Alli Berman is an interactive artist with a fun, inclusive concept. She created her interactive PuzzleArt to help people examine the endless connections in art and life using elemental artist’s tools – color, shape, texture and lines. Her interactive PuzzleArt has been to dozens of countries. Berman leads workshops to help people ages 1 to 101 think outside the box while they Connect to Creativity and to others around the world in her unique program. Her PuzzleArt has been called Brain Fitness art. Her PuzzleArt will be used in Asia in the coming year to help people find new ways to relax and activate their brains in a Hands-On Brain Fitness Initiative.
International PuzzleArtist Alli Berman created her interactive PuzzleArt concept and developed it into various hands-on brain fitness programs to help others improve their cognitive, creativity, learning and problem-solving skills. Berman collaborated with behavioral optometrist Dr. Susan Fisher to develop the first and only therapy which combines Binocular AND Perceptual Therapy and uses interactive abstract fine art at its core. The PuzzleArt Therapy System is now used by vision therapists, occupational therapists, art therapists, neuropsychologists, brain trauma professionals and other specialists in 13 countries.
Berman is an artist, educator, author and lecturer for the past 25+ years. An educational advisor to the American Academy for Anti-Aging Medicine and founder of Anti-Aging Art, her art is exhibited in museums and galleries and in corporate and private collections worldwide. Author of Hands-On Brain Fitness, Hands-On Brain Fitness for Kids, and Adventures with PuzzleArt Alli in 3D!, Berman’s mission is to help millions around the world with her art.
Alli Berman CV
I began my interactive modular art to find the connections. What started as a simple exercise to help me find personal answers after my stroke (CVA) grew into an interactive artform that has traveled the globe these past 20+ years. People ages 1 to 106 have participated in many arts and educational programs and have connected to abstract art, each other, and to me!”
Berman’s layered acrylics have a transparent watercolor quality. Her work is a fusion of Indonesian shadow puppetry, batik, and stained-glass sanctuary windows. It is a celebration of life in spite of all obstacles.
Berman’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the US and in Indonesia. She has shown and shared her work in Grand Cayman, BWI. She had 25 feet of her interactive PuzzleArt in the public atrium at Tilles Center, Long Island, New York. Berman has hundreds of her PuzzleArt paintings on exhibit at the LICM – Long Island Children’s Museum: Swirls, Waves and Puzzles: The Art of Alli Berman through May 2011. Her art is in private and corporate collections around the world.
artist’s resume and statement
Exhibitions (partial list) (s)solo (g)group (r)residency /educational (c)collection
2011 LICM / Long Island Children’s Museum, Garden City, NY (s) (r)
2010 Tilles Art Center Atrium, Greenvale, NY (s) (r)
2010 Tilles Art Center – LI Experience / Fringe Festival, Greenvale, NY (g)
2010 Art As Therapy, Ontario, CA (s)
2010 Israel: Gan Yavneh+Bar Sheva, pre-K thru high school,
special ed+mainstream
2009 Tilles Art Center Atrium, Greenvale, NY (s) (r)
2009 Tilles Art Center – LI Experience / Fringe Festival, Greenvale, NY (g)
2009 My Brevard Exhibition piece chosen for national tour for 2 years (g)
2009 Brevard Art Museum, Florida (g)
2009 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL (g)
2009 Beautiful Aging – Westchester Art Gallery, New York (g)
2009 Italy: Florence + Vicenza, pre-K thru high school,
special ed+mainstream
2009 2 Gallery Shows as well as fundraising event – East End Arts (g)
2008 Extensive Shoulder Surgery – Out of Commission for the year
2007 Celebration of Art, Grand Cayman, BWI (g) (r)
2007 Westin Casuarina Resort, Grand Cayman, BWI (s) (r)
2007 Fairbanks Women’s Prison, Grand Cayman, BWI (r)
2007 Pedro St. James Castle, Grand Cayman, BWI (r)
2007 Art at Governors, Grand Cayman, BWI (g) (r)
2007 Project Connect To Cayman, Grand Cayman, BWI (s) (r)
2006 Mercedes-Benz Manhattan Gallery, New York City, New York (s)
