Biography
Born in Hammond Indiana 1953, Neil Goodman received his BA (1976) at Indiana University. Bloomington and his MFA at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1979. Shortly thereafter, Goodman was offered a faculty position at Indiana University Northwest where he became one of the founding members of the Fine Arts department. Goodman retired from teaching in 2017 as Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts. After forty years, Goodman left Chicago to live and work in the small central coast town of Los Alamos California.
Goodman has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the country. Goodman’s sculpture was included in the seminal 1995 Museum of Contemporary Art’s opening exhibition “History of Chicago Art, 1945-1995.” His work has been written about and reviewed in numerous catalogs and periodicals, including “Art Forum”, “Art in America,” “Art News,” and “Sculpture” magazine. In addition to many private collections, Goodman’s sculpture has been commissioned and collected by museums, corporations, universities, convention centers, sculpture parks.
Currently Neil Goodman is represented by Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago.
Bodies of work developed over years and often decades, found their way, and then slowly transitioned into other forms propelled by new ideas. One step led to another, and although the thread has always been there throughout the years, the line is very different from beginning to end. This is the nature and privilege of being an artist, to see one’s history, and to have the pleasure of looking back while moving forward.”
Bodies of work developed over years and often decades, found their way, and then slowly transitioned into other forms propelled by new ideas. One step led to another, and although the thread has always been there throughout the years, the line is very different from beginning to end. This is the nature and privilege of being an artist, to see one’s history, and to have the pleasure of looking back while moving forward.”