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- Phyllis
- Halperin
- Bramson
- 1941
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Chicago, Illinois
- Collage, Painter-Oil
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1962: summer school, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1974: MFA, School of the Art Institute; Chicago, Illinois
1964: MA in Painting, University of Wisconsin; Madison, Wisconsin
1963: BFA, in Drawing and Painting, University of Illinois; Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
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1976: The Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, “Objects as Poet”
1978: Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Chicago Self Portrait”
1978: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, “77th Exhibition of Chicago and Vicinity”
1979: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
1979: Gallerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France
1979: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, SITES/Traveling Paper makers Show
1979: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, “Colors in Sticks”
1979: The New Museum, New York, NY, Installation Drawings
1980: Marilyn Butler Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Herron Gallery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, “Chicago Alternative”
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, “Chicago/Chicago”
1980: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, “Chicago & vicinity Exhibition,”
1980: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, “Interiors”
1980: University Galleries, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, FL, “Phyllis Bramson and Galen Hansen”
1980: NAME Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Touch Me”
1981: Gallerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France, “Chicago”
1981: Art Institute of Chicago, IL, “Prints & Multiples,” Traveled: National Academy of Design, NY, & National Museum of Art, DC
1982: Lochhaven Art Center, Orlando, FL, “Collector’s Choice”
1983: Carnegie-Mellon University, Hewlett Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1983: Gallerie de l’art, Geneva, Switzerland, “Conteporain”
1983: Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, IL, “Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection”
1983: Musee De Toulon, Toulon, France, “New Acquisitions”
1983: Penn’s Landing Museum, Philadelphia, PA, “Prints by Women”
1983: Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, “The Big Picture/20 Years of Abstraction in Chicago”
1983: Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, “Chicago/Some Other Traditions,” curated by Dennis Adrian
1984: University of California/San Diego, Manville Gallery, LaJolla, CA, “Chicago Scene”
1984: Dowd Fine Arts Center, State University of New York, Cortland, “The Figurative Mode: Recent Drawings From New York"
1984: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, “18th Exhibition of Chicago & Vicinity,” Awarded the Compana Prize for Excellence
1984: Marshall Fields Gallery, Chicago, IL, "The MCA Selects: Paintings and Sculpture from Chicago's Best"
1985: Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Artizona, Tucson, Arizona
1985: Ohio University, Trisolini Gallery, Athens, OH, “Chicago Cross-Section”
1985: Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “The Finals in Painting and Sculpture”
1985: Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, “The Head Show”
1985: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, “States of War”
1985: Lakeview Museum of Arts and Science, Peoria, IL, “20th Bradley National Print & Drawing Exhibition,” Purchase award
March 9-April 20, 1986: Phyllis Bramson Paintings and Drawings, 1973-1986, Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois; Pink Nude on Cone, Sphere and Cube, 1985; The Dance, 1985; Trouble A-Head, 1986; Carole Doll, 1973; Sleeping Self, 1975; Baby Heidi Chair, 1976; Trapped (Lady), 1977; Still and Not So Still Lives (Shoe), 1977; Myth of Inspiration, 1979; Shipwrecked, 1986; State of War, Siege 1, 1986; Acts of Ardor 3, 1984; Innocent Diversions, 1983; The Existentialist Witness (For P. Adams) State 2, 1982; Portrayals and Betrayals Stage 1, 1982; Rite of Staying Power, The Supporter, 1981
1986: Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, New York
1986: Drawings as Contemporary ICON, Brody’s Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1986: Fiona Whitney Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986: Highwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY, “The Doll Show: Artists Dolls and Figurines”
1986: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Landfall Press, “Prints from the Permanent Collection”
1986: Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, “Fetish Obsessive Expressions”
1987: Merwin Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois
1987: Phyllis Bramson, 1973-1986, Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
1987: Visual Art Center of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, “Symbols and Narratives,” National Print Invitational
1987: Indiana State University, Turman Gallery, Terre Haute, IN, “Intimate/Intimate”
1987: Kansas City Art Institute, Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City, MO, “Personal Metaphors”
Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, NY
1987: 1988: Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1988: Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois
1988: G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, New York
1988: University of Texas, Fox Fine Arts Center, El Paso, TX, “Prints”
1988: Walter Bischoff Gallery Grunwald, Munchen, Germany, “Drawings,” three-person show
1988: Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, “Chicago Figuration”
1988: Carlo LaMagna Gallery, New York, “Sagas”
1988: Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, “Continuity & Change in a Chicago Artistic Tradition”
1988: Hilwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, NY, “Contemporary Women Drawers”
