Louise Kramer

Louise Kramer (born 1923, in New York City) is a New York City–based artist, known for working in a wide range of media – from printmaking to drawing, sculpture, and site-specific installation. She has studied with Mark Rothko at Hunter College, with Robert Morris, also at Hunter College, and with Max Beckmann at Cooper Union.

She was one of the founding members of the New York all-women cooperative, A.I.R. Gallery, in 1972.

Kramer has had solo shows at CUNY Graduate Center, May Museum, A.I.R. Gallery, B.J. Spoke Gallery, Central Hall Gallery, and Nassau County Museum of Fine Art. Her work has been included in numerous group shows including the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, S.F. MoMA, and the Jewish Museum.

Her work is held in private and public collections including Smithsonian American Art Museum, Ward Mintz, Ann Sutherland Harris, David Stone, Maurine Rothschild, Jim Long, Eric Lowen Adler (Karlaplan Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden), Nassau Community College, Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Oberlin College Gallery (Oberlin, OH), CUNY Graduate Center (New York, NY), University of Iowa Museum of Art, Marian Orton, Samuel Bass, Lutz & Carr, and R.S. Kwang.

Kramer has been reviewed in "The New York Times", "New York Times Magazine", "New York Magazine", "Artforum", "Art News", "The Village Voice", "Newsday", "Bridge Magazine", and "Arts Magazine". She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts-CAPS.

Venues/organizations: A.I.R. Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Nassau Community College, Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, CUNY Graduate Center, University of Iowa Museum of Art.