Background
Berkenblit grew up in Westchester County, New York one of four children. Her father was a chemist and amateur photographer who used a half-bath as a darkroom.
Berkenblit grew up in Westchester County, New York one of four children. Her father was a chemist and amateur photographer who used a half-bath as a darkroom.
She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1980.
She and lives and works in New York City, and is best known for her feminine–popular-style paintings. Berkenblit is represented by Anton Kern Gallery in New New York Berkenblit is married to American film producer Joshua Astrachan.
Berkenblit presented her first solo exhibition in 1984.
Since then her work has been presented in many solo shows at galleries in Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome and throughout the United States, Ellen Berkenblit’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Farnsworth Art Museum (2011), Artist Space, New York (2009), the New York Academy of Art (2008), the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2007), the Tucson Museum of Art (2005), and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2004). Berkenblit"s paintings are included in numerous public collections, including, amongst others, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New New York
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Master of Engineering. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New New York Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio.
And The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times.
