Phyllis Bramson
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Born: Madison, Wisconsin
Lives: Chicago, Illinois
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1962 Yale University, Yale/Norfolk Art Scholarship (Summer)
1963 BFA in Drawing and Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Awarded High Honors
1964 MA in Painting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Vilas Fellowship
1974 MFA, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Professor of Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art & Design
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1980 Gallerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France
1983 Marilyn Butler Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1985 Carnegie-Mellon University, Hewlett Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
University of Arizona, Joseph Gross Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1986 The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL (mid-career survey)
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY (1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984)
1987 Brody's Gallery, Washington, DC
Merwin Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
1988 Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL, "Phyllis Bramson, 1973-1986"
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Lake View Museum of Art and Sciences, Peoria, IL
1991 G. W. Einstein Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Dart Gallery, Chicago (1980, 1983, 1985, 1988)
Printworks, Chicago, IL
1993 Brody's Gallery, Washington, DC
1994 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
Koehnline Visual Arts Center, Oakton Community College, DesPlaines, IL
1997 Printworks, Chicago, IL
The Rockefeller Center Studio Arte, Bellagio, Italy
1998 The Chicago Cultural Center
1999 Buchon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
2001 Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, IN, “Focus Series/Phyllis Bramson”
2002 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, (catalog)
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY, “
I-Space, Chicago Gallery of The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
2003 Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Seasonal Pleasures ”
2004 Printworks, Chicago, IL, “Prints Behaving Badly
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY,
Boulder Art Museum, Bolder, CO, “ When the Body Speaks It’s Mind”
Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA “Body Trouble"
2005 Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY, “Phyllis Bramson/ Survey Show”
Scope NY, New York, NY, “Kitsch – Ching”
Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY, “ The Pleasuring Gardens”
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1976 Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, SITES/Traveling Papermakers Show
1979 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, "Color in Sticks"
The New Museum, New York, NY, Installation Drawings
1980 Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, "Chicago/Chicago"
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Awarded the Pauline Palmer Prize
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, "Interiors"
Gallerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France, "Chicago"
1981 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL,
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Gallerie de l'art, Geneva, Switzerland, "Conteporain"
1982 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, "Recent Acquisitions"
1983 Musee De Toulon, Toulon, France, "New Acquisitions"
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, "Chicago/Some Other Traditions,"
1984 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "18th Exhibition of Chicago & Vicinity,"
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "The Finals in Painting and Sculpture"
1985 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, "States of War"
1986 Visual Art Center of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, "Symbols and Narratives,"
Kansas City Art Institute, Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City, MO,
1987 Walter Bischoff Gallery Grunwald, Munchen, Germany, "Drawings,"
1988 Carlo LaMagna Gallery, New York, "Sagas"
University Museum, Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
1989 Hilwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, NY,
1990 Museo d'arte MACC, Caracas, Venezuela, "Lineas de Vision"
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro,
1991 Smart Museum, University of Chicago, "Cross Currents"
Museum of Contemporary Art, , Realism,Figurative Painting/Chicago
Penn State University Art Gallery, PA, "Gender and Representation"
1992 Cu Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, Visiting Artist Program
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, "Beyond Realism" Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, "Fantasy and Dreams"
1993 Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC, "43rd Biennial" Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC, "Already Buddha"
1994 Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA, "Recent Chicago Imagism,"
Mexico/United States Collaborative Printmaking Exhibition.
1995 P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY, three-person exhibition
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, "Insight"
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, "Temporarily
Possessed: The Semi-permanent Collection"
1996 Associated American Artists, New York, NY, "Objects/Symbol," 4-person
exhibition
Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, College of Art and Design,
Detroit, MI, "Constructivists"
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, "Women of the Chicago Imagists
Movement" (catalogue)
Block Museum Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, "Second Sight"
1955-1995" (catalogue)
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, "Landfall Press/25 Years of
Printmaking
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, "Art in Chicago: 1945-1995"
(catalogue)
1997 Illinois Art Gallery, James R. Thompson Center, Chicago, IL, "Women and
Chicago Imagism"
Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY, "Sex/Industry," curated by John Yau
SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC, "Examining the Feminine in Contemporary
Painting"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, "Works on Paper/Recent
Acquisitions"
1998 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, "New Acquisitions"
Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY, "Phyllis Bramson and Karen Gentry
Keck"
University of West Virginia, Creative Arts Center Gallery, Morgantown, W.
Va., "Works on Paper"
2000 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, "Picturing the Modern
Amazon Woman"
Florida International University, The Art Museum, Miami, FL, "Fantasies and
Curiosities"
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco CA, “A Big Picture Show/large-scale work”
Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, “Works from
Printworks/20th-year Anniversary”
2001 Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, on view as part of
permanent collection
Littlejohn Contemporary, Chicago, IL, “Summer Painting Exhibition”
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Of Dreams and Dreamers”
2002 Exit Art, NYC, NY, “Reactions”, invitational
Traveling to: The Williamson Gallery, Art Center Collage of Design,
Pasadena, CA
Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado
Springs, “Shark’s Ink, 1976-2001”
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “The June Show”
Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Luscious Too”
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA, “Humor as Art: Selections from the
Permanent Collection”
Sheppard Gallery, University of Reno, NV, “Contemporary Drawings”
2003 Frist Center For The Arts, Nashville, TN, “Real Illusions: Contemporary Art
from Nashville Collections”
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, “Operation: Human Intelligence”, sponsor/
The Contemporary Arts Council
2004 Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, selections from the corporate collection of
Playboy Magazine (1953 – 1986)
National Academy of Design, New York, NY, “179th Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Art”
2005 Emily Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art, The University of Akron , Akron,
OH, “Man and Beast”
The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, “Centrally Located: The Artadia
and Richard H. Driehaus Foundation 2004 Artists Awards” (catalog)
Savannah College of Art and Design. Red Gallery, Savannah, GA, “Print,
Process, Collaboration”
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
NJ, “Modern Stories”
2006 Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, “All About Women”
Printworks, Chicago, IL, “The Art of the Bookplate”
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1976 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant/Crafts
1980 Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant
1981 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant
1983 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant/Painting
1988 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant
Senior Fulbright Scholar-Australia
1993 John Simon Guggenheim Grant
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York City Studio Grant
Senior National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant/Printmaking
1996 Vermont Studio Center Residency/Grant
1997 The Rockefeller Foundation Residency/Grant (Bellagio, Italy)
2000 Illinois Arts Council, Project Completion Grant
2001 Institute For The Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, Grants-in-Aid Award
2003 Institute For the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, ICR OVCR Travel Grant
2004 Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialog , Jury Award
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Picturing the Modern Amazon, New Museum Books (Rizzoli, New York, NY), p. 3.
Painting as a Language, Robertson & McDaniel (Harcourt Brace, New York, NY) pp. 236-2378.
Exposures/Women and their Art, Arlene Raven, Betty Ann Brown, Kenna Love (New Sage Press, Pasadena, CA)
Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women (Hudson Hill Press)
Spirited Visions: Portraits of Chicago Artists, Patty Caroll (University of Illinois/Urbana Press).
Who's Who in American Art, R. R. Bowker, 19th Edition, 1990-91.
An Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century North American Women Artists (Garland Publishing, New York and London).
Living with Art, Rita Gilbert (McGraw Hill).
New American Painting (The Open Studios Press)
MouthtoMouth, volume 1/ number / Spring 2003 (Farstad and Schleifer), “ WordforWord”, pp. 15-21
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