ARTEMIS HERBER
Artemis Herber, The Big Graveyard, Charcoal on paper, 2020, 18 x 24 inches
ARTEMIS HERBER
BIOGRAPHY
Baltimore, MD
Germany. 1961
Master of Fine Arts and Art Education (installation and painting) University of Paderborn, NRW, Germany
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Education
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Being of Greek heritage, German-born artist, Artemis Herber has exhibited in US, Germany, UK, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece. Highlights include American University Museum of the Katzen Art Center, Washington DC, Landscape in an Eroded Field, Kunstverein Paderborn, Lost Spaces, Goethe-Institut Washington DC, Cardboard City, Spartanburg Art Museum, (un)common space(s), San Jose Museum of Art, This End Up, National Trust’s Newark Park, Cheltenham Museum, and Albright-Knox Gallery NY, Beyond Western New York.
Selected solo exhibitions include McLean Projects for the Arts, Erratic Landscapes, Arlington Arts Center, Autochthon, Montgomery College, Shifting Identities/Humanity in Nature, Delaplaine Arts Center, Liminal States, Artisphere, Nomans Land, and Kunstverein Paderborn, Thresholds.
Herber engages in International Cultural Relations with NRW KULTURsekretariat. As Transatlantic Cultural Projects curator Herber created Micro-Monuments at the Salzlandmuseum, Germany, and Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, Washington DC, and Micro-Monuments II – Underground, International Arts&Artists at Hillyer, Washington DC. As former president of the Washington Sculptors Group she initiated concepts for Art in Nature and land-use projects. Artemis continuously commits to the re-instatement of the Delphic Games through the material culture program of the Festival of the Muses, 2019 at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC. Currently she engages in the Mnemosyne Initiative, an international collaboration with artists addressing works of memory in times of pain, trauma, isolation in the material and virtual culture of the 21 st Century. Her research upon the Anthropocene embedded in the field of polit-myth and experimental geography has been deepened through residencies at Rensing Center, theCoLAB, London, and Skopelos Foundation of Arts, and Delphi Residency, Greece.
Public Art installations: Munich International Airport, Germany, Public Library Paderborn, Germany, Navy Pier Waterfront in Washington, DC, Patterson Park, Baltimore MD.
Herber is a prize recipient for The National Weather Biennale (Noman, OK) Best in Show Award winner and a Sondheim Semifinalist at MICA, First Prize Award by Maryland Federation of Art at MD Art@College Park MD , Paderborner Kunstpreis, Artist Award, Woldemar Winkler Award, and Dr. Sander-Wietfeld Promotion Award, Kunstverein Paderborn NRW, Germany. Since 2014 she has been granted Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
Her work has been featured in various publications such as Mapping Meaning Journal, LandEscape Now!, Studio Visit Magazine, Art Ascent Art & Literature Journal, One Hundred Days by Contaminate, NYC and in an Artist Interview Series through the Linus Galleries LA, and many more.
SELECTED WORKS
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Sedimentary Time, Catalyst Contemporary, Baltimore MD
2020
Amerant Art Program, Amerant Bank, Miami
2019
Torquere, Sol Taplin Gallery, Miami
Pipe-Lines, Art Nouveau Gallery, Miami
2018
2017
2014
Con-Ductos (Pipe-Lines), Galería Viloria Blanco, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Inoxidables (Stainless), Espacio Monitor, Caracas, Venezuela
Alberto Cavalieri, Brockway Memorial Library, Miami Shores, Florida
Large Scales, Spacetime Projects, Miami
Transfiguraciones (Transfigurations), Galería Viloria Blanco, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Fragmented Knot, Art Nouveau Gallery, Miami
Hierros y Epifanías (Iron and Epiphanies), Galería Freites, Caracas, Venezuela
Descontenciones (Discontentions), Galería D’Museo, Caracas, Venezuela
Estructurales IPN (IPN Structurals), Outdoor Exhibition, Isabel La Católica Square, Caracas, Venezuela
Nada en Concreto (Nothing in Concrete), Galería D’Museo, Caracas, Venezuela
Psique + Acero (Psyche + Steel), Galería UNO, Caracas, Venezuela
2012
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2009
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Sedimentary Time, Catalyst Contemporary, Baltimore MD
For Now, Contemporary Venezuelan Art of the Miami Diaspora, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
El lenguaje del Color (The Language of Color), Espacio Monitor, Caracas, Venezuela
Anti-Readymade, Espacio Monitor, Caracas, Venezuela
Zona Maco, RGR Art Gallery, DF, México
Visión Constructiva (Constructive Vision), Espacio Monitor, Caracas, Venezuela
Big, Espacio Monitor, Caracas, Venezuela
Proposiciones Abstractas (Abstract Propositions), Galería D’Museo, Caracas
Sotheby’s Latin American Art, New York, USA.
Signos Contemporáneos en el Arte Venezolano (Contemporary Signs in Venezuelan Art), Galería La Cometa, Bogotá, Colombia
Houston Fine Art Fair, Evan Lurie, Gallery, Indiana, USA.
Pinta London Art Fair, Art Nouveau Gallery, London, UK.
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2019
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2012