Neal Korn was born in Nyack, NY. Korn’s fascination in the human mind led him to major in Psychology in college. It took just one drawing class for Korn to realize that art was his true calling. After college, he worked in any job that had a connection to art, like designing displays for Barnes & Nobles, working as an art framer in NYC, and teaching art in New Jersey.
Korn first received some recognition after winning the Shaw Award for Painting at Brooklyn College and followed that up by showing his art in galleries and museums. He recently won a 2024 New Jersey Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts and has also won a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship, Geraldine R. Dodge mini-grants, FAWC, and HEART grants. He has been published in the Best of Painting book (Rockport), The Newark Star Ledger, The New York Times, Go Out, The Courier News, Who’s Who in the East and on NJ.com. He was also recognized for Outstanding Achievement by the Union County Board of Freeholders (his work is in a time capsule) and was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from Kean University.
Statement:
We live in a time of great distress. This distress had been reflected into the subject matter of some of my previous artwork. However, events here and abroad have become so out of control that I felt the need to withdraw from doing any type of that work. Nature took its place. Nature has always been a constant for me. Whenever I am in nature, I feel it deeply. Still, it is impossible for me to convey and describe this in words. My words always fail to adequately describe this feeling I have when it comes to nature. The best I can do is to recreate the images of nature on paper or canvas.