1988: Blum Helman Warehouse Gallery, New York, NY, “Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women”
1988: Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria, IL, “Partner in Purchase—Selected Works, 1976–1986”
1988: Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, “Line of Vision”
1988: Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL, “Locations of Desire,” three-person show
Landfall Press Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Chicago Painters in Print”
Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC, three-person exhibition
1991: Douglass Library Gallery, Douglass College/Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1991: Dart Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1991: Walker Bischoff Galeries, Stuttgardt, Germany, “Artists from the USA”
1991: Museo d'arte MACC, Caracas, Venezuela, “Lineas de Vision; Dibujos de clen myeres artistas”
1991: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Art on Paper 1990”
1991: Smart Museum, University of Chicago, “Cross Currents”
1991: Museum of Contemporary Art, “Realism, Figurative Painting and the Chicago Viewpoint,” selection from permanent collection
1991: Penn State University Art Gallery, University Park, PA, “Gender and Representation”
1991: Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, “Distorted Figuration”
1991: Printworks, “Group Exhibition,” Chicago, IL
1991: Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, Wisconsin
1992: Printworks, Chicago, Illinois
1992: Brody’s Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1992: State of Illinois Gallery, “Spirited Visions”
1992: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, “A Chicago Sampler”
1992: International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair, New York, NY
1992: Illinois Art Gallery Museum, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, “Illinois Painters Invitational”
1992: David Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville, IL, “In Celebration of Women”
1992: Cu Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, “20th Anniversary Visiting Artist Program”
1992: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Betty Rymer Gallery, “From America’s Studios: Drawing New Conclusions"
1992: Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, “Face to Face”
1992: Center for Creative Studies, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI, “The Home Show: Objects For and about the Home"
1993: Group Exhibition, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, New York
1993: Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, “Beyond Realism: Image and Enigma”
1993: Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY, “Myth and Metaphor,” curated by Monique Knowlton
1993: Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, “Fantasy and Dreams”
1993: Gallery A, Chicago, IL, “Once Upon a Time…A Loose Form of Narrative,” curated by Kathy Cattong
1993: Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA, “Printmaking Invitational”
1993: Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, “The Visceral Landscape/Travel Without Boundaries”
1993: Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC, “43rd Biennial of Contemporary American Painting”
1993: Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, “A Reinvention of Classicism”
1994: Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1994: Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Group Exhibition”
1994: Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, New York, NY, “Group Exhibition”
1994: Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC, “Already Buddha”
1994: University Art Gallery, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, “Alternative Prints, 1994”
1994: Figge Museum of Art, Davenport, IA, “Chicago Imagism: A 25 Year Survey,” curated by Brady Roberts (catalogue)
1994: Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL, “A Garden of Earthly Delights”
1994: Hyde Park Center, “55th Anniversary Exhibition,” Chicago, IL
1994: Mexico/United States Collaborative Printmaking Exhibition. Traveled to: Ex-Convento Del Carmen Centro Cultural, Guadalagara,
1994: Mexico El Museo de Art Moderno, Aquascalientes, Mexico Organized by the University Museum, Southern Illinois University, IL
1995: Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC, “Our Last Picture Show: 1983–1994”
1995: Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Summer Exhibition”
1995: Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, “65th Anniversary Show: Lake Side Views”
1995: P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY, three-person exhibition
1995: Print Project commissioned by the Rutger Archives at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
1995: The Foster Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI, “Phyllis Kind Revisited”
1995: David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, “Insight”
1995: State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Mexico/United States Collaborative Printmaking Exhibition”
1995: Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, “Illinois Art Faculty: A Statewide Survey”
?-October 29, 1996: Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1996: Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI, “Questions vs. Resolutions”
1996: Gallery A, Chicago, IL, “Pulp Fiction: Works on Paper”
1996: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, “Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-permanent Collection”
1996: Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, College of Art and Design Detroit, MI, “The Holiday Show"
1996: Associated American Artists, New York, NY, “Objects/Symbol,” 4-person exhibition
1996: Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, 3-person exhibition
1996: Printworks, Chicago, IL, group exhibition “Self-Portraits”
1996: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, “25 Years of Printing at Landfall Press”
1996: Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL, “Generations: Chicago Prints and Printmakers”
1996: CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Working Proof—20 Years of Prints from Shark’s Inc."
