Beth Lipman

Beth Lipman lives and works in Sheboygan Falls, WI.  Her extensive history with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center began in 2003. Lipman is an alumna of the Arts/Industry residency program in both the Pottery and Foundry (2003, 2015), and she had her first solo exhibition, Still Lifes, the same year as her first residency. Lipman was a part of the Arts Center’s group exhibition Arts/Industry: Collaboration and Revelation exhibition in 2014 and one of three Wisconsin artists featured in Living Rooms at the Arts Center in 2016.

In 2019, she began the work on her artist-designed washroom, Wild Madder, for the Art Preserve. Using her prior experience and relationships developed in the Arts/Industry program, Lipman produced more than 1,280 tiles depicting plant species found in Sheboygan County and worked with Kohler Co.’s Waste Lab to use a glaze that repurposes factory byproduct as surface treatments on the plumbing fixtures.

In 2020, the Museum of Art and Design (NY) featured a mid-career survey of Lipman’s work in the exhibition Collective Elegy. Additionally, she has been exhibited internationally at such institutions as the New Britain Museum of Art (CT), the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Ringling Museum of Art (FL), ICA/MECA (ME), RISD Museum (RI), Milwaukee Art Museum, Gustavsbergs Konsthall (Sweden), and the Chipstone Foundation (WI). Her work has been acquired by numerous museums including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (AR), the North Carolina Museum of Art, Jewish Museum (NY), Brooklyn Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Corning Museum of Glass (NY). Lipman has been the recipient of the USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant and is represented by Nohra Haime Gallery (NY), Cade Tompkins Projects (RI), and Ferrin Contemporary (MA).