Selected Exhibitions and Background Information:
Ira Altschiller

DEGREE:
Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute

GRANTS:
Contemporary Art Center, (juror Thomas Krens)
Contemporary Art Center, (juror Walter Hopps)
John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Grant
Salmagundi Club Grant

PUBLICATIONS:
Ideas Magazine, Vol. 8, Number 1, National Humanities Center, 2001
Web article for “Leonardo”, MIT - “A view from the Pixel Factory: Ethos and Lucre” Vol. 33, No. 2 (April 2000)
Work included in “The New Media: The New Digital Art” published by Rockport Publishers - 1997.
Featured article at MSNBC.COM - “Painting With Light” - my article on art and the internet with my images included with the text. 1998-1999
Work included in David Pogue’s MacWorld MacSecrets - 1998.
Fine art digital images used as cover art for several English and Japanese computer publications.
A series of portraits for a publication issued by the Explorer’s Club
Marquis Who’s Who In The West, 27th Edition, 1999-2002

COLLECTIONS AND INTERNET:
Many public and private collections including recent acquisitions by the Sanyo Corporation and the Oakland Museum.
First artist chosen to have his web site linked to the Oakland Museum under it’s WebArt program.
Several Net awards for excellence in Web art Installations.
Member New Jewish Media.
Work presented as example of best digital art on the net by author Pam Dixon in keynote speech at Sony International in New York.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
"High Touch, High Tech", KALA, Space743, Refusalon, CA
d.p. Fong, CA
d.p. Fong, CA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, CA
Meridian Gallery (National Endowment Grant), CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
World Print Gallery, NY
Dorsky Gallery, NY
Artists Space, NY
Braunstein Gallery, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, Atholl McBean Gallery, CA
Alonzo Gallery, NY
Rosenhouse Gallery, NY
Merenstein Gallery, Nyack, NY
Epstein Gallery, NJ
Art Students League, NY
Burr House, Woodstock, NY
Award Galleries, NY
Gardner Gallery, Woodstock, NY
Salmagundi Club, NY
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Biennale, Chile

TEACHING:
San Francisco Art Institute
Phoebe Hearst School
Art Students League, w/Michael Ponce de Leon
Art Students League, w/Robert Angeloch
Bentley School, NY, 1968
Madison Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION:
San Francisco Art Institute, Graduate School
City University of New York
Cooper Union
Art Students League
High School of Music and Art