College Art Association Presents Distinguished Teaching Award to UB's Harvey Breverman

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Harvey Breverman, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Art in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, has received the College Art Association's 2003 Distinguished Teaching of Art Award, presented at the association's annual meeting.

Breverman's nomination -- and subsequent award -- was the result of support from past students, now living around the world as practicing artists and teachers in their own right, who have first-hand experience with Breverman as a teacher, mentor and friend, according to Adele Henderson, chair of the UB art department.

A member of the department's faculty since 1961, Breverman ranks among some of the most important artists of the 20th century. He describes his work in printmaking, drawing and painting as being informed by "the human condition, particularized by the figure in all its frailty and grandeur."

Breverman has exhibited his work in more than 80 solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions, and has been a visiting-artist in more than 70 institutions worldwide.

His work is included in the permanent collections of more than 150 museums and galleries worldwide, including the British Museum in London, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York City, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

A member of the National Academy of Design, he has been the recipient of the academy's Leo Meissner Prize in Graphics. He has received numerous other major awards, including a Tiffany Foundation Grant; a Netherlands Government Grant; a New York State Council on the Arts grant (CAPS), and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.

He represented the United States in the fourth International Print Biennial at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the SAGA '90 exhibition in Paris and the 14th Spanish Print Internacional.

Breverman received a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MFA from Ohio University.

He lives in Amherst.