Louise Fishman
Louise Fishman
- 1939
- Born in Philadelphia, PA
- Lives and works in New York City
Education
- 1965
- M.F.A., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
- 1963
- B.F.A. and B.S., Tyler School of Fine Arts, Elkins, PA
- 1958
- Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- 1956-1957
- Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
- 2012
- Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- Louise Fishman: Five Decades, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
- Louise Fishman, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
- 2010
- Louise Fishman, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
- 2009
- Louise Fishman: Among the Old Masters, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
- Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 2008
- Louise Fishman: Between Geometry and Gesture, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin
- 2007
- Louise Fishman: The Tenacity of Painting, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
- 2006
- Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 2005
- Louise Fishman, Foster Gwin, San Francisco, CA
- 2004
- Louise Fishman, Recent Work, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- New York Abstract Painters George McNeil / Louise Fishman / 2004, Foster Gwin, San Francisco, CA
- 2003
- Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 2002
- Louise Fishman, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2001
- Louise Fishman, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2000
- Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 1998
- Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1996
- Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- 1995
- Small Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- 1994
- Small Paintings 1992–1994, Bianca Lanza Gallery, Miami, FL
- 1993
- Robert Miller Gallery, New York
- 1992-1993
- Louise Fishman – Small Paintings: 1979–1992, Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- Drawings and Experimental Work: 1971–1992, Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- Louise Fishman – Paintings: 1986–1992, Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- 1992
- Louise Fishman – Small Paintings: 1978–1992, Simon Watson, New York, NY
- Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
- 1991
- Louise Fishman: New Paintings, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- 1989
- Louise Fishman: New Paintings 1987–1989, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- Remembrance and Renewal, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
- 1987
- Louise Fishman and Andy Spence: Two from the Corcoran, Winston Gallery, Washington, DC
- 1986
- Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York, NY; Fishman/Sanderson, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
- 1984
- Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York, NY
- 1982
- Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, NY
- John Davis Gallery, Akron, OH
- 1980
- Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, NY
- 1979
- Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
- Louise Fishman: Five Years, 55 Mercer, New York , NY
- 1978
- Diplomat’s Lobby, The Department of State, Washington, DC
- 1977
- Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
- 1976
- University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, RI
- John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1974
- Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
- 1964
- Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelhphia, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2011-2012
- Dance/Draw, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; traveled to The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY; The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, New York, NY
- Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; traveling toThe National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
- 2011
- ABSTRACTION, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
- The Women in Our Life: A Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- To the Venetians, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
- READYKEULOUS/The Hurtful Healer, Invisible Exports, New York, NY
- 2010
- 2010 Painting & Sculpture: To Benefit the Foundation for NY Contemporary Arts, Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
- LES FEMMES, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
- Abstraction Revisited, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
- Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
- Le Tableau: French Abstraction and its Affinities, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 2009
- Before Again: Joan Mitchell, Louise Fishman, Harriet Korman, Melissa Meyer, Jill Moser, Denyse Thomasos, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- Les Femmes, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
- Abstractions by Gallery Artists, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- Propose: Works on Paper from the 1970s, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY
- 2008
- MassArt at the Fine Arts Work Center: Faculty and Visiting Artists, Hudson D. Walker Gallery Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
- Pretty Ugly, Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
- Significant Form, The Persistence of Abstraction, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
- Environments and Empires, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
- 2007
- American Abstract, Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
- WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to National Women’s Museum, Washington DC; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- The Fluid Fields: Abstraction and Reference, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 2006
- High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–75, Independent Curators International, New York, NY; traveled to Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC; National Academy Museum, New York, NY; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria; ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
- The New Landscape/The New Still life: Soutine and Modern Art, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- The Name of This Show is Not Gay Art Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
- 2005
- Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
- Paint, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- Contemporary Women Artists: New York, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
- 2004
- Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
- Drawing Exhibition, Galerie S 65, Cologne, Germany
- Twelve From Cheim & Read, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
- 2003
- The Invisible Thread : Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York, NY
- Women’s Lines, G Fine Art, Washington, DC
- Grisaille, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
- 2002
- Zenroxy, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
- Nocturne/Nocturnal, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY
- Personal and Political: The Woman’s Art Movement, 1969-1975, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
- Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture, 48 Wall Street, New York, NY
- 177th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
- Painting: A Passionate Response, Sixteen American Artists, The Painting Center, New York, NY
- Nature Found and Made, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY
- 2001
- Four Painters, Lindsey Brown, New York, NY
- Watercolor: In The Abstract, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; traveled to Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York at Fredonia Fredonia, NY; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Nina Freundenheim, Inc., Buffalo, NY; Ben Shahn Gallery, Williams Patterson University, Wayne, NJ; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
- Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
- The Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Reopening exhibition, New York, NY
- Imaging Judaism / Mining History, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
- 2000
- 175th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
- Painting Abstraction, New York Studio School, New York, NY
- Snapshot, Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD
- The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of The Jewish Museum, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
- 1999
- Gestural Abstraction, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY
- Severed Ear: The Poetry of Abstraction, Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MA
- Walking, Danese/Corey, New York, NY
- Abstraction: Realism, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
- Drawing in the Present Tense, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
- 1998
- Small Paintings, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- Undercurrents & Overtones: Contemporary Abstract Painting, California College of Arts & Crafts Institute, Oakland, CA
- San Francisco International Art Exposition, Cheim & Read Exhibition Booth, San Francisco, CA
- Paintings & Drawings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1997-1998
