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Beverly Fishman

For 27 years she led painting at Cranbrook while making work about medicine and the body.

This artist's work is shown through the museum and artist links on this page while it remains under copyright or awaits a permission-cleared image.

Fishman was born in Philadelphia and was artist in residence and head of Cranbrook's Painting Department from 1992 to 2019.

Her work addresses pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs and the body. Her installation Intervention filled the Detroit Institute of Arts' entrance hall in 1995. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005.