
Louise Fishman
“GRACE IN HILLS AND GARDENS,” 2018
“GRACE IN HILLS AND GARDENS,” 2018
Louise Fishman
“GRACE IN HILLS AND GARDENS,” 2018
Oil on linen
66 x 55" [HxW] (167.64 x 139.7 cm)
Inventory #FIS106
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
“GRACE IN HILLS AND GARDENS,” 2018
Oil on linen
66 x 55" [HxW] (167.64 x 139.7 cm)
Inventory #FIS106
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
![Louise Fishman “LIKE AIR I’LL RISE,” 2018 Oil on linen 74 x 86" [HxW] (187.96 x 218.44 cm) Inventory #FIS116 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/fishman_116_likeairillrise_hires-1573676488-1024x893.jpg)
Louise Fishman
“LIKE AIR I’LL RISE,” 2018
“LIKE AIR I’LL RISE,” 2018
Louise Fishman
“LIKE AIR I’LL RISE,” 2018
Oil on linen
74 x 86" [HxW] (187.96 x 218.44 cm)
Inventory #FIS116
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
“LIKE AIR I’LL RISE,” 2018
Oil on linen
74 x 86" [HxW] (187.96 x 218.44 cm)
Inventory #FIS116
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Louise Fishman
“MIXED WEATHER,” 2019
“MIXED WEATHER,” 2019
Louise Fishman
“MIXED WEATHER,” 2019
Oil on linen
57 x 70" [HxW] (144.78 x 177.8 cm)
Inventory #FIS121
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
“MIXED WEATHER,” 2019
Oil on linen
57 x 70" [HxW] (144.78 x 177.8 cm)
Inventory #FIS121
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Louise Fishman
“TRAUERODE FOR TOM,” 2019
“TRAUERODE FOR TOM,” 2019
Louise Fishman
“TRAUERODE FOR TOM,” 2019
Oil on linen
40 x 30" [HxW] (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Inventory #FIS123
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
“TRAUERODE FOR TOM,” 2019
Oil on linen
40 x 30" [HxW] (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Inventory #FIS123
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Louise Fishman
“PASSACAGLIA,” 2019
“PASSACAGLIA,” 2019
Louise Fishman
“PASSACAGLIA,” 2019
Oil on linen
40 x 30" [HxW] (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Inventory #FIS124
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
“PASSACAGLIA,” 2019
Oil on linen
40 x 30" [HxW] (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Inventory #FIS124
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
- Born: January 14, 1939, Philadelphia, PA
- Died: July 26, 2021, New York, NY
- 1956-1957
- Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1958
- Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- 1963
- B.F.A. and B.S., Tyler School of Fine Arts, Elkins, PA
- 1965
- M.F.A., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Selected Exhibitions
- 2023
- "Dear Louise: A Tribute To Louise Fishman (1939 - 2021)," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 2022
- "1960s: Darkness and Light," Karma Karma Gallery, New York, NY
- 2021-2022
- "A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing," Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
- 2021
- "We'll Meet Again," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- "Ballin’ the Jack," Karma, New York, NY
- 2020
- "An Hour is A Sea," Vielmetter Los Angeles, online
- 2019
- "The Tumult of the Heart," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- Frieze New York–Booth S29, Randall’s Island, New York, NY
- "Louise Fishman: Cut Pieced Painted Stapled, Sculptural Paintings from the ‘70S," Frameless Gallery, London, UK
- 2017
- "Louise Fishman," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 2016
- "Paper Louise Tiny Fishman Rock," curated by Ingrid Schaffner, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- "Louise Fishman: A Retrospective," curated by Helaine Posner, Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, State University of New York at Purchase (3/27–7/31/2016); traveled to Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
- 2015
- "Louise Fishman," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 2014
- "Louise Fishman – Venice Watercolours 2011–2013," Frameless Gallery & Gallery Nosco, London, UK
- 2013
- "Louise Fishman: It’s Here – Elsewhere," Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
- 2012
- "Louise Fishman: Five Decades," curated by Simon Watson, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
- "Louise Fishman: Paintings, Drawings & Prints," John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York, NY
- "Louise Fishman," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 2010
- "Louise Fishman," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
- 2009
- "Louise Fishman: Among the Old Masters," John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
- "Louise Fishman," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 2008
- "Louise Fishman: Between Geometry and Gesture," Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany
- 2007
- "Louise Fishman, The Tenacity of Painting: Paintings from 1970 to 2005," Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
- 2006
- "Louise Fishman," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 2005
- "Louise Fishman," Foster-Gwin, San Francisco, CA
- 2004
- "Louise Fishman, Recent Work," Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- "New York Abstract Painters George McNeil / Louise Fishman / 2004," Foster-Gwin, San Francisco, CA
- 2003
- "Louise Fishman," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 2002
- "Louise Fishman," Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2001
- "Louise Fishman," Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2000
- "Louise Fishman," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 1999
- "Louise Fishman," Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1998
- "Louise Fishman: Paintings & Drawings," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- "Louise Fishman: Recent Paintings and Drawings," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 1996
- "Louise Fishman: Recent Paintings," Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- 1995
- "Small Paintings," Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- 1994
- "Small Paintings, 1992–1994," Bianca Lanza Gallery, Miami, FL
- 1993
- "Louise Fishman," Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- 1992
- "Louise Fishman: Paintings, 1986–1992," Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- "Drawings and Experimental Work, 1971–1992," Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- "Louise Fishman: Small Paintings," Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
