Rachel Gordon Bernstein

Education

• Brooklyn College of the City University of New York City, MFA degree
• Art Students League, New York City (NYC)
• Boston University School for the Arts (BU), Boston, MA
• New York Studio School, NYC
• Santa Reparata Graphic Art Center, Florence, Italy
• Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, BA degree, Fine Arts Major

Honors

2013

Solveig Stromsoe Palmer Memorial Award for Portrait, National Association of Women Artists 124th Annual Members Exhibition, NYC

1987

Honorable Mention, Pindar Gallery National Juried Competition, NYC. Juror: John I. Baur, Curator Emeritus, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

1985

Silver Medal of Honor, Knickerbocker Artists 35th Annual Exhibition, NYC. Juror: Aaron Shikler, N.A.

1985

First Prize for Portrait, Beaux Arts Finale, Eastchester Library Gallery, Eastchester, NY

1985

First Prize for Portrait, Women's Club 32nd Annual Art Exhibit, The Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

1984

First Prize for Watercolor, Women's Club 31st Annual Art Exhibit, The Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

1981

Watercolor reproduced in 1981/82 Art Students League (ASL) Catalog

1980

George A. Redling Memorial Scholarship for Merit in Painting — ASL

1976

Laura Goldenberg Memorial Scholarship for Merit in Sculpture — BU

Solo Exhibitions

2023

Mt. Pleasant Library, Pleasantville, NY

2014

First Street Gallery, New York, NY

2012

Gallery on Cedar, Dobbs Ferry, NY

2012

RiverArts Artists' Studio Tour, White Plains, NY

2008

Gold/Smith Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, Maine

2007

Arts in the Barn, Cushing Historical Society, Cushing, Maine

2006

Rivertowns Arts Council Artists' Studio Tour, White Plains, NY

2004

Rivertowns Arts Council Artists' Studio Tour, White Plains, NY

2003

Conservation Center, Concord, NH

2002

Rivertowns Arts Council Artists' Studio Tour, White Plains, NY

1998

Viridian Artists, Inc., New York City

1997

MacDonald Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY

1992

First Street Gallery, New York City

1989

Mamaroneck Artists Guild, Larchmont, NY

1985

Pearlene Plotkin Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY

1982

Brooklyn College Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026

RiverArts Studio Tour, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

2024

Maine Art Gallery, "Made in Maine: Annual Members Show," Wiscasset, ME

2022

New York Studio School, Virtual Annual Alumni Exhibition (on artsy.net)

2022

DIAA Gallery, Deer Isle, ME

2021

New York Studio School, Virtual Annual Alumni Exhibition (on artsy.net)

2020

BAS Gallery, White Plains, NY (online)

2019

Blue Hill Library, Blue Hill, ME

2019

DIAA Gallery, Deer Isle, ME (two exhibitions)

2019

BAS Gallery, White Plains, NY

2018

DIAA Gallery, Deer Isle, ME (two exhibitions)

2018

Gallery on Cedar, Dobbs Ferry, NY

2016

DIAA Gallery, Deer Isle, ME

2016

BAS Gallery, White Plains, NY

2015

"Paint the Farm," The Falcon Foundation, Damariscotta, ME

2013

First Street Gallery, NYC

2013

National Association of Women Artists 124th Annual Members Exhibition, NYC

2012

"Lois Dodd and Her Students," The Falcon Foundation, Damariscotta, ME

2011

"Focus on the Figure," Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY

2011

First Street Gallery, New York City

2010

First Street Gallery, New York City

2009

National Association of Women Artists, New York City

2007

Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME

2007

"Made in the USA," Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY

2006

Biennial Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

2006

National Association of Women Artists, Goggleworks Art Center, Reading, PA

2006

Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY

2005

Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY

2003

City Hall Gallery, New York City

2002

"Southampton Summer 2002," Southampton Inn, Southampton, NY

2001

"Home Sweet Home: Visions of Home by Contemporary Westchester Artists," Westchester County Center, White Plains, NY

1998

McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH

1998

Images Art Gallery, Briarcliff Manor, NY

1998

"Viridian Artists and Friends," Viridian Artists, Inc., New York City

1997

"Small World," Viridian Artists, Inc., NYC

1997

"Under the Sun," Viridian Artists, Inc., NYC

1997

"Up from Manhattan," College of Mount St. Vincent, Riverdale, NY

1996

"Artists and Friends," Viridian Artists, Inc., NYC

1996

"Art Show," Rowayton, CT

1995

Graduate Art Faculty Show, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY

1994

"The Holiday Show," Connoisseur Gallery, Rhinebeck, NY

1993

"Enchantment," Connoisseur Gallery, Rhinebeck, NY

1991

"The Current River View," The Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

1991

"Environmental Views," Mamaroneck Artists Guild, Larchmont, NY

1990

New Year's Invitational, First Street Gallery, NYC

1988

"Interior/Exterior," First Street Gallery, NYC

1987

Invitational exhibition "Four Women: Four Visions," Dutchess County Art Association, Poughkeepsie, NY (thirteen paintings)

1987

Pleiades Gallery, NYC. Juror: Donald Kuspit, Critic/Historian

1987

"Contemporary Portraits from the Northeast," Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT. Juror: Philip Pearlstein, Artist

1986

"Grass Roots" exhibition, The Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY (seven paintings)

1986

Pleiades Gallery, NYC. Juror: Peter Plagens, Artist/Critic

1985

"36th Art of Northeast USA Exhibition," Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts, New Canaan, CT. Juror: Carolyn Lanchner, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). (two paintings)

1985

Dutchess County Art Association, Poughkeepsie, NY. Juror: Barbara Haskell, Curator of Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

1984

Hudson River Museum (HRM), Yonkers, NY. 69th Annual Exhibition. Laura Rosenstock & Carolyn Lanchner, Curators of Painting and Sculpture, MOMA

Reviews

• "Solo Show Highlights Artist's Orchestrations," The Rivertowns Enterprise, Friday, June 23, 2023
• Cathy Sears, "Natural Light Sustains Painter's Landscapes," The Rivertowns Enterprise, Friday, June 1, 2012
• William Zimmer, "That Abiding Favorite, the Hudson River," The New York Times, Sunday, June 16, 1991
• Alice Forman, "Barrett House Exhibit is Cool and Hot," Poughkeepsie Journal, February 27, 1987
• Ray Fasbona, "Women's Visions," Dutchess Living, Feb. 25 & 26, 1987

Teaching

Taught studio art at the following institutions:

• College of New Rochelle, Graduate Art Department, New Rochelle, NY — painting
• Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, White Plains and Yonkers, NY — drawing, 2-D design
• Iona College, Yonkers, NY — painting
• New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY — watercolor painting

Affiliations

• Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA)
• Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME

Collections

• Private Collections throughout the USA and Abroad

• Institutions: Temple Beth Shalom, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
• Congregation Bet Am Shalom, White Plains, NY