RAiR | 1978-79 & 1990-91

Jean Promutico

New York abstract painter Jean Promutico (1936-2018) was born in Baltimore. She graduated with a BFA Magna Cum Laude from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland in 1966 and received a master's degree from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in 1968. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1974, and in addition to her two RAiR residencies, participated in a one-year residency with the National Studio Grant, MoMA P.S.1/the Clocktower in New York City in 1981. Jean has shown with Hill’s Gallery and the Linda Durham Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and with the Kornblee Gallery, the Westbeth Gallery and the Carter Burden Gallery in New York City. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Albuquerque in New Mexico, The Fine Arts Museum of New Mexico and AMOCO in Houston Texas. She had over twenty solo exhibitions and contributed to approximately fifty group and duo exhibitions during her lifetime.