BIOGRAPHY

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    “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, JapanSelected



Selected Group Shows

2007    “Notes on Utopia,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York

2006    “The Daily News,” Boise Art Museum,
            in 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,” Maya 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

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 ArtThe 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



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

“5x5=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