April Gornik (b. 1953; Cleveland, Ohio) received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, in Halifax, Canada. Since moving to New York in 1978, Gornik has gone on to become one of the foremost figures of contemporary American landscape painting. She has exhibited extensively in one-person and group shows in the United States and abroad and is represented by Miles McEnery Gallery. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, the Cincinnati Museum, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Modern Art Museum of Art of Fort Worth, the Orlando Museum of Art, and other major public and private collections. She is now based in North Haven, New York in Long Island and is the co-founder of The Church, an innovative artist residency and exhibition space in Sag Harbor.
