bjgoodman21@gmail.com
www.brendagoodman.com
Born in Detroit, Michigan 1943. Lives in Pine Hill, NY
1961-65 BFA College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
 
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Elected National Academician at National Academy of Design
2015 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art
2006 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship
1994 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship
1991 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship
1985 Ariana Foundation for the Arts, NY, Mixed Media Grant
1984 Rutgers National 83/84 Works on Paper Purchase Award, Stedman Art Gallery,
Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
1978 Creative Artists Program Service (CAPS) Grant, NY
1975 Detroit Institute of Arts, "Michigan Focus," Painting Prize
15th Annual Mid-Michigan Exhibition, Drawing Prize
 
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI
Brenda Goodman: HOP SKIP JUMP, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, NY
2022 Brenda Goodman: Self-Portraits, Back Gallery, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, NY
2021 Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2020 The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, NY
2017 David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
NADA, NY, Solo Exhibition, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
2016 Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
2015 College for Creative Studies, Center galleries, (Brenda Goodman: Paintings 1961-2015) Detroit, MI
A Life on Paper, Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MI
Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2012 John Davis Gallery, Hudson. NY
2010 John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2008 John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MI
2007 Mabel Smith Douglass Library and  Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2003 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2001 Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1999 Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1997 Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1994 Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1993 55 Mercer Street Artists, Inc., New York, NY
1989 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1987 Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1985 Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1984 Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1983 Eason Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1982 Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1981 Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980 Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
1979 Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1976 Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1974 Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI
1973 Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
 
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
 
2018 NADA, NY, 2-Person Exhibition with Amy Pleasant, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
2016 Trembling Halves, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA (curated by Loren Britton and Zachary Keeting)
1991 Brenda Goodman & Jackie Brookner, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Brenda Goodman & Morris Brose, Sarkis Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1976 Brenda Goodman & Bobbie Oliver, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Organic Matters, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Self: Portraits + Places, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
Come A Little Closer, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Artists on the Bowery Part 3, Westwood Gallery, New York, NY
In the Bleak Midwinter, Swivel Gallery, Saugerties, NY
Still Life and the Poetry of Place, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
On the Bowery, (exhibition catalogue), Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Loren Munk)
2021 Feminism and the Legacy of Surrealism, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
Landscape and Memory, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
Brenda Goodman, Arturo Herrera, Cameron Martin, Back Gallery, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, NY
2020 Louise Fishman, Brenda Goodman, Carrie Moyer, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality, (exhibition catalogue), Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (curated by Laura Mott)
Yellow, SEPTEMBER Gallery, Hudson, NY
2018 Highlight: Chelsea, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, NY
3: Brenda Goodman, Christina Tenaglia, Marie Vickerilla, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY
Materializations, The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Chain Chain Chain, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
Cass Corridor, Connecting Times, Simone deSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI
Aporia, David & Schweitzer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 HYGGE: Small Art Holiday Show, Cross Contemporary Gallery, Saugerties, NY
A Painting Show, End of Year Group Exhibition, Simone deSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI
Selections: NYC, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
Life’s Rich Pageant, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
