Miriam Shenitzer | Biographical Information

Boston Center for the Arts

551 Tremont St #314

Boston, MA  02116

(617) 953-2857

miriamshenitzer@hotmail.com

Selected Exhibitions

  • People and Animals, Solo Show, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA, 2009
  • The Book As Art, 25th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2009, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, 2006,
  • The Drawing Project, Carroll and Sons, Boston, 2008
  • Studios@35, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, 2007
  • Aids Benefit Invitational, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, 2002-2008
  • The Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, 2000, 2002
  • Society of Illustrators Annual, Society of Illustrators, New York, 2001
  • Made in Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA 1999
  • Changing Pages, Touring Exhibition, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, 1998
  • Pet Paintings, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, 1996
  • Contemporary Canadian Bookworks, Gallery at the Embassy, Tokyo, 1995
  • Worse Than Animals: Meditations on Racist Violence, Artists Foundation Gallery, Boston, 1993
  • (co-curator)
  • The Art of the Book, National Library, Ottawa, 1993
  • Working Proof, Boston Public Library, 1992
  • Members' Choice Invitational, Boston Printmakers, Duxbury Art Complex. 1991
  • 43rd International Print Exhibition, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, 1991
  • Graveurs de Boston, l'Estampe du Rhin, Strasbourg, 1990
  • The Power of the Press, Worcester Crafts Center, Worcester, 1989

Collections

  • Brown University      
  • Boston Public Library
  • Bucknell University
  • Evergreen State College
  • Florida Atlantic University (Miami)
  • Fogg Museum of Art
  • Harvard University Fine Arts Library
  • J. Paul Getty Museum
  • Jerusalem Print Workshop
  • Messiah College
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts
  • Newark Public Library
  • Newberry Library
  • New York Public Library
  • Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Oslo)
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Temple University
  • University of California (Los Angeles)
  • University of Colorado at Boulder
  • University of Delaware
  • University of Iowa
  • University of Louisville
  • University of Missouri (Columbia)
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Texas (Austin) 
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Scripps College
  • Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Walker Art Center
  • Wellesley College
  • Yale University

Illustrations

  • New Yorker Magazine,
  • New York Times Book Review
  • Washington Post
  • Harvard Magazine
  • Boston Lyric Opera

Residency

Women's Studio Workshop, 1994, 1995

Education

Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA                                              

EdM in Language and Literacy, 1994

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel  | BFA in Printmaking, 1987

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel    | Art History, 1983

York University, Toronto, Canada | Liberal Arts, 1982

Selected Bibliography

  • Holland, Christian, Studios@35 at the BCA, Big Red and Shiny, issue 55, 1/07
  • Huntington, Richard, The Big Picture: In the Workspace, Buffalo News, 11/12/04
  • Hauth, M, Graveurs de Boston, l’Alsace, 2/28/90
  • NY ARTS, 4/02
  • Sherman, Mary, Drawing The Line, Boston Herald, 5/7/00
  • Coleman, Sandy, Are We Worse Than Animals? Boston Globe, 7/4/93
  • Stapen, Nancy, Artists Foundation Show Explores Racial Violence, Boston Globe, 7/18/93