Miriam Beerman works acquired by several museums
Miriam Beerman's works are housed in the collections of over 60 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, The Phillips Collection, RISD Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK.
Throughout her career she has won awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, NJ State Council on the Arts, Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation, RISD Alumni Award, as well as many others.
Miriam has exhibited her works in 30 solo shows, including solo shows at the Brooklyn Museum, Graham Gallery, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Everson Museum, NJ State Museum, Lawrence University, Montclair Art Museum, and more.
In 2015 a film about Miriam, Miriam Beerman: Expressing the Chaos, was created by noted filmmaker Jonathan Gruber. This film has been shown in film festivals, PBS, and abroad. It is now available on Amazon Prime and Youtube where it has been viewed over 40,000 times. Please follow Miriam on Instagram and visit her web site
Miriam graduated from RISD in 1945 where she studied with John Frazier. She worked at Atelier 17 while on a Fulbright to Paris and had her work critiqued by Marcel Brion. She also studied with Kuniyoshi and Yunkers in New York. She received many fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and also was awarded a fellowship to work at MacDowell.
