Born 1923, Toronto, Canada
Died 2015, Long Island, NY
EDUCATION
1949
MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1946
MA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1945
BFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Miriam Schapiro, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Miriam Schapiro: The California Years, 1967–1975, Eric Firestone Loft, New York, NY
Miriam Schapiro: A Visionary, The National Academy, New York, NY
2008
Mini Retrospective, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Dancers, Dolls, Etc. 1976–2006, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Anarchy and Form: Works by Miriam Schapiro, Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Miriam Schapiro: A Retrospective, Kristen Frederickson Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Miriam Schapiro: An Artist’s Journey, Brenau University Galleries, Gainesville, GA
2003
Small Works of Miriam Schapiro, Daywood Gallery, Alderson-Broaddus College, WV
2002
Miriam Schapiro’s Art: A Journey, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
Works on Paper, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
2001
Miriam Schapiro: A Retrospective, Curated by Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Miriam Schapiro: Works on Paper, A Thirty Year Retrospective, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS; Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Belleair, FL
2000
Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Miriam Schapiro: A Retrospective, Curated by Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Miami, FL
University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
Miriam Schapiro: Works on Paper, A Thirty Year Retrospective, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Miriam Schapiro: New Work, Diva, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
1999
Miriam Schapiro: A Retrospective, Curated by Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Miriam Schapiro: Reconstructing Women’s Traditions, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Miriam Schapiro: Works on Paper, A Thirty Year Retrospective, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; The Art Museum of Missoula, MN
1998
Miriam Schapiro: A Seamless Life, DuPont Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
1997
Miriam Schapiro: A Woman’s Way, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Collaged, Femmaged, Printed & Painted, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Miriam Schapiro: A Seamless Life, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University,
Harrisonburg, VA
1994
Collaboration Series 1994: Mother Russia, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
Miriam Schapiro, West Virginia University, College of Creative Arts, Morgantown, WV
1993
Miriam Schapiro, Twentieth Anniversary Celebration, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992
Miriam Schapiro, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
Miriam Schapiro, Mendelson Gallery, Chicago
The Nature of Miriam Schapiro, Curfman Gallery Fort Collins, CO
The Politics of the Decorative, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1991
Collaboration Series: Frida Kahlo and Me, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Miriam Schapiro, Brevard Art Center, Melbourne, FL
A New Acquisition in Context, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
1990
Miriam Schapiro, LewAllen/Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Miriam Schapiro: Works on Paper, Phyllis Rothman Gallery, Fairleigh Dickenson University, Madison, NJ
The Mythic Pool, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Ragtime, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1987
Miriam Schapiro, Simms Fine Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Miriam Schapiro: Theatrics, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC
1986
Miriam Schapiro, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
I’m Dancin’ as Fast as I Can, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY; Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
Miriam Schapiro, Broadway Windows, New York University, New York, NY
Miriam Schapiro: A Decade, Artlink Contemporary Artspace, Ft. Wayne, IN
1985
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Femmages 1971–1985, Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1984
Atlanta Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983
Barbara Gilman Gallery, Miami, FL
Kent State University, Kent, OH
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1982
Miriam Schapiro, A Retrospective: 1953–1980, Visual Arts Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, FL; Loch Haven Art Center, Miami, FL
Axiom Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KS
The Heartest Series, David Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Invitation and Presentation, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1981
Miriam Schapiro, A Retrospective: 1953–1980, Vassar College Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN; Spencer Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Miriam Schapiro: The Black Paintings, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Miriam Schapiro: Neue Bilder, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
1980
Miriam Schapiro, A Retrospective: 1953–1980, The College of Wooster Art Museum, OH; Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, OH; Kalamazoo Institute of Fine Arts, MI
The Heartest Series, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, NY
New Paintings, Chicago, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1979
An Approach to the Decorative, Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, NY
An Approach to the Decorative, Gladstone-Villani Gallery, New York, NY
Femmages, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, IA
Handkerchief Works, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KS
New Works, Marcel Liatowitsch Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Anonymous was a Woman, Center Gallery, Madison, WI
Anatomy of a Kimono, Beaver College, Glenside, PA
1978
Anatomy of a Kimono, Reed College Art Gallery, Portland, OR
1977
Anatomy of a Kimono/ Apron and Handkerchief Series, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Collaboration Series, Mitzi Landau (Artspace), Los Angeles, CA
Femmages, Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Femmages, Fairbanks Gallery, State University of Oregon, Corvallis, OR
Anonymous was a Woman, Honors Gallery, State University of Oregon, Corvallis, OR
1976
The Shrine, the Computer and the Dollhouse, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN
The Shrine, the Computer and the Dollhouse, U of Wisconsin, La Crosse, WI
Works on Paper, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, IL
Works on Paper, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, MI
Selected Paintings–Women Artists Series, Mabel Smith Douglas College Library, New Brunswick, NJ
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Mitzi Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1975
The Shrine, the Computer and the Dollhouse, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of CA, San Diego, CA
