ACADEMICS

MFA   SUNY New Paltz
MA     New Mexico State University
BFA  University of Texas at El Paso
The Maryland Institute, College of Art

Professor, School of Art and Design, Texas State University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Symbiosis:  Nature Revealed (with Luther Smith) William Campbell Gallery, Fort Worth, TX

2023
Beverly Penn, Foregrounding, Mitchell Museum, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon

2022
Beverly Penn: Radical Adaptation, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

2017
Beverly Penn:  Perpendicular to the Force of Gravity, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX

2015
Beverly Penn, Fractured Landscapes, The Gallery at Vaudeville, Fredericksburg, TX

2014
Beverly Penn, Fractured Landscapes, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA

2013
Naturalia, Co-Lab Project Space (with Barry Stone), Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX

2012
Still Nature, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Interstitial Spaces (with Julia Barello), Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, Houston, TX

2011
Still Nature, McMurtery Gallery, Houston, TX
Still Nature, dberman Gallery, Austin, TX
Creating a Centennial Legacy  The UTEP Mace by Beverly Penn, Rubin Center for the Visual Arts,  El Paso. TX

2010
Beverly Penn, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Still Nature, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX

2008
Beverly Penn:  Equivocal Topographies,  Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX

2007
Beverly Penn:  Ground Cover, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Beverly Penn, Second Nature (w/ Susan Davidoff), Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX

2006
Beverly Penn:  Weeds,  University of Texas, Arlington, TX
Beverly Penn:  Weeds, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Beverly Penn:  Weeds, D. Berman Gallery, Austin, TX

2005
Beverly Penn:  Weeds, Rubin Center for the Visual Arts,  El Paso. TX
The Edge of Paradise, El Paso Museum of Art, TX

2004
Beverly Penn (with Hillevi Baar), D. Berman Gallery, Austin, TX

2002-3
The Edge of Paradise, (with Jill Bedgood) Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX

2002
The Edge of Paradise, (with Jill Bedgood) Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX
Beverly Penn, Recent Work, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2000
Arcadia, James Gallery, Houston, TX

1999
Pedagogy: Recent Work by Beverly Penn, Memorial Student Center Gallery, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX
Beauty•Chaos: a collaborative book project by Beverly Penn, Susan Davidoff and Rachelle Thiewes, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
Beverly Penn, Sculpture & Prints, San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX

1998
Beverly Penn-The Border: Pas de Deux, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1997
Beverly Penn, James Gallery, Houston, TX
Beverly Penn, Recent Work, Artists’ Gallery, San Antonio, TX

1996
Beverly Penn, Recent Work, Milagros Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX

1995
Descent: a collaborative installation by Beverly Penn and Jill Bedgood, Collett Art Gallery, Weber State College, Ogden, UT

1994
Reflections of Venus: Sculpture by Beverly Penn, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
Beverly Penn:  Recent Work, Center for Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
Beverly Penn:  New  Jewelry, Gail M. Brown, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 
Two Suggestions, Bongsan Culture Center, Jung-gu, Daegu, South Korea
Remix:  The Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts,  Washington, DC
Marking Space/Holding Time, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX
Deeply Rooted:  The Tree of Life, Alexey von Schlippe Gallery – Avery Point, University of Connecticut
Seeing Truth, Contemporary Art Galleries – Storrs, University of Connecticut
Compendium Revealed, William Campbell Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
Positively 3rd Street, Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Austin
Upswell, ICOSA Gallery, Austin, TX

2022
The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2021  
AMEND: An Exhibition Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, Davis Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY

2020 
Serenity Now:  Meditations on Humanity, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, March-Aug
AMEND : An Exhibition Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, online:
www.amendexhibition.com

https://2020.nycjewelryweek.com/events/#amend-exhibition

Dallas Contemporary Art Fair On-line, with William Campbell Contemporary Art
Six Years Smitten, Grey Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, and Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz, CA

2019
Present Tense, Bupyeong Arts Center Gallery Kkot-Nu-Ri, Incheon, South Korea
Draw, Engrave, Make Artworks, Suncheon Culture and Arts Center, Suncheon, South Korea
New Blood:  Recent Discoveries from the Cassilhaus Collection, Cassilhaus International Residency, Durham, NC
Irresistible Offerings, Gallery 2052, Chicago, IL
Six Years Smitten, Form and Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
A Gathering of Texas Makers, Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, El Paso, TX and Texas Tech University Museum, Lubbock, TX
Dallas Contemporary Art Fair, with William Campbell Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
Celebrating the Women of Flatbed Press at Print Austin 2019, Elizabeth Ney Museum, Austin, TX
Flatbed Goes South, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
CAST:  Art & Objects, Wayne Art Center, PA

