Artist Info
Michael Biddle
Michael Biddle (1934-), painter and printmaker, began his artistic education at Harvard College (1952-56) and furthered his studies at the Fine Arts Academy, Vienna (1959), the Central School of Arts & Crafts, London (1959-60) and at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (1961).
In the early 1960s Biddle lived in New York, where he did freelance magazine illustration and cartooning before turning seriously to painting and printmaking. In the later 1960s and 1970s Biddle focused on mosaic and fresco painting.
Biddle was also a teacher. He began teaching in 1967 with printmaking courses at the School of Visual Arts and the Pratt Institute. In 1971, he taught fresco painting at the Truro Center for the Arts. (He also spent the summer of 1975 teaching fresco at Skowhegan.) In 1972 Biddle began teaching at the Fashion Institute of Technology; he taught full time from 1989 to 2005 and was Chair of the Fine Arts Department from 2003 until his retirement in 2005.
Biddle’s work is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Boston Public Library, the Library of Congress, the Walter Chrysler Museum, and many others.
