James Biederman

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Wilmington, NC

Year at Millay: 1977

Awards/Honors: Grant Recipient, Covid 19 Relief Fund, Joan Mitchell Foundation New York, NY (2020); Grant Recipient, Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY (2020); Artist-in-Residence, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY (2018); Grant Recipient, Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2017, 1994); Artist-in-Residence, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA (2015); Grant Recipient, The Faculty Research and Development Grant Program, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC (2012, 2011, 2008); Fellow, Fine Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY (2011); Grant Recipient, Painters & Sculptors Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY (2008); Grant Recipient, Artist Support Grants, North Carolina Arts Council (2008); Grant Recipient, Individual Support Grant, Adolph Gottlieb Foundation, New York, NY
(2005); Grant Recipient, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY (2003); Fellow, Painting,
New York Foundation for the Arts (1988); Fellow, Sculpture, Visual Artist's Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts (1982); Fellow, Drawing, Visual Artist's Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts (1979).

Website: https://www.jbiederman.com/

James Biederman was born in 1947 in New York, NY. He received a BA in 1969 from State University of New York in New Paltz, New York, an MFA in Sculpture in 1973 from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and, in 1971, attended the Whitney Independent Studio Program in New York, New York. Biederman has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, including “James Biederman: Sculpture,” Artist Space, New York, New York (1974); “The Virginia Paintings,” Bradford Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia (1999); and at Mattatuck Museum of Art, Waterbury, Connecticut (2016). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including “Recent Acquisitions: Drawings,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (1981); “Peripheral Vision,” Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, New York (2003); and “Embracing Space and Color: Art On and Off the Wall,” Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida (2015). Biederman currently lives and works in Wilmington, North Carolina.