Education
1974-1978 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York City, Bachelor of Fine Art, Honours
TEACHING & ART CENTRE DIRECTOR:
1992-2007 Founder & Director, & Tutor, Moray Art Studio, Scotland
1997-2015 Founder & Director, & Tutor, Moray Art Centre, Scotland
1995-2000 Academic Programme Advisor and Adjunct Professor of Fine Art -Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A
Represented by
From 2022 Prince Street Gallery, NYC
From 2022. Represented online by RiseArt
Solo Exhibitions
2/2024 Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2023 High Street Marketplace, Grantown, UK
2023 Eden Court, Inverness, UK
10/2021 DanceLive Festival Aberdeen (Work in exhibition and as projections)
2022 Moray Art Centre, Scotland
(Postponed) Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy
9/2022 Pulchri Studio, The Hague, Netherlands
(Postponed) Galleria Cestello, Florence Italy
(Postponed) Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence Italy
2021. Eden Court, Inverness, Scotland
10/2019 Moray Art Centre, Scotland
8/2019 Upstairs Gallery, Inverness
6/2016 Newave Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
2/2013 Pulchri Studio, The Hague, Netherlands
10/2010 Moray Art Centre, Scotland
9/2008 Kyoto City International Centre, Japan
10/2007 Galleria La Torre, Milan, Italy
7/2006 Santa Marta, Varenna, Italy
6/2004 Galeria Spazioarte, Perugia, Italy
9/2002 Duff House, Banff, Scotland
9/1999 Kunst Zentrum Buz, Minden, Germany
8/1998 Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr, Scotland
10/1997 Crawford Art Centre, St. Andrews, Scotland
5/1995 Galleria Spazioarte, Perugia, Italy
3/1995 Il Palazzo dei Priori (National Gallery of Umbria), Perugia, Italy
Group Exhibitions
3/2024 “Fracture”; Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2023 RuptureXIBIT, 55 High St, Hampton Wick, Kingston, London
2023 Clifden Arts Festival Art Trail, Ireland
2023 First Street Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, 2023 National Juried Exhibition: "Nocturn": July 28 - August 26, 2023
2023 Scottish Portrait Awards: Edinburgh, Kirkcudbright, & Glasgow
2023 Carter Burden Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, “Scribbles”
2023 The Atkinson Gallery, Somerset, UK
2023 Nairn Open Call, Nairn Community and Art Centre, UK
2022-23 An Tobar and Mull Theatre, Tobermory, UK, “Drawing In”
2022 io Gallery, Brighton, UK
2022 Nairn Book & Arts Festival: Nairn Open Exhibition, Nairn, UK
2022-2023 Scottish Portrait Awards (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Banff)
2022-2023 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London, Dundee & touring
2-3/2022 The Atkinson Gallery, Somerset, UK
2-3/2022 Derwent Art Prize at Gallery@OXO, London, & 35 rue Debelleyme Paris; (2nd Prize)
2021-2022 Scottish Portrait Awards (Online)
10/2021 Carter Burden Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
8/2021 Textures, Patterns, Shapes or Forms - 2021, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
7/2021 The Federation of British Artists: Figurative Art Now: 60th anniversary: 7 July - 20 September
7/2021 Society of Graphic Fine Art, Mall Gallery, London
6/2021 Paisley Art Institute Scottish Drawing Competition
2020-2021 Scottish Portrait Awards (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Banff)
7/2020 Society of Graphic Fine Art, Mall Gallery, London
9/2019 Denizen Gallery, New Paltz, NY
1/2017 Galleria Farini/Palazzo Fantuzzi, “Arte e Palazzo”, part of ArteFiera Bologna, Bologna
11/2016 Galleria Farini/Palazzo Fantuzzi, “Arte e Palazzo”, Bologna
8/2016 John Davies Gallery, Moreton in Marsh, UK
References
Dr Andrew Burnett, CBE, ex-Deputy Director, The British Museum (Professional)
Sir John Leighton, Director General, The National Galleries of Scotland (Professional)
Lady Maureen McGinn, Chair, Big Lottery Scotland (Professional)
Matteo Ceriana, Curator, ex-Director, Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy (Artistic)
Work as a Curator
In curating exhibitions, I have worked with:
- Sir John Leighton, Dir. Gen. National Galleries of Scotland (we are currently working on a project together)
- Neil MacGregor, ex-Dir. The British Museum
- Andrew Burnett, ex-Deputy Dir. The British Museum
- Ian Jenkins, Senior Curator, Greece & Rome, The British Museum
- Alison Wright, Renaissance Art Historian, University College London
- Ernst van Vegelin, Dir. The Courtauld Gallery
Excerpts From Reviews
"You have achieved what is essential and most difficult—to have created your own “signature”, your identity, your personal visual references. Your work seems to me to be quite particular and sincere—it really seems to be a projection of your inner self, and that would be one of my first definitions of what good art has to be! Many and most people who do art never achieve this in any meaningful way."
