BETTE BLANK
125 Greenwood Ave.
Madison, NJ 07940
973-966-9054
SOLO SHOWS
* ”BETTE BLANK: HOW HIGH THE MOON”, KAPPKAPP Gallery, NY, NY, 2020
* ”LOCAL LIFE,” Chase Gallery, Madison Library, Madison, NJ, 2016
* “ICONS, IDOLS AND TRUE CONFESSIONS,” Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, 2010
* “BETTE BLANK: One Thousand Words,” Anne Reid Gallery, PDS, Princeton, NJ, 2010
* “SEX, SHOES & ROCK ‘N ROLL,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY 2009/2010
* “BETTE BLANK” Atrium Gallery, Morristown, NJ, 2009
* “BETTE BLANK: DAILY MIRROR,” Gallery Schlesinger, NY, NY, 2005
* “BETTE’S WORLD,” The Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, DC, 2003
* “BETTE BLANK: BY HEART,@ Pierro Gallery, Baird Center, South Orange, NJ, 2003
* “WHAT I HAVE SEEN,@ New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, 2000
COLLECTIONS
* The Jewish Museum, NY, NY * The Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
* The Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, * The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ,
* The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ, * Newark Public Library, Print Collection, Newark , NJ
* Numerous private collections * Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
ART SHOWS and AWARDS
*”EVERYDAY OBJECTS’ Studio Montclair Gallery, Montclair, NJ, 2019
*”STATE OF THE ART 2019,” Studio Montclair Gallery, Montclair, NJ 2019
*”CCA, MEMBERS SHOW,” Bedminster, NJ, 2019
*“WORDS IN PICTURES,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, 2019
*”THE COMIC INFLUENCE, ” Center for Contemporary Art ,Bernardsville, NJ 2018
*”TAKE TWO,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, 2018
*”SIGNATURE ARTIST SHOW, ” The Noyes Museum, Stockton, NJ 2018
*” 20/20” Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ, 2017
*”SIGNATURE ARTIST SHOW, ” The Noyes Museum, Stockton, NJ 2017
*”(SOME)BODY,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, 2017
*”IN A SERIES,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, 2016
*”NJ FINE ARTS ANNUAL 2016” The Noyes Museum, Stockton, NJ 2016
*”ART BOOTH,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, 2016
*”THE MILLINARS TALE,” Museum of Early Trades and Crafts, Madison, NJ 2016
*”ART CONNECTIONS 12, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 2016
*”FIGURE/GROUND,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY 2016
*”Trains, Planes and Automobiles,” Monmouth Museum, Lincroft NJ, 2015
*”Members Show,” Hunterdon Museum, Clinton NJ 2015
*”FORCE OF NATURE,” Carl Drerurp Gallery, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, 2015
*"HEADSTRONG,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY 2015
*“MARKING TIME,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY 2015
*“BIG/SMALL SHOW,” Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ 2015
*“READY OR NOT: NEW JERSEY ARTS ANNUAL” The Newark Museum, Newark, N.J. 2014
*“FIRST 20 YEARS, SELECTIONS” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, 2014
*“A MOVABLE FEAST,” Theresa Mahoney Gallery, College of St. Elisabeth, Convent Station, NJ 2014
*”PAPER WORK” Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ, 2014
*”HUMO(U)R,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, Nov. 2013
*”ART W, Salon #9, Institute for Women and Art, Bette Blank lecture with Curator at Zimmerli Museum,
“Domesticity in the Art of Women, Then and Now,” New York, NY, 2013
*”PERSONA,” Theresa Mahoney Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, NJ 2013
*”LOCATIONS,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, 2012
*”HOLY LIVES,” Theresa Mahoney Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, NJ 2012
*”INTERIORS,” Studio Montclair, Montclair NJ, 2012
*”ALL IN LINE,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, July, 2012
*”FACE TO FACE,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, May, 2012
*”FICTION/NONFICTION,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, 2012
*”ALICE: Into the Looking Glass,” The Noyes Museum of Art Oceanville, NJ, 2012
*”DRAWN,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY 2011
*“EX LIBRIS,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY 2011
*”ECCENTRIC PORTRAITS,” Byrdcliffe, Kleinert James Art Center, Woodstock, NY 2011
*”WATER, WATER, ANYWHERE,” Theresa Mahoney Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, NJ 2011
*“IT’S A STRANGE WORLD,” Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, Mass. 2011
*"BRODSKY CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE PRINT AND PAPER, ANNUAL EXHIBIT, 2010
*"NJ PRINT AND PAPER FELLOWSHIP, BRODSKY CENTER, Rutgers, NJ, 2009
*”TOXIC ASSETS” Gallery Schlesinger, NY, NY, 2009
*”LOCAL LIFE” NJ Fine Arts Annual 2009, Morris Museum, 2009
*”ABOUT FACE” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, 2009
*“ART MIAMI” Dec. 2008, & “ART PALM BEACH 3,” 2009, Andrea Meislin Gallery, NY, NY
*“SIGNATURE ARTIST EXHIBIT,” The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
*“ROAD WORKS,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, 2008
*“A MATTER OF TIME,” Andrea Meislin Gallery, NYC, 2008
*“TEXT MESSAGES,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, NY, 2007
*“STATE OF THE ARTS” NJN Public Television, featured Bette Blank Interview, 2007
*”2007 NJ FINE ARTS ANNUAL,” The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, 2007
*“BLANK CANVAS,@ Center of Visual Arts of NJ, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
*“CULTURE & CONTINUITY, @The Jewish Museum, NY, 2006, 2007
*“INNER REALITIES, Paintings from the Collection,@The Jewish Museum, NY, 2005
*“6th National Juried Exhibition,” Ceres Gallery, NYC, Juror: Feresteh Daftari, Assistant Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MOMA, NYC, 2004
*ANO SHOW,@ Gallery Schlesinger, NY, NY, 2004
*ARENEWAL,@ Case Museum, Jersey City, NJ, 2004
*ASYNOPSIS@10,@ Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ, 2004
*“FIRST PERSON,@ Gallery Schlesinger, 24 E. 73 St. NY, NY, 2003
*“UNRELENTING STANDARDS,@ Gallery Schlesinger, 24 E.73 St. NY, NY, 2003
* Annual Juried Exhibition,” Pleiades Gallery, 2003, Juror: Anne Umland, Curator, MOMA, NY
*“OUTSIDER INSIDER,@ (three artists) Gallery Schlesinger, 24 E.73 St.. NY, NY, 2002
* National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, archives of women artists, 2006
*“International Juried Show,” New Jersey Center of Visual Arts, 2003, Award in Oil Painting, Juror: Anne
Umland, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MOMA, NY
* New Jersey Center of Visual Arts, First Prize in Oils 1972, Merit Award 2001, 2002
EDUCATION
* Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Mass * Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
* Brooklyn Museum School of Art * Alfred University College of Ceramics, BS, MS
* Newark Museum School of Art * New Jersey Center for Visual Arts (NJCVA)
* Woodstock School of Art, * U.C. Berkeley, PhD Engineering