Debra Pearlman


Debra Pearlman is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Walker Art Center, New York Public Library, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Museum Sztuki, and Smith College Museum, among others.

Debra is a recipient of The Meredith S. Moody Residency at Yaddo, a grant from The Peter S. Reed Foundation, a Special Editions and an Individual Artist Grant from the Lower East Side Print Shop, and a grant from The Foundation for Contemporary Art. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at SLAG Gallery, Sue Scott, Exit Art, The International Print Center, Richard Anderson Gallery, The Biennial in Lodz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and The Chicago Renaissance Society, with reviews in The New York Times, Print Collector’s Newsletter, Time Out critic’s choice, Art in America, The Chicago Sun-Times and elsewhere. She received her M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her B.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts.

A selection of Debra’s recent work is currently on exhibit at Catskill Art Space and her solo show First Language will open soon at Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn. Some of her new photographic etchings were included in the show Selections 2022 at Garvey Simon. Her one-person show A Kind Of Language appeared at Project: ARTspace in conjunction with Odetta Gallery, and was included in the Zürcher Gallery’s Salon Zürcher 5th Edition: 11 Women of Spirit.

Debra’s work centers around images of children, most of which originate in her own street photographs. She continues to transform and integrate her images over time, in a range of materials, while exploring their ambiguity and metaphorical significance.

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