2006 (Oct-Jan -“Entering Ether”, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2006 (Apr) -“Ether Space and Screen Works”, Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA
2003-04 -“From the Garden”, Bellevue Community College Gallery, Bellevue, WA
2003 -“Strange Fruit”, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2002 -“Dream Botanica”, A.N. Bush Gallery, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR
2002 -“Phantasmagoria”, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
2002 -“Strange Fruit”, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
2001 -Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 -Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, OR
1999/2000 -“Un/Natural World”, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
02/96/93/91/88 -Gallery K, Washington DC
1996 -Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma Arts Commission, Tacoma, WA
1996 -Allied Art of Whatcom County, Bellingham, WA
1996 -Foundation Gallery, Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA
1993/91/88 -Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988 -College Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
1984 -“Challenge Exhibition #1”, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
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2005 -Gold Prize, 4th Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju-city, Korea,
2000 -Artist Trust GAP Grant, Sagourda Familia, Gourd Project, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
1999 -Jurors’ Award, Annual NW International Art Comp., Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
1999 -Mary McIntyre-Gorrell Award, NW International Art Comp., Whatcom Museum
1997 -Artist Trust Crafts Fellowship, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
1997 -Jurors’ Award, Annual NW International Art Comp., Whatcom Museum
1995 -Seventeenth Annual Betty Bowen Memorial Award, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1995 -Artist Prize, Annual NW International Art Comp., Whatcom Museum
1991 -Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA
1990 -Sculpture Prize, Contemporary Philadelphia Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1989 -Best of Show, Biennial ’89, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
1989 -Mildred Bougher Prize, Works on Paper, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
1987 -Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA
1985 -Charles Gohn Sculpture Award, Doshi Center for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA
1983 -Alumni Award, most outstanding graduate student in painting, drawing and sculpture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1981 -Best of Show, Bellevue Arts and Craft Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1981 -2nd Place in Sculpture, Northwest Annual, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
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-Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju-City, Korea,
-First National Bank, Columbia, MO
-Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
-Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
-Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
-Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
-Multnomah County, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
-Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
-Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea
-Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes, WA
-Water Department Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
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2006 -Nature’s Matrix, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA
2006 -5TH International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2006 -Basket R/Evolution, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2005 -Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Lieberman Collection, Arizona State
University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ (Catalog)
2005 -A New World View, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2005 -Hide and Reveal, 4th Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju-City, Korea
2005,6 -SOFA NY and Chicago, represented by Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2005 -Material Content: Basketry Sculpture in the 21st Century, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2004 -Looking Forward, Glancing Back: NWDC at Fifty, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA.
Traveling to the Bellevue Art Museum and the Portland Craft Museum (catalog)
2004 -Basket Invitational, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2003 -Cheongju International Craft Biennale “Use”, Cheongju-city, Korea
2003 -CraftHouston 2003: National, Houston Center for Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
2002 -Jellies: Living Art, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA (catalog)
2002 -Annual Basketry Invitational, gallerymateria, Scottsdale, AZ
2002 -NWDC, Centro Cultural Costarricense-Norteamericano, San Jose, Costa Rica
2002 -Fiber Survey 2002, Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA (catalog)
2001 -Evidence of the Body, NWDC, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA
2001 -Primary Colors, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 -2001: A Glass Odyssey, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR
2000 -Future Vision/Art Outside, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
2000 -Miniatures 2000, Helen Drutt Gallery: Philadelphia, travel to: The Museum of Art and Design,
Helsinki, Finland (catalog)
2000 -Fiber In/Form: Materials, Process and Meaning, Pritchard Art Gallery, U. of Idaho
