born in Boston, MA
SOLO / TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONs
2023
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, (two-person) Taking Shape: Marsha Goldberg & Andrew Zimmerman
Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD, Authentic Reminiscence of Light
2022
Hostetter Arts Center Gallery, Basking Ridge, NJ, Marsha Goldberg
2021
B. Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park, NJ, Marsha Goldberg: New Paintings
2019
Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ, Reiterations: Paintings & Works on Paper
2018
B. Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park, NJ, Niqqudot: Small Paintings
2016
William Paterson University Art Galleries, Wayne, NJ, Marsha Goldberg: Smoke Rises
2013
Beautiful Eyes Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel, Smoke Rises: Drawings
2012
B. Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park, NJ, Lost Language: Drawings 2009-2012
2009
Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA,
Marsha Goldberg: Paintings & Drawings
2008
Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ, Paintings & Works on Paper
2004
Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ,
MFA Thesis Exhibition
1992
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Paintings and Prints
1992
Rugg Road Gallery, Somerville, MA, Travelers
1990
Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA, Paintings and Drawings
1985
Mills Gallery, Boston, MA, Recent Work
1983
Mills Gallery, Boston, MA, Paintings
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University, Faculty Exhibition
2023
West Strand Art Gallery, Kingston, NY, Abstract Configurations
2022
Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD, Carte Blanche
2022
State Museum of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ, 2022 New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence
2021
Art Fair 14C, Jersey City, NJ, Exhibitor Booth B12 with Scott Dedecker
West Strand Art Gallery, Kingston, NY, Abstractions in Space & Time
2019
Art Busan 2019, International Art Fair, Busan, South Korea
2018
William Paterson University Art Galleries, Wayne, NJ, Ink, Press, Repeat: National Juried Printmaking and Book Art Exhbition
Gallery at 14 Maple, Morristown, NJ, Approaching Vibrancy
2017
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Absence and Trace: The Dematerialized Image in Contemporary Art
Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, Wheaton Biennial: Printmaking Reimagined
2016
Victory Halls Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ, New Drawing / New Jersey
2015
Arab American National Museum, Detroit, MI, From Detroit to Baghdad
Art House Productions Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, After Image: Contemporary Artists & Photography
2014
San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
Absence and Presence, A Printmaking Response to the Bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street
William Paterson University Art Galleries, Wayne, NJ. Ink, Press, Repeat: National Juried Printmaking and Book Arts Exhibition
Pierro Gallery of South Orange, NJ, Content in Absence
2013
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ. New Jersey State Council on the Arts: Visual Arts Fellowship Showcase Exhibition
2011
The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, Back Forty
Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, Abstract Reality
2010
Mabel Smith Douglass Library Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Illusive Balance: Transcendental Pattern & Layered Surface
2009
James Howe Art Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ
Arts Guild of Rahway NJ, Undercover: Disguise and Deception in (Some) Contemporary Art
Studio Theatre Gallery, Middlesex College, Edison, NJ, Dead of Winter
Studio Theatre Gallery, Middlesex College, Edison, NJ, Artists at Work
2008
Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, Then and Now
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT, Painting as Presence
Field Report: Work by Members of The Boston Printmakers
2007
Brennan Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, The Nature of Duality
Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ, 2007 New Jersey Arts Annual
2006
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, Studios @35
James Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ, Adjunct Faculty Exhibition
2005
Ben Shahn Center, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, American Impressions: Contemporary American Printmaking, 2005
2004
Visceglia Gallery, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ, Works on Paper
2003
Wiggin Gallery, Boston, MA, Works by Women from the Collection of the Boston Public Library
Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, Fall 2003: Faculty and Student Exhibition
2002
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, Generations III
2001
Ceres Gallery, New York, NY, Cycles
2000
Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, Art at Steepletop
1998