The Shrine, the Computer and the Dollhouse, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Works on Paper, Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Works on Paper, Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1974
Miriam Schapiro: A Cabinet for all Seasons, Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1973
Miriam Schapiro: New Work, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1971
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1969
Recent Paintings, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1967
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1966
The Evolution of a Theme: 1952–1966, Lyman Allen Museum, New London, CT
1965
Miriam Schapiro: Paintings, Collages, Prints, Franklin Siden Gallery, Detroit, MI
1964
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1963
New Paintings, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1961
Miriam Schapiro: Paintings and Drawings, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1960
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1958
Miriam Schapiro: New Work, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1951
Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
You Go Girl! Celebrating Women Artists, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
2015
Womanhouse, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Threading the Maze, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
Pretty Raw, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
2008
Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, NY
2007
Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators, Katzen Art Center, American University Museum, Washington, DC
Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975–1985, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Post Dec: Beyond Pattern and Decoration, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los
Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
2003
NYPD: New York Pattern & Decoration, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002
Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post War America, Everson
Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1998
Gallery Artists, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
High Art/High Jinks in Contemporary Art, Foster Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, MA
The Legacy, Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL
Selections from Soho: Steinbaum Krauss Gallery Artists, Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, Durango, CO
1997
A Woman’s Way, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
Art Patterns, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Crossing the Threshold, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC
Female Artists from Graphic Studios, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Hanging by a Thread, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
The Kimono Inspiration: Art and Art-to-Wear in America, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Patchwork: Contemporary Interpretations of the Quilt Form, Islip Art Museum, NY
Real(ist) Women II, Northwood University, West Palm Beach, FL
Wild Women Salon, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1996
Artists Portraits and Statements, Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Douglass and Cook Colleges, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Contemporary Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints and Presses, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Gallery Artists, Summer Exhibition, Steinbaum Krauss, New York, NY
Mother and Child: A Contemporary View, Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
25 Years of Feminism, 25 Years of Women’s Art, Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Women’s Work: A Century of Achievement in American Art, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
1995
About Faces, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Contemporary Symbolism: Sacred & Profane, Arlene Bujese Gallery, East
Hampton, NY
Division of Labor: Women’s Work in Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Focus on Women: Women at the End of the 20th Century, The Cultural and Civic Center of Southampton, Southampton, NY
Making Faces: American Portraits, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
A Matter of Synthesis: Collage & Assemblage, Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Skirting the Decorative, Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Boston, MA
1994
Continuing Innovation: Contemporary American Quilt Art, Saint Mary’s College, Moreau Galleries, Notre Dame, IN
The Figure: Gallery Artists +2, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
Give Me Shelter, Saint Paul Companies, Minneapolis, MN
House Sweet House, NJ Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
The Label Show: Contemporary Art & The Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Memories of Childhood… So We’re not the Cleavers or the Brady Bunch, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
Pyramid Atlantic, Evolution in Print, 14 Years of Collaboration, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
Town and Country, Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service for General Electric, New York, NY
A View of One’s Own, Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
West Virginia Collects: Three Generations of American Art, Sunrise Art Museum, Charlestown, WV
1993
The Artist and the Quilt, Janice Charach Epstein Museum Gallery, Jewish Community Center for Metropolitan Detroit, West Bloomfield, MI
Contemporary American Quilts, Crafts Council, London, England
Dolls in Contemporary Art: A Metaphor of Personal Identity, Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Establishing the Legacy, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Gallery Artists, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
Look at the Book, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Master Prints from the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
Women’s Art, Women’s Lives, Women’s Issues, Tweed Gallery, New York, NY
1992
The Edge of Childhood, The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Floored Art, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
Master Prints from the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, the First Five Years, The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Narrative Art, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Personages, Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
17th Annual West Art and the Law, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN
1991
AIGA Annual, The American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, NY
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Aspects of Collage, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Collage Unglued, North Miami Museum, Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Crossing Over/Changing Places, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
Designing Women, Rutgers Summerfest, Walters Hall Gallery, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Gallery Selection 1991, Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Graphicstudio: Contemporary Art from the Collaborative Workshop at the University of South Florida, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Invitational, Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, Riverdale, NY
Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers, the Lang Communications Corporate Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Quilts in Context, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Reprise, Phyllis Rothman Gallery, Fairleigh Dickenson University, Madison, NJ
20th Year Visiting Artists Invitational Exhibition, CU Art Galleries, Boulder, CO
1990
Art and Fashion, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
The Art of Fashion, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC
The Complete Printmaker, Sylvan Cole Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Women, Works on Paper, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Definitive Contemporary American Quilt Show, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
East Hampton Avant-Garde: A Salute to the Signa Gallery, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
In Bloom, Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service for Pfizer Corp., New York, NY
Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Paint, Print & Pedestal, LewAllen/Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Pattern & Decoration, Selections from the Roth Collection of Works on Paper, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Prints of the Eighties, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Quilting Partners, Northern Illinois Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Season Celebration, Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
The Southeast Bank Collection, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
1989
Art in Fashion, Alexandra Monett Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
Collage, Assemblage and Construction, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
The Eloquent Object, Orlando Museum, Orlando, FL
Lines of Vision, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, CW Post Campus, Greenvale, NY
Making their Mark: Women Artists Today: A Documentary Survey 1970-1985, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH; The New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; The Denver Art Museum, CO; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Masters 4 Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, Long Island University, Southampton Campus, Southampton, NY
Quilting Partners, Sao Paulo/Illinois Partners, Museu da Casa Brasileira, Brazil
Selections from the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Axis Twenty, Inc., Atlanta, GA
1988
Alice, and Look Who Else, Through the Looking Glass, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Art and the Law, The American Bar Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada
Committed to Print, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Drawing on the East End, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Extraordinarily Fashionable, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
The Feminine, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Figuration, Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service for General Electric Company, New York, NY
Herstory: Women and the U.S. Constitution, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hothouse, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Just Like a Woman, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
100 Women’s Drawings, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Greenvale, NY
The Politics of Gender, Queensborough Community College Gallery, The City University of New York, Queens, NY
Romance is Back, Lintas New York/Lintas Worldwide, New York, NY
Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Wilson Art Center, The Harley School, Rochester, NY
The Women’s Caucus for Art 1988 Honor Awards Exhibition, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1987
Art in Fashion/Fashion in Art, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY; Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; The Nickle Arts Museum, The University of Calgary, Alberta Canada; Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Bass Museum, Miami, FL; The Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA; Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI; Museum of Art, Munson- Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
The Artist’s Mother, The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Computers and Art, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Contemporary American Collage 1960–1985, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, CT; Lehigh University Gallery, Bethleham, PA; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
The Hamptons in Winter, Gallery International 52, New York, NY
The Political is Personal, NY Feminist Art Institute/Women’s Center for Learning, New York, NY
Second Annual Invitational Exhibition, Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
Whisper Project, collaboration with Suzanne Lacy, Minneapolis, MN
The Years of Passage: 1969–1975, Fresno Art Center and Museum, Fresno, CA
1986
After Matisse, Independent Curators, Inc., Queens Museum, Flushing, NY;
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH; Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, MA
American Art: American Women, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
Artist’s Choice, Tampa Museum, Tampa, FL
Gold, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Heroic Female: Images of Power, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
Let’s Play House, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NYC
The Watercolor Show, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1985
Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Adornments, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY; Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA; Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX; The Tampa Museum, Tampa, FL; UWM Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Wake Forest University, Winston- Salem, NC; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
American Baskets and Quilts: New Forms from Old Traditions, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
American Women in Art: Works on Paper, Midmarch Associates, NYC; Nairobi, Kenya; and tour throughout the United States
The Artist & The Quilt, Textile Museum, Washington, DC
The Artist & The Quilt Companion Exhibit, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Artists Choose Artists, East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY
Collaboration Works: Women in Art, DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, FL
Collage: The State of the Art, Bergen Museum of Arts and Science, Paramus, NJ
Costumes, Bette Stoler Gallery, NYC
The Doll Show: Artists’ Dolls and Figurines, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University Art Gallery, C. W. Post Campus, Greenvale, NY
East Hampton Star 100th Anniversary Portfolio, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Letters, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University Art Gallery, C. W.
