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Portraiture, Still-life, Landscape, Murals, Itinerant Portraitist, Old Master, Oil painting, Self-Portraits, Children's Portraiture, Yale, Yale Portraits, Davenport College, Davenport College Portraits, Sterling Memorial Library, Sterling Memorial Library Portraits, Women Artists, Women Artists NY, Women Artists USA, Contemporary Portraiture, Contemporary Painting, Multidisciplinary Artist, Installation Art, Artistic Activism, Public Art, Documentary Film, Documentary Film Award Winner, Mural Artist, Animal Portraits, Snakes, Snakes Portraits, Glass Sculpture, Drawing, Art Drawings, Commissioned Artwork

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Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Screenings
Editions
Commissions and Public Works

Awards and Fellowships
Bibliography
Writings and Interviews
Selected Public Collections
Education

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Solo Exhibitions

2019

The Studios of Key West Gallery, Key West, Florida

2018

Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, New York City

2017

Derfner Judaica Museum, New York City, “100/100”

2014

Rosewood, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, “Portrait of Abu Dhabi in Four Parts”

2013

ADAH, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, “Portrait of Abu Dhabi in Four Parts”

2012

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, “888: Portraits in Taiwan”
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, “888: Portraits in Taiwan”

2007

Jonathan O’Hara Gallery, New York City, “Facing Family”

2002

Art Upstairs @ GHB, East Hampton, New York

2001

Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

1999

Galapagos Art and Performance Space, New York City, “Unveiling of Portrait #41”

1998

Stux Gallery, New York City

1996

Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York City

1995

Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

1994

E. M. Donahue Gallery, New York City
Galerie Quintessens, Utrecht, Netherlands

1993

Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Knokke, Belgium

1992

E. M. Donahue Gallery, New York City

1991

E. M. Donahue Gallery, New York City

1989

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York

Group Exhibitions

2018

The Gallery at the Institute Library, New Haven, Connecticut, “Shelf/Life: History, Biographies, and Fame”
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, “Ideation”

2017

Gerald Peters Contemporary, New York City, “American Realism: A Survey”
Grand Gallery of the National Arts Club, New York City, “The Warmth of Winter”

2016–18

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., “The Outwin: American Portraiture Today” (Exhibition traveled in 2017 to Tacoma Art Museum, Washington; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri)

2016

BravinLee Programs, New York City, “Introspective”
Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC, New York City, “The Conference of the Birds”
Sotheby’s New York, New York City, “Take Home a Nude”
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York City, “ARTHILLARY”
Gallery 21, Norfolk, Virginia, “Bringing Brooklyn to Norfolk”

2015

Storefront Ten Eyck / Arts in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, “Making History”
Dana Kane Studio, Brooklyn, New York, “Gone Fish”

2014

Centotto, Brooklyn, New York, “Back in Situ”
Bradford Studio, Brooklyn, New York, “Improvised Showboat #2” (curated by Lauren Britton and Zachary Keeting)
U.S. Embassy, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, “Shifting the Sands”
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, “Face to Face: Wall to Wall”

2013

Norte Maar, Brooklyn, New York, “Portraits of Fern”
Hyatt Capital Gate, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, “Hunting, Equestrian, and Heritage”
Peter Marcelle Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, “Between Realities”

2012

Peter Marcelle Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, “Artist Perspective”
Socrates Sculpture Park, New York City, “Skowhegan PERFORMS at Socrates”

2011

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, “American Realism”
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, “Face to Face”
Sloan Fine Art, New York City, “Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again”

2010

Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, “Portraits” (curated by Deborah Brown)
Camp Pocket U., Rouses Point, New York, “Ab hinc (From Here On)”
Galerie Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt, Germany, “Tiere/Animals”
Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming, “Ucross: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies”

2009

Jonathan O’Hara Gallery, New York City, “The Coney Island Funny Face Project!”

