One - Four Person Exhibitions (2005-2024)
2024
Spirit Level, solo exhibition, Starr Suites, Brooklyn, New York
PLAYLIST,1GAPGallery, Brooklyn, New York
2023
Chorus, Emily Berger/Recent Paintings, TenBerke Architects, New York, New York
Luminous Modulations, Emily Berger, an online exhibition, Anagram Gallery
2020
Side to Side, Three Ways, Key Projects, Queens, New York (held at Trestle Gallery), Brooklyn, New York
2019Syncopation, Emily Berger and Bob Seng, Odetta Gallery, New York, New York
2018/19
Emily Berger: Marking Time, Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, New York
2017Emily Berger/New Paintings, Norte Maar Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Rhythm and Light/Emily Berger, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, New York
2016
Abstraction 2016: Color and Surface, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
Fifty Shades of Black & White, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, Connecticut
On and Off the Grid; Generating Abstraction, Kent State University at Stark, Canton, Ohio
2015
Wave Length, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2014vis a vis/ Emily Berger and Claire Seidl, The Painting Center, New York, New York
2013Process and Synthesis, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Seeing Through, (Paintings), 490 Gallery, Brooklyn, New YorkSeeing Through, (Works on Paper), Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2011
New Work: Emily Berger, The Painting Center, New York, New York
2008Emily Berger: Recent Work, The Painting Center, New York, New York
2005Emily Berger and Iona Kleinhaut: Paintings and Works on Paper, The Painting Center, NY
2024
Conversations: One Year at Helm, Helm Gallery, New York, New York
Tenants and Their Guests, Starr Suites, Brooklyn, New York
Line Up, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
Line Up, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky
2023
On Balance, Art Cake, Brooklyn, New York. curated by Mary Birmingham
Sight/Unseen, My Gallery NYC, Brooklyn, New York. curated By Hanne Tierney
Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936- Present,California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936-Present, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2022
SONIC, Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, New York
Digital: American Abstract Artist Prints 2012-2019, Heron School of Art and Design, IndianapolisBlurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA,1936-Present, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA
Blurring Boundaries:The Women of AAA,1936-Present, Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
Spinning Plates and Serious Fun, Odetta Digital, curated by Odetta Gallery
2021
Magic, Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, New York
9 Exquisite Corpses, The Art Section, An Online Journal, Curated by Editor-in-Chief, Deanna Sirlin
Blurring Boundaries:The Women of American Abstract Artists,1936-Present, Baker Museum, Naples, FL
Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA,1936-present, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
Digital: American Abstract Artists Prints 2012-2019, Gallery at the Visual and Performing Arts Center, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut
Flow and Refresh, Odetta Digital, curated by Odetta Gallery
2020
11 Women of Spirit, Zurcher Gallery, New York, New York
AAA Digital Prints, 2012-2019, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, New YorkBlurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936-Present, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana
Essential Works, Odetta Digital, curated by Odetta Gallery
2019-20
Thisness and Whatness, Felician University, Rutherford, New Jersey
2019Form and Intent, Abstract Project, Paris, France
Portrait:The Kentler Flatfiles, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New YorkFocus on the Flatfiles; When the Morning Gathers the Rainbow, Kentler International, Brooklyn, New York
Continuity to Change: Recent History of American Abstraction
Tower Fine Arts Gallery, The College at Brockport SUNY, Brockport, New York
Exit 2019, Gallery MC, New York, New York
Exit 2019, Chungbuk-New York International, One Platform for New Future, Chungbuk Cultural Foundation, Korea
2018Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936-Present,
Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, KentuckyHaptic/Optic, Equity Gallery, New York, New York
Between the Color, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York
The Idiosyncratic Pencil, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
Personal Identity Matter, 2018, Gallery MC, New York, New York
2017
Intercontinental Line, ABSTRACT PROJECT, Paris, France
The Ritual of Construction, Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock, New York, Jeanette Fintz, curator
New Additions: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY2016
Painting is not a Good Idea, Hallspace, Boston, Mass.
Werner Drewes and 80 Years of the American Abstract Artists, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washinton D.C.
