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Miriam Schapiro
(
American/Canadian
, 1923–2015)
Miriam Schapiro
A Garden in Paradise,
1982
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Biography
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Timeline
1923
Born: in Toronto, Canada
1942 - 1949
Studied at the State University of Iowa
1946
Met and married with fellow artist, Paul Brach
1950 - 1960
Had a successful career as an abstract expressionist painter in the hard-edge style
1955
Professional artist career begins
1970
Moved to California and co-founded the nation’s first feminist art program at The California Institute of the Arts, Valencia with Judy Chicago.
Developed her own personal style which she called femmage, using commonplace elements, such as lace, fabric scraps, buttons, rickrack, sequins, and tea towels.
1980
Returned to figurative work, using fabric and more dynamic brushwork and motifs
2002
Received the distinguished artist award for lifetime achievement from the College Art Association
2008
Women’s Art: Women’s Vision Honoree, National Women's History Project
Exhibitions
2009
MOCA´s First Thirty Years, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada ; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York City, NY
Girls and Company: Feminist Works from MMoCA’s Permanent Collection - MMoCA, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2007
Pattern and Decoration - An Ideal Vision in Contemporary Art, 1975-1985, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC ; The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2006
femme brut(e), Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Women Only! In Their Studios, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Kindred Spirits - Tracing Connections - Missoula Art Museum MAM, Missoula, MT
2005
Beauty Overlooked - Pattern and Decoration Artworks from the Permanent Collection, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
The Heroic and The Sublime: Large-Scale Work by Contemporary Women Artists, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL
Hommage à Matisse, Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium
2004
At the Edge of a Petal - Floral Works of Art from the Permanent Collection, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2003
The LAPD Project: The Legacy of Pattern and Decoration, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
L'union fait la force; Collages & Assemblages, Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium
2002
The Human Factor: Figuration in American Art 1950-1995, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
2000
Hand-Made Dreams, Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium
1999
Making Change - 100 Artists interpret the Tzedakah Box, The Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Miriam Schapiro - Works on Paper, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT(solo)
Collaged, Femmaged, Printed and Painted, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Miriam Schapiro: A Woman’s Way, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC(solo)
A Woman's Way, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington DC
1994
Collaboration Series 1994: Mother Russia, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Twentieth Anniversity Celebration, A.R.C. Gallery Chicago, IL
1992
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
1980
Miriam Schapiro retrospective, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (solo)
1972
Womanhouse, a woman-only installation and performance art, which transformed a 17-room Hollywood Mansion into the first installation demonstrating an openly female point of view in art. Hollywood, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Samek Art Gallery , Lewisburg, PA
MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Missoula Art Museum MAM, Missoula, MT
National Academy Museum, New York City, NY
Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
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Literature
1999
Miriam Schapiro ( Text by Thalia Gouma-Peterson) : Harry N. Abrams, 1999
1977 - 1978
Waste Not Want Not: An Inquiry into What Women Saved and Assembled - FEMMAGE (Written with Melissa Meyer)
1972
Education of Women as Artists: Project Womanhouse( Text by Miriam Shapiro), 1972
