Miriam Schaer
199 Eighth Avenue, A3
11215 Brooklyn
USA (United States)
718-788-2029
718-788-0064
http://miriamschaer.com
Kunstart: Skulptur
Technik: Materialmix
Statement:
I make books from clothing and other found objects in response to questions in everyday life that have no answers
Vita / Lebenslauf:
EDUCATION
Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts), BFA, Philadelphia, PA
School of Visual Arts, BFA, New York, NY
Boston University, Boston, MA
Writing for Artists with Arlene Raven, New York, NY
Academia Español Guatemala, Antigüa, Guatemala
Centro de Estudios Lingüisticos y Multiculturales, Cuernavaca, México
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, NY
Private Studies with Timothy Ely and Jeffrey Peachey, New York, NY
GRANTS
2003 NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Trust for Mutual Understanding, Grant to teach book arts program in tandem with
environmentally-friendly printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia 2001 Puffin Foundation, Grant for �Solitary Confinements: A Family Portrait,� NY, NY
RESIDENCIES
2007 Imagining the Book 2007, Artist Residency, Biennale Bibliotheca Alexandrina,
Egypt
2004 Sanskriti Kendra, Artist in Residence, Delhi, India
1999 Situacionnes, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha,
Cuenca, Spain
1998 Printline Exchange Residency, Academy of Fine Arts Printshop, Belgrade, Serbia
COLLECTIONS
Arts of the Book, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Mata & Arthur Jaffe Collection: Book as Aesthetic Object,
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Alan Chasanoff Bookworks Collection, NY, NY
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
The Bristol Art Library, Bristol, England
Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Oberlin College, OH
Sallie Bingham Center for Women\\\'s History & Culture, Duke Univ., Durham, NC
University of Washington, Seattle, WA,
UC Irvine, CA
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Altars of the Invisible, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College,
Cranford, NJ
2007 Defining/ReDefining the Book, Marguerite & James Hutchins Gallery,
Gruss Center for Visual Arts, Lawrenceville, NJ
2005 Chapel of Uncommon Prayers, Whitewater Gallery, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
2004 Six Wives for the Brothers Grimm, Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza
2001 Solitary Confinements: A Family Portrait, Installation, Ceres Project Room,
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2000 Binding Ties: Girdle Books and Other Meditations, Mary H. Dana Women Artists
Series, Mabel Smith Douglas Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Three Women from New York, Gallery An Dan Te, Seoul, South Korea
2008 African Belief Influences on Contemporary Altars, The Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery,
St. John�s University, Queens NY Curated by Liza Papi (catalog)
Mapping Correspondence, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, NY
2007 Imagining the Book 2007 Biennale, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt
Curated by Suzanne Reese Horvitz and Robert Roesch
From The Inside Out: Feminist Art Then & Now, The Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery,
St. John�s University, Queens NY Curated by Claudia Sbrissa (catalog)
2006 Unstitched, Unbound: Imprints for Change, N.Cummings Foundation, NY, NY
2005 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, South Korea (catalog)
Dialog: NY/Paris Printmakers, Cité des Arts. Paris; Center for Book Arts, Abrons
Art Center & Long Island University, New York City. Curated by Maddy Rosenberg
2003 Altered Books: Spine Bending Thrillers, Rider University Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ
2001 Examining Our Breasts, LeBel Gallery, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1998 Reincarnation: Book, Eleventh Tallinn Print Triennial, Gallery of the City
of Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia (catalog)
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2008 Beyond Reading, Suffolk Museum of Art, Suffolk, VA. Curated by Trudi Van Dyke
Authors of Mischief/Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read
Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Telling the Story, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ. Curated by A.M. Weaver
Edges of Grace, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA. Curated by Gail M. Brown (catalog)
2004 Corporal Identity: Body Language, 9th Frankfurt Triennial, Museum Für
Angewandte Kunst, Germany, and the Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY
Curated by David Revere McFadden and Ursula Neumann (catalog)
2002 Material Witnesses: The Socio-Political in Contemporary Textile Art,
The Goldstein Museum, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
2000 Working in Brooklyn: Artists Books, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
REGISTRIES
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Base at the Brooklyn Museum
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