Archie Rand American, b. 1949

Archie Rand (b.1949 Brooklyn, New York) lives and works in New York. He attended the Art Students League and later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in cinegraphics from Pratt Institute. Rand held his New York solo exhibition at Tibor de Nagy in 1972 at the age of 23. He went on to have eight solo exhibitions with the gallery, through to the early 1980s. In 1976, Rand completed an 18,000 square foot mural at the B'nai Yosef Synagogue in Brooklyn. Referred to as the Painted Shul, this is the only fully muraled synagogue in the world. During the 1980s he presented five solo exhibitions at Phyllis Kind’s galleries in New York and Chicago. In 2025, Rand held solo exhibitions at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin and Below Grand, New York. 

Rand is currently Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College and prior to this was the chair of the Department of Visual Arts at Columbia University, New York. For over three decades he has continued to collaborate and publish with noted poets such as Robert Creeley and John Ashbery. In 1999, he was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and in 2002, he was the artistic advisor to film director Ang Lee for his production of The Hulk. 

Rand’s work is held in public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Jewish Museum New York, The Brooklyn Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dallas Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and The Carnegie Museum of Art.