Bio

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UPCOMING

2012-May/June. Galerie Daliko, Krems/Austria.

2012-May/June. Guild Hall Museum Group Exhibit, East Hampton/NY.

RECENT HISTORY

2011-November. Burkhardt Featured in “International Biennale Artists” Exhibit at LuminArte Gallery, Dallas, Texas.

2011-October. Featured Artist at Hamptons Film Festival, Exhibit at East Hampton Studios/NY.

2011-September. Burkhardt/Feuerman Collaboration “Serenity Lake” in Top 25 of 1,580 ArtPrize Artists, Grand Rapids/MI.

2011-September. Burkhardt a Winner in American Art Awards for “Art as Fashion.” (Los Angeles)

2011-September 21-October 12. “Serenity Lake,” Collaboration with Carole Feuerman. Her Hyperrealistic, Monumental Sculpture Sits on Burkhardt’s 8 x 12′ Abstract, Acrylics & Oil on Sun-Bleached Canvas Painting, Exhibited at Grand Gallery in DeVos Place, Grand Rapids/Michigan.

2011-June 1-July 31. “Ron Burkhardt Retrospective: Notism & Earth Art” (Burkhardt Showing in Bell Exhibition Gallery; Ansel Adams Exhibit Showing in Hurst Gallery) @ Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History, Jackson/Michigan.

2011-July 7. Burkhardt Lecture on Founding of Notism and Earth Art at Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History, Jackson/Michigan.

2011-May & June. Guild Hall Museum Group Exhibition, East Hampton/NY.




AFFILIATIONS:

Elected to Board of Directors, Serving as Branding Chair & TV Co-Chair, Miss America Organization, Atlantic City, NJ. (2003-2010)

Member, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Member, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Member Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. Member, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California.

Member Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY.

Member, The One Club, New York, NY.

EDUCATION:

Graduated w/BBA from Western Michigan University/Kalamazoo. Studied at Art Students League of New York, and National Academy of Fine Art/New York.

OVER THE YEARS:

Ron Burkhardt has received over 200 awards for creative excellence and his work has been recognized or honored by The United Nations, The Art Directors Club of New York, The One Show, Andys, Creativity, CLIOS, Gold & Silver Effies, IBA, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Addys, Tellies, Mobius, Hollywood International Broadcast Awards, Cannes, Black Book Awards, CA Annual, Outstanding Young Men of America, and the Presidential Order of Merit. Burkhardt has also been featured in “Who’s Who in American Art,” ART and Living Magazine, Gotham Magazine, Southampton Press, Promenade, and Dan’s Papers; and on CNN Headline News, NBC “Today in New York” Show, Hamptons TV/WVVH, Inside Edition, American Journal, Aspen PBS-The Changing Paradigm, MNN-57, Plum TV, CNN Business Unusual and NBC/New York Channel 4 News. He has judged the Stephen Kelly Awards, Andys, CEBA, International TV & Film Festival, Creativity, Addys, Mercury Radio Awards and The CLIOS.

CHARITIES:

Donor to Southampton Hospital/Southampton, NY; Project Angel Food/Los Angeles, CA; Ivy Cup Polo/Greenwich, CT; Benefit Committee for Sheltering Arms Children’s Society/NY; Eisenhower Medical Center/Rancho Mirage, CA; Childrens’ Cancer & Blood Foundation/New York, NY; Edwin Gould’s “ARTrageous” Children’s Charity of New York; Ft. Worth Symphony “Painted Violins”/Ft. Worth, Texas; Children’s Development Center of the Hamptons; East Side Settlement House & International Auto Show/NY; Positive Resistance for Foster Children/Newport, CA; Beta Foster Care/Irvine, CA; African Child Foundation/Newport, CA; and pro bono creative work for Korean War Veterans Memorial Committee; Save America’s Forests; Miracle House; and Robert Kennedy Jr.’s RiverKeeper, all NY.