MARTHA POSNER | 610-428-1294 | P.O. 450, Martins Creek, PA, 18063 | m11posner@gmail
www.marthaposner.com
Martha Posner is a painter and sculptor who lives and works on a farm in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania. She takes much of her inspiration from the 250 acres of surrounding forest, fairy tales and mythology, and her many barnyard creatures.
She has had solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad at Centro Cultural de Cooperacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Heidi Cho Gallery, New York City; The Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania; The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey; Albright College Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania; The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, among others. Her work is held by numerous private and public collections including The George Gund Foundation, The Allentown Art Museum, The Butler Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio; and the Great Northern Corporate Center, Cleveland, Ohio. She has received the Mary H. Dana Award from Rutgers University, The Experimental Printmaking Award from Lafayette College as well as Fellowships from The Ragdale Foundation and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A retrospective of her work titled Brutal Beauty was exhibited in 2020 at the Sordoni Art Gallery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Her current exhibition, Flesh and Bone, along with her late husband Larry Fink, is currently on view at the Sarasota Art Museum through April, 2025.
www.marthaposner.com
Martha Posner is a painter and sculptor who lives and works on a farm in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania. She takes much of her inspiration from the 250 acres of surrounding forest, fairy tales and mythology, and her many barnyard creatures.
She has had solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad at Centro Cultural de Cooperacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Heidi Cho Gallery, New York City; The Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania; The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey; Albright College Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania; The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, among others. Her work is held by numerous private and public collections including The George Gund Foundation, The Allentown Art Museum, The Butler Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio; and the Great Northern Corporate Center, Cleveland, Ohio. She has received the Mary H. Dana Award from Rutgers University, The Experimental Printmaking Award from Lafayette College as well as Fellowships from The Ragdale Foundation and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A retrospective of her work titled Brutal Beauty was exhibited in 2020 at the Sordoni Art Gallery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Her current exhibition, Flesh and Bone, along with her late husband Larry Fink, is currently on view at the Sarasota Art Museum through April, 2025.
EDUCATION
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1975-1977
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
The Experimental Printmaking Workshop, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 2005
The Mary H. Dana Award, Rutgers the State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1999
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia, 1984
The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1984
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1975-1977
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
The Experimental Printmaking Workshop, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 2005
The Mary H. Dana Award, Rutgers the State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1999
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia, 1984
The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1984
COLLECTIONS
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
The George Gund Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
The Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The Butler Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio
College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland, Ohio
Great Northern Corporate Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
The George Gund Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
The Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The Butler Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio
College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland, Ohio
Great Northern Corporate Center, Cleveland, Ohio
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
2024-2025- Flesh and Bone, Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, FL
2022- Psalms and Somnium, The Stirner Art Gallery, Easton PA
2021- Brutal Beauty: The Transformation of Women in Mythology, The Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes-Barre University, Wilkes-barre, Pennsylvania
2016- Martha Posner, Acts of Mercy, The Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
2015- Stories and Dreams, Work by Martha Posner, Refind Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
2014- ** Cover Image for Divine Nothingness by Gerald Stern, Norton Publications
2013- Animal, Mamal, Mine Wearable sculptual costumes created for the International Philadelphia Festival of the Arts
Golden, Featuring The Work Of Martha Posner, Mercantile Home, Easton P
2012- Frozen Charlotte And Other Stories, Accola Griefen Gallery New York, New York
2011- An Untamed Place: a site-specific installation on the grounds of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
The Spirit And The Flesh II, The Gillette Gallery, The Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York
2010- The Spirit And The Flesh, Centro Cultural de Cooperacion, Buenos Aries, Argentina
Fabricating Truths Shaping Stories, Dalet Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2006- Unfamiliar Skin, Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
