Solo Exhibitions
2020 |
QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Comm. College, Queens, New York. |
2017 |
Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD |
2015 |
Wriston Art Center, Lawrence Univ., Appleton WI |
2007 |
Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Queens, NY |
2006 |
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY |
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Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ |
2005 |
William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ |
2004 |
Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY |
2002 |
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI |
2001 |
Baird Center, So. Orange, NJ |
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Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ |
2000 |
Women’s Studio Workshop, Miriam Beerman Prints |
1997-98 |
Jersey City Museum, Miriam Beerman Artist’s Books, Jersey City, NJ |
1996 |
Bergen Museum, paintings, drawings, books Bergen, NJ |
1993 |
College Art Gallery, Suffolk Community College, Selden NY |
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Klarfeld Perry Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition, NY NY |
1991 |
New Jersey State Museum, Miriam Beerman: Works from 1949-1990, Trenton, NJ |
1989 |
Pratt Institute, Small Retrospective, New York, NY |
1987 |
The Montclair Art Museum, Primal Ground Miriam Beerman: Works from 1983-1987, Montclair, NJ |
1986 |
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Paintings, Sweetbriar, VA |
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Millersville University, Miriam Beerman: Monoprints and Drawings, Millersville, PA |
1983 |
Pastoral Gallery, Easthampton, NY |
1982 |
Roger Litz Gallery, Miriam Beerman 9 Collages, New York, NY |
1980 |
Camargo Foundation, Cassis France |
1978 |
Gallery One, Montclair State College, Miriam Beerman: Recent Works, Montclair, NJ |
1977 |
Graham Gallery, New York, NY |
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Cathedral Museum at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York, NY |
1974 |
The Montclair Art Museum, Miriam Beerman: Collage, Drawing and Painting, Montclair, NJ |
1972 |
Graham Gallery, Enduring Beast: Drawings and Paintings, New York, NY |
1971 |
Brooklyn Museum, The Enduring Beast, Brooklyn, NY |
1970 |
Benton and Bowles, New York NY |
1969 |
Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY |
1965 |
Newport Art Association, Recent Painting, Newport, RI |
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Brooklyn Center, Long Island University, Miriam Beerman, Paintings, Drawings, Collages, Brooklyn, NY |
Awards
2015 |
Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Achievement Award |
2007 |
Anonymous was a Woman Foundation |
2004 |
Grand Prize: National Printmaking Exhibit, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ |
2000-02 |
Artists in Residence, Virginia Center for Creative Arts (Dodge Grant) |
2000 |
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
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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 for Innovative Printmaking, Rutgers University, NJ |
1987 |
NJ State Council on the Arts Grant |
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Artist Colony, Banff Center, Alberta, Canada Dec 1986 – Jan 1987 |
1983 |
NJ State Council on the Arts Grant |
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Nominated for A.V.A. Award |
1980 |
Artist in Residence, The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France |
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Visiting Artist, Burston Graphic Cneter, Jerusalem, Isreal |
1978 |
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant |
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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 |
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Creative Artists Public Service Program Grant, NY State Council on the Arts |
1959 |
Artist in Residence, MacDowell Colony, Petersborough, NH |
1954-55 |
Fulbright Fellow, Paris France. |
1953-54 |
Fulbright Fellow, Paris France. |
Public Collections
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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
Ashland Oil, Ashland KY
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL
Bergen Museum, Paramus, NJ
Benton and Bowles, New York, NY
Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
British Museum, London, England
Broad Museum, East Lansing, MI
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
Cleveland Museum, Cleveland OH
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Davison Art Center, Middletown CT
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
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, NY
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Huntington Museum, Huntington, WV
International Museum of Collage, Santa Fe, NM
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Julie Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, GA
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Mead Art Museum, Amherst MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Museo d’Art Moderno de la Respublica, Dominicano, Santo Domingo
Museu Europeu d’Art Modern, MEAM, Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
New Walk Art Museum, Leceister, England
New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
New School of Social Research, New York, NY
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
New York Public Library — Print Collection, New York, NY
Ossabwa Island Project, GA
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton NY
Phillips Collection , Washington, D.C.
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown MA
Queens Museum, Flushing Meadow, Queens, NY
Queensborough Community College, CUNY Bayside, NY
San Diego Museum, San Diego, CA
Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Spertus Jewish Museum, Chicago, IL
Squibb Building, Minneapolis, MN
Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN
University of Delaware, Newark DE
University of Oregon, Eugene OR
United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Washington D.C
Vassar College Museum, Poughkeepsie, New York.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, VA
Weissman Museum, St. Paul, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wriston Art Center, Lawrence Univ., Appleton, WI
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Yale University, Sterling Art Library, New Haven, CT
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 |
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The National Portrait Gallery Washington, DC, |
2020 |
Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
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2015 |
Wriston Art Center, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI |
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Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga TN |
2014 |
NJ State Museum, Trenton NJ |
2015 |
Wriston Art Center, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI |
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Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga TN |
2014 |
NJ State Museum, Trenton NJ |
2013 |
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA |
2012 |
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile Alabama |
2008 |
Gering Lopez Gallery, New York City, New York |
2005 |
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY |
2004 |
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
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American Impressions: National Juried Printmaking Exhibition, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ |
2002 |
Pacifico Fine Arts, New York, NY |
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Center for Book Arts, New York, NY |
2001 |
Gallery 214 – Montclair Studio International, Montclair, NJ |
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Southeby’s Auction (Drawing) for Fulbright Fund |
2000 |
Gallery at Bristol Meyers Squibb, Princeton, NJ |
1999 |
Artist’s Books, Connecticut College |
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NJ Arts Annual, NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ |
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Artist Books Exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC |
1998 |
NJ Arts Annual, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ |
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Center for Book Arts, New York, NY |
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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 |
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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 |
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Rutgers University, The Apocalyptic Vision, New Brunswick, NJ |
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The Studio Museum, The New Museum & Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The Decade Show, New York, NY |
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Women’s Caucus for Art, Cooper Union, Primal Forces, New York, NY |
1989 |
Hunterdon Art Center, 10 New Jersey Distinguished Artists, Clinton, NJ |
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Holman Hall Art gallery, Trenton State College, The Holocaust in Contemporary Art, Trenton, NJ |
1988 |
Stadiche Galerie, 37 VCAA Fellows, Regensburg, Germany |
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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 |
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Contemporary Arts Center, Oppresssion/Expression, New Orleans, LA |
1985 |
The Antheneum, Alexandria, VA |
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Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA |
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Maier Museum, Rrandolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, VA |
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Roanoke Museum of Fine arts, Roanoke, VA |
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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 |
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Clayton Hall, University of Delaware, Mid-Atlantic Regional Exhibition of Collage, Newark, DE |
1978 |
Newark, Museum, Recent Acquisitions, Newark, NJ |
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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 |
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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 |
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Eleventh Rhode Island Arts Festival, Providence, RI |
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Chelsea Gallery, The Art of Money, New York, NY |
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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 |
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Institute for International Education, New York, NY |
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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 |
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National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada |
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JB Speed Art Museum, Lousville, KY |
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Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH |
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DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln MA |
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Boston Arts Festival, Boston MA |
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American Embassy, Fulbright Artists, Paris, France |
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Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI |
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Brooklyn Museum, Seventh Annual Print Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY |
1958 |
Whitney Museum of American Art, Recent Acquisitions, New York, NY |
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The Downtown Gallery, Americans in Europe: Rome, Florence, Paris, London, New York, NY |
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Film |
“Miriam Beerman, Expressing the Chaos” a film by Jonathan Gruber, released 2015, available on Amazon Prime. |
Premiered at Palm Beach International Film Festival, FL |
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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 |
Jenkins, Mark. “Annual Washington Jewish Film Festival features local entries“ The Washington Post, February 17, 2016 |
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 |
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Selected Bibliography
Books, Catalogues, and Exhibition Checklists/Pamphlets |
2014 |
“New Jersey Artists through Time” Tovah Navarra, Fronthill Media |
2013 |
Kingsley, April, “Emotional Impact” Michigan State U Press, East Lansing MI |
2007 |
Kuspit, Donald, catalog essay Queenbsburough Community College Art Gallery, Queens, NY |
2006 |
Nahas, Dominique, catalog essay ALJIRA Contemporary, Newark NJ |
2006 |
Pascucci, Marissa, catalog essay Eloquen Pain(t), Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY |
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. |
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“Witches, Demons and Metamorphoses:” Montclair, NJ: Montclair State College |
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“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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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“Images of Horror and Fantasy” New York: Harry Abrams, Inc |
1977 |
“The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum,” Montclair, NJ |
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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 |
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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 |
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“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 |
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Johnson, Una E. “Ten Years of American Prints 1947-56” Brooklyn Museum, New York |
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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 |
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“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”) |
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