Hall II has been a fine artist for over 20
years. He currently is an Associate Professor at Broome Community
College in New York, where he teaches foundation courses in Fine Arts.
Groat has had solo exhibitions at Roberson Museum of Art, Everson
Museum of Art, Washington and Jefferson College, Wadsworth Atheneum
Museum of Art, Finger Lakes Community College, Cazenovia College,
Lemoyne College, and various other institutions.
In 2004 he was included in an exhibition at the Roberson Museum Center,
entitled Cosmos and Chaos: A Cultural Paradox, with artists Lucian
Freud, Eric Fischl, Jerome Witkin and several other contemporary
artists. Groat’s work was featured in a full-page advertisement in the
January 2004 edition of ARTnews. Groat is included in private and
public collections internationally,including Michael Douglas &
Catherine Zeta Jones, Clear Channel Communications, Bristol-Myers
Squibb, Cellular One, Sheraton Hotel Corporation, Binghamton
University, Everson Museum of Art, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute of
Art, The State University of New York system, Roberson Museum and
Science Center and Washington Jefferson College.