Chromatic Space, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC; The City University of New York, Jonathan Lippincott, curator
(Squared)2, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Drishti: A Concentrated Gaze, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, New York, Elizabeth Heskin and Patricia Spergel, curatorsThe Onward of Art: American Abstract Artists 80th Anniversary Exhibition, 1285 Avenue of The Americas Art Gallery, New York, New York, curator, Karen Wilkin
Visible Histories, Abrons Art Center and Morris/Warren Gallery, New York, New York,
Max Weintraub, curator
Nation IV, Through the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2015
Endless, Entire, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, curator, Rachel Nackman
between a place and candy; new works in pattern+repetition+motif, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, New York, curator, Jason Andrew
Formal Aspects: Visual Dialogue in Structure, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Mass.WorksxWomen, Vandeb Editions and Accola Griefen Gallery, Long Island City, New York
Family Ties, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014
Sensory Impact, Morgan Stanley International Headquarters, Purchase, New York
To Leo, A Tribute from the American Abstract Artists, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New YorkThe Flatfiles, Year Two, TSA, Brooklyn, New York
Mind’s Eye or Ten Ways to Float, curatingcontemporary.com
We Love Art, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York
2013
3 Artists/3Weeks, 15 Artists in Black and White, Outlet Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York
Phaedo, StorefrontBushwick, Brooklyn, New York
2012
Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
AAA International 75th Anniversary, parisCONCRET, Paris, FranceAbstraction to the Power of Infinity, The Icebox at Crane Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Janet Kurnatowski, curator
New Editions, VanDeb Editions, New York, New York
AAA 75th Anniversary, OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York, curator, Ivan Karp
American Abstract Artists International 75th Anniversary, Galerie oqbo, and Deutscher Kunstlerbund, Berlin, Germany
Splendor of Dynamic Structure: Celebrating 75 Years of American Abstract
Artists, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2010American Abstract Artists International, Aragonese Castle of Otranto, Italy
Women’s History Month Invitational, VanDeb Editions, New York, New YorkIt’s a Wonderful 10th, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2009
Sharazad, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn New York
Brooklyn, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, curator, Florence Neal
183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, New York
American Abstract Artists: Tribute to Esphyr Slobodkina, The Painting Center, New York, New York2007
Punchbowl, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, New York
Continuum, 70th Anniversary of AAA, St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, New JerseyBrooklynNature, St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, New York
2006
Conversations in Paint, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
From Postwar to Postmodernism, Columbia University, New York, New York2005
In Spiritus, RKL Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Pintores de Nueva York, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, ColombiaConversations in Paint, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut, and Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia
Traveling Group Exhibition
American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio Exhibition
2020
Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
University of Houston Clearlake
Wrather West Kentucky Museum, Murray, Kentucky2016
U.S. Embassy, Beijing Embassy Annex, Beijing China, Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, on permanent view
Biggin Art Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama2015
Marywood University, Scranton, Penn.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee2014
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia
Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Penn.Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
2013
UT Downtown Gallery, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VermontProfessional Experience, Honors
2022/23
Chair, Archives and Interview Project, American Abstract Artists
2022
Panelist, Blurring Boundaries, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA
2021
Panelist, Blurring Boundaries, Klein Lecture Hall, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
2019
Panelist, Beyond the Gendered Lens, Pen and Brush, New York, New York
2018
Catalogue Editor, Blurring Boundaries, The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936- Present, published by the Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2014-18
Vice-President and Exhibitions Chair, American Abstract Artists
2018
Visiting Artist, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky
Radio Interview, WKMS, Murray State NPR Station, October 22
2016
Visiting Artist, Kent State University at Stark, North Canton, Ohio
2016
Catalogue Editor, The Onward of Art, AAA 80th Anniversary Exhibition, published by American Abstract Artists, New York, New York
2015
Panelist, Formal Aspects, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Mass.
2014
Curator and Panel Moderator, Yearning Upwards, The Painting Center, New York, New York
2014
Curator and panelist, Karen Schifano, Paintings and Works on Paper, Melville House, Brooklyn
Flatfiles, TSA Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Geoform.net (ongoing)
2012
Flatfiles, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York (ongoing)
2011
Panelist, Conversation with 4 Artists, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York
2008
John Hultberg Memorial Prize, The 183rd Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, New York
2006
Elected to Membership, American Abstract Artists
2004
Elected to Membership, The Painting Center, New York, New York
2004
Curator and panelist, Nature Abstracted, The Painting Center, New York, New York
Selected Bibliography
2024
The Third Barn, catalogue, The Line Up, Center for Visual Research, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Penn.
