Exhibitions
Selected
Summer Afternoon
| 2020 | Ruth Bercaw: BOLD STATEMENTS, Artist’s Archives of the Western Reserve. Cleveland, OH |
| 2019 | "ENGAGING WOMEN," Invitational, The Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
| 2019 | Annual Members Exhibition, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH |
| 2019 | "Gallery 403 – Special Exhibition by Artists of the Artcraft" |
| 2017 | "Americas 2017: All media," National Juried, Hartnett Gallery, Minot State University, Minot, ND |
| 2017 | "Time Will Tell," National Juried, Coburn Gallery, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio |
| 2017 | All Members 2017 Exhibition, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH |
| 2016 | THE WOMEN OF THE WESTERN RESERVE, Bercaw, Heinen, Higgins, Seltzer, AECOM Building, Cleveland, OH |
| 2016 | SPARX, Open Studio, Cleveland, OH |
| 2016 | REINVENTION, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH |
| 2016 | 2016 Annual Members Exhibition, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH |
| 2015 | WATERSHED, Artist Teachers and Students, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland |
| 2015 | RE-EMERGENCE, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH |
| 2015 | "Contemporaries 2015", Invitational, The Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
| 2014 | Open Studio, City Artists at Work, Cleveland, OH |
| 2014 | The NewNow, Regional juried, Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH |
| 2014 | 78th MIDYEAR EXHIBITION, National juried, Butler Institute of American Arts, Youngstown, OH |
| 2014 | "TEXTURES and PATTERNS", Robert Thurmer, juror, AAWR, Cleveland, OH |
| 2014 | "The Spring Show," Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH |
| 2014 | Ruth Bercaw, Marianne Hite, Cathy Clerk Dully, Harris-Stanton Gallery, Akron, OH |
| 2013 | Legacy Favorites, Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH |
| 2013 | Sparx/CAAW Open Studio, Cleveland, OH |
| 2013 | OPPOSITES ATTRACT: Kramer and Bercaw at The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH |
| 2013 | Spring Exhibition, Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH |
| 2013 | "Anatomy of Gray," Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH |
| 2012 | "Open Studio." City Artists at Work, Cleveland, OH |
| 2012 | 2nd Annual Juried QUARTER Exhibition, Zygote Press, Inc., Cleveland, OH |
| 2012 | "Singular Perceptions". Ruth B. Bercaw and Susan Danko, Harris-Stanton Gallery, Akron, OH |
| 2011 | SEE ART, City Artists at Work, Convivium 33 Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
| 2011 | "It Started with an Old Oak", Howson Gallery at Judson, Cleveland, OH |
| 2011 | "Community ARTreach", Juried, Fuller House Gallery, Bay Village, OH |
| 2011 | 75th National Midyear Show, National Juried, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH |
| 2011 | "Painting is a mirror walking along a foreign road", Arte E Pensieri, Rome |
| 2012 | "Intersections", Zygote Press and the LIT, Juried Show, Cleveland, OH |
| 2010 | "Open Studio," City Artists at Work, Cleveland, OH |
| 2010 | Sixth Annual Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry Juried Show, Columbus, OH |
| 2010 | NUUANCE, Invitational, West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, Cleveland, OH |
| 2010 | Centennial Alumni Exhibition, (Juried), Kent State University, Kent, OH |
| 2010 | "The AAWR in 3D", Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH |
| 2010 | "Screened, Work by Ruth B. Bercaw," Intown Gallery,Cleveland, OH |
| 2010 | "Layers, Bercaw Works on Paper," Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Mount Vernon, OH |
| 2009 | "LandfillArt,Org", Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania |
| 2009 | "Open Studio," City Artists at Work, and Plain Dealer Exhibition, Cleveland, OH |
| 2008 | "Dimension 2008," National Juried, Winston Salem, North Carolina |
| 2007 | "Masumi", Juried, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2006 | "Contemporaries: 8", Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2006 | Lunar Year of the Dog, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2005 | "HYBRID," Bercaw and Potter, Fawick Gallery, Baldwin Wallace, Berea, OH |
| 2005 | CAAW, Plain Dealer Sparx, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2005 | ArteFino, Open Studio, CAAW, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2005 | ArtMetro Artists, Art Metro Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2004 | "Artful Art", Thrive Gallery (an Art Space), Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2004 | "BERCAW, Recent Small Works", Intown Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2004 | "Droppings", International Exhibition, Castello del Seprio, Mozzate,Italy |
