Murray Hochman was born in 1934 and raised on NYC’s Lower East Side. He has a BA in art history from New York University and an MFA from Alfred University in ceramic arts, although he quickly turned to
painting.
His first works were bought by Frederic Mueller of the Pace Gallery and other prominent curators and collectors, including Henry Geldzahler (then curator of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum), Sam Hunter, Robert Scull and Allan Stone. During the 1960s, he was included in group shows at the Pace and Tibor de Nagy galleries along with the Whitney Art Resources Center and the Lobo Gallery in Montreal.
Throughout the following decades, Hochman has painted and exhibited consistently, but largely under the radar of the mainstream art establishment. In 2000, he bought a farm in the Berkshires, where he has been working in relative isolation for the last 25 years.
It stimulated a period of intense creativity and new directions, including collage, paintings on scrap metal, and wall reliefs and sculpture made out of discarded plastic, his first foray into the third dimension since his graduate work in ceramics.
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