Lester Berman

 

Biography

In addition to Solo Exhibitions in New York City, Santa Fe and Los Angeles, Mr. Berman’s paintings have been exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Berkeley Arts Center, Springfield Art Museum and the San Diego Museum of Art.  His paintings have been selected for exhibitions by critics and curators representing such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and the New York Times.  A partial list of exhibitions and publications include:

 

Crash, (Featured Artist) Starz television series, based on the Academy Award winning motion picture,

Season One, 2008 & Season Two, 2009.

 

Solo Exhibition, The Summit South, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January - March 2008.

 

Showcase 2008,   Art is OK Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 2006 - June 2007.

 

Wildfire, (Featured Artist) ABC television series produced by Lionsgate Entertainment, 2007.

 

The Lost Room, (Featured Artist) Sci-Fi Channel, television mini-series, 2006.

 

Wildfire, (Featured Artist) ABC television series, produced by Lionsgate Entertainment, 2005.

 

New Mexico Grass Roots Journal of the Arts, (Featured Artist) Vol. I, No. II, November –December 2004.

 

Solo Exhibition, House O’ Fire Gallery, Corrales, New Mexico, September 3 – 22, 2004.

 

Art Talk, feature article by Shari R. Morrison, Publisher, February 2003.

 

Solo Exhibition, Houshang’s Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 27, 2002January 20, 2003.

 

Showcase 2002, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, January – February 2002.

 

National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Selected by Rupert Jenkins, Director, San Francisco Art Commission, July – September  2001.

 

Abstraction For A New Millennium, Stage Gallery, New York. Selected by Ann Ellegood, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, December 2000 – January  2001.

 

New Directions 2K, National Exhibition, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York. Selected by Lisa Messenger, Curator, Department of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 2000.

 

New Art International, Volume VI, 2000 – 2001, (Featured Artist) “A Compendium of Recent Works by World Contemporary Artists”, Book Art Press, Woodstock, New York, November 2000.

 

Fourth National Juried Exhibition,  Ceres Gallery, New York City.  Selected by Beth Handler, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, June – July 2000.

 

Showcase 2000, Fletcher Fine Arts Gallery, Woodstock, New York, March 2000.

 

New Art International, Volume V, 1999 – 2000, Book Art Press, Woodstock, New York, March 2000.

 

66th Annual Spring Exhibition, National Art League, Douglaston, New York.  Recipient of the Leo Brooks Award. 

Selected by Phyllis Braff, New York Times Art Critic, May – June 1999.

 

8th Annual Juried Exhibition, Arts Center of Northern New Jersey. Selected by Susan Cross, Curatorial Department, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, May, 1999.

 

Without Limits, (Featured Artist), Warner Bros., motion picture.  Produced by Tom Cruise & Paula Wagner.  Written and directed by Robert Towne, 1998.

 

ARSG Exhibition # 4, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January – March 1997.

 

Save The Rainforest:  Art Action Auction, Laddie John Dill’s Studio, Venice, CA, November, 1996.

 

Brand XXV, Special Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA.

Recipient of the Eric Schneirsohn Memorial Award.  Selected by Peter Alexander, December 1995 – January 1996.

 

Solo Exhibitions, Bank of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, CA & Bank of Los Angeles, West Hollywood, CA.

December 1995 – January 1996.

 

All California Juried Exhibition, San Diego Museum of Art, November 1995 – January 1996.

 

13th Annual Exhibition, Pleiades Gallery, New York City.  Selected by Charlotta Kotik, Curator, Painting & Sculpture, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, June – July 1995.

 

Watercolor USA, 1995, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri.  Selected by James T. Burke, Director,

St. Louis Art Museum & former Curator, The Art Gallery, Yale University, June – July 1995.

 

16th Annual Paper in Particular Exhibition, Wang Cultural Arts Center, Columbia, Missouri.  Selected by Stan Baden, Gemini GEL Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, February – March 1995.

 

Mr. Berman attended Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, University of Exeter, Devon, England  (International Fellowship), received his B.A.. from Mexico City College and a Master of Fine Arts from New York University.

His work is included in the permanent collections of the United Nations and IBM.  He is represented in private collections both in this country and abroad.

 

 

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