Roger Kizik

1945 - Born in Boston, MA
1994 - Present - Lives in South Dartmouth, MA

 

Education

1964-1968 - U.S. Navy
1972 - BFA, Massachusetts College of Art - Boston, MA

 

One Person Exhibitions

2009 - "Disparate Dialogue: A Roger Kizik retrospective", New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA

2007 - Borowicz Gallery, South Dartmouth, MA

2006 - Concord Art Associaton, Concord, MA

2004 - "A Restless Sampling", Art Works!, New Bedford, MA
"Title Wave: Book Portraits," Newton Public Library, Newton, MA

2003 - Watercolors in "Summer Surprises," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

2002 - "Outward Bound," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
"Cover to Cover," University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA

2001 - "Making Book," Nielsen Galery, Boston, MA Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI

1997 - "Rowing in Eden: Paintings," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
"Recent Paintings," Atrium of the University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetss Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA

1996 - "The Abstract and the Particular," Darmouth Town Hall, North Dartmouth, MA

1995 - Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

1992 - "Embracing the Personal," DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

1989 - Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
"Objects of Love: Recent Paintings by Roger Kizik," Southeastern Massachusetts University, Dartmouth, MA
Nemasket Gallery, Fairhaven, MA

1987 - Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA

1986 - Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA

1985 - Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA

1983 - Bess Cutler Gallery, Boston, MA, Stux Gallery, Boston, MA

1982 - Helen Shlein Gallery, Boston, MA

1977 - Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

 

Group Exhibitions

2006 - Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
"Get Real," Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA

2005 - Meditech Corporation Gallery, Canton, MA

2004 - Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
"Seaworthy," Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Public Library, Greenwich, CT

2003 - "Painting in New England 1950-2000," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
"20 Years - A Celebration," Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI

2001 - "Abstract Painting," Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI

2000 - "Visual Memoirs," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

1999 - "Christmas Show," Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
"In the Spirit of Landscape IV," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
"The Ninth Triennial," Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
"Landscape: View & Visions," The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA
Exhibition in Tribute to Stephen D. Paine, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1998 - "In the Spirit of Landscape III," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
"Audubon Legacy - Vault Series: Birds," New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
New England Biolabs Exhibition
Boston Public Library Prints Exhibition
"Inviting the Unknown," New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA

1997 - "In the Spirit of Landscape II," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

1995 - "The Abstract Edge," Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA
Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

1992 - "Separate Visions," Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

1991 "Take Five," Brickbottom Gallery, Somervillle, MA

1987 - "Boston Baroque," Boston Company Building, Boston, MA
"Extra Murals: Larger Than Life Work by New England Artists," Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA

1986 - "Innaugural Exhibit," Stux Gallery, New York, NY
"Recent Acquitions," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
"Expressionism in Boston," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

1984 - "Emerging Massachusetts Painters," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1982 - "New Painting/New England," The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH

1981 - "Decordova Collects," Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
"Art of the State," Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
"Medillin Biennial," Medellin, Colombia
"Boston Now: Abstract Painters," Institute of Contemporaty Art, Boston, MA

1980 - "Aspects of the Seventies: Mavericks," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

1977 - "35th Corcoran Biennial," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

 

Collections

Greylock Corporation, Waltham, MA
Putnam Investments, Boston, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston MA
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Graham Gund Art Foundation, Cambridge MA
Medi-Tech Crporation, Framingham, MA
Harry Miller, Inc. Roxbury, MA
Lemuel Shatttuck Hospital, Jamaica Plain, MA
Paine-Weber Collection, Boston MA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Wellington Management Company, Boston, MA
Cambridge Savings Bank, Arlington, MA

 

Selected Bibliography

Smee, Sebastian "Waywardness, humor, colors that zing", Boston Globe, January 8, 2010
Carter, Catherine New Bedford Standard-Times, October 31, 2009
Drawings Harvard Review, No. 30, 2006
Catalog "Visual Memoirs," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1999
Catalog 35th Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1977
Catalog "Aspects of the Seventies: Mavericks." Waltham, (MA): Rose Art Museum,
Brandeis University, 1980. Essay by Michael Leja.
Catalog Boston Expressionism. Lincoln (MA); DeCordova Museum, 1986
Catalog Objects of Love: Recent Paintings by Roger Kizik. North Dartmouth (MA)
Southeastern Massachesetts University Art Gallery, 1989. Essay by Carl Belz
Profile Art New England, April/May 2000
Antonsen, Lasse Art New England, October/November 2001
Boyer, David Review, New Bedford Standard Times, February 20, 2004
Cohen, Ronny "New York Reviews: Roger Kizik," Art News
DiDomizio, Milva Boston Sunday Globe, January 23, 2000
Jeppson, Gabriella "John McNamara and Roger Kizik," Art New England, January 1980
Komperda, Kim "Separate Visions: A Diverse View of Contamporary Boston Art," Art New England, March 1991
Lloyd, Ann Wilson "Roger Kizik: Large Works," Art New England, MAy 1989
"Artists Who Draw," Cape Cod Antiques and Arts, October, 1989
"Roger Kizik at the DeCordaove Museum," Art in America, February, 1992
McFadden, Sarah "Report From Boston," Art in America, MAy 1983
McQuaide, Cate Boston Sunday Globe, April 28, 2002
Millis, Christopher Review, Boston Phoenix, August 1, 2003
Montgomery, M.R. "Audubon Legacy Takes Flight at New Bedford Art Museum," Boston Globe, Sunday, July 5, 1988
Nemser, Rebecca "Roger Kizik, Abstract Painter, Turns Realist," Boston Globe, March 10, 1989
"Embracing the Personal: Drawings by Roger Kizik," The Boston Phoenix, March 22-28, 1991
Sherman, Mary "Brockton Triennial," Boston Sunday Herald, September 26 1999
Stapen, Nancy Gallery Review, Boston Herald, 1986
Tarlow, Lois Profile, Art New England, April/May 2000
Temin, Christine "Perspectives: Take Five," Boston Globe, Wednesday, October 17, 1990
"Playing Around: Toys by Artists," Embracing the Personnal: Drawings by Roger Kizik," Boston Globe, Wednesday, February 20, 1991
"Brockton Triennial," Boston Globe, October, 8, 1999
Unger, Miles "Regional Reviews: Massachusetts," "Painting Between Metaphor and Matter," Art New England, February, 1991