Randy Ford has lived and worked in New Jersey the majority of his life and is a self taught artist who has been painting professionally for twenty-five years. Additionally he has worked in the illustration field for such notable companies as Portal Publications as well as producing original works for Road & Track Magazine and The DuPont Registry. Since 2000 he has devoted himself to the fine arts and teaches drawing and painting when called upon at Marcel’s Art Studio, Monmouth Junction, NJ, His work has been featured in American Art Collector, Artnews, International Artist Magazine and Florida Design. Affiliations include The International Guild of Realism and Galeria Arte Libre, Zaragoza, Spain.

Primarily a realist painter he paints scenes of everyday American life cataloguing events and objects of Americana. He and his wife Wendy and their five cats live in New Jersey. Randy’s work is in many corporate collections such as PNC Bank, ExxonMobil Corp., IBM, Revlon and Johnson & Johnson as well as numerous private collections throughout the world.

Additionally he is represented by OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY, J Willott Gallery, Palm Desert, California, MA Doran Gallery Tulsa, OK, Scottsdale Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, Plus One Gallery, London, England and Die Hamburger Galerie, Hamburg, Germany. On the web his work can be viewed at

www.randyfordamericanartist.com

April 2, 1962, Born: Biloxi, Mississippi

EDUCATION

1980-1984 Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1988 Bucks County Art Festival, New Hope, PA.
1989 Image Gallery, Princeton, NJ.
1990 Editions/Line Gallery, Marlton, NJ.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1989 Philadelphia Art Show, Philadelphia, PA.
1990 Philadelphia Art Show, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Cherry Hill Art Show, Cherry Hill, NJ.
1992 Philadelphia Art Show, Philadelphia, PA.
1993 Image Gallery, Princeton, NJ.
1994 Midwest Concours D’Elegance, Cincinnati, OH. AFAS Best of Show
1995 Philadelphia Ferrari Festival, Philadelphia, PA. Limited Edition Art Print
2004 New York Art Expo, New York, NY.
2004 Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY.
2005 Annual New Talent Show, Richard Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Chicago Art Expo, Chicago, IL.
2005 New York Art Expo, New York, NY.
2005 Toronto International Art Festival, Toronto, Canada
2006 Annual Show “FLOWERS IN FEBRUARY”, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY.
2006 Annual Show “PAINTING = POETRY – ut picture poesis”, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY.
2006 International Guild of Realism, Annual Juried Exhibition
2006 New York Art Expo, New York, NY.
2006 Contemporary Realism 2006, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa OK
2007 Contemporary Realism 2007, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa OK
2007 Leading Masters of Contemporary Realism, Winstanley-Roarke Fine Art, Cape Cod, MA., Director’s Choice Award
2007 Surf & Turf, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2007 Flow Miami Invitational Art Fair, December 5-7, Represented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art
2008 National Contemporary Realism , M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa OK
2008 London Art Fair, London, England, Represented By Plus One Gallery
2008 Art Santa Fe, July 10-13, Represented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art
2009 Reality Check, January, Trudy Labell Fine Art, Naples Fl.
2009 National Contemporary Realism, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2009 Galería artelibre organiza la III Exposición de Pintura Realista e Hiperrealista

del 19 de Noviembre al 5 de diciembre de 2000, Zaragoza,Spain
2010 The International Guild of Realism, 5th Annual Juried Exhibition, J. Willott Gallery in Palm Desert,

California, Director’s ChoiceAward
2011 National Contemporary Realism, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2011 Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

CURRENT REPRESENTATION
Die Hamburger Galerie, Hamburg, Germany, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY Persterer Fine Art, Zurich, Switzerland

SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
PNC Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Adams Mark Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
LJK Literary Management, LLC, New York, NY
Revlon, New York, NY ExxonMobil Corp., Irving, TX
International Business Machines, Armonk, NY
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Mr. & Mrs. Jose Luis Espejo Pasqual, Barcelona, Spain
Mr. & Mrs. Laurence J. Kirshbaum, New York, NY.
Andreas Baumgarte Collection, Hamburg, Germany Michael and Joy Millette, Larchmont, New York Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Balsley, Naples, Florida
Dr. Annette Magold, Berlin, Germany

PUBLICATIONS
Road&Track Magazine May 1993, August 1993
DuPont Registry, September 1994
American Art Collector, July 2007
International Artist Magazine, October / November Edition
"Arte y Libertad IV", Galería artelibre - Editorial Comuniter, S.L. Noviembre 2009 "Arte y Libertad IV", Galería artelibre - Editorial Comuniter, S.L. Noviembre 2010
Poets and Artists Magazine, Fall 2011

AFFILIATIONS
The International Guild of Realismm