American, b. 1962
Beverly McIver is widely acknowledged as a significant presence in contemporary American art and has charted a new direction as an artist. McIver is a Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. Previously, she taught at Arizona State University and North Carolina Central University. She received a BA in Painting and Drawing from North Carolina Central University and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pennsylvania State University. In 2022, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art debuted a survey exhibition of McIver’s work, titled Full Circle, which subsequently traveled to the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the Gibbes Museum. McIver was profiled in the 2011 film, Raising Renee—a feature-length documentary film produced in association with HBO. McIver’s work can be found in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Nelson Fine Arts Center Art Museum at Arizona State University, and the Mint Museum, to name a few.