2005- Martha Posner/Memory And Desire, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, New York
2004- Martha Posner / Seduced By The Wolf, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, New York
2003- Honey Suckle Couture, The Zoellner Center for the Arts, Lehigh University, a site
specific- installation on the grounds of Lehigh University, Bethlehem Pennsylvania
Sisters/ Mermaids/And Charlottes, Gallery 31 North, Glen Gardner, New Jersey
2002- Physical Memory, The Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2001- Making Myth / Martha Posner Recent Works, Society of Contemporary Craft,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2000- Offering Place, a site-specific community collaborative installation created for International
AIDS Awareness Day, The Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton Pennsylvania
The Garment Series, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey
1999- Selections From The Garment Series, Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series, Mabel Smith
Douglass Library, Rutgers University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1998- A Cloak Of Thorns, And Other Wear For The Wounded – The Garment Series, The
Hunterdon museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
The Garment Series, Marywood College, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Selections From The Garment Series, Aljira, Newark, New Jersey
The Garment Series, Albright College Museum, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
1997- The Garment Series, An Installation, The Zoellner Center for the Arts, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1996- Cloak Of Thorns, The Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1995- Waking the Wood, Frank Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1993- Love And Death, A site-specific installation, The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham,
Alabama
Nothing Is Outside The Circle/An Installation By Martha Posner, The Williams
Center for the Arts, LaFayette College and Easton Pennsylvania
Making Marks/Works On Paper By Martha Posner, The Mandell Center, Cleveland,
Ohio
1992- The Power That Pushes, The 9th Street Studio, Cleveland, Ohio
1991- Regenerating Spirit, The Studio Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Visual Aids, A site-specific installation commissioned for International Aids Awareness
Day, Group Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2024-2025- Flesh and Bone, Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, FL
2022- Psalms and Somnium, The Stirner Art Gallery, Easton PA
2021- Brutal Beauty: The Transformation of Women in Mythology, The Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes-Barre University, Wilkes-barre, Pennsylvania
2016- Martha Posner, Acts of Mercy, The Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
2015- Stories and Dreams, Work by Martha Posner, Refind Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
2014- ** Cover Image for Divine Nothingness by Gerald Stern, Norton Publications
2013- Animal, Mamal, Mine Wearable sculptual costumes created for the International Philadelphia Festival of the Arts
Golden, Featuring The Work Of Martha Posner, Mercantile Home, Easton P
2012- Frozen Charlotte And Other Stories, Accola Griefen Gallery New York, New York
2011- An Untamed Place: a site-specific installation on the grounds of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
The Spirit And The Flesh II, The Gillette Gallery, The Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York
2010- The Spirit And The Flesh, Centro Cultural de Cooperacion, Buenos Aries, Argentina
Fabricating Truths Shaping Stories, Dalet Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2006- Unfamiliar Skin, Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
2005- Martha Posner/Memory And Desire, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, New York
2004- Martha Posner / Seduced By The Wolf, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, New York
2003- Honey Suckle Couture, The Zoellner Center for the Arts, Lehigh University, a site
specific- installation on the grounds of Lehigh University, Bethlehem Pennsylvania
Sisters/ Mermaids/And Charlottes, Gallery 31 North, Glen Gardner, New Jersey
2002- Physical Memory, The Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2001- Making Myth / Martha Posner Recent Works, Society of Contemporary Craft,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2000- Offering Place, a site-specific community collaborative installation created for International
AIDS Awareness Day, The Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton Pennsylvania
The Garment Series, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey
1999- Selections From The Garment Series, Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series, Mabel Smith
Douglass Library, Rutgers University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1998- A Cloak Of Thorns, And Other Wear For The Wounded – The Garment Series, The
Hunterdon museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
The Garment Series, Marywood College, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Selections From The Garment Series, Aljira, Newark, New Jersey
The Garment Series, Albright College Museum, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
1997- The Garment Series, An Installation, The Zoellner Center for the Arts, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1996- Cloak Of Thorns, The Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1995- Waking the Wood, Frank Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1993- Love And Death, A site-specific installation, The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham,
Alabama
Nothing Is Outside The Circle/An Installation By Martha Posner, The Williams
Center for the Arts, LaFayette College and Easton Pennsylvania
Making Marks/Works On Paper By Martha Posner, The Mandell Center, Cleveland,
Ohio
