Profile

Harvey Citron received a BFA from Pratt Institute and a Diploma of Sculpture from the Academia di Belli Arti, Rome Italy, where he was awarded the Gold Medal for Anatomical Studies for a Foreign Student.

He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor on the Sculpture Faculty at The University of the Arts, where he has taught since 1981. In 1984, 1991, 1998, and 2007 he was awarded the Mellon Venture Fund Grants by the University of the Arts.

Citron is also the Sculpture Coordinator for MFA program at the New York Academy of Art and is a full-time faculty member of Sculpture and Drawing. From 1994 to 1996, and from 2000 to 2003, he served as Faculty Chair at the New York Academy of Art.

His work has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, and was included in Figurative Art 1960 – 80; an exhibition that traveled throughout the US and Europe, and in Derrière Guard; a 1997 exhibition at the Kitchen in New York. He has been in exhibitions to the present.

Citron has lectured as a visiting artist at American University, the Medical College of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia College of Art (presently the University of the Arts), Yale University, University of Michigan, and The Parnell School of Drama of Carnegie Mellon University.