Groat has had one-person exhibitions at Everson Museum of Art, Roberson Museum of Art, Finger Lakes Community College, Cazenovia College, Jasper Rand Art Museum, Lemoyne College, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and Washington and Jefferson College.

In 2004 he was included in an exhibition at the Roberson Museum Center, entitled Cosmos and Chaos: A Cultural Paradox, with artists Lucian Freud, Eric Fischl, Jerome Witkin and several other contemporary artists. Groat’s work was featured in a full-page advertisement in the January 2004 edition of ARTnews. In 2006 his work was purchased by a significant private collector to be included in a permanent collection alongside German artist, Lucian Freud.

Groat is included in private and public collections internationally, including actors, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, Clear Channel Communications, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cellular One, House and Garden, LTD., Sheraton Hotel Corporation, Binghamton University, Everson Museum of Art, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute of Art, The State University of New York system, Roberson Museum and Science Center and Washington Jefferson College.

In 2006 Groat became involved with the new international Postmodern paradigm called "A Painting a Day" which originated in the United States. This new model was introduced to the world by, Duane Keiser, from Richmond, Virginia, and emerged on a global scale in 2004 through the confluence of various cutting-edge cyber elements, including popular auction sites, blogs, youtube and message boards through Google Groups. This initial model has evolved into a global view of fine art, nurtured by the Internet's public domain status and free from the influence of traditional institutions.

Artist Philosophy

There are many things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? If you follow one arrow, if you crouch motionless on a bank to watch a tremulous ripple thrill on the water and are rewarded by the sight of a muskrat paddling from its den, will you count that sight a chip of copper only, and go on your rueful way? It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is what you get.
Annie Dillard from "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek."

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EXHIBITION ESSAYS & REVIEWS

Contiguous Forms, Dr. Ib Benoh, Independent Curator, Washington, D.C.,
Exhibition Catalogue Essay (ISBN: 0-937318-30-2)

Everyday Life—Genre Art Northeast, Brian Keeler, Director, Blue Heron Gallery, Wyalusing, NY

Faculty Exhibition, Joe Hildreth, Curator of the SUNY Art Exhibition Series,
Exhibition Catalogue Essay

Diverse Trio of Artists Offers Arresting Images at Roberson,
Review, Sarah D’Esti Miller Press & Sun-Bulletin, April 7, 2006

2004 Americas 2000: All Media Competition, Minot State University, Catherine Walker,
Director, Exhibition Catalogue Essay

Cosmos & Chaos’ Packs an Artist Wallop, Press & Sun-Bulletin, Sarah D’esti Miller,
Roberson Museum Art Exhibit, WBNG Channel 12

The Duality of Chaos, Roberson Museum and Science Center,
Nancy E. Green, Senior Curator of Prints,Drawings, and Photographs,
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (ISBN: 0-937318-26-4)

Which Came First: The Cosmos or The Chaos,
Albert Boime, Art Historian, University of California at Los Angeles (ISBN: 0-937318-26-4)

2003 BCC Faculty Offers Diverse Collection, Review, Sarah D’Esti Miller
Press & Sun-Bulletin, February 13, 2003

Art With An Impact, Review, Carla Kucinski, Press & Sun-Bulletin, April 13, 2003

2002 Avenue Art Gallery Show Focuses on Themes of Spirituality, Review,
Sarah D’Esti Miller Press & Sun-Bulletin, July 11, 2002

2000 Still Lives, Keeping It Real: Old Techniques Get A Modern Revival, Review,
Washington Post, December

1999 Art Supplies: The Central New York Art Guide, Syracuse New Times, July
Central New York Art Guide, Cable Access, Magazine 13, Interviewer, Ron Curtis

1998 Common Media, Polar Approach, STARS, Syracuse Herald American,
August 1998, Sherry Chayat, art critic

Slices of Still-Life, Syracuse New Times, August 1998, Carl Mellor, reviewer 1995 Two For One, A Father and Son and Their Rugged Landscapes,
Buffalo News, April 26

International Biographies, Cambridge, England

1994 Summer of 1993, 72”x48”, Everson Museum of Art, Program cover painting,
The Hill Becomes The Valley: A Survey Of Central New York Landscape Painters