2023
Karen Wilkin, catalgue essay, Chorus, New York, New York
Mary Birmingham, catalogue, On Balance, ArtCake, Brooklyn, New York
Alice Zinnes, EntropVisions blog, Sight/Unseen, February
2021
Karen Wilkin, At the Galleries, The Hudson Review, Volume LXXIII, Number 4, Winter, 2021, pp. 623-6
2020
Karen Schifano, Object and Metaphor: Berger, Lledos, and Uchiyama, Two Coats of Paint, October 18
Stephen Maine, catalogue essay, Thisness & Whatness, Felician University, Rutherford, NJ
2019
Catalogue, Exit 2019, One Platform for a New Future, Chungbuk Cultural Foundation, Korea
Paul D'Agostino, @postuccio, Marking Time, Scholes Street Studio, January 20
2018
Rebecca DiGiovanna, Blurring Boundaries:The Women of AAA, 1936-Present, catalogue, published by Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Radio Interview, WKMS, Murray State NPR Station, The Women of AAA, October 22
John Michael Colon, Some Roads Yet Untraveled in Abstraction, The Brooklyn Rail, March 5
2017
Sharon Butler, Effects of Chance: A Conversation with Emily Berger, Two Coats of Paint, November 13
Jason Andrew, catalogue essay, Emily Berger: New Paintings
Joanne Mattera, Rhythm and Light, Joanne Mattera Art Blog, Autumn in New York, Part 4: Shape, Gesture, Surface
D. Dominick Lombardi, Emily Berger: Rhythm and Light, Huffington Post, September 26
Sharon Butler, Adirondack idyll, Two Coats of Paint, July 24
2016
Cate McQuaid, Spinning Paint into Gold at Hallspace, The Boston Globe, December 29,
Rhiannon Leigh, Merry & Bright: Painting is Not a Good Idea, Artscope,
New England’s Culture Magazine, December 15
Karen Wilkin, The Onward of Art American Abstract Artists 80th Anniversary Exhibition,
Catalogue, published by American Abstract Artists
James Panero, The Onward of Art, The New Criterion, March
Tom Wachunas, On and Off the Grid, ”Intimate Trialogues”, Artwach, March
2015
Yifat Gat, The Black & White Project:A Survey of ContemporaryB&W Painting, published by Look & Listen on the occasion of SLUICE Art Fair, London, in Saint-Chamas, France
Rachel Nackman, exhibition brochure essay, Endless, Entire
Jason Andrew, catalog essay, between a place and candy:new works in pattern+repetition+motif
Rhiannon Leigh, Formal Aspects at Cape Cod Museum of Art, artscope, New England’s, New England’s Culture Magazine,March
2014
Brett Baker, Yearning Upwards, Interview Blog Feature, Painters’ Table, Sept 25
Paul Corio, To Leo, A Tribute-Sideshow Gallery, on-verge, September 17
Kathleen Whitney, catalogue essay, vis-à-vis/Emily Berger and Claire Seidl
Stephen Maine, exhibition brochure essay, Sensory Impact
Steven Alexander, Emily Berger, Claire Seidl, Mark Wethli, Steven Alexander Journal, April
James Panero, “vis-à-vis” at The Painting Center, The New Criterion, Critic’s Notebook, April 14
Hanne Tierney, Five Myles (book), printed in China by Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
2013
Jeanne Wilkinson, Process and Synthesis, Fall Season: Art in the City; City as Art
Steven Alexander, Superb Painters: Emily Berger, stevenalexanderjournal.blogspot.com, August
Enrico Gomez, Critic’s Pic, wagmag, September
Patrick Neal, The Many Faces of Abstraction, www. hyperallergic.com, July 9
The Ewing Gallery, catalog, AAA 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio, introduction by Robert Storr
2012
Hrag Vartanian, GOBrooklyn; Go Gowanus, www.hyperallergic.com, September14
2011
Eric Sutphin, New Work: Emily Berger, www.beardandbrush.com, June 2
Nancy E. Green, catalog, Splendor of Dynamic Structure,
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2008
Nancy Malloy, catalog, The 183rd Annual, National Academy Museum, New York, New York
2005
Artcritical.com, Emily Berger and Iona Kleinhaut, Paintings and Works on Paper, October
Joe Walentini, Artist Profile, Inside/Outside Space, AbstractArtOnline, March
2004
Maureen Mullarkey, Nature Abstracted. The New York Sun, December 9
Selected Collections
Art in Embassies, U.S. State Department, Washington D.C.
Capital Group
Charlesbank Capital Partners
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Cornell Weill Medical Center
Delaware Art Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Drawings and Prints, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Library Special Collection, New York
Morgan Stanley
New York Public Library
NYU Langone Medical Center
Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
U.S. Embassy, Beijing Embassy Annex, Beijing, China, Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State
Whitney Museum of American Art Library
Gallery Representation
Odetta Gallery
IdeelArt.com
Education
Columbia University, New York, New York, MFA
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, AB, Minnie Helen Hicks Award in Art
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
International Center of Photography, New York, New York