Maureen Cummins
Maureen Cummins received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, where she studied Fine Art with an emphasis on Printmaking and Book Arts. After studying with printers and binders in California and New York, she set up a working printshop in Brooklyn, NY dedicated to producing limited-edition artist’s books, prints and works-on-paper.. She has been making limited edition artist’s books for over twenty-five years. The work of Maureen Cummins is held in over one hundred permanent public collections throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, England, Africa, New Zealand and South America. Institutional collectors include the National Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Cummins has received over a dozen major grants and awards, including the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. She has been awarded residencies throughout the United States and was recently an artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin, Ireland.