- "Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, 1979–1992," Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- "Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, 1978–1992," Simon Watson, New York, NY preview of exhibition held at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1991
- "Louise Fishman: New Paintings," Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- 1989
- "Remembrance and Renewal," Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
- "Louise Fishman: New Paintings 1987–1989," Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- 1987
- "Louise Fishman and Andy Spence: Two from the Corcoran," Winston Gallery, Washington, D.C
- 1986
- "Louise Fishman: New Paintings," Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York, NY
- 1985
- "Fishman/Sanderson," North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
- 1984
- "Louise Fishman," Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York, NY
- 1982
- "Louise Fishman: Recent Work," Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, NY
- "Louise Fishman," John Davis Gallery, Akron, OH
- 1980
- "Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, The MacDowell Colony, 7/1980," Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, NY
- 1979
- "Louise Fishman," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
- 1976
- "Louise Fishman," John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1978
- "Louise Fishman," Diplomat’s Lobby, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C.
- 1976
- "Louise Fishman," University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
- 1974
- "Louise Fishman," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
- 1972
- "Louise Fishman," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
- 1964
- "Louise Fishman," Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibitions
- 2023
- "Women and Abstraction: 1741–Now," Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA (Link)
- 2022
- "The Fiction of Property I: Louise Fishman, Gerald Jackson, Harriet Korman, Jonathan Lasker, David Reed, Gary Stephan, Michael Venezia, Jack Whitten," Curated by Bertold Mathes, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany
- 2021
- "Kick Ass Painting: New York Women,” Curated by Patricia Hamilton, Anat Egbi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2019
- "Artists I Steal From," co-curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Álvaro Barrington, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
- "Just Painting," curated by Ezra Tessler, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY
- "Small Paintings," Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery, Chicago, IL
- "Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989," Grey Art Gallery and Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY
- "Artists I Steal From," co-curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Álvaro Barrington, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
- “Queer Abstraction,” Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
- "Just Painting," curated by Ezra Tessler, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY
- "Art After Stonewall, 1969–1989," curated by Jonathan Weinberg with Tyler Cann and Drew Sawyer, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York NY; will travel to Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, FIU, Miami FL, and Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
- 2018
- "Mark," Team (gallery, inc.), New York, NY
- "Known: Unknown," curated by Graham Nickson and Rachel Rickert, New York Studio School, New York, NY
- "White Anxieties," curated by Raul Zamudio and Juan Puntes with Peter Wayne Lewis, White Box, New York, NY
- "Surface Work," Victoria Miro Gallery I and II, London, UK
- "Carry the Bend," Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY
- "The Humble Black Line," Frameless Gallery, London, UK
- 2017
- "Weber Fine Art in Black and White," Weber Fine Art of Greenwich,mGreenwich, CT
- "If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day: Collections of Claude Simard," curated by Ian Berry, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, NY
- "Blue Black," curated by Glenn Ligon, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MI
- "Citings/Sightings," Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- "Art in Balance: Motorcycles and Fine Art," Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
- "Women Painting," organized by Girls’ Club and curated by Michele Weinberg and Michelle Rupert, Martin and Pat Fine Art Center for the Arts, Miami-Dade College, Kendall, FL
- "Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness," organized by Hayward Touring, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, UK; traveled to Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK, Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Bury, UK
- 2016
- "#Pussypower," curated by Jennifer Samet and Michael David, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, New York, NY
- "Nice Weather," curated by David Salle, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY
- "Golem," Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
- "Leporelli Veneziani," curated by Berty Skuber, Emily Harvey Foundation, EHF Gallery, Venezia, Italy
- "Your Face in the Mirror Isn’t Your Face, Similar to Plastic Silverware," curated by Torey Thornton, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, CA
- "#makeamericagreatagain," curated by Raul Zamudio and Juan Puntes, co-curated by Blanca de la Torre, WhiteBox, New York, NY
- 2015
- "Painting 2:0: Expression in the Information Age," Museum Brandhorst, Germany; traveled to the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung
- "A Few Days," Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- "Art AIDS America," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; traveled to Zuckerman Museum of Art,
- "Perfect Present: Three Generations of Painting, Louise Fishman, Rosanna Bruno, Odessa Straub," Jeffrey Stark, New York, NY
- "Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Sized Paintings," curated by Phong Bui, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
- Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria (6/4–11/6/2016)
- Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA (2/19–5/21/2016); Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY (6/23–9/11/2016); Alphawood Foundation, Chicago, IL (12/1/2016–4/2/2017)
- 2014
- "De-Pict," Frameless Gallery & Gallery Nosco, London, UK
