Miriam Schaer

"Princess Almost Perfect", Artist Book Sculpture with Found Objects

2000

Miriam Schaer is a multidisciplinary book artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her principal work consists of artist books, book-related sculptures and installations, prints, embroideries, photographs and multimedia projects that deal with feminist, cultural and societal issues. She has exhibited steadily, domestically and abroad, for more than three decades. Numerous public and private institutions have acquired her art works, including both the Yale Museum and Yale’s Sterling Library, the Brooklyn Museum, Harvard University, Florida Atlantic University, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture at Duke University, the Tate Gallery in London, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The Bainbridge Museum outside Seattle, the University of California at Los Angeles, San Diego and Irvine and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC Her work has earned a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and representation at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale in South Korea. In 2007, she was artist-in-residence at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. Her series, Babies (Not) On Board: The Last Prejudice?, about societal biases against women without children, was included in the International Museum of Women’s MAMA-Motherhood Around the Globe exhibit in 2012. In 2013, the Soros Foundation supported her work making artist’s books with women’s organizations in the Republic of Georgia. She returned to Georgia in 2017 as a Fulbright Scholar, where she established the Artist Book Collection at Telavi State University. In her first street performance, she participated in Art in Odd Places 2019: Invisible, focusing on older and marginalized artists. www.miriamschaer.com