Résumé

 

1978-79                 Studio Arts Program, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin

1982                      Sculpture Center, New York

1989                      Bachelor of Fine Arts, New York University

1984-87                 Studies abroad at New York University, Venice, Italy

1989                      Art Students League

1997                      New York Academy of Arts

 

                              Lives and works in New York City

 

UPCOMING SHOWS

 

2007                       DOX Art Center, Prague, Czech Republic

2006                       Travel Journals, The Rubin Museum, New York, New York

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2005                      Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, New York

2004                      Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska

2003                      Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, New York

1999                      First New York, Staff Gallery, New York, New York

1998                      Sheila Berger: Cosmati Impressions, Sponsored and Curated by the

                                       City of Sutri, Italy

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2007                      The Bemis Center: Building a Legacy 1985-2007, Creighton University’s

Lied Art Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska, January

2006                      Waxworks, Silvermine Guild Art Center, New Canaan, Conneticut, September

                              Impulse, Sparkplugart, Portland, Oregon, September

                              Between Texture & Light, Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland,   Oregon

2005                      Two Rivers, Two Countries, United States Embassy, Vientiane, Laos

2004                 American Consulate, Istanbul, Turkey

2003                      Exit Art Gallery, New York, New York

2002                      Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, New York

2000                      Books Etc., Robert A. Hittel Bookstore/Gallery, Miami, Fla.

                              The Edge, Brooke Dorshe Projects, Miami Fla.

1999                      Galleria Arlete, Rome, Italy

1997                      The Conservatory Gardens of the City of New York, New York

1996                      Hastings Museum, Artist’s Books

                              The House Gallery, New York, New York

1995                      The Conservatory Gardens of the City of New York, New York

                              The House Gallery, New York, New York

1994                      Dreams, The House Gallery

1993                      Portraits, Gallery 291, New York, New York

1992                      The House Gallery, New York, New York

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2006                      Luby, Abby,”House of wax” The Advocate, August

                              Row, DK, “Shows of note” The Oregonian, July 07

2005                      Rosenberg, Karen, “Weekend Picks,” New York Magazine, December

                              Casgar, Amanda, “City Beat,” Art Business News, March

                              Ochs, Jordan, “Profile Sheila Berger encaustic artist” Playback, March

2004                      Baker, Sarah, “Chamberlain and Berger Glimpse of Bemis Future Shows,”

                              The Reader, December The Omaha World Herald, January

2003                      Thompson, Mimi, “Artists on Artists: Sheila Berger”, Bomb, pp.8-9, Summer 2003     

                              Robinson, Walter, “Weekend Update”, Artnet Magazine, February

                              “Encaustic Impressions”, The New York Sun, January 13

2000                      Browner, Jesse, “The Bard of Chelsea,” New York Magazine, July

1998                      Johnson, Ken, The New York Times, February

                              Art News, April

1997                      New York Post, November

 

 

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

                              The American Consulate, Istanbul, Turkey

                              The American Embassy, Vientiane, Laos

 

 

 

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

 

2004                                            Fulbright-Hays by the United States of America, acting through PAS

2003                      Bemis Center of the Arts, Omaha, Nebraska