Judith Bernstein

 
Judith Bernstein (born 1942 in Newark, New Jersey, lives and works in New York) is a feminist artist best known for her erotic drawings and graffiti art. She received an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1967. She was a founding member of A.I.R. Gallery as well as an early member of many art and activist organizations including Guerrilla Girls, Art Workers' Coalition, and Fight Censorship. Solo exhibitions include the New Museum, New York; Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York; The Box, Los Angeles; and Mary Boone, New York. Her work has been included in group exhibitions such as “The Comfort of Strangers” at MoMA PS1, New York; “The Last Newspaper” at the New Museum, New York; and “The Historical Box,” at Hauser & Wirth, Zurich and London. Her works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Jewish Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery.
 
Judith Bernstein - Dicks of Death
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Selected from Bernstein's entire body of work, a compilation of graffiti-inspired charcoal drawings involving male external genital organs.
Judith Bernstein - Rising
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First major publication to contextualize feminist artist Bernstein's vast oeuvre within the history of art, feminism, and the American socio-political climate of the late-20th century.


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