Hall Groat II, 1967

Hall Groat II was born in 1967 in Cazenovia, New York. In 1992 he received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Brooklyn College. He currently lives in Endwell, NY, and is an Associate Professor at Broome Community College.

Groat has had one-person exhibitions at Roberson Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Jasper Rand Art Museum, Finger Lakes Community College, Cazenovia College, Lemoyne College, Simon's Rock College of Bard, Tyringham Art Gallery, Tyringham, MA, Westbeth Gallery, NY, NY, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY, and Austin Harvard Gallery, Rochester, NY. In 2004 he was included in an exhibition at the Roberson Museum Center, entitled Cosmos and Chaos: A Cultural Paradox, with artists Lucian Freud, Eric Fischl, Jerome Witkin, Marc Dennis and several other contemporary artists.

Groat has had solo exhibitions at Roberson Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Washington and Jefferson College, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Finger Lakes Community College, Cazenovia College, Lemoyne College, and many other institutions. In 2004 he was included in an exhibition at the Roberson Museum Center, entitled Cosmos and Chaos: A Cultural Paradox, with artists Lucian Freud, Eric Fischl, Jerome Witkin and several others.

Groat is included in private and public collections internationally, including Michael Douglas; Catherine Zeta Jones, Clear Channel Communications, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cellular One, Sheraton Hotel Corporation, Binghamton University, Everson Museum of Art, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute of Art, The State University of New York system, Roberson Museum and Science Center and Washington Jefferson College.

In 2006 he was involved in a solo exhibition at the Roberson Museum entitled, Contiguous Forms. Featured in the insightful museum catalogue published in conjunction with this exhibition is a brilliant essay written by Gerard Haggerty, entitled "It's About Time". Gerard Haggerty is a regular contributor to ARTnews. His writing has also appeared in Art in America, Arts, Artweek and many other journals and he has written numerous monographs for museums and galleries, here and abroad. Groat's work is based on the tradition of classical observational oil painting.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2008 - present Professor and Department Chairman, Art and Design  Department, SUNY Broome  College, Binghamton, NY;

2004-08 Associate Professor, Fine and Media Arts Department, Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY;

2001-04 Assistant Professor, Fine and Media Arts Department, Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY;

2004-05 Adjunct Instructor of Graduate and Undergraduate Painting Elmira College, Elmira, NY.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS

2013 - Honorable Mention Award $500, Southern Tier Biennial 2013

2011 - Marion and Kim Leonard Award for Oil Painting

The Will’s Creek Survey 2011

Third Prize

Chowan University National Exhibition 2011

2010 - Margaret Bevier Wright Memorial Award for Oil Painting Cooperstown 75th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition

Honorable Mention Gateway to Imagination Farmington Museum, Farmington, New Mexico Curated by Caroline Brooks

2009 - Margaret Bevier Wright Memorial Award for Oil Painting Cooperstown 74th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition SUNY Chancellor’s Award, Teaching Excellence State University of New York

Merit Award Roberson Museum 2009 Regional Exhibition

2008 - Third Prize, Money Award Roberson Museum 2008 Regional Exhibition

1999 - First Prize, Central New York Annual Art Competition

1997 - First Prize, Central New York Annual Art Competition

1994 - Third Prize, Annual Art Exhibition, Art Dialogue, Buffalo, NY

1993 - National Endowment For The Arts, Lecture and Exhibition Grant, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA

1992 - Charles G. Shaw Memorial Award, Brooklyn College Desse P. Tichenor Scholarship, Chautauqua School of Art

1991 - Critic’s Grant, Vermont Studio Center

1990 - Malcolm Curtis Propes Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design.