About
Georg Vihos
Born: 1937, Detroit, MI
Died: 2013, Sheboygan, WI
Education:
1969-70: Fulbright Scholar, Florence, Italy
1959-62: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1958: University of Athens, Greece
Awards/Commissions:
2008: Clifton and Doris Wharton Center for the Performing Arts, East Lansing, MI
1988: W.B. Doner Company, Lobby, Southfield, MI
1987: Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., 21st Floor Lobby, Chicago, IL
1985: Harris Hall, Lobby & Conference Walls, Ann Arbor, MI
1981: U.S. Patent – Vacuum Mounting System for Large Murals
1969-70: Fulbright Fellowship
1968: Louis Comfort Tiffany prize for painting
Solo Exhibitions:
2014: University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan, "A Life in Art"
2013: Trattoria Stefano, Sheboygan, WI, “The Art of Georg Vihos”
2012: Belian Art Center, Troy, MI, “Sixty Years”
2009: MAC ART Group, Miami, FL, “Spiritual Flesh”
2008: Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Michigan Masters Series, Birmingham, MI, “Spiritual Flesh”
2006: Mack B Gallery, Sarasota, FL, “Ancient Myths and Modern Images”
1987: Randolph & Hein, San Francisco, CA, Galleria Showroom
1986: C.G. Jung Institute, Evanston, IL, “Anthropos One”
1984: Rocklands Gallery, Monterey, CA, “Luminousart”
1982: Mott University Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, “A Look at Nature”
1981: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Junior Museum Program: “You Are an Artist, Too”
1978: 48 Great Jones Street, studio showing sponsored by Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY
1977: Lee Hoffman Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1970: Little Gallery, Birmingham, MI, “Drawings from Florence”
1970: Via Senese Gallery, Florence, Italy, “Fulbright Year”
1964: First One-Man Exhibition, Studio Gallery, Detroit, MI
Group Exhibitions:
2014: Timothy Cobb Fine Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2013: New Members Exhibition, Sheboygan Visual Artists, Sheboygan, WI
1990: “Artist Equity,” 1st Annual Members Exhibition, SOMAR, San Francisco, CA
1986: “20th New Horizons in Art,” juried, City of Chicago Purchase awarded to Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.
1986: “Art of Living,” Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
1982: “24 x 24,” (artists from Detroit & New York), ParkWest Galleries, Southfield, MI
1981: “100 Artist Show,” Ten Windows On 8th Avenue, NY
1973: “Michigan Focus,” juried, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1970: “Eight Americans in Italy,” Rome
1967: “Made in Detroit,” Franklin Siden Gallery
1968: “Michigan Artists,” Bloomfield Art Association
1964: “Michigan Artists,” The Detroit Institute of Arts
1962: “2nd Biennial, Drawings and Prints,” The Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliography:
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Kevin Costello “Artist Draws Upon His Memories,” May 12, 2006
Art in America, May, 1984
Detroit Free Press, Trout Pomeroy, “Artist in Motion,” July 19, 1984
Detroit Free Press, Marsha Miro, “Review Hoffman Exhibition,” November 6, 1977
Impressario Magazine of the Arts and Leisure, Helen Zucker, Winter, 1977-78
Detroit News, Colby on Art, “Big Drawing Goes Public,” August 10, 1975
Detroit Free Press, Ruth Rattner, “Art in Detroit,” September 17, 1967
D.A.C. News, Morley Driver, “Detroit’s Ten Most Promising Artists,” February, 1967
Detroit Free Press, Morley Driver, “Detroit Artist George Vihos,” October 18, 1964
Teaching and Art-Related Employment
1969-89: Consultant with Design Origins, Madison Heights, MI
1971-75: Studio art and art history, Roeper City and Country School
1968-71: Instructor of Drawing, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1967-68: Instructor of Life Drawing, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1965-66: Flint Junior College and Museum, Flint, MI
1964: Bloomfield Art Association, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Collections
Corporate
Alpha Stamping Corporation
Buckheim and Roland
Canterbury Agency
Fieger, Fieger, Kenney & Johnson P.C.
Johnsonville Foods
Handleman Company
Peat Marwick & Mitchell & Company
W.B. Doner Company
Public
The Beaumont Foundation, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI
Beverly Hills Grill, Beverly Hills, MI
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MI
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI
Henry Ford Hospital, West Bloomfield, MI
Marian University, Fond du Lac, WI
Mission Health Medical Center, Livonia, MI
New Detroit Hospital, Detroit, MI
Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT
University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI
University of Michigan, Harris Hall, Ann Arbor, MI
Wayne State University, University Administration Building, Detroit, MI
Wayne State Medical School, Detroit, MI
Wharton Center for Performing Arts, East Lansing, MI
Private (selected)
Stig Aronnson
Evelyn and George Bilson
Peter Barth
Jane Collon Booth
Adrienne Cowden
Robert and Jackie Cowden
JC, Lucretia, and Ramsay Crawford
Geoffrey Feiger, Esq.
Drs. Eric and Lisa Goldberg
Susan Hering
Shannon Kring Buset
John Newcomer
Pat and Mike Lawrence
E.J. Levy
Rob Levy
Stanley Levy
Joan Luby
Sara and Andrew Meisner
Colby and Mark Mitchell
Jarie and Michael Ruddy
J. Garland Schilcutt
Betty Smth
Nina Silbergleit
Sabina Singh and Ken Strmiska
Rosanne Thompson
William Sloan
Laura Klemm
Ernest Zulia
Georg Vihos often worked on photographic backdrop paper stapled to the wall of his studio. With engineering guidance and financial support from Hardy Brodersen of Design Origins (Farmington Hills, MI), a vacuum sealing process, patented as TruSeal, was designed to protect and present his large-scale works of art on paper.