EDUCATION

University of Texas at Austin, BA
University of Houston, MA
Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2005 Paintings, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas
2004 Still Life Revisited, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas
2003 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
2002 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
2001 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2000 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
1998 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
1997 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
1996 Painting Sarah: 1984 1994, Texas A & M University, College of Medicine,
College Station, Texas
1995 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
1993 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
Lost and Found, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
1991 Pictures of Sarah, UT Health Science Center, Houston, Texas
1990 Mexic Arte Museum, Austin, Texas
1989 The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas (Catalogue)
The Swimmer's Progress, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, Texas
(Catalogue)
1988 Goethe Institute, Houston, Texas
1987 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
1986 Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
1985 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003 Something Blue, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
Miniatures, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas
Deep in the Art of Texas, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas
2002 Members’ Exhibition (Curated), Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas
Invitational Exhibition, Longview Art Museum, Longview, Texas
The ART of Being American, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas
Summer Group Exhibition, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
Group Exhibition, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
Double Take, d berman gallery, Austin, Texas and Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas (Catalogue)
2001 Double Take, Art League of Houston, Houston, Texas, Waco Art Center, Waco, Texas. (Catalogue)
The Art Show at the Armory, David Findlay Jr. Contemporary Fine Art, New York, NY
Group Exhibition: Ellen Berman, Andre Von Morrisse, Manuel Acosta, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
Summer Group Exhibition, d berman gallery, Austin, Texas
Art Ball V, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Masterpieces, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas
2000 PEOPLE - Portraits by Texas Artists, City Gallery at Wells Fargo Plaza,
Houston, Texas
13 Contemporary Artists: Works on Paper, David Findlay Jr Contemporary Fine Art, New York, New York
Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
Forbidden, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
1999 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
1998 Still Sixteen, Still Life, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana
Vocabularies: Paintings by Ellen Berman and Sydney Yeager, Lyons Matrix
Gallery, Austin, Texas
Images of Man, Stephen F. Austin State University Art Building Gallery, Nacogdoches, Texas
1997 Flora Bella, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
1996 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas (catalogue)
Feast For The Eyes, Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas
1995 Art Journeys, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Critics’ Choice, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, Texas (catalogue)
Houston Small Works for Yekaterinberg Exhibit, The American Center in
Yekaterinberg, Russia (traveling exhibition)
1994 Self Possessed, TFAA, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas
Looking West/Glancing East: New Texas Art, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo,
Texas
1993 City Room Garden, University of Houston College of Architecture, Texas A&M
College of Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington, California College of
Arts and Crafts
Conventional Forms / Insidious Visions, Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas
1991 Is There Still Life In The Still Life?, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
Invitational Exhibition, Brookhaven College, Texas
1989 Mid America Biennial, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
(Catalogue)
Texas State Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas (Catalogue)
Island Introductions, Galveston Arts Center
1988 Pindar Gallery, New York, New York. Juror: Lowery Sims
Texas State Exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington,
D.C. (Catalogue)
31st Annual Chatauqua National Exhibition of American Art, New York
Texas Still Lifes, Galveston, Texas
National Women's Caucus for Art Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, Best of Show
Award (Catalogue)
1987 The Anatomy of Drawing, Hooks Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas
Pieces: Theatre as Art, Art as Theatre, Stages Theatre, Houston, Texas
21st Annual Juried Exhibition, Jewish Community Center of Houston, Juror:
Mary Jane Jacob, First Prize, (Catalogue)
East End Exhibition, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas.
Juror: Luis Jimenez
Texas Realism 1987, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas. Juror: Betty
Moody, Honorable Mention
1986 Sixteenth Annual Work on Paper Exhibition, Southwest Texas State University,
San Marcos, Texas. Juror: Alfred Leslie
150 Works by Texas Women Artists, Dallas Women's Caucus for Art, Juror: Ann Sutherland Harris, Juror's Choice
The September Competition, The Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, Louisiana, Juror: Henry Hopkins (Catalogue)
New American Talent, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas. Juror: Peter Plagens (Touring)
1985 Texas Realism, Texas Fine Arts Association at St. Edward's University, Austin,
Texas (Touring)
Texas Visions, Transco Tower, Houston (Catalogue)
Four Emerging Artists, Art League of Houston, Jurors: Dick Wray and Robert
Bourdon (Catalogue)
20th Annual Juried Exhibition, Jewish Community Center of Houston, Juror:
Henry Hopkins (Catalogue)
National Drawing and Printmaking Exhibition, College of the Mainland,Texas City, Texas, Juror: Pat Stier
1984 18th Annual Juried Exhibition, Jewish Community Center of Houston, Juror:
John Russell, Honorable Mention

AWARDS

1988 Mid America Arts Alliance / National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Award in Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, and Artists' Books

GUEST ARTIST APPOINTMENTS, PANEL MEMBERSHIPS AND LECTURES (Selected)

2003 Panel Member, Pertaining to Painting, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Panel Member, “Marketing Your Art,” Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas
1998 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Dennison University Art Dept., Granville, Ohio
1996 Guest Speaker. Leadership in Medicine Program, Texas A & M Health Science
Center, College of Medicine, College Station, Texas
1995 Guest Speaker. Compassion and the Art of Medicine Series. Baylor College of
Medicine, Houston, Texas
Visiting Faculty. Health Care and the Arts, UT Houston Medical School
Guest Speaker. University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
1993 Guest Speaker. Society for Health and Human Values National Meeting,
University of Texas, Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
Guest Lecturer. University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
1991 Visiting Artist (Lecture and Workshop). University of Colorado at Colorado
Springs, Colorado
Guest Speaker. Compassion and the Art of Medicine Series. Baylor College of
Medicine, Houston, Texas
Guest Speaker. The Council for the Visual and Performing Arts Series. UT
Health Science Center, Houston, Texas
1990 Guest Speaker. Compassion and the Art of Medicine Series. Baylor College of
Medicine, Houston, TX

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