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MICHAEL LASUCHIN - PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY
BORN 7.24.1923, Kramatorsk, USSR PASSED AWAY 11.23.2006, Philadelphia, PA EDUCATION Rostov College of Art; USSR. Philadelphia College of Art, USA - BFA Tyler School of Art, Temple University, USA - MFA MUSEUMS & COLLECTIONS Over 80 public collections including / alphabetically / Allentown Art Museum; Berlin Museum; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris; Brooklyn Museum; Gabo Frio Museum, Brazil; Charlotte Printmaking Society; College of the Siskiyous; Contemporary Art Center, Thessaloniki, Greece; Coos Art Museum; DeCordova Museum; Fort Hays State University; Georgia Institute of Technology; Honolulu Academy of Arts; Library of Congress; Millersville State University; Monmouth State College; Museo de Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada; Museo d’Art Modern, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Graphic Art, Fredrikstad, Norway; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Pennsylvania State University; Museum of Fine Art, Torun, Poland; Mühlenberg College; National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden; National Academy of Design, New York; National Russian Academy of Art, Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; Oklahoma Art Center; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Pratt Graphics Center; The State Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia; Somerset County College; The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; The State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; University of Delaware; University of Pennsylvania; Victoria & Albert Museum; Zimmerly Museum of Art. INVITED EXHIBITIONS Over 100: Including International de Obra Graphica y Arte, Segovia, Spain; Printmakers, University of Maryland; New American Graphics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Contemporary American Graphics, Venice, Italy; 21 st National Print Exhibition, Brook Lyn Museum; National Watercolor Invitational, Zaner Gallery, Rochester, NY; Pennsylvania Invitational Graphics Exhibitions, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art; American Drawing in Black & White, 1970-1980, Brooklyn Museum; American Prints and Printmaking, 1976-1981, Pratt Graphics Center; Being and Nothingness, De Cordova Museum; Prints from the Pratt Graphic Center, Caracas, Venezuela; Five Delaware Valley Printmakers: Critic’s Choice, West Chester University; Prints: Combined Processes, University of Minnesota; National Printmaking Invitational Exhibition, Indiana University; Large Abstracts: Antresian, Lasuchin, Yunkers, Wenniger Graphics, Boston; Grabados Nort Americanos Contemporaneous, Museo de Arte Contemporaneous, Montevideo, Uruguay; Biella Internationale Per L’incisione, Italy; American Artists: Russian Roots, Glassboro State College, USA; 9 th Norwegian International Print Triennially, Fredricstat, Norway; ; Prints 1990, Susan Isaak Gallery, Wilmington, DE; American Print Survey, Martin Museum, Baylor University; Inaugural Exhibition, ALCA Gallery, Washington, DC; Pennsylvania Treasures, University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA; Contemporary Russian Artists, DCCA, Wilmington, DE; Two Views: Digital Prints, Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia; Senior Artists Initiative-Selected Works, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia; The Ideal Made Real, Berman Museum, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA; Abstraction in Russia, XX Century, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Russia; A Legacy of Excellence, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA. AWARDS & PRIZES Over 140, including National Watercolor Society /3/; Painters and Sculptors Society of New Jersey /3/; Philadelphia Watercolor Club /4/; American Color Print Society /4/; The Print Club /3/; Boston Printmakers /2/; Audubon Artists /2/; Society of American Graphic Artists; Library of Congress; Charlotte Printmaking Society; Honolulu Academy of Arts; Cadaques Mini-Print Competition, Spain; Mellon Foundation – Venture Fund. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 52, Including: The University of the Arts, Capital Art Center, Taichung, Formosa; Taller Galleria Fort, Cadaquest, Spain; American Embassy, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Venable-Neslage Gallery, Washington DC; Gallery 4 Alexandria, VA; The Point Club, Philadelphia, PA; Temple University; State of New York / Alfred / U; Rutgers U.; Eastern New Mexico U.; Milersville U.; Kentucky U.; Delaware U.; Wisconsin / Whitewater / U.; Florida A&M U.; Purdue U.; Colleges: - Mühlenberg-Cedar Crest;-Mt. Aloysius;-Northern States;-Mayville-Wartburg;-Dyersburg State; - Lee State; - Rosemont;-Anderson;-University City Art League, Philadelphia; Rosenfeld Art Gallery, Philadelphia; Gross-McClief Gallery, Philadelphia; Gallery 252, Philadelphia; Niles Media, Center Skokie, IL; Coos Art Museum, OR. GROUP EXHIBITIONS Over 800, including 1 st World Print Competition, San Francisco Museum of Art; 11 th International Graphics Bienniale, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia; Library of Congress National Exhibition; Cleveland / England / Third International Drawing Biennial; International Print Biennials, Krakow, Poland; International Mini-Print Competitions, Cadasques, Spain; Arteder ’82, International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Bilbao, Spain; International Independent Exhibitions, Kanagawa, Japan; Gabo Frio International Print Biennial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Male Formy Grafiki, Lodz, Poland; Printmaking: East / West Exchange, Tianjin, China; Intergrafia, Katovice, Poland; Seoul International Print Biennials, Korea; International Print Biennials, The Print Club; Philadelphia; Interprint Lviv ’90, USSR; Mini-Print Finland, Lathy Museum; Intergrafia – World Award Winners, Katovice Gallery, Poland. MEMBER National Academy of Design National Watercolor Society Watercolor USA Honor Society American Color Print Society Boston Printmakers Delaware Center of Contemporary Art TEACHING & LECTURING The University of The Arts / 1972-90 Tyler School of Art, Temple University / 1970-71 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Maryland College of Art West Chester Universit University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Civic Museum |