Ross Bleckner is one of the most important American artists working today.  The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art held a major retrospective of his works in 1995, summarizing two decades of solo shows at internationally acclaimed exhibition venues such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Stockholm Moderna Museet, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.  He received a Bachelor of Arts from New York University in 1971, a Master of Fine Arts from Cal Arts in 1973, and has taught at many of the nation's most prestigious universities.