BODY OF WORK
Art Exhibitions:
2015 NYC Art Expo @Pier94 "Fine Art Magazine" Booth
2014 Thelma Harris Gallery, Oakland CA: "White Linen Nights"
2013 “Ecology of Food” School of the Arts SUNY, Geneseo
2012 GE 6th Annual African American History Month Art Exhibition Ct. Headquarters Stamford
2012 Bus Boys and Poets “The Art of Michael Singletary” Washington DC
2011 Maruka Gallery: “The Chocolate Series” Washington D.C.
2011 DC Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Finale International Vision Gallery Washington DC
2011 The Art Gallery at Rockefeller State Park: “Art Seeing Music” New York
2010 Millennium Gallery (Charles Summer Gallery) “Ten for Ten” Wash. D.C.
2010 International Vision Gallery “Word” Washington D.C.
2010 Blue Hill Art and Cultural Center “Seeing Music” Pearl River, NY
2010 International Vision Gallery “Syracuse University in D.C. Wash. D.C.
2008 TallerBoricua Gallery New York City
2008 Ocean Hill Gallery “Liberty and Justice for Whom” New York City
2008 Happy Dog Gallery Piermount New York
2006 IAM Jazz Show (JVC) Tribute to Master Artist
2006 Countee Cullen Library
2006 Taller Boricua Gallery Jazz Show
2004 7th Annual CHOCOLATE SHOW New York City
2004 IAM JAZZ SHOW various NYC galleries
Awards and Honors
2004 U.S, Library of Congress Collection "Cottonfield Blues" print
2003 American Craft Museum Selected finalist for the "Art of the Plate" Dixie Georgia-Pacific inc
2000 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
1989 Original Member of the POW WOW GROUP: a consortium of internationally known premier black artists: David Hammons, H. Glenn Bennett, Arthur Coppedge, Adger Cowans, Ray Grist, George Mingo, Tyrone Mitchell, Charles Searles, Michael J. Singletary and Luther Vann
1988 Visiting Artist Award Printmaker Workshop
1974 Artist in residence Bronx Museum
1973 Artist in residence Studio Museum in Harlem
1971 Damrosch Scholarship; Fountainebleau Music and Fine Arts Conservatoire, France for painting
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Bus Boys and Poets: “The Art of Michael Singletary” , Washington DC
2011 Maruka Gallery: “The Chocolate Series” Washington D.C.
2004 Lord Van Gallery Chelsea NYC: "The Chocolate Hip Hop Exhibit"
2003 The Metropolitan Pavilion NYC: "The Chocolate Show"
2002 Happy Dog Gallery Piermont, NY: "Jazz and Blues"
2001 Joseph I Lubin Art Gallery NYC: "Endangered Species"
2000 The Brainerd Heritage Fund Manhattan Town Hall: "Arts for Brainerd"
1998 Ghanian Embassy NYC: "United Nations Exhbition"
1997 Lubin House Gallery, NYC: "Eat, Drink, Man,Woman the art show
1997 Brooklyn Brewery Gallery NYC: "Hunger and Thrist "
Lubin House Gallery, NYC: "Hunger and Thrist"
1996 Metropolis Cafe Gallery, NYC: "Jazz Series 2"
1996 Langston Hughes Library, NY: "What you say GIRLFRIEND series"
1995 Main Street Gallery, N. Rochelle NY: "Art of Michael Singletary"
1995 Reza Namazi Gallery, Soho NY: "Les Nues Noires" series
1994 Seraphim Gallery, Tenafly New Jersey: "Michael J.Singletary"
1993 Main Street Gallery New Rochelle Gallery, NY: "The Black Nude"
1993 The Hudson RIver Museum Yonkers, NY: "Jazz"
1993 Victoria Franklin Gallery, Brooklyn NY: "Jazz"
1993 LTD Gallery, Soho NY: "Jazz"
1993 PEPSI COLA Headquarters Somers: "Black History: M. Singletary"
1993 ACBAW Gallery, Mount Vernon NY: "Michael J. Singletary"
1993 St John Cathedral Church Gallery, NYC: "Feeding the Pigeons"
1992 Yale University A.A.Students Art exhibit Yale University" "Singletary"
1992 Tsubaki Gallery, Soho NYC: "Feeding the Pigeons Series"
1992 Aaron Davis Hall Art Gallery, NY: "Jazz and Nancy Wilson"
1992 WBGO Gallery, Newark New Jersey: "Jazz Raz Za Ma Tazz"