1993 Blizzard of 1993, STARS, Herald-American, Sherry Chayat, art critic
Who’s Who in American Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 Roberson Museum and Science Center, Contiguous Forms

2005 Boulevard Gallery, Newport, RI, Recent Work

Vanderbilt Gallery, Naples, FL, Recent Work

2003 Austin Harvard Gallery, Pittsford, NY

Finger Lakes Community College, Redefining Painting: Tradition & New Technology

1997 Adirondack Lakes Center For The Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

Cazenovia College, Chapman Art Center

1996 Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY

1994 Jasper Rand Art Museum, Westfield, MA

Lemoyne College, Wilson Art Gallery, Dewitt, NY

Cazenovia College, Chapman Art Center, Blizzard of 1993

1993 Simon’s Rock College of Bard, Doreen Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

1993 Washington and Jefferson College, Olin Fine Arts Center, Washington, PA, Two Generations of Painting

1992 Westbeth Art Center, NY, NY, Graduate Thesis Exhibition

Tyringham Art Gallery, Tyringham, MA

1980 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2000 Austin Harvard Gallery, Pittsford, NY

1998 Artifice Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY

1997 Austin Harvard Gallery, Pittsord, NY

1996 Austin Harvard Gallery, Pittsford, NY

Art Dialogue, Buffalo, NY

1994 Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, NY

1990 Tioga County Council On The Arts, Art Space Gallery, Owego, NY

1989 Cazenovia College, Chapman Art Center, Historic Images

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 Introductions, Corning Community College, Atrium Gallery, David Higgins, Curator

Everyday Life Genre Art Northeast, Blue Heron Gallery, Wyalusing, NY

Everyday Life—Genre Art Northeast, Laura Craig Gallery, Scranton, PA

Faculty Exhibition, Plaza Gallery at State University of New York, Albany, NY

Faculty Exhibition, Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY, curated by Dr. Marcia Blackburn

2005 Images of Winter—Our Landscapes, Our Towns Nine Painters from Northeastern Pennsylvania and Southern Central New York, curated by Brian Keeler.

Art Educators Reshaping the Thinking of Our Community
Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY, curated by Chip Kinney and Keith Rosco

2004 Roberson Museum, Binghamton, NY, Cosmos & Chaos: A Cultural Paradox

Arnot Museum: 70th Regional Exhibition
Jurors: Rachael Sadinsky, Former Curator of Collections and Exhibitions
at the University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Director of Curatorial Affairs,
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
John D. O’Hern, Executive Director and Curator,
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

Americas 2000: All Media Competition, Minot State University

Foxhall Gallery, Still Life Exhibition, Washington, DC

George Waters Gallery, Elmira College, Random Selections III

2003 Avenue Art Gallery, Broome Community College Faculty Exhibition
Avenue Art Gallery, Issues of Our Time

Binghamton University Gallery, Binghamton, NY

George Waters Gallery, Elmira College, Random Selections II

2002 George Waters Gallery, Elmira College, Red, White, Black & Blue

Foxhall Gallery, Small Works Exhibition, Washington, DC.

Avenue Art Gallery, American Painters: Abstract Expressionism To Realism,

Westend Gallery, Corning, NY

2001 Foxhall Gallery, Anniversary Showcase, Washington, DC

2000 Foxhall Gallery, The Contemporary Still life, Washington, DC

Renee Fotouhi Gallery, NY, NY

1994 Everson Museum Of Art, The Hill Becomes The Valley: A Survey Of Central New York Landscape Painters

Arnot Art Museum, 61st Annual Regional Art Exhibition, Elmira, NY

Upton Gallery, Buffalo State College

Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY

Art Dialogue, Annual Regional Exhibition, Buffalo, NY

Greater Buffalo Partnership, Buffalo, NY

1993 John H. Mulroy Civic Center, Syracuse, NY, Visual Arts Showcase, #5, People’s Verdict

Bowery National, NY, NY

25th Washington and Jefferson National Painting Show, Olin Fine Arts Center

Aesthetics National Exhibition, Friendship Hall Gallery, McPherson College, McPherson, KN

State of the Art 1993, New England Fine Arts Institute National Invitational Exhibition of Art

Mentalpause #1, Invitational National Exhibition, ARTEL, Antiquart Gallery, Omaha, NE

Mentalpause #2, Invitational National Exhibition, North Platte Cooperative Gall., North Platte, NE

