David Kassan

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Kassan
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	Feb 25, 1977(1977-02-25)
Age	47
Birthplace	Little Rock
Country	United States
Birth City	Arkansas
Horoscope	Aquarius

David Kassan Biography

David Kassan is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on February 25, 1977 in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. Artist and painter, who is famous for his portraits in oil. He has been given the Gold Medal of Honor from the Allied Artists of America in 2017. He is also known for his solo and group shows in galleries all the way from New York to London to India. He posts his work on Instagram to his more than 270,000 followers.

Bradley Walker Tomlin and Tom Lovell are fellow painters who also attended Syracuse University. and Tom Lovell are two of their fellow artists who both were students at Syracuse University.

David Jon Kassan (born February 25, 1977 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an internationally recognized contemporary American painter best known for his life-size representational paintings, which combine figurative subjects with abstract backgrounds or “tromp l’oeil texture studies,” Of this dual representation strategy Kassan notes, “my effort to constantly learn to document reality with a naturalistic, representational painting technique allows for pieces to be inherent contradictions; paintings that are both real and abstract.” Kassan’s work is best classified as Social Documentary Painting, due to the importance and relevance of the subjects he chooses to represent.

David Kassan received his B.F.A. in 1999 from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. He continued his studies at The National Academy, and the Art Students League of New York, both in Manhattan

He was was raised at Little Rock and often shares pictures with his girlfriend as well as fellow artist Shana Levenson.

David Kassan Net Worth

David Kassan is one of the richest Painter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Kassan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He graduated with a BFA in Fine Art from Syracuse University and went on to pursue studies in the National Academy in 2001. He graduated in 2003. enrolled in his first class of the British Institute of Florence and in 2007 he graduated in 2007 from his school, the Art Students League of New York. The first major solo exhibition was held on the 25th of May 2005, at the Louise & Bernard Palitz Gallery in New York.

His artworks and paintings have been featured in a variety of news publications, like The Times of London for his participation in the BP Portrait Prize as and on The Philadelphia Daily News in June of 2015.

Over the past six years, David has taught, demonstrated and lectured at a wide variety of art schools and universities around the world as well as in the United States: Scottsdale Artists School Scottsdale Artists School; Art Students League New York; National Academy Design School of Fine Art, New York; Royal Hibernian Academy, Ireland; La Figurative Academy, LA; Korpus School, LA; JSS Italy Abroad program, Italy; Ta Hatahana, Tel Aviv; Whidbey Island, Seattle, WA; Gage Academy, Seattle, WA; Private Workshop, Byron Bay. Australia; Art Academy, Adelaide Australia; University of Alaska, AK; Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ; Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ; Finger Lakes Community College, Rochester, NY; Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; Southern Atelier, Sarasota, FL; Savannah College of Art and Design. GA; Studio Argenta, Little Rock, AR; Myndlistaskólinn, The Reykjavík School of Visual Arts, Iceland; Bay Area Artists Atelier, SF, CA; 72nd Street Studio, Bayridge, Brooklyn; Salmagundi Club, NY; Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, NYC; The Teaching Studio, Brooklyn Oyster Bay.; Manifest Drawing Center, Cincinnati OH; Akron Artists Society, Akron, OH; Townsend Atelier, Chattanooga, TN; Faro Portugal; MNAC Romania; Centre College, Danville, KY; Syracuse University, NY

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In 2014, Kassan turned his attention to painting and documenting Survivors of the Holocaust, with the development of the EDUT project )-“edut” being Hebrew for “living witnesses” as a way of connecting with his grandfather’s traumatic history of escaping ethnic cleansing on the border of Romania and Ukraine to come to America in 1917. The EDUT project’s mission is to meet with as many living Survivors to the Shoah as possible and to document them in filmed video portraits and in paintings and drawings.

Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. David Kassan celebrates birthday on February 25 of every year.

Kassan’s technical mastery of oil paint combined with adept draftsmanship enables him to fluently represent what he sees. This is evident in the stunning flesh tones Kassan achieves. Transparent layers of oil paint are built up, forming an intricate lattice of veins, blood and skin. Through this light enters and is reflected back.