2007

Salmagundi Club of New York, “The Beholder’s Eye: Contemporary Art Invitational”

2006–07

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., “Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Exhibition”
National Museum in Gdansk, Poland, “New Old Masters / Nowi Dawni Mistrzowie” (curated by Donald Kuspit)

2006

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, “Likeness (Portraits from All Angles)”

2005

DFN Gallery, New York City, “The Woods”

2004

DFN Gallery, New York City, “Animal Tales”
DFN Gallery, New York City, “People Places and Things”

2003

Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, “Supereal” (curated by Lauri Firstenberg)
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, “The Alumni Show” (curated by Nina Felshin)
The University Galleries, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, “Williamsburg Salon”

2002

Artists Space, New York City, “Painting as Paradox” (curated by Lauri Firstenberg)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado, “POPjack: Warhol to Murakami”
DFN Gallery, New York City, “Tribeca Works on Paper Show”
New Gallery, Houston, Texas, “20th Anniversary Celebration: Stefan Stux Gallery”

2000

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida
Cummer Art Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida, “The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden” (curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith)
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, “The Figure: Another Side of Modernism” (curated by Lilly Wei)

1999

Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, “Changing Nature: New Visions and Altered Lands”
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City, “Contemporary Portraiture”
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, “Sans Titre: Works from the Collection of Peggy Scott and David Teplitzky”
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California, “In Your Face” (curated by Dr. Robert Shimshak)

1998

Guy McIntyre Gallery, New York City, “Small Faces”
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, “For the Birds”
Round World, Denver, Colorado, “Embodies (Faces and Figures)”

1997

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, “Von Kopf bis Fuss: Fragmente des Körpers” (curated by Peter Weiermair)
Stux Gallery, New York City, “Sex/Industry” (curated by John Yau)
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, “In Memory of Pleasure” (curated by Andrea Inselmann)

1996

Betsy Senior Gallery, New York City, “Locale”
Stux Gallery, New York City, “Inaugural Exhibition”
Apex Art, New York City, “Ceremonial” (curated by Barry Schwabsky)
James Graham and Sons, New York City, “Portraits” (curated by Valerie McKenzie)
James Graham and Sons, New York City, “Anima Mundi”
Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York City, “Everything Is Real” (curated by Andrew Freiser)
Silverstein Gallery, New York City, “Menu du Jour” (curated by Erin Parish)

1995

Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, “Nature Studies”
Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, “Terrestrial Bodies”
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, “Crossing State Lines: Twentieth-Century Art from Private Collections in Westchester and Fairfield Counties”
James Graham and Sons, New York City, “Contemporary Still Life”
Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, “Gallery Artists”
Allez les Filles, Columbus, Ohio, “New York Noir”

1994

Stux Gallery, New York City, “Summer Review ’94”
O’Hara Gallery, New York City, “The Seer” (organized by Christopher Sweet)
Art Miami ’94: International Art Exhibition, Miami, Florida, “Fallen Idylls: American Figurative Painting” (traveling exhibition organized by P.P.O.W.)
Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York City, “In a Budding Grove” (curated by Stephanie Theodore)

1993

Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, “Accrochage International”
Blum Helman Gallery, New York City, “The Bestiary”
Stiebel Modern, New York City, “Infancy & Image”
E. M. Donahue Gallery, New York City
Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York City, “Animal Body”
MVNC Gallery, Mount Vernon, Ohio, “Realism” (two-person exhibition)

1992

Stiebel Modern, New York City, “Small, Really Small, Tiny”
Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Scott Alan Gallery, New York City, “Still Life Today: Recapturing Its Essence”
Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York, “Flesh”
E. M. Donahue Gallery, New York City
Artists Space, New York City, “Neurotic Art: Return of the Repressed”

1991

Art in General, New York City, “Close Scrutiny”
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, “Chords and Discord”
E. M. Donahue Gallery, New York City

1990–91

Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, New York
New-York Historical Society, New York City, “Art What Thou Eat”

1990

Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City, “Detritus: Transformation and Reconstruction”
Althea Viafora Gallery, New York City
White Columns, New York City, “Dumb Animals?”
Epoche Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, “Short Stories”
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York City, “Objects on the Edge: Contemporary Still Life”

1989

Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York

1988

BACA, Brooklyn, New York, “Small Works” (Juror’s Award, by Lisa Phillips)

1987

White Columns, New York City, “New Nature Again”

1985

BACA, Brooklyn, New York

1984

Four Walls, Hoboken, New Jersey, “Before and After”
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City, “Collaborative Projects, Inc.”
University of California at Santa Cruz and Columbia Museum, South Carolina, “Jerome Foundation Traveling Exhibition”

1983

City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey
Cayman Gallery, New York City, “31/31 Artists’ Prints”
Public Image Gallery, New York City, “Red Show”
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, “Collaborative Projects, Inc.”