1996: Grossman Gallery, Center of the Arts, University of Wisconsin/Whitewater, “The Landscape and Beyond: An Interpretive Vision”
1996: Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, College of Art and Design, Detroit, MI, “Constructivists”
1996: Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, “Women of the Chicago Imagists Movement” (catalogue)
1996: Block Museum Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, “Second Sight"1955–1995” (catalogue)
1996: Gahlberg Gallery, The College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL, “Illinois Artists”
1996: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, “Landfall Press/25 Years of Printmaking”
1996: Mason Gross School of Arts Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, “Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series
1996: 25th Anniversary Retrospective,” in conjunction with Douglas College/Rutgers University
1997: Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, “Don Baum Says: ‘Chicago Has Famous Artists’ ”
1997: Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY, “The Importance of Toys: Childhood Memories, Adult Metaphors"
1997: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, “Art in Chicago: 1945–1995” (catalogue)
1997: Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Self Portraits 1996/New Drawings”
1997: Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL, “The Breadth of Aesthetic”
1997: Illinois Art Gallery, James R. Thompson Center, Chicago, IL, “Women and Chicago Imagism”
1997: Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY, “Sex/Industry,” curated by John Yau
1997: Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, “Landfall Press/25 Years of Printmaking” (catalogue)
1997: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, “Women’s Work/The Feminine in Contemporary Painting”
1997: Northwood University Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, “Real(ist) Woman II”
1997: Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL, “Phyllis Bramson and Vera Klement”
May 1998: Concupiscence, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO, “Wild Women”
George Billings Gallery, New York, NY, “Convergence”
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, “Works on Paper/Recent Acquisitions”
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, “Don Baum Says: Chicago Has Famous Artists”
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, WV., “Works on Paper”
1996: Koehnline Visual Arts Center, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
1996: Printworks, Chicago, IL (1992)
1997: The Rockefeller Center Studio Arte, Bellagio, Italy
1887: The Chicago Cultural Center
1998: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999: Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, Group Exhibition
Parkland College, Parkland College Art Gallery, Champaign, IL, “Drawing Invitational”
Gallery 312, Chicago, IL, Chicago Artists ’98
Gallery 312, Chicago, IL, Corporate Collections
Nathan D. Rosen Museum, Boca Raton, FL, “Updating Ceremonial Objects”
Laura Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, “Chicago Subjects”
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, “The State of the Arts (In Anticipation of an End to the 2ndMillennium)”
Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY, “Summer Painting Show”
2000: Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
2000: Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, IN, “Focus Series: Phyllis Bramson”
2000: Moreau Center for the Arts, Notre Dame, IN, “Prints from Anchor Graphics”
2000: Lorraine Kessler Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, “Pondside Press Retrospective”
2000: Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Cats and Dogs”
2000: Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Small Works”
2000: The New Museum of Contemporary Art. New York, NY, “Picturing the Modern Amazon Woman”
2000: Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL, “The Exquisite Corpse,” catalog
2000: Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Carl Hammer 2000: Group Show of Gallery Artists"
2000: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, “Invitational Biennial 2000”
2000: Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL, “Mirror on the Millennium: Self-Portrait”
2000: Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, “Out of Line: Drawing New Conclusions”
2011: John A. Day Gallery, University of South Dakota, “The Provocateurs,” paintings by Phyllis Bramson and Adam Scott
2011: The Chicago Union League Club, Chicago, IL, “Phyllis Bramson: Distinguished Artist 2012 Exhibition"
2012: Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago, IL, “Dalliances of a Romantic Nature”
2012: Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago, IL, “Love and Affection in a Troubled World”
2013: Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY, “Small Personal Dilemmas”
2013: Northeastern Illinois University, NEIU Gallery, Chicago, IL, “My World…and everywhere it takes me”
2014: Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, “Phyllis Bramson: A Thirty Year Retrospective”
2015: Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, “Under The Pleasure Dome: A Survey”
2016: Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY, “My World and Everywhere It Takes Me”
2016: Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, “Artadia at Expo Chicago 2016,” A solo booth
2016: Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN, “Phyllis Bramson: A Thirty-Year Retrospective”
2017: Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Opulent Flim-Flam”
2017: Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Folly (remorse must wait)!"