The State of New York Painting: Works of Intimate Scale by 26 Colorists, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Invitational 2017, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
Straight Outta Bushwick, Eva Chimento Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 I/WE/THEN/NOW, Brenda Goodman, Jim Chatelain, Peter Williams, Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MI
Pussy Power, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
An Occasional Dream, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Detroit Abstraction, Janice Church Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
As Carrier of Flesh, Brenda Goodman, Peter Williams, Arnold Mesches, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
Making the Future, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
Art Up, The Old Cantina Building, Andes, NY
The Itsy Bitsy Biennial, Greenkill Gallery, Kingston, NY
Paul Klee, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Ashley Garrett & JJ Manford)
Steve DiBenedetto, Glenn Goldberg, Brenda Goodman, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Thunder Umbrella, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Hanging Paper, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Sideshow on Mars: Through the Rabbit Hole, SideShow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 The Other Side of Portraiture, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Image is Everything, Curated by Phil & Sue Knoll, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Painting is Not Doomed to Repeat Itself, Curated by John Yau, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, NY
Second Annual Summer Invitational, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
June Bugs, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2015 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, New York, NY
The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2015 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Artists, New York, NY
2014 2014 Summer Invitational, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Another Look at Detroit, Marlborough Chelsea/ Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Heads: A Retelling, Salena Gallery, LIU Brooklyn, NY
2013 Subverting Modernism: Cass Corridor Revisited 1966-1980 University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI Travelled to University Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI (curated by Julia R. Myers)
2012 TIME, Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MI
2011 Gift of a Lifetime: The James Pearson Duffy Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Refocussing the Spotlight: 21 American Painters, Nina Freudenheim. Inc., Buffalo, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
Eccentric Portraits, Byrdcliffe Kleinert/ James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY (curated by Nancy Azara and Sylvia Leonard Wolf)
Dialogues, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, January
2010 headJAM, a portrait show, artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA
Dialogues, Kouros, Gallery, New York, NY
The Facebook Show, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
PLACE, a landscape show, artSTRAND, Provincetown, MAA
Exit Detroit, Ladybug Gallery, Detroit, MI
2009 Time and Place: Art of Detroit's Cass Corridor from the Wayne State University Collection,
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
A Dog's Life, Memphis College of Art, Main Gallery, Memphis, TN
2007 The Face, The 'Temporary Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Eccentric Bodies, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ 
2006 An Exhibition of Cups, Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale , MI
CCS at 100: Woodward Lecture Series Alumni, Center Galleries, College for Creative Studies, Detroit,MI
2005 Bevy, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
Cheers, Revolution, Ferndale, MI 
From the Heart, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 
The Reinvention of Landscape, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2004 10, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2003 Resonance, The Work Space, New York. NY
2002 Portraits, More than Skin and Bones, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
4 NY Painters, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ
All Drawing, Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Painting: a Passionate Response, Sixteen American Artists, The Painting Center, New York, NY
It Goes Like This: Instruction Drawings from the Gilbert & Lila Silverman Collection,
Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2001 In the Spirit of Landscape VI, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Paper, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Achromatic, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
Go Figure, Sisson Art Gallery, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI
Painting Abstraction II, New York Studio School, New York, NY
5 from Detroit, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2000 Alumnae--The Women of CCS,  Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
In the Spirit of Landscape V,  Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Small Work, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
New Work, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Go Figure: The Other Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten
Island, NY (curated by Lilly Wei)
