EDUCATION:

University of Texas at Austin, BA
University of Houston, MA
Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2012 Ten New Paintings, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2011 Present Moment, School of Art and Design, Texas State University San Marcos, TX
2010 Every Day, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2009 Sustain, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2008 Clear, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 New Paintings, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
Life, Still, Cody Center Gallery, Laity Lodge, Kerrville, TX
2006 Recent Paintings, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
2005 Ellen Berman: Staged Settings, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX
2004 Still Life Revisited, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX
Distilling Life, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
Domestic Landscapes, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2003 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2002 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2001 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2000 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
1998 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
1997 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
1996 Painting Sarah: 1984-1994, Texas A & M University, College of Medicine, College Station, TX
1995 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
1993 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
Lost and Found, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
1991 Pictures of Sarah, UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX
1990 Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
1989 The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX (Catalogue)
The Swimmer's Progress, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX (Catalogue)
1988 Goethe Institute, Houston, TX
1987 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
1986 Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
1985 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2011-13 Mona Lisa Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX; ArtPrize, GRAM, Grand Rapids, MI (Catalogue); People's Gallery, Ausin, Texas City Hall
2010 December Group Show, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2009 More Red, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2008 Thrive, Diverse Works, Houston, TX (Catalogue)
Texas Chair Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX (Catalogue)
2007 Revisiting Red, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
City Hall Exhibition, Austin, TX
Capturing a Moment, University of Dallas Haggerty Gallery, Dallas, TX
2006 The Rx Art Ball, New York, NY
Facing the Figure, College of the Mainland Gallery, Texas City, TX
City Hall Exhibition, Austin, TX
2005 City Hall Exhibition, Austin, TX
Color, Pattern, Grid, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
The Rx Art Ball, New York, NY
Something Red, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
2004 Summer Group Exhibition, d berman gallery, Austin, TX
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2003 Something Blue, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
Miniatures, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
2002 Members’ Exhibition (Curated), Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
Invitational Exhibition, Longview Art Museum, Longview, TX
The ART of Being American, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX (Catalogue)
Summer Group Exhibition, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
Group Exhibition, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
Double Take, d berman gallery, Austin, TX.and Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX (Catalogue)
2001 Double Take, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX, Waco Art Center, Waco, TX. (Catalogue)
The Art Show at the Armory, David Findlay Jr. Contemporary Fine Art, New York, NY
Group Exhibition: Ellen Berman, Andre Von Morrisse, Manuel Acosta, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
Summer Group Exhibition, dberman gallery, Austin, TX
Art Ball V, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Masterpieces, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX
2000 PEOPLE - Portraits by Texas Artists, City Gallery at Wells Fargo Plaza, Houston, TX
13 Contemporary Artists: Works on Paper, David Findlay Jr Contemporary Fine Art, New York, NY
Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
Forbidden, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
1999 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
1998 Still Sixteen, Still Life, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
Vocabularies: Paintings by Ellen Berman and Sydney Yeager, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
Images of Man, Stephen F. Austin State University Art Building Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX
1997 Flora Bella, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
1996 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston,TX (catalogue)
Feast For The Eyes, Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria, Austin,TX
1995 Art Journeys, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Critics’ Choice, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, Texas (catalogue)
Houston Small Works for Yekaterinberg Exhibit, The American Center in Yekaterinberg, Russia (traveling exhibition)
1994 Self-Possessed, TFAA, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX
Looking West/Glancing East: New Texas Art, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
1993 City Room Garden, University of Houston College of Architecture, Texas A&M College of Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington, California College of Arts and Crafts
Conventional Forms / Insidious Visions, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
1991 Is There Still Life In The Still Life?, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
Invitational Exhibition, Brookhaven College, Texas
1989 Mid-America Biennial, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (Catalogue)
Texas State Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX (Catalogue)
Island Introductions, Galveston Arts Center
1988 Pindar Gallery, New York, N.Y. Juror: Lowery Sims
Texas State Exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (Catalogue)
31st Annual Chatauqua National Exhibition of American Art, New York
Texas Still Lifes, Galveston, TX
National Women's Caucus for Art Exhibition, San Antonio, TX, Best of Show Award (Catalogue)
1987 The Anatomy of Drawing, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
Pieces: Theatre as Art, Art as Theatre, Stages Theatre, Houston, TX
21st Annual Juried Exhibition, Jewish Community Center of Houston, Juror: Mary Jane Jacob, First Prize, (Catalogue)
East End Exhibition, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX. Juror: Luis Jimenez
Texas Realism 1987, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX. Juror: Betty Moody, Honorable Mention
1986 Sixteenth Annual Work on Paper Exhibition, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Juror: Alfred Leslie
150 Works by Texas Women Artists, Dallas Women's Caucus for Art, Juror: Ann Sutherland Harris, Juror's Choice
The September Competition, The Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, Louisiana, Juror: Henry Hopkins (Catalogue)
New American Talent, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX. Juror: Peter Plagens (Touring)
1985 Texas Realism, Texas Fine Arts Association at St. Edward's University, Austin, TX (Touring)
Texas Visions, Transco Tower, Houston (Catalogue)
Four Emerging Artists, Art League of Houston, Jurors: Dick Wray and Robert Bourdon (Catalogue)
20th Annual Juried Exhibition, Jewish Community Center of Houston, Juror: Henry Hopkins (Catalogue)
National Drawing and Printmaking Exhibition, College of the Mainland,Texas City, Texas, Juror: Pat Stier
1984 18th Annual Juried Exhibition, Jewish Community Center of Houston, Juror: John Russell, Honorable Mention

