Professional Achievements

Selected Exhibitions:

2022 POINTS-of-VIEW, a photography exhibition, Curator, September

Women's Month, March

Black History Month, February

CITY HALL, Jersey City, NJ

2021 Hispanic Culture Month

JC CITY HALL Gallery

2020 EJK: Memorial 35 mm Camera / sculpture

Edition of 10 units
2020 Pro Arts "Cookbook" exhibition (The Egg & I)
City Hall, Jersey City, NJ

2019 Mission Burrito, Fine Art Photography Gallery

2018    Director/Curator Rotating Exhibitions, JC, NJ
John W. Meager Rotunda Gallery, City Hall, Jersey City, NJ
   Combat Paper/ Veteran’s group exhibition
   Monmouth Museum, Lindcroft, NJ
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ CUBA Today, Group photography exhibition, March

2017 John W. Meager Rotunda Gallery, City Hall, Jersey City, NJ
Combat Paper/ Veteran’s group exhibition
R.I.P. photograph of assemblage/sculpture

2017 Harborside Atrium, JCAST, JC, NJ
Pro-Arts Members exhibition R.I.P., assemblage/sculpture
Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy, J. Owen Grundy Award
Historical Excellency for ME-HOOD & Dogs and their People
Apparitions of Festive Occasions (Photo Essay Book, 50 year compendium)

2016 Sabbatical, Shrewsbury, Shropshire United Kingdom

2015 "Historic Jersey City" JCAST, JC, NJ
ME-HOOD (Photo Essay Book)
Dogs and their People (Photo Essay Book)
Homage to Immigration (Boxed Tableau)
Mer-Moms Too (Boxed Tableau)

2014    Mer-Moms (Boxed Tableau)
   "Homage to Jersey City and Immigration" JCAST, JC, NJ
(Installation at Riverview Park and Photo Essay Book)
   "Santa Circa 1970's" (Photo Essay Book)

2013    Cabinet-of-Dreams, (Photo-Sculpture) JCAST, JC, NJ
   Commenced consolidation /organizing & editing of 50 years of
   photographic images
   Toys Away (Photo Sculpture / restoration / duplication)

2012 Pro-Arts Members Exhibition, City Hall, JC, NJ

2011 Photo Surrealism, Curator, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ.
JK Memorial Collage, A tribute to my father (Collage / assemblage)

2010-12 Breher Brothers Building, JC, NJ
Drive-by Visions (A Continuous photo exhibition changed quarterly for 2 years)
JC FRIDAYS, PARTICIPANT

2010 "From Feathers to Scales", Lafayette College, Easton, PA
(In conjunction with a tribute to Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury, UK)
"Animal Magnetism", The Vermont Photography Workplace
Middlebury, VT
"New Views of Olde England", The Hayes Gallery
Corbridge, Northumberland, UK

2009 Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
311 Central Avenue, PACAS Project, Jersey City, NJ
Jersey City Art Fair @ The Beacon Condominiums, Jersey City, NJ
JCAST, Grace Church, Jersey City, NJ
"Streetscapes", Public Art Project
   Central Avenue, Jersey City, NJ Grant recipient
   "AfricanAmericana", Brennan Gallery
   Hudson Court House, Jersey City, NJ
"Metro 26", Traveling Exhibition
City Without Walls, Newark, NJ

2008    “People Without Clothes", curator
   Jersey City Artist Studio Tour, CANCO Lofts, Jersey City, NJ
“Metro 25 Gala”, Traveling Exhibition
   January – October, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
   J C Fridays, Jersey City, NJ
"Flying", Nutshell Gallery, Lake Huntington, NY

2007 “Seen-It-Wonders”, Curator
   Seton Hall University Law School, Newark, NJ
   “Architectural Abstractions”, JC Artists Studio Tour
Canco Building, Jersey City, NJ
   “Earthscapes”, Mary Benson Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
   “Landscapes Revisited”, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
“Leaving Hollywood Behind”, Nobis Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
defEYE Productions, United Visual Artists, Newark, NJ
   Cathedral Arts Festival, Jersey City, NJ

