Art Spiel, March 6
2019 Brown Price, Aimee “Light Takes the Tree - Drawings”, Exhibition Essay
Lombardi, D. Dominick , “Ron Milewicz:Circumstances”, Dart International Magazine, March 18
McCann. Margaret “Treedom: Ron Milewicz at the New York Studio School“, Painters’ Table, April 11
2018 Yaniv, Etty “Return to Light at the Green Door”, Art Spiel, February 8
2017 Ebony, David, Ron Milewicz's Upland, Exhibition essay
2015 “Sense of Place” Panel Discussion, Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, NY
Hahn, Georgina “Gallatin Gallery Writes Love Letter to New York”, Washington Square News, November 17
2013 Cohen, David "A Topical Pick from the Archives", Artcritical, September
Corio, Paul "Seen in NY, September 2013", Abstract Critical, September 25
Dorsey, Dave "Book of Innocence and Experience", Represent the Painting Life, October 7
Haber, John "The Thing Itself", Haber's Art Reviews, October
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September 25
The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, September 16 2013
Sleigh, Tom. Catalog The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances Exhibition Essay
Wall Street International "Milewicz Paintings", August 22
2012 Ron Milewicz and Rackstraw Downes, In Conversation, New York Studio School, October 2
2010 Cohen, David “Shows to See, Ron Milewicz: New Work”, NY Sun November 4
Mullarkey, Maureen. “Ron Milewicz – New Work,” City Arts, October 28
2009 Lindquist, Greg. “Pierre Bonnard and Peter Doig,” Brooklyn Rail, March
2008 Mullarkey, Maureen. “Urban Topography,” The New York Sun, June 19
Landi, Ann. “Urban Landascapes” ARTnews, September
Malloy, Nancy, Editor. National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, The 183rdAnnual: An
Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, New York
2006 Mullarkey, Maureen. “The Hubris of the Metropolis,” The New York Sun, July 20
Leffingwell, Edward. Ron Milewicz at George Billis, Art in America, March
2005 Mullarkey, Maureen. Ron Milewicz-: Recent Paintings, The New York Sun, October 6
Naves, Mario. Laocoon in L.I.C., The New York Observer, October 19
Wilkin, Karen. catalog essay for exhibition at George Billis Gallery
2004 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Site Matters, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s World
Trade Center Artists Residency, 1997 –2001, New York
Mullarkey, Maureen. Night New York at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, The New York Sun, June 24
Mullarkey, Maureen. Industrial Beauty at George Billis Gallery, The New York Sun, July 22 & 29
Steen, Karen E. “Big Sky Country: Paintings by Ron Milewicz,” Metropolis, January
Wilkin, Karen. “A Nourishing Summer Meal,” The Hudson Review, Autumn
2003 Bennet, Lennie. “Six Artists in Search of an Image,” St. Petersburg Times, May 22
Cohen, David. catalogue essay for “Searching for the Image: Six Artists from the New York
Studio School”
Naves, Mario. “Eye on the Sky”, The New York Observer, October 20
Paybarah, Azi. “Painting the Transformation of Queens,” The Queens Tribune, Oct. 10
Wozniak, Mary. “New York Studio School artists search for the image,” News Press, April 18
2002 “Paintings Capture City Skyline from a Distance,” New York Resident, May 27
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2001 Long, Robert,“Mystery and Skyline”, The East Hampton Star, October 18
1999 Geran, Monica. “C’est Magnifique,” Interior Design, September.
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Education
1990-94 New York Studio School, New York, NY
1986 Columbia University, New York, NY, Master of Architecture
1983 Cornell University, Ithaca NY, Bachelor of Arts, Art History
Teaching and Professional Experience
2000-16 New York Studio School, Painting and Drawing Faculty
2016 Ah Haa School for the Arts, Visiting Instructor
2002-03 Pratt Institute, Drawing Instructor
2001 - 02 The New School, Painting Instructor
1986-89 James Stewart Polshek and Partners, Architectural Designer
Museums and Collections
Pfizer Collection
Time Warner Collection
The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art