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EDUCATION

  • University of Texas at Austin, BA
  • University of Houston, MA
  • Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

  • 2017 Three. Two. One. Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
  • 2014 Object|Subject, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • 2012 Ten New Paintings, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 2011 Present Moment, School of Art & Design at Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
  • 2010 Every Day, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • 2009 Sustain, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 2008 Clear, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • 2007 New Paintings, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 2007 Life, Still, Cody Center Gallery, Laity Lodge, Kerrville, TX
  • 2006 Recent Paintings, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
  • 2005 Ellen Berman: Staged Settings, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX
  • 2004 Still Life Revisited, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX
  • 2004 Distilling Life, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
  • 2004 Domestic Landscapes, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 2003 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
  • 2003 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • 2002 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 2001 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • 2000 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 1998 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 1997 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
  • 1997 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 1996 Painting Sarah: 1984-1994, Texas A & M University, College of Medicine, College Station, TX
  • 1995 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
  • 1995 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 1993 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 1993 Lost and Found, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
  • 1991 Pictures of Sarah, UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX
  • 1990 Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
  • 1989 The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX (Catalogue)
  • 1989 The Swimmer’s Progress, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX (Catalogue)
  • 1988 Goethe Institute, Houston, TX
  • 1987 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 1986 Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
  • 1985 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2013 Suitable Subjects, Contemporary Still Life, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX
  • 2012 Mona Lisa Project, Austin City Hall, Austin, TX
  • 2011 Mona Lisa Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX (Catalogue)
  • 2011 Mona Lisa Project, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Grand Rapids, MI
  • 2010 10th Anniversary Group Show, D Berman Gallery, Austin, TX
  • 2010 Holiday Exhibition, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 2009 A Little More Red, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 2008 Thrive, Diverse Works, Houston, TX (Catalogue)
  • 2008 Texas Chair Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX (Catalogue)
  • 2007 Revisiting Red, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 2007 City Hall Exhibition, Austin, TX
  • 2007 Capturing a Moment, University of Dallas Haggerty Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • 2006 The Rx Art Ball, New York, NY
  • 2006 Facing the Figure, College of the Mainland Gallery, Texas City, TX
  • 2006 City Hall Exhibition, Austin, TX
  • 2005 City Hall Exhibition, Austin, TX
  • 2005 Color, Pattern, Grid, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
  • 2005 The Rx Art Ball, New York, NY
  • 2005 Something Red, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
  • 2004 Summer Group Exhibition, d berman gallery, Austin, TX
  • 2004 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • 2003 Something Blue, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 2003 Miniatures, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 2002 Members’ Exhibition (Curated), Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
  • 2002 Invitational Exhibition, Longview Art Museum, Longview, TX
  • 2002 The ART of Being American, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX (Catalogue)
  • 2002 Summer Group Exhibition, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 2002 Group Exhibition, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
  • 2002 Double Take, d berman gallery, Austin, TX.and Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX (Catalogue)
  • 2001 Double Take, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX, Waco Art Center, Waco, TX. (Catalogue)
  • 2001 The Art Show at the Armory, David Findlay Jr. Contemporary Fine Art, New York, NY
  • 2001 Group Exhibition: Ellen Berman, Andre Von Morrisse, Manuel Acosta, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
  • 2001 Summer Group Exhibition, dberman gallery, Austin, TX
  • 2001 Art Ball V, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
  • 2001 Masterpieces, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX
  • 2000 PEOPLE – Portraits by Texas Artists, City Gallery at Wells Fargo Plaza, Houston, TX
  • 2001 13 Contemporary Artists: Works on Paper, David Findlay Jr Contemporary Fine Art, New York, NY
  • 2001 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
  • 2001 Forbidden, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 1999 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
  • 1999 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 1998 Still Sixteen, Still Life, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
  • 1999 Vocabularies: Paintings by Ellen Berman and Sydney Yeager, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
  • 1999 Images of Man, Stephen F. Austin State University Art Building Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX
  • 1997 Flora Bella, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
  • 1996 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston,TX (catalogue)
  • 1996 Feast For The Eyes, Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria, Austin,TX
  • 1995 Art Journeys, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
  • 1995 Critics’ Choice, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, Texas (catalogue)
  • 1995 Houston Small Works for Yekaterinberg Exhibit, The American Center in Yekaterinberg, Russia (traveling exhibition)
  • 1994 Self-Possessed, TFAA, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX
  • 1994 Looking West/Glancing East: New Texas Art, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
  • 1993 City Room Garden, University of Houston College of Architecture, Texas A&M College of Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington, California College of Arts and Crafts
  • 1993 Conventional Forms / Insidious Visions, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
  • 1991 IsThere Still Life In The Still Life?, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
  • 1991 Invitational Exhibition, Brookhaven College, Texas
  • 1989 Mid-America Biennial, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (Catalogue)
  • 1989 Texas State Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX (Catalogue)
  • 1989 Island Introductions, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
  • 1988 Pindar Gallery, New York, N.Y. Juror: Lowery Sims
  • 1998 Texas State Exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (Catalogue)
  • 1998 31st Annual Chatauqua National Exhibition of American Art, New York
  • 1998 Texas Still Lifes, Galveston, TX
  • 1998 National Women’s Caucus for Art Exhibition, San Antonio, TX, Best of Show Award (Catalogue)
  • 1987 The Anatomy of Drawing, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 1987 Pieces: Theatre as Art, Art as Theatre, Stages Theatre, Houston, TX
  • 1987 21st Annual Juried Exhibition, Jewish Community Center of Houston, Juror: Mary Jane Jacob, First Prize, (Catalogue)
  • 1987 East End Exhibition, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX. Juror: Luis Jimenez
  • 1987 Texas Realism 1987, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX. Juror: Betty Moody, Honorable Mention
  • 1986 Sixteenth Annual Work on Paper Exhibition, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Juror: Alfred Leslie
  • 1986 150 Works by Texas Women Artists, Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, Juror: Ann Sutherland Harris, Juror’s Choice
  • 1986 The September Competition, The Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, Louisiana, Juror: Henry Hopkins (Catalogue)
  • 1986 New American Talent, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX. Juror: Peter Plagens (Touring)
  • 1985 Texas Realism, Texas Fine Arts Association at St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX (Touring)
  • 1985 Texas Visions, Transco Tower, Houston (Catalogue)
  • 1985 Four Emerging Artists, Art League of Houston, Jurors: Dick Wray and Robert Bourdon (Catalogue)
  • 1985 20th Annual Juried Exhibition, Jewish Community Center of Houston, Juror: Henry Hopkins (Catalogue)
  • 1985 National Drawing and Printmaking Exhibition, College of the Mainland,Texas City, Texas, Juror: Pat Stier
  • 1984 18th Annual Juried Exhibition, Jewish Community Center of Houston, Juror: John Russell, Honorable Mention

