Beverly Fishman

Beverly Fishman is an artist who adopts the language of abstraction to explore the body, issues of identity, and contemporary culture. Her career-long investigation draws upon medical imaging, pharmaceutical design, and the history of modernist painting. She is the recipient of many awards, including the National Academy of Design Academician Award; an Anonymous was a Woman Award; the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Award, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; an Artist Space Exhibition Grant; and an NEA Fellowship Grant, among others.

Fishman’s work has been the subject of over forty solo exhibitions at galleries in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Thessaloniki, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and Detroit. It has also been shown at the Chrysler Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. Her work is represented in many collections including the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University; the Mint Museum; the Cranbrook Art Museum; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, the Pizzuti Collection; and many corporate collections. Her work has been reviewed in numerous art magazines, newspapers, and scholarly publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Huffington Post, Modern Painters, Artnet Magazine, Wallpaper, NY Arts Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Art in America. Between 1992 and 2019, she was Artist-in-Residence and Head of Painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Fishman is represented by Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY, and Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

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