Howard Berelson

Howard Berelson received his Bachelor of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute in 1962. He left the field of industrial design in 1968 and became an illustrator of children’s books, both trade and text. In 1989 he studied printmaking and discovered personal vision. He is a permanent roster Teaching Visual Artist for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Art in Education Program, teaching in the metropolitan area for over 15 years. He has been married to his treasure, Suzanne for 32 years.

Most recent one- person exhibitions include:
•Producer, project coordinator, curator and exhibiting artist: “Diving into Digital” A Digital Printmaking. Exhibition, The Bergen Museum, Paramus NJ, March 2006 June 1, 2006.
•A Retrospective Exhibition at Monmouth University, January 28 February 16, 2005, Printmaking “From Mono prints to Giclee prints”,
evolving personal vision comes full Circle
•Set (mask) design, for the production “Dancing Under the Orange Tree” Produced at Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ. 2002.
•Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters.

Other One person exhibitions:
The Bergen Museum
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Ben Shahn Galleries at William Paterson College
Passaic Community College

Select group exhibitions:
Tech Art III, Awarded Merit Award, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA , April 13-May 20, 2007
Princeton Theological Seminary, “Biblical Interpretations, Revisited” January 5 February 11, 2005. Pencil drawings, Bible Passages;
The Interchurch center, NY; The Gallery at Presbyterian Church, Franklin Lakes, NJ;; Children^s Book Repository Archives, Rutgers University; Rabbet Gallery (New Brunswick); Artbuilders (Jersey City); Printmaking Council (Georgian Court College); Aljira (Newark); Printmaking Affiliates at John Harms; Tribecca 148 (NY); City without Walls (Newark); Phylis Rothman Gallery, FDU (Madison); Noyes Museum (Oceanville); Pleiades, (NY); Gallerie Renee Denise (Chicago).
Howard is in the permanent collection of The Bergen Museum and the Children’s Book Repository, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, and private collections.

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