Resides in Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
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
SELECTED GRANTS
1976
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grand/Crafts
1980
Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant
1981
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant
1983
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant/Painting
1988
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant, Senior Fulbright Scholar-Australia
1993
John Simon Guggenheim Grant
Marie Walsh Sharpe, New York City Studio Grant
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant/Printmaking
1997
The Rockerfeller Foundation Residency/Grant (Bellagio, Italy)
2000
Illinois Project Completion Grant
2003
Institute for the Humanities, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Grants-in-Aid Award
2003
Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, Travel Grant
2004
Artadia Jury Award: The Fund for Art and Dialogue
2009
Anonymous was a Woman Award
2010
Distinguished Alumni Award, The School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois
2011
Distinguished Artist for 2012, Union League of Chicago
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1980
Gallerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France
1985
Carnegie-Mellon University, Hewlett Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1986
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL (mid-career survey)
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY (1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984)
1988
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1992
Dart Gallery, Chicago (1980, 1983, 1985, 1988)
1993
Brody's Gallery, Washington, DC (1987)
1996
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (1994)
1997
Printworks, Chicago, IL( 1992)
1998
The Chicago Cultural Center
1999
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000
Carl Hammer Gallery. Chicago, IL
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
2001
Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, IN, "Focus Series: Phyllis Bramson"
2002
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN University Gallerys, "A Thousand Scattered Secret Yearnings"
Ispace, (University of IL/Urbana), Chicago, IL, "A Thousand Secret and Scattered Yearnings"
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
2003
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago IL, "Seasonal Pleasures Provided By The Comfort of Women"
2004
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY, "Seasonal Pleasures Provided By The Comfort of Women"
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, "When the Body Speaks its Mind"
Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Prints Behaving Badly"
University of Northern Iowa, Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, IA "Body Trouble = The Facts of Life"
2005
"Kitsch-Ching", A Solo Exhibition for Scope New York, New York City, NY
Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York, NY, Selections from "When the Body Speaks its Mind"
2006
Claire Oliver Fine Arts, "The Pleasuring Gardens"
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, "The So Called Progress of Love, Even After"
2007
Grover/ Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA, "A Blink, A Glance and a Stare (Oh My)"
2008
Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO, "Love, Kisses, Tears.... Heartache"
Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY, "Kerfuffles"
2009
Laura Mesaros Gallery, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown WV, "I Tremble For You(catalogue essay by Lynn Warren) curated by Robert Bridges, director of the Mesaros Galleries, a branch for the Art Museum of West Virginia University
2010
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Phyllis Bramson and Judith Geichman: Then is Now"
2011
Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO, "Wonderland: a bright and guilty place"
John A. Day Gallery, Warren M. Lee Center for Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, "The Provacateurs, paintings by Phyllis Bramson and Adam Scott"
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1976
The Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, "Objects as Poet"
1979
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, "Colors in Sticks"
1980
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, "Chicago/Chicago"
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Chicago & vicinity Exhibition," Awarded the Pauline Palmer Prize
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, "Interiors"
1981
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Prints & Multiples," Traveling to: National Academy of Design, New York: National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
1982
Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, IL, " Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection"
1983
Musee De Toulon, Toulon, France, "New Acquisitions"
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wl, "Chicago/ Some Other Traditions"
1985
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, "States of War"
Kansas City Art Institute, Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City, MO, "Personal Metaphors"
1987
Walter Bischoff Gallery Grunwald, Munchen, Germany, ''Drawings," three-person show"
1989
Blum Helman Warehouse Gallery, New York, NY, "Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women"
1990
Museo d'arte MACC, Caracas, Venezuela, "Lineas de Vision; Dibujos de clen myeres artistas"
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, "Art on Paper/1990"
1991
Smart Museum, University of Chicago, "Cross Currents"
Penn State University Art Gallery, University Park, PA, "Gender and Representation"
1992
Center for Creative Studies, Center Galleries, Detroit. Ml, "The Home Show"
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, "Beyond Realism: Image and Enigma"
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, "Fantasy and Dreams"
1993
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC, "43rd Biennial of Contemporary American Painting"
Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC, "Already Buddha"
1994
Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, 1A, "Recent Chicago Imagism,"
Mexico/United States Collaborative Printmaking Exhibition. Traveling to: Centro Cultural, Guadalajara, Mexico; El Museo de Art Moderno, Aquascalients, Mexico
1995
P.P O.W. Gallery, New York, NY, three-person exhibition
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, "Insight"
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, "Temporarily Possessed"
1996
Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, College of Art & Design, Detroit, MI, "Constructivists"
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, "Women of the Chicago Imagists Movement" (catalogue)
Block Museum Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL "Second Sight" 1955-1995"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, "Art in Chicago: 1945-1995" (catalogue)
1997
Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, "Sex/Industry," curated by John Yau
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, "Women's Work/Examining the Feminine in Contemporary Painting" George Billings Gallery, New York, NY, "Convergence" Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, "Works on Paper/Recent Acquisitions"
1998
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, "New Acquisitions"
1999
Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY, "Summer Painting Show"
2000
The New Museum of Contemporary Art. New York, NY, "Picturing the Modem Amazon Woman"
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, " Invitational Biennial 2000"
Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL, " The Exquisite Corpse", catalog
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, "Out of Line: Drawing New Conclusions", catalog
Florida International University, The Art Museum, Miami, FL " Fantasies and Curiosities", catalog