1982

Pier C, Hoboken, New Jersey, “50 Artists on the Waterfront”
BACA, Brooklyn, New York, “Small Works”
City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey

Screenings

2019

Joyce Forum Short Film Festival, San Diego, California, Official Selection: “100/100 The Itinerant Portraitist”
Berkshire International Film Festival, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Official Selection: “100/100 The Itinerant Portraitist”
Greenpoint Film Festival, Brooklyn, New York, Official Selection and Best Documentary Short: “100/100 The Itinerant Portraitist”

2018

Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, screening of “100/100 The Itinerant Portraitist” and lecture: “The Art and Aging: Lessons for Palliative Care”
Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, New York City, “100/100 The Itinerant Portraitist” accompanied the exhibition 100/100

Editions

1998

Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″. Muse [X] Editions

1997

Iguana Skinscapes. Suite of eleven Iris prints on rice paper. Edition of ten. 15″ × 15″. Muse [X] Editions
Pheasant, Dove, and Duck. Three multiples in glass, epoxy, pewter, and pigment
Pheasant: edition of nine, 3½″ × 5″ × 17″
Dove and Duck: edition of seventeen, 3″ × 3½″ × 9″. Round World Editions

Commissions and Public Works

Commissions

2017

Davenport Dining Room Scene. Davenport College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

2015

Portrait of Yale’s First Women PhDs. Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

2013

Portrait of Kurt Landgraf with Blue. Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey

2009

Portrait of David Rudenstine. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York City

2007

Portrait of James D. Wolfensohn. World Bank, Washington, D.C.

2005

Portrait of Osama bin Laden. “Taking Stock of the Forever War,” by Mark Danner. New York Times Magazine (11 September): cover

2002

Portrait of Slobodan Milosevic and Mira Markovic. “The Family Milosevic,” by Blaine Harden. New York Times Magazine (20 January)

1996

Portrait of Marian Anderson. “Grace under Fire,” by Jessye Norman. New York Times Magazine (24 November): 59
Portrait of Fred Woolworth

1995

Portrait of Jeffrey Dahmer. “Staring into the Heart of the Heart of Darkness,” by Ron Rosenbaum. New York Times Magazine (4 June): 36–45+
Portrait of Dr. Martini. Martini Library, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City

Public Works

2010

New York City Department of Transportation, Jersey Barrier Initiative, Mural Designer: “Anchovies along the FDR Drive,” east side of FDR Drive between 24th and 28th Streets

1979, 1978

CETA Arts, Mural Project Director, New Haven and Ansonia, Connecticut

Awards and Fellowships

2019

Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Sonoma, California
Artist Residency, Denali National Park, Alaska

2018

Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant: Painting
The Studios of Key West, Residency

2013

ADAH, Artist Residency, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2011

Fulbright Fellowship: “Creating a Portraiture of the Indigenous Inhabitants of Taiwan”

2010

Artists’ Fellowship, Inc., Grant

2006–07

Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Grant

1998, 1987

Ucross Foundation, Wyoming

1997

Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire, England
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York

1995, 1992, 1986

MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire

1994

New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship: Painting

1990

Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Pine Plains, New York

1988

Millay Colony, Steepletop, New York

1987

Vermont Studio Colony Fellowship

1981-82

Jerome Foundation Fellowship, Printmaking Workshop, New York City

1977-81

Johnston Trust Scholarship, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Bibliography

