BIOGRAPHY

Shalom Tomas Neuman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of WW II.
He is the last surviving male of a large Jewish family, most of whom perished in Nazi Germany’s Holocaust. His family escaped from Prague’s Communist regime in 1948 after his father’s name was placed on a Communist death list. They immigrated to Haifa, Israel where he spent his childhood. When he was 12 Shalom, his sister and his parents immigrated to Pittsburgh, PA. He has lived in the United States ever since and has made New York City his home since 1980.
Shalom received a BFA and MFA in the dual disciplines of painting and sculpture from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970 and 1972, respectively. He won the Damrosch Scholarship to study in France where he received The Beaux Arts painting prize. Shalom did his post graduate fellowship in painting and sculpture at Indiana University.
Shalom is the recipient of the Premio Galileo 2000 Award for Art XV Edition, presented at Teatro della Pergola, Florence Italy on September 23, 2013.
Shalom resides the U.S. He spends part of the year working in Prague where he also maintains a home. He has taught at The Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute of Technology and has been a visiting lecturer at The School of Visual Arts, Yale, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Beer Sheva College and Ra’anana Cultural Center in Israel .

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