Altoon Sultan

Altoon Sultan was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1948. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Brooklyn College in 1969 and in 1970 she attended the Skowhegan School in Maine. In 1971 she received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Brooklyn College. In 1995 Altoon was elected as a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. Most recently, Altoon has lived in Vermont. Selected Solo Exhibitions: 1975 Mount Mary College, Yankton, South Dakota 1977 Marlborough Gallery, New York 1984 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York 1986 Associated American Artists, New York 1990 Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont 1992 D.P. Fong & Spratt Galleries, San Jose, California 1997 Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia 1999 Galleria Marieschi, Monza, Italy 2001 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York Selected Group Exhibitions: 1975 “Sons and Others: Women Artists See Men”, traveling exhibition organized by the Queens Museum, Queens, NY 1980 “New York Realists 1980”, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY 1984 “American Scene: Contemporary American Artists View America”, Adams Middleton Gallery, Dallas, TX 1989 “The Transformative Vision: Contemporary American Landscape Painting”, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA (an activity of the Carnegie Museum) 1994 “Prints from Solo Impression, Inc.”, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH 1998 “Post-Pastoral: New Images of the New England Landscape”, Hood Museum of Arts, Hanover, NH 2001 “ReAppearance: Realism in Contemporary Art”, Brenau University Galleries, Brenau, Georgia Selected Awards: 1975 Yaddo Fellowship 1983 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant 1989 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant 1999 Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters Selected Teaching Experience: 1975 Artist-in-Residence, South Dakota Arts Council 1986 Visiting Artist, Moore College 1990 Visiting Artist, State University of New York at Purchase 1991-1994 Assistant Professor of Art, San Jose State University 1997 Professional-in-Residence, Louisiana State University 1999 Visiting Associate Professor, Dartmouth College