1962 Yale University, Yale/ Norfolk Art Scholarship (Summer)
1963 BFA in Drawing and Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Awarded high Honors
1964 MA in Painting, University of Wisconsin, WI, Vilas Fellowship
1974 MFA, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
1985-2007 Professor of Studio Arts, Department of Art & Design, University of Illinois at Chicago
SELECTED GRANTS
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grand/Crafts
1980 Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant
1981 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant
1983 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant/Painting
1988 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant, Senior Fulbright Scholar-Australia
1993 John Simon Guggenheim Grant
Marie Walsh Sharpe, New York City Studio Grant
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant/Printmaking
1997 The Rockerfeller Foundation Residency/Grant (Bellagio, Italy)
2000 Illinois Project Completion Grant
2003 Institute for the Humanities, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Grants-in-Aid Award
2003 Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, Travel Grant
2004 Artadia Jury Award: The Fund for Art and Dialogue
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1980 Gallerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France
1985 Carnegie-Mellon University, Hewlett Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1986 The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL (mid-career survey)
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY (1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984)
1988 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1992 Dart Gallery, Chicago (1980, 1983, 1985, 1988)
1993 Brody's Gallery, Washington, DC (1987)
1996 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (1994)
1997 Printworks, Chicago, IL( 1992)
1998 The Chicago Cultural Center
1999 Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Carl Hammer Gallery. Chicago, IL
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
2001 Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, IN, "Focus Series: Phyllis Bramson"
2002 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN University Gallerys, "A Thousand Scattered Secret Yearnings"
Ispace, (University of IL/Urbana), Chicago, IL, "A Thousand Secret and Scattered Yearnings"
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
2003 Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago IL, "Seasonal Pleasures Provided By The Comfort of Women"
2004 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY, "Seasonal Pleasures Provided By The Comfort of Women"
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, "When the Body Speaks its Mind"
Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Prints Behaving Badly"
University of Northern Iowa, Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, IA "Body Trouble = The Facts of Life"
2005 "Kitsch-Ching", A Solo Exhibition for Scope New York, New York City, NY
Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York, NY, Selections from "When the Body Speaks its Mind"
2006
Claire Oliver Fine Arts, "The Pleasuring Gardens"
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, "The So Called Progress of Love, Even After"
2007 Grover/ Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA, "A Blink, A Glance and a Stare (Oh My)"
2008 Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO, "Love, Kisses, Tears.... Heartache"
Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY, "Kerfuffles"
