LOUISE FISHMAN BIOGRAPHY
[ Solo Exhibitions | Group Exhibitions | Public Collections | Awards ]
1939
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1965
Moves to New York City
1988
Travels to Eastern Europe, visits Auschwitz and Terezin, Prague, Warsaw and Budapest.
Currently lives and works in New York City
EDUCATION
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)
1964
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pennsylvania, "Louise Fishman"
1974
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman" (November 30-December 19)
1976
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island (November) John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, "Louise Fishman" (May)
1977
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman" (May 7-June 2)
1978
Diplomat's Lobby, The Department of State, Washington, DC
1979
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman" (September) 55 Mercer, New York, "Louise Fishman: Five Years" (June 12-30)
1980
Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman: Small Paintings", The MacDowell Colony, July 1980 (November 25-December 20)
1982
Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman: Recent Work" (March 2-27)
John Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio, "Louise Fishman" (March 2-27)
1984
Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman" (October 30-November 24)
1985
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, "Fishman/Sanderson" (June 15-September 15)
1986
Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman: New Paintings" (October 16-November 15)
1987
Winston Gallery, Washington, DC, "Louise Fishman and Andy Spence: Two from the Corcoran" (April)
1989
Simon Watson Gallery, New York, "Remembrance and Renewal" (March 4-April 22)
Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, "Louise Fishman: New Paintings" 1987-1989 (September 23-November 4)
1991
Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, "Louise Fishman: New Paintings" (February 14-March 23)
1992
Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, "Louise Fishman: Small Paintings" (January 19-February 29)
Simon Watson, New York, "Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, 1978-1992" (November 29-December 5), (preview of exhibition at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art)
1992-93
Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, "Louise Fishman: Paintings, 1986-1992" (December 16, 1992-January 31, 1993)
Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia "Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, 1979-1992" (December 1992-January 15, 1993)
Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, "Drawings and Experimental Work, 1971-1992" (December 9, 1992-January 15, 1993)
1993
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman" (September 14-November 16)
1994
Bianca Lanza Gallery, Miami, "Small Paintings, 1992-1994' (November 12-December 7)
1995
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Small Paintings" (January 10-February 4)
1996
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman: Recent Paintings" (October 22-November 16)
1998
Cheim & Read, New York, "Louise Fishman: Recent Paintings & Drawings" (October 14-November 14)
Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, "Louise Fishman" (April 21-May 29)
2000
Cheim & Read, New York, "Louise Fishman", with an accompanying catalog with essay by John Yau (September 15-October 21, 2000)
2001
Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA (April 3-April 28 2001)
2002
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Louise Fishman" (April 20 - June 1, 2002)
2004
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (September 11-October 16, 2004)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1963
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, "National Watercolor and Drawing Exhibition"
1972
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, "Summer Show" (December)
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, Open A.I.R.
1973
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, "A Woman's Group" Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Biennial Exhibition"
1975
John Doyle Gallery, Chicago (November)
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, "New York Faculty Exhibition" (November)
1976
Paris International Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, American "Artist '76, A Celebration" (summer)
University of Rhode Island, Kingston (March)
1977
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, "Fifth Anniversary Show", (December)
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, "Paintings That Reveal The Wall", curated by Tom Wolf (December)
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, Major New Works (September)
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Nancy Hoffman in Oxford (March)
80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York, "Preparatory Notes - Thinking Drawings, Part II" (February-March)
1977-78
Lowe Gallery, Syracuse University, Ithaca, New York, "Critic's Choice" (December), travelled to Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, New York (January)
1979
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, "Major New Works' (January)
1980
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, "Work on Paper" (June)
Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, Inaugural Exhibit (September)
1981
Rush Rhees Fine Arts Gallery, University of Rochester, New York, (March)
Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, "1981 Painting Invitational" (January)
Brooklyn Museum, New York, "CAPS Grantees from Brooklyn" (April-June)
Proctor Art Center, Bard College and Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, New York, "CAPS Award Winners in Painting 1980-1981" (April-August)
1982
Joan Washburn Gallery, New York, (November-December)
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, New York, "Abstraction" (November)
Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, "Mixing Art and Politics" (April)
New York Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art, New York City, "Abstract Painting: Substance and Meaning -- Painting by Woman Artists" (February)
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan (July-0September)
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, "Five New York Artists" (April)
Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana, "Painterly Abstraction" (January-March)
1983
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, "Six Painters" (May 25-July 17)
Baskerville & Watson, New York, "Drawing In and Out" (May-June)
Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York, "Painting from the Mind's Eye" (February 18-March 23)
1984
Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey, "Relief Prints Since 1980" (September)
Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, "Second Nature: Abstract Drawings and Paintings", curated by John Lee and Tom Wolf (April)
Cable Gallery, New York (April)
Phillip Johnson Center, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, New Prints Since 1980 (February)
1985
Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, "Drawings 1975-1985" (December )
Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York (November)
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, "Painting as Landscape," curated by Klaus Kertess (travelled to: Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, California. Condeso/Lawler, New York, "An Invitational", curated by Tiffany Bell, (June-July)
Pam Adler Gallery, New York, "Paintings 1985" (January-February )
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, "Twelve Painters and Six Sculptors", (January)
1986 Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, "Artists for Pride"
Hofstra University, New York, "Louise Fishman, Hermine Ford and Arthur Cohen"
The Jewish Museum, New York, "Jewish Themes -- Contemporary American Artists II" (July 15-November 16)
