Brenda Goodman

Born 1943 Detroit, MI
Lives in Pine Hills, NY

Education

1961-65 College for Creative Studies, BFA

Solo Exhibitions

2017 David & Schweitzer Contemporary
2016 Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
2015 College for Creative Studies, Center galleries, (Brenda Goodman: Paintings 1961-2015) Detroit, MI
2015 A Life on Paper, Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MILife on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2012 John Davis Gallery, Hudson. NY
2010 John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2008 John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2008 Paul Kotula  Projects, Ferndale, MI
2007 Mabel Smith Douglass Library and Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2003 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
2003 Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2001 Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1999 Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1997 Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1994 Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY                
1994 David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1993 55 Mercer Street Artists, Inc., New York, NY
1989 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1987 Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1985 Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1984 Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1983 Eason Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1982 Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1981 Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980 Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
1979 Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
1978 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1976 Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1974 Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI
1973 Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI 

Two-Person Exhibitions  

2018 Brenda Goodman and Amy Pleasant, Jeff Bailey Gallery, NADA New York, New York, NY
2016 Trembling Halves, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA (curated by Lauren Britton and Zachery Keeting)
1991 Brenda Goodman & Jackie Brookner, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Brenda Goodman & Morris Brose, Sarkis Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1976 Brenda Goodman & Bobbie Oliver, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Group Exhibitions