AWARDS, GUEST ARTIST APPOINTMENTS, PANEL MEMBERSHIPS
AND LECTURES (Selected)

  • 2017 Juror, WVAL Members Exhibition, Wimberley, TX
  • 2007 Artist in Residence, Laity Lodge, Kerrville, TX
  • Guest Speaker, Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Dallas, TX
  • 2006 Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome
  • U.S. Art in Embassies Program – Zimbabwe
  • Guest Speaker, Women in the Visual and Literary Arts, Houston, TX
  • 2005 Artists Panel Member, Conversations on Collecting, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
  • 2003 Panel Member, Discussion of Exhibit Pertaining to Painting, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
  • Panel Member, The Business of Art, AVAA and Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
  • 1998 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Dennison University Art Dept., Granville, Ohio
  • 1996 Guest Speaker, Leadership in Medicine Program, Texas A & M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, College Station, TX
  • 1995 Guest Speaker, Compassion and the Art of Medicine Series. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
  • Visiting Faculty, Health Care and the Arts, UT Houston Medical School
  • Guest Speaker, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
  • 1993 Guest Speaker, Society for Health and Human Values National Meeting, University of TX Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
  • Guest Lecturer, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
  • 1991 Visiting Artist (Lecture and Workshop). University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO
  • Guest Speaker, Compassion and the Art of Medicine Series. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
  • Guest Speaker, The Council for the Visual and Performing Arts Series. UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX
  • 1990 Guest Speaker, Compassion and the Art of Medicine Series. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
  • 1988 National Endowment for the Arts/Mid-America Arts Alliance Fellowship Award

BIBLIOGRAPHY (Selected)

  • Minnick, Fitzhugh, McJunkin, Artists in the Texas Hill Country, Lamar University Literary Press, 2021.
  • Essay in Passage, no. 5, Winter 2021, ed. Susie Kalil.
  • Tennant, Donna. “Ellen Berman, Recommendation.” Visual Art Source, March 2017.
  • Glenzer, Molly. “Art Daybook: Bowls as a metaphor for politics. The kitchen-table commentary of Ellen Berman’s still-life paintings,” Houston Chronicle, March 16, 2017.
  • Partnow, Elaine, The Quotable Woman: The First 5000 Years, Facts On File, New York, 2010.
  • “Out of the Ordinary,” Ellen Berman, Blue Rock Review, vol. 3: Seeing, 2008.
  • Interview and images included in Essay from “Frida Kahlo,” Edited by Elizabeth Carpenter, Catalog accompanying exhibition at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota , 2007.
  • “Northward Exposure,” Tribeza Magazine, November, 2006.
  • “A Captivating Collection of Art,” Austin American Statesman, March 10, 2006.
  • Gangelhoff, Bonnie. “The Still Life – 10 Great Artists, from Traditional to Modern”, Southwest Art Magazine, December 2005.
  • U.S. Dept. of State Art in Embassies Program 2006 Calendar (image)
  • Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Start them young, then art collectors can turn their interests into legacies”, Austin American Statesman, March 26, 2005.
  • Mitchell, Charles Dee. “Wall to Wall Party” (Review), Dallas Morning News, June 1, 2004.
  • Daniel, Mike. “’20th Anniversary Exhibition’ at Conduit, Dallas Morning News, June 11, 2004.
  • Nye, Naomi Shahib, compiler. Is This Forever, Or What? Poems and Paintings from Texas, Greenwillow Books, 2004.
  • Kalil, Susie. Essay for Double Take catalogue, 2002.
  • Cosgrove, Charlotte. Essay for Double Take catalogue, 2002.
  • “A Pear Primer” (image), Houston Chronicle, March 13, 2002.
  • Johnson, Patricia. “Intimacy permeates Double Take,” Houston Chronicle, February 9, 2001.
  • Johnson, Patricia. “Stretching the Frame,” Houston Chronicle, Sect.D, Tuesday, November 10, 1998.
  • Marshall, Cari. “Vocabularies [ult < L. Vocare, to Call] Vocation: Eating Apples Walking Through a Rainbow.” The Austin Chronicle, June 12, 1998.
  • Schade, Christopher. “The heart of the matter,” Austin American Statesman, C9, Saturday, June 27, 1998.
  • Anspon, Catherine. “Still Lifes and Pop Carpets Make the Scene,” Public News, p. 12, Feb. 26, 1997.
  • Johnson, Patricia. “Garden of Paint,” Houston Chronicle, Sec. D, Tues., Feb. 25, 1997.
  • Johnson, Patricia. “Galleries offer portraits with other themes,” Houston Chronicle, Sec. D, Fri., Dec. 22, 1995.
  • Ligon, Andrew J. III. “A contrast in style,” El Paso Herald-Post, p. 3, November 16, 1995.
  • Ballew, Coco. “El Paso crowd swarms to Adair Margo gallery,” El Paso Times, Sec. F, p. 1, November 17, 1995.
  • Johnson, Patricia. “Artist on 3 levels: wrenching emotion, mythical settings, passive explosions,” Houston Chronicle, Section D, Monday, March 13, 1995.
  • Houston Chronicle, Reproduction, Wednesday, February 22, 1995.
  • El Paso Herald Post, p. 8, September 1, 1994.
  • Levy, Rebecca. “Self Images,” The Austin Chronicle, September 2, 1994.
  • McClellan, Faith. “A Grief Observed: The Paintings of Ellen Berman,” Literature & Medicine, Vol. 12, No. 2, Fall, 1993.
  • McBride, Elizabeth. “Ellen Berman at McMurtrey Gallery,” Museum and Arts Magazine, March, 1993
  • Chadwick, Susan. Review, Houston Post, January 26, 1993.
  • Johnson, Patricia. “Exhibit fails to fulfill exciting concept,” Houston Chronicle, January 22, 1993.
  • McBride, Elizabeth. “On the Scene: Houston,” ArtSpace, May/June 1992, p. 92.
