BEVERLY MCIVER

 

Beverly McIver was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1962. She is
the youngest of three girls born to Ethel McIver. Her oldest sister Renee
is mentally disabled. Renee is 48 but has the mindset of a second grader.
Beverly is Renee’s legal guardian and they currently reside in Durham,
North Carolina.

 

Beverly is widely acknowledged as a significant presence in contemporary
American art in general and has charted a new direction as an African-

American woman artist.  She is committed to producing art that consistently
examines racial, gender, social and occupational identity. Her sister Renee
is a frequent subject of the artist as well as other family members.

 

Her work is in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art, the

Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, N.C., the Baltimore Museum
of Art, the NCCU Museum of Art , the Asheville Museum of Art, The Crocker
Art Museum and the Nelson Fine Arts Museum on the campus of Arizona
State University.

 

She is currently the Suntrust Endowed Chair Professor of Art at North
Carolina Central University. Prior to this appointment, McIver taught at
Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. for twelve years, Duke University,
North Carolina State University and North Carolina Central University.  She
has also held residencies at many of the nation’s leading artist communities,
including YADDO, the Headland Center for the Arts, Djerassi, and Penland
School of Crafts. She has served on the board at Penland School of Arts and
Crafts and currently serves on the board of directors at YADDO in Saratoga
Springs, NY.

 

McIver’s work has been reviewed in Art News, Art in America The New York
Times and a host of local newspapers.  She has received numerous grants
and awards including the Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation grant, a
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard
University, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation award, a distinguished Alumni
Award from Pennsylvania State University, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Award and Creative Capital grant.

 

McIver earned a bachelor’s degree in art from North Carolina Central University,
a master of fine arts degree in painting from Pennsylvania State University and
an honorary doctorate from North Carolina Central University.

 

 

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