Born in 1937 in New York, NY, United States of America


1958, BFA, Marymount College

MFA, Hunter College



"I paint because I want veils of color to envelop the viewer and the environment."

"In these paintings, colors float and expand on the wall - more like stages of intense chromatic metamorphosis, ethereal and paradoxically vivid. The surfaces are veils of color soft and glowing, expanding horizontally and vertically - a rectangle losing its perimeters. On close view, the surface is deliberately matte and opaque forcing the viewer to stand back and experience chromatic expansion. Thus the paintings are not meant to be seen intimately. They demand a slightly distant view so that the veils of color can envelop the viewer and the environment."

Barbara Coleman, October 1999


  • Solo Exhibitions
  • 2001: PaintingsDIRECT.com, Featured Artist
  • 1992: Soho Gallery Invitational Space , New York, NY
  • 1986: Freddy the Dreamer Gallery , New York, NY
  • 1981: Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
  • 1974: Soho 20 Gallery, New York, NY
  • Group Exhibitions
  • 1996: Soho 20 Gallery , New York, NY,
  • 1990: Brecht Forum , New York, NY, Femme Vitale
  • 1988: Sensory Evolution Gallery , New York, NY, Femme Vitale
  • 1987: Cuando Gallery , New York, NY, Polarities
  • 1986: Jon Gerstad Gallery , New York, NY
  • 1985: Mokotoff Gallery , New York, NY, Vital Spaces
  • 1983: Aldrich Museum , Ridgefield, CT, New Acquisitions
  • Private and Corporate Collections
  • Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

  • Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

  • Needham Harper & Steers Corporation, New York, NY

  • Guggenheim Museum Library, New York, NY

  • Whitney Museum Library, New York, NY

  • Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY

  • Public Appearance
  • "Artists Talk on Art - The Language of Color", Moderator, Panel Discussion, 1993, NY

  • "Focus on Women", Cablevisiion Channel 44 - 30 minute interview, Radcliff College/Harvard University Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 1992

  • "Freddy the Dreamer Show" Interview by Steve Powere, Channel 5 News, NY, 1986

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  • Archives of Harvard University Schlesinger Library, 1992



  • "Fusion Arts", 1987, Collection of Artists' Works inluding Barbara Coleman incorporated into the Guggenheim Museum Library, Whitney Museum Library, Museum of Modern Art, and Museu Da Imagem E Do Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil