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PHILIP KOCH

EDUCATION
1972  MFA in Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1970  BA Oberlin College, OH
1968-69  Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
1967  School of Art, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2011-2012  Unbroken Thread: Nature Paintings and the American Imagination. The Art of Philip Koch, Saginaw Art Museum, MI
2011  Unbroken Thread, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Neport News, VA
2010  Unbroken Thread, Clymer Museum of Art, Ellensburg, WA
2010  Unbroken Thread, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
2009  Unbroken Thread, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2003  New England Dreams, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2002  Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, (two artist
          exhibition)
2001  Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
1999  Milton Art Museum, Milton, MA
1999  Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI
1998  Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
1996  Saginaw Art Museum, MI
1995  Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
1995  Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
1995  Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
1995  Butler Institute of American Art, Salem, OH
1994  Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA
1990  Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2012  Inside Edward Hopper’s Truro Studio: Paintings by Philip Koch, Edward Hopper House Art
          Center, Nyack, NY
2011  Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2011  Carbon County Cultural Project, Jim Thorpe, PA
2011  Sabbatical Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2010  JLP Gallery, Baltimore, MD (two artist exhibition)
2010  Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2009  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2009  Unbroken Thread, Hungerford Memorial Gallery, College of Southern Maryland,
          La Plata, MD
2009  Unbroken Thread, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2008  Unbroken Thread, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
2007  Light, Forest, Sea, J.L. Pierce Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2006  Sites and Insights (two artist exhibition), Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2005  Overviews, Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2005  Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC, on-line exhibition
2004  Vision of Nature: The Landscapes of Philip Koch, University of Maryland University
          College, Adelphi, MD
2004  Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC
2003-2004  Stevenson University, Baltimore, MD
2003  Bogigian Gallery, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA
2003  Leeds Gallery, Earlham College, Richmond, IN
2003  University of Wisconsin Parkside, Kenosha, WI (two artist exhibition)
2003  ERL Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
1999  Lyonswier Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999  University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
1998  Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1997  Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1995  Peter Bartlow Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994  Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (also 1982, 1981)
1993  Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL (also 1991)
1992  Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX (also 1988, 1986, 1984)
1991  Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC (also 1998)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012  Who We Are: Past and Present, Peninsula Fine Arts Center’s 50th
2012  Anniversary Exhibition, Newport News, VA
2012  Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2012  Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2012  Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2012  Meredith Long & Co, Houston, TX
2011  Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2011  Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VTY
2011  Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2011  Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2010  Natural and Urban Landscapes, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2010  The Great American Landscape Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2010  Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2010  Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2010  Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2010  Hawthorne Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
2009  Transformations, Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2009  Green, Hawthorne Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
2009  May Landscape Exhibition, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2009  Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2009  Art About Color, Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2009  Hawthorne Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
2008  Summer Landscape Exhibition, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2008  A Sense of Place: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection of the Saginaw Art
          Museum, Saginaw Art Museum, MI
2008  J. L. Pierce Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2008  Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2008  Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2008  Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2008  Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2008  Art Auction, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA 2007 Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2007  Good Night Sun, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2007  Selections from the Permanent Collection, Payne Gallery, Moravian College,