- Whitney Museum of American Art 2014 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- "In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth," Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
- "Making Art Dance: Artists Donate Work to Benefit Armitage Gone!," Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
- 2013
- "Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s," curated by Raphael Rubinstein, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 2012
- "PAPYRI: Guestbooks, Bookworks and Similar Departures by Guests of Emily Harvey Foundation 2004–2012," Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy
- "Generations: Louise Fishman, Gertrude Fisher-Fishman, and Razel Kapustin," Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
- 2011
- "READYKELOUS/The Hurtful Healer: The Correspondence Issue," Invisible-Exports, New York, NY
- "The Women in Our Life: A Fifteen-Year Anniversary Exhibition," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- "Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories," Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; traveled to National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. (10/14/2011–1/22/2012)
- Abstractions, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
- New York, NY (4/17–7/14/2012); Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, NY (7/14–12/30/2012)
- "Dance/Draw," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; traveled to Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
- "To the Venetians," Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
- 2010
- "LES FEMMES," McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
- "Abstraction Revisited," Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
- "Le Tableau: French Abstraction and its Affinities," curated by Joe Fyfe, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- "Painting & Sculpture: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts," Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
- "Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism," The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
- 2009
- "The Ringling International Arts Festival," John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
- "Propose: Works on Paper from the 1970s," Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY
- "Les Femmes," McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
- "Before Again: Joan Mitchell, Louise Fishman, Harriet Korman, Melissa Meyer, Jill Moser, Denyse Thomasos," Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- "Abstractions by Gallery Artists," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 2008
- "Environments and Empires," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
- "Pretty Ugly," curated by Alison Gingeras, Maccarone Gallery and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
- "Significant Form: The Persistence of Abstraction," Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
- "MassArt at the Fine Arts Work Center: Faculty and Visiting Artists," Hudson D. Walker Gallery Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
- 2007
- "American Abstract," Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
- "The Fluid Fields: Abstraction and Reference," Tyler Galleries, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
- "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution," Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (September 2007–December 2007); MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, New York (2/17–5/12/2008); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (10/4/2008–1/18/2009)
- "New Short Distance to Now Part #2: Paintings from New York 1967–1975," Galerie Thomas Flor, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2006
- "High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–75," curated by Katy Siegal, Independent Curators International, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (8/6–10/15/2006); American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. (11/21/2006–1/21/2007); National Academy Museum, New York (2/15–4/22/2007); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico (5/25–9/9/2007); Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria (12/14/2007–2/24/2008); ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (3/28–6/1/2008)
- "The New Landscape / The New Still Life: Soutine and Modern Art," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- "The Name of this Show Is Not Gay Art Now," Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
- 2005
- "Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
- "PAINT," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- "Contemporary Women Artists: New York," University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
- 2004
- "Drawing Exhibition," Galerie S 65 Cologne, Germany
- "Twelve from Cheim & Read," Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
- Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2003
- "The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art," Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, NY
- Women's Lines, G Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
- "Grisaille," James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
- 2002
- "Nature Found and Made," Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY
- "177th Annual Exhibition," National Academy of Design, New York, N Y
- "Zenroxy," Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
- "Personal and Political: The Women’s Art Movement, 1969–1975," Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, NY
- "Nocturne/Nocturnal," Skoto Gallery, New York, NY
- "Painting A Passionate Response, Sixteen American Artists," The Painting Center, New York, NY
- "Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture," Wall Street Rising, 48 Wall Street, New York, NY
- 2001
- "Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism," Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
- Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, AL (11/3/2002–4/15/2003)
- "Imaging Judaism / Mining History, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
- "Four Painters," Lindsey Brown, New York, NY
- Youngstown, Ohio (3/10–4/28/2002); Nina Freundenheim, Inc., Buffalo, New York (5/11–7/15/2002); Ben Shahn Gallery for Visual Arts, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ (9/6–10/11/2002);
- "Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
