Occupation: Environmental Artist, Conceptual Artist Media: Multiple Archival Digital Images, Intangible Sculpture. Born London, Eng, Jan 21, 1928; United States citizen.
Teaching Positions Dana professor art, Colgate Univ, 72-73.
Business and Professional Positions Vis artist, Cent Michigan Univ, 72; artist-in-residence, Everson Mus, Syracuse, New York, 72 & Cazenovia Coll, 72; artist-in-residence, National Endowment of the Arts & Humanities, Finch Coll, 74.
Commissioned Works 12,000 Feet of Color, Corcoran Sch Art, Washington, DC, 70; Transitional Image, since destroyed, Everson Mus, Syracuse, New York, 71; Participatory murals, New York State Off Bldg, Utica, 73 & Creative Artists Public Serv Prog, 75; Restoration and Adaptation: The 1878 Hulse Barn, 78-98.
Public Works Museum of Modern Art, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Herbert F Johnson Mus, Ithaca, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; and others.
Exhibitions Young America Printmakers, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 53; De Cordova Mus, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 65; Des Moines Art Center, 67; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, 68; Solo exhibs, Royal Marks Gallery, New York, 68 & 70, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 68 & Finch Coll Mus, 74; Contemporary America Painting & Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, Ill, 69 & 74; Everson Mus, Syracuse, New York, 71; Andrew Dickson White Mus, Cornell Univ, 72; Images, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 73; Finch Col, New York City, 74; John Weber Gallery, New York, 75; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 78; New York State Mus, Albany, 81; World Trade Center Site Member Competition, 2003; and others.
Bibliography James Harithas (author), Colin Greenly, Library of Congress No 68-19952, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1/68; Thomas W Leavitt (author), Colin Greenly: Intangible Sculpture, Library of Congress No 72-9042, Andrew Dickson Mus Art, Cornell Univ, 72; Dore Ashton (author), article, In Coloquio Artes, New York, 10/74.
Publications Author, A changing image of change, A J for Artists, winter 86; contributor, Images of the Whole, the Artist's Sketchbook (CD-ROM), Leaning Post Productions, 98.
Honors and Awards National Endowment of the Arts & Humanities Grant for Sculpture, 67; Creative Artists Public Serv Prog Grant for Intangible Sculpture, New York, 72; Creative Artists Public Serv Fellow, 78; Decentralization Grant for Video, New York Coun Arts, 93.
Research Area Format of most universal image in nature reflecting energy interactions; Incorporated the characteristics of a circle and a square into a single image thereby discovering an effective visual symbol for the concepts of transition and change - 1964.
Areas of Interest Environ inter-relationships; architecture; Art/seeing education; change.
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