FRANK TREFNY
Biography
Frank
Trefny was born in Greenwich Connecticut in 1948.
He has lived in Newark
Delaware since 1983.
He received his B.F.A. from Syracuse University
in 1970 and his M. F. A. in 1974 from the Hoffberger School of Painting
at the Maryland Institute,
College
of Art. He also
attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1968.
He has
had 10 solo shows at the Steven Scott Gallery in Baltimore since its
opening in 1988, most recently in 2016 and has been included in many
group shows there.
He has
had 5 solo shows at the Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, most
recently in 2015 and has been included in many group shows there.
He has
had solo shows at the Bruce R. Lewin Gallery in New
York, the Jerald
Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina
and the Coplan Gallery in Boca
Raton,
Florida among others.
His work
has been featured at exhibitions at the Delaware Art Museum, the Noyes
Museum in New Jersey, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and The
Woodmere Art Museum, both in Philadelphia, as well as other museum
venues.
Trefny
was the cover artist and the subject of a feature article in American
Artist Magazine in December 1987 and again in 2009.
He was also selected as the cover artist for Reader’s Digest in
April 1995. His work has
been reviewed in Art in America by
critic Gerrit Henry and is represented in numerous major corporate and
private collections.
A 2011
video by John Thornton entitled “Frank Trefny, a Painter’s Painter” can
be seen on YouTube.
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