SIRI BERG
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Stockholm, Sweden
Education: B.A., Institute of Art and Architecture, University of Brussels,
Pratt Graphics Center
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 SUNY at Potsdam, Gibson Gallery Museum
2005 Sydney, Australia National Maritime Museum
2005 Year of Swedish Design Seminar
2005 Beijing, China, Pickled Art Gallery
2004 Valencia, Spain, Color Elefante
2004 Berlin Kunstprojekt, Berlin, Germany
2003 Konstnarshuset Stockholm, Sweden
2003 Swedish American Museum Chicago, IL - “Critic’s Choice” + review Allen
Artner Chicago Tribune
2003 Educational Testing Service ETS Brodsky Gallery,Princeton, NJ
2002 Consul General of Sweden Olle Wastberg official residence NYC
2000 Rutgers University, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, New Brunswick,
N.J.
2000 Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 The Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
1999, 1997, 1995 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York
1997 The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA
1997 Westbrook Gallery, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
1992 Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden
1992, 1990 Elaine Benson, Bridgehampton, New York
1991 Yeshiva University Museum, New York
1990, 1989 Alena Adlung Gallery, New York
1990 Q.C.C. Art Gallery, of CUNY: Top Award “8th Annual Works on Paper”
1987, 1986 Paula Allen Gallery, New York
1986,1999 The American Swedish Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1981 American Scandinavian Foundation, New York City
1976 Debel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
1976 Cultural Center, U.S. State Department, Jerusalem, Israel
2006 Net Media Exhibition Hermitage Museum
St. Petersburg, Russia with National Center for Contemporary Art
2005 Gallery International, 4 artist award show, Baltimore, MD
2005 Yellow Bird Gallery, American Abstract Artists, Newburgh, NY
2005 Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, “ Ideal “ Brooklyn, NY
2005 Broadway Gallery, “ Engaging the Structual ” curator Julie Karabenick
2004 Broadway Gallery “ Fall Bloom”, curator David Markus
2004 SWEA 25 Jubileum exhibition Millesgarden, Lidingo Sweden, ill. cat
2003 Southwest State University, William Whipple Gallery, “ Elements of Geometry”,
“ Works on Paper “ and “ Master Paintings and Woodcuts ”, Marshall. MN
2002 The Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, American Abstracr Artists: “
Abstact Dilemmas”, Allentown, PA
2002 Monique Goldstrom Gallery,” the Elements of Geometry “, NYC 2002 The
Workspace, “ Blobs, Wiggles and Dots, Webs and Crustillations...” curator
Lucio Pozzi, NYC
1998- A.I.R. “Generations II: A Survey of Women Artists At The Millennium
2000 Maryland Federation of Art “Art on Paper”, P. Rosensweig, Curator, Hirshhorn
Museum, Annapolis, MD
1998 Federal Reserve Bank, New York, NY Maryland Federation of Art “Art on
Paper”, E. Rathbone, Chief Curator, Phillips Collection, Annapolis, MD
1997 Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, California, “Inaugural Show”
1995 Thomas Nordenstad Gallery, “Identity & Illusion, a Tribute to Ingmar
Bergman”, New York.
1994 Borough of Manhattan Community College, Shirley Fitterman Gallery, New
York, “The Universe as Collage”
1993-98 Yeshiva University Museum, New York, “Aishet Hayil: A Woman of Valor”
traveling show , Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Morris Louis Gallery,
Jerusalem, Israel
1993 The Williams Gallery, “Computer Age Fine Art”, Princeton, N.J.
1991-05 Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, “Geometric Abstraction” , Stockholm,
Sweden
1988 Galerie Fontainas, “Richesse du Papier”, Brussels, Belgium Hillier Group,
“Reflections on Technology”, Princeton, N.J.
