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BIOGRAPHY
Paula Scher is an artist and designer based
in New York.
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Education
Tyler School of Art, BFA Corcoran College of Art and Design, Doctor of Fine Arts
Honoris
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Selected
Solo Exhibitions
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| 2005 |
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“The
Maps: Recent Paintings,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY
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| 2005 |
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“Collection
d’Affiches les Silos, la Maison du Livre et de l’Affiche,” Chaumont,
France
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| 2002 |
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“The
Master Series: Paula Scher,” Visual Arts Museum at the School of Visual
Arts, New York
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| 2002 |
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“Paula
Scher,” Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
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| 1999 |
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“Type
Is Image,” DDD Gallery, Osaka, JapanSelected
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Selected
Group Shows
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| 2006 |
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“The
Daily News,” Boise Art Museum,
in Boise, ID
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| 2005 |
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“Noires-Noirs/The
Black Show,” Bleu Acier Gallery, Tampa, FL
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| 2005 |
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“Community
of Artists: 50 Years of The Public Theater,” The New York Public Library
for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
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| 2005 |
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“Design
of Dissent,” Visual Arts Museum at the School of Visual Arts, New York,
NY
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| 2005 |
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“Repetitions,”
Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY
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| 2005 |
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“The
Daily News,” Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
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| 2004 |
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“The
Daily News,” Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center, Casper, WY
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| 2004 |
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“Ballpoint,”
The Gallery at Pentagram, London
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| 2004 |
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“Pentagram:
A World of Typography,” Klingspor-Museum Offenbach, Offenbach am Main, Germany
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| 2004 |
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“Graphic
Design of Three Continents,” Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
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| 2004 |
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“National
Design Triennial: Inside Design Now,” Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum,
New York, NY
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| 2002 |
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“What Is Design Today?”
The Design Center at Philadelphia University, PA
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| 2002 |
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“US Design,”
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
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| 2002 |
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“US Design 1975-2000,”
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
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| 2002 |
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“US Design 1975-2000,”
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
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| 2001 |
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“Women Designers
in the USA, 1900- 2000: Diversity and Difference,” Bard Graduate Center
for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, NY
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| 2000 |
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“Graphistes Autour
du Monde (Graphic Artists Around the World),” Mois du Graphisme d’Échirolles,
France
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| 1998 |
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“Unrolled: Great
American Poster Design 1980-1998,” Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University,
Buffalo, NY
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| 1997 |
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“Mixing Messages:
Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture,” Cooper- Hewitt, National Design
Museum, New York, NY
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Selected
Awards
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| 2001 |
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Medalist, American Institute
of Graphic Arts
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| 2001 |
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Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris
Causa, Corcoran College of Art and Design
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| 2000 |
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Chrysler Award for Innovation
in Design
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| 1998 |
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Art Directors Club Hall
of Fame
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Public
Collections
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Bibliothèque
Nationale de France, Paris
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
Denver Art Museum
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Klingspor-Museum Offenbach, Offenbach am Main, Switzerland
Les Silos, la Maison du Livre et de l’Affiche, Chaumont, France
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Musée de la Poste, Paris
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Die Neue Sammlung Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Munich
Plakatmuseum am Niederrhein, Emmerich, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtThe Public Theater, New York
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Private
Collections
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John
C. Waddell
The Merrill C. Berman Collection
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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Books,
As Author or Co-Author
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Scher,
Paula. Make It Bigger. New York: Princeton
Architectural Press, 2002. US paperback edition to be published Fall, 2005.
Pentagram Partners, eds.
Pentagram Book Five. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1999.
Gibbs, David, ed. Pentagram:
The Compendium.
London: Phaidon Press, 1993. Collection of essays, work and commentary by the
Pentagram partners, including several contributions from Scher.
Scher, Paula. The Graphic
Design Portfolio: How to Make a Good One. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1992.
A step-by-step guide to building a marketable self-presentation, with examples
from graduate-level students from the School of Visual Arts.
Scher, Paula. The Honeymoon
Book. New York: M. Evans & Co., 1981. “A Tribute to the Last Ritual
of Sexual Innocence.
”Scher, Paula and
Stan Mack. The Brownstone. New York: Pantheon Books, 1973. A children’s
storybook.
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Articles,
As Author
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“5x5=25.”
Creative Review (London) March 2005, pp. 78-79
“All the News That
Fits.” PRINT (New York) January/February 2004. pp. 45-53
“Answers to Authorship.”
Creative Review (London) March 2001, pp. 31
“Defective Equipment:
The Palm Beach County Ballot.” The New York Times, November
11, 2000, p. A27
“The Devaluation
of Design by the Design Community.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New
York) Vol. 11, No. 4, 1993, pp. 3-5“The Boat.” PRINT (New York) March/April
1993, pp. 113-114
“Over There, You Are
What You Eat: An American
Designer in London Ponders the Pudding.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design
(New York) Vol. 11, No. 1, 1993, p. 6
“Rashomon in the Record
Business.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York) Vol. 7, No.
4, 1990, pp. 11-13
“The Dark in the
Middle of the Stairs.” Graphis (New York) November/December 1989,
p. 19
“The Right Face.”
AIGA Journal of Graphic Design
(New York) Vol. 5, No. 1, 1987
“Back to Show and
Tell.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York) Vol. 4, No. 1,
1986
“Special Graphic
Parody Section.” PRINT (New York) November/December 1985
“Type Loses Face.”
Adweek (New York) 7 October
1985, p. D44
“Back in the USSR,
or That Ukraine Type Really
Knocks Me Out.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York) No. 4,
1983
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