Barbara Milman makes prints, artist books, and mixed media art.  She has exhibited her work in over 25 solo exhibitions and hundreds of group shows throughout the United States. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Art Museum at Yad Vashem, Israel, the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University, and many other museum and other public collections. Her artist books are in museum and university collections, including the Chicago Art Institute, the Getty Museum, the Cleeland Art Institute, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, the Maryland Institute College of Art, Yale University, Stanford University, UCLA, Indiana University-Purdue University Herron Art Gallery, University of Southern California, and many others.

          She has received many awards for her work, including the National Association of Women Artists Medal of Honor &  Elizabeth Morse Genius Award in 1994.  She was awarded a fellowship at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley in 2000, where she continued as an artist-in-residence until 2005.  She has been an artist-in-residence at the Red Cinder Creativity Center in Hawaii, at the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts in Greece, and at the Palenville Interarts Colony in New York.  She is currently the president of the California Society of Printmakers.

          Barbara Milman received her BA from Harvard College, and a

JD from the Columbia University School of law. She practiced law until 1994. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

           Her publications include Zoe's Journal, a year-long illuminated diary of an aspiring young New York artist (Red Parrot Press, 2008) Light in the Shadows, a book of 65 linocuts and text about the Holocaust, (Jonathan David Publishers, Inc, 1997) and Alzheimer’s Dreams, a book of Milman's prints and Victoria Sullivan’s poems, (Red Parrot Press, 2002).  Her work is included in The Best of Printmaking: An International Collection (1997), and in many other books and journals.

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