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York. NY " Summer Painting exhibition"
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA "' Large Paintings"
2001
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, "Reflections in Hope"
Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY, "New Paintings of Gallery Artists"
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Of Dreams and Dreamers"
2002
Exit Art, New York , NY, "Reactions", InvitationaL. (Traveled to The Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA )
Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, "Shark's Ink, 1976-2001
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Pasted on"
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY , "Gallery Artists"
The Armory Show, New York, NY
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "The June Show"
Emily Davis Gallery, Myers, School of Art, The University of Akron, Akron, OH "Private Figures"
Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Luscious Too"
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs , CA, "Humor as Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection"
Columbia College/Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL "To Kiss The Spirits"
Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, "Contemporary Drawing Survey"
2003
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, "2003 Spring Benefit Exhibition"
First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, "Real Illusions: Contemporary Art from Nashville Collections"
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, "Operation: Human Intelligence" sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Council"
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY, Summer Show of Gallery Artists
Art Museum, University of Memphis, TN, "Operations Human Intelligence"
SOFA Chicago 2003, Chicago, IL, "Artists on the Map", a curated exhibition sponsored by the City of Chicago
Rockford, IL, "A Passionate Perspective: The Frances and June Spiezer Collection"
2004
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, "I Read it for the Art: Chicago, Creativity, and Playboy", work from the corporate collection
The National Academy Museum, New York City, NY, "179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art"
Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN, "Artist as Collector"
Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN, "That 70's Show: Age Pluralism in Chicago"
Purdue University, Purdue, IN, "Treasure-Trove", Purdue, University Galleries
COFA/Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York, NY, "Innocence and Insight
NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Carl Hammer Gallery, IL, "The Reflected/Refracted Self"
2005
Emily David Gallery, Myers School of Art, The University of Akeron, Akron, OH, "Man and Beast"
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, "Centrally Located: The Artadia and Richard H Driehaus Foundation 2004 Awards
Claire Oliver Fine Arts, New York, NY, "Earthly Delights/ a Selection From Gallery Artists"
H. F. Johnson Art Gallery, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, "Chop Mark 11"
Laura Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, VA, "On Paper: Prints from Normal Editions Workshop"
Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO, "5 Presses: Selected Works"
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, "On the Mark: Chicago Printmaker's Collaborative, 1989-2005"
Savannah College of Art and Design, Red Gallery, Savannah, GA, "Print, Process, Collaboration"
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, "2006 Spring Benefit Exhibition"
2006
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, All About Woman
Printworks, Chicago, IL, The Art of Bookplates
South Eastern Center for the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC, Secca Collects
Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, IL, The Spirit and the Psyche
2007
Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY, What F Word?
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, Fresh Takes on Familiar Faces
The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern U, Evanston, IL, The Exquisite Snake
Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PN, " Contemporary Work By Woman"
University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL," Marks From the Matrix, Normal Editions Workshop, 1979 - 2006" (catalog)
2008
ArtSpace, New Haven, CN, "Pretty Things: Confronting the Sensuous Head" (catalog)
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO ARAC@AAM: Anderson Art Ranch Center at the Aspen Art Museum (catalog)
The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, Sullivan Galleries, "Ah, Decadence"
Johnson Art Gallery, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, "June Spiezer;"Whatever I'm Looking At"/A Post - 1960's Collection of Chicago Art"
Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO, "Works On Paper By Selected Artists"
2009
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, " Pleasure Paintings", 3 person exhibition
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, "The Hairy Who and the Imagist Legacy"
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Drawing as a Mirror of Self"
Rockford Art Museum, Rockfort, IL " The Francis and June Spiezer Collection"
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL, as we live and breathe
2010
The Art Center, Highland Park, IL, “50th Anniversary Exhibition”
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, “Normal Editions Workshop Collaborative: Prints, 1976–2008”
University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, IL, “Selections From the Permanent Collection”
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, “On View, Work From the Permanent Collection”
The Art Center, Highland Park, IL, "Tethered to My World, Contemporary Figure Painting: Location, Chicago”
Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery of San Jose State University (James Yood, guest curator), San Jose, CA, “Chicago Imagism(s)”
2011
Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Cover Stories: The Art of the Book Jacket”
Pop-Up Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Prints: Paschke and His Contemporaries From California to Chicago to N.Y.”
Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago, IL,” Seeing Is a Kind of Thing” A Jim Nutt Companion” Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO, “Return of the Outlaw (Printmakers)”
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wis, “E Pluribus Unum: Artists Picture Society”
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Kemper Insurance
University of Wisconsin
McDonald Corporation
Illinois State University
Palm Springs Museum
Oberlin College Museum
Musee de Toulon, Toulon, France
Hirshorn Museum
Department of the Interior
Block Museum
Ohio State University
Museum of Contemporary Art
Milwaukee Art Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Northern Illinois University Museum
Illinois State Museum
Bradley University
Library of Congress
Lakeview Museum of Art and Science
Sears Corporation
Arizona State University
University of Nebraska, Omaha
Elmhurst College
Western Illinois University
University of Colorado
Playboy Corporation
University of Missouri
Art Bank – Department of State
Southern Illinois University
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Smart Museum, University of Chicago
National Museum of American Art
Southern Illinois Museum
University of Arizona Art Museum
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
University of Colorado, Boulder
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
Zimmerli Art Museum
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
Corcoran Museum
Orlando Museum of Art
University of Illinois Hospital
Bard College
Purdue University
University of Northern Iowa
Racine Art Museum
Bucknell University
Kresge Art Museum
University of Iowa
Rockford Art Museum
University of N. Carolina