  • Chadwick, Susan. “It’s still realism,” The Houston Post, Saturday, December 21,1991.
  • “Baylor College of Medicine: ‘Human Touch Series,” Houston Chronicle, Wednesday, September 25, 1991.
  • Kutner, Janet. “Visual Relief,” Dallas Morning News, Sunday, September 22, 1991.
  • Lizza, Richard William. “An Interview with Ellen Berman” in Catalogue for Exhibition The Swimmer’s Progress, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, Texas,1989.
  • Chadwick, Susan. “Floating images show depth,” The Houston Post, Sunday, July 9, 1989.
  • Brown, Betty Ann and Raven, Arlene. Exposures: Women & Their Art, Newsage Press, Los Angeles, 1989.
  • Kalil, Susie. Essay for Exhibition Ellen Berman Recent Paintings, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, 1989.
  • McBride, Elizabeth. “The Visionary Paintings of Ellen Berman,” Public News, Feb. 15, 1989.
  • Who’s Who in American Art, 1989 edition.
  • Johnson, Patricia. “Politics, family life explored from various angles,” Houston Chronicle, Feb 25, 1989.
  • Fey, Shari. “Mixing artistic apples and oranges: Painter combines still lifes, portraits of daughter and makes it work,” Beaumont Enterprise, January 20, 1989.
  • Hobbs, Robert. “The Reality of Illusion: Thoughts on Houston and Some of its Women Artists,” in No Bluebonnets, No Yellow Roses: Essays on Texas Women in the Arts, ed. Sylvia Moore, Midmarch Arts Press, New York, 1988.
  • Tennant, Donna. “Houston Galleries: Where the Women Are,” in No Bluebonnets, No Yellow Roses: Essays on Texas Women in the Arts, ed. Sylvia Moore, Midmarch Arts Press, New York, 1988.
  • “Favorite Things: Fresh Picked,” Good Housekeeping’s Victoria, Summer, 1988.
  • Smitherman, Leigh. “O’Kane Gallery, UHDC,” (Review), In Art, March 1988.
  • Chadwick, Susan. “Critic’s Choice: Oil and Water,” Houston Post, February 5, 1988.
  • Balshaw-Biddle, Kathy. “Women artists to converge on Houston,” Houston Woman Magazine, February, 1988.
  • McBride, Elizabeth. “Houston Letter,” Artspace, p. 62, Winter 1987 – 1988.
  • Brookover, Tim. “Season’s Treats,” Houston Home & Garden Magazine, December, 1987.
  • Johnson, Patricia C. “Gallery exhibition can’t untangle ‘Knotty Issues’ of title,” Houston Chronicle, October 6, 1987.
  • “Ellen Berman,” The Inquirer, ed. Fran Kalmykov, Houston, Tx., April – May, 1987.
  • McCombie, Mel. “Realism proves too broad a theme for show,” Austin American Statesman, February 20, 1987.
  • Goddard, Dan R. ” ‘Texas Realism’ mirrors artist,” The Sunday Express-News, San Antonio, January 11, 1987.
  • Chadwick, Susan. “Critic’s Choice: Full of Grace,” The Houston Post, December 12, 1986.
  • DeFee, Leda Adele. “Variety the key to annual competition”, Alexandria (La.), Daily Town Talk, September 18, 1986.
  • “Fresher Paint: Introductions ’85,” Public News, (Houston), July 11, 1985.
  • Fallon, Gretchen. “Focus on Houston: Big Summer Show,” Houston Home and Garden Magazine, July, 1985.
  • Johnson, Patricia C. “Introductions ’85 a bold success,” Houston Chronicle, July 20, 1985.
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  • Johnson, Patricia C. “Theme separates juried show from pack,” Houston Chronicle, May 31, 1983.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

  • El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX.
  • Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX.
  • Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX.
  • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX.
  • Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. (Serie Project Print)
  • Numerous Private Collections