Mimi Saltzman

Mimi is a painter, educator, and arts advocate whose career bridges fine art and social impact. She earned her BFA from Tufts and the Boston Museum School, and later an MA in Painting from NYU, with her thesis exhibited at 80 Washington Square East. Mimi has shown work at galleries including the Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, the Nassau County Museum of Art, and the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico.

She directed the Nicholas Alexander Gallery in SoHo and worked for 15 years with master printer Sabina Klein, after studying printmaking with Bill Gersh at the Hand Graphics Studio in Santa Fe. As a visiting artist at Columbia University, she collaborated with Kiki Smith and Sarah Sze. Mimi taught art in Harlem at The Children’s Storefront from 2012 to 2015, directed their summer school, and led art therapy programs at Caron NYC, an addiction rehab.

Her global work includes community art projects with children in Rwanda, India, and Colombia. She inherited the Mimi Saltzman Foundation in 2015 and has spent the last decade matching college interns with fine organizations, which have enabled them to develop skills and prestigious resumes.

Mimi continues to combine her creative vision with a deep commitment to education and philanthropy. Her work has continued to gain recognition, with dozens of exhibitions over the past two decades. Most recently, in 2024, she exhibited at Guild Hall in East Hampton, where she received an award for excellence in the arts. She continued working on prints at the Church in Sag Harbor and participated in shows at WACH Gallery in Bridgehampton, East End Arts in Riverhead, EHLTV in East Hampton, and Ashawagh Hall.

In 2023, her work was featured at Wings Over Haiti in Bridgehampton, and again at Guild Hall, Ashawagh Hall, WACH Gallery, and East End Arts. Earlier exhibitions include shows at Salomon Arts Contemporary in Tribeca, the Longhouse Reserve in East Hampton, Sara Nightingale Gallery in Sag Harbor, Harwood Museum in Taos, Ille Arts in Amagansett, the New Museum of Contemporary Art (auction benefit), and more.  

Mimi has been an active participant both in service and non-violent resistance to oppressive regimes and a combatant of RESstigma since the 1960s.

"My work is a search for memory. It involves a slowing of time as in a dream. Continuous events like waves and tides inform the work and the painting process. The image dawns slowly on the viewer offering a variety of interpretations. The process is unique, but 60's and 70's New York painting paved the way. I move between poured paintings on canvas, mono-printing and a wild array of mixed media. A recipe of paint, salt, oil, and minerals go onto the surface. Phenomenal and random events in nature echo this. I aim at a sense of freedom and expansion.. derived from the meses of Taos. Powerlessness and gravity are important themes in my work. The random aspects of experimentation, plus a studio featuring a wide range of materials, are metaphors- and a message to the viewer." - Mimi Saltzman

Zabriskie Point, 2024
Monoprint, etching and lingerie on Arches paper
49 x 91 in
Courtesy of the artist
$5,800
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