2011
2007
2006
2003
2003
1999
1998
1997
1996
1994
1993, 85
1991
1988
1987
1983, 81, 78, 76, 73
1980, 78
1979
1979
1959
Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Galerie 1816, Bretenoux, France
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
Elmhurst Hospital, NYC Health and Hospital Corp, Queens, NY
Krasdale Gallery, NY
Central Queens YM & YWHA, Forest Hills, NY
Westchester Reform Temple, Scarsdale, NY
Lobby Gallery, Sonnenschein, Nath, & Rosenthal, NY
Union of American Hebrew Congregations, NY
John Jay College Art Gallery, CUNY, NY
Queensborough Public Library, NY
Manhasset Library Gallery, LI, NY
Plandome Gallery, LI, NY
Lowenstein Library Gallery, Fordham University, NY
Paul Klapper Library, Queens College, CUNY
Institute of International Education, NYC
Philosophy Hall, Columbia University, NYC
Donnell Library Center, NYC
Museum of Modern Art, Miami, FL
AWARDS
2017
2002
1996
1995
1992
1991
1991, 87
1985
1983
1957
1955, 54
1953, 52, 51
1950, 51
Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, from
Marquis Who’s Who Publications Board
Award, Flushing Council on Culture & the Arts, Flushing, NY
Award, Lever House Gallery, NY
Award, Art Initiatives Gallery, NY
Award, Hutchins Gallery, C.W. Post, NY
Award, Chung-Cheng Art Gallery, St. Johns University, NY
Individual Grant, Artists Space, NY
Show Case Award, Queensborough Public Library, NY
Juror's Award, Small Works Annual, New York University, NY
Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Fulbright Fellowship, Rome, Italy
Scholarships, Art Students League, NYC
Scholarship to School for Art Studies, NYC
COMMISSIONS
2014-15
2012
Language and Cognitive Development Center, MA
Created a portfolio to document five decades of activities in commemoration
of the 50th anniversary of the Center.
Language and Cognitive Development Center, MA
Created a Collage that was made into a poster on the treatment of Autism.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
One Nation, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College, NY
Walt Whitman’s Words, Inspiring Artists Today, Center for Book Arts, NY
A Book is a Book is a Book, Alexander Library, Rutgers University, NJ
Terra in Firma, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College, NY
City of God, Bronze and Light: Jerusalem Between Word and Image,
Yeshiva University Museum, NY
Infinite Blue, Brooklyn Museum, NY
Beautiful & Powerful, Nails in the Wall Gallery at St. Luke’s, Metuchen, NJ
Envisioning Maps, traveling exhibition organized by Hebrew Union College
Jewish Institute of Religion Museum
60 Years of Collecting, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, NY
Talk Talk, Haber Space, Central Booking, NY
Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize, Bank Street Arts, UK
Dig, Haber Space, Central Booking, NY
In an Art World of Fashion, Pristine Artists of Passion, Krasdale Galleries,
White Plains, NY
Musical Notes, NYU Langone Medical Center (HJD), NY
The Illustrated Accordion, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, MI
The Medicine Show, Haber Space, Central Booking, NY
NY Bound, Book Arts Biennial, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Un/Natural Occurrences, Haber Space, Central Booking, NY
5th International Artist Book Exhibition, King St. Stephens Museum, Hungary
The Eye of the Collector, Rosemont College, PA
Handmade/Homemade Exhibit, Pace Univ., Westchester, NY & Musehouse,
Philadelphia, PA
Feminism and the Artist Book, Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY
Tell Me How You REALLY Feel, Center for Book Arts, NY, traveling to
Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
Apocryphal, Traditional, et al, Georgia College Museum, Milledgeville, GA
Time Flies When You’re Having Fun, Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic
University
Women of the Book, The Park School of Baltimore, MD
Never A Day Without A Line, Manhattan Borough President’s Office, NY
Tikkun Olam and the American Left, A Retrospective Inquiry, Krasdale
Galleries, NY
2022-23
2019
2019
2018-19
2017
2017
2017
2016-17
2016
2016
2015
2015
2014-15
2014
2012-13
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2011
2010
2000 - 2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
2007
2007
2007
2006
2006
2006, 00, 94, 87
2006
2005
2005
2005