2018 Materializations, the Landing, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Life’s Rich Pageant, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
2017 The State of New York Painting: Works of Intimate Scale by 26 Colorists, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Straight Outta Bushwick, Eva Chimento Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 #PUSSYPOWER, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2016 As Carrier of Flesh, Brenda Goodman, Peter Williams, Arnold Mesches, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Making the Future, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Art Up, The Old Cantina Building, Andes, NY
2016 The Itsy Bitsy Biennial, Greenkill Gallery, Kingston, NY
2016 Paul Klee, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Ashley Garrett & JJ Manford)
2016 Steve DiBenedetto, Glenn Goldberg, Brenda Goodman, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Thunder Umbrella, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2016 Hanging Paper, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MASideshow on Mars: Through the Rabbit Hole, SideShow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Image is Everything, Curated by Phil & Sue Knoll, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2015 Painting is Not Doomed to Repeat Itself, Curated by John Yau, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Second Annual Summer Invitational, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 June Bugs, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2015 The American Academy of Arts and Letters  
2015 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, New York, NY
2014 The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2015 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Artists, New York     
2014 Summer Invitational, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Another Look at Detroit, Marlborough Chelsea/ Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Heads: A Retelling, Salena Gallery, LIU Brooklyn, NY
2013 Subverting Modernism: Cass Corridor Revisited 1966-1980 University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
2013 Travelled to University Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI (curated by Julia R. Myers)
2012 TIME, Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MI
2011 Gift of a Lifetime: The James Pearson Duffy Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2011 Refocussing the Spotlight: 21 American Painters, Nina Freudenheim. Inc., Buffalo, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
2011 Eccentric Portraits, Byrdcliffe Kleinert/ James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY (curated by Nancy Azara and Sylvia Leonard Wolf)
2011 Dialogues, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, January
2010 headJAM, a portrait show, artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA
2010 Dialogues, Kouros, Gallery, New York, NY
2010 The Facebook Show, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
2010 PLACE, a landscape show, artSTRAND, Provincetown, MAA
2010 Exit Detroit, Ladybug Gallery, Detroit, MI
2009 Time and Place: Art of Detroit’s Cass Corridor from the Wayne State University Collection, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2009 A Dog’s Life, Memphis College of Art, Main Gallery, Memphis, TN
2007 The Face, The ‘Temporary Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Eccentric Bodies, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
2006 An Exhibition of Cups, Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale , MI
2006 CCS at 100: Woodward Lecture Series Alumni, Center Galleries, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2005 Bevy, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2005 Cheers, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2005 From the Heart, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 The Reinvention of Landscape, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2004 10, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2003 Resonance, The Work Space, New York. NY
2002 Portraits, More than Skin and Bones, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 4 NY Painters, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ
2002 All Drawing, Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Painting: a Passionate Response, Sixteen American Artists, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2002 It Goes Like This: Instruction Drawings from the Gilbert & Lila Silverman Collection, Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2001 In the Spirit of Landscape VI, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 Paper, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 Achromatic, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2001 Go Figure, Sisson Art Gallery, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI
2001 Painting Abstraction II, New York Studio School, New York, NY
2001 5 from Detroit, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2000 Alumnae--The Women of CCS,  Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2000 In the Spirit of Landscape V,  Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 Small Work, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 New Work, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 Go Figure: The Other Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY (curated by Lilly Wei)
1999 In the Spirit of Landscape IV,  Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 Architecturally Abstract,  Revolution/NY, New York, NY
1999 Unusual Suspects,” Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Visualizing Selves: New Visual Autobiographies,” Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
1999 Looking Back/Looking Ahead,  Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Hot, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1998 Object of Desire, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Seven Artists, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
1998 Masters of the Masters: MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts, NY, 1983-1998,
1998 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1998 Five Artists in New York, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls) 
1997 Currents/Occurence, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1997 A Summer Mix [Artists We Like], Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Goddesses, CCS Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
1997 Currents/Occurence, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1997 A Summer Mix [Artists We Like], Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Goddesses, CCS Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
1997 The Figure Revisited, The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings, NY
1997 Intimate Universe[Revisited], Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY (curated by  Michael Walls); travelled to James Howe Gallery,
1997 Kean University, Union, NJ
1996 Essence: Twenty Abstract Painters, Radix Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Lineation, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1996 (Ap)praising Abstraction, Art Initiatives, New York, NY
1995 The Small Painting, O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
1995 A Romantic Impulse: Seventeen American Artists, O’Hara Gallery, New York (curated by Michael Walls)
1995 Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1995 Brenda Goodman, Tony Candido, Younghee Choi Martin, The Painting Center, New York, NY
1995 Pure,  Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Fifty Nifty Pictures and Objects, AHI Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
1994 Abstract Expressionism: An Ongoing Legacy, The Gallery at Kohn, Pederson Fox, New York, NY/The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings, NY
1994 Grouped Show, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Figure This, The St. Paul Companies, Minneapolis, MN
1994 Isn’t It Romantic? On Crosby Street, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
1994 Paintings: Goodman, Gaon, Marini, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New  York, NY
1993 Signs of Life,  O.I.A. Police Building, New York, NY
1992 Six Painters,  Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Beneath the Surface, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Distant Visions: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Works by Brenda Goodman Nancy 1992 Brett, & Ellen Phelan,  Janice Charach Epstein Museum/Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
