Resume
| BORN EDUCATION SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selected) |
2008 2004 2003 2002 2001-2002 2000-2001 2000 1998 1997 1996 1995 1993 1991 1990 1988 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1974 1972 1970 1969 1967 1964 |
New York, New York Art Center School of Design, Los Angeles, CA; U.C.L.A. West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, Arizona LA Artcore Brewery Annex, (tandem solo), Los Angeles, CA Marshall Gallery, (tandem solo), Scottsdale, AZ, 2003 Art at El Paseo Square Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, (tandem solo) LA Artcore Center, Los Angeles, CA Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Buffalo, New York Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Santa Barbara, CA University of Judaism, “Natura Naturata, Los Angeles, CA (tandem solo) A Shenere Velt Gallery,Workmen’s Circle “Homeless”, Los Angeles, CA Mary Paxon Gallery, “No Place To Go", City of Norwalk, CA LA Artcore Center, “Recent Landscapes", Los Angeles, CA Heritage Gallery, "Summer Landscapes" (tandem solo) CA "No Place To Go", Senior Eye Gallery, Long Beach, CA, 1980, 1978 University of Fairfield, "No Place To Go", Fairfield, Connecticut L.A. Artcore Brewery Annex, (tandem solo), Los Angeles, CA Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1979, 1970, 1968, 1966, 1964 University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA (tandem solo) Adelle M. Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 1986 (tandem solo) West Los Angeles City Hall Gallery, Los Angeles, CA L.A. Festival, Granada Building, Los Angeles, CA Jewish Federation Galleries, Los Angeles, CA "Home Sweet Home" Exhibit International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA Design West, Los Angeles, CA (tandem solo) Faces of the Homeless, Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA Paintings of the Homeless, Bridge Gallery, City Hall, Los Angeles, CA Moosart Gallery, Miami, Florida Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1982 Riverside Art Center and Museum, Riverside, CA Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, CA Museum of North Orange County, Fullerton, CA Challis Galleries, Laguna Beach, CA Comara Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Konstsalongen Kavaletten, Uppsala, Sweden, 1972 Sodertalje Konsthall, Jarnagatan, Sweden Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Santa Monica Library, Santa Monica, CA Little Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected) | 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2001 2000 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994-95 1994 1992 1991 1990 1989 1987 1986 1985 1984 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1974 1973 1970 1968 1967 1966 1960 |
Hebrew Union College, New York, NY, “The LA Story” (9 artists) International Exchange Show: Crosscurrent, LA Artcore and Brewery Annex, CA Valley Inst. of Visual Art, “Women of a Certain Age” 6 women artists (part of Celebration of the Achievement of Women Artists) West Valley Art Museum, “Arizona Treasures”, Surprise, AZ Costello/Childs Contemporary, Inaugural Exhibit, Phoenix, AZ UCLA and USC Hillel Galleries, “Makor/Source” Jewish Artists Initiative, CA Kitakyushu Municipal Museum, Kitakyushu, Japan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, “Passion/Passover” Los Angeles, CA Santa Monica Museum, “Incognito”, Santa Monica, CA Finegood Art Gallery, “Nature”, Jewish Fed. Valley Alliance, West Hills, CA Los Angeles World Airports Exhibit “How To Look At Art” Ontario Airport, CA Jewish Federation, “Too Jewish, Not Jewish Enough”, Los Angeles, CA LA Artcore International Exchange Exhibition, “Crosscurrents”, Los Angeles, CA Orlando Gallery, “Femme, Female, Feminism”, So CA Womens’ Caucus , Encino, CA Fukuoka Prefectural Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Kitakyushu Municipal Museum, Kitakyushu, Japan Four Perspectives, Double Vision Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Second International Contemporary Art Fair, BGH Gallery, Palm Springs, CA “Eight From Costa Rica”, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA 