Harvey Gordon

Lives and works in Glen Arbor, Michigan

Harvey Gordon was born and grew up in Flint, Michigan. He has lived and worked in Glen Arbor since 2004. He attended the University of Michigan, the Cranbrook Art Academy (BFA), and the University of North Carolina (MFA). He taught studio art at UNC, the University of Maryland, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, and Glen Oaks Community College, where he also headed the Art Department, headed the visiting artist program, co-chaired the art purchase committee, and edited the college art and literary publication. His writing on art and culture has appeared in Arts Magazine, American Artist, The Artist’s Magazine, The New Art Examiner, Modern Age, and The Kalamazoo Gazette, and in the correspondence sections of The New Yorker, The New Republic, Commentary, The New Criterion, The New York Observer, and The Weekly Standard.

Harvey Gordon’s paintings have been featured in eleven solo exhibitions in eight different New York City galleries and in seven Michigan museums, including Grand Rapids, Flint, Kalamazoo, and Traverse City. They are included in private, corporate, and public collections in this country and abroad and have received several awards and grants.