BIOGRAPHY George Thaddeus Saj lives and works in Montclair, N J, where he practiced surgery for 31 years. His formal art education started at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts and continued at Dartmouth College. However, Saj realized early on that most artists need a day job and enrolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. After residency training and service as a staff surgeon at a U.S. Army hospital in Danang, Viet Nam, he settled in New Jersey. Since his retirement from surgery in 2004, Saj has returned to art full time. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Cleveland, Chicago, New York and New Jersey. The University of Southern Florida commissioned six of his bull masks. EXHIBITIONS SOLO 2008 TALES FROM THE WOOD, Palmer Museum, Springfield, NJ 2006 CAST OF CHARACTERS, Public Library, Bernardsville, NJ 2005 FASHIONABLE FABLES, Artspace 129 @ Baby Boom, Montclair NJ 2005 FACE TO FACE McGraw Gallery, Newark Academy, Livingston NJ 2004 HEAD GAMES Montclair Public Library, Montclair, NJ GROUP 2008 Passion Through Art, AHS, Summit, NJ 2007 National Arts Program, AHS, Morristown, NJ 2007 Art Connections 4, Montclair State University 2007 Art Reincarnated. Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN 2006 Gallery at Barone Studio, Perkasie. PA 2006 Flights of Fancy, artspace129, Montclair, NJ 2006 ArtConnections, Montclair State University 2005 Mountain Art Show, Bernardsville, NJ 2005 Summer Exhibition, Grazdha Gallery, Hunter, NY 2005 Reverberations of the Soul, Makeready Press Gallery, Montclair NJ 2004 7th Annual Art Show, UNWA, Cleveland OH 2004 Summer Exhibition, Grazdha Gallery, Hunter NY 2004 Let’s Face it, What is a Portrait? Gaelen Gallery, Whippany NJ 2003 Studio Montclair Slide Night, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ 2003 UMANA Conference Art Exhibition, Chicago IL 2003 Re-Cycle Re-Use, Clifton Art Center, Clifton NJ BIBLIOGRAPHY Feature Article and Cover Photo “Fabulous Fables”, Montclair Times, 9-15-2005 Cassanova, Ika “Assembled Sculptures offered as decoration, talisman and social commentary” The Ukrainian Weekly, Dec. 21, 2003 Spotlight, (image reproduction), Montclair Times, Oct. 30, 2003 AWARDS First Prize, Trophy Wife – Re-Cycle Re-Use, Clifton Art Center, NJ 2003 Honorable Mention, Champion Bull, Mountain Art Show, Bernardsville, NJ 2005 2nd Prize, Fashionable Lion, National Art Program, Morristown, NJ 2007 COLLECTIONS “ Bull Mask Series” University of South Florida, Tampa Campus EDUCATION School of Fine and Industrial Arts, Newark NJ BA – Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 1962 Doctoral Studies – Columbia University, New York NY 1966