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Awards

2007	Anonymous was a Woman Foundation
2004	Grand Prize: National Printmaking Exhibit, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
2000-2	Artists in Residence, Virginia Center for Creative Arts (Dodge Grant)
2000	Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
	E.D. Foundation Grant Award
1999-00	Mid-Atlantic Artist as Catalyst Grant at Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
1998	Fellowship at Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking
1996	Mid-Atlantic Grant (NEA) in Painting
1995	Montclair Arts Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts
1994	Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Award
1993	Artist in Residence, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweetbriar VA 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998 (Dodge Grant)
1992	Artist in Residence, Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY and Forest Fellow Award
1989	Fellowship at Center fro Innovative Printmaking, Rutgers University, NJ
1987	NJ State Council on the Arts Grant
	Artist Colony, Banff Center, Alberta, Canada Dec 1986 - Jan 1987
1983	NJ State Council on the Arts Grant
	Nominated for A.V.A. Award
1980	Artist in Residence, The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France
	Visiting Artist, Burston Graphic Cneter, Jerusalem, Isreal
1978	New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant
	Aritist in Residence, Ossabaw Island, GA
1977	Childe Hassam Purchase Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1976	Artist in Residence, Millay Colony, Austrelitz NY
1972	The Enduring Beast, Doubleday (Editor & Illustrator), selected as one of Fifty Books of the Year Award, American Institute of Graphic Arts
1971	The Brooklyn Museum, The Enduring Beast, (first one-woman exhibition in the history of the museum) curated by Jo Miller and Sarah Faunce
	Creative Artists Public Service Program Grant, NY State Council on the Arts
1959	Artist in Residence, MacDowell Colony, Petersborough, NH
1954-5	Fulbright Fellow, Paris France.
1953-54	Fulbright Fellow, Paris France.

Public Collections

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH] Andrew Dickenson White Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY Ashland Oil, Ashland KY Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL Bergen Museum, Paramus, NJ Benton and Bowles, New York, NY Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Everson Museum, Syracuse NY First and Merchants Bank, Richmond VA Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England Godwin-Ternbach Museum of Art, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, New York Graham Gallery, New York, NY Huntington Museum, Huntington, West Vairginia Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Isreal. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan Kresge Museum, Lansing, MI Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ Jewish Museum, New York, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ Museo d'Art Moderno de la Respublica, Dominicano, Santo Domingo Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY New Hall College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England New School of Social Research, New York, NY New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ Ossabwa Island Project, GA\ Queens Museum, Flushing Meadow, Queens, NY Queensborough Community College, CUNY Bayside, NY San Diego Museum, San Diego, CA Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA Spertus Jewish Museum, Chicago, IL Squibb Building, Minneapolis, MN University of Delaware University of Oregon, Eugene OR Vassar College Museum, Poughkeepsie, New York. Victoria and Albert Museum,  London, England Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, VA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yale University, Sterling Art Library, New Haven, CT Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of NJ, New Brunswick, NJ

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008	Gering Lopez Gallery, New York City, New York
2005	Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
2004	Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
	American Impressions: National Juried Printmaking Exhibition, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
2002	Pacifico Fine Arts, New York, NY
	Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2001	Gallery 214 - Montclair Studio International, Montclair, NJ
	Southeby's Auction (Drawing) for Fulbright Fund
2000	Gallery at Bristol Meyers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
1999	Artist's Books, Connecticut College
	NJ Arts Annual, NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ
	Artist Books Exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1998	NJ Arts Annual, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
	Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
