Bruce Herman: Body, Beauty, Brokenness

Bruce Herman (American, b. 1953) is a painter, writer, and educator.

Herman’s art has been shown in more than 150 exhibitions — nationally in a dozen US cities, including New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, and Los Angeles and internationally in Canada, Italy, England, Japan, Hong Kong, and Israel. His artwork is featured in many public and private art collections including the Vatican Museum of Modern Religious Art in Rome; The Cincinnati Museum of Fine Arts print collection; The Grunewald Print Collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; DeCordova Museum in Boston; the Cape Ann Museum; and in many colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada.

Herman taught and curated exhibitions at Gordon College for nearly four decades, and is the founding chair of the Art Department there (begun 1988). He held the Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in Fine Arts — Gordon’s first fully endowed distinguished chair — for more than fifteen years. He completed both BFA and MFA degrees at Boston University College of Fine Arts under American artists Philip Guston, James Weeks, David Aronson, Reed Kay, and Arthur Polonsky. He was named Boston University College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumnus of the Year 2006.

Herman’s art was published in a thirty-year retrospective in the book Through Your Eyes, 2013, Grand Rapids, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, and may be found in dozens of journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and online art features.