Butler Gallery, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY, Paths to Abstraction
1996
Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Summer Group Show
Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Tucson Collection '96
1995
Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 13th Biennial Invitational
Tucson Jewish Community Center, Tucson, AZ, Southern Arizona Artists
1994
Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, Printmaking at Brickbottom 2
1993
Brickbottom Gallery, 26: Somerville Arts Council Grant Recipients
1991
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, Tree as Image
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, Boston Printmakers 43rd North American Print Exhibition
Wiggin Gallery, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, Recent Acquisitions
Brickbottom Gallery, 32: Somerville Arts Council Grant Recipients
1990
LeSaffre Wilstein Gallery, Boston, MA, Interpretations of Landscape
Roy Gallery, Hanover, MA, Printmaking Invitational
1989
Brickbottom Gallery, Tira Tutti: a collaborative installation
1987
Boston Center for the Arts, Figures in a Landscape, a collaborative installation
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, The Subject is Water
1986
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, Works on Paper
1985-8
Artcetera, Boston, a juried art auction to benefit the AIDS Action Committee
1984
Montserrat School of Visual Art, Beverly, MA, A Sense of Place
1983
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, Art of the State: 1983
Boston City Hall, Boston, MA, 60 Boston Artists
1982-7
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, Within, an annual juried group exhibition
COLLECTIONS
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, New Brunswick, NJ
Capital One, Richmond, VA
Capital One, Washington, DC
Memorial Sloan Kettering, Hackensack, NJ
Westin Hotel, Washington, DC
Inova Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, VA
Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Singapore
(numerous private collections)
AWARDS / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024 New Jersey State Council for the Arts, Finalist Award - Painting
2022 Ucross Foundation Residency Program, Ucross, WY, Fellowship
2019 Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Saratoga, WY, Residency
2016 Ucross Foundation Residency Program, Ucross, WY, Fellowship
2014 Juror's Award - Grand Prize - Ink, Press, Repeat: National Juried Printmaking and Book Arts Exhibition
2013 NJ State Council on the Arts, Fellowship - Works on Paper
2004-8 Boston Printmakers at Emmanuel College, Member
1992 Somerville Arts Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant
1991 Ucross Foundation Residency Program, Ucross, WY, Fellowship
1990 Somerville Arts Council, Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant
1989 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, Residency
1987 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, Residency
1985 Brickbottom Artists Building, Somerville, MA, Founding member
1983 Massachusetts Council for the Arts Fellowship Program, Finalist in Painting
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2024 William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, Adjunct Instructor, Fall semester
2017-18 Part-time Lecturer, Douglass College, Rutgers University
2009 Visiting artist, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
2006-12 Adjunct professor, Kean University, Union, NJ
2005-12 Adjunct professor, Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ
2008 Visiting artist, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
2003-12 Instructor: Workshops at the Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University
2005 Visiting artist, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
2003-04 Instructor: Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
1991 Visiting artist, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1990 Guest critic, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Washington Post, In the Galleries..., by Mark Jenkins, June 30, 2023
Achbar Ha'ir ("City Mouse"), Jerusalem, New Exhibition in a New Gallery, February, 2013
Artscope: New England's Culture Magazine, Back Forty, by Elizabeth Michelman, July/Aug, 2011
Boston Globe, Shades of Bali and Varied Prints at Brickbottom,
by Christine Temin, Sept. 16, 1992
Boston Globe, Critic’s Tip, December 13, 1990
Christian Science Monitor, Art Now: Gestures of Trees, The Paintings of Marsha Goldberg, by Addison Parks, Dec. 16, 1990
Art New England, Printmaking Invitational, Summer, 1990
Boston Globe, Group Shows, July 5, 1990
South End News, The Lay of the Land, by Cate McQuaid, July 5, 1990
Boston Sunday Globe, Printmaking Enters New Period of Creativity, April 8, 1990
Art New England, Tira Tutti, A Collaborative Installation, by Meredith Fife Day, July/August, 1989
Boston Sunday Globe, Art of the State: 1983, by Robert Taylor, July 3, 1983
EDUCATION
MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ
BFA in Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
