Stuart Shils

Visiting Critic, Certificate/BFA/Continuing Ed

Stuart Shils, a native of Philadelphia, has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, Boston, San Francisco and Cork (Ireland). Critical reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Sun, Ha'aretz, the Jerusalem Post, ArtCritical.com, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Irish Times, Art in America, the New Republic, the New Criterion, Art New England, American Artist and the Hudson Review.  

An annual visiting artist at the Vermont Studio Center, Shils teaches the master class at the Jerusalem Studio School summer program in Italy and was visiting artist for their Landscape Marathon in Jerusalem in 2004 and 2005.

Between 1994 and 2006 he spent summers on the northwest coast of Ireland through the invitation of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation; those painting campaigns are described in the PBS documentary Ballycastle. His paintings are represented by Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in New York and his monotypes are represented by Davis and Langdale, also in New York. His camera is always found in one pocket, and there is usually a pencil in the other.

Shils is a Critic in the Certificate/BFA program, and he teaches a Master Class in the Continuing Education program.

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interview with Stuart Shils: 

http://paintingperceptions.com/featured-interviews/stuart-shils-in-conversation-with-nikolai-fox