Claire Lieberman

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: New York, NY

Year at Millay: 1982

Awards/Honors: Grant Recipient, The Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ (2024); Grant Recipient, Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY (2024); Grant Recipient, Sculpture, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL (2024); Artist-in-Residence, Visiting Artist Residency, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (2023); Artist-in-Residence, The Louise Bourgeois Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2023); Fellow, Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellowship, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2022); Artist-in-Residence, E2C Residency, Escape to Create, Seaside, FL (2022); Artist-in-Residence, The Arctic Circle Residency, Svalbard Archipelago (2013); Artist-in-Residence, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (2012); Artist-in-Residence, Seaside Institute, Santa Rosa Beach, FL (2007); Artist-in-Residence, VCCA Residency, Sweet Briar, VA (2010, 2009, 2006); Artist-in-Residence, La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseilles, France (2003); Artist-in-Residence, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria (2002); Grant Recipient, Visual Arts Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC (1999).

Website: http://www.clairelieberman.com

Claire Lieberman’s black marble sculpture, prints, and installations explore the relationship between toys and games, and conflict in contemporary culture. She also creates toy guns in glass and video projects using actual Jell-O. Her international exhibitions include: “Im Visier,” Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, Switzerland, “Line of Sight.Lethal Vision,” Mudac Museum, Lausanne, and “Mein lieber Schwan,” (My Dear Swan) at ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany. She has had several shows with Massey Klein Gallery, New York, New York. Her recent publications include Loaded: Guns in Contemporary Art (book), Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, and Sculpture Magazine. Lieberman’s recent awards include a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (2024), a Puffin Foundation grant (2024), American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist (2023), and Yaddo (2023). Lieberman received an MFA from Pratt Institute and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston at Tufts University.