Education

• 1969 Pratt Institute Graduate Fine Arts, Painting MFA, with Art History studies, Columbia Graduate School, NYC
• 1963-65 Fulbright Research, Japan, Tama Art University, Private studies in calligraphy and sumi-ye
• 1961-63 Brooklyn Museum Art School, NYC, Painting
• 1960 Antioch College, Ohio; Fine Arts, BA

Awards

• 1992 National Endowment for the Arts: Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Regional Fellowship
• 1989 International Exchange of Scholars: Indo-American Fellowship, India
• 1988 Reader's Digest Artists in Residence at Giverny, France
• 1988 Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts Grant: Visual Arts Fellowship
• 1984 Andrew Mellon Fellowship
• 1980 Ossabaw Island Foundation Fellowship
• 1979 Lerman watercolor presented to Isabel Bishop at White House related ceremony
• 1978 CAPS Finalist, Nex York State Council for the Arts
• 1977 State University of New York Research Grant in Painting: Four-time recipient, 1977,1976,1974,1972
• 1977 MacDowell Colony Fellowship
• 1970,72 Outstanding Young Women of America Award: Two-time recipient
• 1963 Fulbright Award, Japan

Commissions

• 1990-5 Mural with bas-relief, Percent for Art/New York, Awards P.S. 176, NYC
• 1991 Finalist, Philadelphia International Airport
• 1991 Lithograph edition, "The Night of the Empire Fellowship Purim Crown," The Jewish Museum, NYC

Solo Exhibitions Selected

• 1995 The Joseph Gallery, "Inside the Ark", mural, NYC
• 1995 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, "Inside the Ark", drawings, NYC
• 1988 Poulain Museum, Vernon, France
• 1982 Bernice Steinbaum, NYC; Catalogue, Ill., Essay bv Ann Sutherland Harris
• 1977 "Women Artist Series", Rutgers University, N.J, NEA sponsored; Catalogue, Ill.
• 1977 Prince Street Gallery, NYC
• 1974 Prince Street Gallery, NYC
• 1971 Prince Street Gallery, NYC

Group Exhibitions Selected--after 1985

• 1994 Pelham Art Center, "Masks", Pelham, N.Y.
• 1994 Brooke Alexander Gallery, "Ticket Art", OIA, NYC
• 1994 Pelham Art Center, "The Narrative Edge", Pelham, NY, NY Times Review
• 1993 380 Gallery, "Animal Magnetism", NYC
• 1992 Union Art Gallery, "Humor with Color", Stony Brook, NY
• 1990 Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY Stony Brook, "Fantastic Journeys", NY Times Review
• 1989 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, "Hard Choices/Just Rewards", Traveling exhibit of work by recipients of Visual Arts Fellowships
• 1988 Poulain Museum, Vernon, France
• 1988 Museum of Modern Art, "Committed to Prints", NYC
• 1988 Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, "The Experienced Eye", Catalogue, Ill.,KY
• 1987 PPOW Gallery, "Heresies: Issues That Won't Go Away", NYC
• 1987 Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, "Connections Project," NYC
• 1987 Transco Gallery, "Women and Watercolor," Houston, Texas
• 1986 Jewish Museum, "Jewish Themes: Contemporary American Artists",Catalogue, Ill.,NYC
• 1985 The Clocktower, "Costume, Masks and Disguises", NYC

Articles by Ora Lerman

• 1990 ìThe Elusive Subject: Joan Mitchellís Abstraction of Landscape Reflects her Study of Van Gogh,î Arts Magazine 65, no.1 (Sept. 1990): 42-46.
• 1989 ìEnclosure, Layering: Japanese Painter Minoru Kawabata,î Arts Magazine 64, no.2 (Oct. 1989): 67-71.
• 1988 ìContemporary Vanitas,î Arts Magazine 62, no.7 (March 1988): 60-63.
• 1986 ìFrom Close-Up to Infinity: Reentering Georgia OíKeefeís World,î Arts Magazine 60, no. 9 (May 1986): 80-83.
• 1985 ìAutobiographical Journey: Can Art Transform Personal and Cultural Loss", Arts Magazine (May 1985): 103-111.
• 1984 ìSoviet Artists Make Open Form an Escape Route in a Closed Society,î Arts Magazine 58, no 6 (February 1984): 115-119.
• 1982 ìClair Falkenstein Completes the Circle,î Arts Magazine 56, no.5 (January 1982): 64-67.
• 1982 ìClaire Driggs,î Womenís Caucus for Art, Awards and Exhibition Catalogue.
• 1981 ìClaire Falkenstein,î Womenís Caucus for Art Awards and Exhibition Catalogue.