- "Watercolor: In the Abstract," curated by Pamela Auchincloss, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York; traveled to Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York at Fredonia (1/18–2/22/2002); Butler Institute of American Art,
- "Opening Exhibition," Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, New York, NY
- 2000
- "Painting Abstraction," New York Studio School, New York, NY
- Museum," Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
- "Snapshots: An Exhibition of 1000 Artists," The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
- "The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish
- "175th Annual Exhibition," National Academy of Design, New York, NY
- 1999
- "Severed Ear: The Poetry of Abstraction," Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston,MA
- "Drawing in the Present Tense," Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
- "Gestural Abstraction," Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
- "Walking," Danese Gallery, New York, NY
- "American Abstraction / American Realism: The Great Debate," curated by Jonathan Van Dyke, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
- 1998
- "Paintings & Drawings," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- "San Francisco International Art Exposition," Cheim & Read Exhibition Booth, San Francisco, CA
- "Undercurrents & Overtones: Contemporary Abstract Painting," California College of the Arts, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Oakland, CA
- "Small Paintings," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- 1997
- "Voices: The Power of Abstraction," Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY
- "Convergence," George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
- of Art, Fort Wayne, IN (11/8/1997–1/9/1998)
- "Affinities with the East," Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- "Basically Black & White," Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, NY
- "After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970," Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
- "Retreat and Renewal: The Painters and Sculptors of the MacDowell Colony," Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; traveled to Equitable Gallery, New York (1/17–3/23/1998); Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS (4/20–6/15/1998); Fort Wayne Museum
- "Abstract Painting," curated by Jeffrey Wasserman, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
- 1996
- "Summer Group Show," Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- "Transforming the Social Order," Tyler Galleries, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
- "Women’s Work," Greene Naftali, New York, NY
- 1995
- "New Faculty," Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
- "25 Americans: Painting in the ‘90s," Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
- "Artist’s Choice: Elizabeth Murray," Museum of Modern Art, NY
- Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1994
- "46th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition," American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
- "Abstract Works on Paper," Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- "Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS," Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MI
- "Couples," Elga Wimmer, New York, NY
- "Small and Wet: Abstract Painting and Sculpture," Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
- Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY (11/6–1/15/1995); Rahr West Museum, Manitowoc, WI (4/14–5/16/1994)
- "Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters in Art," Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA; traveled to
- 1993
- "Singularities," Blondies Contemporary Art, New York, NY
- "30th Anniversary Exhibition of Drawings," to benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
- "The Linear Image II," Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, NY
- "Art Discovery ’93," Cooperstown Art Association and Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, New York, NY
- "The Inaugural Show," The Painting Center, New York, NY
- "Drawing the Line Against AIDS," under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy (6/8–6/13/1993); reinstalled at
- the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (11/6–11/19/1993)
- "Abstract-Figurative," Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- 1992
- "The Jewish Museum’s Masked Ball in Celebration of Purim," Jewish Museum, New York, NY
- "Paintings by Martha Diamond, Mary Heilman, Harriet Korman, Louise Fishman and Bernard Piffaretti," Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- 1991
- Contemporáneo, Polonco, Mexico (6/13–9/1/1991); Musèe d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain (MAMAC), Nice, France
- "Something Pithier and More Psychological," Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
- "Twentieth-Century Collage," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Centro Cultural Arte
- "Act-Up Benefit," Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
- "Spring/Summer Exhibition, Part One: Painters," Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- 1990
- "Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists," Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- "From Earth to Archetype," LedisFlam Gallery, New York, NY
- "A Group Exhibition," Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- 1989
- "A Decade of American Drawing 1980–1989," Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- "A Group Exhibition," Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- "Belief in Paint: Eleven Contemporary Artists," Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
- "Fragments of History," Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA
- "Works on Paper," Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
- "Towards Form," Greenberg, Wilson Gallery, New York, NY
- 1988
- "Selections from the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection," curated by Klaus Kertess, Davis-McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
- "Louise Fishman, David Reed, Joan Mitchell," curated by Marjorie Welish, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, NY
- "Golem: Danger, Deliverance and Art," Jewish Museum, New York, NY
- 1987
- "The Parrish Art Museum," Southampton, NY
- "Whitney Museum of American Art 1987 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- "40th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- 1986