1992 Keepsake Gallery, Newark New Jersey: "Michael J. Singletary"
1990 112 Greene Street Gallery, Soho NYC: "The Jazz Series"
1990 Dalcour Fine Arts and Collectibles, Soho NYC: "Jazz Prints"
1990Bridge Gllery, White Plains NY: "Song and Dance"
1990 Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry NY: "Painting Etc. 1990"
1990 Iona College, New Rochelle NY: "Michael Singletary"
1990 New York University NYC: "The Heritage Show"
1990 Victoria Franklin Gallery, Byline: "Paintings from Mo Better Blues"
1990 Avon Products Inc., Rye NY: "Black Image"
1990 Norma Jean Smiley Gallery, NYC: "Feeding the Pidgeons"
1990 Maher Hall Gallery, Mercy College NY: "Painting Etc"
1989 Gallery 50, Bridgeton, NJ: "Michael Singletary"
1989 Francis Laterman Gallery, NYC: "Michael Singletary" new art
1989 Pyramid Gallery, Soho NY: "Rhythmic Visions"
1989 Atelier Gallery, Buffalo NY: "Art of Michael J. Singletary"
1987 Mayor's Gallery, Washington D.C.: "Michael J. Singletary"
1984 Alain Bihaud Gallery, Soho NYC: "The Humanimals series"
1983 Cicchinelli Gallery, NYC: "The Humanimals series"
1983 U.S. Federal Court House, NYC: "The Humanimals series"
1983 Alain Bihaud Gallery, Soho NY: "Michael J. Singletary's animals"
1982 Kenco Gallery, Nyack NY: "The Humanimals series"
Group Exhibitions
2004 Martha Henry Gallery, NYC: "National Black Art Show"
2004 "Seeing Jazz: A tribute to Master Artists" Russ Berrie Pavilion and Countee Cullen Library/ Gallery
2004 Essie Green Gallery, NY: "Swing, Bebop to Hip Hop"
2003 American Craft Museum: "Art of the Plate "
2003 Atelier Art Gallery, NYC: " JVC Jazz Art Exhibit"
2003 Savacou Art Gallery, NYC: "Rhythm, Color & Harmony"
2003 Jazz Gallery, NYC: "Jazz Show"
2003 C. Virginia Field Borough Pres Gallery: "Exhibition of the Masters"
2001 Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico: "Black Face/Whiteface"
2001 Fire Patrol No.5 Art Gallery, NYC: "The Politics of Racism"
2001 Sothebys, NYC: "Buying time Nourishing Excellence"
2000 Northern Westchester Art Center: "Hair"
2000 Fire patrol #5 Gallery, Harlem NYC: "Harlem Week...from bebop..."
2000 Puck Bldg NYC: "National Black Art Show"
2000 Pelham Art Center, Pelham NY: "Family Tales"
1999 Jazz Museum, NYC: "To Honor Don Pullen"
Lucia Chen Art Gallery, Soho NY: "Thurd World"
Reader's Digest Art Gallery, Chappaqua NY: "Words and Images"
1997 Simply Art Gallery, Bklyn: "Art Shaw"
1996 Mt Kisco Art Center, NY: "Black American Perspective"
1996 Westchester Council for the Art Neiman Marcus: "Art Auction"
1996 Jazz Gallery, NYC: "Tribute to Sax Players"
1996 Liberty State Park, NJ: "Children Art Ball"
1995 Emerging Collector Gallery, NY: "Black Art Show"
1995 Simply Art Gallery, Bklyn: "African American Art"
1995 Choate House Gallery, Pace University Pleasantville: "Fantasy"
1995 "Rye Art Center, Rye NY: Fantasy"
1994 Pelham Art Center, Pelham NY: "City Life"
1994 Sotheby's: "Harlem Dowling Benefit"
1994 Clinton Hill Simply Art Gallery: "1st Annual Collectors and Artists"
1993 Francis Laterman Art Salon, NY: "Group Representations
Readers Digest Gallery: ”Conversations Between Cultures"
1993 Gutman Gallery, Greenburgh Conn: "Images from the Spirit"
1993 Kraft Food Inc Gallery, W. Plains: "Conversations Between Cultures"
1992 Readers Digest Art Gallery: "Words and Images"
1992 Sotherby, "William S. Paley Collection"
1992 Ted Gallery, Albany NY: "Daughters Show"
1992 N. Salem Vineyard Gallery N. Salem NY: "In the Spirit"
1992 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville: "Jazz of Michael J. Singletary"
1992 Looks like me Gallery, Portland Oregon: "Group"
1992 Art Extravanganza Baton Rouge, LA: "Very Special Arts"