1986 Fay Gold Gallery, “Architectural Images in Art”, Atlanta, GA
1980 Birmingham Museum, “The Silvia Pizitz Collection”, Alabama
1979 Pace University Gallery, “Unknown Universes”, New York
1978 Bridge Gallery, “Art for Public Places”, New York
1976-77 The Aldrich Museum, “Contemporary Reflections”, Ridgefield, CT
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
New York University, Gray Art Gallery Collection, New York
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The Jewish Museum, New York
Pace University Collection, New York
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, Southwest Minnesota State University
Collection, Marshall. MN
John Naisbitt, “Megatrends” Dr. and Mrs. Raymond SacklerHon.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Intl. Transport Finance ltd Air Touch Communication, Washington D.C. Headquarters
The Coca Cola Company, Atlanta Headquarters
Consul General of Sweden Olle Wastberg and Inger Claesson Wastberg, New York
Arne Thoren, IBM, AT&T, Revlon, Wang Industries, Chemical Bank, GCI International,
Chase Manhattan Bank, Public Service Mutual, The Reuben H. Donnelley Co.,
Svenska Handelsbanken, Scanoil, Ann Stern, KREAB Group, PKBanken Gloria Vanderbilt
for Murjani, Deloitte & Touche, Seidman & Seidman, Q.C.C. Sanford C. Bernstein,
Co.Inc.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Abstract Artists-member
Contemporary Graphics Artists, volume 3, 1988
New School University- Parsons School of Design, Faculty, Color & Design,
Color Theory, Advanced Color,1977-present
Represented in Who’s Who in American Art, in American Women , in the World
, in Education
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
100 New York Painters, Cynthia Maris, Dantzic,
Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2006
PC for Alla , Datorkonst” Lina Otterdahl, February 2006
NYArts Magazine, “Living History” by Dan Keane, November/December 2005, Vol.
10, No.11/12, illus.
Chicago Tribune, Tribune art critic Alan Artner of Siri Berg, vol. 8, publ.
Nov./Dec. 2003 Sept. Critic’s Choice
The Impact, Arts and Entertainment, Master Paintings and Woodcuts, Brandy
Schutter, November 2002
Independent, Veteran artists’ work shown at Whipple, Karen Elton, November
2002
Svensk Damtidning, no.9, February 21-27 2002.4 pages, illus. text and photography
Catarina Lundgren
Florida’s Art in State Buildings, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, Student Life Building, Finalist 2000
RutgersUniversity, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Visiting Artist-in-Residence
Lectureship, April 2000
Art Matters, “ Siri Berg at the Swedish Museum “, by Diana Cercone Harris,
ill. Nov.1999
Metro Source, “ Summer House “, by Eva Leonard, summer 1999, illus.
Tampa Review, Literary Journal of The University of Tampa, ill.us. fall 1998
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute Atlanta Journal/Atlanta Constitution,
Atlanta, GA January 1997
Poets, Artists & Madmen, Atlanta, GA 1997, illus.
Malin Philipson, Svenska Dagbladet, “Transparency as Illusion”, Feb. 13th,
1995, illus.
IBM News, (German language quarterly) special issue, May 1993, illus.
KREAB Annual Report: 1992-1993, 1991-1992, 1990-1991, 1989-1990
Aishet Hayil: A Woman of Valor (Ill.cat.), Yeshiva University Museum, New
York, 1993
IBM News, (German language quarterly) special issue, May 1993 and March 1989,
illus.
Interior Design, special issue, “Post Perfect” by Monica Geran, volume 8,
Aug. 1988, illus.
American Swedish Museum (cat.), Introduction by Katarina Cerny, curator, Black
& White 1976-1981,1986
Art at Work (cat.). the Chase Manhattan Collection, E.P. Dutton Inc., New
York, In association with the International Archive of Art, Artists represented
in the Chase collection, pg. 311, published 1984
Nadelman, Cynthia, “New York Reviews”, Artnews, March 1982, vol. 8, illus.
The Silvia Pizitz Collection (cat.), preface by Martin Hames, The Birmingham
Museum, 1980
Tallmer, Jerry, “Yen for Circles Defined”, The New York Post, March 17th,
1979 illus.
Shirey, David, “Art in Public Places”, The New York Times, April 30, 1978
Cotter, Holland, Gallery Reviews: Siri Berg, New York Art Journal, 1977
Freedman, Doris, “Artists in the City”, W.N.Y.C.-F.M., 1977
“Contemporary Reflections 1976-77” (cat.), The Aldrich Museum, introduction
by Carlus Dyer, Director, 1978
Shirey, David, “A Barometer of Contemporary Trends”, The New York Times, July
1977
Ronnen, Meir, “Siri Berg-Debel Gallery”, The Jerusalem Post Magazine, 1975
Tal , Miriam, “Siri Berg-Debel Gallery Ein Kerem”, Yediot Aharonot, 1975