Intended Audience
"I have been creating artist books, including one-of-a kind sculptural works and limited editions, for more than 30 years, using both traditional and non-traditional materials. ... Traditionally, books embody stories. Mine do too, while also expressing the multiple roles thrust on women by culture, the media, and themselves. That my techniques sometimes involve a layered complexity defying easy explication transforms the works into physical representations of the illusion of something under control." -- Miriam Schaer
Miriam Schaer is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. She exhibits extensively in the U.S. and abroad and is represented in numerous collections, including Yale University Museum, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture at Duke University, the Tate Gallery in London, and The Bainbridge Museum outside of Seattle, WA. Her work has earned a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, inclusion in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for the Feminist Art Base at the Brooklyn Museum, and artist residencies in Spain, Estonia, India and Egypt. Her work about societal bias against childless women, Baby (Not) On Board: The Last Prejudice?, has been exhibited by the International Museum of Women. A U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Schaer spent part of 2017 in the Republic of Georgia, where she established the Artist Book Collection at Telavi State University. This spring she has work included in Freed Formats: the book reconsidered, in various locations throughout Connecticut and Hand & I, about embroidery and social practice Dorsky Gallery in Long Island City, NY, curated by Yulia Tikanova. From 2009-2017, she was a Senior Lecturer at Columbia College Chicago in the Interdisciplinary MFA in Book, Paper, Print and Media, and has been a visiting artist at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia, and Faculty of Fine Art, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. Schaer’s essay The Motherhood Imperative: Fertility, Feminism, Art, is included in “Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art,” edited by Elena Marchevska and Valerie Walkerdine, will be published by Routledge in Fall 2019. She is represented by the Central Booking Art Space in New York, and by Vamp and Tramp Booksellers, in Birmingham, Alabama. She is currently serves on the board of The Center for Book Arts in New York.