15 Facts About Pat Steir

Pat Steir was born on 1938 and is an American painter and printmaker.

Pat Steir has won numerous awards for her work, and is thoroughly represented in major museum collections in the United States and abroad, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Tate Gallery.

Pat Steir is a founding board member of Printed Matter bookshop in New York City, and of the landmark feminist journal, Heresies, first published in 1977.

Pat Steir has taught art at Parsons School of Design, Princeton University and Hunter College.

Pat Steir has lived and worked primarily in New York City as an adult.

Pat Steir attended the Pratt Institute in New York, where she was influenced by her teachers Richard Lindner and Phillip Guston, and Boston University College of Fine Arts.

Pat Steir returned to Pratt and earned a BFA degree in 1962.

In 1962, the year she graduated from art school, Pat Steir was included in a group show at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.

Pat Steir rose to fame in the 1970s with monochromatic canvases of roses and other images that were X-ed out.

Pat Steir has made installation work and is an important printmaker.

Pat Steir has had one-person painting exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum in 1984 and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 1987, both of which traveled to other museums, many in Europe.

In 1995, the monograph Pat Steir was published by the American art critic Thomas McEvilley, chronicling the artists' life work up to that point.

In November 1999, Steir was the subject of an Art in America cover feature, "Watercourse Way," by critic G Roger Denson, who wrote that Steir's lyrical waterfall paintings attest to her long-standing interest in Asian art and thought, particularly the ancient Chinese philosophy of Daoism, with Steir's literal and figurative motif embodying the flow of water down a surface.

Pat Steir was the recipient of Individual Artist and Art in Public Institutions grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts in 1982.

In 2016, Pat Steir was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.