1992- The Power That Pushes, The 9th Street Studio, Cleveland, Ohio
1991- Regenerating Spirit, The Studio Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Visual Aids, A site-specific installation commissioned for International Aids Awareness
Day, Group Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
SELECTED TWO PERSON AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 "S/HE PERSISTED..." Presented by SEEME, The Bandit Space, New York, New York
2020 Rituals of Resistance, Presented by Nasty Women, The Urban Collective, New Haven, Connecticut
2019 Omnibus Circus, Gallerie Nomade, December 10-18th and January 4th-8th,
Hotel de Sauroy, Paris, France
2019 Amy Arbus and Martha Posner: A #MeToo Project, Penn State - Lehigh Valley, Center Valley, PA
2019 A #MeToo Project, ft. Martha Posner and Amy Arbus, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2018 Loud Silence, Sardoni Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
2017 Omnibus Circus Milano, Galleria Effimera E Straordinaria, Milan, Italy
2015- Day Trippers, CARA Gallery, New York, New York
2013- The Femail Project, ARTical Gallery, Birmingham, England, UK
2012- 40 Years Of Women Artists At Douglass Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2011- Dancers For Boscobel, Garrison, New York
2010- As You Like It, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, New York
2009- Precious, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, New York
Mark Of The Hand, Spanierman Modern New York, New York
2008- American Art Festival, Satura Associazione Culturale, Genoa, Italy
2007- Amour d’Amour, Fear, Fantasy, and Fashion in the New Age, curators Ida Sinkevic and Robert Mattison, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
2006- Pasareal Barcelona, Port Forum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Some Serious Buisness, Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2005- Sticks And Stones, Devon, Pennsylvania
2004- Fusion Musing/ An Elaborative Collaborative, Works by Martha Posner and Larry Fink, Project Blue, Easton, Pennsylvania
To Die For, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, New York
(Un)Wearable, Williams Center for the Arts Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylviana
2001- The Re-Imaging Of America, A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, New York, New York
2000- 500 Works On Paper, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, New York
Textiles 2002, College of Creative Studies, Center Galleries, Detroit Michigan
1999- Pop - Luxe, Piccalo Spoleto, The Spoleto Festival, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Dada Country: Duchamp And Friends In New Jersey, Hunterdon Museum of Art,
Clinton, New Jersey
Ceremonial Objects: A Cup For Miriam, Bernice Steinbaum curator, Nathan D. Rosen
Museum Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
Unusual Subjects, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, New York
Journeys – An Exhibition Inspired By The Odyssey Artists,
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
1998- Just Ripe, Smack Mellon Studios, Joan Snyder curator, Brooklyn, New York
The Big Picture / American Art From 1950, The Allentown Art Museum, Allentown,
Pennsylvania
1997- Posner, Kim, And Azara, By Their Work: Spiritual Images In A New Age, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
Getting Hitched – Artist Made Gowns And Other Nuptial Artifacts, Borowsky
Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1996- Sticks And Bones / Insight Through Transfiguration, Piccalo Spoleto, The Spoleto
Festival, Charleston, South Carolina
1995- Martha Posner / Heejung Kim, 479 Gallery, New York, New York
1994- Martha Posner Sculpture / Larry Fink Photography, The State Theater, Easton,
Pennsylvania
1993- Sculpture Installation, Sculpture Garden Maria Gallery, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Psychological Impact, Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Art That Heals, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio
The State Contemporary Portraiture, Artsquad Contemporary Art Gallery, Easton
Pennsylvania
1992- In Celebration, University Hospital Gallery, University Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
Cannibalism, Progressive Culture Works Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
1991- Constrasts, An exhibition of five Ohio sculptors curator Janus Small, Great Northern Corporate
Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Race And Culture, City University of New York, New York, New York
Insight / Onsite, A site-specific installation commissioned by the Cleveland Museum of Art in honor of it’s 75th anniversary, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1990- Jewish Community Center of Cleveland 36th Annual Juried Exhibition
Excellence in Sculpture Award, Nina Felshin, Juror, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Small Sculpture Exhibition, Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, University Of Cincinnati, Ohio
Sculpture Survey, Metro Art Gallery, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio
Group Exhibit, Fava, Oberlin, Ohio
1989- Ritual Objects, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio
Group Exhibit, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1988- Art In Special Places, BP America Atrium Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1985- Posner / Kocar, C.A.G.E. Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
National Mask Exhibit, Weighart Gallery, Evanston, Illinois
Art In Special Places, Three temporary site installations, an exhibit of the Cleveland Art Focus,Cleveland, Ohio
1984- Posner / Maddock / Harvey, Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio
Art In The New Depression, School of the Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
City Windows, A site-specific exhibit of the Cleveland Art Festival, Cleveland, Ohio
1981- Paper Invitational, Chicago Artists Guild, Chicago, Illinois
Buttons, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
1980- Group Exhibit, Cain Park Gallery, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
