Barbara Nessim is an internationally known artist, illustrator and educator. She received her art training at Pratt Institute (1956-60) in the Department of Illustration and Fine Art. Since 1980 she has been using the computer to create art and has lectured widely on the subject.
Her paintings and drawings are part of numerous public and private collections and have been shown in museums and galleries worldwide. Nessim's work is in the permanent collection of The Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, USA; Lunds Kunsthal, Lund, Sweden; and the Szepmuveszeti Museum in Budapest, Hungary, among others. Nessim's work has been extensively shown including The Kunst Museum in Dusseldorf and The Louvre in Paris, as well as a solo exhibition at the Centro Colombo Americano in Bogota, Colombia and most recently in 2003 at bitforms gallery in New York City's Chelsea area. Nessim's artwork has appeared in many publications and has graced the covers of Time, Rolling Stone, and Frankfurter Allgemeine.
She taught in the MFA Computer Arts Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1987-92, and served as Chairperson of Illustration at Parsons School of Design in New York from 1992-2004. From 2004-2006 she was a Professor in the Illustration Department at Parsons. She is currently working on several commissions for building lobbies in New York City.
curriculum vitae
other works
Read an essay by the artist about her sketchbooks
See Barbara Nessim's sketchbooks that the images used in her larger work come from
