A New Life: Solo Exhibition by Marlene Siff

Marlene Siff was born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx. She was an art honors student at the eponymous High School of Music & Art (now LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and Performing Arts located near Lincoln Center). She earned a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hunter College where she studied with Richard Lippold, William Baziotes and Raymond Parker. Ms. Siff was also elected to Kappa Pi, the prestigious Honorary Arts Society.

Marlene Siff's work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and universities throughout the U.S. and abroad, including: the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Katonah Museum of Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, , the Attleboro Arts Museum, Columbia/Barnard University, the University of Texas, the Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, Eastern Kentucky University and The Capital building in Washington D.C.

In addition, her work is in the permanent collection of the Mattatuck Museum of Art, The Housatonic Museum B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, and Cornell University.

Ms. Siff was also featured in an episode of Creative Women Today, on CT Cablevision, selected to appear in Years In The Making, a documentary film by Martin West, and was one of 13 women in the Westport arts community profiled in the film 13 Legendary Women sponsored by the Westport Arts Center.