1999 In the Spirit of Landscape IV,  Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Architecturally Abstract,  Revolution/NY, New York, NY
Unusual Suspects,” Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
Visualizing Selves: New Visual Autobiographies,” Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
Looking Back/Looking Ahead,  Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Hot,” Revolution,  Ferndale, MI
Object of Desire, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
Seven Artists, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
Masters of the Masters: MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts, NY, 1983-1998,
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Five Artists in New York, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls) 
1997 Currents/Occurence, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
A Summer Mix [Artists We Like], Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
Goddesses, CCS Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
The Figure Revisited, The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings, NY
Intimate Universe[Revisited], Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
(curated by  Michael Walls); travelled to James Howe Gallery,
Kean University, Union, NJ
1996 Essence: Twenty Abstract Painters, Radix Gallery, New York, NY
Lineation, Revolution,  Ferndale, MI
(Ap)praising Abstraction, Art Initiatives, New York, NY
1995 The Small Painting,  O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
A Romantic Impulse: Seventeen American Artists,  O’Hara Gallery, New York
(curated by Michael Walls)
Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Brenda Goodman, Tony Candido, Younghee Choi Martin, The Painting
Center, New York, NY
Pure,  Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Fifty Nifty Pictures and Objects, AHI Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
Abstract Expressionism: An Ongoing Legacy, The Gallery at Kohn
Pederson Fox, New York, NY/The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings, NY
Grouped Show, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Figure This, The St. Paul Companies, Minneapolis, MN
Isn’t It Romantic?  On Crosby Street, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
Paintings: Goodman, Gaon, Marini,  Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New  York, NY
1993 Signs of Life,  O.I.A. Police Building, New York, NY
1992 Six Painters,  Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
Beneath the Surface, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY
Distant Visions: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Works by Brenda Goodman
Nancy Brett, & Ellen Phelan,  Janice Charach Epstein Museum/Gallery,
West Bloomfield, MI
Inaugural Exhibition,  Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
1991 The Art of Collecting: The Jewish Collector's Experience,  Janice  Charach Epstein
Museum/Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
Goodman, Huddleston, Rawls & Wixted,  David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY   
Paper Trail, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Black & White, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Expressive Moment,  Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
1990 Inner Natures: Four Contemporary Painters,  Santa Barbara Museum of  Art,
Santa Barbara, CA (curated by Nancy Doll)
Surface and Light: Four Invited Women Painters,  Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Summer Group Show,  Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Brenda Goodman, Susan Chrysler-White, Suzanne Slavick, Anda Dubinski,
Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Summer Show, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Group Exhibition, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Brenda Goodman, Jay Whodey, Ika Huber,  Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1988 Brenda Goodman: An Introduction,  Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
22,  Opening Group Exhibition, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Discoveries, Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987 Looking at New Work Invitational,  Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1986 New Works/Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show/Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
New Paintings, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
Detroiters Collect: New Generation, Meadowbrook Art Gallery,  Oakland
University, Rochester, MI
1985 Self Portraits by Women Artists, Security Pacific National Bank,
Los Angeles, CA (curated by Tressa R. Miller)
1984 Women's Perspectives, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
The Elements--Weather in Art, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, NJ
Rutgers National 83/84 Works on Paper Exhibition,  Stedman Art  Gallery,
Camden, NJ
On Paper, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, NY
Ten Years of Collecting at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Carson-McHale Gift: 13 Artists Remember Joe McHale, Detroit
1983 Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Gallery Selections, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
New Epiphanies, (traveling exhibition), Gallery of Contemporary  Art,
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO (curated by Carol  Adney)