4th Los Angeles International Art Festival, Palm Desert, CA, 50th Anniversary of Israel, Arnold Ashkenazy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 4th Los Angeles International Art Festival, Los Angeles, CA University of Judaism, Platt Gallery, Fine Arts Council, Los Angeles, CA West '96 Art & The Law, West Publishing Co. 1 year travel U.S. 1993,'91, '84 Huntington Beach Arts Center, Inaugural Exhibit, "Communities, CA LA Artcore, "Inscapes/Landscapes", 7 artists, Los Angeles, CA Jewish Artists of Southern CA, Wilshire Blvd Temple, Los Angeles, CA, 1992 Women of the Bible, Biblical Art Center, Dallas, TX Purim Mask Invitational, Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, 1991 Questions of Concern, Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA (four artists) SC/WCA “Forbidden Language, Beauty & Culture”, U.S.C., CA California Realism John Wayne Airport Terminal, Costa Mesa, CA Permanent Collection, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA Hunger 1990's, Square House Museum, Panhandle, TX (3 yr travel U.S. Long Beach Museum Rental Gallery, Flowers Exhibition, (9 artists) CA Vital Images, Finegood Art Gallery, West Hills, CA National Women Artists Centennial Celebration, Travel Exhibition, India Muliebritas, 8 Women Artists,Boritzer/Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca Reality is Not a Pretty Picture, Long Beach Art Association GAllery, CA Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA Homes-Homeless Exhibit Miller Gallery, Palm Desert, CA (four painters), 1988 Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA 1987 American Watercolors, Chateau de Tours, Tours, France L.A. Spectrum (five artists) Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA California Romantics, Brand Library, Glendale, CA There's No Place Like Home, SPARC, Venice, CA Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Sedona, Arizona Gentlemen's Choice Exhibit, Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA Five Fine Painters, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA Expose V111, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Rental Gallery) CA American Watercolors, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan Harcourts Contemporary, San Francisco, CA The Spiritual in Contemporary Art, Thinking Eye Gallery, CA Flower Imagery in Art, Downey Art Museum, Downey, CA Time Out Sport and Leisure in America Today, Tampa Museum, Florida Brea Civic and Cultural Center, Human Interest Exhibit, Brea, CA National Watercolor Invitational, Zaner Gallery, Rochester, New York Palm Springs Desert Museum, L.A./9, Los Angeles, CA L.A. As Seen By L.A. Artists, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Woman's Building, L.A./9, Los Angeles, CA Boise State University Gallery, L.A./9 Boise, Idaho American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, 1977 100 Current Directions of Southern CA Art, Los Angeles, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA California Hawaii Bicentennial, San Diego, CA San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, 1966, 1965, 1963 Women Painters East West, Pacificulture Museum, Pasadena, CA New Grafton Gallery, London, England, 1972 San Francisco Museum of Art, National Drawing Exhibition, CA 25 CA Women of Art, Lytton Center of Visual Arts, Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA, 1964 Long Beach Museum Annuals, Long Beach, CA 1963, 1962 Frye Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1965 Purdue University, Indiana Los Angeles County Museum Annual, Los Angeles, CA |
| AWARDS AND HONORS (Selected) | 1999 1996 1995 1993-94 1989 1988 1985 1980 1979 1977 1976 1974 1969 1966 1964 |
