Beverly Fishman (b. 1955, Philadelphia) is a painter and sculptor who adopts the language of abstraction to explore the body, issues of identity, and contemporary culture. For more than three decades, she has used imagery drawn from science, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry to promote inquiry into the effects of these institutions on both individuals and societies. Fishman’s work has been the subject of over thirty solo exhibitions at galleries in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Thessaloniki, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and Detroit. Her work has also been shown at the Chrysler Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among other institutions. Her work is included in many public and private collections including Chrysler Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Borusan Contemporary Istanbul, Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Hallmark Art Collection, MacArthur Foundation Collection, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Pizzuti Collection, Progressive Art Collection, Toledo Museum of Art, United Nations Embassy in Istanbul,, and University of Michigan Museum of Art. She is the recipient of awards including the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters; a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; an Artist Space Exhibition Grant; and an NEA Fellowship Grant, among others. Fishman received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1977 from the Philadelphia College of Art, and her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1980 from Yale University. She has been the Artist-in-Residence and Head of Painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI since 1992. Fishman is represented by Miles McEnery Gallery, New York; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago; and Library Street Collective, Detroit.
Image: Untitled (Opioid Addiction, ADHD, Depression, Depression), 2018. Urethane paint on wood.