| 2004 | "Dimensional Paintings by Ruth B. Bercaw," Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio |
| 2004 | "Strength of a View," Edge Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2004 | "Ruth Bercaw Paintings," Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, Ohio |
| 2003 | "Radici e Globalizzazione," (curated by Leo Strozzieri), Pratola Peligna, Italy |
| 2003 | "Droppings", International Exhibition, Westmoreland CCC, Youngwood, Pennsylvania |
| 2003 | 22nd Women Artists, a Celebration, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio |
| 2003 | "City Artists at Work," Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2003 | "le Vie Moderne", Arte e Pensieri, (curated by Leo Strozzieri) Rome, Spoleto, and Termoli, Italy |
| 2002 | "City Artists at Work," Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2001 | 20th Annual Hoyt National Art Exhibition, juried competition, New Castle, Pennsylvania |
| 2001 | "Ruth B. Bercaw, New Paintings," Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, Ohio |
| 2001 | "Form and Color: New Paintings by Ruth B. Bercaw," Bonfoey’s, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2001 | "City Artists at Work," Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2001 | "78th Annual Spring Show," Fred Wilson juried competition, Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania |
| 2001 | "Motion, Color and Light," Buckley, Bercaw and Miko, Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, Ohio |
| 2000 | "Ohio Artists," A Muse Gallery, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2000 | "City Artists at Work," Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2000 | "Sculpture," A Muse Gallery, Columbus, Ohio |
| 1999 | "Abstraction, 2 to 3," Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1999 | "Mirror, Mirror," A Muse Gallery, Columbus, Ohio |
| 1999 | "City Artists at Work," Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1998 | "City Artists at Work," Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1998 | "Abstract Forms," Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1998 | "Paper Transformed," Caren Robinson Peterson, Columbus, Ohio |
| 1998 | "A Groundbreaking Arts Festival," Rocky River, Ohio |
| 1997 | "6th Annual Women’s Invitational," Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio |
| 1997 | "ARTSEEN 97," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1997 | "New Bercaw Paintings," Eddie Moved Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1997 | Painting Exhibition, Shadetree Galleries, Corporate Division, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1997 | Spaces Annual Member Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1997 | "Agnon Fine Art and Craft Exhibition," University Heights, Ohio |
| 1996 | "Fifth Third Bank, Art on the Square Juried Exhibition," Aronoff Center, Cincinnati, Ohio |
| 1996 | "All-Ohio Juried Art Exhibition," Pearl Conrad Art Gallery, Ohio State University at Mansfield, Ohio |
| 1996 | "Ruth Bercaw Paintings," West Shore UUC, 50th Anniversary Celebration, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1996 | "ARTSEEN," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1996 | "Harvest of Rocky River," Westwood Country Club, Rocky River, Ohio |
| 1996 | "Agnon Fine Art and Craft Exhibition," University Heights, Ohio |
| 1996 | "Saint Misbehavin’," Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1995 | "Just Add Water," Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1995 | OHIO WCA 6th Annual Juried Exhibition, Owens Illinois Art Center, Toledo, Ohio |
| 1995 | "Dark and Mysterious, II," Gallery 0022, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1994 | "WOMEN’S INVITATIONAL; NEW AGE," Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio |
| 1994 | "Spatial Variations: New Paintings by Ruth Bercaw," Lowry Gallery, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio |
| 1994 | "Turning Silver into Gold," Cleveland Contemporary, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1993 | "The May Show," Juried competition, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1993 | "Summer Art Fare," Cleveland Contemporary, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1993 | "100th Birthday Celebration," Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1993 | "Healing the Wounds," juried competition. The Little Art Gallery, WCA, North Canton, Ohio |
| 1993 | "The Gift of Art," Cleveland Contemporary, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1993 | "Women’s Voices," Juried competition, Mather Gallery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1993 | "Out of the Square," invitational exhibition, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio |
| 1992 | "MOTHER EARTH," four person exhibition, Ambrosia Gallery, Columbus, Ohio |
| 1992 | "RUTH BERCAW, Recent Paintings," Intown Club Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1992 | "RUTH BERCAW and SHAWN GODWIN - EARTH IMAGES," Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, Ohio |
| 1991 | "Contemporary Art on Canvas," national Juried competition, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, Maryland |
| 1991 | "WOMENSTRENGTH; Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," invitational exhibition, Stocker Center Gallery, Elyria, Ohio |
| 1990 | "Ruth Bercaw Paintings," CAGE Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio |
| 1990 | "Off the Wall," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1990 | "The May Show," juried competition, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1990 | "Choices and Decisions," Chelsea Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1990 | "Proscenium "90" juried competition, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1989 | "The May Show," Special Mention for Painting, Juried competition, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1989 | "Paintings by Ruth Bercaw," Mather Gallery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1989 | "Women Artists: A Celebration," First Place in Painting, regional Juried competition, Youngstown, Ohio |
| 1989 | "United Nations World Environment Day Exhibition," Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1989 | "Governor’s Residence Art Collection (1989/90)," Columbus, Ohio |
| 1989 | "A...to Zi Zi," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1988 | "Shape and Dimension, Works by Bercaw and Farinacci," National City Bank, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1988 | "Painted Wall Sculpture/Paintings by Ruth B. Bercaw," Tenth Street Market, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1987 | "The May Show," Juried competition, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1987 | Park Synagogue Invitational Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1987 | "Fantastic Art - Imagery from Fantasy and Mythology," Northeast Ohio Art Museum, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1987 | "Art in the Garden," Faculty Exhibition, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1987 | NOVA Regional Slide Screening of Cleveland, Boston and Ohio Artists, CMA |
| 1986 | "32nd Annual Exhibition," First Place in Painting, Jewish Community Center, Cleveland, Ohio, (Juror, I. Michael Danoff) |
| 1986 | "Current Visions, II," national juried competition, Germanow Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y. (Susan Crane, Juror) |
| 1986 | "Space: New Form, New Function," national juried competition, Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg, Tennessee |
| 1986 | "The May Show," juried competition, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1986 | "Three Painters, Bercaw, Brause, and Farinacci," SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1986 | "Structural Energy: Bercaw and Fruce," Gallery West, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1986 | "Bercaw and Gamundi," Contemporary Artists’ Series, ARTREACH Gallery, Columbus, Ohio |
| 1986 | "Three Rivers Art Festival," regional juried competition, Pittsburgh (Lynn Gumpert, Juror) |
| 1986 | "Proscenium ‘86," Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1986 | "Six Painters," invitational, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1986 | "The Agnon," invitational Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1986 | "Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty Show," Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1985 | "Other Dimensions: Works by Ruth Bercaw, Lawrence Krause and Michael Loderstedt," B. K. Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, Ohio |
| 1985 | "The May Show," juried competition, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1985 | Faculty Exhibition, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1985 | Kent State University, Thesis Exhibition, Kent, Ohio |
| 1985 | Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio (Richard Estes, Juror) |
| 1985 | "28th Tag Annual," Warren, Ohio (John Moore, Juror) |
| 1985 | "April Arts," Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1985 | Gallery West, CCC Faculty Show, Parma, Ohio |
| 1984 | "Ten Paintings - Ten Painters," Kent State University, Kent, Ohio (Joan Gardner, Curator) |
| 1984 | "Ohio Art in the New Depression," regional juried competition, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio |
| 1984 | Faculty Exhibition, Metropolitan Campus, CCC, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1984 | "Qualifier," Kent State University, Kent, Ohio |