1979- Group Exhibit, Woodstock Artists Guild, Woodstock, New York
1978- Works On Paper, Painted Bride Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2020 "S/HE PERSISTED..." Presented by SEEME, The Bandit Space, New York, New York
2020 Rituals of Resistance, Presented by Nasty Women, The Urban Collective, New Haven, Connecticut
2019 Omnibus Circus, Gallerie Nomade, December 10-18th and January 4th-8th,
Hotel de Sauroy, Paris, France
2019 Amy Arbus and Martha Posner: A #MeToo Project, Penn State - Lehigh Valley, Center Valley, PA
2019 A #MeToo Project, ft. Martha Posner and Amy Arbus, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2018 Loud Silence, Sardoni Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
2017 Omnibus Circus Milano, Galleria Effimera E Straordinaria, Milan, Italy
2015- Day Trippers, CARA Gallery, New York, New York
2013- The Femail Project, ARTical Gallery, Birmingham, England, UK
2012- 40 Years Of Women Artists At Douglass Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2011- Dancers For Boscobel, Garrison, New York
2010- As You Like It, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, New York
2009- Precious, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, New York
Mark Of The Hand, Spanierman Modern New York, New York
2008- American Art Festival, Satura Associazione Culturale, Genoa, Italy
2007- Amour d’Amour, Fear, Fantasy, and Fashion in the New Age, curators Ida Sinkevic and Robert Mattison, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
2006- Pasareal Barcelona, Port Forum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Some Serious Buisness, Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2005- Sticks And Stones, Devon, Pennsylvania
2004- Fusion Musing/ An Elaborative Collaborative, Works by Martha Posner and Larry Fink, Project Blue, Easton, Pennsylvania
To Die For, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, New York
(Un)Wearable, Williams Center for the Arts Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylviana
2001- The Re-Imaging Of America, A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, New York, New York
2000- 500 Works On Paper, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, New York
Textiles 2002, College of Creative Studies, Center Galleries, Detroit Michigan
1999- Pop - Luxe, Piccalo Spoleto, The Spoleto Festival, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Dada Country: Duchamp And Friends In New Jersey, Hunterdon Museum of Art,
Clinton, New Jersey
Ceremonial Objects: A Cup For Miriam, Bernice Steinbaum curator, Nathan D. Rosen
Museum Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
Unusual Subjects, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, New York
Journeys – An Exhibition Inspired By The Odyssey Artists,
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
1998- Just Ripe, Smack Mellon Studios, Joan Snyder curator, Brooklyn, New York
The Big Picture / American Art From 1950, The Allentown Art Museum, Allentown,
Pennsylvania
1997- Posner, Kim, And Azara, By Their Work: Spiritual Images In A New Age, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
Getting Hitched – Artist Made Gowns And Other Nuptial Artifacts, Borowsky
Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1996- Sticks And Bones / Insight Through Transfiguration, Piccalo Spoleto, The Spoleto
Festival, Charleston, South Carolina
1995- Martha Posner / Heejung Kim, 479 Gallery, New York, New York
1994- Martha Posner Sculpture / Larry Fink Photography, The State Theater, Easton,
Pennsylvania
1993- Sculpture Installation, Sculpture Garden Maria Gallery, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Psychological Impact, Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Art That Heals, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio
The State Contemporary Portraiture, Artsquad Contemporary Art Gallery, Easton
Pennsylvania
1992- In Celebration, University Hospital Gallery, University Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
Cannibalism, Progressive Culture Works Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
1991- Constrasts, An exhibition of five Ohio sculptors curator Janus Small, Great Northern Corporate
Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Race And Culture, City University of New York, New York, New York
Insight / Onsite, A site-specific installation commissioned by the Cleveland Museum of Art in honor of it’s 75th anniversary, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1990- Jewish Community Center of Cleveland 36th Annual Juried Exhibition
Excellence in Sculpture Award, Nina Felshin, Juror, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Small Sculpture Exhibition, Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, University Of Cincinnati, Ohio
Sculpture Survey, Metro Art Gallery, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio
Group Exhibit, Fava, Oberlin, Ohio
1989- Ritual Objects, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio
Group Exhibit, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1988- Art In Special Places, BP America Atrium Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1985- Posner / Kocar, C.A.G.E. Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
National Mask Exhibit, Weighart Gallery, Evanston, Illinois
Art In Special Places, Three temporary site installations, an exhibit of the Cleveland Art Focus,Cleveland, Ohio
1984- Posner / Maddock / Harvey, Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio
Art In The New Depression, School of the Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
City Windows, A site-specific exhibit of the Cleveland Art Festival, Cleveland, Ohio
1981- Paper Invitational, Chicago Artists Guild, Chicago, Illinois
Buttons, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
1980- Group Exhibit, Cain Park Gallery, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
1979- Group Exhibit, Woodstock Artists Guild, Woodstock, New York
1978- Works On Paper, Painted Bride Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania