Bernice Steinbaum

Bernice Steinbaum
Born 1941
Flushing, NY
Nationality American
Education BA, Queens College, 1961.
MA, Hofstra University, 1965.
PhD in Art Education, Columbia University, 1977
Occupation Gallerist, art dealer, curator
Years active 1977 to present
Known for Feminist art, multicultural art
Spouse(s) Harold Steinbaum
Children Jeremy, Sara, Carrie
Awards Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2012
Woman of Year National Organization for Women, 1988

Bernice Steinbaum is a gallerist and curator who founded the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in New York City in 1977. Steinbaum showed the work of women artists, feminist artists, civil-rights artists and artists of color at a time when they were under-represented and undervalued in the art world.[1] Her Madison Avenue, and later SoHo, Manhattan galleries exhibited 50% women and 40% artists of color. In 2000, she moved the gallery to Miami, Florida and focused on artists working with environmental art themes for fourteen years.[2][3][4] A documentary film was made on Steinbaum by filmmaker, Kristina Sorge describing the artists she represented who were faced with the racial and gender inequities of the art world of the time.[5][6] Steinbaum was awarded the national Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.[7]

Early life

Steinbaum was born January 3, 1941 in Flushing, New York, USA, to parents Julius Dov and Sarah (Lasker) Aptowitz.

References

  1. ↑ Harper, Paula. "Women's Caucus for Art 40th Anniversary Celebration 21012 Honor Awards". National Women's Caucus for Art. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. ↑ Martin, Lydia (July 8, 2012). "Miami gallery pioneer Bernice Steinbaum moves on". Miami Herald. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "Bernice Steinbaum Gallery". Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  4. ↑ Elfrink, Tim (November 25, 2010). "Bernice Steinbaum: Fighting for Art". Miami New Times. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  5. ↑ Harris, Malcolm (June 8, 2015). "Women in Art: BERNICE By Kristina Sorge". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  6. ↑ Sorge, Kristina (March 24, 2016). "The Woman Who Revolutionized the Manhattan Art World". The Atlantic. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  7. ↑ "The Women's Caucus for Art Announces the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Awards" (PDF). WCA Honors. Retrieved 5 January 2017.


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