Bruce Thurman, Artist, NY
"A beautiful invention which is filtered by that subtle mosaic of light and shadow, a shift of the axis of the figure where I believe memories of certain Renaissance portraits emerge (Lippi) also if then the veiled wall of shadow of the background indicates a careful study by the Old Masters of Belgium and Holland. And it is the detail that I really like. But what strikes me about his new self-portrait is the expression, intense and full of intention. A new psychological intensity." Prof. Matteo Ceriana, ex-Dir Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
"I think you are very sensitively picking up the variety in our visual experiences, a variation often triggered by some of the salient aspects of our environment. Once sensitised to a particular effect one can to some extent switch it on or off at will." Prof. John Onians, Art Historian, Norwich
"Your portfolio of drawings are really extraordinary. I thought such skills and such a vision of beauty had passed from the earth." Prof. James Hankins, Art History, Harvard University
A PERSONAL AND CULTURED RENAISSANCE: THE DRAWINGS OF RANDY KLINGER, “The hand acts out a lesson in style, the pencil flows on the paper, isolates and defines, becomes thicker forming oases, frames the light, dictates the perspective. The drawings of Randy Klinger are not mere exercises, they are the demonstration of undeniable nerve, the signature of an artist who wants to show the scope and depth he has reached in his studies. The exhibition is dedicated to a series of drawings of impeccable formal weight, faces magnified by the sparing incision of hand, softened by sfumato, exulted by the energy which springs forth uncontained, punctuated by elements which add themselves to the overall structure: arms, parts of bodies, geometric definitions of volume. An unusual and refined aesthetic encounter in which Klinger shows himself to be an artist who makes no compromises and, with a love of inner analysis, poetic, yet never academic. He is an author of rich expression, this American who is a citizen of the world and lives in Scotland.” Dottore Mimmo Coletti, La Nazione
“This gentle man has produced some gentle drawings; what they may lack slightly in depth of tone they make up for in scrutinising detail. Each portrait displays a sitter at rest it seems, contemplative in mood but relaxed in pose. I sit back in one of the lounge chairs, flick through the pages of a nearby book and find myself mirroring these nearly perfect pencil images.” Georgina Coburn, Art Critic, Northings/HI~Arts
“If I could, how I would love to burn out the feeling of your inadequacy. When I see your pictures, my heart rejoices. You have found what many are desperately searching for. You create wonderful images in a unique style.” Reto Eberhard Rast, Artist, Lucerne
“I can only say I was left speechless by the sensitivity and beauty of it all and especially by your more recent work, some of which you’d sent us previously and which I'd been keen to see in reality. The drawings struck me as unspeakably beautiful, familiar friends,so thank you for your dedication to your work and for your devotion to your vision.”
Nora McDemid, Art Collector
Thanks for sending your new, mesmerizing work. I love how the leaves ostensibly printed, or woven on the sitter’s dress, not appearing anywhere else, give a clue as to how to read the complexity of surfaces: one leaf falsely placed would contradict a governing law that, even in its moments of ambiguity, stays in force, contributing to the “beauty” towards which you are reaching.
Prof. Joseph Koerner, Art History, Harvard University