Bernadette Mayer was an American poet, writer and visual artist. Her first exhibition, Memory, was a multimedia work, that challenged ideas of the narrative and autobiography conceptual art and it created an immersive poetic environment. Her writing was trademarked by record-keeping and use of stream of consciousness narrative. She received a foundation for contemporary Art Grants to Artist awards in 1995, and she was also a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, a 2009 Creative Capital Awardee a... moreBernadette Mayer was an American poet, writer and visual artist. Her first exhibition, Memory, was a multimedia work, that challenged ideas of the narrative and autobiography conceptual art and it created an immersive poetic environment. Her writing was trademarked by record-keeping and use of stream of consciousness narrative. She received a foundation for contemporary Art Grants to Artist awards in 1995, and she was also a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, a 2009 Creative Capital Awardee and the National Book Circle Nomination for her most recent boon 2016’s Works and Days. She was born in New York City, and she attended Catholic School where she studied languages and the classics and graduated from the New York Schools for Social Research in 1967. Mayer had a couple of relationships but was never married, and had three children with her first partner Lewis Warsh.
