EDUCATION
1973: BFA, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (* denotes catalogue or brochure)
2016: it is all a mystery  Drawings by Marcy Hermansader 1981-2015”, Bennington Museum, Bennington,VT
2011: Night Work   Michael S. Currier Center Gallery, Putney School, Putney, VT
2009: Back Through Black   Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro VT*
2007: Deep Breath   Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005: One Thousand Subtractions   Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1997: Short Stories   Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1997: Photographs Dreaming   University Gallery, Amherst, MA
1994: Photographs Dreaming   Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991: Abilities and Disabilities   Williams College Museum, Williamstown, MA
1990: Belief in the Underground   DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (traveled to University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA)*
1989: Being Here Only   Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1987: Transparent Being   Cavin Morris Inc., New York, NY
1986: Inside Looking In   Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA*
1983: Marcy Hermansader-Drawings   Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015: Interfaces: Outsider Art and the Mainstream   Philadelphia Museum of Art
2012: The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World   The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
2012: 60/60   Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012: Natural Wonders    Marcy Hermansader, Anda Dubinskis, John Udvardy, BigTown Gallery, Rochester,VT
2011: Small   Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
2007: Portland Museum of Art Biennial   Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2006: Rock, Paper, Scissors: American Collage Now   Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2004: The Drawn Page   The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2002: Art in Embassies Program, Montevideo, Uruguay
2000: Fantastica:  Flora and Fauna   Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2000: The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self-Portraits by Sixty Women   curated by Judith Stein, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
1998: Mindscapes: Extending the Limits of Reality   Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
1996-98: Objects of Personal Significance: Women Stretching the Definition of Still Life   Tarble Art Center, Charleston, IL, (traveled to Texas Tech., Lubbock TX, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN and Hunter Museum of Art,               Chattanooga, TN)*
1997: Dream Botanicals   Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1994: Body and Soul, Contemporary Art and Healing    DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA (traveled to Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL)*
1991: Visionary Healing-Contemporary Saints   Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
1991: The Expressive Moment   Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown, PA
1991: Transformations   Pat Adams, Gregory Gillespie and Marcy Hermansader, Brattleboro Museum, VT
1990: Insider   Art Vermont travelling exhibition*
1989: Book in Hand   Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
1987: Art & the Law   The West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN*
1987: New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States   DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA*
1987: The Atlanta Biennale   Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1987: Neo-Alchemy   Cavin Morris Inc., New York, NY, Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1986: Philadelphia Collects: Art Since 1940   Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA*
1986: Timeless Tables: A Still Life Exhibition   Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA*
1986: Real Surreal   Park Avenue Atrium, New York, NY
1986: Inaugural Exhibition   Cavin Morris Inc., New York, NY
1986: Letters Women's Caucus for Art   The Clocktower, New York, NY
1985: RAPE   Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH*
1985: Poet-Artist Collaboration    Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT*
1985: An Inside Place   The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ*
1985: Curators Choice   The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY*
1984: The Myth of the Bride   San Antonio College Galleries, San Antonio, TX    
1984: Domestic Tales    University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA*
1984: Contemporary New England Still Life   DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (traveled to Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI)*
1984: Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Art and Architecture Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (traveled to The Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN)*
1984: Imagists of the Eighties   Humanities Center Gallery, Wabash Gallery, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN
1983: The Horse Show    Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, NY
1982: Folk, Fantasy and Expressionism   Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT
1981: A Class Portrait   Brattleboro Museum & Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT*
1980: Art Materialized: Selections from the Fabric Workshop   Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA (travelling exhibition, organized by Independent Curators, Inc., New York, NY)*

AWARDS AND HONORS
2013: Residency, Acadia Summer Arts Program, ME ( also 1994, 1996-2002, 2004-2005, 2009-2012 )
2009: Creation Grant, Vermont Arts Council, ( also in 2003 )
2001: Residency, Blue Mountain Center, NY ( also – 1994, 1985 )
1993: The Vermont Community Foundation Grant
1992: Vermont Council on the Arts Fellowship ( also 1979 )
1982: Windham County Arts Council Grant
1982: Residency, The Genesis Project, Ossabaw Island, GA
1979: Invited Artist, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
1977: Fellowship in Painting, National Endowment for the Arts

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Thomas Bartlett
Cynthia Carlson
Alexander Cockburn
Mark Di Suvero
Helen W. Drutt English
Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason
Ann Percy and Dixon Stroud
Ralph David Samuel
Theodore E Stebbins, Jr. and Susan Ricci Stebbins
Judith Stein
Marion Stroud Swingle
Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections, University of VT, Burlington,VT
Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington VT
Kraft Dairy Group
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Vermont Arts Council