2005
2004
2003
2003
2003
2002
2002
2002
2002
2001, 00, 99, 97
2001
2000
Art Space Launch Exhibition, Central Booking, Inc. Brooklyn , NY
Show and Bestow, Free Library of Philadelphia, PA
Westchester Jewish Center, Mamaroneck, NY
None of the Above, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Communication and Illusions, Ceres Gallery, NY
Fluxhibition # 3, University of Texas, Arlington, TX
Just In and Out Again, Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
Visual Perspectives, Ceres Gallery, NY
The Eye of the Collector, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
{un}Contained Vessels, Center for Book Arts, NY
Play, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
Singular Objects, Brooklyn College Library, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
Book Structures, Univ. Gallery, Kyoto institute of Technology & Gallery
Terra, Kyoto, Japan
The Eye of the Collector, The Jewish Vision of Sigmund R. Bolka,
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, NY
International Artist’s Book Exhibition, King St. Stephen Museum, Hungary
The Artist and The Book, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
The Gift, Building a Collection for the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Celebrating Artists Members: 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Center
for Book Arts, NY
A Survey of Exhibition History at The Center for Book Arts 1974-2004, NY
Women of the Book, Alper JCC, Miami, Fla., Rutgers University,
Camden, NJ
2004 Artist Member Juried Show, Center for Book Arts, NY
Ceres at 20 Birthday Duet Celebrates Dialogue, Ceres Gallery, NY
Washi in American Artist’s Books, Center for Book Arts, NY
Women of the Book, Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes, Purdue University
Galleries, Lafayette, IN and Starr Gallery, Newton Center, MA
Fine Art And Fine Crafts, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
2002 Members Juried Exhibition, Center for Book Arts, NY
Art of the Book 2002, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
Biennial 2002, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
Women of the Book, Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes, Minnesota Center
for the Book, Minneapolis, MN – Boca Raton & Florida Atlantic University,
FL – Fingood Art Gallery, West Hills, CA – Kutztown Univ. & Sharadin Art
Gallery, PA – Janice Charach Epstein Museum, Detroit, MI – Athenaeum
Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA – Gotthelf Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA
From the Hands of the Maker, Temple Judea Museum, Elkins Park, PA
An Immigrant Experience, Central Queens YM & YWHA, Forest Hills, NY
1990 - 1999
1999, 97, 93
1999
1998
1998, 99
1998
1997
1997
1997
1997
1996
1996
1996
1996
1996
1996
1996
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
1994
1994
1994
1994
1994
1993
1993
1993
1993
1993, 92
1992
1992
1992
1992
1992
1991
1991
1991
1991
1991
1991
1991
1991, 89, 87, 86, 85
1990
1990
1990
Invitational Book Fair, Corocoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
New York, New York, Harper Collins Exhibition Space, NY
Artists of the Graphic Arts Council of NY, Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY
The Art of the Artists Book, Museum of the Instituto de Artes Graficas
de Oaxaca, Mexico, and Bibloteca Mexico, Mexico City
Jews, Women, & Art, B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum,
Washington DC
Today's American Artists, Federal Hall National Memorial Rotunda, NY
Fulbright Artists, Meridian International Center, Washington DC
Invitational, A Survey of Book Arts, Delaware Arts Center Gallery, NY
Death, Dying and Mourning, Ceres Gallery, NY
Book Arts, The Left Bank Gallery, Bennington, VT
Book As Art VIII, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
Small Works Invitational, Blue Mountain Gallery, NY
Full Spectrum, Lever House Lobby Gallery, NY
Voices from the Heart, Harper Collins Exhibition Space, NY
Transforming Tradition, Chinese Culture Institute, Boston, MA
Maximum Capacity, Art Initiatives Gallery, NY
Art from Detritus 2, The Writer's Place, Kansas City, MI and East
Ashland Independent Art Space, Phoenix, AZ
This Day in History, Center For Book Arts, NY
Women's Work, An Open Book, Harper Collins Exhibition Space, NY