2018
Women to Watch 2018, representing the State of Texas, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Smitten Forum 2017, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Out of La Romita, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
I Am Art, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
A Gathering of Texas Makers, Brookhaven College, TX

2017
Flatbed at 25, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
Pure, Texas Art House, Johnson City, TX
Dallas Contemporary Art Fair, with William Campbell Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX

2016
Precious Metals: Shining Examples from RAM’s Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Texas 12, Texas Gallery, College Station, TX, curated by Alison de Lima Greene, MFA Houston
Dallas Contemporary Art Fair, with William Campbell Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX

2015
Crafting Connections, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Supranatural Realistic, East/West Gallery, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX
Dallas Contemporary Art Fair, Dallas, TX

2014
Miami Project International Art Fair, with William Campbell Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Panoramic View, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
50/50 Equal Parts, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

2013
Houston Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX
Beyond Natural, curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian, University Art Gallery, UNT, Denton, TX
Tender Place, curated by Sally Sprout, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX
Texas Sculpture, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, TX

2012
Espoused, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
Refresh, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
The Mona Lisa Project, People’s Gallery, Austin, TX

2011
Field of Vision, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
The Mona Lisa Project, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Grand Rapids, MI 
The Mona Lisa Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Texas Uprising II, Blue Star Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX
Quarter Century, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

2010
Wrought & Crafted, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
30 Years of Outdoor Sculpture, Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX
10th Anniversary Exhibition, deberman Gallery, Asutin, TX

2009
The Book as Art: Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, MA
Art Miami, Lisa Sette Gallery, Miami, FL
The Great Texas Sculpture Roundup, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX

2008
Los Angeles Art Show, Lisa Sette Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Content in Contemporary Design & Metalsmithing, Landmark Arts, The Galleries of Texas Tech School of Art, Lubbock, TX
The Texas Chair Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX

2007
Laguna Gloria Grounded, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Texas Uprising, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX
Texas 100: Selections from the El Paso Museum of Art, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX

2006
The Book as Art: Twenty Years of Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Fresh Ink, Flatbed Editions, Nancy Wilson Scanlan Gallery, Austin, TX
Texas 100: Selections from the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Museum of Art, TX
Fire and Ice, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX

2005
Juxtapositions, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
World of Nature,  Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, TX
Token of Affection, Tercera Gallery, Los Gatos, CA
5 x 7 x X,  ArtHouse, Austin, TX

2004
Book As Art XV, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Figure Ground, Poissant O’Neal Gallery, Houston, TX
Rings, Gallery of Art & Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

2003
Making Meaning, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Steel Grrrls II, Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

2002
Burning Desires:  Acquisitions 1997 – 2001, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Beauty•Chaos, El Paso International Airport Gallery, El Paso, TX

2001
New Prints From Texas, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
Traveling: -Galveston Art Center
Summer Exhibition, dberman Gallery, Austin, TX
Steel Grrrls, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX
On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, El Paso Museum of Art, TX
Scenic Overlook, Blue Star Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX

2000
Attitude and Action, Atrium Gallery, University of Central England, Birmingham, England
Traveling: -DESIGNyard, Dublin, Ireland
Distinguished Works by Innovative Minds, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Works on Paper, dberman Gallery, Austin, TX
Beauty•Chaos, Carrington Gallery, Ltd., San Antonio, TX
The Figure: Alone & Together,  Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Sculpture 2000, Cullen Center, Houston, TX

1999
Groundswell, Austin Museum of Art, Austin TX
Containment, University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
Touring: -I Space, Chicago, IL
Sculptors Drawings, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, TX
Inaugural Exhibition, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
The Figure:  Experiencing Views, Art Gallery,University of Texas at San Antonio, TX
Breaking New Ground, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX

1998
MICA Invitational, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Textual Negotiations, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Gendered Memory, Cardinal Stritch University Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Contemporary Metals USA, Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO
Reunion, James Gallery, Houston, TX

