Bennard Perlman

Bennard Perlman was an American expressionist artist, author and painter, born in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his BFA degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and MA degree from the University of Pittsburgh. For 32 years, Perlman served as professor and chairman of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, at the Community College of Baltimore, where he taught drawing, painting, printmaking and art history. He also taught classes at Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Goucher College in Baltimore, Towson University in Towson and Oxford University in London, England.

As an artist, Perlman has had solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and I.F.A. Galleries. He has also exhibited at the Riverside Art Museum, Kennedy Galleries in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo and numerous other prestigious venues. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Academy Art Museum, the Library of Congress, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona.