Mimi Weisbord

BORN in Philadelphia, Mimi Weisbord studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy. After graduation, magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois, she attended the Art School of the Brooklyn Museum on a Max Beckmann Fellowship, then lived and painted for 3 years in Rome.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS include solo exhibitions, "Silences: Landscape Paintings, Prints and Small Works" in September, 2007 and "At Home Away From Home", paintings of Mexico and Greece, October 2005 - both at Prince Street Gallery; a one-person show, "Patzcuaro: Puerta del Cielo" at the Museo de Artes Populares in Michoacan, Mexico in February 2004, and "Four Painters" at the Prince Street Gallery in May of 2004. Her solo show "About the House" at Gallery 107 in Brooklyn, was reviewed in Art in America in 1996.

GROUP SHOWS include "Selections from the Permanent Collection", Centro Cultural, Patzcuaro, Mexico; the Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY (curated by Karen Shaw); P.S.1, Long Island City, NY; Albany Institute of Art; Jersey City State College; Cooperstown Museum (curated by Holland Cotter) and Syracuse University. In New York City:
The New Museum; Cooper-Hewitt Museum; Soho Center For the Visual Arts; Manhattan Graphics Center; Organization for Independent Artists (artist's books, curated by Esther Smith); and Franklin Furnace (artist's books curated by Lucy Lippard). Also Getler-Pall; Frank Marino; Kathryn Markel; A.I.R.; Prince Street and Blue Mountain galleries; and the Grey Art Gallery at NYU.

AWARDS include a CAPS Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts; a City Arts Workshop Mural Commission from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; a residency in the P.S.1 Studio Program, Long Island City, NY; and two residencies at the Cummington Community for the Arts, Cummington, MA.

COLLECTIONS include Time-Life; Amoco; Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett; Milbank Tweed Hatley & McCloy; Franklin Furnace Archives; Sidney Lewis; Raymond Learsy; the University of Illinois and Centro Cultural, Antiguo Colegio Jesuita, Patzcuaro, Mexico.

Ms. Weisbord has spent time in recent years painting in Greece and the state of Michoacan in Mexico. She lives in New York City.