| Miriam Schaer | |
| Birth Date: | 21 March 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Buffalo, New York |
| Field: | book artist |
| Website: | miriamschaer.com |
Miriam Schaer (born 1956) is an American artist who creates artists' books, and installations, prints, collage, photography, and video in relation to artists' books. She also is a teacher of the subject.
Miriam Schaer was born in Buffalo, New York. She did her B.F.A. at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia; the School of Visual Arts, New York; and Boston University; and her M.F.A. at the Transart Institute, Creative Practice, Plymouth University, Plymouth UK.[1] [2] Schaer explores feminine, social and spiritual issues using books and different materials.[3] Her work has been exhibited and cataloged internationally at venues including at the Brooklyn Public Library,[4] the New Orleans Museum of Art,[5] and the Brooklyn Museum of Art,[6] In 2000, she had a Douglas Library Show at Rutgers University in New Brunswick NJ (the oldest continuously running exhibition showcasing women artists).[7] In 2015, during a conference on "Motherhood and Creative Practice" at London's South Bank University, she exhibited her work in the accompanying exhibition Alternative Maternals.[8] She is the recipient of many prestigious awards including The Soros Arts and Culture Grant,[9] the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship,[10] and received a Fulbright to the Republic of Georgia (2017).[11] Her work is included in public collections such as the Yale University Art Museum, the Azerbaijan Museum, in Baku, Azerbaijan; the Tate Gallery, London, England, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis [12] and in Canada in the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa.[13] It has been mentioned in reviews in the New York Times[14] and she is included in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base.[15] From 2009 to 2016, she was a senior lecturer at Columbia College Chicago Interdisciplinary Arts, in the Interdisciplinary MFA Program in Book and Paper and in 2006-2010 and 2022, she taught the "Art of the Book" at the Pratt Institute as an assistant professor where she is on the faculty.