AWARDS, GUEST ARTIST APPOINTMENTS, PANEL MEMBERSHIPS
AND LECTURES (Selected):

2007 Artist in Residence, Laity Lodge, Kerrville, TX
Guest Speaker, Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Dallas, TX
2006 Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome
U.S. Art in Embassies Program – Zimbabwe
Guest Speaker, Women in the Visual and Literary Arts, Houston, TX
2005 Artists Panel Member, Conversations on Collecting, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2003 Panel Member, Discussion of Exhibit Pertaining to Painting, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Panel Member, The Business of Art, AVAA and Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
1998 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Dennison University Art Dept., Granville, Ohio
1996 Guest Speaker, Leadership in Medicine Program, Texas A & M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, College Station, TX
1995 Guest Speaker, Compassion and the Art of Medicine Series. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Visiting Faculty, Health Care and the Arts, UT Houston Medical School
Guest Speaker, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
1993 Guest Speaker, Society for Health and Human Values National Meeting, University of TX Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
Guest Lecturer, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
1991 Visiting Artist (Lecture and Workshop). University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO
Guest Speaker, Compassion and the Art of Medicine Series. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Guest Speaker, The Council for the Visual and Performing Arts Series. UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX
1990 Guest Speaker, Compassion and the Art of Medicine Series. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
1988 National Endowment for the Arts/Mid-America Arts Alliance Fellowship Award

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

“Out of the Ordinary,” Ellen Berman, Blue Rock Review, vol. 3: Seeing, 2008.
“Northward Exposure,” Tribeza Magazine, November, 2006.
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Mitchell, Charles Dee. “Wall to Wall Party” (Review), Dallas Morning News, June 1, 2004.
Daniel, Mike. “’20th Anniversary Exhibition’ at Conduit, Dallas Morning News, June 11, 2004.
Nye, Naomi Shahib, compiler. Is This Forever, Or What? Poems and Paintings from Texas, Greenwillow
Books, 2004.
Kalil, Susie. Essay for Double Take catalogue, 2002.
Cosgrove, Charlotte. Essay for Double Take catalogue, 2002.
“A Pear Primer” (image), Houston Chronicle, March 13, 2002.
Johnson, Patricia. “Intimacy permeates Double Take,” Houston Chronicle, February 9, 2001.
Johnson, Patricia. “Stretching the Frame,” Houston Chronicle, Sect.D, Tuesday, November 10, 1998.
Marshall, Cari. “Vocabularies [ult < L. Vocare, to Call] Vocation: Eating Apples Walking Through a Rainbow.” The Austin Chronicle, June 12, 1998.
Schade, Christopher. “The heart of the matter,” Austin American Statesman, C9, Saturday, June 27, 1998.
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Johnson, Patricia. “Garden of Paint,” Houston Chronicle, Sec. D, Tues., Feb. 25, 1997.
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Selected Collections:

Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX.
Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX.
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX.