Miriam Schaer

Page 1 | Biography

Born: Buffalo, NY
Lives: Brooklyn, NY

Education
BFA, Philadelphia College of Art
BFA, School of Visual Arts
Center for Book Arts
Writing for Artists, with Arlene Raven

Solo Exhibitions
2005
Chapel of Uncommon Prayers, Whitewater Gallery, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
2004
Six Wives For the Brothers Grimm, Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza
2001
Solitary Confinements: A Family Portrait, Installation,
Ceres Project Room, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2000
Binding Ties: Girdle Books and Other Meditations,
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Mabel Smith Douglas Library,
Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ (catalog)
1998
Reincarnation: Book, Eleventh Tallinn Print Triennial,
Gallery of the City of Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia (catalog)

Group Exhibitions
2006
Edges of Grace, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (catalog)
Unstitched, Unbound: Imprints for Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC
Life IN Sight: The Human Experience, Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Louisville, KY
2005
Cheongju International Craft Biennial, Cheongju, South Korea (catalog)
Dialog: NY/Paris Printmakers, Cit� des Arts in Paris: Center for Book Arts,
Abrons Art Center and LIU in New York (catalog)
2003-4
Corporal Identity: Body Language,
9th Frankfurt Triennial, Museum F�r Angewandte Kunst, Germany and
Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY (catalog)
2002
Altered Books: Spine Bending Thrillers, Rider University Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ
2000
Material Witnesses: The Socio-Political in Contemporary Textile Art,
The Goldstein Museum, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.
Working in Brooklyn: Artists Books, Brooklyn Museum of Art, B�klyn, NY (catalog)


Bibliography
New Directions in Altered Books, Gabe Cyr, Lark Books, 2006 (image)
Creating Artists� Books, Sarah Bodman, Watson Guptill Press, 2005 (image)
Hush, Review, Michelle Valladares, Artist Book Reviews, Vol. 1. Number 11, Spring, 2003
Artist Portfolio: Miriam Schaer, Somerset Studio, Ric� Freeman-Zachery, May/June 2003
Sharing What You Know, Interview by Judith Hoffberg, Umbrella, Sept. 2002
Inside Miriam Schaer�s Girdle Books, Lynne Cothern, FiberArts Magazine, March/April 2001
Artists� Books at the Brooklyn Museum, Grace Glueck, The New York Times, Feb. 2000



Grants/Awards
2004
Sanskriti Kendra, Artist in Residence, Delhi, India
2003
NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
Trust for Mutual Understanding
Grant to teach book arts program in tandem with
environmentally-friendly printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
2000
Puffin Foundation, Project grant for Solitary Confinements: A Family Portrait, NYC
1999
Juror�s Premium Award for Bookbinding, Scripta Mament II, Tallinn, Estonia
Situacionnes, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
1998
Printline Exchange Residency, Academy of Fine Arts Printshop, Belgrade, Yugoslavia