Biography

Born in 1938 in Newark, New Jersey and currently resides in both New York and Amsterdam.  Steir attended the Pratt Institute in New York in 1956-58 and Boston University College of Fine Arts in 1958-60, then returned to Pratt to receive a BFA in 1962.  Subsequently, Boston University awarded her with their Distinguished Alumni Award in 2001 and the Pratt Institute gave her an honorary doctorate in 1991.  Steir was included in a group exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in 1962, the year she graduated from art school.  In 1964 her work was in a show called “Drawings” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  During that time, she worked in New York as an illustrator and a book designer. Around 1970 she became friends with Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, and other conceptual artists, and she made a trip to New Mexico to visit Agnes Martin.
A painter, printmaker and occasional installation artist, Steir has had major solo exhibitions at the Corcoran Art Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.  Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and many other national and international museums, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Tate Collection, London.  Steir currently lives and works in both New York and Amsterdam.  This would be the first piece by Pat Steir to enter the Museum’s collection. (SJMA Collections Committee, 6/2007)

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