Education
B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, magna cum laude, 1983 (Fine Arts/English).
M.F.A., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1986 (Fine Arts/Painting).
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, Summer 1985.
M.A., Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1994 (Counseling Psychology).
M.A., Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1997 (Clinical Psychology).
Selected Exhibitions
January 26 - May 4, 2025 Juried Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ. Two prints chosen by Lauren
2025 Rosenblum, juror, “Venus and Adonis” and “Two Witches”.
Oct.12 – Nov. 16, Democracy Under Siege, A National Juried Exhibition, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI.
2024 Painting “Couple Conversing By Jersey Shore” selected by Lorenzo Fusi, Chief Curator of the
Currier Museum.
Sept. 6-22, Vehement Visions: Female Rage and Empowerment, Cunneen Hackett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY.
2024 Painting, “Two Witches” selected in juried exhibit.
August 10-30, 11th Annual Living Mark Exhibit, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
2024 Drypoint, “Venus and Adonis” chosen in juried exhibit.
May 5 - July 23. Mercer County Artists 2024. Mercer County Community College, West Windsor, NJ. Juried exhibit, painting,
2024. “Couple Conversing By Jersey Shore” and etching, “St. Peter” chosen, received Best In Show.
Nov. 29, 2023 - Genre Art Exhibit, Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art, Washington DC. Juried exhibit.
Jan. 28, 2024.
October 2022-24 Open Studio: Tour des Arts, Hopewell, NJ.
May 2017 Hebrew Letter Project, Temple Adat Elohim, Thousand Oaks, CA.
Collage/Painting exhibit related to Torah Scribe Project.
Nov.- Dec. Group Show, 2010, Dickinson Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
2010 Exhibit of selected works from exhibitors of 2010. Program for the Study of Women and Gender.
May 8 – Oct. 31 Reality + Artifice: New Jersey Arts Annual, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.
2010 Collage, “Accident,” selected by jury as part of group exhibition.
July-August People Lying Down: Figure Drawings, Dickinson Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
2010 Program for the Study of Women and Gender.
April-August Porgy and Bess and Others: Collages, Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ.
2009 Twelve collages exhibited inspired by the Gershwin opera.
April 2006- Pinot to Picasso, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ.
April 2012 Works exhibited in exhibit/auction.
March 2007/8- Faculty Show, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ.
May 2007/8
March 2006- Small Works For a Small Space, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ.
April 2006
Aug. 10-30, Peculiar Faces, Struve Gallery, 309 W. Superior, Chicago, Il.
1990 Group show.
July 10- Nina Belfor: Paintings and Drawings, Abel Joseph Gallery, 1600 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, Il.
Aug. 7, 1990 One of two one-person shows. Paintings, watercolors.
Jan. 13- 17, Yale in Chicago, Gallery Vienna Annex, 750 N. Orleans, Chicago, Il.
1989 Group show, paintings.
Nov. 18- The Mythic and the Mundane, .N.A.M.E. Gallery, 700 N. Carpenter, Chicago, Il.
Dec. 9, 1988 Four person show. Paintings and drawings.
Oct. 18-25, Skowhegan: A Ten-Year Retrospective (1975-1985)/ Recent Major Works by 51 Artists Attending the Skowhegan School
1986, and of Painting and Sculpture in the Past Decade.
traveling * Leo Castelli, 142 Greene Street, New York, New York.
throughout * Portland Museum of Art, Portland Maine (June 13- Sept.13, 1987).
1987 Painting chosen in a juried show to travel to selected cities in the U.S.
March 1 - University of Iowa Fine Arts Faculty 1987, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa.
April 5, 1987 Faculty show, three paintings.
May 10- Oppression/Expression, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
June 15, 1986 Juried by Leon Golub and Lowery Sims.
April 14-25, M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Indiana University Fine Arts Gallery, Bloomington, In.
1986 Paintings and drawings
Related Work Experience
Present Member, Drawing Committee, MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Los Angeles, CA.
Review and vote in response to curator presentations on acquisition choices for MOCA within given budget.
2005-2014 Instructor, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ.
Teach adult classes in figure drawing, figure painting, collage, color theory.
1986-87 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Taught Basic Drawing, Life Drawing I and II and Painting I;; conducted critiques, independent studies with
individual graduate students.
1985-86 Teaching Assistant, Fine Arts Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, In.
Taught Fundamental Studio Class, Color Theory and 2D Design.
Awards and Grants
June 1990 Special Assistance Grant awarded by the State of Illinois Arts Council.
1986 Glassell Fellowship for Core Residency in the Visual Arts at the Houston Museum School
(turned down to accept teaching position).
Summer 1985 Indiana U. Graduate School Scholarship to attend Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine.
1983 B.A., Yale U., magna cum laude. Awarded Ethel Childe Walker Prize for excellence in painting, given to one art major
upon graduation.
1982 Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut.
Lectures/Visiting Artist
April 2009 Slide lecture in conjunction with exhibition of collages, “Porgy and Bess and Others,” Princeton Public Library,
Princeton, New Jersey.
Dec. 1, 1988 “DeChirico, Dickinson and Yeats: A Few of My Favorite Metaphysicians,” Slide show, gallery talk, N.A.M.E. Gallery,
Chicago, Illinois.
March 1988 Slide lecture, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
March 1986 Slide lecture, Austin College, Sherman, Texas.
March 1986 Slide lecture, discussion, Iowa Painters’ Workshop, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Selected Collections
Liz Lempert, Princeton, New Jersey
Judith Brodsky, Princeton, New Jersey.
Andrea and Bo Honore, Princeton, New Jersey.
Daniel and Dara-Lyn Shrager, Princeton, New Jersey
Ronnie Davidson, Princeton, New Jersey.
James L. Lentz., M.G. Lewis & Company, Winter Park, Florida.
Kevin Freitas, Chicago, Illinois.
Frances Waddock, Chicago, Illinois.
Nancy Ganiard, Evanston, Illinois.
Stuart Rockefeller, New York, New York.