Post Campus, Greenvale, NY
The New Culture, Women Artists of the Seventies, University of Akron Art Gallery, Akron, OH; Truman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Palladium Guerrilla Girl Exhibition, Palladium, NYC
Ten Years Later, a look at the effects on recent works of a collaboration beginning ten years ago between contemporary women artists and traditional Quiltmakers, Wallace Wentworth Gallery, Washington, DC
1984
Art and the Law, West Publishing, St. Paul, MN
Black and White Ball Mask, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
The Decorative Continues, Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
The Fabric of Ornamentalism, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
Fascher, Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Fiber Crosscurrents, Michael Kohler Art Canter, Sheboygan, WI
Humanism: an Undercurrent, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Major Contemporary Women Artists, Suzanne Gross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The New Culture: Women Artists of the ’70s, State University of New York, Cortland, NY
Olympiad, Coplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
17th Annual Artists of the Springs Invitational Exhibition, East Hampton, NY
Skowhegan Exhibition, Hirschl & Adler Gallery, New York, NY
Staged/Stages, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NYC; Kilcawley Center, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX; USF Art Galleries, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA; Brunnier Gallery Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL; Joan Whitney Payson Gallery, West Brook College, Portland, ME; Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH; University Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University Art Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, CA; College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
Stuff and Spirit: The Art and Craft Media, Twining Gallery, New York, NY
Women Artist Series, Mabel Douglass Smith Library, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
Women Part I, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
1983
The Artist & The Quilt, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; The Arts Council, Winston-Salem, NC; Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ; Herron Art Gallery/Indianapolis Art League, Indianapolis, IN; Huntington Gallery, WV; Columbus Art Museum, Columbus, OH; Textile Museum, Washington, DC; Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
Artists in the Historical Archives at the Women’s Inter Art Center of New York City, Philadelphia College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
At Home, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Back to the U.S.A., Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland; Rheinishes
Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Wurtenbergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Black and White Ball Masque, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Brave New Works, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Collector’s Gallery XVIII, Marion Koogler Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
The Decorative Continues, Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
Exchange of Sources: Expanding Powers, California State College, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
Fascher, Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Habitats, Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL
Humanism—An Undercurrent, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Komposition Im Halbrund, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany; Museum Bellrive Bellrive, Zurich, Switzerland
A Love Story, Just Above Midtown Downtown, New York, NY
Major Women Artists, Suzanne Gross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Miriam Schapiro and Joyce Kozloff, Barbara Gilman Gallery, Miami, FL
The New Culture: Women Artists of the ’70s, Ruth E. Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, Cortland, NY
New Decorative Art, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
New Decorative Works: Collection of Norma and William Roth, Loch Haven Art
Center, Orlando, FL
New Directions at the Michener Collection, Huntington Gallery, The University
of Texas at Austin, TX
Olympiad, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1+1=2, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Opening Exhibition, Fabric Workshop, New York, NY
Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture and Design, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Printed by Women: National Exhibition of Photographs and Prints, Port of History Museum, Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, PA
Skowhegan Celebration Exhibition, Hirschl & Adler Gallery, New York, NY
Stuff and Spirit: The Arts and Crafts Media, Twining Gallery, New York, NY
1982
The Americans Collage: 1950–1982, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Nature as Image and Metaphor, Judith Christian Gallery, New York, NY
Stroke/Line/Figure, Gimpel Fils, Ltd., London Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
Women’s Art, Miles Apart, Aaron Berman Gallery, NYC; Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL
1981
Alive at the Parrish, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
College Union Collection of Contemporary Art–New Acquisitions, Wake-Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Currents: The New Mannerism, Jacksonville, FL
Exhibition of Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Fiber in Collusion, University Art Gallery, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
Five on Fabric, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
Home Work, Women’s Hall of Fame, New York, NY
Insights, The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Islamic Allusion, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Museum Choice, Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL
The New Decorative Movement, Hodgell Hartman Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Patterning and Decoration, McIntossh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC
Retrospective Show–Women Artist Series, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
Typisch Frau, Bonner Kunstverein and Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn;
Stadisches Museum, Regensbourg, Germany
Women and Art, Suzanne Brown Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1980
All that Glitters, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
Beauty and the Boardroom, Kansas City Business Collect Art, University of Missouri, Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
Decade, Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies, Art Center College of Design,
Pasadena, CA
Decorative Fabrications, Virginia Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA
Drawings to benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Fabric into Art, SUNY at Old Westbury, NY
Femmages, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Glitter, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
Great Lakes Colleges Association Artist Sponsors Exhibition, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
Les Nouveaux Fauves di Neuen Wilden, Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany Modern Art Gallerie, Vienna, Austria
New Work? New York, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
Originals, Graham Gallery, New York, NY
Painting and Sculpture Now, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Pattern Painting–Decorative Art, Galerie Holtman, Hanover, Germany
R.O.S.C. 1980: The Poetry of Vision, University College, Dublin, Ireland
25th Annual Contemporary American Painting, Lehigh University, Lehigh, PA
Women in Art Today, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
1979
The Decorative Impulse, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Philadelphia, PA
Decorative Art–Recent Work, Douglas College Art Gallery, Rutgers, NJ
International Contemporary Feminist Art, The Hague, Amsterdam
Pattern and Decoration, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
Pattern on Paper, Gladstone-Villani, New York, NY
Patterned Space: the 2nd through the 4th Dimension, J. Holmes, Jacksonville, FL
Persistent Patterns, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Works by Artists of the Fabric Workshop, Marion Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Women Artists in Washington Collections, University of Maryland, MD
Women Artists of Eastern Long Island, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Pattern and Decoration, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
1978
Patterning Painting, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Out of the House, Whitney Museum at 55 Water St., New York, NY
Women Artists ’78, Graduate Center of the City of New York, New York, NY
1977
Artists Look at Art, University of Kansas, Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Collage, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Consciousness and Content, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY
Hi Mom, What’s New, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Pattern Painting, P.S. 1 Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Patterning and Decoration, American Foundation for the Arts, Miami, FL
Selected Paintings, Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, KS
Ten Approaches to the Decorative, Allesandra Gallery, New York, NY
1976
American Artists ’76: A Celebration, Marion Koogler McNay Institute, San Antonio, TX
Artists of East Hampton 1850–1976, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Contemporary American Painting, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
118 Artists, Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
1975
American Women Printmakers, University of St. Louis, MI
Artists of the Hamptons, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Collage and Assemblage in Southern California, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
Women Artists Here and Now, Ashwagh Hall, Springs, NY
1974
The Audacious Years 1961–1971, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Quilts, Mount St. Vincent University Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Then and Now (Artists of the Region), Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Women’s Work–American Art ’74, Philadelphia Civic Center Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1973
Female Sexuality/Female Identity, Womenspace, Los Angeles, CA
14 Women, University Art Gallery, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
The Four, de Sasset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
New Acquisitions, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1972
Faculty Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
21 Artists–Invisible/Visible, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
American Women–Twentieth Century, Lake View Center for the Arts, Peoria, IL
Unmanly Art, Suffolk Museum, Stony Brook, NY
Womanhouse, Los Angeles, CA
1971
Women in the Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Twentieth Century Painting from the New York University Art Collection, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Roko Gallery Pays Homage to the Tanager Gallery (1952–1962), Roko Gallery, New York, NY
Tamarind: A Renaissance in Lithography, International Exhibition Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
1969 Paul Brach and Miriam Schapiro, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA
An Exhibition of Contemporary American Drawings, Fort Worth Art Center, TX
Boxes, Books and Things, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1969
Fine Arts Exhibition, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
New Banners, Multiples Gallery, New York, NY
New Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1967
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1967, University of Illinois, Urbana,
IL
International Selection 1967, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
180 Beacon Collection: ’67 Group, Boston, MA
Brach, Harrison, Lewallen, Rifat, Schapiro, John Muir College, San Diego, CA
1965
One Hundred Contemporary American Drawings, University of Michigan Museumof
Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1965, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
New Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1964
Recent American Drawings, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1963
American Prints from the Hilton at the Rockefeller Center, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY
Symbolist Legacy, Contemporary Art Association, Houston, TX
Toward A New Abstraction, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
New Directions in American Painting, Traveling Exhibition of the Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1962
65th Annual American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Modern Art Traveling Show: Abstract Watercolors and Drawings, USA, Various Venues in the United States and Latin America, through 1964
1961
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
64th Annual American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1960
All Women Show, Dord Fitz, Amarillo, TX
1959
Drawing Show, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, NY
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Fifteen Americans at the International Art Exhibition, International Art Exhibition, Japan
1958
Abstract Impressionism, Arts Council Gallery, London, England
The 1958 Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
1957
Alumni Exhibition, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
New Talent Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1956
Drawings, Watercolors and Small Oils, Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY
1955
Seventeen Contemporary Paintings, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Fourth Artists’ Annual Show, Stable Gallery, New York, NY
New Artists of the Region, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
1954
Third Artists’ Annual Show, Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
1953
Second Artists’ Annual Show, Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
1952
Stable Gallery Annual, Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
1951
Fifth Annual National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1949
A New Direction in Intaglio, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Colorado
Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO
1948
University of Indiana Print Show, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
1947
Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS
2008
National Woman’s History Project Honoree
2006
The Miriam Schapiro Archives for Women Artists at Rutgers University was established, The Elan Award from the Women’s Studio Center, New York
2005–2005
Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence Lecturer, Rutgers, NJ
2002
CAA Lifetime Achievement Award
1995
Honorary Doctorate Degree, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Honorary Doctorate Degree, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1994
Honorary Doctorate Degree and Commencement Address, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Honors Award, New York State NARAL
Honorary Doctorate Degree, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
1993
Rockefeller Foundation Grant for Artist’s Residency at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy
Commencement Address, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
1992
Honors Award, National Association of Schools of Art and Design
1989
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1988
Honors Award, The Women’s Caucus for Art
1987
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Commencement Address, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1986
Commencement Address, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
1985
National Endowment of the Arts, Panelist
1984
Women’s Caucus for Art, Guest of Honor at National Conference, Toronto
Djerassi Foundation Residency, Woodside, CA
Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency- Master Class
1983
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
1982
Skowhegan Medal for Collage
1981
Yaddo Residency
1977–1978
Artist in Residence, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1976
Visual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment of the Arts
1964
Ford Foundation Grant, Lithography Workshop at Tamarind, Los Angeles, CA
1963
Tamarind Fellowship
SELCTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albion College, Albion, MI
Allen Memorial Art Museum on Oberlin, OH
Amstar Corporation, NYC
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Associates in the Arts Co., Oradell, NJ
Bank of America, Spring St., Los Angeles, CA
Bates Fabric, NYC
Brevard Art Center, Melbourne, FL
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Chrysler Museum of Art, Ghent, VA
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Harvard University’s Fogg Museum, Boston, MA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
IBM, Atlanta, GA
Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Kalamazoo Institute of Fine Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Martin Foundation, NYC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Miami University, Oxford, OH
Mills College, Oakland, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Missoula Museum of Arts, Missoula, MT
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, KS
Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Moderner Kunst, Wien, Austria
Nathan D. Rosen Museum Gallery, Adolf & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center, Boca Raton, FL
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
New York Hilton Hotel, New York, NY
New York University, New York, NY
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Parrish Museum, Southampton, FL
Pensacola Museum, Pensacola, FL
Peter Ludwig Collection, Aachen, Germany
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Prudential Insurance Company Collection, NJ
Rockwood Computer Corporation, New York, NY
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Stanford University Hospital, Palo Alto, CA
Stephens College, Columbia, MI
St. Louis City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Tugaloo College, Tugaloo, MI
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City, IA
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