1997
The Visceral Intellect, Center for Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
Since 1907: A 90-Year Creative Legacy, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
The Art Ball: Year One, Austin Museum of Art, Austin TX
3 Generations, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

1996
Heritage & Diversity, Montgomery College Art Gallery, Rockville, MD
Abilene Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Abilene, TX
The Collectors Circle, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

1995
H x W x Depth, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
Evocative Objects, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, TX
Double Vision,  I/O Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Touring: -Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI; Nov 1995
-National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN;1996
-The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK; 1996

1994
Terra Incognita: New Outdoor Sculpture, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX,
Emphasis Sculpture, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
Subversive Infiltration, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Outdoor Sculpture,  City of Los Altos, CA
Sculpture Invitational,  Ruth Taylor Gallery, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
The Telling of Stories,  The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA

1993
Sculptural Concerns, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Touring: -Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Sept 1993
-American Craft Museum, New York, NY; June – Oct 1994
-Spencer Museum, Lawrence, KS; Nov – Dec 1994
-Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; June – Aug 1995
-California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA; Jan – March 1996
-Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; March – May 1995
-Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI; Sept – Oct 1995
Another View, Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA
Every Object Tells A Story, Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Objects in Metal, Clay, Fiber, Glass, Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH
1993 Critic’s Choice, D-Art Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX
Premiere Invitational, Images Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY

Press

2023 

Two Suggestions | 2023.7.12-9.3, Bongsan Cultural Center, Daegu, South Korea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6wpG3SqwxY

1 : 1 Conversation From the Other side of the World, Bongsan Cultural Center’s Invitational Exhibition for Foreign Artists, “Two Proposals”  by Boram Kim,  Daegu Culture and Art Archive Project, No. 452, July 2023, Daegu, Korea
https://blog.naver.com/cu1985/223133580789

Bongsan Cultural Center for “Two Suggestions” Matched by US-Daegu Artists 1 : 1 by Gu Ah-young, July 19, 2023, Daegu, Korea
http://www.idaegu.com/newsView/idg202307190001

Seeing Truth with Beverly Penn and Michael Willig, The Future of Truth, Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, June 2023
https://futureoftruth.uconn.edu/seeing-truth/talking-about-seeing-truth/

2022 

Passage, an Online Magazine of Visions and Voices, edited by Suzie Kalil, published by Kirk Hopper, Issue 8, April 2022
http://passagevision.com/penn.html

AZ-Lifestyle Arts, Exhibition Review/Press Release, January 14, 2022
https://az-lifestyle.com/archives/36322

Arizona Republic, AZ Central, Top Art Exhibitions and Shows to See in Metro Phoenix in 2022, by Sofia Krusmark, January 7, 2022
https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/01/07/phoenix-art-exhibitions-2022/9079717002/

2021  

AMEND on-line exhibition site.  Proceeds from the exhibition generated $10,661 for Black Voters Matter
https://www.wornexhibition.com/home/amend-exhibition
https://www.wornexhibition.com/home/amend-exhibition/amend-artists

2020

Cool San Diego Sights, On-Line Magazine, A Bronze Topiary Sphere Cast From Live Flora by Richard Schulte, April 24, 2020
https://coolsandiegosights.com/2020/04/24/a-bronze-topiary-sphere-cast-from-live-flora/

Art Jewelry Forum,  AJF Live:  AMEND, a Secret Identity Project exhibition, curated by Kerianne Quick & Jess Tolbert, Oct 7, 2020
https://artjewelryforum.org/interviews/ajf-live-amend-a-secret-identity-project-exhibitionaecurated-by-kerianne-quick-jess-tolbert-0/

The San Diego Union-Tribune, How a SDSU Professor Helped Turn the “I Voted” Sticker Into Social Justice Art by Karla Peterson, Review of group exhibition AMEND, Oct 29, 2020

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2020-10-29/column-how-an-sdsu-professor-helped-turn-the-i-voted-sticker-into-social-justice-art

University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, press release, March 4, 2020

https://art.uga.edu/events/beverly-penn-lecture-ann-orr-morris-memorial-fund-visiting-artist-jewelry-and-metalwork

Las Cruces.Com On-Line Newsletter, Public Art Adds Flavor to Las Cruces by Bud Russo, September 29, 2020
https://lascruces.com/public-art-adds-flavor-to-las-cruces/