1999 -NWDC Y2K, Governor’s Gallery, Olympia, WA
1999 -Invitational Artist, Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes, WA
1999 -19th Annual NW International Art Competition, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
1998 -20 Philadelphia Artists: Fleisher Challenge, Philadelphia Museum of Art (catalog)
1998 -20x12: A Generation of Challenge Artists, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
1997 -17th Annual NW International Art Competition, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
1996 -Recent NW Acquisitions, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1995 -Fiber ’95, Textile Arts Centre, Chicago, IL
1994 -Fire and Ice, Clymer Art Museum and Gallery, Ellensburg, WA
1994 -Sculpture ’94, Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
1994 -Rutgers National, ’94 Works on Paper, Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, NJ (catalog)
1993 -Sculpture, Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1993 -Forever Emerging, Chester Springs Studio, Chester Springs, PA
1992 -Process to Presence: Issues in Sculpture 1960-90, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992 -Hard Choices/Just Rewards II, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Lorretto, PA
1991 -Tribute to Diane Itter, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991 -Biennial ’91, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
1991 -Philadelphia Art Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (catalog)
1990 -Contemporary Philadelphia Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art, (catalog)
1990 -Rutgers National ’90, Works on Paper, Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, NJ (catalog)
1990 -Expanding Traditions, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
1989 -Contemporary Fibers, Moreau Galleries, Saint Mary’s College, South Bend, IN
1989 -Biennial ’89, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
1989 -Back to the Wall, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA (catalog)
1989 -Landscapes of Thought, Momenta Art Alternatives, Philadelphia, PA (catalog)
1989 -Works on Paper, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
1988 -About Fiber, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
1988 -Natural Transformations, Art in General, NY, NY
1988 -Ten Times Twelve, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
1988 -En Masse/Fiber, Saint Louis Gallery of Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO (catalog)
1988 -Altered Sites, Arboretum at the Horticultural Center, Philadelphia, PA (catalog)
1988 -Sculpture ’88, Washington Square, Washington DC
1987 -Recent Pennsylvania Abstraction, Alleghenies Art Museum, Lorretto, PA
1986 -Fiber R/Evolution, University Museum, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (catalog)
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* 2006, University of Washington Press, Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, Polly Ullrich *Apr 2006, Odyssey Video, Contemporary Fiber Artists Maker Profiles, 52 minute DVD by Graham Eccles and Val Burnett *2006, Lark Books, 500 Baskets: A Celebration of the Basketmaker’s Art, Susan Mowery Kieffer, Editor *2005, Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection, catalogue, ASU Art Museum, *Dec 24, 2004, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Art objects that have some ‘basketry’ woven in, Edward Sozanski *2003, No.19 cover, CRART, Korean Craft and Art magazine *2002, Jellies, Living Art, catalog, Monterey Bay Aquarium *April-May 2002, Survey Fiber, catalog, Snyderman/Works Galleries *Sqajet 2001-2002, Art and Literary Journal, Skagit Valley College *September 19, 2002, Fruits of the Imagination, The Washington Post *May 2001, Glass, Matthew Kangas, The Urban Glass Art Quarterly, #83 *2001, New Glass Review 22, The Corning Museum of Glass *June 2002, Nouvel Objet, Volumn IV *Nov/Dec 2000, Fiber Arts Magazine, Review, Rock Hushka * April 2000, Sculpture Magazine, Review, Jill Conner *Feb 2000, Artweek, Ron Glowen, Lanny Bergner at Whatcom Museum *Jan 27, 2000, Skagit Valley Herald, Samantha Tretheway, Artist Brings the Ordinary to Life *Feb 2000, The Every Other Weekly, Amy Kepferle, Strange Happenings at the Whatcom *Jan 15, 2000, The Everett Herald, Ron Glowen, Stunning Bergner Sculptures Enhanced by Display *Nov 1999, Anacortes American, 21st Century Fiber, Nancy Walbeck *Aug-Sept, 1996, Portfolio, American Craft Magazine *Aug 1996, The Seattle Times, Matthew Kangas, Northwest Treasures *June 28, 1995, Anacortes American, Nancy Walbeck, You Can Go Home Again *Aug12, 1994, Philadelphia City Paper, Robin Rice, Airport ’94 *Sept-Oct 1993, Sculpture Magazine, Sarah Tanguy, District of Columbia Reviews *July 23, 1993, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Edward Sozanski, Familiar Interpretations from Painter, Sculptor in Joint Show *April 3, 1993, The Washington Post, Lee Fleming, Assemblage by Alchemy *March, 1993, New Art Examiner, Miriam Seidel, Review, Locks Gallery. |
1994 - Present -Studio Artist
1986 - 1994 -Gallery Coordinator, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Spring ‘93 & ’94 -Instructor 3D II, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
1989 -Exhibition Designer, “The Uses of Tradition”, Fleisher Art Memorial
1984 - 1986 -Exhibition Designer, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, PA
1983 -Designer/Preparator, National Museum of American Jewish History, -Philadelphia, PA
1978 -1981 -Sculpture Fabricator, Fabrication Specialties Inc, Seattle, WA
1976 -Sculptor Assistant, Philip McCracken, Guemes Island, WA
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