Miriam Schapiro

2001 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist

In the Heat of the Winter 1995 Artist Proof
65 x 33.5 inches - Screen Print
No. 12 in the Goshen College Art Gallery Exhibition.
Image rights reserved by the artist

Public Presentations*

Lecture

Thursday, March 8 @ 7:00 PM - Open to public - no charge*
Goshen College Mennonite Church
Reception immediately following in the Goshen College Art Gallery

Convocation

Friday, March 9 @ 10:00 AM - Open to public - no charge*
Goshen College Mennonite Church
Reception immediately following in the Goshen College Art Gallery

Biography

Miriam Schapiro has been making and exhibiting art for 53 years. She is well known as a leader in two contemporary art movements: Feminist Art and Pattern and Decoration.

Most recently, Miriam Schapiro's work was included in the exhibition, The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950-2000 organized by the Whitney Museum in New York.

A book on Miriam Schapiro: Shaping the Fragments of Art and Life by Thalia Gouma Peterson was recently published by Abrams.

She currently has two major solo exhibitions traveling the country:
Miriam Schapiro: Works on Paper: A Thirty-Year Retrospective and
A Retrospective of Paintings, 1954 - 1997

She has received six honorary Doctorate degrees, Grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, a grant for artists in residency at Bellagio Study Center in Bellagio, Italy; the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; the Djerassi Foundation Residency in Woodside, CA; Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency - Master Class; a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Ford Foundation Grant at Tamarind; the Honors Award, The Woman's Caucus for Art; N.Y. State Teacher's Assn. Certificate of Recognition; N.Y. State NARAL, 25th Anniversary.

Her work is part of the following collections:

Allen Memorial Art Museum on Oberlin, Ohio
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Harvard University's Fogg Museum
The Jewish Museum, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Hirshhorn & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Missoula Museum of Arts, Montana
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Peter Ludwig Collection, Aachen, Germany
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia

Miriam Schapiro is represented by

Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, 3550 N. Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33127
T: 305-573-2700, F: 305-573-2722, email: steinbaumgallery@aol.com,
http://www.bernicesteinbaumgallery.com/

Links to biographies and exhibitions of Miriam Schapiro

• Photo of Miriam Schapiro at work from Berghoff-Cowden page
• Biography and Schapiro's styles from the Art Museum, Missoula, Montana
• Dana Lee Bordvick's site on Miriam Schapiro, Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Anne Gary Pannell Center, Sweet Briar, Virginia
• Miriam Schapiro: Works on Paper, A Thirty Year Retrospective
• Biography from the State University of New York, Albany, Museum
• College Art Association's First Annual Artist Interviews: Faith Ringgold and Miriam Schapiro. Visual Arts Committee Faith Ringgold interviewed by Moira Roth and Miriam Schapiro interviewed by Judith Brodsky
• Thalia Gouma-Peterson. "Miriam Schapiro: An Art of Becoming" American Art, Spring 1997. Volume 11, Number 1
• Miriam Schapiro: A Retrospective of Paintings 1954 - 1997, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
• Miriam Schapiro: Work on Paper - A 30-Year Retrospective, Brevard Museum of Art & Science, Melbourne, Florida

Links to images by Miriam Schapiro

• The Poet #2, 1984, acrylic and fabric on canvas. 108 x 72 inches.
• Russian Robe 1979, Mixed Media, Acrylic and Fabric on Canvas, 59.8 x 50.0 inches
• Lady Gengi's Maze Acrylic and fabric collage on canvas. 72 x 80 inches
• Presenting Eden, Acrylic and fabric on canvas, 1990; 62 x 80 inches
• Special Event 1982, Poet 1989, Black Bolero, Mother Russia 1994