2019

Human News, Exhibition from Bupyeong Art Center:  Texas, Washington, Hawaii by Bae Yoon Joo, December 6, 2019
http://www.humannews.co.kr/newnews/print.php?uid=2235

National Assembly Broadcast News, Invited Exhibition of Contemporary Artists in Incheon, Incheon by Gimm Yeong Jip, December 6, 2019
http://www.nynews.co.kr/news_gisa/gisa_view.htm?gisa_category=01000000&gisa_idx=15337

Aju Economics News, Incheon Art Association-US Kosong Cultural Foundation Hosts an Invited Exhibition of Contemporary Artists in 2019 by Park Heung Seo, December 5, 2019
https://www.ajunews.com/util/popPrint.php?nid=20191205114927621

Gyung-do Paper, Incheon City Hosts an Exhibition of Contemporary Artist in 2019 by Kim Sung-bae, December 5, 2019
http://www.kyungdosinmoon.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=73616

American Scholar, Beverly Penn: Flora Cast Eternal by Noelani Kirschner, Portrait of the Artists, September 23, 2019
https://theamericanscholar.org/beverly-penn/

Glasstire, Top 5 Exhibition Pick
https://glasstire.com/events/2019/05/08/not-so-lone-star-studios-a-gathering-of-texas-makers-3/

Glasstire, Top 5 Exhibition Pick, https://glasstire.com/2019/01/17/top-five-january-17-2019/

Sightlines:  Arts, Culture, News & Ideas, Extreme Facilitator by Erin Keever, February 16, 2019, https://sightlinesmag.org/extreme-facilitator-flatbed-press-katherine-brimberry?fbclid=IwAR22706xHeqvdrGnbyJmaB66BAFZaeY-rLvcSd2b7WzP-bZrBuvmz9di8YU

Austin Chronicle, Celebrating the Women of Flatbed Press at PrintAustin 2019, by Robert Faires, January 11, 2019, Arts
https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2019-01-11/celebrating-the-women-of-flatbed-press-at-printaustin-2019/print/

2018

Artforum, Tiffany Foundation Announces Recipients of 2017 Biennial Grants, Feb 15, 2018
https://www.artforum.com/news/tiffany-foundation-announces-recipients-of-2017-biennial-grants-74273

NY Times, The Art Exhibitions to See in 2018, Jessica Colley Clarke, Jan 11, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/travel/art-exhibitions-festivals-2018.html

Glasstire, Three Texans Receive Tiffany Grants, Paula Newton, Feb 16, 2018
http://glasstire.com/2018/02/16/three-texans-receive-tiffany-grants/

2017

Artnet, Featured Exhibition, Beverly Penn: Perpendicular to the Force of Gravity, November 2, 2017, http://www.artnet.com/galleries/william-campbell-contemporary-art/beverly-penn-perpendicular-to-the-force-of-gravity/

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HR2131/id/1620512

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/85R/billtext/html/HR02131I.htm

http://www.arts.texas.gov/initiatives/texas-state-artist/current-state-artists/

Houston Chronicle, Award Recognition, Texas State Artists, by Molly Glentzer, May 18, 2017
http://www.chron.com/news/article/George-Straight-Kermit-Oliver-among-the-new-crop-11155802.php

Austin American Statesman, News by Peter Blackstock
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/george-strait-marcia-ball-named-texas-state-musicians-for-2017-2018/OJP2ezWxqpJUt8yOQzKj2K/

2016
Exhibition Profile, Racine Art Museum,  http://www.ramart.org/content/precious-metals-shining-examples-rams-collection

2015
Cassilhaus International Residency and Collection blog, March 4, 2015, http://cassilhaus.typepad.com/cassilhaus/2015/03/beverly-penn.html
Artist Profile, http://vaudeville-gallery.com/portfolio/beverly-penn
Exhibition Profile, http://vaudeville-gallery.com/beverly-penn-fractured-landscapes

2014
UT San Diego, Exhibition Review, Penn a Sculptor by Nature, by James Chute, Visual Arts, p. 1, June 14, 2014, http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jun/14/lux-art-institute-beverly-penn/
Glasstire, Exhibition announcement, June 5, 2014, http://www.glasstire.com/socal/events/2014/06/19/beverly-penn/
art ltd., Exhibition Announcement, A Panoramic View, curated by James Surles, p.60

