BRENDA GOODMAN

Born in Detroit, Michigan 1943.
Lives in Pine Hill, NY
1961-65 BFA College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017
David & Schweitzer Contemporary
2016        
Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
2015        
College for Creative Studies, Center galleries, (Brenda Goodman: Paintings 1961-2015) Detroit, MI
A Life on Paper, Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MILife on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014        
John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2012        
John Davis Gallery, Hudson. NY
2010        
John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2008        
John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
Paul Kotula  Projects, Ferndale, MI
2007        
Mabel Smith Douglass Library and Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2003        
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY 
Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2001        
Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
2000        
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 
Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1999        
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
1998        
Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1997        
Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
1995        
Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1994        
Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY                
David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1993        
55 Mercer Street Artists, Inc., New York, NY
1989        
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1988        
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1987        
Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1985        
Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1984        
Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1983        
Eason Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1982        
Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1981        
Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980        
Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
1979       
Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1978        
Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1976        
Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1974        
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI
1973        
Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI 

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 

2018
Brenda Goodman and Amy Pleasant, Jeff Bailey Gallery, NADA New York, New York, NY
2016
Trembling Halves, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA 
(curated by Lauren Britton and Zachery Keeting)
1991        
Brenda Goodman & Jackie Brookner, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY
1982        
Brenda Goodman & Morris Brose, Sarkis Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1976        
Brenda Goodman & Bobbie Oliver, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017
Life’s Rich Pageant, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
The State of New York Painting: Works of Intimate Scale by 26 Colorists, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
Straight Outta Bushwick, Eva Chimento Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016
#PUSSYPOWER, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
As Carrier of Flesh, Brenda Goodman, Peter Williams, Arnold Mesches, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
Making the Future, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
Art Up, The Old Cantina Building, Andes, NY
The Itsy Bitsy Biennial, Greenkill Gallery, Kingston, NY
Paul Klee, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Ashley Garrett & JJ Manford)
Steve DiBenedetto, Glenn Goldberg, Brenda Goodman, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Thunder Umbrella, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Hanging Paper, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, 
MASideshow on Mars: Through the Rabbit Hole, SideShow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015        
Image is Everything, Curated by Phil & Sue Knoll, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Painting is Not Doomed to Repeat Itself, Curated by John Yau, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, NY
Second Annual Summer Invitational, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
June Bugs, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2015          
Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, New York, NY
The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2015 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Artists, New York,
2014        
2014 Summer Invitational, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Another Look at Detroit, Marlborough Chelsea/ Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 
Heads: A Retelling, Salena Gallery, LIU Brooklyn, NY
2013        
Subverting Modernism: Cass Corridor Revisited 1966-1980 University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 
Travelled to University Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 
(curated by Julia R. Myers)
2012        
TIME, Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MI
2011
Gift of a Lifetime: The James Pearson Duffy Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Refocussing the Spotlight: 21 American Painters, Nina Freudenheim. Inc., Buffalo, NY
(curated by Michael Walls)
Eccentric Portraits, Byrdcliffe Kleinert/ James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY 
(curated by Nancy Azara and Sylvia Leonard Wolf)
Dialogues, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, January
2010        
headJAM, a portrait show, artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA
Dialogues, Kouros, Gallery, New York, NY
The Facebook Show, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
PLACE, a landscape show, artSTRAND, Provincetown, MAA
Exit Detroit, Ladybug Gallery, Detroit, MI
2009        
Time and Place: Art of Detroit's Cass Corridor from the Wayne State University Collection,
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
A Dog's Life, Memphis College of Art, Main Gallery, Memphis, TN
2007        
The Face, The 'Temporary Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Eccentric Bodies, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ 
2006        
An Exhibition of Cups, Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale , MI
CCS at 100: Woodward Lecture Series Alumni, Center Galleries, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2005        
Bevy, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
Cheers, Revolution, Ferndale, MI 
From the Heart, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 
The Reinvention of Landscape, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2004        
10, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2003        
Resonance, The Work Space, New York. NY
2002        
Portraits, More than Skin and Bones, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
4 NY Painters, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ
All Drawing, Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Painting: a Passionate Response, Sixteen American Artists, The Painting Center, New York, NY
