Lisa Pressman

Visual Artist

West Orange, NJ

www.lisapressman.net | @lisapressmanart

lisapressmanart@gmail.com | 973-943-8674

Education

MFA, Painting, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1983

BA, Fine Arts (Ceramics and Sculpture), Douglass College Rutgers University, New Brunswick,

NJ, 1979

Solo Exhibitions

2026 — Solo Project Space, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ

2025 — UpMarket Gallery, Asheville, NC

2024 — Gallery Jupiter, Little Silver, NJ

2024 — Artful Living, SOPAC, South Orange, NJ

2023 — Messages, The Painting Center, New York, NY

2022 — Downtown Debut, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY

2021 — Messages, Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY

2019 — New Work, Tenth Muse Gallery, Maplewood, NJ

2018 — The Heart of It, Jen Tough Gallery, Benicia, CA

2018 — Two Person Exhibition, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY

2015 — Passing Through, Causey Contemporary, New York, NY

2015 — Inside Outside, R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston, NY

2014 — Mapping a Place, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY

2013 — Inside Matters, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2011 — The Journey, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Exhibitions

2026 — 100 Women of Spirit +, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY

2025 — SELECT, Garvey Simon, New York, NY

2025 — Not Set in Stone, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ

2025 — Growing From the Ruins, Nails in the Wall Gallery, Metuchen, NJ

2023 — Messages, The Painting Center, New York, NY

2020 — TerraChroma, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL

2020 — Paper Trail, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY

2020 — Expressions in Wax, Arts Mid-Hudson Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

2019 — Patterns of Influence, The Painting Center, New York, NY

2019 — The Unusual, The Painting Center, New York, NY

2019 — Sense of Place, Monmouth University, NJ

2019 — Inside the Rectangle, Cobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2018 — Introductions, OTA Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2018 — Some Like It Hot, Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY

2018 — Organic to Geometric, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

Professional Roles

Curator, The Blue Show, The Painting Center, New York, NY — 2019

Curator, Sense of Place, Monmouth University, NJ — 2018

Demonstration & Workshop Instructor, International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, MA

— 2010–present

Presenter/Curator, The Encaustic Studio — 2010–2013

Juror, West Orange Arts Council — 2010

Juror, Edison Arts Society — 2008

Collections

Corporate and private collections including:

Hyatt Regency; McKinsey & Company; Sun Chemical Corporation; Omni Hotels; Zais Group

Bibliography (selected)

The New York Times — Nancy Tobin, 2009

Huffington Post — John Seed, 2010, 2014

Philadelphia Inquirer — Edith Newhall, 2011

Star-Ledger — Dan Bischoff, multiple reviews

Cold Wax Medium — Rebecca Crowell & Jerry McLaughlin

Representation

Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL

Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY