Shalom Gorewitz received a B.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins and Allan Kaprow; and an M.F.A. from Antioch International University. The 1989 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Gorewitz has also received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. He was an artist in residence at the Experimental Television Center, Owego, New York, from 1978-93, and was artist-in-residence at the Beersheva Institute of Art in Jerusalem. A professor of Multimedia Arts at Ramapo College, New Jersey for more than twenty years, he was dean of the School of Contemporary Arts from 1991-98 and is now convenor (chair) of the visual arts program while continuing to teach studio courses and seminars relating to electronic media. He has also taught at the University of Bridgeport and Hofstra University. Gorewitz’s work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Reina Sofia, Madrid, among others. His work has been exhibited internationally, at festivals and institutions including the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial Exhibition, New York; Jewish Museum, New York; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; and the Kowasaki Museum, Tokyo. His work has been featured on National Public Television, the Learning Channel, the USA Cable Network, and many regional PBS stations. He lives in New York City.
