Archie Rand (b. 1949 Brooklyn, NY) lives and works in New York. He attended the Art Students League and later earned a BFA in cinegraphics from Pratt Institute. Rand's first solo exhibition, at 23, was held at Tibor de Nagy. He exhibited there regularly into the early 1980s. In 1976, Rand completed an 18,000-square-foot mural at the B'nai Yosef Synagogue in Brooklyn. Known as “The Painted Shul,” it is the only fully muraled synagogue in the world. During the 1980s he showed at Phyllis Kind. In 2025, Rand exhibited solo in Berlin, and at the NYC galleries Below Grand and Jarvis. His work is held in many public collections including, in NYC, The Met, MoMA, and The Whitney. He is currently Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College. For over three decades he has collaborated and published with noted poets such as Robert Creeley, John Ashbery, and John Yau.
Archie Rand
Photo: Deirdra Higgins. Courtesy of Archie Rand and Jarvis Gallery, NYC
Photo: Deirdra Higgins. Courtesy of Archie Rand and Jarvis Gallery, NYC