2013
Art & Seek, Exhibition Profile, Beyond Natural of the Texas Biennial, Oct 13, http://artandseek.org/
San Diego Union-Tribune, Exhibition Profile, Lux Sets Course for 2013-14, by James Chute, June 14, http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/visual-arts/sdut-lux-art-institute-artists-2014-2013jun14-story.html
La Jolla Light, Exhibition and Residency Profile, Lux Art Institute Begins Seventh Season of Resident Artists, August, http://www.lajollalight.com/2013/08/14/lux-art-institute-begins-seventh-season-of-resident-artists/
Lux Art Institute Online Exhibition Profile, 2013 http://www.luxartinstitute.org/Artist-Residency/Beverly-Penn

2012
Houston Press, Exhibition Review, Interstitial Spaces Julia Barello & Beverly Penn by Meredith Deliso, August 29, 2012 http://www.houstonpress.com/2012-08-30/culture/capsule-art-reviews-glass-graphica-interstitial-spaces-julia-barello-amp-beverly-penn-james-turrell-holograms-layover-matt-weedman-order-no-227-perry-house-elegance-violence-sky-trees-and-earth/
ModernHouston.net, Exhibition Review, Art, Artists, and Galleries: Beverly Penn by Todd Camplin, 5/12/2012, http://camplinart.blogspot.com/2012/05/beverly-penn.html
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Press Release, When Nature Takes Over by Anna Walker, March 9, 2012, http://www.crafthouston.org/2012/03/09/when-nature-takes-over/
Interstitial Spaces Interview, Houston, TX (Penn interview begins @ 2:07 minutes), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3fwiSfZADE&feature=youtu.be
Front Row Interview, Houston, TX (Penn interview begins @ 6 minutes), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3fwiSfZADE&feature=youtu.be

2011
Austin American Statesman,Exhibition Review “10th Anniversary Show” by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, www.inthegalleriesaustin.com
Artnet, Featured Artist, www.artnet.com
Clara Database of Women Artists, Library and Research Center, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Featured Artist, clara.nmwa.org
Austin Chronicle, Exhibition Review by Robert Faires 7/1/2011,Mona Remix., http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2011-07-01/mona-remix/
austin360.com, Exhibition Review by Luke Quinton, ‘Mona Lisa’ inspires new takes on femininity
Austin Woman Magazine, Exhibition Review by Marilyn McCray, 9/13/2011, Arts, The Mona Lisa Project, 7/20/2011, http://www.austinwomanmagazine.com/art
Texas Contemporary Art, Exhibition Revierw, 8/13/2011, New Works: The Mona Lisa Project at the Austin Museum of Art, http://www.texascontemporaryart.com/2011/08/25/”new-works-the-mona-lisa-project”
Still Nature: The Sculpture of Beverly Penn, Video, The Grace Museum
Glasstire, Beverly Penn: Still Nature announcement, http://www.glasstire.com/events/2011/10/16/beverly-penn-still-nature/
ArtsHound Houstton, http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/441427091/%E2%80%8BBeverly_%E2%80%8BPenn_Still_%E2%80%8BNature
Exhibition Review, Beverly Penn: Still Nature by Todd Complin, http://www.modernhouston.net/beverly_penn_mcmurtrey_gallery.html
The Journal Times: May 19, 2011, p. 4, Racine WI
Express Milwaukee.com: Exhibition Review, Artists Explore Place by Peggy Dunigan, http://shepherdexpress.com/article-15141-artists-explore-plac.html

2010
International Sculpture Center, Monarch Sculpture Park, Featured Artist, http://www.sculpture.org
Artifacts: Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec, Beverly Penn Illuminates Natural Conflicts. p. 3., http://www.thegracemuseum.org/…/ARTIFACTS%20Sep-Dec%202010.pd…

2008
Arts: CAM 2008: “Equivocal Topographies” Exhibition Review by Emily Seale, 7/9/08, http://www.sacurrent.com
Art in America :  Annual 2008 – 2009, Gallery Listings

2007
Art in America :  Annual 2007 – 2008, Gallery Listings
DWELL: June 2007, Exhibition Photo, p. 192

2006
American Craft:  December 2005 – January 2006, Gallery, p. 60.

2005
ArtLies; Winter 2005, “Hillevi Barr and Beverly Penn” by Retha Oliver, p. 80.
El Paso Times:  11/6/ 2005, Exhibition Review by Kim Roedl, Arts & Culture.

