Louise Fishman is represented by Cheim & Read
BIOGRAPHY |
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| 1939 | Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1965 | Moves to New York City |
| 1988 |
Travels to Eastern Europe, visits Auschwitz and Terezin, Prague, Warsaw and Budapest. Lives and works in New York City |
EDUCATION |
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| 1956–57 | Philadelphia College of Art, Pennsylvania |
| 1958 | Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia |
| 1963 | B.F.A. and B.S., Tyler School of Fine Arts, Elkins, Pennsylvania |
| 1965 | M.F.A., University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS(includes major two-artist exhibitions) |
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| 2012 |
Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York (9/13- 10/27/12) |
| 2010 | Louise Fishman, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco (9/29/10 - 10/23/10) |
| 2009 |
Louise Fishman: Among the Old Masters, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (10/7 – 10/25/09) Cheim & Read, New York (3/26 – 5/2/09) |
| 2008 | Louise Fishman: Between Geometry and Gesture, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin (7/19-9/26/08) |
| 2007 | Louise Fishman: The Tenacity of Painting, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (4/3/07–5/6/07) |
| 2006 | Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York (2/15–3/25/06) |
| 2005 | Louise Fishman, Foster Gwin, San Francisco (5/24–7/1/05) |
| 2004 |
Louise Fishman, Recent Work, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (9/11–10/23/04) New York Abstract Painters George McNeil / Louise Fishman / 2004, Foster Gwin, San Francisco (8/19-10/19/04) |
| 2003 | Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York (4/22–5/24/03) |
| 2002 | Louise Fishman, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (4/20–6/1/02) |
| 2001 | Louise Fishman, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco (4/3–4/28/01) |
| 2000 | Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York, with an accompanying catalog with essay by John Yau (9/15–10/21/00) |
| 1998 |
Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York (10/14–11/14/98) Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, (4/21– 5/29/98) |
| 1996 | Robert Miller Gallery, New York (10/22–11/16/96) |
| 1995 | Small Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (1/10–2/4/95) |
| 1994 | Small Paintings1992–1994, Bianca Lanza Gallery, Miami (11/12–12/7/94) |
| 1993 | Robert Miller Gallery, New York (9/14–11/16/93) |
| 1992–93 |
Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, 1979–1992, Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (12/92–1/14/93) Drawings and Experimental Work, 1971–1992, Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (12/9/92–1/15/93) Louise Fishman: Paintings, 1986–1992, Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (10/16/92–1/31/93) |
| 1992 |
Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, 1978–1992, Simon Watson, New York (11/29–12/5), (preview of exhibition at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art) Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio (1/19–2/29/92) |
| 1991 | Louise Fishman: New Paintings, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (2/14–3/23/91) |
| 1989 |
Louise Fishman: New Paintings 1987–1989, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (9/23–11/4/89) Remembrance and Renewal, Simon Watson Gallery, New York (3/4–4/22/89) |
| 1987 | Louise Fishman and Andy Spence: Two from the Corcoran, Winston Gallery, Washington, DC (4/87) |
| 1986 | Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York (10/16–11/15/86)1985 Fishman/Sanderson, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina (6/15–9/15/85) |
| 1984 | Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York (10/30–11/24/84) |
| 1982 |
Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York (3/2–27/82) John Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio (3/2–27/82) |
| 1980 | Louise Fishman: Small Paintings The MacDowell Colony, 7/1980, Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York (11/25–12/20/80) |
| 1979 |
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York (9/79) Louise Fishman: Five Years, 55 Mercer, New York (6/12–6/30/79) |
| 1978 | Diplomat’s Lobby, The Department of State, Washington, DC |
| 1977 | Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York (5/7–6/2/77) |
| 1974 | Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York (11/30–12/19/74) |
| 1976 |
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island (11/76) John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (5/76) |
| 1964 | Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pennsylvania |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2011 |
Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (5/12/11 – 9/6/11) Traveling to The National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., (10/14/11 - 1/22/12) Dance/Draw, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, (10/7/11 - 1/16/12); travels to The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York (4/17/12 - 7/14/12); The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, New York, (8/12 – 12/12) ABSTRACTION, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, (8/12/11 - 9/1/11) The Women in Our Life: A Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition,Cheim & Read, New York, (6/30/11 - 9/9/11) To the Venetians, RISD, Providence, Rhode Island (2/22/11 – 3/25/11) READYKEULOUS/The Hurtful Healer, Invisible Exports, New York (1/14/11 – 2/13/11) |
