SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Pop-up Exhibitions, “Sci-Fi” and “Zen Dot,” Aspen, CO
2017
BDNY, New York, NY
Saatchi Art's The Other Art Fair NYC, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Zen Dot Energy, FRG Objects & Design / Art, Hudson, NY
ArtExpo, New York, NY
2014
Spectrum Miami, Miami, FL
Dreamland, Flow Art Space, St. Paul, MN
Imaginarium, Craddock-Terry Gallery, Lynchburg, VA
Dreamland, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Worlds Collide, F&M Gallery, The Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick, MD
621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Worlds Collide, Madigan Library Gallery, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
2012
Worlds Collide, Spiva Art Gallery, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO
2011
Equilibrium, La Guardia Galleries of Fine Art, La Guardia Community College, Queens, NY
Worlds Collide, Stamford Art Gallery, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT
2010
Unseen Universes, The University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
Unseen Universes, Barrett Art Gallery, Utica College, Utica, NY
2009
From Above, Allen Gallery, New York, NY
Cosmic Quilt, et.al, MPC Art Gallery, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA
2006
Unseen Universes, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
Paintings: 2000-2004, The New Art Center, New York, NY
2004
Zen/Dot/Energy, Philosophy Box Gallery, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2015
Ann Hutton, "The Zen Dot Energy of Merrill Steiger," Almanac Weekly, pg. 21, September 3, 2015
Seth Rogovoy, "Merrill Steiger 'Zen Dot' Paintings at FRG," RogovoyReport.com, September 2, 2015
2014
David Hochman, “Why I Travel: Merrill Steiger's Worldly Connections Go Beyond A Sense of Place,” Virtuoso Life, pg. 64-65, Sept./Oct. 2014
Mike Lauterborn, "Kershner Gallery 'Abstract Visions' Reception, Sat. May 3," HamletHub, April 4, 2014
Elizabeth Patton, "Surveying the Landscapes at Gallery 360," Lancaster New Era, January 2, 2014
2013
Anne Kadet, “’Relatively Affordable’ for Your Wall,” Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2013, pg. A16
Morgan Myers, “’Worlds Collide’ at Gallery at Penn College,”Williamsport Sun-Gazette, March 14, 2013, pg. 12
2012
James Foritano, “Collage at 100 – Strange Glue (Traditional and Avant-Garde Collage)”, Artscope Magazine, November/December 2012
Strange Glue (Traditional and Avant-Garde Collage), Thompson Gallery, Cambridge School of Weston, September 2012, pg. 124-125, 188, 203
The New Abstractionists VI, Walter Wickiser Gallery, September 2012, pg. 26-31
“Abstractionists VI at the Walter Wickiser Gallery,”ArtMediaAgency.com, August 16, 2012
Eyes On: Landscapes, Blaze Hill Press, May 2012, pg. 93, 94
2011
Marlene Wiedmaier, “’Utopias’ Exhibit – Review,” MWiedmaier.Wordpress.com, November 11, 2011
Art: Highlights of the Collection, Proskauer Rose, October 2011, pg. 16
Mary Therese Biebel, “Buds and berries, shoots and sprouts beckon at Everhart exhibit," The Times Leader, August 21, 2011
2010
One: The Mind Aware, New Momentum for Human Unity Productions, pg. 63, 81, 93
“Steiger Show Opens at UC Oct. 28,” RomeSentinel.com, October 2010
Avion Ashton, “Art Gallery Presents Merrill Steiger,” Tangerine, October 29, 2010
Sherry Balefsky, “Merrill Steiger: Colorist With an Abstract Bent,” Haute Living, pg. 116, Oct./Nov. 2010
Cathryn Wiatroski, “Metaphor at the Pierro Gallery,” The Setonian, September 9, 2010
John Carlos Cantu, “Science as Art,” AnnArbor.com, May 9, 2010, pg. c5
Art Buzz: The 2010 Collection, Volume 3, pg. 57
2009
Kurt Shaw, “Boxheart Gallery Considers What is Sacred,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, August 2009
“Norwalkers Shine in ‘Art of the Northeast,” Norwalk Citizen News, May 2009
2008
April Wright, “Science Art & the Imagination,” Manitou Messenger, October 2008
Free Art Tomorrow, Featured Artists Section, October 2008
Dennis & Sharon Eavenson, “Cosmic Consciousness Displays Diverse Views,” Art Slant, October 2008
2007
Tim Kane, “Exhibit a Dark View of Suburban Life,” Times Union, Sept 23, 2007
Koan Jeff Baysa, “The Art and Science of Pattern Recognition,” d’Art International, Spring 2007, pg. 28-29
D. Dominick Lombardi, “Unseen Universe,” NY Arts, March/April 2007, pg. 81
2006
“Body of Art,” Willoughby and Baltic Fine Art, May 2006
2005
Catskill Mountain Region Guide, Artist Feature Section, August 2005, pg. 124-125
2002
William Zimmer, The New York Times, Sunday, May 19, 2002, pg. 15
AWARDS
Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, Regional Juried Exhibition Merit Award, 2017
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Certificate of Recognition Color National Juried Art Show, selected by Lilian Tone of the Museum of Modern Art, 2016
Award of Excellence (“Rainbow Mandala”), Tubac Center of the Arts, 2012
Diane Alexander Memorial Award for Acrylic Painting, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, 2009
Jack T. Stewart Memorial Award, Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Awards, NY Artist Equity Association, 2008
PERMANENT, PUBLIC& PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
The Yellowstone Club, Big Sky, Montana
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Proskauer Rose, New York, NY
Tibet House, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Vincenzo Paparo, Ramsey, NJ
Mr. and Mrs. Rory Albert, Brookville, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Ross, Palos Verdes, California
Boston Corporate Art, Boston, Massachusetts
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Poetic Expressions, Bruce Kershner Gallery, Faifield, CT
2019
Red Dot, Contemporary Arts Project, Miami, FL
2018
Art Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, FL
Site:Brooklyn, Black and White Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Red Dot, Miami, FL
Ciel Gallery, Spy With My Little Eye, Charlotte, NC
Allegany Arts Council, Will's Creek Exhibition: Being Sentient / Sentient Being, Cumberland, MD
Tubac Center of the Arts, 19, Tubac, AZ
