Fellowship Artistic Director
Edward Minoff is a contemporary realist painter. His work has been featured in galleries and museums from New York City to Beijing, including over ten solo exhibitions. His career began in animation working for Ralph Bakshi and later MTV before co-founding AMPnyc Animation Studio where he produced award winning work for The Cartoon Network, ESPN, MTV and Disney, among others. While studying with renowned artist Jacob Collins at the Water Street Atelier in Brooklyn, NY, Edward made the transition from animation to fine art, eventually moving to Italy to finish his studies at the Florence Academy of Art. He is known for his dramatic paintings of the ocean as well as his sensitive portraits, all created completely from life, studies and imagination. His work and writings about process have been featured in magazines books, and blogs, documenting his unique approach to the challenge of painting ocean waves through a deep study of wave anatomy, never using photographic reference. His work is contained in public and private collections including The Bodleian Library at The University of Oxford, The United States Embassy at Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, and The New Britain Museum of Art. He currently teaches drawing and painting at Columbia University and the Grand Central Atelier and is the co-host and co-creator of Suggested Donation Podcast featuring conversation with artists and other creative people. Ted teaches drawing in GCA’s Core Program.