2020: Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Virus Lockdown Drawings”
2021: Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, “Reluctant Brides and Tales of Love”
2021: Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN, “The Grit and Imagination of Phyllis Bramson”
2021: Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, “Technicolor Constellation”
2015: Praise of Folly–A Retrospective, 1985–2015, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois [solo]
June 4-August 28, 2016: Phyllis Bramson: Under the Pleasure Dome, Chicago Cultural Center
2019-2020: What Came After; Figurative Painting in Chicago, 1978-1998, Elmhurst Art Museum;
August – October 15, 2022: Most Folly (and a Few Kerfuffles), Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, Illinois; Exchanging Cosmic Breath (Seasonal Mostly Winter), 2020, mixed media and collage on canvas; The Apprentice Geisha, 2014, mixed media and collage on canvas; Rapunzel’s Escape to the Garden, 2022, mixed media, collage, paint on paper, mounted to panel; Little Miss Muffet…The Spider Came a Courting, 2013, mixed media and collage on canvas; Ladies in Waiting (Kiss, Kiss, Kiss), 2017, mixed media on canvas; Insolent Lovers, 2017, mixed media on canvas; Lazy Cupids (modern love), 2013, mixed media and collage on canvas; Twice Told Tales (Dusk), 2014, monoprint and mixed media on paper; Fascinators, 2018, mixed media and collage on canvas; Promiscuous Joinings I, 2012, mixed media and collage on canvas; Promiscuous Joinings II, 2012, mixed media and collage on canvas;
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois - Bramson, Renaissance Society, Chicago. 1986 Camper, Fred. “Art People: Phyllis Bramson Gives Pieces a Chance.” Chicago Reader. October 17, 1996. [accessible online] Yood, James and Lynne Warren. Phyllis Bramson: Under the Pleasure Dome. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois. exhibit brochure
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1962: Norfolk Art Scholarship, summer school, Yale University
1976: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grand/Crafts
1980: Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant
1980: Awarded the Pauline Palmer Prize, Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1981: Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant
1983: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant/Painting
1988: Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant
1988: Senior Fulbright Scholar—Australia
1993: John Simon Guggenheim Grant
1993: John Simon Guggenheim Grant
1993: Marie Walsh Sharpe, New York City Studio Grant
1993: 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 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, Travel Grant
2004: Artadia Jury Award: The Fund for Art and Dialogue
2009: Anonymous Was A Woman Award
2010: Distinguished Alumni Award, The School of Art Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2012: Distinguished Artist Award, Union League Club of Chicago
2013: Artist-in-residence at Anchor Graphics, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2014: Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
2016: Selected as one of NewCity magazine’s “Art 50”—the leaders of Chicago’s visual culture of 2016 -
1985-2007: Professor of Studio Arts, Department of Art & Design, University of Illinois; Chicago, Illinois
2007-2022: advisor, drawing and painting MFA students, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois -
the artist’s website
article by Lori Waxman on 2016 exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center (includes link to audio recording of the article)
excerpts from reviews and statements by the artist
illustrated interview
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