2004-07 Nutshell Gallery, Lake Huntington, NY

2006 Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ
   “50th Annual Juried National Print Show”
   PRO-ARTS, Annual Juried Members Exhibition, Jersey City, NJ
   “About Photography”, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ
   “Avant Garden, Altered State”, 2 Union Street Gallery, JC, NJ

1991-06 “Apparitions of Festive Occasions”, Koh Gallery, NY

2005 “Portraits”, JC City Hall, Jersey City, NJ
PRO-ARTS, Annual Members Exhibition, Jersey City, NJ
“NOHU Visions”, Union City, NJ
Cathedral Arts Festival, Jersey City, NJ
“Faces & Places”, Hudson County Court House, Jersey City, NJ

2004 Alijara, Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ

2003 “JCAT”, Jersey City Art Tour, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ
Hudson Artists of NJ 10th Annual Exhibition, Jersey City, NJ

2002 “6th Summer Salon”, Chamot Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
“JCAT”, Jersey City Art Tour, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ
Grace Church Invitational, Jersey City, NJ

2001 “JCAT”, Jersey City Art Tour, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ

1998-9 Nutshell Gallery, Lake Huntington, NY

1989 “24 Exposures”, Union Square Gallery, NY, NY

1983 “Chambers Street Artists- Performing / Visual Exhibition”
K & K Space and Toy Co., NY, NY Curator
(Organization of Independent Artists)
10th Avenue Bar Show, Photography ’81, NY, NY

1981 “Anti-War Show”, Brooklyn Armory Invitational, Brooklyn, NY

1978-79 19th & 20th Annual Invitational Artists Exhibition, Union, NJ

1973-78 Trenton Avant Guard Festival, Trans-Media, Trenton, NJ

1977 George Douglas Library, Woodbridge, NJ

1976 The Harry Lebau Jewish Center, Union, NJ

1975 Tricia Karlis Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Princeton Art Association, McCarter Theater, Princeton, NJ

1974-5 New Jersey Photography Exhibition, Rutgers University
(New Jersey Council of the Arts, traveling exhibition)

1974 Three Friends Show, Artists Co-Op, Kingston, NJ

1973-74 IPOSA, International Photo Optical Show Association Exhibition
New York & Washington, DC

1973 Photography & Film Center West, Berkeley, Ca.

1969 Grey Advertising, NY, NY

One Person Show

2019 "ME-HOOD" Mission Burrito Fine Art Photography Gallery,
Jersey City, NJ

2018 "Once-Upon-A-Time" Mission Burrito Fine Art Photography Gallery

2008 Drive-by Visions (Changed quarterly)
Breher Bros. Building, JC, NJ

2008 “Me- Hood” , Odd Box Video & Photography, Jersey City, NJ

2006 “Indefinite Exposure”, Breher Bros. Building, Jersey City, NJ

2005 “The Strange World of E. Jan Kounitz”,
Windows-On-Columbus, Jersey City, NJ

1990 “Santa Circa ‘70’s”, The River Run, NY, NY

1981 “Santa Circa ‘70’s”, 211 West Broadway, NY, NY

1980 “Santa Circa ‘70’s”, K&K Space and Toy. Co., NY, NY
“Fantazmagorical Ferricynide Fantasies”
The Detective Office, 42nd Street Show, NY, NY

1973 “The First Hevrah”, Chabad House, Berkeley, CA

1972 The University of California, Berkeley, CA

Additional Professional Achievements

2007 The Pingry School, Martinsville, NJ
Annual Regional Student Photography Exhibition, Judge

Created “Looking at and making photographs”, a 10 class program for interested parties from 10 years to adult.

1973-77 Taught basic photography & dark room techniques.
Princeton, NJ

1977–1999 K & K Space and Toy Co., co-director / visual arts division
a non-profit art presenting organization
New York, NY