Beverly Mayeri’s figures “evoke a richly complicated human presence.” Her sculptures often “bridge the psychological, the political and the sensuous within one hybrid form.” Beverly Mayeri is a studio artist living in the Bay Area. She earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in sculpture at San Francisco State University. Her work has been shown extensively in numerous museums and galleries, and is included in many public and private collections. She has received 2 NEA grants, and a Virginia Groot grant, and has lectured and taught many workshops throughout the US.

EDUCATION
1967   University of California, Berkeley, B.A.
1976   San Francisco State University, M.A.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009    Four Fired, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2005    Art of Craft in America, Chautauqua Center for Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY
2002    Big Head, Ceramic Sculpture on a Heroic Scale, SSAC, San Antonio, TX
2001    About Face, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
            Figure it Out, A Ceramic Sculpture Invitational, California State University, Chico, CA
2000    Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1999    55th Scripps Ceramic Annual, Scripps College, Claremont, CA

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
            Contemporary Museum of Modern Art, Honolulu, HA
            Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
            Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
            Oregon Collefe of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
            National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
            Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH
            Long Beach Parks and Recreation, Long Beach, CA
            Los Angeles Arts Commission, Los Angeles, CA