LOUISE FISHMAN
1939 Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1965 Moves to New York City
1988 Lives and works in New York City and Worcester, New York

Education

1956-57 Philadelphia College of Art, PA
1958 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1963 B.F.A. and B.S., Tyler School of Fine Arts, Elkins, PA
1965 M.F.A., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

Solo Exhibitions (includes major two-artist exhibitions)

2001 Gallery Paule Anglim , San Francisco, CA
1999 Gallery Paule Anglim, "Louise Fishman" (4/21-5/29/99)
1998 Cheim & Read, New York, "Louise Fishman: Recent Paintings & Drawings", (10/14-11/14/98)
1996 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman: Recent Paintings", (10/22 - 11/16/96)
1995 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Small Paintings", (1/10/95 - 2/4/95)
1994 Bianca Lanza Gallery, Miami, FL, "Small Paintings, 1992-1994", (11/12 - 12/7/94)
1993 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman", (9/14 - 10/16/93)
1993 Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, "Drawings and Experimental Work, 1971-1992", (12/9/92 - 1/15/93)
1993 Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, "Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, 1979-1992", (12/9/92 - 1/15/93)
1993 Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, "Louise Fishman: Paintings, 1986-1992", (12/16/92 - 1/31/93)
1992 Simon Watson, New York, "Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, 1978-1992", (11/29 - 12/5/92), (preview of exhibition at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art)
1992 Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, "Louise Fishman: Small Paintings", (1/19 - 2/29/92)
1991 Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, "Louise Fishman: New Paintings", (2/14 - 3/23/91)
1989 Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, "Louise Fishman: New Paintings 1987-1989", (9/23 - 11/4/89)
1989 Simon Watson Gallery, New York, "Remembrance and Renewal", (3/4 - 4/22/89)
1987 Winston Gallery, Washington, DC, "Louise Fishman and Andy Spence: Two from the Corcoran", (4/87)
1986 Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman: New Paintings", (10/16 - 11/15/86)
1985 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, "Fishman/Sanderson", (6/15 - 9/15/85)
1984 Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman", (10/30 - 11/24/84)
1982 John Davis Gallery, Akron, OH, "Louise Fishman", (3/2 - 3/27/82)
1982 Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman: Recent Work", (3/2 - 3/27/82)
1980 Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, The MacDowell Colony, July 1980", (11/25 - 12/20/80)
1979 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman", (9/79)
1979 55 Mercer, New York, "Louise Fishman: Five Years", (6/12 - 6/30/79)
1976 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, (11/76)
1976 John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Louise Fishman", (5/76)
1974 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman", (11/30 - 12/19/74)
1964 Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA, "Louise Fishman"