| 2010 |
Painting & Sculpture: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York (12/9/10 – 1/9/11) LES FEMMES, McClain Gallery, Houston, (10/15/09 - 1/2/10) Abstraction Revisited, Chelsea Art Museum, New York (10/7/10 - 11/27/10) Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, The Jewish Museum, New York (9/12/10 - 1/30/11) Le Tableau: French Abstraction and its Affinities, curated by Joe Fyfe, Cheim & Read, New York (6/24 – 9/3/10) |
| 2009 |
Before Again: Joan Mitchell, Louise Fishman, Harriet Korman, Melissa Meyer, Jill Moser, Denyse Thomasos, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. (10/15 – 11/28/09) Les Femmes, McClain Gallery, Houston (10/15/09 – 1/2/10) Abstractions by Gallery Artists, Cheim & Read, New York (9/24 –10/3/09) Propose: Works on Paper from the 1970s, Alexander Gray Associates, New York (1/15-2/14/09) |
| 2008 |
MassArt at the Fine Arts Work Center: Faculty and Visiting Artists, Hudson D. Walker Gallery Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. (8/29 - 9/9/08) Pretty Ugly, Maccarone Gallery, New York (7/10 - 9/1/08) Significant Form, The Persistence of Abstraction, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (4/30/08–6/30/08) Environments and Empires, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (1/24/08–4/13/08) |
| 2007 |
American Abstract, Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, Belgium (12/30/07–2/3/08) The Fluid Fields: Abstraction and Reference, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (10/3 - 10/20/07) WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (3/4/07–7/30/07) traveling to National Women's Museum, Washington D.C., (9/07–12/07); P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2/08-6/08); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (10/4/08 - 1/18/09) |
| 2006 |
High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–75, Independent Curators International, New York; traveling to Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC (8/6/06–10/15/06); American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. (11/21/06–1/21/07); National Academy Museum, New York, 2/15/07–4/22/07); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico (5/25/07–9/9/07); Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria (12/14/07–2/24/08); ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (3/28/08–6/1/08) The New Landscape/The New Still life: Soutine and Modern Art, Cheim & Read, NY (6/22–9/9/06) The Name of This Show is Not Gay Art Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, (6/8 - 7/21/06) |
| 2005 |
Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (10/28/05–1/14/06) Paint, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR (5/05-7/2/05) Contemporary Women Artists: New York, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Indiana (1/19 - 2/11/05) |
| 2004 |
Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston (6/26–8/31) Twelve From Cheim & Read, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, (6/11 - 7/12/04) Drawing Exhibition, Galerie S 65 Cologne, Germany (3/12 - 4/17/04) |
| 2003 |
The Invisible Thread : Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York (9/28/03 - 2/29/04) Women's Lines, GFine Art Washington DC (5/15 - 6/30/03) Grisaille, James Graham & Sons, New York (3/28–4/26/03) |
| 2002 |
Zenroxy, Von Lintel Gallery, New York (12/26/02 - 2/1/03) Nocturne/Nocturnal, Skoto Gallery, New York (10/17-11/30/02) Personal and Political: The Woman's Art Movement, 1969-1975, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY (8/10–10/20/02) Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture, 48 Wall Street, New York (6/14-9/15/02) 177th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, New York (5/1-6/9/02) Adolph & Clara Obrig 1st Prize for Painting Painting: A Passionate Response, Sixteen American Artists, The Painting Center, New York (2/5 - 3/2/02) Nature Found and Made, Chambers Fine Art, New York (1/17 - 3/9/02) |
| 2001 |
Four Painters, Lindsey Brown, New York (12/12/01 - 1/5/02) Watercolor: In The Abstract, traveling exhibition curated by Pamela Auchincloss The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY (9/30 - 12/09/01) traveled to: Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery SUNY at Fredonia (1/18 - 2/22/02); Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (3/10 - 4/28/02); Nina Freundenheim, Inc., Buffalo NY, (5/11 – 7/15/02); Ben Shahn Gallery Williams Patterson University Wayne NJ (9/6 - 10/11/02); Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (11/3/02 - 4/15/03) Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA (9/7-10/21/01) The Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Reopening exhibition, New York, NY (8/17 - 9/5/01) Imaging Judaism / Mining History, Susquehanna Art Museum (4/19 - 6/30/01) American Academy of Arts and Letters (3/5 - 4/1/01) |
| 2000 |
175th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York (2/9 –5/26) Painting Abstraction, New York Studio School (March–November) Snapshot, Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Maryland (11/3/00 – 2/25/01) The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of The Jewish Museum, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (9/23–11/12/00) |
| 1999 |
Gestural Abstraction, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York (2/25–4/17) Severed Ear: The Poetry of Abstraction, Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston (3/31–4/24) Walking, Danese, New York (6/18–8/27) Abstraction: Realism, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, curated by Jonathan Van Dyke (6/9–8/21) Drawing in the Present Tense, Parsons School of Design, New York (10/13–12/3) |