1982 >Summer Group Show, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Contemporary Art in Detroit Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
National Women in Art, Edison Community College of Fine Art, Fort Myers , FL
Currents :A New Mannerism, Jacksonville Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
(curated by Margaret A. Miller)
Small Works,  Getler /Paul Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Kick Out the Jams: Detroit's Cass Corridor 1963-1977,  Museum of  Contemporary Art,
Chicago, IL  (curated by Mary Jane Jacob and Jay Belloli)
The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection,  Cranbrook Academy of Art
Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (curated by Roy Slade)
Kindred Spirits: Works by Joseph Cornell and Others, Heckshire  Museum,
Huntington, NY (curated by Katharine Lochridge)
Brenda Goodman, Bill Cass, Lise Apatoff,  Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980 Artists from the Pam Adler Gallery, South Campus Art Gallery of
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
On Paper, Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA
From Detroit: 1980, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
Kick Out the Jams: Detroit's Cass Corridor 1963-1977, Detroit  Institute of
Arts, Detroit, MI  (curated by Mary Jane  Jacob and Jay Belloli)
Work from the Permanent Collection,  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Interiors, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Interiors, Summit Art Gallery, Summit, NJ
Work on Paper, Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Biennial of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1978 Art on Paper, 14th Weatherspoon Annual Exhibition,  Greenboro, NC
CAPS: Graphic Art Awardees Exhibition,  Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY
Niagra Graphics Show,  Niagara Museum, Niagara, NY
Detroit and Chicago: Art of the 70's, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Group Exhibition,  Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
Double Take, The New Museum, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition,  Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1977 Art in Public Spaces,  Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition,  Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
New Abstract Objects, HallWalls, Buffalo, NY
Memory, The New Museum and C Space, New York, NY (curated by Marcia Tucker)
1976 Arts and Crafts in Detroit/1906-1977: The Movement, The Society, The School,
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (curated by Frederick J. Cummings)
A Selection of Drawings, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
New Work, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
30th Annual Michigan Watercolor Society Exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Nine Women Artists from the Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Eshlman Library,
Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI
Source Detroit, Cranbrook Academy Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Womanworks, Union Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Paintings and Sculpture by Mid-West Faculty Artists, Krannert Art Museum,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, IL, and Indiana, University Art Museum,
Bloomington Campus, IN
Drawing and Print Show, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
Michigan Collects Michigan Art, Pontiac Creative Arts Center, Pontiac, MI
1975 Detroit Workshop of Fine Prints, Bicentennial Suite, Detroit, MI
Ten Years (anniversary show), Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI
4th Michigan Biennial (invitational), Kresge Art Gallery, Michigan State University,
Lansing, MI
Self Portraits, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1974 Michigan Focus, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Detroit Artists Invitational, Detroit Bank and Trust Company, Detroit, MI,
(curated by Daniel Moriarity)
Selections from the Studios at Old Convention Hall, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
Anything on Paper, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
15th Annual Mid-Michigan Exhibition, Midland, MI
Michigan Survey Exhibition, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum,
Bloomfield Hills, MI and San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1973 Forsythe Saga, Forsythe Building, Detroit, MI
Detroit Artists Market Group Show, Detroit, MI
19th Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Ball State University Art Gallery
Muncie, IN
1972 59th Exhibition for Michigan Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Scarab Club Annual 'All Michigan' Silver Medal Exhibition, Detroit, MI
1971 All Michigan Exhibition, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Grand Rapids Biennial Michigan Painters-Printmakers Exhibition,
Grand Rapids, MI
Works on Paper: Brenda Goodman, Anne Doering, J.P. Hunt, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1966 New Faces, Arwin Galleries, Detroit, MI
 
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Agnes Gund Collection
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chicago, IL
The First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
American Medical Association Headquarters, Chicago, IL
Rutgers-Camden Collection of Art, Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, NJ
 
VISITING ARTIST
 
2022 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
New York Studio School, New York, NY