Fellowship for The Julia and David White Art Colony, Costa Rica West '96 Art and the Law, Purchase Awards, 1996, '93, '91 West Publishing Co. National Watercolor Society Juried Membership Annual, $500.00 Cash Award Bravo Award Nominee, Achievements in the Arts, 1991-1992 Documentary Video "Not In My Neighborhood", Producer, Iraj Shadaram California Community Foundation, Brody Arts Fund Fellowship Award JTN-Pixtion Production, Community, L.A., "The Homeless" "Trouble in Paradise" Documentary Video by Gary Glazer, featuring Pat Berger's "Homeless Series" paintings, received Emmy award NBC-TV, Channel 4 special by Laurel Erickson on PAT BERGER and her work of "Tent City and the Homeless" Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society, Lifetime Member Art Showcases Award, Brand XV, Printmakers of Southern California Watercolor U.S.A. Purchase and Patron Awards, 1977, 1965 National Watercolor Society Annual, Purchase Award San Diego National Watercolor Society Annual, Jurors Award Los Angeles All City Annual, Barnsdall Park, Purchase Award, 1969 HM 1967 National Watercolor Society, Lifetime Honorary Member, past president La Mirada Fiesta De Artes, California, Purchase Award All California San Diego Guild, Purchase Award Ford Foundation, Purchase Award |
| PUBLICATIONS AND REFERENCES (Selected) | 2007 2005 2004 2001 2000 1999 1997 1996 1995 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1974 1973 1969 1968 1964 |
Catalog for “The LA Story” Hebrew Union College, New York, curator Laura Kruger, essay by Matthew Baigell Art Scene, “Women of a Certain Age” by Bill Laserow, cover, write-up and Artscene Visual Radio, January JEWISH ART IN AMERICA by Matthew Baigell, published by Rowman & Littlefield Catalog for “Passion/Passover” by Gordon Fuglie, exhibit at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, “Artists of Faith Interpret Holy Days LA Weekly, Best Bet by Peter Frank, September Santa Barbara News-Press, January 20, Art and action on the street, Art review by Josef Woodard Santa Barbara Independent, November 23, Best Bet Art, Assia Mortensen Valley Life, Los Angeles Times, July 28, Josef Woodard, Art and Nature Entwined The Tico Times, Costa Rica, August 6, by Susan Hall Liang Los Angeles International Art Festival 1997, Catalog (Lantern of the East) Senior Eye Gallery, "No Place To Go", brochure essay, Shirle Gottlieb THE BEST OF WATERCOLOR 2, Schlemm & Webster, Rockport Publishers THE BEST OF WATERCOLOR, PAINTING LIGHT & SHADOW, Rockport Publishers, Schlemm/Doherty Connecticut Post, "Artist With a Cause" Phyllis Boros, Jan.14 Fairfield Citizen News, "No Place To Go, Homeless in America" Jan 17 Fairfield Minuteman, "No Place To Go", Meredith Guinness, Jan 4 THE BEST OF WATERCOLOR, Schlemm & Nicholas, Rockport Press Pub. The Evansville Press, Sandra Knipe, Jan 26, 1995, Evansville, IN Who's Who In America, 49th Edition, Marquis Who's Who Who's Who In The West, 25th Edition, Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 21st Edition, R.R. Bowker, 1986 AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, Politics and Political Culture, West Publ. Co. DRAMATIZE YOUR PAINTINGS WITH TONAL VALUES, Carole Katchen, Northlight Publishing Company (featured artist) Visions Magazine, Fall 1993, Profile Story by J.S.M. Willette WATERCOLOR SCHOOL, Hazel Harrison, Quarto Pub. Reader Digest Book The Jewish Journal, A Passover Exhibition, 5 artists, April 9-15 West '93 Art and The Law, West Publishing Co., Catalog Santa Monica Outlook, Art and the Law Exhibit, Loyola Law School, Oct 22 Heritage Newspaper, Rabbi Wm Kramer, Dec 13 The Desert Sun, Joe Myer, Aug 16 The Artist's Magazine, "Generating Energy in Acrylics", C Katchen, Aug. West '91 Art and the Law, West Publishing Co., Catalog Gavel, Bi Monthly Magazine, State Bar Association North Dakota (Cover) Tikkun, Bimonthly Jewish Critique, reproduction, July/August Who's Who in the West, 23rd Edition, 1986 Vital Images Exhibition, So CA Women's Caucus for the Arts, Catalog Hunger 1990's: Not By Bread Alone, Square House Museum Panhandle, Texas, Educational Video and Catalog Volume II Premier Edition International Catalog of Contemporary Art B'nai B'rith Calendar, Jewish Women Artists American Album, compiled by Ellouise Schoettler, Archives National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Los Angeles Times, Reality is Not a Pretty Picture, Shauna Snow Hebrew University, Skirball Museum Fall Calendar International Database of Contemporary Art California Art Review, American References Publishing Co EXPLORING PAINTING, Brommer & Kinne, Davis