Beverly Fishman American, b. 1955

Beverly Fishman received her BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1977, and her Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1980. She subsequently taught at the College of New Rochelle, New York, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She has been awarded numerous honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship Award (2005) a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2003) a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant (1989), an Artist Space Grant (1986/1990), and a Ford Foundation Grant (1979). Her work has been reviewed and profiled in numerous art journals and scholarly publications.