Elizabeth Bloom is a visual artist, teacher and curator. She attended the famed Barnes Foundation in Merion, PA where she studied art history and aesthetics. She also studied painting and drawing at Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, where she won the Gimbel Excellence Award for Painting.
While living on the east coast, Bloom won numerous portrait commissions and exhibited her work at art institutions and galleries including The Philadelphia Art Alliance, The Hahn Gallery, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center and a traveling Smithsonian exhibition, American Drawings '76. She also received the Founder's Award at the Woodmere Art Museum.
Bloom moved to Los Angeles in 1980. She has exhibited paintings at many local venues including Loyola University Law School Galleries, Grossmount College, Brand Library, Hebrew Union College, InCollaboration Gallery and the University of Judaism. She recently exhibited her work at Insel Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Her work is included in the collections of UCLA Medical Center, CBS Studios, American Jewish University, Midway Hospital and in many private collections.
From 1991-94, Bloom was a Visiting Artist for the Getty-sponsored Institutes for Educators in the Visual Arts where she gave workshops and lectures. Bloom was a judge for the BRAVO Award for Achievement in the Arts from 1994-2000. From 2005-2013 she was curator of the Platt/Borstein Galleries at American Jewish University in Los Angeles.
