Altoon Sultan

1948 Born in Brooklyn, New York

1969 Receives Bachelor of Fine Arts, Brooklyn College, New York

1970 Attends Skowhegan Art School, Skowhegan, Maine

1971 Receives Master of Fine Arts in painting, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York. First solo exhibition, First Street Gallery, New York

1971-73 Instructor in Basic Design, Brooklyn College, New York

1972-74 Receives MacDowell Colony Fellowship

1975 Included in travelling exhibition, Sons and others: women artists see men, originating at Queens Museum, New York

1975-76 Artist in residence, South Dakota Arts Council, Vermillion, South Dakota. Receives Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, New York

1979 Solo exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York

1982 Included in exhibitions, A private vision: contemporary art from the Graham Gund Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Lower Manhattan from street to sky, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York

1983 Receives National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant

1984 Receives Joseph Károlyi Foundation Residency Grant, Vence, France. Included in exhibition, Prints en suite, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York

1985 Included in exhibition, American Realism: twentieth‑century drawings and watercolors, San Francisco Museum of Art, California

1985-88 Visiting critic at University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Art, Philadelphia

1986 Included in exhibitions, The Foundation Veranneman invites Marlborough, Veranneman Foundation, Belgium; Public and private: American prints today, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; travelling exhibition, Landscape, seascape, cityscape, originating at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans

1987 Solo exhibition, Altoon Sultan: the exquisite image, Sioux City Art Center, Iowa

1988 Resident artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine

1989 Receives National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant. Visiting artist, Vermont Studio School and Colony, Johnson, Vermont

1990 Visiting artist, State University of New York, Purchase. Included in exhibition, Landscape painting, 1960-1990: the Italian tradition in American art, Gibbs Memorial Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina

1991 Included in travelling exhibition, The landscape in 20th Century American art: selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, originating at Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; included in exhibition, Exquisite paintings, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida

1992 Completes two mixed-media prints at Tyler Graphics Ltd Included in travelling exhibition, Presswork: the art of women printmakers, originating at University Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1999 Awarded the Academy Award in Art by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Solo exhibition, Galleria Marieschi, Monza, Italy

2001 Solo exhibition, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

2006 Included in exhibitions: Vistas and visions: selected landscapes from the permanent collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Three realists, Laguna College of Art and Design, California

2007 Solo exhibition, Altoon Sultan: monuments of agriculture, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; included in exhibition, The wonder of intaglio, Centre for Contemporary Graphic Art, Fukushima, Japan

2009 Solo exhibition, Altoon Sultan: egg tempera paintings, Helen Day Art Centre, Stowe, Vermont

2010 Included in exhibitions: Egg tempera: contemporary masters, Brattleboro Museum & Art Centre, Brattleboro, Vermont; The collaborative print: works from SOLO Impression, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.

2012 Included in exhibition, Occupying potato: the cult of potato 2012, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York; receives Walter Cerf Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, Vermont Arts Council

2013 Included in exhibition, Woven, Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, New York. Altoon Sultan currently lives and works in Groton, Vermont

© Tyler Graphics Ltd; revised Emilie Owens, 2007; revised Julia Greenstreet, 2014 This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime.