About Mica Pillemer
Mica is a Melbourne based award winning artist with an extensive background in figure and portrait drawing and painting. He has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has studied under many genuine modern day masters. Mica is the founder of MARA, the Melbourne Atelier of Representational Art.
Representation
Education
MFA University of Massachusetts Amherst 2009
BA Queens College 2004
Atelier and Art School Instruction
Grand Central Academy of Art
Art Students League of New York
Associates in Art
California Art Institute
Academy of Art San Francisco
Exhibitions
2023 16th International ARC Salon Exhibition, Sotheby’s, New York, New York
2023 Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award 2023, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Queensland
2022 Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award 2022, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Queensland
2021 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Exhibition 2021, Juniper Hall, Paddington, NSW
2021 Naked & Nude Art Prize 2021, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW
2021 Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award 2021, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Queensland
2019 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Exhibition 2018, Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra, ACT
2019 The Representational Art Conference Invitational Show, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ventura, California
2018 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Exhibition 2018, Juniper Hall, Paddington, NSW
2018 12x12, A Portrait Exhibition, The Florence Academy of Art US, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey
2017 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition, European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), Barcelona, Spain
2017 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, New York
2014 Hudson Valley Art Association 82nd Annual National Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, New York
2014 Salon International 2014, Greenhouse Fine Art, San Antonio, Texas
2012 Salon International 2012, Greenhouse Fine Art, San Antonio, Texas
2011 "Hopper Re-Imagined", Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York
2010 Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Exhibition, Walls Fine Art Gallery, Willmington, North Carolina
2010 Atlanta Fine Arts League 4th Annual Juried Exhibition, Abernathy Arts Center Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2010 Hudson Valley Art Association 79th Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, New York
2010 Oil Painters of America 19th National Juried Exhibition, Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
2009 "Observations", Atlanta Fine Arts League's 3rd Annual National Juried Exhibition, Roswell Visual Arts Center Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2009 Vision and Contemplation, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
2009 RISD-UMass Exchange Show, Benson Hall Art Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
2008 Midway Exhibition, University Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
2004 Red Dot Exhibition, Phyllis Harriman Gallery, Art Students League of New York, New York, New York
2004 Concourse Exhibition, Phyllis Harriman Gallery, Art Students League of New York, New York, New York
Awards
2023 Finalist 2021 Lethbridge 20000 Art Award
2023 Honourable Mention (Portraiture) in the 16th International Art Renewal Center Salon (2022/2023)
2023 Finalist (Figurative) in the 16th International Art Renewal Center Salon (2022/2023)
2022 Semi-Finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2022 Finalist 2021 Lethbridge 20000 Art Award
2021 Finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2021 Commended Award, Naked & Nude Art Prize 2021
2021 Finalist 2021 Lethbridge 20000 Art Award
2021 Finalist (Portraiture) in the 15th International Art Renewal Center Salon (2020/2021)
2019 Cadmium Award, First Place, TRAC2019 Art Competition
2018 Finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2018 Finalist (Imaginative Realism) in the 13th International Art Renewal Center Salon
2017 Chairman's Choice Award in the 12th International Art Renewal Center Salon (2016)
2014 Finalist (Landscape) in the 10th International Art Renewal Center Salon (2013/2014)
2013 Finalist (Figurative) in the 9th International Art Renewal Center Salon (2012/2013)
2012 Second Place and Jury's Top Fifty in the Salon International 2012, Greenhouse Fine Art
2009 First Place in the Atlanta Fine Arts League's 3rd Annual National Juried Exhibition
2004 Red Dot, Concourse Exhibition, Arts Student League of New York
Essays and Presentations
2019 Imagination and Representation, Paper presented at The Representational Art Conference, Ventura, California