Publications Woman's Building, Anniversary Edition, Fifteen Years and Growing The Jewish Journal, Homeless on Purpose, Leo Noonan THE CALIFORNIA ROMANTICS, Harbingers of Watercolorism, R. Perine The Reader, Critic's Choice, Marge Bulmer, May 30 Downtown News, Suzanne Lummis, June 14 Artweek, Marge Bulmer, June 14 Downtown News, Suzanne Lummis, The Spiritual in Contemporary Art The Miami Herald, May 16, 1985, Best Bet, Calendar American Watercolor, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, Catalog Brand XV Catalog, Graphic Prints Time Out Sport and Leisure in America Today, Catalog, Tampa Mus FL West '84 Art and the Law, West Publishing Co Catalog, 1983 Los Angeles Times, Robert Pincus Light, Illusion and Reality, Riverside Art Center Exhibit, Hazel Simon, Press-Enterprise Los Angeles Times, Olympic Mural, Central Adult High School, R Pincus The Register, Roger Lewis Zaner Gallery, New York, Watercolor Catalog Palm Springs Desert Museum, Catalog L.A./9 Exhibit Art Voices South Magazine, July-August, Betje Howell Palm Springs Life Magazine, November, 1970, December Evening Outlook, 1979, 1965, Betje Howell Artweek, L.A./9, Neil Menzies Los Angeles Times, 1974, 1970, 1968, 1966, William Wilson Residential Interiors Magazine, January-February Hollywood Daily News, November, Curt Opliger Israel Today, November-December Geraldine Sides Los Angeles Free Press, Alex Apostolides OIL PAINTING, TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS, Joseph Mugnaini Citizen News, Jeanne Good Los Angeles Times, Constance Perkins |
| ORGANIZATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS | L.A. Artcore, former Vice Pres., Board of Directors, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Unified School District, Instructor Painting and Drawing, (1971-2003) Watercolor USA Honor Society, Member, Past Board Officer National Watercolor Society Life Member, Past President Fine Arts Council, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA Jewish Artists’ Initiative of Southern California |
| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (Selected) | The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Buffalo, New York (12 paintings, Homeless Series, in permanent gallery space of their own) The West Collection, University of Minneapolis Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota The Julia and David White Artists’ Colony, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri West Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota Polk County Bank, Bolivar, Missouri Downey Museum of Art, Downey CA Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Ahmanson Collection, Home Savings and Loan Assoc, Los Angeles, CA Sodertalje Konsthall, Sweden City of La Mirada Collection, La Mirada, CA Gibson, Dunn and Krutcher, Law Firm, Los Angeles, CA Commodore Savings Association, Dallas, Texas Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg, Tunney and Phillips, Law Firm, Los Angeles, CA Arquetectonica, Miami, Florida Gibraltar Savings & Loan Assoc. Headquarters, Simi Valley, CA Telephone Employees Credit Union, Pasadena, CA Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, Missouri Transamerica Insurance Company, Los Angeles, CA Pacific Bell, Executive Floor, Los Angeles, CA Denver Catholic Register, Denver, Colorado Palmcrest House, Long Beach, CA Eastern Columbia Properties, Alan Sieroty, Los Angeles, CA Comtech Financial Corporation, Century City, CA Harbor UCLA Medical Foundation, Torrance, CA Hotel Lansdowne, Executive Conference Center, Washington, D.C. Century Hill Associates, Century City, CA Port of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA Kindel & Anderson Law Firm, Los Angeles, CA Ziffren, Brittenham & Branca Law Firm, Los Angeles, CA Big Horn Country Club, Palm Desert, CA University of California Medical Building, Los Angeles, CA Brandeis Institute, Simi Vallery, CA Northwest Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Pasadena, CA Signet Scientific Company, Los Angeles, CA Zelle, Hofman, Voebel & Gett, Los Angeles, CA Saban Entertainment Center, Los Angeles, CA Download a Word document of Pat Berger's resume |