Beyond the Page, Brookfield Craft Gallery, Brookfield, CT
(Traveling to) Harper Collins, NY
Jewish Identity, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
Book as Art, NCCC Art Gallery, Niagara Falls, NY
Selected Visions 1, Krasdale Gallery, Bronx, NY
Baker's Dozen, McKillop Gallery, Newport, RI
Reflections of Our Jewish Identity, YM & YWHA, Forest Hills, NY
Showcase Retrospective, Queens Library, NY
Assemblage/Collage, Westbeth Gallery, NY
Invitational, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY
Not By The Book: Artists' Books, Pelham Art Center, NY
Sisters, The College of Staten Island, NY
The Best of the Best, Flushing Council on Culture and Art, NY
Invitationals, AQA Art Center, NY
Metafiction, Kent School Art Gallery, CT
Diversity & Vision, Art Lab, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NY
Ree-Vision, Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hutchins Gallery, CW Post, NY
Cork Gallery, NY
My Vision, Sumner School Museum, Washington, DC
Chung-Cheng Art Gallery, St. Johns University, NY
Undercover, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, VA
International Antiquarium Book Fair, Basel, Switzerland
El Archivero, Museo De Arte, Carrillo Gil, Mexico
Book as Art IV, The National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington DC
The Artist Book, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Center for Book Arts, NY
The Book as Art, Montclair Public Library, NJ
Fulbrighters, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI
New Work - Ted Cronin Gallery, NY
1980 - 1989
1989, 75, 74
1989
1988
1987
1987
1987
1986
1986
1986, 85
1986, 84, 82
1985
1985
1985
1984, 82, 80, 79, 78
1983
1983
1983, 79
1983
1983
1982, 81
1981
1981
Juried Annuals, Queens Museum, NY
Discoveries IV, Flushing Gallery, NY
Books & Book Making, Print Making Council of NJ
Artists' Books USA, American Cultural Center, New Delhi & Bombay, India
Collage & Construction, Temperance Hall Gallery, Bellport, NY
Fulbright Art Exhibit, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Artists Make Books, Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Fulbright Art Exhibit, Smithsonian, Washington, DC & Northern Illinois
University, Dekalb, IL
Book Exhibition, Hand in Hand Gallery, NYC
Works on Paper, Juried Annual, Queensborough Community College, NYC
Collage, Bergen Museum, NJ
The Scroll Unrolls - Janco, DADA Museum, Einhop, Israel
Artworks/Bookworks, Dallas Public Library, TX
The Thirteen Collection, Sotherby Parke Bernet, NYC
44 Artists, Pace University, NYC
Breaking the Bindings, Elvehjem Museum, Madison, WI
Small Works Annual, New York University, NYC
Recent Acquisitions, Franklin Furnace, NYC
Selections II, Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY
Small Works, Key Gallery, NYC
Invitational, Salisbury State College, MD
New Landscapes, The First Women's Bank, NYC
1955 - 1979
1979
1979, 78, 77, 76
1978
1977
1977, 76
1976
1975
1960
1959
1959, 58
1958
1955
Post Card Art, PS 1, Long Island City, NY
Jamaica Art Center, NYC
Arte Fiera 78, Bologna, Italy
The American Council of the Arts, NYC
Artists Choice, SUNY Binghamton, Randolph Macon, VA, Virginia
State University, VA
Fairleigh Dickenson University, NJ
Works on Paper, Brooklyn Museum, NY
Leonard Hutton Gallery, NYC
American Painters, Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, FL
Fulbright Painters, Whitney Museum, NYC, Smithsonian Institute,
Washington, DC
Avante Garde Gallery, NYC
International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
American University, Watkins Collection, Washington, DC
Ancanda Corporation, Butte, MT
Ernst & Young and Company, NY
Automatic Data Processing, NY
Bainbridge Island Museum, Seattle, WA
Baylor University, Waco, TX
Baruch College, CUNY, NY
Bayerische Staats Bibliothek, Munich, Germany
Beth Israel Hospital, NY
Brooklyn Museum Library, NY
Boston National Bank, MA
Bristol-Meyers, NY
Canadian Postal Museum, Ottawa, Canada
Cancer Care, NY
Carleton College, Gould Library, Northfield, MN
Center for Book Arts, NY
Cerritos Public Library, Cerritos, CA
Children’s Literature Museum, Staatsbibliothek, Berlin,
Germany
Chubb Insurance Company, NY
Citicorp, NY
Collage Museum, Forth Worth, TX
Columbia University – Butler Library, New York, NY
Derfner Judaica Museum, Hebrew Home, Riverdale,
Bronx, NY
Delaware Art Museum Wilmington, DE
Duke University, Durham, NC
Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY, New Paltz, NY
Doubleday Book & Music Corporation
El Archivero, Mexico City, Mexico
Elmhurst Hospital Medical Center, Queens, NY
Exxon Corporation, TX
Financial Security Assurance, NY
Fine Arts Academy, New Delhi, India
Florida Atlantic University, Miami, FL
Flux Museum, Fort Worth, TX
FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
First International Bank, ND
Fondzione Origanle, Italy
Franklin Furnace Archive, MOMA, NY
F&W Publications, Cincinnati, OH
George Mason University, VA
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY, NY
Goodkind, Wechtler, Labaton, Rudoff, NY
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Inst. of Religion Museum,
New York, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Fine Art, IN
Jewish Association Service for the Aged, NY
Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
King St. Stephens Museum, Hungary
Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Language and Cognitive Development Center, MA
Loews Corporation, NY
Médiathèque Marguerite Duras, Paris, France
Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art – Watson Library,
New York, NY
Miami Museum of Modern Art, FL
Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NY
Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, MT
Morgan Garanty Trust Company, NY
Museum of the City of New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, NY
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Newark Public Library, NJ
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
New York City Health and Hospital Corp, NY
New York Historical Society, NY
New York Public Library, NY
New York University– Fales Library, New York, NY
North Carolina National Bank, Charlotte, NC
Oberlin College, Clarence Ward Art Library, OH
Ohio State University, Avant Writing Collection, OH
Ohio State University, Thompson Library, Special Collections, OH
Owens Corning Fiberglass, OH
Pace University, Westchester, Pleasantville, NY
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, NY
Pittsburgh National Bank, PA
Prudential Life Insurance Company, NY
Queens College, CUNY, NY
Queens Museum of Art, NY
Rutgers University Library, NJ
Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry, Miami, FL
Salomon Brothers, NY
Smith, Barney, Uphom & Harris, NY
Smithsonian American Art & Portrait Gallery Library,
Washington DC
Telavi State University, Republic of Georgia
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
University of Iowa, Special Collections, Iowa City, IA
University of Miami, Richter Library, Special Collections, FL
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
University of Vermont, VT
University of Virginia Library, VA
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
University of Western Michigan, MI
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Yeshiva University Museum, NY
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, Inc., New York, NY
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Cynthia Sears Collection. BIMA, Seattle, WA
Caroline and Steven Adler, New York, NY
Sigmund and Eleanor Balka, New York, NY
EDUCATION
1989
1983
1954, 55
1951, 53, 54
1950, 51
School for Visual Arts, NYC
Pratt Graphic Center, NYC
Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, Italy
Art Students League, NYC
School for Art Studies, NYC
TEACHING
1989-1999
1993
1991, 92
1958, 59
Alliance of Queens Artists, NY, Instructor - Collage and Painting
Workshops, Brookfield Craft Center, CT
Alliance of Queens Artists, NY, Lecturer - Career Seminars
Museum of Modern Art, NY, Teaching Assistant, Ed. Dept. under
Victor D'Amico
VIDEO
1989
Art a-la Carte: Norma Greenwood interviews Evelyn Eller, Interview
from Queens Public Access Television
FILM
1999
Five of the artist’s paintings appeared in a scene of Joan Micklin Silver’s 1999 film A Fish In The Bathtub.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2000 - PRESENT
2022-23
2021
2019
2018-19
2015, 13
1984-2015
2014
2013, 06, 00, 94, 87
2013, 12
2013
2012
2012
2012
2010
2010
2010
2008
2007
2006
2006
2003
2003
2003
2001
2001
2001
2000
2000
One Nation, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College, NY, catalog
Fulbright Stories, 75th Anniversary Program, catalog
