EDUCATION:
1970-72 Pratt Institute. M.F.A.
(Studied under Nan Benedict, Ralph Wickiser and Walter Rogalski)
1956-58 Yale University, School of Art & Architecture, M.F.A. in June 1972
(Studied under Josef Albers, James Brooks and Gabor Peterdi)
1953-56 The Cooper Union, 3-Year Certificate
(Studied under Nicholas Marsicano, Morris Kantor, Will Barnet and Neil Welliver)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY upcoming
2009 Pearlman Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2009 “Mel Leipzig: Selected Works,” New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2009 “Mel Leipzig: Recent Paintings,” Villanova University Art Gallery, Villanova, PA
2007 “Artists in Their Studios,” The Tomasulo Gallery, Cranford, NJ
2007 “Portrait of a College,” Artworks, Trenton, NJ
2006 “Recent Paintings,” Schering-Plough Corp., Kenilworth, NJ
2005 “Paintings of Modern Life,” Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2005 Artworks, Trenton, NJ
2003 “Recent Paintings,” Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2002 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2001 Numina Gallery, Princeton, NJ
2001 “A Realist Vision of Family Life,” Princeton Day School, NJ
2000 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
1998 “A Retrospective,”New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
1996 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
1993 Mercer Medical Center, Trenton, NJ
1992 American Cyanamid Company, Princeton, NJ
1991 Hot Springs Art Center, Hot Springs, AK
1990 Maurice Pine Free Library, Fair Lawn, NJ
1990 Schering Plough, Madison, NJ
1990 Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
1990 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2009 Realism Unbound, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
2009 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2009 National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2008 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2007 Art of the 20th Century, New York, NY
2007 National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2007 Alumni Show, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2007 New Jersey Arts Annual, Fine Arts, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
2007 “Male/Female: The New Realism,” Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2007 “Invitational of Visual Arts,” American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
2007 LA Art Show, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2006 Art of the 20th Century, New York, NY
2006 Alumni Show, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2006 TAWA Salon Show, Artworks, Trenton, NJ
2006 “40 Years: A Dealer’s Collection,” Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2006 “Fine Art from the Collection,” Morris Museum, Morris Township, NJ
2006 20th International Juried Show, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
2006 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2006 “Pop Art,” Utah Valley State College's Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT
2006 “A Sense of Place: New Jersey,” Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
2005 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2005 New Jersey Artists, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
2005 “About Faces: Portraits Past & Present,” Staten Island Museum, NY
2005 Art of the 20th Century, New York, NY
2005 USArtists, Philadelphia, PA
2005 San Francisco International Art Exposition, CA
2004 TAWA 25th Anniversary Gala Exhibition, Trenton City Museum, NJ
2004 “Celebration 2004,” The Dr. David Flinker Pavilion Art Gallery, Mount Holly, NJ
2004 NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Stedman Gallery, Camden, NJ
2004 “The Founders Exhibition,” Artworks, Trenton, NJ
2004 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2004 Art of the 20th Century, New York, NY
2004 USArtists, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Art of the 20th Century, New York, NY
2003 US Artists, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2003 New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
2003 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2002 Art of the 20th Century, New York, NY
2002 National Academy Invitational, New York, NY
2002 International Juried Show, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts,Summit, NJ
2002 “Artist & Model,” Artworks, Trenton, NJ
2001 “Eyes on Trenton” New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2001 “Crossing Boundaries,” Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
2000 175th Annual, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1999 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
1999 Invitational, Broome Street Gallery, New York, NY
1999 “New Jersey Landscapes,” Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
1999 “American Figurative Painters” Gallery Henoch, NY
1998 Fleisher Art Memorial Group Show, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Gallery Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
1997 Invitational, Mercer Medical Center, Trenton, NJ
1997 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
1996 “Real People” Bristol/Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ
1995-96 Four Person Show - Artworks, Trenton, NJ
1995 “Virtuosity” Art Communication International, New York, NY
1995 “Realism / Surrealism”, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
1995 Two Man Show (w/ Lou Draper), Mercer County Community College, Trenton,NJ
1994-95 “Art & the Law”, Washington State Convention Trade Center, Seattle, WA;
  Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA; Canton Art Institute, OH; Gallery of
  Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs,CO; Tyler Art Gallery, Oswego, NY
1994 “From Realism to Abstraction”, Wyckoff Gallery, Wyckoff, NJ
1994 “More Than Meets the Eye: A Century of Realism in New Jersey; 1990-1994,”
  Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ

SELECTED SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS:
2009 Allies for Humanity Award, Given by Trenton based organization BOOST
  and the New Jersey State Legislature
2004 Nisod Excellence Award, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2003 Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2003 Best in Show (Associate Curator at MOMA: Anne Umland),
  from New Jersey Center for Visual Arts
2000 Raymond P.R. Nelson Prize, National Academy of Design,
  New York, NY
1995-96 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1995 Outstanding Artist Award (from W. Windsor, Plainwood Art Dept.)

