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Jules Maidoff is an American artist. He was born in 1933, New York City. Since 1973 he lives and works in Tuscany, between Florence and Pian di Sco', near Arezzo.

Biography
Jules Maidoff was born in New York City, in 1933. He grew up in the bronx, the discendent of a Jewish family which had immigrated to the United States. He made his studies in painting at the Cooper Union and the City College of New York where he got his degree in 1956. Maidoff defines this period as the one of a Bronx emigrant in Manhattan. In 1956 and 1957 he went to Italy on a Fulbright grant and came back to do postgraduate studies at New York University in 1957-58. He held many exhibitions during this period and worked in graphic design and advertising. Many of his works have been bought by important museums (Riverside museum, Brandeis University Museum, New York University Museum) and by many famous personalities such as Robert Joffrey, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ravi Shankar, Mick Jagger, and many more.

By the end of the 60's he returned to Tuscany, moving there definitely in 1973. Jules Maidoff was forty years old then and he was leaving behind graphic design and commercial work to wholly dedicate himself to painting. In 1975 he is on of the founding members of the Studio Art centers International (SACI) in Florence where he shall work as a teacher and director. Up to today jules Maidoff has held more than 100 exhibitions worldwide.

One Person Exhibits
1954 City Center Gallery, New York City

1956 Roko Gallery, New York City, USA

1958 Angelewski Gallery, New York City, USA

1960 West Hampton Art Gallery, Long Island, New York City, USA

1962 Brassner Gallery, New York City, USA

1963 Capricorn Art Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

1965 Collectors Gallery, Manhasset, New York, USA

1965 Chelsea Art Gallery, New York City, USA

1966 Stover Mill Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, USA

1967 Associated Artists Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

1968 Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

1969 Galleria Maitani, Orvieto, Italy

1970 Galleria Maitani, Orvieto, Italy

1970 Galleria Margherita, Rome, Italy

1972 Chelsea gallery, New York City, USA

1973 Galleria Maitani, Orvieto, Italy

1974 Gallery d'Arte "Lo Scalino", Peschici, Italy

1974 The Abbey of San Zeno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pisa, Italy

1975 Galleria Ciovasso, Milano, Italy

1975 Galleria Helio Art, Rome, Italy

1975 Galleria Remi, Arezzo, Italy

1976 Galleria Maitani, Orvieto, Italy

1976 Galleria Italsider, Genova, Italy

1976 Galleria d'Arte Machi, Pisa, Italy

1976 Koppel Gallerie, Munich, Germany

1976 Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

1977 Venezia Viva, Galleria d'Arte, Venice, Italy

1977 New Gallery, Catania, Italy

1977 Galleria Tasso, Bergamo, Italy

1978 Galleria Maitani, Orvieto, Italy

1978 Gallerie C.C. Paul, Munich, Germany

1978 Galleria B.D.A., Terni Italy

1978 Galleria Morabito, Reggio Calabria, Italy

1979 Galleria D'Arte "Volta dei Peruzzi", Florence, Italy

1979 Galleria d'Arte "Gino Severini", Cortona, Italy

1979 Galleria Segno Grafico, Venice, Italy

1979 Sala de Arte Valentii, San Pedro de Ribas, Barcelona, Spain

1979 Rosa Bisbe Art/Disseny, Barcelona, Spain

1979 Galleria Denario, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

1980 Palazzino "Liberty" di Luca Alinari, Florence Italy

1980 Galleria Tom Maddock, Barcelona, Spain

1980 Galleria "Il Grifo", Rome, Italy

1980 Gallerie Karstadt, Cologne, Germany

1981 Galleria Maitani, Orvieto, Italy

1981 Gertrude Van Dyck Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

1981 Riggs Gallery, San Diego, California, USA

1981 Galerie de Olivaar, Uithoorn, Holland

1981 Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy

1982 Taras Gallery, Hilersum, Holland

1982 Galleria Tasso, Bergamo, Italy

1982 Galleria d'Arte "Al Duomo", Orvieto, Italy

1982 Galleria Maitani, Orvieto, Italy

1983 Huis Hellemans Art Center, Antwerp, Belgium

1983 Ken's Gallery, Florence, Italy

1984 Galleria Maitani, Orvieto, Italy

1985 Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

1986 Galleria d'Arte Canci, Lerici, Italy

1986 Galleria d'Arte Ciovasso, Milano, Italy

1988 Galleria Maitani, Orvieto, Italy

1990 Galleria Ciovasso, Milano, Italy

1991 J. Rosenthal Fine Arts Ltdl, Chicago, Illinois, USA

1992 Ergy Gallery, Milano, Italy

1993 "Twenty Years in Italy" (Anthological Exhibition) Casa Masaccio and Palazzo Arnolfo, San  Giovanni Valdarno, Italy

1994 Galeria Gilde, Guimaraes, Portugal

1995 Galleria La Spirale, Prato, Italy 1995 Museum Ricardo Espirito Santo, Lisbon, Portugal

1996 Galleria Ciovasso, Milano, italy

1996 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venezia, italy

1997 "Opere Recenti" 1992-1997  Palazzo dei Sette,  Presented by the city of Orvieto, Italy

1997 "Opere Recenti" 1992-1997  Pinocateca Nazionale, Citta di Fabriano, Italy

1997 "New Works, paintings on wood" Galleria Ghelfi, Verona, Italy

1998 "Anthology of recent work" Arvore Center for the Visual Arts, Porto, Portugal

1998 Galeria Gilde, Guimaraes, Portugal

1998 Galleria Il Salotto, Marciano, Elba, Italy

1998 Anthology of recent work" Galleria Foyer degli Artisti, Florence, Italy

1998 Galeria Quattro Recent Work, Leiria, Portugal

1999 Galeria do Centro Cultural, Fondacao D. Luis 1, Cascais, portugal

1999 Galeria Quattro / Alacantra Esudios, Lisbon, Portugal

1999 Galeria Esteta " Visual Coercion", Porto Portugal

1999 Galerie Die Olivaar "Works on Paper", Uithoorn, Holland

2000 Museum of the City of Leira, Galeria Quattro" Looking Back", Leira, Portugal

2000 Galleria La Bezuga "Terra/Carta", Florence, italy

2001 Galeria Esteta, "17 New Paintings", Porto, Portugal 2002 Galleria Ciovasso, "Cercando", Milano, Italy

2003 Galleria Giubbe Rosse, Florence, Italy

2003 Galeria Arthobler, Porto, Portugal

2003 Galeria Esteta, Porto, Portugal

2003 Galleria SACI, Florence, Italy

2004 Galleria Zerotre, Orvieto, Italy

2005 Galleria Albero Celeste, San Gimignano, Italy

2005 Galeria Artholber, Porto, Portogallo

2005 Galleria Ciovasso, "Maidoff's Maidoffs", Milano, italy

2006 Galleria Zerotre, Orvieto, Italy