2004
Art in America:  Annual 2004 – 2005
Austin American Statesman:  8/26/04, Exhibition Review by Erin Keever
Austin American Statesman:  2/19/04, Review by David Mead
Austin Chronicle:  2/20/04, Arts Review by Robi Polgar
Metalsmith:  Fall 2004, “Beverly Penn:  Shadows of the Absolute” feature article by Glen R. Brown
San Antonio Express-News:  2/23/04, Exhibition Review by Dan Goddard

2003
ArtLies; Spring 2003, “At the Edge of Paradise” by Katie Robinson Edwards, p. 66-7.
Metalsmith:  Summer 2003, “Making Meaning” exhibiton review  by Susan Holt, p. 49.
Sculpture Magazine:  September 2003, Exhibition Review (with photos) by Nancy Bless, p. 74 – 5.
Voices of Art Magazine:  Volume 11, Issue 1, “At the Edge of Paradise” by Mamie Moore, p. 28-9.

2002
Art in America:  Annual 2002
Austin American Statesman:  7/1/02, Editorial (with photos), Life & Arts
Austin American Statesman:  12/10/02, Exhibition Review (with photos), Life & Arts
Austin Chronicle; 12/20/02, “Art for the City”  by Sarah Hepola, p. 34 – 38
Austin Museum of Art Quarterly:  No. 16/Fall 2002, p. 1 – 3
New Orleans Art Review:  March/April 2002, Exhibition Review (with photos) by Thomasine Bartlett, p. 12-13
San Marcos Daily Record:  3/31/02, Press Release (with photo)
Texas Architect:  March/April 2002, “Neighborhood Lost and Found” by Heather McKinney, p. 28 – 33

2001
Art in America:  Annual 2001
Austin American Statesman:  1/7/01, Exhibition Review, Life & Arts
Austin Parks and Recreation Department Annual Report 2000 – 2001, Growth and New Horizons: Art in Public Places (with photos), p. 24
San Antonio Express-News:  1/6/01, Exhibition Review (with photo)

2000
Art in America:  Annual 2000
ArtLies:  Spring 2000, No 26, Article “Texas Women Sculptors” by Joy Mullett and MaryRoss Taylor, p.2-5
ArtLies:  Summer 2000, No. 27, Exhibition Review “Works on Paper” at dberman Gallery by Gail Sanders (with photo), p. 51
Austin American Statesman:  12/2/00, Exhibition Review, Life & Arts
Austin American Statesman:   4/15/00, Exhibition Review, Life & Arts
Irving News:  2/20-23/2000, Scene, Exhibition Review (with photo)
Metalsmith:  Exhibition Review, Lisa Strange, Vol 20, No 2, Spring 2000 (with photos)
Southern Living Magazine:  April 2000, Vol 35, No 4, by Lynn Nesmith (with photos)

1999
Art in America:  Annual 1999
Metalsmith:  Featured Artist, 1999 Exhibition in Print, Vol 19, No 4 (with photo)
San Antonio Express-News:  3/27/99, Exhibition Review (with photo)

1998
Art in America:  Annual 1998
ArtPapers:  New Trends in Contemporary Art:  May/June 1998, Exhibition Review, p. 45.
New Orleans Art Review:  January/February 1998, Exhibition Review (with photo) by Karl F. Volkmar
New Orleans Times-Picayune:  Exhibition Review (with photo), Lagniappe

1997
Art in America:  Annual 1997
Austin American Statesman:  1/21/97, Exhibition Review, Entertainment
Austin American Statesman:  4/10/97, XLent
Austin American Statesman:  4/16/97, Exhibition Review (with photo), Life & Arts
Houston Chronicle:  11/22/97 (with photo), Weekend
San Antonio Express-News:  3/25/97, Exhibition Review (with photo)

1996
Art in America:  Annual 1996
Austin American Statesman:  6/10/96, Exhibition Review, Life & Arts
Metalsmith:  Featured Artist, 1996 Exhibition in Print, Vol 16, No. 4 (with photo)

