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Phyllis Bramson    (American, 1941)

 Phyllis Bramson - A Dilly Dally with Pretty Sally (Paintings) h: 60 x w: 60 in / h: 152.4 x w: 152.4 cm
Phyllis Bramson
A Dilly Dally with Pretty Sally 2006
 
  

Biography
1962 Yale University, Yale/ Norfolk Art Scholarship (Summer)
1963 BFA in Drawing and Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Awarded high Honors
1964 MA in Painting, University of Wisconsin, WI, Vilas Fellowship
1974 MFA, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Grants & Awards:
Artadia Grant, Artadia: the Fund for Art and Dialog, Jury Award, Chicago, IL – 2005
Institute For the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, ICR OVCR Travel Grant – 2004
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Award, Colorado Springs, CO – 2003
Institute For The Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, Grants-in-Aid Award – 2001
Illinois Arts Council, Project Completion Grant – 2000
The Rockefeller Foundation Residency and Grant (Bellagio, Italy) – 1997
Vermont Studio Center Residency and Grant – 1996
John Simon Guggenheim Grant – 1993
Marie Walsh Sharpe, New York City Studio Grant – 1993
Senior National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Printmaking – 1993
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant – 1988
Senior Fulbright Scholar-Australia – 1988
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting – 1983
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant – 1981
Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant – 1980
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Crafts – 1976
Public Collections:
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Musee de Toulon, Toulon, France
Hirshorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, NJ
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Corcoran Museum, Washington D.C.
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Southern Illinois Museum, Carbondale, IL
Lakeside Museum of Art and Science, Peoria, IL
Department of the Interior, Washington D.C.
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Art Bank - Department of State, Washington D.C.
Carson Pirie Scott and Co., Milwaukee, WI
Playboy Corporation, Chicago, IL
Kemper Insurance
Readers Digest Corporation
McDonald Corporation, Oak Brook, IL
Continental Insurance
Prudential Insurance, Newark, NJ
Sears Corporation
Peat Marwick & Mitchell
Illinois Center State Building, Chicago, IL
Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL
Lake Forest College Museum, Lake Forest, IL
University of Wisconsin Museum, Madison, WI
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Oberlin College Museum, Oberlin, OH
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
University of Nebraska, Omaha, Omaha, NE
Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL
Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
Richland Community College, Decatur, IL
University of Arizona Art Museum, Tuscon, AZ
University of North Carolina, Greenborough, NC
University of Illinois Hospital, Chicago, IL
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
Rockford College, Rockford, IL
Altgeld Gallery, Northern Illinois University, Chicago, IL

Exhibitions
2008 Love, Kisses, Tears.... Heartache, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo)
2008 Kerfuffles, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2008 Ah, Decadence, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, Sullivan Galleries
2008 Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO ARAC@AAM: Anderson Art Ranch Center at the Aspen Art Museum
2008 Pretty Things: Confronting the Sensuous Head, ArtSpace, New Haven, CN
2008 “Heat Seekers”, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2008 Phyllis Bramson and 40 Artists: Small Scale, Philip Slein Gallery, St.Louis, MO (solo)
2007 Marks From the Matrix, Normal Editions Workshop, 1979 - 2006, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2007 Contemporary Work By Woman, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PN
2007 The Exquisite Snake, The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern U, Evanston, IL
2007 Fresh Takes on Familiar Faces, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 What F Word?, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
2007 A Blink, A Glance and a Stare (Oh My), Grover/ Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
2006 The Pleasuring Gardens, Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
2006 The So Called Progress of Love, Even After, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
2006 The Spirit and the Psyche, Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, IL
2006 Secca Collects, South Eastern Center for the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC
2006 The Art of Bookplates, Printworks, Chicago, IL
2006 All About Woman, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “The Pleasuring Gardens”, Claire Oliver, New York, NY (solo)
2006 “Paintings and Figurines with Drawings", Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
2005 Selections from “When the Body Speaks Its Mind”, Claire Oliver, New York, NY (solo)
2005 Kitsch-Ching, A Solo Exhibition for Scope New York, New York City, NY (solo)
2005 When the Body Speaks its Mind, Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
2005 Earthly Delights/ a Selection From Gallery Artists, Claire Oliver Fine Arts, New York, NY
2005 On the Mark: Chicago Printmaker's Collaborative, 1989-2005, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2005 2006 Spring Benefit Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2005 Chop Mark 11, H. F. Johnson Art Gallery, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
2004 The Reflected/Refracted Self, Carl Hammer Gallery, IL
2004 179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, The National Academy Museum, New York City, NY
2004 Artist as Collector, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN
2004 Innocence and Insight, COFA/Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York, NY
2004 Seasonal Pleasures Provided By The Comfort of Women, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY (solo)
2004 When the Body Speaks its Mind, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO (solo)
2004 Prints Behaving Badly, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
2004 Body Trouble = The Facts of Life, University of Northern Iowa, Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, IA (solo)
2003 Seasonal Pleasures Provided By The Comfort of Women, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago IL (solo)
2003 Artists on the Map, a curated exhibition sponsored by the City of Chicago, SOFA Chicago 2003, Chicago, IL
2003 Operations Human Intelligence, Art Museum, University of Memphis, TN
2003 Real Illusions: Contemporary Art from Nashville Collections, First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
2002 A Thousand Scattered Secret Yearnings, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN University Gallerys (solo)
2002 A Thousand Secret and Scattered Yearnings, Ispace, (University of IL/Urbana), Chicago, IL (solo)
2002 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY (solo)
2002 Reactions, Invitational, Exit Art, New York , NY
2002 Pasted on, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Gallery Artists, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
2002 The Armory Show, New York, NY
2002 Luscious Too, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Focus Series: Phyllis Bramson, Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, IN (solo)
2001 Reflections in Hope, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
2001 Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2001 Of Dreams and Dreamers, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Summer Painting exhibition, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York. NY
2000 Picturing the Modem Amazon Woman, The New Museum of Contemporary Art. New York, NY
2000 The Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL
2000 Carl Hammer Gallery. Chicago, IL (solo)
2000 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY (solo)
1999 Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1999 Summer Painting Show, Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY
1998 New Acquisitions, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1998 The Chicago Cultural Center (solo)
1997 Printworks, Chicago, IL (solo)
1997 Sex/Industry, curated by John Yau, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Women's Work/Examining the Feminine in Contemporary Painting, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1997 Convergence, George Billings Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Works on Paper/Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1996 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1996 Art in Chicago: 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
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