 Profile
| Stuart Pivar is a noted art collector, scientist, and author who has made significant contributions to the plastics business and the arts during the last five decades. Mr. Pivar has consistently displayed a passion for new ideas and creative expression and has endeavored to increase knowledge and understanding in the world around him through his life’s work.
Stuart Pivar is a fixture in the New York art world and frequently attends art auctions, galleries, and flea markets. His extensive art collection has been profiled in the New York Times and Time Magazine, among other media outlets. Pivar’s art collecting led him to meet and befriend Andy Warhol in the 1970s, and the two men were often seen shopping together before the artist’s death in 1987. In 1979, Andy Warhol and Stuart Pivar founded the New York Academy of Art, an accredited and successful graduate school of figurative art. Additionally, Mr. Pivar is on the Board of Advisors of the GAGE Academy of Art in Seattle, Washington.
An inventor and entrepreneur, Mr. Pivar currently serves as Founder and Chairman of the Board for Chem-Tainer Industries, a chemical concern that focuses on Industrial Liquid Containment Vessels. In addition to his leadership position in his firm, Mr. Pivar holds several patents on plastic molding techniques and processes. Pivar created an energy efficient electric vehicle called the “Microcar“ in the late 1970s and, in a move that heralded an age of green vehicles, produced a fleet of these smart cars for an energy conscious nation. Since the mid-1990s Stuart Pivar has been investigating various scientific issues. Most recently, Stuart Pivar has worked on several texts dealing with the origins of life.
Pivar studied physics, math, chemistry, and engineering at Brooklyn Technical High School, and went on to matriculate at Hofstra University, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry.
Stuart Pivar makes his home in New York City.
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