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about
Alison Kruvant is an artist born in Washington, DC, based in New York City. She received a B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. in Painting from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, where she spent a year studying painting in Rome, Italy.
Kruvant has exhibited at Ki Smith Gallery (New York, NY), High Line Nine Galleries (New York, NY), The Painting Center (New York, NY), Trestle Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Da Vinci Art Alliance (Philadelphia, PA), and GoggleWorks Center for the Arts (Reading, PA). Her work is featured in the White Columns Curated Artist Registry and in the Deanna Evans Projects Trove [flat file]. Kruvant’s writing is published in Painters On Paintings and she was interviewed in Whitehot Magazine.
Additionally, she has worked on several community mural projects in the New York area and contributed to the reconstruction of a 17th-century Polish wooden synagogue roof and ceiling murals, which are now permanently displayed at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland.
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Alison Kruvant
b. 1988 Washington, DC
Lives and works in Long Island City, NY
EDUCATION
2018 M.F.A. Painting, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy | Year Abroad
2014 Columbia University, New York, NY | Advanced Painting Intensive
2011 B.A. Studio Art, Art History, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2010 Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy | Semester Abroad
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Benefit Exhibition, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Byrdcliffe Reflections, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
Baron Art Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Trove [flat file], Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY, Online
2023 The Collective by Visionary Projects, High Line Nine Galleries, New York, NY
Liquidity, Ki Smith Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Curated Artist Registry, White Columns, New York, NY, Online
2021 2021 Benefit Exhibition, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2020 Here, Now, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art File Gallery, The Painting Center, New York, NY, Online
2019 13th Annual Exhibition, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
Works on Paper ll, Da Vinci Artist Alliance Philadelphia, PA
2018 Looking Through (solo), Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
Tyler/Independent Hotel Partnership Show, Independent Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
2017 MFA Exhibition, Temple University Rome Gallery, Rome, Italy
2014 Advanced Painting Exhibition, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
2011 On Portraiture, Fisher Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2010 Selected Works by 2D and 3D students, SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy
AWARDS
2023 Artist in Residence, Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY
2021 Artist in Residence, Singing on a Sinking Ship, The Neighbors, Chicago, IL
2018 Independent Hotel Curatorial Fellowship, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Gamblin Paint Award, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2016–18 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Liquidity at Ki Smith Gallery, Gemima, Clare, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art
WRITING
2022 Kruvant, Alison, Painters on Paintings, Alison Kruvant on Hedda Sterne
SELECTED PUBLIC ART
2012NurtureNature, P.S. 84, Brooklyn, NY | Assistant Artist, Los Muralistas De El Puente
2011Gwoździec Synagogue Reconstruction Project, POLIN Museum, Warsaw, Poland
SELECTED TEACHING
2019 Instructor, Painting | Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Instructor, Painting | Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Instructor, Drawing and Painting | Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Panelist, Columbia University, New York, NY | Jewish Heritage and Contemporary Art