SELECTED INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS:
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives, Philadelphia, PA
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
The Morris Museum of Arts & Sciences, Morristown, NJ
The Cooper Hewitt Museum for Decorative Arts, NY
Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ
Shorewood Art Publications, NYC
AT&T
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Schering - Plough Corporation, Madison, NJ
The White House Collection, Washington, DC
The Marriott Hotel, Princeton, NJ
Rider College, Lawrenceville, NJ
Nabisco Brands, Inc., East Hanover, NJ
Trentmos Restaurant, Moscow, USSR
Rutgers University, Center for Alcohol Studies, Piscataway, NJ
Rutgers University, Graduate School of Management, Newark, NJ
New Jersey Veterans Home, Paramus, NJ
Mercer Medical Center, Trenton, NJ
Newark Public Library, NJ

RECENT NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE REVIEWS:
2009 Victoria Donohoe, “Portraits of Americans in their environments,” The Philadelphia
  Inquirer, January 30
2009 Burt Wasserman, “Mel Leipzig,” ICON, January
2009 Benjamin Genocchio, “Celebrating Talent and Taste,” The New York Times, Aug. 2
2009 Diccon Hyatt, “Artist Gets Realistic at Museum,” The Downtowner, July
2009 Edward Sozanski, “Art: Master of Realism,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 24
2009 Janet Purcell, “Artist Doubles as Curator,” The Times, Trenton, April 24
2008 Ilene Dube, “Personal Landscapes: In the Mind’s Eye,” Time Off, February 9-17
2007 Dan Bischoff, “People’s Portraitist,” The Star Ledger, October 18
2007 Janet Purcell, “From the Campus to the Canvas,” The Times, Trenton, March 16
2007 Susan Van Dongen, “Portrait of a College,” Time Off, March 2-11
2007 “Portrait of a College; Mel Leipzig’s MCCC Inspired Work,” The Downtowner, March
2007 Dan Bischoff, “Mel Leipzig, Portraits,” The Star Ledger, February 22
2006 “35 Years on Canvas; The Artistry of Mel Leipzig at MCCC,” The Viking, MCCC
2006 Fred B. Adelson, “From Waves of Grain to the Shore,” The New York Times,
  January 15
2006 Dan Bischoff, “Morris Bounty,” The Star Ledger, January 20
2006 Gerard Haggerty, “Mel Leipzig,” ARTnews, March
2006 Edward Leffingwell, “Mel Leipzig at Gallery Henoch,” Art in America, April
2006 Margaret O’Reilly, “Collecting 21st Century Art,” New Jersey State Museum,
  Spring Newsletter
2006 Ilene Dube, “Eyes on Trenton,” Time Off, August 4-13
2005 Ken Johnson, “Mel Leipzig,” The New York Times, November 18
2005 Dan Bischoff, “Work in Progress,” The Star Ledger, November 21
2005 “Mel Leipzig,” American Art Collector, October
2004 Dan Bischoff, “Painting with Structure,” Sunday Star Ledger, April 2
2004 Ilene Dupe, “Face to Face,” Time Off, December 3
2004 Anne R. Fabbri, “Subjects in their Own Settings,” Acrylic Highlights American Magazine
2004 Burton Wasserman, “A Celebration of Local Artists and Community,” Art Matters, May
2003 Anne R. Fabbri, “Defining the Subject with the Background,” American Artist, August
2003 Thomas M. Disch, “Gallery Going,” The New York Sun, July 31
2003 Dan Bischoff, “Return of Realism Blossoms,” The Star Ledger, April 13
2003 Leon Rainbow, Artist Profile, Trenton Downtowner, August
2003 Dan Bischoff, “A Life in Art, One Portrait at a Time,” The Star Ledger, March 16
2002 Dan Bischoff, “Exhibition Offers a Special Place for the Art of 9/11,” The Star Ledger,
  February 3
2002 “Joshua’s Tattoos” by Mel Leipzig (reproduced), page 26, Harpers, April issue
2002 Dan Bischoff, “Portraits with Perspective,” The Star Ledger, April 19
2001 Pat Summers, “Year of the Leipzig,” U.S. 1, January 3
2001 Susan Brodrick, “Mel Leipzig, Gallery Henoch” ARTnews, February
2001 Janet Purcell, “Bound to Open Some Eyes,” The Times, February 9
2001 Susan Van Dongen, “Eyes on Trenton,” Time Off, March 2
2001 Mea Kaemmerlen, “ A Brush with a Great Painter,” The Times, April 17
2001 Janet Purcell, “Sharing the Art of Making Art,” The Times, April 22
2001 William Zimmer, “Crossing Boundaries in the Fine Arts Annual,” The New York Times,
  July 1
2001 Joe Emanski, “Will Arts Help Rebuild Downtown Trenton,” Trenton Downtowner,
  December
2000 Victoria Donohoe, “In Trenton, New Jersey’s Master of Informal Portraiture,” The
  Philadelphia Inquirer, December 24
2000 “Mel Leipzig, Gallery Henoch,” The New Yorker, October 9
2000 Dan Bischoff, “Winning Combo,” The Star Ledger, November 5
2000 Janet Purcell, “What a Cobo, Paris Two Prominent Artists,” The Times, Trenton,
  December 1
2000 “Mel Leipzig and Vince Ceglia at the Trenton City Museum,” Museum Spotlight,
  ArtNow Gallery Guide, Philadelphia/Midatlantic, December
2000 Cathie Viksjo, “A Gallery of Familiar Faces in 2000,” The Times, December 31