Group Exhibitions

1999 Hunter College Art Galleries, NY, "Gestural Abstraction" (2/25-4/17/99)
1998 Cheim & Read, NY, "Small Paintings", (7/1-7/31/98)
1998 California College of Arts & Crafts Institute, Oakland, CA, "Undercurrents & Overtones: Contemporary Abstract Painting", (9/19-11/14/98)
1998 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Paintings & Drawings", (12/5/98 - 1/16/99)
1997 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Affinities with the East", (Summer)
1997 Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, "Black & White", (9/20/97-10/25/97)
1997 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY, "Abstract Painting", curated by Jeffrey Wasserman, (9/25-10/26/97) 1997-98
1997 The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, VT, "Retreat and Renewal: The Painters and Sculptors of the MacDowell Colony", (9/16 - 12/2/95); Travelling to: The Equitable Gallery, New York, [1/17/97 - 3/23/97]; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS [4/20/97 - 6/15/97]; [Tentative: venue #3 to be determined (7/27 - 9/21/97); Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne, IN[11/8/97 - 1/9/98])
1996 Robert Miller Gallery, NY, "Summer Group Show", (7/1 - 8/30/96)
1996 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, "Transforming the Social Order" (9/6 - 10/4/96)
1996 GreeneNaftali Inc., NY, "Women's Work", (9/6 - 10/13/96)
1995 Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, "25 Americans: Painting the 90s", (9/8 - 11/12/95)
1995 Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Artist's Choice: Elizabeth Murray", (6/19 - 8/22/95)
1995 The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, "1995 Carnegie International"
1995 Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA, "New Faculty", (9/15 - 10/15/95)
1994 Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, "Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS", (10/15 - 12/18/94)
1994 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, "46th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition", (11/7 - 12/4/94)
1994 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Abstract Works on Paper", (7/19 - 8/26/94)
1993 Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, "Drawing the Line Against AIDS", (6/8 - 6/13/93), under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale. Reinstalled at the Guggenheim Museum, Soho, (10/6 -10/19/93)
1993 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Abstract-Figurative", (6/93 - 8/93)
1993 Castelli Gallery, New York, "30th Anniversary Exhibition of Drawings", to benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc. (12/93)
1992 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Paintings by Martha Diamond, Mary Heilmann, Harriet Korman, Louise Fishman and Bernard Piffaretti", (6/16 - 7/31/92)
1992 The Jewish Museum, New York, "The Jewish Museum's Masked Ball in Celebration of Purim", (3/10/92)
1991 Simon Watson Gallery, New York, "Something Pithier and More Psychological", (2/23 - 3/23/91)
1991 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, "Twentieth-Century Collage", (1/12 - 2/16/91), (travelled to: Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polonco, Mexico, [6/13 - 9/1/91]; Mus�e d'art Moderne et d'art Contemporain, Nice, France, [9/27 - 11/11/91])
1991 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, "Act-Up Benefit", (12/4 - 12/21/91)
1990 Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, "A Group Exhibition", (1/10 - 2/24/90)
1989 The Jewish Museum, New York, "Golem: Danger, Deliverance and Art", (12/88 - 4/2/89)
1989 Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, "Group Exhibition", (1/14 - 2/25/89)
1989 Greenberg, Wilson Gallery, New York, "Towards Form", (5/2 - 6/3/89)
1989 Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, "Works on Paper", (6/13 - 8/11/89)
1989 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, "A Decade of American Drawing 1980-1989", (7/15 - 8/26/89)
1988 Davis-McLean Gallery, Houston, TX, "Selections from the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection", curated by Klaus Kertess
1988 Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, "Louise Fishman, David Reed, Joan Mitchell", curated by Marjorie Wellish, (6/88 - 7/88)
1987 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, "40th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting"
1987 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Biennial Exhibition"
1987 The Jewish Museum, New York, "Jewish Themes", (travelling exhibition)
1986 Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, "Artists for Pride"
1986 Hofstra University, New York, "Louise Fishman, Hermine Ford and Arthur Cohen"
1986 The Jewish Museum, New York, "Jewish Themes --Contemporary American Artists II", (7/15/86- 11/16/86)
1986 Heland Thorden Wetterling Galleries, Stockholm, Sweden, (Spring)
1986 Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York and Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Spirit Tracks -- Big Abstract Drawings", (3/86 - 5/86)
1985 Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, "Painting as Landscape", curated by Klaus Kertess, (travelled to: Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1985 Condeso/Lawler, New York, "An Invitational", curated by Tiffany Bell, (6/85 - 7/85)
1984 Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ, "Relief Prints Since 1980", (9/84)
1984 Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, "Second Nature: Abstract Drawings and Paintings", curated by John Lee and Tom Wolf, (4/84)
1983 The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, "Six Painters", (5/25 - 7/17/83)
1983 Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY, "Painting from the Mind's Eye", (2/18/83 - 3/23/83)
1982 Joan Washburn Gallery, New York, (11/82 - 12/82)
1982 Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, NY, "Abstraction", (11/82)
1982 Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, "Mixing Art and Politics", (4/82)
1982 New York Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art, New York City, "Abstract Painting: Substance and Meaning-Painting by Woman Artists", (2/82)
1982 Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, IN, "Painterly Abstraction", (1/82 - 3/82)
1981 Rush Rhees Fine Arts Gallery, University of Rochester, NY, (3/81)
1981 Brooklyn Museum, NY, "CAPS Grantees from Brooklyn", (4/81 - 6/81)
1981 Proctor Art Center, Bard College and Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, NY, "CAPS Award Winners in Painting 1980-1981", (4/81 - 8/81)
1980 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, "Work on Paper", (6/80)
1979 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, "Major New Works", (1/79)
1978 Lowe Gallery, Syracuse University, Ithaca, NY, "Critic's Choice", (12/77), (travelled to: Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, NY, [1/78])
1977 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, "Fifth Anniversary Show", (12/77)
1977 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, "Paintings That Reveal The Wall", curated by Tom Wolf, (12/77)
1977 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, "Major New Works", (9/77)
1977 Miami University, Oxford, OH, "Nancy Hoffman in Oxford", (3/77)
1977 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, NY, "Preparatory Notes-Thinking Drawings, Part II", (2/77 - 3/77)
1976 Paris International Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris
1976 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, (3/76)
1975 John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, IL, (10/75)
1975 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, "New York Faculty Exhibition", (10/75)
1973 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, "A Woman's Group"
1973 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Biennial Exhibition"
1972 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, "Summer Show", (12/72)
1963 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, "National Watercolor and Drawing Exhibition"

Awards

1994 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting
1986 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting
1983-84 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting
1979 Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting
1975-76 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting

Public Collections

The Art Institute of Chicago
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY