Artist Resume

PEGGIE “BATIA” LOWENBERG

Born December 31, 1954, NYC

Tel Aviv, Israel (1996-2015)

Boca Raton, Florida (2015-Present)

EDUCATION

GRANTS & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Palm Beach County Artists’ Relief Grant (2020)
The Commons Project $6,000 Public Art Grant, City of West Palm Beach, FL (2020)
Teaching Artist, Boys & Girls Club of Broward County, FL (2018-2019)
Panelist & Juror: Dina Baker Award (2017), Scholastic Art Awards (2018, 2019)
Resident Artist, Zero Empty Spaces, Boca Raton, FL (2020-Present)
Affiliate Artist-in-Residence, Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL (2018)
Dina Baker Fund $10,000 Grant, Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, FL (2016)
Adjunct Instructor, New York University (1983-1996)
Public Lecturer including New School-Parson’s School of Design, NYC (1981-96)
Founding Director, Artists Career Planning Service, NYC (1981-1996)
Performance Grants, Poets & Writers, NYC (1991, 1992)
Organizational Grants to design and manage the Artists’ Hotline & to fund the Artists’ Housing Hotline at the Foundation for the Community of Artists, NYC (1980, 1981)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Abstract Pop! The Commons Project. Sponsor: City of West Palm Beach, FL (2020)
Resilient, Daggerwing Art Gallery, Boca Raton, FL (2020)
Stellar Tropical, Art Trax Gallery at F.A.T Village, Fort Lauderdale, FL (2017)
Stellar Oratorio, Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, Lake Worth, FL (2017)
The Nature of Wonder, Daggerwing Art Gallery, Boca Raton, FL (2017)
Truth=Beauty, Installation & Performance, CB’s 313 Gallery, NYC (1990)

SELECTED PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS

Artists CONNECT Community 30 Artists/30 Days, Boynton Beach, FL (2020)
City Hall/Library Public Art Commission, Boynton Beach, FL Shortlisted Finalist (2020)
Little Libraries Art Installation, Broward County Cultural Division, FL (2019)
Snow White Re-Models, Global Fairy Tale Village, City of West Palm Beach, FL (2018)
The Rose & the Amaranth, Aesop’s Tables, City of West Palm Beach, FL (2017)
Heritage Public Art Project, Delray Beach, FL. Shortlisted Finalist (2016)
Objects from the Plantation, Window Installation, Ceres Gallery, NYC (1990)
Peace/Piece, with Maggie Ens, Soho Zat, NYC (1990)
Objects from Home Installation, Storefront for Art & Architecture, NYC (1986)
Objects for Utopia, Double Gallery Window, Soho 20 Gallery, NYC (1986)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Forces of Nature, ZES@BRiC, Boca Raton Innovation Campus, Boca Raton, FL (2021)
Express Yourself, Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL (2021)
Space Between Us, Bailey Contemporary Arts Center, Pompano Beach, FL (2020)
Stories & Secrets, North Regional Broward College Library, Coconut Creek, FL (2020)
Good Planet, Chamber Gallery, Delray Beach, FL (2019)
Home Show, Fort Lauderdale, FL (2019)
Biennial Art 2018, Nathan D. Rosen Museum Gallery, Boca Raton, FL (2018)
Continuum 2018, WPB Arts Fair, CityPlace, West Palm Beach, FL (2018)
Big & Bold, ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale, FL (2016)
Four Artists, The Pavilion, Jerusalem, Israel (2006)
Anti-Apartheid Show, City University of New York, NYC (1983)
Small Works, Syracuse Museum, Syracuse, NY (1983)
Small Works, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NYC (1981, 1982)
Group Show, Public Illumination Gallery, NYC (1982)
Feminist Art Studio Opening, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (1973)

SELECTED LIVE PAINTING & SOLO PERFORMANCE ART

Abstract Pop! Plein Air Live Art Event, West Palm Beach, FL (2020)
Live Orange, Grand Opening, Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL (2018)
Po Pourri’s Pop-Up, January ArtWalk, Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL (2018)
Vote for Girl Jesus, performed at CB’s 313 Gallery, NYC (1990); Gowanus/Spoke the Hub Dancing, Brooklyn, NY (1991); Soho Dance Workshop, NYC (1993), Women's Caucus for Art Conference, Washington, DC (1991)
Time with Maggie Ens, curated by Zigi Lowenberg, Fashion Moda, Bronx, NY (1990)
ArtGift, AvantGardeArama, Performance Space 122, NYC (1982)
This is You & This is Me, Grand Opening, Women’s Building, Los Angeles, CA (1975)

SELECTED LIVE PAINTING COMPETITIONS & GROUP PERFORMANCES

Live Painter, Art Throwdown, Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL (2019)
Live Mural, ArtsFest, Arts Council of Martin County, Stuart, FL (2019)
Stephen Paul Miller’s Whatever Bernard Goetz, 8BC Club, NYC (1986)
Christian Marclay’s Disc Composition, The Kitchen, NYC (1982)
Meredith Monk’s Paris/Chacon, Oberlin College, Ohio; Joyce Theater, NYC (1974)
Leonard Melfi’s Birdbath, Cornell University Student Director’s Lab (1971)

AS ARTIST-CURATOR

Israeli Artists, Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, Jerusalem, Israel (co-curated) (2003)
The Personal is the Presidential, Spoken Word Events, Prince Street Gallery, NYC; ArtLab Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY (1992, 1992)
Objects of Comfort, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ (1985) New York Times Review
Present Intelligence, Installations, Baca Downtown Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (1986)
Renewal, Educational Alliance (Village Gallery), NYC (1982)

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY & MEDIA:

Interview with Sonja DeLugo. Published on www.ArtMami.org (2021)
Interview for “Space Between Us” Exhibition with Juliana Forero, City of Pompano Beach, FL, Facebook Live, TBA 2020
Interview with Peggie “Batia” Lowenberg, Yale Interviews, Podcast, Praxis Center, 2019
Bloom Where You Are, Lecture, Praxis Center, Facebook Live (2019)
Culture & Cocktails, Cover, Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, 2018-19 Season
Live Painting, Fundraising during Arts Warehouse Monster Drawing Rally & Art Throwdown, Jan Engoren, Boca/Delray Newspaper, June 2019
Boca Artist Whistles While She Works on Snow White Playhouse, Feature Article, Joanie Cox-Henry, Boca & Delray Newspaper, July 2018, P.12
Palm Beach Charity Register Cover Competition, Finalist, 2017, 2018, 2019
Video Interview, Website. Cultural Council for Palm Beach County 2017
Portrait of the Messianic Artist, Sara R. Fischer, Israel Today Magazine, January 2007
City Without Walls: Objects of Comfort, William Zimmer, New York Times, April 14, 1985
The Feminist Art Movement: Standards & Counter-Standards, Senior Project/Thesis, State University of New York at Purchase Library, Archive, 1977