Walt Whitman’s Words, Inspiring Artists Today, Center for Book Arts, NY, catalog
Terra in Firma, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College, NY, catalog
Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize 2015, Bank Street Arts, UK, catalog
Marquis Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who in American Women, Who’s
Who in America
Pristine Artists of Passion, Krasdale Galleries, NY, catalog
International Artist’s Book Exhibition, King St. Stephens Museum, Hungary,
catalog
Central Booking Magazine, NY
500 Handmade Books, Volume 2, Lark Publishers
Tell Me How You Really Feel, Center For Book Arts, catalog
The Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies, Spring 2012/Volume XIV
1000 Artist’s Books, Publisher, Rockport Books
Handmade Books, Publisher, Lark Studio Series
Tikkun Olam and the American Left, A Retrospective Inquiry, Krasdale Galleries,
NY, catalog
Show and Bestow, Ruth Hughes Collection, Oberlin College Library, OH, catalog
Suzanne Tourtillott, 500 Handmade Books, Lark Publishers
{un} Contained Vessels, The Center for Book Arts, NY, catalog
The Eye of The Collector: The Jewish Vision of Sigmund R. Balka, Hebrew
Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, catalog
Artist Has “The Gift”, The Queens Courier, January 11, 2006
Ulises Carrin: Personal Worlds or Cultural Strategies – Artists Books,
Turner Press
The Art of Communication, Krasdale Gallery, NY, catalog
Ori Solties, Fixing the World, Jewish American Painters in the 20th Century,
Brandeis University Press
Shreen LaPlantz, The Art & Craft of Handmade Books, Lark Publishers
Women Of The Book, Florida Atlantic University Libraries, Boca Raton, FL,
catalog
Suzanne Tourtillott, The New Photo Crafts, Lark Publishers
Artist of the Year, American Speech-Language Hearing Assn., Rockville, MD
Four of my collages on the covers of the four quarterly journals
Jason Thompson, Journal Books, Rockport Publishers
1955 - 1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1998
1997
1996
1996
1995
1995
1995
1995, 94
1991
1991
1990
1989
1989
1988
1987
1987
1986
1986
1985
1985
1985
1985
1984
1984, 82, 80, 79, 78
1983
1983
1981
1981
1978
1976
1975
1958
1958
Kristina Feliciano, Making Memory Books By Hand, Rockport Publishers
A Multi-Cultural Collage, Queens Tribune, Jan. 1999
Hilary Larson, The Queens Jewish Week, February 5, 1999
Carl MacGowan, Outings, Newsday, February 7, 1999
Ken Oda, Jews, Women & Art, Art News, Washington DC, March 1998
Fulbright Artists, Meridian International Center, Washington DC, catalog
Lisa J. Curtis, Art, The Insider, NY, March 1996
Book As Art VIII, National Museum Of Women in the Arts, Wash. DC, catalog
Virtuosity, Juried Exhibition CD, Art Communication International CD ROM
This Day in History, Center for Book Arts, NY, catalog
Beyond the Page, Brookfield Craft Center, CT, catalog
Art/Life, Original Limited Edition, Vol. 15 # 1, Feb. '95, and Vol. 13, #10, Nov. '94
Art A-La-Carte, Video Interview on Queens Public Television
B. Ommerman, "Around Town," Newsday, April 7, 1991
Fulbrighters East & West, East-West Center, Hawaii, catalog
The Best of Annual Juried, Queens Museum, catalog
Book Arts Review, No. 27, Summer 1989
R. Rosenbaum, Women Artists News, Spring 1998
Helen Harrison, New York Times, July 12, 1987
Dustan Knight, Artspeak, NY, December 16, 1987
Art/Life, Original Artworks, Vol. 6, No. 6, July 1986
V. Shisko, Finding Your Center of Interest, The Artist's Magazine, April 1986
Caryn Eve Weiner, Closeup, Newsday, January 7, 1985
Joan & John Digby, The Collage Handbook, Themes & Hudson
Collage: The State of the Art, Bergen Museum, catalog
The Scrolls - Unroll, Janco, Dada Museum, Ein-Hop, Israel, catalog
John Shanks, Techniques of Landscape Collage, The Artist's Magazine,
April 1984
The Thirteen Collection, Sotherby Park Bernet, catalogs
Art Preview, Newsday, April 1, 1983
Breaking the Bindings, Elvehjem Museum, WI, catalog
John Shanks, review, Women's Artists News, April, 1981
John Shanks, New Landscapes, Women's Artists News, June, 1981
Reflections on Change, Jamaica Art Center, NY, catalog
Artists Choice, Women in the Arts Foundation, catalog
Works on Paper, Brooklyn Museum, catalog
Fulbright Painters, Smithsonian Institute, catalog
Dore Ashton, Young Painters, New York Times, May 27, 1958