2019

Cynthia Rockwell, “The Itinerant Portraitist: Painting with a Number as a Theme.” Wesleyan University Magazine (2019 Issue 1 - May)
Canning Malkin. “Redefining Portraiture: The Real Faces of Davenport.” The Politic (17 January)
Lucy Gellman. “Brenda Zlamany Comes Home.” Arts Paper (8 January)

2018

Anabel Palomares. “Estas son las primeras siete mujeres que obtuvieron un doctorado en Yale y que hicieron historia con ello.” Trendencias (27 October)
Daniel Grant. “The Modern Portrait: Is It Worth the Price to Get Yourself Painted?” Observer (9 May)
“Brenda Zlamany 366: Portraits from the Neighborhood, Part 1.” Talking Pictures (28 April)
Brianna Wu. “Davenport Unveils Dining Hall Portrait.” Yale Daily News (23 April)

2017

Brenda Zlamany: 100/100. Thirty-eight-page illustrated catalog of recent works. Essays by David Ebony and Alan Zweibel. New York: Derfner Judaica Museum
Leslie Wayne. “The Itinerant Portraitist: Brenda Zlamany Discusses Her Hebrew Home Project with Leslie Wayne.” Art Critical (6 December)
David Cohen. “Brenda Zlamany at the Derfner Judaica Museum, Bronx.” Art Critical (14 October)

2011

Subtropics 11–12: front cover. Illustrated
Richard Tobin. “‘Face to Face’: Gerald Peters.” ARTnews (summer 2011): 132
Douglas Fairfield. “Art in Review.” Pasatiempo—Santa Fe New Mexican (1 April.): 44–45

2010

Charlie Finch. “Tiny Top Ten.” Artnet.com (December). Illustrated
Lilly Wei. “The Great American (Male) Nude.” ARTnews (December): 82–85. Illustrated
“Faculty Briefs: Rudenstine Portrait Joins Those of Previous Deans.” Cardozo Life: 17. Illustrated

2009

Alix Finkelstein. “New Directions in Children’s Portraiture.” Fine Art Connoisseur (November-December): 39–42. Illustrated

2007

Joshua Rose. “Brenda Zlamany: The Art of Seeing.” American Art Collector (April): 140. Illustrated
Brenda Zlamany: Facing Family. Thirty-six-page illustrated catalog of recent works
Conversations with Vincent Desiderio and Alex Katz. New York: Jonathan O’Hara Gallery
New Old Masters / Nowi Dawni Mistrzowie. Essay by Donald Kuspit. Gdansk: National Museum in Gdansk. 92–96. Illustrated

2006

Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Exhibition
Essay by Dave Hickey, “The Lost World.”
Washington: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, in association with the University of Washington Press. 15, 76. Illustrated

2004

Donald Kuspit. The End of Art. New York: Cambridge University. Press. 183

2003

Alessandre Quattordio. “Supereal.” Flash Art (December 2003–January 2004): 119
Eleona Battiston. “Supereal.” Segno anno, vol. 28, no. 193 (November-December): 44. Illustrated
Judy Birke. “At Zilkha Gallery the Alumni Show Is Clamorous with Unsettling Voices.” New Haven Register (30 November), art sec.: E1
“Sexy e pulp ecco i nuovi i perrealisti.” La repubblica (28 November), folio 1: 10
Benjamin Genocchio. “Old Faces Inaugurate a Renovated Gallery for Wesleyan.” Connecticut Weekly Desk. New York Times (16 Nov., late ed. final), sec. 14CN: 10
Marion Wolberg Weiss. “Honoring the Artist: Brenda Zlamany.” Dan’s Papers (28 March): cover, 39. Illustrated
Nina Felshin. The Alumni Show. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 6. Illustrated
Barry Schwabsky. “Letter O.” Opera: Poems 1981–2002. San Francisco and Saint Helena, Calif.: Meritage Press. 32.

