Ariel Higgins 
web site: www.arielhiggins.com
contact: 917.723.2314

Travel 

2007     June – July           Traveled and painted in South of France and Paris  

2006     March – August   Traveled in Europe as the recipient of the Mac Dowell Grant 

2002     January – June      Painted and Lived in Les Cerqueux Sous Passavant, France

2001     June-August         Painted and Lived in Marais section of Paris 

Solo Exhibitions

2003    Ariel Higgins: Portraits & Still Life’s; Kings’ Carriage House, NYC

Group Exhibitions

2007   Grant Recipients Exhibition; Phyllis Mason Gallery, The Art Students League of     

            New York

2005    Y.O.H. Gallery, Yonkers, NY

2004    Focus on the figure; Edward Hopper Museum, Nyack, NY

            National Drawing Exhibition: Wiford&Vogt Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

            Invitational Drawing Exhibition; Spring Street Studio, NY

           Annual Painting Exhibition; Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Mystic, CT

2002   American Artist Professional League, New York, NY

           Audubon Artist, New York, NY

2001   Audubon Artist, New York, NY

           Five Artist From New York; Public Library, Wilton, Connecticut     

2000   Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

           Audubon Artist, New York, NY

           Realism Today; John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999   Drawings; Spring Street Studio, New York, NY

           41 Union Square Open Studios, New York, N.Y.

1998   Artist-Paint-Artist; five woman show; Madeline Powers Gallery, University of 

           Pennsylvania,    

1997   Catherine Lorillard Wolf, New York, NY

           Audubon Artist, New York, NY

           American Artist Professional League, New York, NY

1996   Salmagundi Club, Non member Exhibition, New York, NY

           Allied Artist, New York, NY

           Audubon Artist, New York, NY

           Contemporary Realism; More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

           41 Union Square Open Studios, New York, NY

1995   41 Union Square Open Studios, New York, N.Y

Awards / Grants / Scholarships 

2005 Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant: The Art Students League, NYC

2002 Raymond Chow Memorial Award for Realism: Audubon Artist, New York, NY

1996 Len G.Everette Memorial Award for Realism: Audubon Artist, Federal Hall, NYC 

1995 The Art Students League of New York, Work Study Scholarship

1994 The Art Students League of New York, Work Study Scholarship 

1993 Anne & F. Lee Stacey Foundation Grant, Okalahoma City, Okalahoma

        Reginald Marsh Merit Scholarship, The Art Students League of New York

 Art Education

1989-1995 The Art Students League of New York: Harvey Dinnerstein; Gregg Kreutz;                

                   Ronald Sherr; Gustav Rehburger; Michael Burban

Publications

       “Higgins a Portrait of Perseverance” Bronxville Review Press Reporter, January   

          2004       

       "Realism Today" American Artist Magazine, October 2000