- "Jewish Themes/Contemporary American Artists II," Jewish Museum, New York, NY; traveled to Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago, IL; National Museum of Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA
- "Louise Fishman," Hermine Ford and Arthur Cohen, Hofstra University, New York, NY
- "Spirit Tracks – Big Abstract Drawings," Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York and Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- "Artists for Pride," Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York
- Heland Thorden Wetterling Galleries, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1985
- "Painting as Landscape," curated by Klaus Kertess, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; traveled to Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
- "Paintings 1985," Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
- "Drawings 1975–1985," Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY
- "An Invitational," curated by Tiffany Bell, Condeso/Lawler, New York, NY
- Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York, NY
- "Twelve Painters and Six Sculptors, Tyler Galleries, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
- 1984
- "Relief Prints Since 1980," Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
- "Second Nature: Abstract Drawings and Paintings," curated by John Lee and Tom Wolf, Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
- "New Prints Since 1980," Phillip Johnson Center, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
- Cable Gallery, New York
- 1983
- "Six Painters," Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
- "Painting from the Mind’s Eye," Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY
- "Drawing In and Out," Baskerville & Watson, NY
- 1982
- "Mixing Art and Politics," Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
- "Painterly Abstraction," Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, IN
- Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
- Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
- "Abstract Painting: Substance and Meaning – Painting by Woman Artists," New York Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art, New York, NY
- "Five New York Artists: Stuart Diamond, Louise Fishman, Guy Goodwin, Bill Jensen, Judy Pfaff," Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College,
- "Abstraction," Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, NY
- 1981
- "CAPS Grantees from Brooklyn," Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
- "CAPS Award Winners in Painting 1980–198," Proctor Art Center, Bard College and Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, NY
- "Painting Invitational," Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, NY
- "Rush Rhees Fine Arts Gallery," University of Rochester, NY
- 1980
- "Inaugural Exhibit," Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, NY
- "Work on Paper," Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
- 1979
- "Major New Works," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
- 1977
- "Fifth Anniversary Show," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NY
- "Critic’s Choice," Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; traveled to Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY
- "Major New Works," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
- "Nancy Hoffman in Oxford," Miami University, Oxford, OH
- "Preparatory Notes —Thinking Drawings, Part II," 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, NY
- "Paintings that Reveal the Wall," curated by Tom Wolf, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
- 1976
- "Paris International Art Fair," Grand Palais, Paris, France
- "Artist ’76: A Celebration," Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
- University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
- 1975
- John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, IL
- "New York Faculty Exhibition," Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
- 1973
- "Whitney Museum of American Art 1973 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- "A Woman’s Group," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
- 1972
- "Open A.I.R.," A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
- "Summer Show," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
- 1963
- "National Watercolor and Drawing Exhibition," Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
- 1963
- Tyler School of Art, Temple University, First Painting Prize, Student Exhibit
- 1974
- Change, Inc., Artists Fellowship
- 1975
- Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Bertha Lowenburg Prize for the Senior Woman to Excel in Art National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship, Painting
- 1979
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts
- 1980
- MacDowell Colony Visual Artists Fellowship
- 1981
- Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS) Fellowship in Painting
- 1983
- National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship, Painting
- 1986
- New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation General Support Grant
- 1993
- National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship, Painting
- 2002
- Adolph & Clara Obrig Prize for Painting, National Academy of Design, 177th Annual Exhibition
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- 2017
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- 2016
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- 2012
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- 2010
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- 1990
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- 2023
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Public Collections
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
- Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
- Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
- Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
- Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
- Jewish Museum, New York, NY
- Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
- Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
- Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
- University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
- University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
- Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC
- Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA