MICHAEL KNIGIN ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST. MIXED MEDIA.
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Michael Knigin attended and graduated from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. During his junior year, he was awarded a Ford Foundation Grant to study fine art lithography at the renowned Tamarind Lithography Workshop, in Los Angeles. After graduating college in 1966, Knigin started teaching at the Pratt Graphic Center in Manhattan where he started a fine art lithography workshop. After a year and a half he opened his own publishing company, Chiron Press, and added a silkscreen printing facility. The shop remained in existence for over seven years, printing and publishing editions for the most renowned contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Paul Jenkins.
In 1970 and 1971 he co-authored two books on lithography, which were published by Van Nostrand/Reinhold. In 1974, Knigin was invited by the Israel Museum and the Jerusalem Foundation to establish the first professional lithography workshop in Israel and to train a group of young Israeli artists. In 1988 he was appointed to the NASA Art Team and was sent to the Kennedy Space Center to visually interpret the launch of the space shuttle Discovery, celebrating NASA's return to space after the Challenger's disaster in 1986. In 1991 he was recalled to interpret the touchdown of the space shuttle Atlantis at Edward's Air Force Base.
Knigin's work is included in over 60 museums and corporate collections, including the Whitney American Museum of Art, Albright-Knox, The Cooper Hewitt Museum, The Portland Museum of Art, The Israel Museum, The Port Authority of NY, Citibank, NASA, U.S. Dept. of State, and the Phillip Morris Collection. His work has been written about in approximately forty articles, featured in publications such as the New York Times, Art in America, and Art News. Last but not least, he has been commissioned to create art by over forty corporations and institutions.
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Information courtesy of Stuart Tyrnauer
Permanent Museum Collections
The Whitney Museum, N.Y.
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington,
Carnegie Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.
TNew York University Art Collection, N.Y.
New York State Council on the Arts, N.Y.
Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, MA.
Israel Art Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Minnesota Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Minn.
Taiwan Museum, Taiwan
McNay Museum, Texas
Cooper Hewitt Museum, N.Y.
Portland Museum, Portland, Oregon
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico
Delaware Museum, Willmington, Del.
Mint Museum, Charlotte, N.C.
North Miami Museum of Art, Miami, Fla.
NASA Art Collection, Washington, D.C. / Fla.
Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Japan Society, N.Y.
United States Department of State, Washington,
Indiana Museum of Art, Indiannapolis, Indiana
Walker Collection, Minn., Minn.
Awards and Honors
Faculty Development Award, Pratt Institute
Special Merit-Graphic Arts Exhibition, N.Y
Certificate of Merit, National Society of Illustrators
Clio Award: Art Direction, Cinetudes Film , NY
John B. Turner Memorial Award, Society of American Graphic Artists
Fellowship to the American Film Institute
Ford Foundation Grant