1992 Inaugural Exhibition, Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
1991 The Art of Collecting: The Jewish Collector’s Experience, Janice  Charach Epstein Museum/Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
1991 Goodman, Huddleston, Rawls & Wixted, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY   
1991 Paper Trail, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Black & White, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1991 The Expressive Moment,  Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
1990 Inner Natures: Four Contemporary Painters, Santa Barbara Museum of  Art, Santa Barbara, CA (curated by Nancy Doll)
1990 Surface and Light: Four Invited Women Painters, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Summer Group Show, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 Brenda Goodman, Susan Chrysler-White, Suzanne Slavick, Anda Dubinski, Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1989 Summer Show, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1989 Group Exhibition, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1989 Brenda Goodman, Jay Whodey, Ika Huber,  Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1988 Brenda Goodman: An Introduction,  Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI  
1988 22, Opening Group Exhibition, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 Discoveries, Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987 Looking at New Work Invitational, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1986 New Works/Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Group Show/Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1986 New Paintings, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1986 Detroiters Collect: New Generation, Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
1985 Self Portraits by Women Artists, Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Tressa R. Miller)
1984 Women’s Perspectives, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
1984 The Elements--Weather in Art, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, NJ
1984 Rutgers National 83/84 Works on Paper Exhibition, Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, NJ
1984 On Paper, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Ten Years of Collecting at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1984 The Carson-McHale Gift: 13 Artists Remember Joe McHale, Detroit
1983 Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1983 Gallery Selections, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1983 New Epiphanies, (traveling exhibition), Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO (curated by Carol Adney)
1982 Summer Group Show, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1982 Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1982 Contemporary Art in Detroit Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1982 National Women in Art, Edison Community College of Fine Art, Fort Myers , FL
1982 Currents :A New Mannerism, Jacksonville Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (curated by Margaret A. Miller)
1982 Small Works, Getler/Paul Gallery, New York, NY
1981 The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (curated by Roy Slade)
1981 Kindred Spirits: Works by Joseph Cornell and Others, Heckshire  Museum, Huntington, NY (curated by Katharine Lochridge)
1981 Brenda Goodman, Bill Cass, Lise Apatoff, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980 Artists from the Pam Adler Gallery, South Campus Art Gallery of Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
1980 On Paper, Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA
1980 From Detroit: 1980, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1980 Kick Out the Jams: Detroit’s Cass Corridor 1963-1977, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (curated by Mary Jane Jacob and Jay Belloli)
1980 Work from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1980 Interiors, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Interiors, Summit Art Gallery, Summit, NJ
1979 Work on Paper, Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Biennial of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1978 Art on Paper, 14th Weatherspoon Annual Exhibition, Greenboro, NC
1978 CAPS: Graphic Art Awardees Exhibition, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY
1978 Niagra Graphics Show, Niagara Museum, Niagara, NY
1978 Detroit and Chicago: Art of the 70’s, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1978 Group Exhibition, Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
1978 Double Take, The New Museum, New York, NY
1978 Inaugural Exhibition, Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1977 Art in Public Spaces, Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY
1977 Inaugural Exhibition, Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
1977 New Abstract Objects, HallWalls, Buffalo, NY
1977 Memory, The New Museum and C Space, New York, NY (curated by Marcia Tucker)
1976 Arts and Crafts in Detroit/1906-1977: The Movement, The Society, The School, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (curated by Frederick J. Cummings)
1976 A Selection of Drawings, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
1976 New Work, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1976 30th Annual Michigan Watercolor Society Exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1976 Nine Women Artists from the Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Eshlman Library, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI
1976 Source Detroit, Cranbrook Academy Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1976 Womanworks, Union Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
1976 Paintings and Sculpture by Mid-West Faculty Artists, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, IL, and Indiana, University Art Museum, Bloomington Campus, IN
1976 Drawing and Print Show, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1976 Michigan Collects Michigan Art, Pontiac Creative Arts Center, Pontiac, MI
1975 Detroit Workshop of Fine Prints, Bicentennial Suite, Detroit, MI
1975 Ten Years (anniversary show), Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI
1975 4th Michigan Biennial (invitational), Kresge Art Gallery, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI
1975 Self Portraits, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1974 Michigan Focus, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1974 Detroit Artists Invitational, Detroit Bank and Trust Company, Detroit, MI, (curated by Daniel Moriarity)
1974 Selections from the Studios at Old Convention Hall, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1974 Anything on Paper, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1974 15th Annual Mid-Michigan Exhibition, Midland, MI
1974 Michigan Survey Exhibition, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, 
1974 Bloomfield Hills, MI and San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1973 Forsythe Saga, Forsythe Building, Detroit, MI
1973 Detroit Artists Market Group Show, Detroit, MI
1973 19th Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, IN
1972 59th Exhibition for Michigan Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1972 Scarab Club Annual ‘All Michigan’ Silver Medal Exhibition, Detroit, MI\
1971 All Michigan Exhibition, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
1971 Grand Rapids Biennial Michigan Painters-Printmakers Exhibition, Grand Rapids, MI
1971 Works on Paper: Brenda Goodman, Anne Doering, J.P. Hunt, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1966 New Faces, Arwin Galleries, Detroit, MI

Awards & Fellowships

2015 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art
2006 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship
1994 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship
1991 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship
1985 Ariana Foundation for the Arts, NY, Mixed Media Grant
1984 Rutgers National 83/84 Works on Paper Purchase Award, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
1978 Creative Artists Program Service (CAPS) Grant, NY
1975 Detroit Institute of Arts, “Michigan Focus,” Painting Prize
1975 15th Annual Mid-Michigan Exhibition, Drawing Prize
1978 Creative Artists Program Service (CAPS) Grant, NY
1975 Detroit Institute of Arts, “Michigan Focus,” Painting Prize
1975 15th Annual Mid-Michigan Exhibition, Drawing Prize