Phyllis Bramson is a significant painting voice of her generation, and is Professor Emerita in Drawing and Painting at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has been exhibited in key exhibitions and surveys including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution, and Corcoran Gallery of Art, among many institutions. She has had more than forty solo shows at venues such as New Museum, New York; Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Boulder Art Museum; University of West Virginia Museum, Renaissance Society Museum (mid career survey), the Chicago Cultural Center (10 year survey) and numerous galleries. Bramson has been covered widely and recognized with numerous awards, including grants from the John S. Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundation, and the Anonymous Was A Woman Award. A recipient of three National Endowments, a Senior Fulbright Scholar, Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant, Artadia: the fund for Art and Dialog Jury Award,  Anonymous Was A Woman Award, and selected as one of the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Awardees for 2014.