Personal:
Born in Italy, north of Venice (Crespano del Grappa) in 1937
Came to United States in 1948. Lived in Michigan until 1968
Education:
Yale University - Painting - 1969
Cranbrook Academy of Art - M.F.A.
L.I.T., Michigan - B.S. Architecture - 1960
Awards:
National Endowment for the Arts - 1985
National Endowment for the Arts - Emerging Artist Grant – 1982
Solo Exhibitions:
2014
OK Harris Works of Art, New York, New York also 2011, 2009, 2006, 2003, 2000, 1998,1995, 1994, 1993, 1991, 1989, 1987, 1986, Spring & Winter 1984, 1983
2005
Galleria D' Arte S. Stefano, Venezia, Italia also 2001; Renzulli-Zago “Venezia–New York– Venezia”
2003
Deutschebank, Venezia, Italia
1996
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1992
Jaffee Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1990
Rubiner Gallery, West Bloomfield, Michigan
1989
McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1988
Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1987
OK South Gallery, Miami, Florida
1986
McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1982
Frank Marino Gallery, New York, New York
1981
Frank Marino Gallery, New York, New York
1981
OK Harris West, Scottsdale, Arizona
1980
Frank Marino Gallery, New York, New York Weyhe-Zago, “One Sculptor-One Painter” Neill Gallery, New York, New York
1976
Burlington College, New Jersey
1973
Razor Gallery, New York, New York
1972
Spectrum Gallery, New York, New York
1969
United Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Zago-Lembeck
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2012
Abstract Expressionism: Then and Now, Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI
2010
Summeryreview, OK Harris Works of Art, New York, New York
2007
Works on Paper: Watercolors and Drawings by Artists from OK Harris, Art & Design Gallery, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI
2007
New York to New Hampshire: Artists of the OK Harris Gallery, New England College Gallery, Henniker, NH
2005
Taccuino Per Un Viaggio, Numero Tre, Casa del Tintoretto, Venezia, Italia
2005
La Storia dei Calendari d’Arte, Tino Zago & Antonio Zago, Limena, Padova, Italia
2004
Sketchbook 88 by Shoichiro-Satake, Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Exemplary Works: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, OK Harris Works of Art, New York, New York
2004
Everything OK at OK Harris, Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, Florida
2003
Il Viaggiatore, Novocento Hotel, Venezia, Italia
2003
Taccuino Per Un Viaggio, Numero Due, Casa del Tintoretto, Venezia, Italia
2003
Amarillo Public Library, International Club of Amarillo, Amarillo, Texas
2002
Taccuino Per Un Viaggio, Casa del Tintoretto, Venezia, Italia
2001
I Love New York Art Benefit, OK Harris Works of Art, New York, New York
1997
Christine Adapon Fine Art, Manila, Philippines
1996
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1994
New York Collection 1994-95, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1993
Earth, Air, Fire and Water: Elements of the Permanent Collection, Cranbrook Academy Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1993
Summer Group Exhibition, Station Gallery, Katonah, New York
1993
Contemporary Artists at Chase Manhattan Bank, Cross River, New York in cooperation with Station Gallery, Katonah, New York
1991
The Manhattan Breakfast Club; Part I, Station Gallery, Katonah, New York
1990
An Exhibit from OK Harris Gallery, New York City Zimmerman/Saturn Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
1989
Landscape, Rubiner Gallery, West Bloomfield, Michigan
1988
Tortue is O.K., Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1987
The Hot Centre: Contemporary Art Selected by Ivan Karp, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky
1987
Eternal Interest: Visions of the Figure, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1987
Fifty-First National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1987
A Contemporary View of Nature, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,Connecticut
1986
Highlights of the Season, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1985
First Contemporary Art Expo Tokyo, Isetan Gallery, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Artists of OK Harris, Helander/Rubenstein Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1985
Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, New Jersey
1985
American Art Now!, Painting in the 80’s, Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Columbus, Georgia
1984
OK Harris Artists, Royal Palm Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1984
Summer Remembered, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey
1984
The Intuitive Response, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers, State University of NJ, Newark, NJ
1984
American Landscape Painting, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1984
Through the Looking Glass: Reflected Images in Contemporary Art, Heckscher Museum, New York
1984
25th Annual Art Exhibition, YM-YWHA, Union, New Jersey
1983
Landscape, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey
1983
SoHo, NoHo, Tribeca: Art from Lower Manhattan, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchberg, Virginia
1982
Water, Water, Frank Marino Gallery, New York, New York
1982
Cranbrook U.S.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1979
Painting on Canvas, Rubiner Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
1977
Roth, Zago, Stamos, Halahmy, Meneeley, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
1972
Michigan Artist’s Show, Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan
1970
New England Exhibition, New Canaan, Connecticut
Museum Collections:
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Corporate Collections:
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, New York, New York
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, Cleveland, Ohio
T.R.W. Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
A.T.&T., Long Lines, Virginia
Shearman & Sterling, New York, New York
Kelley, Drye & Warren; New York, New York
Prudential Life Insurance Company of America, Newark, New Jersey
R.C.A. Corporation, New York, New York
I.B.M. Corporation, New York, New York
Banca di Roma, New York, New York
Standish, Ayer & Wood; Boston, Massachusetts
American Republic Insurance Company, Des Moines, Iowa
Corry Jamestown Corporation, New York, New York
Sydney Lewis Corporate Collection, Richmond, Virginia
David Anderson Gallery, New York, New York
Thomas Girardi, Los Angeles, California
Chemical Bank, New York, New York
Manufacturers Hanover Bank, New York, New York
McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, Illinois
Zale Corporation, Dallas, Texas
Equitable Life Insurance Society of the United States, New York, New York
Kramer, Levin, Nessen, Kamin and Frankel; New York, New York
Coca Cola Co., Atlanta, Georgia
Pepsico, Inc., Purchase, New York
Arbor Drugs, Troy, Michigan
Standard Federal Savings Bank, Troy, Michigan
Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Klein, Farmington Hills, Michigan
Technimetrics, New York, New York
Hunton & Williams, Attorneys at Law, New York, New York
Goodkind, Labaton, Rudoff & Sucharow, Attorneys at Law, New York, New York
Bear Stearns & Company, New York, New York
Bankers Trust Company, New York, New York
Commissions:
1997
100 William Street Office Tower Lobby (Corner John Street), New York, New York
1995
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, Cleveland, Ohio
1992
New York Hilton, New York, New York
1990
Hyatt Regency, Aruba
1967
Steelcase, Grand Rapids, Michigan (mural)