	Museo d'Art Moderno de la Republica, La Linea: Dibujos Contemporaneos, Dominicana, Santo Dominco
1997-8	Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
1997-00	Traveling Exhibition: Women of the Book, Artist's Books on Jewish Themes
1997	Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, New Brunswick, NJ
1996	Center for Book Arts, Mysterious Worlds, New York, NY
1995	Jersey City Museum, Drawing Invitational, Jersey City, NJ
1994	Corcoran Gallery of Art, Still Working, Washington, DC
	Traveling To: The Chicago Cultural center, IBM Gallery, New York, NY; The Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, The Fishcher Art Gallery at USC, The Portland Museum of Art
1993	Chicago Art Expo, Chicago, IL
1991	Morris Museum, Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking Fellows, Morristown, NJ
	Rutgers University, The Apocalyptic Vision, New Brunswick, NJ
	The Studio Museum, The New Museum & Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The Decade Show, New York, NY
	Women's Caucus for Art, Cooper Union, Primal Forces, New York, NY
1989	Hunterdon Art Center, 10 New Jersey Distinguished Artists, Clinton, NJ
	Holman Hall Art gallery, Trenton State College, The Holocaust in Contemporary Art, Trenton, NJ
1988	Stadiche Galerie, 37 VCAA Fellows, Regensburg, Germany
	The Monmouth Museum, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibitions - 1987-88, LIncroft, NJ
1986	Robeson Center gallery, Rutgers state University, The Brutal Figure: Visceral Images, Newark, NJ
	Contemporary Arts Center, Oppresssion/Expression, New Orleans, LA
1985	The Antheneum, Alexandria, VA
	Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA
	Maier Museum, Rrandolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, VA
	Roanoke Museum of Fine arts, Roanoke, VA
	Newark Museum, Recent Acquisitions, Newark, NJ
1982	The Montclair Art Museum: The Interior Self: Three Generations of Expressionists View the Human Image, Montclair, NJ
1979	Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Rutgers National Drawing 79, Camden, NJ
	Clayton Hall, University of Delaware, Mid-Atlantic Regional Exhibition of Collage, Newark, DE
1978	Newark, Museum, Recent Acquisitions, Newark, NJ
	Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Women Artists '78, Metropolitan Area: NY, NJ, CT, New York, NY
1977	Academy Art Gallery, The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Exhibition of Pictures Eligible for Hassam and Speicher Purchase Fund
	Bronx Museum  of the Arts, Images of Horror and Fantasy, Bronx, NY
1976	The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ
1974	Counter Currents: The New Humanism, the Humanist Center Aida Hernandez Gallery, New York, NY and Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1973	Arnot Art Museum, Contemporary American Artists, Elmira, NY
1972	The Stamford Museum, Women in the Arts, Stamford, CT
1971	Grahmam Gallery, Birds and Beasts, New York, NY
1969	New School Art Center, American Drawings of the Sixties, New York, NY
	Eleventh Rhode Island Arts Festival, Providence, RI
	Chelsea Gallery, The Art of Money, New York, NY
	The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Exhibition of Paintings eligible for Purchase under the Childe Hassam Fund, New York, NY
1968	New School Art Center, The Humanist Tradition in Contemporary American Painting, New York, NY
	Institute for International Education, New York, NY
	Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1966	National Academy of Design, Audubon Artists, New York, NY
1963	State Capital, New York State Artists, Albany, NY
1960	American Federation of the Arts, New York, NY
	National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
	JB Speed Art Museum, Lousville, KY
	Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
	DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln MA
	Boston Arts Festival, Boston MA
	American Embassy, Fulbright Artists, Paris, France
	Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
	Brooklyn Museum, Seventh Annual Print Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
1958	Whitney Museum of American Art, Recent Acquisitions, New York, NY
	The Downtown Gallery, Americans in Europe: Rome, Florence, Paris, London, New York, NY
Selected Bibliography Critical Comment
Anreus, Alejandro. "The Primal Images of Miriam Beerman" NJ Arts Magazine, December 1987
Babbage, Joan. "Artists Draws Inspiration from Need to Express" Newark Star Ledger, October 4, 1974
"Brooklyn Museum" Art News 70 January 1972 p10
Campbell, Lawrence. "Miriam Beermam" Art News 70 January 1972 p10
Canaday, John, "Miriam Beerman" The New York Times, February 19, 1972
DeShazo, Edith. "Mid-Atlantic Regional Exhibition of Collage" Sunday News Journal (Wilmington, DE) August 12, 1979
"Exhibition at Halpert Gallery," Art News 68 February, 1970 p10
"Exhibition at Chelsea Gallery", Art News 67 February 1969 p12
Glueck, Grace. "Battlefront in Brooklyn" The New York Times, November, 12,1972 p 64
"Graham Gallery, New York" Arts Magazine 46 March 1972 p 64