2019 Hunter College, New York, NY
2008 New England Art, Bennington, VT
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Bard College, Annadale-on-hudson, NY
2003 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2001 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ
1997 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1995 Pennsylvania Academy for the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1993 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1990 Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
1988 The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1986 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1984 Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1982 Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1981 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1980 State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
1979 Illinois State University, Normal, IL
 
TEACHING POSITIONS
 
1998-04 The New York Studio School, New York, NY
1972-73 Wayne County Community College, Detroit, MI
1967-68 Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1966-69 Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1965 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
 
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DeVito, Lee, “One of Detroit's core 'Cass Corridor' artists returns for two homecoming shows,” The Cass Connection, Detroit Metro Times (metrotimes.com) November 11
Panero, James, "Review: Gallery Chronicle," New Criterion, (newcriterion.com) November 2
Colvin, Rob, “A Charming Reverence for Color: Artists Revisit Paul Klee,” Hyperallergic, (hyperallergic.com) October 28
Rubinstein, Bradley, "This is What Tomorrow Looks Like: On Painting," Artslant (artslant.com) September 3
Good, Brittany, "A Sneak Peak at Hollis Taggart's Expansive New Gallery in The Heart of Chelsea," inCollect (incollect.com) August 17
Micchelli, Thomas, Review, "The Other Side of Portraiture," Hyperallergic, (hyperallergic.com) July 11
Orter, Jerry, "The More You Know The More You See" Arteidolia, (arteidolia.com) May
Goodman, Jonathan, Review, "Brenda Goodman: New Work," The Brooklyn Rail, (brooklynrail.org) May 13
Benari, Richard and Lauren Henkin "Backstory: Brenda Goodman" Tilted Arc, (tilted-arc.com) May 12
Baker, Brett, "Brenda Goodman: Interview" Painter's Table, repost of Figure/Ground interview, (painters-table.com) April 14
Garrett, Ashley, "A Conversation with Brenda Goodman," Figure/Ground, (figureground.org) April 13
Baker, Brett, Review "Brenda Goodman @ Life On Mars" Painter's Table, repost of Hyperallergic review, (painters-table.com) April 12
Yau, John, Review "Brenda Goodman's Recent Paintings" Hyperallergic, (hyperallergic.com) April 12
Keeting, Zachary, and Chris Joy, "Brenda Goodman at Life On Mars" Gorky's Granddaughter, (gorkysgranddaughter.com) April
Behnke, Paul, "Artist's Talk @ LoM: Brenda Goodman and John Yau" Structure and Imagery, (structureandimagery.blogspot.com) April 17
Behnke, Paul, "Brenda Goodman @ Life on Mars," Structure and Imagery, (structureandimagery.blogspot.com) April 7
2014 Heffernan, Julie, and Virginia Wagner, Brenda Goodman on "The Guston Curse," Painters on Painting paintersonpainting.com) November 24
Behnke, Paul, "Brenda Goodman @ John Davis Gallery," Structure and Imagery, (structureandimagery.blogspot.com) August 4
Baker, Brett, "Brenda Goodman: Interview," Painter's Table (painter-table.com) July 21
Mattera, Joanne, "Summer Solos, Part 1: Brenda Goodman," Joanne Mattera Art Blog, (joannemattera. Blogspot.com) July 20
2013 Seed, John, "10 Memorable Paintings from 2013," The Huffington Post, (huffingtonpost.com), December 12  
Myers, Julia R, Subverting Modernism: Cass Corridor Revisited 1966-1980, Exhibition Catalogue, Eastern Michigan University Galleries, Ypsilanti, MI
2012 Frank, Peter, "Haiku Reviews, Louise Fishman and Brenda Goodman", Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com) August 31
Mattera, Joanne, "Color: Field and Form, Part 10, A Visit to the Hudson Valley," Joanne Mattera Art Blog, (www.joannemattera.blogspot.com) August 16
Bromirski, Martin, "Brenda Goodman," Anaba, (www.anaba.blogspot.com) August 5
Seed, John, "Brenda Goodman: Paint into Emotion," Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com) July 17
Baker, Brett, "Brenda Goodman: Paint into Emotion," Link from Painter's Table,, (www.painters-table.com) July 17 Seed, John, "What Artists Have to Say About Intuition", Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com), January 10, 2012
Smart, Paul, "Goodman in Hudson," Woodstock Times, July 19, p.22
Bulanda, George, "The Cat Approaches," Hour, April, p.3
2011 Seed, John, "Painterly vs Precicise, 20 Artists, 20 Studio Visists," Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com) February 8
Pressman, Lisa, "Brenda Goodman's Art Influences," Lisa Pressman Art Blog (www.lisapressman.blogspot.com) February 8
2010 Yau, John, Review, The Brooklyn Rail, September, p. 44
Mattera, Joanne, Review, Joanne Mattera Art Blog (www.joannemattera.blogspot.com)Aug19
Smart, Paul, Review, Woodstock Times, August 12, p. 26
Caducci, Vince, Review (www.motownreviewofart.blogspot.com) August 3
Smart, Paul, "Painting Past Loss," Woodstock Times, Almanac, July 22, p. 20
Gelber, Eric, Review (www.artcritical.com) July 18
2008 Crawford, Lynn, Review, The Brooklyn Rail, May. p. 34
Hill, Christina, Review, MetroTimes, March 26, p. 35
Slowinski, Dolores S, Review, thedetroiter.com, March 17
