Paula Scher is an artist and designer based in New York.
Education
Tyler School of Art, BFA Corcoran College of Art and Design, Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007/08 “Paula Scher: Recent Paintings,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “Paula Scher: The Maps,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY
2005 “The Maps: Recent Paintings,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY
2005 “Collection d’Affiches les Silos, la Maison du Livre et de l’Affiche,” Chaumont, France
2002 “The Master Series: Paula Scher,” Visual Arts Museum at the School of Visual Arts, New York
2002 “Paula Scher,” Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
1999 “Type Is Image,” DDD Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Selected Group Shows
2009 “D.I.Y.,” Stendhal Gallery, New York
2008 “Envisioning Maps,” Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, New York
2008 IFPDA Print Fair 08, Jim Kempner Gallery, New York
2008 “Here, There, Everywhere,” Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2007 “Notes on Utopia,” Stendhal Gallery, New York
2006 “The Daily News,” Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
2005 “Noires-Noirs/The Black Show,” Bleu Acier Gallery, Tampa, FL
2005 “Community of Artists: 50 Years of The Public Theater,” The New York Public Library for the Performing
Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
2005 “Design of Dissent,” Visual Arts Museum at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2005 “Repetitions,” Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY
2005 “The Daily News,” Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2004 “The Daily News,” Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center, Casper, WY
2004 “Ballpoint,” The Gallery at Pentagram, London
2004 “Pentagram: A World of Typography,” Klingspor-Museum Offenbach, Offenbach am Main, Germany
2004 “Graphic Design of Three Continents,” Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2004 “National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now,” Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY
2002 “What Is Design Today?” The Design Center at Philadelphia University, PA
2002 “US Design,” Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
2002 “US Design 1975-2000,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2002 “US Design 1975-2000,” Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2001 “Women Designers in the USA, 1900- 2000: Diversity and Difference,” Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, NY
2000 “Graphistes Autour du Monde (Graphic Artists Around the World),” Mois du Graphisme d’Échirolles, France
1998 “Unrolled: Great American Poster Design 1980-1998,” Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Buffalo, NY
1997 “Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture,” Cooper- Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY
Selected Awards
2006 TDC Medal, Type Directors Club
2001 Medalist, American Institute of Graphic Arts
2001 Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris Causa, Corcoran College of Art and Design
2000 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design
1998 Art Directors Club Hall of Fame
Public Collections
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
Denver Art Museum
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
HSBC – Premier
JP Morgan Chase
Klingspor-Museum Offenbach, Offenbach am Main, Switzerland
Les Silos, la Maison du Livre et de l’Affiche, Chaumont, France
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Microsoft Art Collection
Musée de la Poste, Paris
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Die Neue Sammlung Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Munich
Plakatmuseum am Niederrhein, Emmerich, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Public Theater, New York
Private Collections
Edward S. Weil, Chicago
John C. Waddell
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lebon, Belgium
The Merrill C. Berman Collection
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
Turnberry Associates, Florida
Collin O’Reily
Stephen Gellos
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Books, As Author or Co-Author
Scher, Paula. Make It Bigger. New York: Princeton
Architectural Press, 2002. US paperback edition to be published Fall, 2005.
Pentagram Partners, eds. Pentagram Book Five. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1999.
Gibbs, David, ed. Pentagram: The Compendium.
London: Phaidon Press, 1993. Collection of essays, work and commentary by the Pentagram partners, including several contributions from Scher.
Scher, Paula. The Graphic Design Portfolio: How to Make a Good One. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1992. A step-by-step guide to building a marketable self-presentation, with examples from graduate-level students from the School of Visual Arts.
Scher, Paula. The Honeymoon Book. New York: M. Evans & Co., 1981. “A Tribute to the Last Ritual of Sexual Innocence.
”Scher, Paula and Stan Mack. The Brownstone. New York: Pantheon Books, 1973. A children’s storybook.
Articles, As Author
“5×5=25.” Creative Review (London) March 2005, pp. 78-79
“All the News That Fits.” PRINT (New York) January/February 2004. pp. 45-53
“Answers to Authorship.” Creative Review (London) March 2001, pp. 31
“Defective Equipment: The Palm Beach County Ballot.” The New York Times, November 11, 2000, p. A27
“The Devaluation of Design by the Design Community.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York) Vol. 11, No. 4, 1993, pp. 3-5“The Boat.” PRINT (New York) March/April 1993, pp. 113-114
“Over There, You Are What You Eat: An American
Designer in London Ponders the Pudding.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York) Vol. 11, No. 1, 1993, p. 6
“Rashomon in the Record Business.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York) Vol. 7, No. 4, 1990, pp. 11-13
“The Dark in the Middle of the Stairs.” Graphis (New York) November/December 1989, p. 19
“The Right Face.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design
(New York) Vol. 5, No. 1, 1987
“Back to Show and Tell.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York) Vol. 4, No. 1, 1986
“Special Graphic Parody Section.” PRINT (New York) November/December 1985
“Type Loses Face.” Adweek (New York) 7 October
1985, p. D44
“Back in the USSR, or That Ukraine Type Really
Knocks Me Out.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York) No. 4, 1983
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Curriculum Vitae
Paula Scher is an artist and designer based in New York.