Black Box Gallery, Focus: Narrative Photography, Portland, OR
Hoyt Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Certificate of Excellence Merit Award, New Castle, PA
2016
SHIM, Invitational 3, Brooklyn, NY
Florida State University Museum of Fine arts - Annual Tallahassee International Juried Competition, Tallahassee, FL
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Color National Juried Art Show, Brooklyn, NY
Associated Artists of Winston Salem, 52nd Annual Dimensions' National Juried Fine Art Competition and Exhibition, Winston-Salem, NC
2015
Metro Montage XV, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA
I Live Here Now, SIPMA Contemporary, Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
Cosmos: Imagining the Universe, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Dowell, MD
Gallery Gala 17, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
2014
The View Over Here: Constructing Cultural Identity, Crossing Art, Flushing, NY
SIPMA Juried '14, Harold Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
Fresh Art 2014, Marin Society of Artists, Ross, CA
Summer ARTiculated, OSilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
State of Being, RSI Bank, Rahway, NJ
Abstract Visions, Bruce S. Kershner Gallery, Fairfield, CT
Liturgical & Sacred Art, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL
Ridderhof Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington Galleries, Fredericksburg, VA
Speak Memory, Nassau Community College, Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery, Garden City, NY
Emrupt, Leigh Wen Fine Art, New York, NY
2013
Tellus360, Lancaster, PA
The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
The Machine, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
Art at the X, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Wide Open 4, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Timeless Meditations: Mandalas and Patterns in Nature, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ
Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
Strange Glue, Collage at 100, Thompson Gallery, Weston, MA
The New Abstractionists VI, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
Galex 46, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
Botanic/Organic, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
ViewPoints 2012, Ben Shahn Galleries, Wililam Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
Small Works, N.A.W.A. Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Utopias, Cade Fine Arts Center Gallery, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD
Art Toronto, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Toronto, CA
Night Visions, Flagstaff Cultural Partners at The Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
Buds, Blooms and Berries: Plants in Science, Culture and Art, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Terra Enigmatica, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY
Art and Earth: My Art, My World, The Arts Centre Gallery, Martinsburg, WV
Art Chicago, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Chicago, IL
The New Abstractionists IV, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Art and the Environment, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI
Metaphor, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
GREEN, Annmarie Garden, Sculpture Park & Arts Center, Solomons, MD
Earth Visions, Arc Gallery, Museum of Science & Industry, Tampa, FL
Fusion: Science and Art, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
2009
From Pain to Grace, Studio 2 Gallery, Austin, TX
Sacred Art, Box Heart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Connecticut Women Artists, Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Entropy, Lana Santorelli Gallery, New York, NY
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Art Biologic, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
In Your Dreams, Pen & Brush Inc., New York, NY
Color Wheel, Allen Gallery Annex at ROOM, New York, NY
N.A.W.A. 120th Anniversary Exhibition, HUB-Robeson Galleries, Penn State University, State College, PA
2008
The Nature of Things, Interchurch Center, New York, NY
Science, Art and Imagination, Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College, North Field, MN
Cosmic Consciousness, Ico Gallery, New York, NY
Art Envisions Science: Works on Paper, New York Hall of Science, New York, NY
Galex 42, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
Positive Negative, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
National Small Works, N.A.W.A. Gallery, New York, NY
Opposites Attract, The Arts Alliance Center, San Jacinto College South, Houston, TX
Insights to Suburbia, Purdue University Gallery, West Lafayette, IN
2007
Convergence: Ways of Seeing, Hagnauer Gallery, Business of Art Center, Manitou Springs, CO
Paint!, South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA
Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
Bold Expressions, Northern California Arts Inc., Sacramento Fine Art Center, Carmicheal, CA
K Space Contemporary Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX
Personal Landscapes, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX
Insights to Suburbia, Opalka Gallery, The Sage Colleges, Albany, NY
Have a Good Eye IV, The New Art Center, New York, NY
2006
Fashion District Arts Festival, The New Art Center, New York, NY
2005
American Women Artists, Texas Art Institute, Dallas, TX
Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA
Selections by Dominique Nahas, The New Art Center, New York, NY
Curator’s Choice Slide Show, Viridian Artists, New York, NY
Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Dimensions 2005, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC
2004
International Art Expo, New York, NY
2002
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2001
Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Venetia Kapernekas Fine Arts, New York, NY
EDUCATION
1973 B.F.A. in Painting, Lehman College, New York, New York
1967-70 Art Students League, New York, New York