| 1998 |
Small Paintings, Cheim & Read, New York (7/1–7/31) Undercurrents & Overtones: Contemporary Abstract Painting, California College of Arts & Crafts Institute, Oakland (9/19–11/14) San Francisco International Art Exposition, Cheim & Read Exhibition Booth (10/1–10/4) Paintings & Drawings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (12/5–1/16/99) |
| 1997–98 |
Retreat and Renewall: The Painters and Sculptors of the MacDowell Colony, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, Vermont (9/16–12/2); traveled to The Equitable Gallery, New York (1/17–3/23); Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas (4/20–6/15); Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne, Indiana (11/8–1/9/98) |
| 1997 |
Convergence, George Billis Gallery, New York (12/2/97–1/10/98) Voices: The Power of Abstraction, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York (10/28–11/15) Abstract Painting, curated by Jeffrey Wasserman, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY (9/25–10/26) Basically Black & White, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, New York (9/20–10/25) Affinities with the East, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (Summer) After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island (3/27–9/7) |
| 1996 |
Summer Group Show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (7/1–8/30) Transforming the Social Order, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, PA (9/6–10/4) Women’s Work, Greene Naftali Inc., New York (9/6–10/13) |
| 1995 |
25 Americans: Painting the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (9/8–12/11) Artist’s Choice: Elizabeth Murray, Museum of Modern Art, New York (6/19–8/22) 1995 Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh New Faculty, Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge (9/15–10/15) |
| 1994 |
Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters in Art, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia (late August–10/25), traveled to Snug Harbor Cultural Center (11/6–1/15/95); Rahr West Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin (4/14–5/16) Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri (10/15–12/18) Couples, Elga Wimmer, New York (9/10–10/12) Small and Wet: Abstract painting and sculpture, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts (11/8 –11/26) 46th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (11/7–12/4) Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (7/19–8/26) |
| 1993 |
Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (6/8–6/13), under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale. Reinstalled at the Guggenheim Museum, Soho (11/6–19) Abstract-Figurative, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (June–August) Art Discovery ’93, Cooperstown Art Association and Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, New York (8/23–9/18) The Inaugural Show, The Painting Center, New York (9/14–11/2) Singularities, Blondies Contemporary Art, New York (11/9–11/1) The Linear Image II, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York (10/5–11/6) 30th Anniversary Exhibition of Drawings, Castelli Gallery, New York, to benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc. (December) |
| 1992 |
Paintings by Martha Diamond, Mary Heilmann, Harriet Korman, Louise Fishman and Bernard Piffaretti, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (6/16–7/31) The Jewish Museum’s Masked Ball in Celebration of Purim, The Jewish Museum, New York (3/10) |
| 1991 |
Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson Gallery, New York (2/23–3/23) Spring/Summer Exhibition, Part One: Painters, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (5/18–6/21) Twentieth-Century Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (1/12–2/16), traveled to: Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polonco, Mexico (6/13–9/1), Musèe d’art Moderne et d’art Contemporain, Nice, France (9/27–11/11) Act-Up Benefit, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (12/4–12/21) |
| 1990 |
A Group Exhibition, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (1/10–2/24) Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (9/6–11/2) From Earth to Archetype, LedisFlam Gallery, New York (9/13–11/6) |
| 1989 |
Group Exhibition, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (1/14–2/25) Towards Form, Greenberg, Wilson Gallery, New York (5/2–6/3) Works on Paper, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (6/13–8/11) Fragments of History, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia (7/21–9/3) A Decade of American Drawing 1980–1989, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles (7/15–8/26) Belief in Paint: Eleven Contemporary Artists, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont (11/7–12/15) |
| 1988–89 | Golem: Danger, Deliverance and Art, The Jewish Museum, New York (12/–4/2/89) |
| 1988 |
Selections from the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection, Davis-McClain Gallery, Houston, curated by Klaus Kertess Louise Fishman, David Reed, Joan Mitchell, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, curated by Marjorie Welish (June–July) |
| 1987–88 | The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York |
| 1987 |
40th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Jewish Museum, New York, “Jewish Themes” (traveling exhibition) |
| 1986 |