Halasz, Piri. "Montclair Artist Favors Animals", The New York Times, September 1974
Hancock, Marianne. "In the Galleries (Miriam Beerman)" Arts Magazine 46 March 1972 p64
Hirsch, Faye. Working Proof May/June 2002 Art on Paper Magazine, pp75-76 "Miriam Beerman, Faces"
Hughes, Cindy. "Beerman Painting 'Brutal" Brooklyn World Telegram. October 25 1965
Klein, EL. "The Brutal Figure (Robeson Center Gallery NJ)" Arts Magazine February, 1987 p61
Loughery, John. Women's Art Journal. Fall/Winter 1992 p.48
Malen, Lenore, "Graham Gallery, New York" Arts Magazine 52. October 1977 p12
National Public Radio, "All Things Considered" June 26, 1994
Nemser, Cindy. "Miriam Beerman" Arts Magazine 44 February 1969
National Public Television, MacNeil Leher December 7, 1994 (Phyllis Therous Essay)
NJ State Council on the arts Television Feature: December 1987 and Jan 1988
"Miriam Beerman at the Brooklyn Museum" Arts Magazine 46 November 1971 p58
"Male Chauvinist Expose, Chapter 1" Feminist Art Journal. April 1972 p17
"The New Grotesques" Time Magazine. June 13, 1969 p74,76
Raynor, Vivien. "imaginary Monsters That Dare a Visitor to See a Show" The New York Times. April 14, 1991
Rotov, Dimitri. New Art Examiner. October 1991 p41
Shirey, David L. "In Montclair, The Animal Kingdom" The New York Times, February, 19, 1978
Slatkin, Wendy. "Rutgers, National Drawing Exhibition" Arts Magazine 54. February 1980 p 22
Thornton, Gene. "The Critical People" WBAI (Broadcast Review) January, 26, 1969 and Oct. 27, 1968
Turner, Norman "Graham Gallery, New York, Arts Magazine 52 December 1977 p. 23
Watkins, Eileen. "College Exhibit Links man and Other Animals" The Newark Star Ledger. February 12, 1978
Zimmer, William. "Expressionism Across the Generations at Montclair's Museum" The New York Times, March 29 1987
Selected Bibliography Books, Catalogues, and Exhibition Checklists/Pamphlets
1998	New Jersey Arts Annual
1997	"The Montclair Art Community", Montclair Art Museum, NJ
1994	"Still Working Underknown Artists of Age in America" Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1991	Alison G. Weld, "Miriam Beerman" Works from 1949-1990" Trenton State Museum, Trenton, NJ
1990	"The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980's" New York: The Studio museum, NY
1989	"The Holocaust in Contemporary Art" New Jersey: Trenton State College
1987	Davis, Roy. "The Interior Self: Three Generations of Expressionists View the Human Image," Montclair, NJ Montclair Art Museum.
	"Witches, Demons and Metamorphoses:" Montclair, NJ: Montclair State College
	"Primal Ground, Miriam Beerman: Works from 1983-1987", Montclair Art Museum
1986	Golub, Leon and Sims, Lowery S. "Oppression/Expression" New Orleans, LA Contemporary Arts Center
	Twitchell, James B. "Dreadful Pleasures, An Anatomy of Modern Horror" New York, Oxford University Press
1986	Weld, Alison. "The Brutal Figure: Visceral Images," Newark, NJ: Robeson Center Gallery
1970-85	Rosenbrower, "Making their Mark (Women Artist Move into the Mainstream)", New York: Abbeville Press
1979	Botwinick, Michael. "The Brooklyn Museum, American Paintings" Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum
	Crawford, John S. "Mid-Atlantic Regional Exhibition of Collage" Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware.
1978	Whitney Museum, catalog collection "Women Artists '78" New Jersey/New York: Women's Caucus for Art
	"Images of Horror and Fantasy" New York: Harry Abrams, Inc
1977	"The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum," Montclair, NJ
	Schiff, Gert. "Images of Horror and Fantasy" New York: Bronx Museum
1976	"Bulletin of Rhode Island School of Design" (alumni ed.) 62. no. 4 March
1974	"Miriam Beerman" Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum
	Schwartz, Barry N. "The New Humanism, Art in a Time of Change: New York" Praeger Publishers
1973	Lindquist, Kenneth H. "Contemporary American Artists" Elmira, New York: Arnot Art Museum
	"Photographers, Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers 1970/71", New York: Gallery Association of New York State and Creative Artists Program Service, Inc.
1972	Beerman, Miraim., ed & illust. "Enduring Beast" New York: Doubleday
	Johnson, Una E. "Ten Years of American Prints 1947-56" Brooklyn Museum, New York
	Kamarck, Edward L. gen ed. "Arts in Society" Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, Vol 10 The Humanist Alternative
1971	"The Enduring Beast: Drawings and Paintings by Miriam Beerman" New York, Brooklyn Museum.
1970	Herbert, David. "Birds and Beast" New York, Graham Gallery
1969	Mocsanyi, Paul. "American Drawings of the Sixties, A Selection" New York City: The New School Art Center
	"The Humanist Condition in Contemporary American Painting" New York City: The New School Art Center.
1949	Abbott, Bernice, "Greenwich Village Today and Yesterday" New York Harper and Bros. (Photo Caption: "Young Painters will find their way to the Village from many parts of teh country")