          Bethlehem, PA
2007  Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2007  Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2007  Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2007  Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2006-2008  Art in Embassies Program, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012  On Tour: A Landscapist Reconnects with his Forerunners, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine
          feature article, reproductions, May/June 2012
2012  The Saginaw News, Saginaw, MI, reproduction, 2/12/12
2011  Gallery Guide: Chicago/Midwest, Spotlight: Unbroken Thread: The Art of Philip Koch,
          December ‘11 issue
2011  Artist’s Upbringing Colors His Work, The Saginaw News, Saginaw, MI, 12/8/11
2011  New England Landscapes Build on Tradition, Daily Press, Newport News, VA, 9/11/11
2011  Something Deep and True: Philip Koch at Peninsula Fine Arts Center, ˆVeer magazine,
          August 2011 issue
2011  Contemporary Landscapes on exhibit at CCCP, Times News, Lehighton, PA, June 23, 
2011  See What the World Has to Offer Under the Great Dome by Philip Koch, Herald Mail,
          June 9, Hagerstown, MD
2011  An Artist Looks at Rockwell Kent, Spring 2011 Newsletter, published by Baltimore Museum
          of Art, Prints, Drawings and Photographs Society
2010  Little Treasures: “Petite” and Philip Koch Paintings at Edgewater Gallery, Seven Days,
          December 22.
2010  Back East and Back to an Old Friend: A Blog Commentary by Philip Koch, The Kent
          Collector journal, Fall/Winter 2010
2010  Picking Up the Threads, South Bend Tribune, 4/26/10
2010  Celebrate the Art of the Past at Elkhart Museum’s 31st Anniversary, The Elkhart Truth, 
          June 6.
2009  Fine Art Connoisseur, July- August ’09 issue
2009  Cape Cod Museum Features Philip Koch Exhibition, Antiques and The Arts Weekly,
          June 26, 2009
2009  Art New England, June/July ’09 issue, reproduction
2009  In Hopper’s Footsteps, Art of the Cape and Islands, summer supplement to Cape Cod Life
          magazine, reproductions
2009  Fine Art Connoisseur, June ’09 issue
2009  Art New England, April-May ’09 issue
2009  Maryland Public Radio (WYPR) 9 minute interview with Cultural Editor Tom Hall on
          Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast
2009  Philip Koch: Spirit of Place, American Art Collector magazine, January ’09 issue,
          reproductions
2009  Bold Colors: George Billis Gallery Spotlights Contemporary
2009  Landscape Painting, Southwest Art magazine, January ’09 issue
2008  Unbroken Thread: Nature Paintings and the American Imagination. The Art of Philip Koch,
          University of Maryland University College Adelphi, MD, 92 page scholarly catalogue with
          essay by Eva J. Allen
2008  Philip Koch Experiencing Nature, Inside and Out, by Mathias Anderson, Fine Art  
          Connoisseur magazine,Mar.- April ’08
2007  Maryland Public Television video feature interview filmed in artist’s studio
2007  Moravian College Magazine, Summer ’07 issue
2005  The Townsman, Andover, MA, 9/1/05
2004  New York Times, 8/27/04
2004  The Boston Globe, 9/21/04
2004  A Vision of Nature: The Landscapes of Philip Koch, University of Maryland University
         College, 120 page, scholarly catalogue with essay by Eva J. Allen, Ph.D.
2004  “Imagining Nature”, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, SC 1/24/04
2003  The Boston Globe, 8/28/03
2003  Cape Cod Magazine, 8/03
2003  Cape Cod Times, 8/15-21/03
2003  “North Dakota Ties”, Grand Forks Herald, 10/19/03
2003  “Dreams Turned into Paint”, Tribune Star, Terre Haute, IN
1998  “The Paintings Invite You In”, Des Moines Sunday Register, 7/5/98
1995  “On Visiting Edward Hopper’s Studio”, Oberlin Alumni Magazine Spring ’95, front and back
           cover reproductions, feature article
1995  “Edward Hopper: His Legacy for Artists” by Gail Levin in Edward Hopper and the American
          Imagination, exhibition catalogue by the Whitney Museum of American Art

AWARDS, HONORS
2012  Residency in Edward Hopper’s former painting studio in S. Truro, MA on Cape Cod
(14th residency since 1983)
2009  Brenner Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art
2007  Panelist at National Conference on Representational Painting, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA

ART MUSEUM PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA
Indiana University Art Museum, IN
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
Saginaw Art Museum, MI
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
Wilson College Permanent Collection, Chambersburg, PA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bank of America, Baltimore, MD Midlantic Bank, New York, NY
Bank of Boston, Boston, MA PECO Energy, Philadelphia, PA
Black and Decker, Baltimore, MD Pespsico, New York, NY
Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria, IL Russ Reynolds Associates, New York, NY
DuPont Corporation, Wilmington, DE Sheppard Pratt Health Systems, Baltimore, MD
Ernst and Whinney, New York, NY Texas Commerce Bank, Houston, TX
Freeport McMoRan, New Orleans, LA United States Information Agency, Prague
Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ USAA, San Antonio, TX
MBNA American, Wilmington, DE Washington Post, Washington, DC
Mitsui Bank, New York, NY

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