Artists for Pride, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia Louise Fishman, Hermine Ford and Arthur Cohen, Hofstra University, New York Jewish Themes–Contemporary American Artists II, The Jewish Museum, New York (7/15–11/16) Heland Thorden Wetterling Galleries, Stockholm, Sweden (spring) Spirit Tracks–Big Abstract Drawings, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York and Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (April–May) Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York (April) |
| 1985 |
Drawings 1975–1985, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York (December) Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York (November) Painting as Landscape, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, curated by Klaus Kertess (traveled to: Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, California. An Invitational, Condeso/Lawler, New York, curated by Tiffany Bell, (June–July) Paintings 1985, Pam Adler Gallery, New York (January–February) Twelve Painters and Six Sculptors, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, (January) |
| 1984 |
Relief Prints Since 1980, Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey (September) Second Nature: Abstract Drawings and Paintings, Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, curated by John Lee and Tom Wolf (April) Cable Gallery, New York (April) New Prints Since 1980, Phillip Johnson Center, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania (February) |
| 1983 |
Six Painters, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York (5/25–7/17) Drawing In and Out, Baskerville & Watson, New York (May–June) Painting from the Mind’s Eye, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York (2/18–3/23) |
| 1982 |
Washburn Gallery, New York, (November–December) Abstraction, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, New York (November) Mixing Art and Politics, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago (April) Abstract Painting: Substance and Meaning–Painting by Woman Artists,New York Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art, New York City (February) Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan (July–September) Five New York Artists, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont (April) Painterly Abstraction, Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana (January–March) |
| 1981 |
Rush Rhees Fine Arts Gallery, University of Rochester, New York, (March) 1981 Painting Invitational, Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York (January) CAPS Grantees from Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York (April–June) CAPS Award Winners in Painting 1980–1981, Proctor Art Center, Bard College and Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, New York (April–August) |
| 1980 |
Work on Paper, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (June) Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, Inaugural Exhibit (September) |
| 1979 | Major New Works, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York (January) |
| 1977–78 |
Critic’s Choice, Lowe Gallery, Syracuse University, Ithaca, New York (December), traveled to Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, New York (January) |
| 1977 |
Fifth Anniversary Show, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York (December) Paintings That Reveal the Wall, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, curated by Tom Wolf (December) Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, Major New Works (September) Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Nancy Hoffman in Oxford (March) Preparatory Notes–Thinking Drawings, Part II, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York (February–March) |
| 1976 |
Paris International Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris Artist ’76, A Celebration, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, American (summer) University of Rhode Island, Kingston (March) |
| 1975 |
John Doyle Gallery, Chicago (November) New York Faculty Exhibition, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (November) |
| 1973 |
A Woman’s Group, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 1972 |
Summer Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (December) A.I.R. Gallery, New York, Open A.I.R. |
| 1963 | National Watercolor and Drawing Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS |
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The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh The Denver Art Museum, Colorado The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia The Jewish Museum, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia |
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AWARDS |
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| 1963 |
Tyler School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. First Painting Prize, Student Exhibit Tyler School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Bertha Lowenburg Prize for the Senior Woman to Excel in Art |
| 1975 | Change, Inc., New York |
| 1975–76 | National Endowment for the Arts, Painting |
| 1979 | Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting |
| 1980 | Fellow, MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire |
| 1981 | CAPS Fellowship in Painting |
| 1983–84 | National Endowment for the Arts, Painting |
| 1986 |
New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, General Support Grant |
| 1994 | National Endowment for the Arts, Painting |
| 2002 | Adolph & Clara Obrig Prize for Painting, National Academy of Design, 177th Annual Exhibition, 5/1st, 2002 |