Thomas Nozkowski, one of America’s foremost abstract painters, has had more than 50 one-person exhibitions worldwide and been in more than 100 group shows since 1973.

Nozkowski has received the American Academy of Fine Arts and letters Award in Painting (1999) and Purchase Prize (1998 & 1999); a New York State Foundation of the Arts Fellowship (1989); and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant (1984). He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (1993). His works are in permanent collections including Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Centre National des Artes Plastiques, Paris; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.

Nozkowski lives and works in New York and teaches at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.