Sobre el Artista

Marlene Siff was born in New York City and raised in the Bronx. She was an art honors student at the eponymous High School of Music and Art (now LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and Performing Arts located near Lincoln Center). She graduated from Hunter College with a B.A. degree majoring in Fine Arts, and was elected to Kappa Pi, the Honorary Arts Society. Marlene Siff's work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and universities throughout the U.S. and abroad. Selected exhibitions include Scope Art Miami, Katonah Museum of Art, Embraer Executive Jets Showroom, Eastern Kentucky University, Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, National Institutes of Health, Bergdorf Goodman, Columbia/Barnard University, Walter Wickiser Gallery, University of Texas, Calvin Charles Gallery, Premium Lounge of American Airlines at Miami International Airport, Red Dot Art Fair, Art Basel Miami, Times Square Billboard Premiere Event, Arts Westchester, The Aldrich Museum, Attleboro Arts Museum, Mattatuck Museum, and The New Britain Museum of American Art. Marlene's assemblage, "Fallen Heroes Afghanistan", is on exhibition in Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes' office at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. Her painting "Peace/War" is part of the permanent collection of the B'Nai Brith Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington DC and her work on paper "Pluie et Soleil" is on permanent exhibition in the Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center at Cornell University. Marlene's painting "Staccato" and 6 framed maquettes were recently placed on exhibition through August 2018, with a paid honorarium, in the corporate headquarters lobby of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in Tarrytown, NY. Marlene was featured in an episode of "Creative Women" Today, on CT Cablevision, and selected to appear in "Years In The Making", a documentary film by Martin West. Since 2014 Marlene has been juried into 103 competitions throughout the United States and has won 33 awards. Marlene Siff works in her home-based studio in Westport, CT.