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.