2002

Ken Johnson. “Painting as Paradox.” Art in Review. New York Times (13 December, late ed.): E44
Jerry Saltz. Village Voice (4–10 December)
Meghan Dailey. “Painting as Paradox.” New York: Critics’ Picks. Artforum.com
Michael Paglia. “Hello Andy! American Pop Meets Japanese Neo-Pop at Denver’s MCA.” Westword (7 November)
Marion Wolberg Weiss. “Honoring the Artist: Brenda Zlamany.” Dan’s Papers (4 October): cover, 41. Illustrated
Darius Yektai. “At Horowitz, Charting an Artist’s Development.” Southampton Press, eastern ed. (15 August): B9. Illustrated

2001

Brenda Zlamany: Color Study. Forty-two-page illustrated catalog of recent works
“Interview with Chuck Close.” Essay by John Yau
Amherst: Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts
Eileen Tabios. “How Painting Transcends Painting.” Reviewny.com (15 February). Illustrated

2000

Joyce B. Korotkin. “The Figure: Another Side of Modernism.” NY Arts Magazine (December): 16–17
Christian Viveros-Fauné. “The Figure.” New York Press (25–31 October): 43
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism. Staten Island: Snug Harbor Cultural Center. Illustrated
Joannes Késenne. Het oorkussen van de Melancholie. Ghent: Museum voor Schone Kunsten. 42. Illustrated
Kerry Oliver-Smith. The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden. Gainesville: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. 28, 31. Illustrated

1999

Donald Kuspit. “Going, Going, Gone.” Artnet.com (16 September). Illustrated
Brenda Zlamany. “Painter of Modern Life.” aRude 12: 64. Illustrated
Sans Titre: Works from the Collection of Peggy Scott and David Teplitzky
Boulder: Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Inside front cover. Illustrated

1998

“Brenda Zlamany.” New Yorker (21 December): 16, 18. Illustrated
Mark Daniel Cohen. “Brenda Zlamany at Stux Gallery.” Review (1 December): 14–16
Douglas F. Maxwell. “Brenda Zlamany at Stux Gallery.” Review (1 December): 16–17
Brenda Zlamany. Forty-eight- page illustrated catalog of recent works. Essay by John Yau
New York and Los Angeles: Stefan Stux Gallery and Muse [X] Editions
Brenda Zlamany. “Pheasant, Dove and Duck (1997).” On Paper 2.2 (March-April)
Mary Voelz Chandler. “Exhibit ‘Embodies’ Human Form.” Rocky Mountain News Weekend Spotlight (13 March): 15D. Illustrated

1997

Heather Hewett. “In Memory of Pleasure: John Michael Kohler Arts Center.” Art Papers (September-October): 74
Nadine Wasserman. “In Memory of Pleasure: John Michael Kohler Arts Center.” New Art Examiner (June): 44–45
Von Kopf bis Fuss: Fragmente des Körpers. Zurich: Stemmle. 42–43. Illustrated

1996

“Brenda Zlamany.” New Yorker (25 November): 32
David Ebony. “Brenda Zlamany at Jessica Fredericks.” Artnet.com (20 November). Illustrated
John Mendelsohn. “‘Ceremonial’ at Apex Art.” Artnet.com (7 November)
George Melrod. “Openings.” Art and Antiques (October): 30. Illustrated
Holland Cotter. “‘Everything Is Real’ at Jessica Fredericks Gallery.” New York Times (9 August): C23
Jennifer Farrell. “Art Diary: ‘Everything Is Real’ at Jessica Fredericks Gallery.” Metrobeat.com (1 August)
Richard Johnson. “Peck on This.” Page Six. New York Post (26 June): 8

1995

Eddy Devolder. “Brenda Zlamany at Sabine Wachters.” Flash Art (October): 121. Illustrated
Eva Heisler. “‘New York Noir’ / Allez les Filles.” Dialogue (May-June): 22
“Brenda Zlamany bij Wachters.” Ons Brussel (April): 22. Illustrated
Guy Gilsoul. “Une portraitiste d’aujourd’hui.” Le vif / L’express (31 March): 89. Illustrated
“Kale Mannen.” Weekend Knack (29 March–4 April): 182–83. Illustrated
Stéphane Rey. “Portraits d’hommes.” L’écho de la Bourse (4 March): 15. Illustrated
Patrik Kindermans. “Flanelles bruxelloises.” Flux-News (January): 3
Barry Schwabsky. “The Rustle of Painting.” Lacanian Ink 9: 47–57. Illustrated
Rpt. in The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. 84–94
Jaqueline Hall. “A brooding kind of mood.” Columbus Dispatch, (19 March): Illustrated

