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STEPHEN MAGSIG

EDUCATION
1985 Center for Creative Studies - College of Art and Design, Detroit, MI
1974 Associate of Arts, Ferris State College, Big Rapids, MI

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2011  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2010  David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2009  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2009  George Billis Gallery/Manhattan Athletic Club, New York, NY
2008  David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2007  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2006  David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2006  George Billis Gallery LA, Culver City, CA
2005  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2005  Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Ann Arbor, MI
2004  Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2003  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2002  Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2001  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2001  Manhattan Athletic Club/George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2000  Urban Landscapes, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1998  Street Scenes, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1997  Ten Year Retrospective, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
1997  Urban Landscapes, Paintings of New York, Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY
1997  Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA
1996  Images of New York, Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY
1995  Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1992  Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1990  Young & Rubican, Detroit, MI
1989  J. Walter Thompson, Detroit, MI
1989  Ross Roy Inc. Bloomfield Hills, MI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011  More Real Than Real ; Realism from the USA & Canada
2011  Peter Walker Fine Art , Adelaide, South Australia
2011  The Buildings of New York, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2010  Summer Group Show, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2010  Architectural and Industrial Realism: Rick Dula, Roland Kulla, and Stephen Magsig
2010  Washington County Museum, Washington, DC
2009  Summer in the City, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2009  Summer Select, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2009  Stephen Magsig, George Billis Gallery/Manhattan Athletic Club, New York
2009  Michigan Masters Invitational,Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
2009  The Grand Bazaar, Benefit for Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2009  Large Medium Small, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2009  AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
2008  City Lights, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2008  David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2007  Rocky Mountain Invitational, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
2007  Driven: Art from the Motor City, Copper Country Community Arts Center, Hancock, MI
2007  AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
2007  Good Night Sun, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2007  Pop Realism, George Billis Gallery LA, Culver City, CA
2006  Carl Schlosberg, Los Angeles, CA
2006  In the City, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2006  The Pavilion, New York, NY
2006  Fort Wayne Museum of Art 2006 Biennial, Fort Wayne, IN
2006  Landscapes, Real & Imagined, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2006  Local Color: Contemporary Realism, Downriver Council for the Arts, Taylor, MI
2006  Wish You Were Here, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
2006  Art Works for Life, Dearborn, MI
2005  AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York City, NY
2005  Summer Group Show, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2005  Art Works for Life, Detroit, MI
2004  2004 Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
2004  Art Works for Life, Detroit, MI
2004  Carl Schlosberg, Los Angeles, CA
2004  Inaugural Exhibition, George Billis Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA
2004  Industrial Beauty, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2004  New NYC Artists, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York, NY
2003  Actual Size Biennial, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
2003  Art New York, New York, NY
2003  Art Works for Life, Detroit, MI
2003  Inaugural Exhibition, A & C Fine Art, East Greenwich, RI
2003  The Selecti Show, Detroit Artist Market
2003  Member’s Invitational, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, M
2003  Urban Lanscapes, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2002  Palm Springs International Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA
2003  The 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, ShermanOaks, CA
2001  A survey of Sculpture: Antiquities to Contemporary, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts,
          Sherman Oaks, CA
2001  Actual Size, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
2001  Art Works for Life, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI
2000  Manhattan Contrasts, New York Historical Society, NY
2000  Group Show, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2000  Urban Aesthetics, Stephen Magsig and David FeBland, Bender Fine Art, Atlanta GA
2000  Polk Art Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
2000  Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2000  Actual Size, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
2000  Views from the Landscape, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
1999  New NY Views, Recent Acquisitions, Museum of the City of New York, NY
1999  Group Show, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1999  Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
1998  New Works by Gallery Artists, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1998  Paintings, The Gallery, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI
