Bio
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Ilene Berman (she, her) is a St. Louis-based sculptor with a studio practice and a socially engaged arts practice aimed at addressing issues of social justice. Her practice is based on her belief that art can (and should) change the world. She understands change to most often be the result of small shifts often inspired by artful gestures. Ilene has had solo exhibitions of her installation work at Gallery 210 and fort gondo compound for the arts. For the past ten years her socially engaged work has primarily been focused in the Covenant Blu-Grand Center neighborhood of St. Louis where she partners as a catalyst for arts initiatives with neighborhood residents. Her project, Room13Delmar, a tricycle-based mobile art studio, was the recipient of an Interchange Artists Grant. Ilene's work has been featured in Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, St. Louis American, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, on the BBC and is a part of the Arte Util Archive. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and is an Assistant Professor in the Fine and Performing Arts Department of Saint Louis University.
get in touch: ilene.nodhouse@gmail.com