| 1984 | "Painting," First Place in Painting, Fine Arts Association, Willoughy, Ohio |
| 1984 | Jewish Community Center, Special Mention, Painting, (Jane Farver, Juror) Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1984 | Gallery West, CCC West Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1983 | Faculty Exhibition, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1983 | "Portfolio ‘83," NOVA, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1983 | Gallery West, CCC West Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1982 | "My Arts in Cleveland," Sohio award in painting, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1982 | Gallery West, CCC West Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1981 | "DRAWING," juried competition, NOVA, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1981 | "Drawing Invitational," Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, Ohio |
| 1981 | CCC West, Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1980 | "Bonfoey on the Square Painters," Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1980 | "Religous Art," Neuman Society, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1980 | CCC West, Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1979 | "Whiskey Island Painters," Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1979 | "Statehouse Exhibition," Columbus, Ohio |
| 1979 | Cooper School Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1978 | "Emerald Necklace Show," Juror’s Award, Drawing, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1978 | Cooper School of Art, Faculty Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1978 | CCC West, Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1978 | "Statehouse Exhibition," Columbus, Ohio |
| 1978 | "The Emerald Necklace Show," Bay Village, Ohio |
| 1978 | "The Art Show," Rocky River, Ohio |
| 1977 | "International Exhibition of Botanical Drawings," international juried competition, (Kneeland McNulty, juror) Clayton, New Jersey |
| 1977 | "Proscenium ‘77," Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1977 | CCC West, Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1977 | "Arts Showcase," Rocky River, Ohio |
| 1977 | "Paintings and Drawings," Lakewood, Ohio |
| 1976 | "Emerald Necklace Show," Special Mention, Painting, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1976 | "Bercaw at St. Peter’s," Lakewood, Ohio |
| 1976 | "April Arts," Rocky River, Ohio |
| 1975 | "Emerald Necklace Show," Special Mention, Oils, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1975 | "Ruth Bercaw and Steve Cagan," Cain Park, Cleveland Heights, Ohio |
| 1975 | St. Peter’s Invitational, Lakewood, Ohio |
| 1975 | Baycrafter’s Juried Exhibition, Bay Village, Ohio |
| 1975 | PAFAC Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1974 | Women’s Art Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1974 | Artists and Craftsmen Annual, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1974 | Parma Area Fine Arts Council Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1973 | PAFAC Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1973 | Artists and Craftsmen Annual, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1973 | "The Art Show," Rocky River, Ohio |
| 1973 | Women’s Art Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1969 | Parma Area Fine Arts Council Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1968 | "The May Show," juried competition, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1968 | "Bercaw and Backston," Parma Area Fine Arts Council, Parma, Ohio |
| 1968 | PAFAC Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1968 | Women’s Art Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1968 | Artists and Craftsmen Annual, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1967 | "Painters of the Circle Gallery," Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1967 | PAFAC Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1964 | Cooper School Faculty Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1964 | PAFAC Faculty Exhibition, Parma, Ohio |
| 1964 | Artists and Craftsmen Annual, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1962 | "Second Annual Autumn Salon Art Exhibit," First Place Award in Painting, juried, Fort Sill, Oklahoma |
| 1961 | "The Missouri Show, juried competition, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1961 | "Painting Exhibition," Citation Award, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1959 | Ruth Bowles Paintings, The University of Missouri, Rolla, Missouri |
| 1954 | "Women Painters," Kuala Lumpur, Malaya |
| 1954 | "Singapore Art Society Painter’s Annual," Singapore |
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