2007 Brenda Goodman, Elizabeth A. Sackler, Center for Feminist Art: Art Base, (www.brooklynmuseum.org)
Brodsky, Judith K, Olin,Ferris, Brenda Goodman Self-Portraits 2003-2007, Exhibition
Catalogue, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Brodsky, Judith, K, Olin, Ferris, ECcentric BODIES, Exhibition Catalogue, Mason Gross
School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Brody, David, "Interview with Brenda Goodman," artcritical.com
Genocchio, Benjamin, Review, The New York Times NJ, July 8, p.10
Bishcoff, Dan, Review, The Star-Ledger, July 6, p.37
Schwartz, Helen, Review, U.S. 1, June, 27
Dube, Ilene, "Story of a Body," The Princeton Packet/Time Off, July 20-29, pp. 15-16
Graschuck, Dan, "Personal Bests", Best of Detroit, June, pp.93-97
2004 Carducci, Vincent, Art in America, February, p. 126
2003 "Goings On About Town," The New Yorker, September 22 , p. 57
Cohen, Keri Guten, Review, Detroit Free Press, April 6, p. 7F
Sousanis, Nick, Review, thedetroiter.com, April 1
2002 Johnson, Ken, Review, The New York Times, February 15, p. E44
2001 Cohen, Keri Guten, Review, Detroit Free Press, November 4, p. 6G
"Goings On About Town," The New Yorker, June 4, p. 20
Slaughter, Jane, "Brenda Goodman," The Centerline, College for Creative
Studies, Spring/Summer, vol. 5, issue 3, p. 10
Chessler, Suzanne, "Artist's Homecoming," Jewish News, March 2, p. 68-69
DiDonna, Liz, Review, MetroTimes, January 24-30, p. 21
Cohen, Keri Guten, Review, Detroit Free Press, January 21, p. 8C
2000 Hammond, Harmony, Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History, NY: Rizolli,
p. 123, illus. p. 123
Colby, Joy, Review, The Detroit News, June 21, p. 6E
Cohen, Keri Guten, Review, Detroit Free Press, June
McQuaid, Cate, Review, The Boston Globe, March 9,
Northridge, Matthew, Review, Art New England, June/July p. 47
Wei, Lilly, Go Figure: The Other Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art,
Staten Island, NY
1999 Carducci, Vince, Review, New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL, November, p.48, illus. p. 48
Worth, Alexi, Review, "Up Now," ArtNews, May, p. 164, illus. p. 164
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, April 30, pp. E31, 35
"Goings On About Town," The New Yorker, May 10, p. 16
1998 Goodman, Jonathan, Review, Art in America, July, p. 99
Cohen, Keri Guten, Review, Detroit Free Press, March 15, p. 3F
Long, Andrew, "Openings 'Go Figure,'" Art & Antiques, March, p. 32
1997 Johnson, Ken, Review, Art Guide, The New York Times, November 7, p. 38E
Maxwell, Douglas F., Review, Review, November 1, p. 11
Colby, Joy, Review, The Detroit News, September 25, p. 10F
Cohen, Keri Guten, Review, Detroit Free Press, October 5, p. 7H
1996 Nawrocki, Dennis Alan, Review, Art in America, January p. 109
1995 Colby, Joy, Review, The Detroit News, October 5, p. 8F
Mannisto, Glen, Review, MetroTimes, September 20-26, p. 26
Walls, Michael, A Song for My Mother. Exhibition Catalogue, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
Provenzano, Frank, "A Song for Mother," The Detroit Jewish News, August 25, p. 74
Hagen, Charles, Review, The New York Times, July 14
Merkling, Frank, Review, News-Times, July 6, p. C1
Raynor, Vivian, Review, The New York Times, June 11, p. 22
Maxwell, Douglas F. and Marc J. Straus, Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture,
Exhibition Catalogue , Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, CT, p. 7, 42, illus p. 43
1994 Bergmann, Meredith, Review, The New York Review of Art, Vol. 1, No. 5, December, p. 18
Cameron, Dan, "Critical Edge," Art & Auction, December pp. 66-69
Zimmer, William, Review, The New York Times, November 27
Rubinstein, Raphael, "Containers of Contradiction" Exhibition Brochure for
Brenda Goodman: Self-Portraits, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Rubinstein, Raphael, "Redefining the 'R' Word", Exhibition Catalogue for
Isn't It Romantic? On Crosby Street, New York, NY,
Echlin, Hobey, Review, MetroTimes, February 23, p. 40
Miro, Marsha, Review, Detroit Free Press, February 13, p. 5G
Colby, Joy, Review, The Detroit News, February 11
1993 Sparage, Dale, "The Vision of Brenda Goodman," Detroit Focus Quarterly, Vol. 10,
No. 4, Summer, p. 6
Ten Years, 29 Artists, Exhibition Catalogue, The Ewing Gallery of Art and
Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1992 Rubinstein, Raphael, Beneath the Surface, Exhibition Catalogue,
Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY
Miro, Marsha, Review, Detroit Free Press, November 4, p. 12B
Miro, Marsha, Review, Detroit Free Press, September 9, p. 18
1991 Moorman, Margaret, Review, ArtNews, November, p. 147, illus. p. 147
Miro, Marsha, Review, Detroit Free Press, August 11p. 5G
Abett, Corinne, Observer & Eccentric, August 8
Volk, Carol, Art & Auction, Summer, pp. 23-24, illus. p. 24
Leviner, Beverly, Review, The Keystone Paper, February 19, p. 8
Fox, Marilyn J., Review, Reading Eagle, February 3, pp. D1-2
Abshear, Jeff, Review, The Independent, January 24, p. 21, illus. p. 21
Woodard, Josef, "The Shape of Spirit," Artweek, Vol. 22, No. 3, January 24, pp. 15-16
Huntington, Richard, Review, The Buffalo News, January 20, pp. 1, 4G
1990 Crowder, Joan, Review, Santa Barbara News Press, December 28, p. l9, illus., 19
Doll, Nancy, Inner Natures: Four Contemporary Painters, Exhibition Catalogue,
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1989 Crohn, Jennifer, Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 23, p. 7D