1995
American Craft Magazine:  April/May 1995, Article (with photo) “Sculptural Concerns-Contemporary American Metalworking” by Nancy Princenthal
Circa: the Texas Based Journal of Contemporary Art:  Number Two, Winter 1995, Exhibition Review (with photo) by Madaline Irvine, pp. 25-6
Metalsmith:  Exhibition Review, Rebecca Scheer, Vol. 15, No. 3, Summer 1995 (with photo)
New Art Examiner:  Summer 1995, Exhibition Review (with photo) by Don Baciagalupi, Curator, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX
San Antonio Express-News:  3/1/95, Exhibition Mention (with photo)
San Antonio Express-News:  3/26/95, Exhibition Review

Articles

Art & Design’s Beverly Penn to present Presidential Seminar
Community Core Sample Project
Threshold Project
Veneration I: Red Figure
Texas State Faculty Profile
Lisa Sette Gallery
Beverly Penn Weeds Catalog
Beverly Penn Still Nature Catalog (part 1)
Beverly Penn Still Nature Catalog (part 2)
Beverly Penn Still Nature Catalog (part 3)
Penn @ National Museum of Women and the Arts (part 1)
Penn @ National Museum of Women and the Arts (part 2)
Beverly Penn Feature Article Metalsmith

Selected Collections

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Austonian, Austin, TX
Mikal Watts, Satts Guerra Craft, L.L.P., San Antonio, TX
Cindy Ward, Dallas, TX
Sam Pate, Austin, TX
Ann Kaplan Collection, New York, NY
Rusnak Collection, Chicago, IL
Jorden Collection, Scottsdale, AZ
Luanne and Charles Cullen collection, Austin, TX
Carol and Adam Wagner collection, Austin, TX
Pastor collection, Chicago, IL
Carl Deo collection, Los Angeles, CA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Whole Foods Landmark Headquarters, Market District, Austin, TX
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Heather McKinney collection, Austin, TX
Lehrmitt/Drinkwine collection, Austin, TX
Heinen collection, Austin, TX
Bless collection, Austin, TX
Camille Lyons collection, Austin, TX
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
New Mexico State University Library, Special Collections and Rare Books, Las Cruces, NM
CarrAmerica Corporation, Austin, TX
City of Austin, TX
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
University of Texas at El Paso Library, Special Collections and Rare Books, El Paso, TX
Bickerstaff, Heath, Smiley, Pollan, Kever & McDaniel, L.L.P., Austin, TX
Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, Attorneys at Law,  Austin, TX
Patricia Meadows, Meadows Foundation, Dallas TX
Robert Levine collection, Edwards, CO
Rebecca Cohen collection, Austin, TX
Arthur Rogers collection, New Orleans, LA
Forsmith collection, Houston, TX
Monarch Center for Contemporary Art, Tenino, WA
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY at New Paltz, NY
Susan Grant Lewis collection, New York, NY
Rachelle Thiewes collection, El Paso, TX
Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, New York
Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin
Farago Foundation, Inc., Providence, RI
Ann Davis collection, El Paso, TX
City of Las Cruces, New Mexico

Gallery Representation

Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX

Flatbed Press, Austin, TX

Grants and Fellowships

2017

Research Fellowship, Texas State University

2014
Lux Art Institute Artist Grant, Encinitas, CA, Fractured Landscapes

2000
The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, Janus at the Threshold:  The Ethics of Architecture and the Architecture of Ethics

1996
Abilene Cultural Affairs Council, supported by Texas Commission on the Arts

1994
Connemara Conservancy Artist Grant

1989-90
Fulbright-Hays/Spanish Government Grant, Barcelona, Spain

1990-2017
Twelve Texas State UNIV Research Grants and Sabbaticals, Texas State University

Honors and Awards

2017

Louis Comfort Tiffany Artist Award Grant, c/o American Federation of Arts, New York. One of 30 artists selected from 154 nominees by trustees Phong Bui, Co-Founder and Artistic Director, The Brooklyn Rail; Charles LeDray, Artist; Alison de Lima Greene, Isabel Brown Wilson Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Kerry James Marshall, Artist; and outside jurors Ruth Estevez, Director & Curator, Gallery at REDCAT; Chrissie Iles, Curator, The Whitney Museum of American Art; and Bruce Pepich, Executive Director and Curator of Collections, Racine Art Museum, WI.

Texas State Visual Artist 3D 2017, Texas Commission on the Arts

2016
Nominated, Texas State Visual Artist 3D 2015, Texas Commission on the Arts

2015

Finalist, Texas State Visual Artist 3D 2015, Texas Commission on the Art

2014
Nominated, Texas State Visual Artist 3D 2015, Texas Commission on the Arts

2012-2013

Presidential Research Award with Faculty Developmental Leave, Texas State University

2010
Gold Alumni Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at El Paso

2008-2009
Presidential Seminar Award for Research, Texas State University

2007
Nominated for the 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize

2004
Top Individual Artist of 2004, Austin Chronicle, Austin, TX
Top Group Exhibition of 2004, Austin Chroncle, Austin, TX

2003
Visual Artist of the Year (female, with Jill Begdood), Austin Critics Circle, Austin, TX

2000
Nominated by Dr. Jerome Supple, President, Southwest Texas State University to represent the university for the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship, national competitive research award

1996
Juror’s Award, New American Talent: The Twelfth Exhibition, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX, traveling

1994
Juror’s Award, Sculpture at the Plaza, Plaza of the Americas, Dallas, TX

1993
Juror’s Award, Crossing Over The White Line, Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, TX
Amy Monier Award, Crossing Over The White Line, Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, TX
Juror’s Award, Confluence 1993,  Duncan- McAshen Visual Arts Center, Ingram, TX
Excellence in Writing Award, Editorial Advisory Panel of Metalsmith, annual award for published writing

Public Art Commissions

2017-2019

Carte Hilton Hotel, LEED certified, Entry Plaza and Courtyard, San Diego, CA

2015-2016
Moody Foundation Corporate Headquarters, Galveston, TX

2013
Texas State University, DHRL Administration Building, San Marcos, TX

2008-2010
719 Ash Project, LEEDS certified Hilton, San Diego, CA. Joseph Wong Design Associates, Inc.
The Austonian, Austin, Texas.  Lobby commission.  Ziegler Cooper Architects.
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.  UTEP Ceremonial Mace regalia commission.

2005-2006
Whole Foods Landmark Headquarters, Austin, Texas. Natives, site-specific sculpture commission. Schlosser Development Corporation, Architects and Construction.
McCoy College of Business Administration, Texas State University. Outside In site-specific sculpture commission. Garza, Bomberger & Associates, Architects, W. G. Yates & Sons Construction Company.

2002-2005
Art in Public Places Grant, City of Austin, TX, The Spiral Garden at Town Lake Park. Lead Artist

2000-2004
Art in Public Places Grant, City of Austin, TX, JJ Pickle Elementary School/St. John’s Neighborhood Multipurpose Center (with Steve Wiman) Community Core Sample Project and the Threshold Project

1985
City of Las Cruces, NM, Unity in Diversity. Site-specific public sculpture, Albert N. Johnson Memorial Park.

Residencies

2017

Smitten Forum Residency, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA, Jan
La Romita with Flatbed Press, Terni, Umbria, It aly

2014
Lux Art Institute, Artist Residency, Encinitas, CA

2013
Haystack Mountain School Teaching Residency, Deer Isle, ME

2000
The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy

1997
Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR, 1997 Senior Summer Residency

Books

2023 

Suzanne Ramljak and Kathryn Blair Moore, Beverly Penn:  Foregrounding, published by French and Michigan; designed by M Wright; printed by die Keure, Belgium, funded by Tiffany Foundation, American Federation for the Arts (forthcoming fall 2023)

Elizabeth Lynch, NMWA Director of Publications, editor, National Museum of Women in the Arts:  Collection Highlights, featured artist p. 52, Hirmer Publishers, Munich

2017

Jen Townsend and Renee Zettle-Sterling, CAST, featured artist pp. 60, 90-91, 123, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd

2016

Katherine Brimberry and Mark Lesly Smith, Flatbed Press at 25, with essay by Susan Tallman, featured artist p. 326-7, University of Texas Press, Austin

2007
The Book as Art:  Artist’s Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Krystyna Wasserman, 2007, Princeton Architectural Press, New York

2006
Becky Duval Reese, Texas 100:  Selections from the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso Museum of Art Foundation

2004
1000 Rings, Marthe Le Van, Lark Books, Altamont Press, Inc., Ashville

1994
One Of A Kind, Susan Grant Lewin, 1994, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York