2004-2006 Open Studio Show, The Institute Museum, Chicago, Illinois (s) (r) (c)
2003-2004 Open Studio Show, ARMA Museum, Bali, Indonesia (s) (r) (c)
2003 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (g)
2002 Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA (g)
2002 United Nations Headquarters, General Assembly Lobby, New York (g)
2002 National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC (g)
2002 Thomas Hospital, Fairhope, AL (g)
2002 Minnesota Government Center, Minneapolis, MN (g)
2001-2005 Open Studio Shows: Long Island, New York (s) and Bali, Indonesia (s)
2001 Chicago Cultural Center, Juried Show, Chicago, Illinois (g)
Jury included David Ross, director San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
Joseph McCullough, president emeritus, Cleveland Institute of Art; and
John Killacky, executive director Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2001 Millenium Arts Center, Washington, DC (g)
2001 Russell Senate Rotunda Presidio, San Francisco, California (g)
1999-2007 Rudana Fine Arts Museum, Bali, Indonesia (g)(c)
1999-2007 Rudana Fine Arts Gallery, Bali, Indonesia (g)
1998 East End Arts Council, Riverhead, New York (s)
1998 Lincoln Center, CAAA/Juried, 1st Place abstract, NYC, New York (g)
1996-2007 Agung Rai Fine Art Museum, Bali, Indonesia, (g)(c)
1996-2007 The Institute Museum, Chicago, Illinois (g)(c)
1996-2007 Vila Riverview Gallery, Bali, Indonesia (s)(c)
1994-2007 Rumah Manis Gallery, Bali, Indonesia (s)(c)
1994-2007 Numerous schools, pre-K thru high school, New York; Long Island (s) (r)
1994-2007 Libraries/Art Centers—Nassau and Suffolk counties, New York (s) (r)
1994, 1995 SOHO: 578 Broadway Gallery, New York City, New York (g)
1994, 1995 Champuan Gallery, Bali, Indonesia (g)
1993-1997 Seni Wati Gallery, Bali, Indonesia (g)(c)
1993 Invitational, Schumacher Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (g)
1993 Jacob Javits Federal Building, New York City, New York (s)(g)
1992 Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York (s)(c)
1992-2007 Owl Art Center, Woodmere, New York (g)(c)
1992-2000 Suweta Gallery, Bali, Indonesia (s)
1992-1996 Broome Street Gallery, SOHO, New York City, New York (g)
1992-1994 Agung Raka Gallery, Bali, Indonesia (g)
1992-1994 Agung Rai Gallery, Bali, Indonesia (g)
1992-1994 Juried, Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York City, New York (g)
1991, 1992 98th Street Studio, New York City, New York (s)
1991 SOHO: Critic’s Choice – Monserrat Gallery, NYC, New York (g)
awards/honors (partial list)
JP Morgan Chase Grant, New York
Artist Residency, Florence, Italy
Artist Residency, ARMA Museum, Bali
Artist Residency and solo exhibition awarded by Governor, Aceh, Indonesia
Beckett Award, New York
International Echo Finalist, New York
Long Island Arts Program Grant
OIA “Multiple Images” Curation support, New York
Print International, New York
associations (partial list – past and present)
Educational Advisor to the American Academy for Anti-Aging Medicine
CAAA/Composers, Artists & Authors
Chicago Artist’s Coalition
Liturgical Guild of Ohio
National Art League
New York Artist’s Circle
Women’s Caucus for Art
arts education
Ivan Kamalic, New York; IB Anom, Mas, Bali; Parsons School of Art and Design, New York; Pratt Institute, New York; Studied with artists in their area of expertise during my travels for the past 35 years in Indonesia, Peru, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Galapagos Islands, Europe, Africa, the US, etc. Influenced by Hado’s acrylics since childhood and later by Frankenthaler, Motherwell, Pollack, Still and Kline.
education
2002 to present. Numerous art and computer art classes
2000 to present. Numerous Adult Ed Courses and Retreats: Healing Through Art
2000 to present. Numerous online courses: how to give webinars and teleseminars
1996 BOCES, Video Conferencing Certification Program for Distance Teaching
1989 Stroke
1988 NYU, Masters of Public Administration – one year
1983 Pratt Institute, Masters of Science in Communication – ABT
1975 SUNY at Stonybrook, Bachelors of Art Education and
Bachelors of Art, Art History
1974 SUNY at Stonybrook, Research/Implementation 1st Computer Aided Instruction Lab