Heland Thorden Wetterling Galleries, Stockholm, Sweden (spring)
Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York and Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, "Spirit Tracks -- Big Abstract Drawings" (March -May)
Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York (April)
1987
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, "40th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Biennial Exhibition"
The Jewish Museum, New York, "Jewish Themes" (travelling exhibition)
1987-88
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
1988
Davis-McLean Gallery, Houston, "Selections from the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection", curated by Klaus Kertess
Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman, David Reed, Joan Mitchell," curated by Marjorie Welish (June-July)
1988-89
The Jewish Museum, New York, "Golem: Danger, Deliverance and Art" (December -April 2, 1989)
1989 Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, "Group Exhibition" (January 14-February 25)
Greenberg, Wilson Gallery, New York, "Towards Form" (May 2-June 3)
Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, "Works on Paper" (June 13-August 11)
Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia, "Fragments of History" (July 21-September 3)
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, "A Decade of American Drawing 1980-1989" (July 15-August 26)
Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, "Belief in Paint: Eleven Contemporary Artists" (November 7-December 15)
1990
Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, "A Group Exhibition" (January 10&Mac226;ÄìFebruary 24)
Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, "Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists" (September 6&Mac226;ÄìNovember 2)
LedisFlam Gallery, New York, "From Earth to Archetype" (September 13&Mac226;ÄìNovember 6)
1991
Simon Watson Gallery, New York, "Something Pithier and More Psychological" (February 23-March 23)
Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, "Spring/Summer Exhibition, Part One: Painters" (May 18-June 21)
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, "Twentieth-Century Collage" (January 12-February 16), travelled to: Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polonco, Mexico (June 13-September 1), Musée d'art Moderne et d'art Contemporain, Nice, France (September 27-November 11)
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, "Act-Up Benefit" (December 4-December 21)
1992
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Paintings by Martha Diamond, Mary Heilmann, Harriet Korman, Louise Fishman and Bernard Piffaretti" (June 16-July 31)
The Jewish Museum, New York, "The Jewish Museum's Masked Ball in Celebration of Purim" (March 10)
1993
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, "Drawing the Line Against AIDS" (June 8-June 13), under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale. Reinstalled at the Guggenheim Museum, Soho (November 6-19)
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Abstract-Figurative (June-August)
Cooperstown Art Association and Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, New York, "Art Discovery '93" (August 23-September 18)
The Painting Center, New York, "The Inaugural Show" (September 14-November 2)
Blondies Contemporary Art, New York, "Singularities" (November 9-November 1)
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, "The Linear Image II" (October 5-November 6)
Castelli Gallery, New York, "30th Anniversary Exhibition of Drawings", to benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc. (December)
1994
Sweetbriar College, Sweebriar, Virginia, "Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters in Art" (late August-October 25), travelled to Snug Harbor Cultural Center (November 6-January 15, 1995); Rahr West Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin (April 14-May 16)
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, "Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS" (October 15-December 18)
Elga Wimmer, New York, "Couples" (September 10-October 12)
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, "Small and Wet: Abstract painting and sculpture" (November 8-November 26)
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, "46th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition" (November 7-December 4)
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Abstract Works on Paper" (July 19-August 26)
1995 Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, "25 Americans: Painting the 90s" (September 8-December 11)
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Artist's Choice: Elizabeth Murray" (June 19-August 22)
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, "1995 Carnegie International" Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, New Faculty (September 15-October 15)
1996
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Summer Group Show" (July 1-August 30)
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, "Transforming the Social Order" (September 6-October 4)
GreeneNaftali Inc., New York, "Women's Work" (September 6-October 13)
1997
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Affinities with the East" (Summer)
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, Black & White (September 20-October 25)
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, "After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970" (March 27-September 7)
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York, "Abstract Painting", curated by Jeffrey Wasserman (September 25-October 26)
Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, "Voices: The Power of Abstraction" (October 28-November 15)
1997-98
The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, Vermont, "Retreat and Renewall: The Painters and Sculptors of the MacDowell Colony" (September 16-December 2); travelled to The Equitable Gallery, New York (January 17-March 23); Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas (April 20-June 15); Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne, Indiana (November 8-January 9, 1998)
George Billis Gallery, New York, "Convergence" (December 2-January 10, 1998)
1998
Cheim & Read, New York, Small Paintings, (July 1-July 31)
California College of Arts & Crafts Institute, Oakland, "Undercurrents & Overtones: Contemporary Abstract Painting" (September 19-November 14)
San Francisco International Art Exposition, Cheim & Read Exhibition Booth (October 1-October 4)
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, "Paintings & Drawings" (December 5-January 16, 1999)
1999
Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, "Gestural Abstraction" (February 25-April 17)
Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, "Severed Ear: The Poetry of Abstraction" (March 31-April 24)
Danese, New York, "Walking" (June 18-August 27)
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, "Abstraction: Realism", curated by Jonathan Van Dyke (June 9-August 21)
Parsons School of Design, New York, New York, "Drawing in the Present Tense" (October 13-December 3)
2000
National Academy of Design, New York, New York, "175th Annual Exhibition" (February 9-May 26)
New York Studio School, "Painting Abstraction" (March-November)
Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Maryland "Snapshot" (November 3)
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY "The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of The Jewish Museum" (9/23-11/12/00)
2001
American Academy of Arts and Letters (3/5/01 - 4/1/01)
The Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Reopening exhibition, New York, NY (8/17/01-9/5/01)
Mills College Art Museum "Seven Female Visionairies Before Feminism" (9/7-10/21/01)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
The Jewish Museum, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
AWARDS
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
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