Shalom Tomas Neuman
b. 1947 Shalom resides in Easton, Pennsylvania, with his wife Orange Neuman. He spends part of the year working in Prague and Hostka, Czechia.
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Shalom Tomas Neuman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of World War II. He is the last surviving male of a large Jewish family, most of whom perished in Nazi Germany’s Holocaust. His family escaped from Prague’s Communist regime in 1948 after his father’s name was placed on a Communist death list. They immigrated to Haifa, Israel, where he spent his childhood. When he was 12, Shalom, his sister, and his parents immigrated to Pittsburgh, PA. He has lived in the United States ever since and has made New York City his home since 1980, until in 2014 he moved to Easton, PA. He spends part of time
Shalom received a BFA and MFA in the dual disciplines of painting and sculpture from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970 and 1972, respectively. He won the Damrosch Scholarship to study in France, where he received the Beaux Arts painting prize. Shalom did his postgraduate fellowship in painting and sculpture at Indiana University. Shalom is the recipient of the Premio Galileo 2000 Award for Art XV Edition, presented at Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy, on September 23, 2013.
Shalom resides in the U.S. He spends part of the year working in Prague and Hostka, Czechia where he also maintains homes. He has taught at The Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute of Technology and has been a visiting lecturer at The School of Visual Arts, Yale, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Beer Sheva College, and Ra’anana Cultural Center in Israel.
He has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, South America, Asia, and Israel. His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Prague (Czech Republic), Museum Kampa (Czech Republic), Kafka Museum (Czech Republic), Ellis Island Museum (New York), Museum of Modern Art (Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA), Museum of Modern Art (Nice, France), Museu Da Image E Dom Som (Sao Paolo, Brazil) and the private collections of Elaine DeKooning (East Hampton, New York), Enrico and Roberta Baj (Milano Italy), Rosa Easman (UBU Gallery, New York), Chemical Bank (New York), Paolo Martini (Rome, Italy), Miguel Cardia (Portugal), and Ivan Karp (O.K. Harris Gallery, New York) amongst others.
Fusionism Artwork by Shalom Neuman
