Education

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia, PA
Four-Year Certificate

Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial
Philadelphia, PA

Faculty

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1972 to 2012
Full Professor, Appointed Faculty, Critic in the Certificate Program and Masters Program

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Murray Dessner: Illuminations, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2012     Retrospective 1965 to 2012, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2012     Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2012     Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008     Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2005     Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2003     Peng Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1999     Peng Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996     Painting with Richard Ranck, Philadelphia, PA
1991     Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art, Phila., PA
1986     Vorpal Gallery, New York, NY
1984     Vorpal Gallery, New York, NY
1984     Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983     Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR
1982     Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL
1982     Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
1980     Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1978     Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1975     Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1972     Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1970     Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1969     East Hampton Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1968     Vanderlip Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1967     Friends Neighborhood Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012      Four Visons/Four Painters, Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA
2011      Flirting with Abstraction, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2011      Peng Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, New York City, NY
2009      Fifth Biennial Exhibition of the SAI, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2009      Artists of Accomplishment from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2008     PAFA Invitational Exhibition, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007     Anniversary Exhibition, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2005     Selected Works on Paper, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2002     Two from Philadelphia with Elizabeth Osborne, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1999     J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, NY
1997     Somerville-Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
1995     Distinguished Artists Exhibit, Artists’ House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1994     The Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1993     Annual Juried Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1990     Annual Juried Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1988     Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1987     Annual Juried Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1983     William Penn Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1979     Pennsylvania Invitational, General State Authority, Harrisburg, PA
1978     Artist and Teacher, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1976     Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1976     Philadelphia Museum of Art at Moore College, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1974     The Henri Gallery, Washington, DC
1972     Annual Juried Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1969     International Arts Festival Juried Exhibition, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1968     Hobson Pitman Selects, Kenmore Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1967     The Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1964     Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Selected Collections

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Cornell Fine Arts Center Museum, Winter Park, FL
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR
Colgate University, Picker Gallery, Hamilton, NY
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Dr. Luther Brady Center for Art, George Washington University, Washington, DC
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
Widener University Law School, Wilmington, DE
Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA
Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co., Philadelphia, PA
Morgan Lewis and Bockius, Philadelphia, PA
ParenteRandolph, Philadelphia, PA
Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Inc., Collegeville, PA
SmithKline Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Danella Companies, Plymouth Meeting, PA
Ballard Spahr, Wilmington, DE
General Mills Corporation, Tampa, FL
Burdine’s Stores, Miami, FL
Diplomat Hotel, Hallandale, FL
NCH/Transwest, Tucson, AZ