biographie de Miriam SCHAPIRO (1923-2015)

Birth place: Toronto, Ontario

Addresses: NYC, 1950s; San Diego, 1960; Los Angeles, CA, 1973; NYC, 1975-

Profession: Painter, printmaker, author

Studied: MoMA &Federal Art Project while in high school in NYC; Univ. Iowa (B.A., 1945; M.A., 1946; M.F.A., 1949).

Exhibited: Carnegie Int., 1958; WMAA,1958, 1966, 1971; Andre Emmerich Gal., New York, 1958-71 (7 solos); PAFA Ann., 1962, 1964; Toward A New Abstraction, Jewish Mus., 1963; Paul Brach & Miriam SchapiroóDouble Retrospective, Newport Harbor Art Mus., 1969; ; Am. Women 20th Century, Lakeview (IL) Center Arts & Sciences, 1972; Womanhouse,' with Judy Chicago and their students, Calif. Inst. Arts, Valencia, 1972; The College of Wooster (OH) Art Mus., 1980 (retrospective). Awards: Ford Found. Tamarind fellowship, 1964."

Member: Iowa Print Group; CAA (board); Woman's Caucus for Art (governing board);

Work: WMAA; MoMA; NY Univ. Permanent Coll.; Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA; St. Louis City Art Mus.

Comments: Feminist artist/teacher/writer. Teaching: Univ. of San Diego, 1970; established, with Judy Chicago, the Feminist Art Program, Calif. Inst. Arts, Valencia, 1972-. Publications: auth., The Education of Women as Artist, Project Womanhouse," College Art Journal (summer 1972); co-auth., Womanhouse (exh. catalogue, 1972). In 1975, with Lucy Lippard, she helped start Heresies, a collective of feminists (publishing a journal of same name) studying the relation between art and society.

Sources: WW73; Rubinstein, American Women Artists, 403-07; Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Miriam Schapiro; A Retrospective, 1953-80 (exh. cat., Wooster, OH: The College of Wooster Art Mus., 1980); L. Campbell, "Miriam Schapiro Paints a Painting," Art News (May, 1967); Barbara Rose, "Abstract illusionism," Artforum (Oct., 1968); Hermine Freed, "Miriam Schapiro in her Studio in East Hampton" (video tape), August, 1972; Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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