Education
Tyler School of Art, BFA Corcoran College of Art and Design, Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007/08 “Paula Scher: Recent Paintings,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “Paula Scher: The Maps,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY
2005 “The Maps: Recent Paintings,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY
2005 “Collection d’Affiches les Silos, la Maison du Livre et de l’Affiche,” Chaumont, France
2002 “The Master Series: Paula Scher,” Visual Arts Museum at the School of Visual Arts, New York
2002 “Paula Scher,” Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
1999 “Type Is Image,” DDD Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Selected Group Shows
2009 “D.I.Y.,” Stendhal Gallery, New York
2008 “Envisioning Maps,” Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, New York
2008 IFPDA Print Fair 08, Jim Kempner Gallery, New York
2008 “Here, There, Everywhere,” Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2007 “Notes on Utopia,” Stendhal Gallery, New York
2006 “The Daily News,” Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
2005 “Noires-Noirs/The Black Show,” Bleu Acier Gallery, Tampa, FL
2005 “Community of Artists: 50 Years of The Public Theater,” The New York Public Library for the Performing
Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
2005 “Design of Dissent,” Visual Arts Museum at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2005 “Repetitions,” Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY
2005 “The Daily News,” Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2004 “The Daily News,” Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center, Casper, WY
2004 “Ballpoint,” The Gallery at Pentagram, London
2004 “Pentagram: A World of Typography,” Klingspor-Museum Offenbach, Offenbach am Main, Germany
2004 “Graphic Design of Three Continents,” Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2004 “National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now,” Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY
2002 “What Is Design Today?” The Design Center at Philadelphia University, PA
2002 “US Design,” Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
2002 “US Design 1975-2000,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2002 “US Design 1975-2000,” Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2001 “Women Designers in the USA, 1900- 2000: Diversity and Difference,” Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, NY
2000 “Graphistes Autour du Monde (Graphic Artists Around the World),” Mois du Graphisme d’Échirolles, France
1998 “Unrolled: Great American Poster Design 1980-1998,” Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Buffalo, NY
1997 “Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture,” Cooper- Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY
Selected Awards
2006 TDC Medal, Type Directors Club
2001 Medalist, American Institute of Graphic Arts
2001 Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris Causa, Corcoran College of Art and Design
2000 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design
1998 Art Directors Club Hall of Fame
Public Collections
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
Denver Art Museum
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
HSBC – Premier
JP Morgan Chase
Klingspor-Museum Offenbach, Offenbach am Main, Switzerland
Les Silos, la Maison du Livre et de l’Affiche, Chaumont, France
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Microsoft Art Collection
Musée de la Poste, Paris
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Die Neue Sammlung Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Munich
Plakatmuseum am Niederrhein, Emmerich, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Public Theater, New York
Private Collections
Edward S. Weil, Chicago
John C. Waddell
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lebon, Belgium
The Merrill C. Berman Collection
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
Turnberry Associates, Florida
Collin O’Reily
Stephen Gellos
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Books, As Author or Co-Author
Scher, Paula. Make It Bigger. New York: Princeton
Architectural Press, 2002. US paperback edition to be published Fall, 2005.
Pentagram Partners, eds. Pentagram Book Five. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1999.
Gibbs, David, ed. Pentagram: The Compendium.
London: Phaidon Press, 1993. Collection of essays, work and commentary by the Pentagram partners, including several contributions from Scher.
Scher, Paula. The Graphic Design Portfolio: How to Make a Good One. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1992. A step-by-step guide to building a marketable self-presentation, with examples from graduate-level students from the School of Visual Arts.
Scher, Paula. The Honeymoon Book. New York: M. Evans & Co., 1981. “A Tribute to the Last Ritual of Sexual Innocence.
”Scher, Paula and Stan Mack. The Brownstone. New York: Pantheon Books, 1973. A children’s storybook.
Articles, As Author
“5×5=25.” Creative Review (London) March 2005, pp. 78-79
“All the News That Fits.” PRINT (New York) January/February 2004. pp. 45-53
“Answers to Authorship.” Creative Review (London) March 2001, pp. 31
“Defective Equipment: The Palm Beach County Ballot.” The New York Times, November 11, 2000, p. A27
“The Devaluation of Design by the Design Community.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York) Vol. 11, No. 4, 1993, pp. 3-5“The Boat.” PRINT (New York) March/April 1993, pp. 113-114
“Over There, You Are What You Eat: An American
Designer in London Ponders the Pudding.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York) Vol. 11, No. 1, 1993, p. 6
“Rashomon in the Record Business.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York) Vol. 7, No. 4, 1990, pp. 11-13
“The Dark in the Middle of the Stairs.” Graphis (New York) November/December 1989, p. 19
“The Right Face.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design
(New York) Vol. 5, No. 1, 1987
“Back to Show and Tell.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York) Vol. 4, No. 1, 1986
“Special Graphic Parody Section.” PRINT (New York) November/December 1985
“Type Loses Face.” Adweek (New York) 7 October
1985, p. D44
“Back in the USSR, or That Ukraine Type Really
Knocks Me Out.” AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York) No. 4, 1983