Archie RandArchie Rand is an artist from Brooklyn, NY. He is currently the CUNY Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College and was previously the Chair of the Department of Visual Arts at Columbia University and Director of the Hoffberger School of Paintng at the Maryland Institute College of Art. His five decade exhibition career has featured paintings, murals and graphic works. Awarded the Farash and Guggenheim Fellowships he was made a Laureate of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. His work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute Of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Institution, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Dallas Museum of Art, and The New York Public Library and are included in the university and library collections of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, and Johns Hopkins, among many others.