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS

1997 First Prize, Central New York Annual Art Competition

1994 Third Prize, Annual Art Exhibition, Art Dialogue, Buffalo, NY

1993 National Endowment For The Arts, Lecture and Exhibition Grant, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA

1992 Charles G. Shaw Memorial Award, Brooklyn College

Desse P. Tichenor Scholarship, Chautauqua School of Art

1991 Critic’s Grant, Vermont Studio Center

1990 Malcolm Curtis Propes Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design

PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Syracuse, NY

Buffalo State College, NY

Cellular One, NY

Clear Channel Communications, Seattle, Washington

Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

Grauer Preparatory School, CA

Michael Douglas and wife, Catherine Zeta Jones

Michael Ronis, owner of Carmine’s and Virgil’s Restaurant, NYC

Miller Brewing Company, Fulton, NY

Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY

Norstar Bank, Syracuse, NY

Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, NY

Sheraton Hotel Corporation, Corporate Headquarters

Security Mutual Life Insurance Company, Binghamton, NY

Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Foxhall Gallery, Washington, DC

Renee Fotouhi Fine Art, NY, NY

JUROR

1997 Waterfront Art Festival, Pittsford, NY

1996 Carnegie Art Center National Art Competition, Tonawanda, NY

LECTURES

2004 Roberson Museum, Finding Meaning In Art

2003 Elmira College, Visiting Artist Series, Critiqued work of 20 painting students

Finger Lakes Community College, Gallery Talk in conjunction with solo exhibition

Avenue Art Gallery, Broome Community College Faculty Art Exhibition

2002 Avenue Art Gallery, American Painters: Abstract Expressionism To Realism

Avenue Art Gallery, Art of Our New Millennium

Avenue Art Gallery, Redefining Art

2001 Broome Community College, The Art of Taking Slides

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2001- Assistant Professor of Art & Design
2005 Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY

2004- Present Adjunct Instructor of Graduate and Undergraduate Painting
Elmira College, Elmira, NY

EDUCATION

Master Of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing

City University of New York at Brooklyn, 1992

Bachelor of Arts, Art History; Minor Studio Art
Binghamton University, 1989

Buffalo State College, 1996, Certification Program: Art Education

Syracuse University, Graduate Studies, Art Education

Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY, Summer Session

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Summer Session

Savannah College of Art and Design, Graduate Studies, Fine Arts

PUBLISHING

Millennium Edition Reviews: Monet at Giverny: Masterpieces from the Musee

Marmottan, Albright-Knox- Art Gallery; Degas And New Orleans: French Impressionist in America, New Orleans Museum of Art

Rembrandt By Himself, National Gallery, London

Interviews included: Syracuse University Professors- Jerome Witkin, Gary Trento, and
Margie Hughto; Museum Curators - Tom Piche’, Everson Museum;
over seventy overseas gallery directors - Europe, Asia,
Australia, Canada, New Zeland, Soviet Union

CURATING / DIRECTING

2006 Roberson Museum and Science Center, Breaking Boundaries: Ib Benoh, Binghamton, NY,
Ibrahim Benoh

2003 Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, NY, Cosmos & Chaos: A Cultural Paradox

Issues of Our Time, Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY

Broome Community College Faculty Art Exh. Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott,NY

2001 National Small Works Painting Exhibition (15 states within USA represented),
Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY

American Painters: Abstract Expressionism To Realism,
Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY (Ib Benoh, Anne Boyer-Cotten, Anthony Brunelli, Wayne Claypatch, Armondo Dellasanta, Don DeMauro, Tom Gardner, Hall Groat II,
Brian Keeler, Daniel Mosner, Nancy Ryan, Orazio Salati, David Shapiro)

Art of Our New Millennium: Drawing, Painting, Installation, and Sculpture,
Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY (Matthew Cotten, Marc Dennis, Ronald Gonzalez, Hall Groat Sr.,
Robert Hoover, Ariele Moulton-Barrett, Minna Resnick, Jerome Witkin)

Central New York Visual Arts Celebration, Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY

Redefining Art, Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY (Doug Anderson, Richard Harrington,
Doug Holtgrewe, Chris Johnson, Jim Meehan,Nancy Preston, John Ross, Zach Seeger, Lynne Taetzsch)