Brooke Alexandra Gallery, Soho: "Arts and Entertainment Alliance"
1991 Newark Museum, Newark NJ: "Back St. Gallery"auction
1991 "The Color of Jazz and Blues" w/Miles Davis art Rye Art Center Rye
1991 "Jazz art: Beardon, Tolbert, Singletary" Art Entertainment Alliance NY
1990 Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville Virginia: "Humanistic Icon"
1990 New York Academy of Art: "Humanistic Icon"
1990 Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita Kansas: "Humanistic Icon"
1990 Kent State University: "Printmaker's Show"
1990 American Express Gallery, NYC: "Expression in Black Art"
1989 Pelham Art Center, Pelham NY: "City Life"
1989 Ted Gallery, Albany NY: "Dogmatic" (Lowell Nesbitt curator)
1989 Hudson River Museum: "Westchester Artist" (curated by Romare Bearden)
1989 Flushing Art Gallery, NY: "Printmakers Show"
1989 Atlanta Life Lobby Atrium, Atlanta GA: "Atlanta Life 9th Annual"
1989 ACBAW Gallery, Mt. Vernon NY: "Genesis"
1989 Kenkelba Gallery, NYC: "Women Center. Art Show and Auction"
1989 Mayor's Art Gallery Stamford Conn.: "Black American Art"
1989 Bedford Stuyvesant Center for the Arts and Culture, Brooklyn New York: "Printmakers"
1989 Ennis Francis Gallery, The Pow Wow Group NYC: "Blazzen"
1989 100 Black Women Organization, Stamford Conn.: "Expression"
1988 Adept Museum, MT. Vernon NY: "New Artist"
1988 Harlem Renaissance Gallery, NYC: "Frame of Mind"
1988 Savacou Gallery, NYC: "Black Art Show"
1987 ACBAW Gallery, Mt. Vernon NY: "Apartheid Defined"
1987 B. Smith Art Gallery, NYC: "Art Auction"
1987 Folk Art Museum, Syracuse NY: "Coming Back Home"
1986 Park Plaza Gallery, NYC: "Nzingha Society auction"
1986 Kuros Gallery, Madison Ave. NYC: "Art"
1986 Bridgeport Museum of Art and Science, Bridgeport Conn.: "Juried" 1st prize
1985 Gallery of Westen Art, Washington DC: "Art show"
1985 Nueberger Museum of Art , Purchase NY: "American Arts"
1985 Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx NY: "Bronx Artists"
1984 Smith Mason Gallery, Washington DC: "Black Art"
1982 Alain Bihaud Gallery, Soho NY: "Whitney Counterweight 3 Exhbition"
1982 Museum of Arts and Science, Bridgeport Conn: "Westchester Arts"
1981 M.A.R.C. Gallery, NY: "Art Exhibit
1975 Cicchinelli Art Gallery, NYC: "New York Realities"
1970 Harlem Studio Museum, NYC: "All Praises Due"
1970 -1980 Many art exhibits in throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe including exhibits at the University of Guadalajara (mural drawings),Vermont, Fountainbleau and Paris and throughout many universities in the U.S. including University of Illinois, Cornell University, Ithaca College, Syracuse University, Boston University and the University of Vermont , University of New Hampshire and Darthmouth. Galleries including the Gallery of Western art Washington D,C. State office buildings in Keene, New Hampshire, Harlem, White Plains, Stamford Conn. Yonkers New York City. etc.
Michael also curated and was included in a major exhibit of African American artists at CBS Inc in 1982 with the cooperation of it's Chairman William S Paley.
Art appearing in Television and Film Credits
1997 "Waiting Game" Tadpole production
1991 "Mo Better Blues" Spike Lee Joint
"Jungle Fever". Spike Lee (40 Acres and a mule production)
"The other side of Victory" ESPN/BET with James Brown and Robin Roberts. S.I. Communication - Burbank California.
"227" Carsey Warner Television Production
"The Guiding Light" CBS Television
1990 "The Cosby Show" NBC Television
Selected Commissions
Official artist for the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame. Completed 48 portraits of basketball stars and logo for New York City Hall of Fame.