1997  D. Bulka, S. Logan, Stephen Magsig: Images of the City, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1997  New Works by Gallery Artists, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1996  Willis Twenty-fifth Anniversary Benefit Exhibition,Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1996  Works for Young Collectors, Group Exhibition, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1995  Small Works, Juried Exhibition, Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY
1995  Land, Group Exhibition, Alexa Lee Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
1995  National Juried Exhibition, Gallery 84, New York, NY
1995  Works for Young Collectors, Group Exhibition, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1995  In, On, and Around the Box, Third Annual Benefit Exhibition, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1994  The Detroit Show: Objects For and About Detroit, CCS Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
1994  New Works by Gallery Artists, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1994  Sketchbooks, Group Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1994  In, On, and Around the Box, Third Annual Benefit Exhibition, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1993  Works for Young Collectors, Group Exhibition, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1993  Friends for Focus, Benefit Group Exhibition, Detroit Focus Gallery
1993  Group Show, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1993  New Work, Group Exhibition, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1992  Jef Borgeau and Stephen Magsig, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1992  Drawings, Wayne State University Community Arts Gallery, Detroit, MI
1992  Images Unfold: Contemporary Screens, Detroit Artists Market
1992  Expressive Visions and Exquisite Images Part II, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland
          University, Rochester, MI
1991  Group Exhibition, Elizabeth Stone Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1991  Eye for Art II, Group Exhibition, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1990  Five-Person Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007  Gail Leggio, Stephen Magsig, Exibitions, American Arts Quarterly, Winter 2007, pp. 59-61
2006  Rose, Joshua, Stephen Magsig, Collectors will respond to nostalgic glimpses of Los
          Angeles. American Art Collector, June, pp. 150-153
2004  Guten Cohen, Keri, Painter Stephen Magsig lightens up, The Detroit Free Press, Sunday,
          May 2
2003  Mannisto, Glen, Intimate Vistas; Landscapes are cityscapes in the show at Lemberg
          Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2003  Detroit Metro Times, Feb. 19, p. 22-23
2002  Cohen, Keri, Ferndale Artist Stephen Magsig Gains National Attention For His Paintings,
          Which Capture The Beauty and Soul of The Urban Landscape, April 26, pp 1E, 12E.
2001  Sefton, Barbara Wylan, Emerging Artist, Art & Antiques, October, pp. 58-60.
2000  Wing, Diana, Art and technology merge in this competition, The Mirror Newspapers,
          Detroit, May 18.
1998  Carducci, Vincent, Magsig’s Detroit, Trait, Introductory Issue
1998  Hoover, Barbara, GM on canvas, Detroit News, Sept. 17
1998  Crawford, Lynn, Posed Structures, Metro Times, Detroit, MI, Apr. 15
1998  People making the news, Detroit Free Press, Apr. 7
1998  Provenzano, Frank, Revealing the lasting presence behind a neglected urban landscape,
          The Eccentric, Birmingham, MI, Apr. 5
1998  Keri Guten-Cohen, Painter lets urban architecture tell his story, Detroit Free Press
1997  Henry, Gerrit, Stephen Magsig at Chuck Levitan, Art in America, Oct.
1997  Colby, Joy Hakanson, Artists paint Detroit in romantic colors, The Detroit News, June 19
1997  Galleries, New York Observer, New York, NY, May 12
1997  Dellolio, Peter, Stephen Magsig, NY Arts Magazine, Issue No. 10, May
1997  Kampel, Traci, Down-to-earth Midwesterner captures the ‘real’ Soho, The Villager, New
          York, NY, Apr.16
1996  Miro, Marsha, Young Collectors Favor Older Artists at Lemberg Show, The Sunday
          Journal, Detroit, MI, Jan 28
1996  Colby, Joy Hakanson, Young Collectors, The Detroit News, Jan. 18
1996  Time Warner/AOL, New York, NY
1996  VW of America, Troy, MI
1996  Waner Group, New York, NY
1996  Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
1995  Mannisto, Glenn, The Year in Review ‘95: Fine Arts Live, Metro Times, Detroit, MI, Dec. 20
1995  Colby, Joy Hakanson, Earthy theme show lands a top cast of artists, The Detroit News,
          July 7
1995  Miro, Marsha, Paintings: Magsig’s Element is the City, Detroit Free Press, Apr. 24
1994  Echlin, Hobey, The Year in Review ‘94: Visual Art, Metro Times, Detroit, MI, Dec. 21
1994  Miro, Marsha, Motor City Muse, Detroit Free Press, June 10
1992  Pasfield, Veronica, A Brush with the City, Detroit Monthly, Mar.
1990  Eckstrom, Kevin, Detroit Letters, Contemporanea, No. 23, Dec.
1990  Eckstrom, Kevin, Post-Industrial Romanticism, New Art Examiner, Sept.
1990  Miro, Marsha, Five Local Artists Focus on Industry’s Decline in Detroit That Was, Detroit
          Free Press, Apr.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Aegon Group, New York, NY
American Capital, New York, NY
Ameritech (SBC), Detroit, MI
Central Insurance Companies, Van Wert, OH
Colorforms Incorporated, Detroit, MI
Conway, MacKenzie and Dunleavy, Birmingham, MI
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Detroit, MI
Dornbush Schaeffer Strongin & Weinstein, New York, NY
The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI
James Pearson Duffy Collection, Detroit, MI
The Museum of the City of New York, NY
New York Historical Society, New York, NY
Polk Company, Southfield, MI
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, New York, NY
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, Detroit, MI
Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
Sprint Communications, Kansas City, MO
Stanley Stahl Management Inc., New York, NY

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