JAMES FIORENTINO

EDUCATION: Drew University, BA (Majored in Fine Arts) *Young Alumni Award 2004 Drew University Varsity (four year starter) 1996-1999 *All Conference 1996

GROUPS: National Art Museum of Sport (NAMOS): Former Trustee/ Advisory Board Member 2005-2016 The Raptor Trust of New Jersey: Trustee New York Society of Illustrators (Youngest member in their history at age nineteen) *Society of Animal Artists Signature Member American Watercolor Society Portrait Society of America Salmagundi Club member (NYC) *Artists For Conservation-Signature Member *New Jersey Watercolor Society Signature Member D & R Greenway Land Trust-Board Member 2017- Ed Lucas Foundation/Gene Michael Celebrity Golf Tournament committee member (*Received Gene Michael Humanitarian Award 2015)

SELECTED SOLO EXIBITIONS Museum 2011 Flyway Gallery Secaucus NJ 2010 Somerset County NJ Parks Commission Environmental Educational Center 2010 MMK Gallery “The Art of Baseball-Motown and the Glass City” 2008 Museum 2007 New York Board of Trade 2006 New York Society of Illustrators Member Exhibition 2001 National Basketball Hall of Fame (2001) Upper Deck “Fiorentino Collection” basketball cards and original artwork on display (Dr Julius Erving in attendance for opening) National Art Museum of Sport 2000 Korn Gallery (Drew University) 1999 Museum (1994-2000) Ted Williams “Twenty Greatest Hitters” and award artworks National Baseball Hall of Fame ( Induction 1993) * Youngest artist to have work displayed in the Museum at age fifteen. (permanent collection), “Legends of The Negro Leagues” Studio 7 Gallery "Art of The Game" (Bernardsville , NJ) Negro League Museum "Legends of The Negro leagues" and "Cool Pappa Bell" (permanent collection) Studio 7 Gallery "The Wildlife Art of James Fiorentino" 2014 Schiff Nature Preserve 2015 Rare Wildlife Revealed -James Fiorentino Traveling Art Exhibition in partnership with Conserve Wildlife Foundation (D & R Greenway Land Trust, Studio 7 Fine Art Gallery) Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum solo show-“Rare Wildlife Revealed”

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS New York Society of Illustrators (Murray Tinklemans’s Traveling art show-ongoing) National Art Museum of Sport (multiple shows) Walsh Gallery-Seton Hall University 2012 * Natural History Museum "The Art and The Animal" 2011 Fine Art-World Cup Soccer-South Africa 2010 George Krevsky Gallery (San Francisco, CA) “-The Art of Baseball Gallery 42 -Indianapolis, IN -exclusive artist 2007 Yogi Berra Museum (Latino’s in Baseball) 2000 Norman Rockwell Museum Springfield Illinois Art Association Gallery “Play Ball-The Art of America’s Favorite Pastime” National Baseball Hall of Fame Ted Williams Museum *Bennington Museum (Vermont) "The Art and The Animal" exhibition *"America's Parks II" Ella Carothers Dunnegan Gallery of Art (missouri), The Wildlife Experience (Denver, CO) and The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (AZ) New Jersey Watercolor Society Shows -multiple shows (Best in Show 2016-Signature members show) 2016 Smithtown Township Arts Council at the Mill Pond Gallery "Animals in Art-Our Partners on the Planet" Red Fox in Snow 2016 St Augustine Nature & Wildlife Art Exhibition (Florida) Buck in Snow *2016 Artists For Conservation -Grouse Mountain Resort, BC Vancouver, Canada- "Eastern Box Turtle" 2017 Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum-Society of Animal Artists :Art and Animal Show 2017 The Nature in Art Museum, Wallsworth Hall, Sandhurst, Gloucester, England “Wildlife Treasures” Society of Animal Artists Members Show. 2016-2017 Muhammed Ali Museum and learning Center-Kentucky 2017 Artists For Conservation -Grouse Mountain Resort, BC Vancouver, Canada-Little Brown Bat and Portrait of a Bighorn Sheep *Received Medal of Excellence

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS National Baseball Hall of Fame Bob Feller Museum Yogi Berra Museum National Art Museum of Sport United States Sports Academy President George Bush Library Cycling Hall of Fame Roberto Clemente Museum-Puerto Rico Negro Leagues Museum

SELECTED PROJECTS/CLIENTS Kelloggs Upper Deck Trading cards Trading cards (sports art contest winner and “” in permanent collection) Byers Choice Fox Foundation Mario Lemieux Foundation Dwayne Wade Foundation Amani Toomer Foundation Missouri University Drew University PBS New York Pro Sports Placement --Heisman Trophy poster Latino Sports Nelligan Sports New Jersey Devils Alumni Cal Ripken Jr. (official artist for 2131 and 2632) David Wells 33 Foundation Lunar Sports Group Embrace Kids Foundation

PRINT MEDIA (BOOKS/MAGAZINES/NEWSPAPERS) Yankee Miracles 2011 Metro Baseball Magazine 2011 Northeastern American Hawks 2010 New Jersey Magazine 2010 “Dirt in the Skirt” (cover art) a biography of Pepper Paire Davis 2010 ESPN The Magazine Society of Illustrators 51st Annual American Illustration 2009 Legendary 2009 Images of America –People of Middlesex Borough 2008 Baseball Gold-Mining Nuggets From Our National Pastime 2007 The Sports Art of James Fiorentino 2007 Ted Williams Museum Induction covers (1993-2000) University In The Forest-The Story of Drew University-John T Cunningham 2002 The New Baseball Catalog 1998 Yankee’s Magazine (cover art) “ Retirement day” 1997 National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction magazine cover 1995 Red Cross Calendar (cover art) “Bob Hope” 1995 For Kids 1994 Beckett Magazine (numerous articles) *Won Beckett’s Annual Sports Art Contest 27: The Voice of Yankee Fans (cover art) Sports Collectors Digest (covers)

SELECTED MEDIA ESPN First Take (interview Skip Bayless) 2010 Steve Adubato 2010 PBS New York 2009 Fox New York (interview Ryan Seacrest) 2005 Yankee Magazine 1997 New York Times 1995 ABC World News (interview by Dick Shaap) 1995 CBS This Morning 1995 Fox After Breakfast (interview Tom Berjeron) 1995 ESPN Baseball Magazine Show 1995 Yankee Broadcast MSG (interview with Al Troutwig) 1995 Baltimore Sun 1995 Chicago Sun Times Daily News Drew University Magazine Newark Star Ledger ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox affiliates of NY, NJ, CT ESPN Breakfast at Churchill Downs News 12 New Jersey Art Business News Western Art Magazine New Jersey magazine Calvin Marshall Movie ( artwork in background)

COMMISIONS (ARTWORK IN COLLECTIONS) Ted Williams Cal Ripken Jr. Muhammad Ali Greg LeMond Christopher Reeve President Gorbachev Desmond Tutu President George Bush Michael J Fox Buzz Aldrin Arnold Palmer Steve Forbes Tony LaRussa Mary Lou Whitney Stan Lee Will Ferrell Jim Carrey Brett Favre Hunter Mahan Congressman John Lewis Rocco Commisso (CEO Mediacom) Carlos Beltran Hulk Hogan