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Judith Bergerson holds a degree in Fine Art from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, with additional work at The California College of Arts and Crafts, St. Cloud State University, Dominican College of San Rafael, and C.W. Post College of Long Island University. In addition she has participated in numerous workshops with nationally known artists, including Steven Quiller, Louise Cadillac, Virginia Cobb, Al Brouilette, and Gerald Brommer. She has taught art in the public schools as well as in a variety of private classrooms and workshops. She works primarily in painting (acrylics), drawing, printmaking, collage, and mixed-media. She is a signature member of the National Collage Society.

"I have had a life-long fascination with shapes, textures, contrasts, and relationships. Whether I'm looking at a landscape, a city, or a bowl of fruit, it's the interaction among the forms that I find most exciting. I often begin a piece with a relatively realistic rendering of a subject. I then leave the source material and let the painting itself carry me along. As I paint I do not attempt to imitate some pre-determined reality. I consider each painting an entity in and of itself (its own reality, if you will), the result of this exploration of shapes and relationships. "

EXHIBITIONS:
Minnesota State Fair
Northern Lights
Minnesota Watercolor Society
East Central Arts Council “Image” Shows (numerous awards)
St. Croix Center For the Arts
Anderson Windows Exhibition Program
Century College (both one-man and group exhibits)
Iris Art Gallery, Lindstrom, Minnesota (both one-man and group exhibits)
Woodsedge Gallery (Forest Lake, Minnesota)
“Foot in the Door Show” Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
National Collage Society, Lincoln Center, NYC
Art Beat Gallery (Hayward, Wisconsin)
Bethesda Gallery Cafe (St. Paul, MN)

Durango Arts Center (Durango, CO)

Gallery 3/ The Phipps Center for the Arts (Dec.2004-Jan.2005), Hudson, WI
“Color(ing)” : an exhibit of 40 crayon drawings

2nd Annual Summer Mail Art Exhibition/summer 2005 at The Trunk Space, Phoenix,AZ

American Collage Exchange, International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction, Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Community Arts Center/ 9X12 Works on Paper

Croixdale/ Bayport, MN

Up North Fine Art Gallery / Lindstrom, MN Oct.'05-present

National Collage Society 21st Annual Juried Exhibit/ Butler Institute of American Art/ Salem, Ohio

Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, TX.

National Collage Society Postcard Show /Cuyahoga Valley Art Center (Cuyahoga Falls, OH)

Art Institutes International Minnesota: one-man show/crayon drawings (August '06)

Chocolate Spoon Cafe Gallery/ White Bear Lake, MN (January'07)

Real Tart Gallery (New Plymouth, NZ)
International Collage Show and Exchange (NZ) 2004, 2005,2006,2007, 2008,2009,2011

Art Dialogue Gallery/ Buffalo, NY (June-July'07)

The Minneapolis Foundation/IDS Building/ Minneapolis, MN (May-August'07)

Franklin Bank/Washington Avenue Branch/Minneapolis, MN (February-August'08)

National Collage Society Postcard Show/Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen ( Glen Allen, VA)

More Than Green/ Woodsedge Gallery, Forest Lake, MN (June'08)

The Butler Institute of American Art/ Youngstown, OH/ 12th Annual Postcard Collage Exhibit (May-June'09)/Award Winner

Western Colorado Center for the Arts/ Grand Junction Colorado/ 12th Annual Postcard Collage Exhibit (July'09)

Re-Imagining America/ Three Pines Studio/ Cross Village, MI (June-July'09)

3rd Annual Art Affair/ St. Paul, MN (October'09) Award Winner

4th Annual Art Affair/ St. Paul, MN (October'10)

National Collage Society/ 25th Annual Juried Exhibit/Atlanta, GA (November-December, '09)

Essential Art (Visual Arts MN 10th Annual Juried Competition and Exhibition)/St. Cloud, MN/January-February'10/Award Winner

Essential Art (Visual Arts MN 11th Annual Juried Competition and Exhibition)/St. Cloud, MN/January-February'11/ honorable mention award

RealTart Gallery/New Plymouth, NZ/ (April '10)

13th Annual Postcard Collage Exhibit (NCS)/ Mansfield Art Center, OH (June-July'10)

Art Ala Carte (Visual Arts MN)/ St. Cloud, MN/ June-July'10/ Award Winner

Art Ala Carte (Visual Arts MN)/ St. Cloud, MN/June-July'11/Honorable Mention Award

Trakart Gallery • Plovdiv, Bulgaria

The Nature of Color/ Paramount Arts, St. Cloud, MN/ Jan-Feb 2011/1st place Award

River/ Paramounts Arts, St. Cloud, MN/ 2011

Percy Thomsom Gallery • Stratford, NZ (April '11)

NCS 14th Annual Postcard Collage Exhibit/ Kent State University Downtown Gallery, Kent, Ohio • April-May 2011

National Collage Society/ 2011/ 27th Annual Juried Exhibit

This Planet Earth/ Paramount Arts, St. Cloud, MN/ Nov-Dec 2011/ 2nd place Award

Whitney Center/Clemens East Gallery: Crayon Drawings/ Dec. 2011-Jan. 2012

Permanent Collections
Museo de Collage (Mexico)

Art-Colle (Plemet, Bretagne, France)

IMCAC (Fort Worth, TX)

The Learning Connexion (Taita, NZ)

Hill Country Arts Foundation (Ingram, TX)

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (Boone, NC)

Center for Adult Education (Melbourne, Australia)

Security State Bank of Marine (Minnesota)

Tsanko Lavrenov National School of Fine Arts (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)