Art work for Capitol/Blue Note CD "Post Motown Bop"(Bobby Watson)
Art work for Capitol/Blue Note CD, "Random Thoughts" (Don Pullen)
EVE Screen Gem purchased 8 paintings to for the television series "Guilding Light" "Tribute to Woodie Shaw" painting Ed Williams and Focus Production
"Tribute to Dizzy" painting Dalcour Fine Arts
"Tribute to Martin" painting Ariel Management Chicago
"Tribute to Adolph Ceasar" painting Carl Gordon and Assoc.
Creative Concepts Inc. 7 major commissions (1980-85)
Terrence Goldsack/Design Assoc. 5 murals and ceiling murals (Kingsley building Lobby)
American Contract Designers New York
Volkman and Berdow Designers Assoc.
"Julia" Paradise Grand Hotel, Bahamas (12 paintings)
Sheraton Hotel "Movie Series" 12 painting series of movie stars Stephen B. Thompson designer (Roanoke Va.)
"Don King" painting Don King Production
Peter Kalikow 4 children murals for child room on 5th Ave penthouse apartment. "Tribute to Ellis Bullock Jr." painting Hunter College
Mickey Mantle Restaurant 24 sports paintings
Ariel Management Corp. portrait of Martin Luther King
American Cancer Society designed cover for fundraising invitation
Connecticut Yankee Arts various commissions
Education
New School for Social Research studied with Walter Kendra
New School for Social Research studied with John B. Dobbs
New School for Social Research studied with Benny Andrews
New School for Social Research independent study
Syracuse University BFA
Select Post degree art training
1973 Rhodes Island School of Design Graduate School
1976 WNET Television and Film Training School Lehman College New York
1988 State University of New York Puchase. New York Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
Summer Education
Arts Students League at Vermont Academy studied with Hughie Lee Smith, Mahler Ryder, Ben Delaney, Al Hollingworth, Valerie Maynard and John Torres
University of Ghana, West Africa
Guadalajara University, Guadalajara Mexico
Ecole de Beaux Art, Fountainbleau, France (Damroach scholarship)
Media Coverage and Bibliography
2013 Fine Art Magazine New York, NY
2012 Creative Speaking TV show, City of Bowie MD
2004 BET Nightly News "The Chocolate Hip Hop Art" (April 22)
2004 Gotham Magazine "Seeing is Believing" (April issue)
2004 Westchester Suburban News Arts & Culture "Art-i-sun" April 25
2004 Phat Literature Literary TV Meet the Artist and Writers
2002 The Journal News "Remembering the Losses.." (May 26)
2001 The Journal News "Gaining insight on Impressionist" (June 28) WNET 13 "The Jazz Painter:Michael J. Singletary " Metro Arts
2001 The Journal News Lifestyle "Art work with an ear for jazz" Jan 30
1998 Collecting African American Art Crown Press Publishing
1997 Art Insights "Bkyln. Cable Interview" Python Channel (Oct)
1997 American Visions Magazine "Portfolio" (Aug issue)
1996 Gannett Newspaers "Portrait of an artist at work" (Dec 1)
1996 The Village Newspaper Volume 65 #30 (Jan 3)
1996 Manhattan Cable "Black Media/Plight of Black Art" (May 5)
1996 Manhattan Cable "Looking for Exposure for Black Arts" (May 25)
1995 CNN News "Black Male Show controversy" (Feb 27)
1995 NBC News Interview with Don Johnson (Blk Art/Male) (Feb 26)
1995 Newsday Magazine- Letters "Black Male or Black Mail" written by
Michael J. Singletary (Nov 23)
1993 Gannett Suburban "An unusual new exhibit..black nudes" (May16)
1993 Gannett Suburban "Images...at Gutman gallery..." (Jan 15)
1994 Amsterdam News "Jazz painter host...." (May 7)
1992 New York Times "Behind every....hangs a bit of art history" Feb 23)
1992 Westchester Cable Art news African American Art Expression (Feb)
1992 N.J. Cable Lace Production "Art of Singletary"
1992 Kiro Films (Tokyo)"The Jazz Painter" documentary of the jazz series of Michael J. Singletary
1992 Amsterdam News "Nancy Wilson..Max Roach host...." (Nov. 28)
1992 The Star Ledger "A Break from realism" (June 22)
1991 New York Daily News "The Art of Basketball" (Sept 24)
1991 The Artist Magazine Artist Life:"A master of improvisation" March
1991 Soap Opera Digest Inside Track: Singletary: "GL Gets Jazzy" (June)
1991 United Visions "the Black History Minute" Jocelyn Brown producer
1990 OWN WAY (Japan)
1990 Charlottesville Press
1990 WDMC