1994

Phyllis Herfield. “Brenda Zlamany: 12 Men & 12 Birds.” New York Review of Art (December): 21
Lucio Pozzi. “Che ve ne sembra dell’ America? Lettera da New York di Lucio Pozzi. L’artista e il suo doppio.” Il giornale dell’arte (Dec.). Illustrated
Robert C. Morgan. “Individual Issues: Bald Guys, Dead Birds. . . .” Cover (October): 38. Illustrated
Lauri Brett. “Art for the Masses: 12 Men & 12 Birds.” Pretty Decorating (October): 16. Illustrated
“Brenda Zlamany.” New Yorker (17 October): 29. Illustrated
“Brenda Zlamany.” Voice Choices. Village Voice (27 September)
“Brenda Zlamany.” Kunstwerk (April-May). Illustrated
“Eigenzinnige Diertaferelen van Brenda Zlamany.” Kunstbeeld (April.). Illustrated
“Eigenzinnige Diertaferelen Brenda Zlamany in Quintessens.” Stadsblad (30 March). Illustrated
Christopher Sweet. Fallen Idylls: American Figurative Painting. Exhibition catalog. Illustrated

1993

Deidre Stein. “Bestiary / Blum Helman.” Art News (December): 133
Eddy Devolder. “Brenda Zlamany: Une histoire presque sans histoires.” Avancées (November): 31
Elisabeth Condon. “Small, Really Small, Tiny.” New Art Examiner (March): 32–33. Illustrated
David Ebony. “Brenda Zlamany at E. M. Donahue.” Art in America (February): 110. Illustrated
Barry Schwabsky. “Brenda Zlamany / E. M. Donahue Gallery.” Artforum (February): 99–100. Illustrated
KK Kozik. “Heavy Meditation.” Cover (April): 38. Illustrated

1992

“Brenda Zlamany.” New Yorker (30 November): 26

1991

Janine Cirincione. “Brenda Zlamany at E. M. Donahue.” Cover (March): 17. Illustrated
Donna Gustafson et al. Art What Thou Eat: Images of Food in American Art, ed. Linda Weintraub
Mount Kisco, N.Y.: Moyer Bell. 162, 165. Illustrated

1990

Adam McGovern. “Detritus.” Cover (September): 17
Roberta Smith. “The Group Show as Crystal Ball.” New York Times (6 July)
Mudfish: Contemporary Art and Poetry 5: 122. Illustrated

1987

Meri Fisher. “Tikhoye pristanishche dlya tvorcheskoy roboty.” Amerika 372 (November): 30–36. Illustrated

1984
Douglas C. McGill. “Personal Art and the Skowhegan Experience.” New York Times (2 September).

Writings and Interviews

2018

“Jenny Saville Roundtable: Julie Heffernan, Brenda Zlamany, Dennis Kardon, Walter Robinson, Barry Schwabsky, and Suzy Spence.” Art Critical (26 May)

2016

“X-Ray Vision: Mary Jones Discusses Her Work with Brenda Zlamany.” Art Critical (15 November)
Brenda Zlamany: “I’ve Learned to See Beauty Differently.” The Conversation Project (11 July)

1995

“Brenda Zlamany: J’ai le sentiment d’être un chasseur de têtes.” Interview with Pierre-Yves Desaive
Flux-News (April): 11. Illustrated

1993

“Heavy Meditations.” Interview with K. K. Kozik. Cover (April): 14. Illustrated

Selected Public Collections

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
Deutsche Bank
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City
Museum Kaneko, Omaha, Nebraska
Museum of Modern Art, Houston, Texas
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia
World Bank, Washington, D.C.

Education

Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (BA)
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
S. W. Hayter’s Atelier 17, Paris, France
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
Yale College Before College Program, New Haven, Connecticut