Background
Judie Bamber was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1961.
Judie Bamber was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1961.
She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts in 1983.
Her often representational paintings explore themes of gender, sexuality, temporality, and memory. She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at Otis College of Art and Design and is best known for Are You My Mother?, which was featured in New American Paintings in 2003 and 2004. Works Judie Bamber creates representational paintings and drawings based on photographic sources ranging from images of female genitalia to seascapes.
Selected Solo Shows Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, New York (2004) Pomona College Museum of Art, Project Series 26 (2005) Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2008) Are You My Mother?, Angles Gallery (2011) Selected Group Women by Women, Heiner Contemporary, Washington, District of Columbia (2011) Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago"s Dinner Participant in Feminist Art History, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (1996).