1990 Gannett Westchester Newspapers "All that Jazz" (June 29)
1990 Washington Post "Spike Lee's Blues....." art shown (Aug 3)
1990 Syracuse Record "Blue Note" (Dec issue)
1990 New York Amsterdam News "Dizzy and Singletary" April 21
1990 1989 New York Times "Visions of Communal life in 2 shows" (July 30)
1989 Emerge Magazine "Fine Art and Collectible" (Oct issue)
1989 The Press (Bridgeton) "..Gallery host...renowned artist.." (Feb12)
1989 Décor Magazine November 1989
1988 New York Magazine "Ruth recommends: In and around town" (Feb)
1988 New York Daily News Art Scene (Feb)
1988 WPIX TV Best Talk in town "Black Artist/White Gallery"
1988 Gannett Westchester News "The Great Pumpkins" Sunday Oct 30
1988 New York Amsterdam News "Singletary lectures..Collectors" Feb 20
1987 WPIX TV Best Talk in Town "If my fiends could see me now"
1987 Gannett Suburban Sunday Magazine Cover Story Year in Review Jan
1987 Daily Argus News "Art ties that bind" July
1987 WTOP TV The Panarama Show. "interviewing Michael Singletar
1986 Syracuse Record "Singletary Lectures". September
1985 WSYR 6:00 News
Equal Opportunity Magazine (Urban League) "To paint or not to Paint" Winter issue
1987 Westchester Suburban People Sunday Magazine Cover Story: "Year in Review" special issue (January)
1987 Daily Argus (Mt. Vernon) "Art Ties that Bind" (July)
1986 Suburban People (Gannett) "Sharing the Love of Art" (Sept 28)
1986 Syracuse Record "Singletary Lectures" (September)
New York Newsday "Men who Cook" (July)
Black Art International Quarterly Magazine "Profile Michael Singletary" vol 3 & 4 (Jan)
1981 250 years of Afro-American Art- An noted Bibliography Lynn Moody Igoe R.R. Bowker Company
1973 Afro-American Artists Boston Public Library Publishing Cedar Press
1969 New York Times (Feb)
Recent Curatorial Credits
Curator of "Sept 11 Artist Response" Exhibit at the Pelham Art Center (May 2002).
Member of the Gordon Park's Advisory Committee for the Hudson River Museum
exhibit "Half Past Autumn: The art of Gordon Parks."
Listings
Who's Who in American Art
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in the World
Who's Who in the East
Who's Who in Entertainment
Teaching experiences
1989-1990 Sarah Lawrence College Gallery School Bronxville New York
Artist in the School Program- Council for the Arts In Westchester
Art teacher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Cloisters), the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Hospital Audiences, Hudson River Museum, YMCA (Yonkers), ACBAW Gallery (Mt. Vernon), Mount Vernon Board of Education and Wiltwyck School for boys Art teacher: New York City Bd of Education and the Bronx Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art (3 for the Arts (programs) and the Kelly Street Creative Arts Center (South Bronx), Olatunji Center for African culture,
Lectures:
Panelist: 5 Annual African Voices Magazine Cultural Conference 2004
Keynote speaker at the U.S, Department of Labor African American Black History month Celebration Feb 18,1999
"High Achievements of Leadership past and present"
NY Foundation of the Arts Common ground Art Conference 1989
Arts Advisory Committee "Beyond the Big Apple " Conference 1988
Art advisory committee for the art council of Rockland/Westchester 1988
Iona College, New Rochelle 1988
Syracuse University Syracuse N.Y. 1987
Hampton University, Hampton Virginia 1987
Arts and Entertainment Alliances NYC. 1988
American Cancer Society "dual Careers" 1988
Baruch College NYC 1988
Pepsi Cola 1993
Society of African American MBAs "Collecting Black Art" 1993
100 Black Women Stamford Conn.
Artist in residence at the Arts and Humanities conference at Kiamesha Lake 1973 others
Collections
U.S. Library of Congress collection
William S. Paley (Chairman - CBS) collection Phylicia Rashad collection
Don King collection
Debbie Allen collection
Arthur Mitchell collection
Gregory Generet and Tamara Dobson collection Noel Frackman collection,
Dizzy Gillespie collection
Larry Tisch collection, Katherine Dunham collection, Joe Dumar collection, Artur Mitchell collection, Kim Alexis collection, Arthur Thompson jazz collection, Bruce Hopewell collection, Richhard Lieblner Collection, Bernard King collection and other private collections.