Temin, Christine, Review, The Boston Globe, March 2,
Miro, Marsha, Review, Detroit Free Press, October 30, p. 6G
1988 Meilgaard, Manon, Review, The Eccentric Newspapers, October 27, pp., 4, 6 Illus.
1987 Miro, Marsha, Review, Detroit Free Press, November 15, p. 4C
Colby, Joy Hakanson, Review, The Detroit News, November 8, p. 4K
1986 Farbman, Suzy, "Interview: Brenda Goodman," Detroit Focus Quarterly,  Vol. 5, No. 2, June, pp. 1-3
1985 La Palma, Mariana, Review, Artweek, Vol. 16, No. 8, February 23
Muchnic, Suzanne, Review, Los Angeles Times, February 21
1984 Rutgers National 83/84 Works on Paper, Exhibition Catalogue, Stedman Gallery, Camdern, NJ
Self-Portraits by Women Artists, Exhibition Catalogue, Security Pacific National Bank, los Angeles, CA
1983 New Epiphanies: Religious Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado Springs and the Ohio Foundation of the Arts
Wilson, Malin, Review, Artlines, July
Plett, Nicole, Review, Santa Fe Reporter, July, pp. 21-2, illus. p.21
Currents: A New Mannerism, Catalogue, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL
1982 Witz, Robert, Appearances, No. 8, Fall 1982, illus. p. 94
Henshaw, Julia, Review, New Art Examiner, Chicago, May, 1982, pp. 18, 22, illus. 22 p.2
Roth, Karen, "Interview: Brenda Goodman's Metaphorical Journey," Detroit Focus Quarterly,
Vol.1, No. 2, April, pp. 4-5
Miro, Marsha, Review, Detroit Free Press, February 28, illus. p. 8B
Colby, Joy Hakanson, Review, The Detroit News, February 14, p. 6H
Armstrong, Richard, "Report from Detroit: Was Cass Corridor a Style?" Art in America,
February, pp. 34-39, illus. p. 37, 39
1981 Warren, Lynn and Edelstein, Jeffrey, Images and Issues, Winter pp.44-47, illus. p.45
Artnur, Alan G., Review, Chicago Tribune, August 28, Section 3, p.12
Hayden, Harold, Review, Chicago Sun-Times, August 21
Elliot, David, Review, Chicago Sun-Times, July 5, p. 14
Harrison, Helena, Review, The New York Times, January 18, p. 16
1980 Kick Out the Jams: Detroit's Cass Corridor 1963-1977, Exhibition Catalogue, Detroit
Institute of Arts. Detroit, MI
Henshaw, Julia, Review, New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL, October
Margolin, Michael H, Review, Monthly Detroit, July, pp. 34-6, Illus. p. 35
Zimmer, William, Review, The Soho Weekly, New York, NY, June 26
Henshaw, Julia, Review, New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL, April, Section 2, illus.
Miro, Marsha, Review, Detroit Free Press, March 2
Colby, Joy Hakanson, Review, The Detroit News, February 24, p. 6C
1979 1979 Biennial Exhibition, Exhibition Catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, b NewYork, NY,
illus. p36
Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts, Illus. p.239
Glueck, Grace, Review, The New York Times, October 26
Vaughan, Mary, "Brenda Goodman," Arts Magazine, October, Illus. p.16
Robins, Corinne, "Whitney Biennial," Arts Magazine, June, p. 16
1978 Annual Report, Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Vol. 56, No. 5, illus. p.287
Colby, Joy Hakanson, Review, The Detroit News, February 26
1977 Tucker, Marcia, Memory, Exhibition Catalogue, The New Museum, New York, NY
1976 Kaminski, Margaret, Moving to Antartica, Dustbooks, pp. 146-57, illus. pp.146, 148, 150,152
Wilkenson, Sylvia, Interview, Michigan Artists Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 16-17, Illus. p. 16
Hansell, Betsey, Review, Detroit Artists Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 1, 3
1975 Durkee, Dee, "Interview: B. Goodman," Moving Out, pp. 20-25, Illus. pp. 22-25
Annual Report, Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Vol. 54, No. 2, Illus. p. 11
Askins, John, "Artist Brenda Goodman: One Woman's Struggle to Find Herself," Detroit Free
Press
, April 27, p. 10D, illus. p. 1