- Retreat and Renewall: The Painters and Sculptors of the MacDowell Colony, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, VT; traveled to The Equitable Gallery, New York, NY; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne, IN
- 1997
- Convergence, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
- Voices: The Power of Abstraction, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY
- Abstract Painting, curated by Jeffrey Wasserman, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
- Basically Black & White, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Harrison, NY
- Affinities with the East, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
- 1996
- Summer Group Show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- Transforming the Social Order, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, PA
- Women’s Work, Greene Naftali Inc., New York, NY
- 1995
- 25 Americans: Painting the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
- Artist’s Choice: Elizabeth Murray, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- 1995 Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
- New Faculty, Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
- 1994
- Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters in Art, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia, VA; traveled to Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY; Rahr West Museum, Manitowoc, WI
- Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO
- Couples, Elga Wimmer, New York, NY
- 46th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
- Small and Wet: Abstract painting and sculpture, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
- Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- 1993
- Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale. Reinstalled at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
- Abstract-Figurative, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- Art Discovery ’93, Cooperstown Art Association and Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY
- The Inaugural Show, The Painting Center, New York, NY
- Singularities, Blondies Contemporary Art, New York, NY
- The Linear Image II, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, NY
- 30th Anniversary Exhibition of Drawings, Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
- 1992
- Paintings by Martha Diamond, Mary Heilmann, Harriet Korman, Louise Fishman and Bernard Piffaretti, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- The Jewish Museum’s Masked Ball in Celebration of Purim, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
- 1991
- Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
- Spring/Summer Exhibition, Part One: Painters, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- Twentieth-Century Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polonco, Mexico; Musèe d’art Moderne et d’art Contemporain, Nice, France
- Act-Up Benefit, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
- 1990
- A Group Exhibition, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- From Earth to Archetype, Ledis Flam Gallery, New York, NY
- 1989
- Group Exhibition, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- Towards Form, Greenberg, Wilson Gallery, New York, NY
- Works on Paper, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- Fragments of History, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA
- A Decade of American Drawing 1980–1989, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Belief in Paint: Eleven Contemporary Artists, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
- 1988-1989
- Golem: Danger, Deliverance and Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
- 1988
- Selections from the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection, Davis-McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
- Louise Fishman, David Reed, Joan Mitchell, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, NY
- 1987-1988
- The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
- 1987
- 40th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- Jewish Themes, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
- 1986
- Artists for Pride, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- Louise Fishman, Hermine Ford and Arthur Cohen, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
- Jewish Themes–Contemporary American Artists II, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
- Heland Thorden Wetterling Galleries, Stockholm, Sweden
- Spirit Tracks–Big Abstract Drawings, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York and Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York, NY
- 1985
- Drawings 1975–1985, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY
- Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York, NY
- Painting as Landscape, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; traveled to Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
- Paintings 1985, Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
- An Invitational, Condeso/Lawler, New York, NY
- Twelve Painters and Six Sculptors, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1984
- Relief Prints Since 1980, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
- Second Nature: Abstract Drawings and Paintings, Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
- Cable Gallery, New York, NY
- New Prints Since 1980, Phillip Johnson Center, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
- 1983
- Six Painters, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
- Drawing In and Out, Baskerville & Watson, New York, NY
- Painting from the Mind’s Eye, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York, NY
- 1982
- Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
- Abstraction, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, NY
- Mixing Art and Politics, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Abstract Painting: Substance and Meaning–Painting by Woman Artists, New York Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art, New York, NY
- Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
- Five New York Artists, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
- Painterly Abstraction, Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, IN
- 1981
- Rush Rhees Fine Arts Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
- 1981 Painting Invitational, Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, NY
- CAPS Grantees from Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
- CAPS Award Winners in Painting 1980–1981, Proctor Art Center, Bard College and Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, NY
- 1980
- Inaugural Exhibit, Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, NY
- Work on Paper, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
- 1979
- Major New Works, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
- 1977-1978
- Critic’s Choice, Lowe Gallery, Syracuse University, Ithaca, NY; traveled to Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, NY
- 1977
- Fifth Anniversary Show, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
- Paintings That Reveal the Wall, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY
- Preparatory Notes–Thinking Drawings, Part II, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, NY
- Major New Works, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
- 1976
- Paris International Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris
- Artist ’76, A Celebration, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
- University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
- 1975
- John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, IL
- New York Faculty Exhibition, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
- 1973
- A Woman’s Group, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
- Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- 1972
- Summer Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
- Open A.I.R., A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
- 1963
- National Watercolor and Drawing Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Public Collections
- The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
- The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
- The Denver Art Museum, Colorado
- The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
- The Jewish Museum, New York
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
- The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia
Selected Awards
- 2002
- Adolph & Clara Obrig Prize for Painting, National Academy of Design, 177th Annual Exhibition, 5/1st
- 1994
- National Endowment for the Arts, Painting
- 1986
- New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting
- Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, General Support Grant
- 1983–1984
- National Endowment for the Arts, Painting
- 1981
- CAPS Fellowship in Painting
- 1980
- Fellow, MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire
- 1979
- Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting
- 1975-1976
- National Endowment for the Arts, Painting
- 1975
- Change, Inc., New York
- 1963
- Tyler School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. First Painting Prize, Student Exhibit
- Tyler School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Bertha Lowenburg Prize for the Senior Woman to Excel in Art