It Goes Like This: Instruction Drawings from the Gilbert & Lila Silverman Collection,
Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2001        
In the Spirit of Landscape VI, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Paper, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Achromatic, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
Go Figure, Sisson Art Gallery, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI
Painting Abstraction II, New York Studio School, New York, NY
5 from Detroit, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2000        
Alumnae--The Women of CCS,  Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
In the Spirit of Landscape V,  Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Small Work, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
New Work, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Go Figure: The Other Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten
Island, NY (curated by Lilly Wei)
1999        
In the Spirit of Landscape IV,  Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Architecturally Abstract,  Revolution/NY, New York, NY
Unusual Suspects,” Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
Visualizing Selves: New Visual Autobiographies,” Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
Looking Back/Looking Ahead,  Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Hot, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
Object of Desire, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
Seven Artists, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
Masters of the Masters: MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts, NY, 1983-1998,
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Five Artists in New York, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls) 
1997        
Currents/Occurence, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
A Summer Mix [Artists We Like], Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
Goddesses, CCS Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
The Figure Revisited, The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings, NY
Intimate Universe[Revisited], Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
(curated by  Michael Walls); travelled to James Howe Gallery,
Kean University, Union, NJ
1996        
Essence: Twenty Abstract Painters, Radix Gallery, New York, NY
Lineation, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
(Ap)praising Abstraction, Art Initiatives, New York, NY
1995        
The Small Painting, O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
A Romantic Impulse: Seventeen American Artists, O’Hara Gallery, New York
(curated by Michael Walls)
Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Brenda Goodman, Tony Candido, Younghee Choi Martin, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Pure,  Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
1994        
Fifty Nifty Pictures and Objects, AHI Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
Abstract Expressionism: An Ongoing Legacy, The Gallery at Kohn
Pederson Fox, New York, NY/The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings, NY
Grouped Show, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Figure This, The St. Paul Companies, Minneapolis, MN
Isn’t It Romantic? On Crosby Street, New York, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
Paintings: Goodman, Gaon, Marini, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New  York, NY
1993       
Signs of Life,  O.I.A. Police Building, New York, NY
1992        
Six Painters,  Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
Beneath the Surface, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY
Distant Visions: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Works by Brenda Goodman Nancy Brett, & Ellen Phelan,  Janice Charach Epstein Museum/Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
Inaugural Exhibition, Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
1991        
The Art of Collecting: The Jewish Collector's Experience, Janice  Charach Epstein Museum/Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
Goodman, Huddleston, Rawls & Wixted, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY   
Paper Trail, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Black & White, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Expressive Moment,  Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
1990        
Inner Natures: Four Contemporary Painters, Santa Barbara Museum of  Art, Santa Barbara, CA 
(curated by Nancy Doll)
Surface and Light: Four Invited Women Painters, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
1989        
Summer Group Show, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Brenda Goodman, Susan Chrysler-White, Suzanne Slavick, Anda Dubinski, Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Summer Show, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Group Exhibition, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Brenda Goodman, Jay Whodey, Ika Huber,  Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1988        
Brenda Goodman: An Introduction,  Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI                 
22, Opening Group Exhibition, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Discoveries, Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987        
Looking at New Work Invitational, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1986
New Works/Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show/Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
New Paintings, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
Detroiters Collect: New Generation, Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
1985        
Self Portraits by Women Artists, Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA 
(curated by Tressa R. Miller)
1984
Women's Perspectives, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
The Elements--Weather in Art, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, NJ
Rutgers National 83/84 Works on Paper Exhibition, Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, NJ 
On Paper, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, NY
Ten Years of Collecting at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of 
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Carson-McHale Gift: 13 Artists Remember Joe McHale, Detroit 
1983        
Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Gallery Selections, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
New Epiphanies, (traveling exhibition), Gallery of Contemporary Art,
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO (curated by Carol Adney)
1982        
Summer Group Show, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Contemporary Art in Detroit Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
National Women in Art, Edison Community College of Fine Art, Fort Myers , FL
Currents :A New Mannerism, Jacksonville Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 
(curated by Margaret A. Miller)
Small Works, Getler/Paul Gallery, New York, NY
1981
The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI 
(curated by Roy Slade)
Kindred Spirits: Works by Joseph Cornell and Others, Heckshire  Museum, Huntington, NY                
(curated by Katharine Lochridge)
Brenda Goodman, Bill Cass, Lise Apatoff, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980
Artists from the Pam Adler Gallery, South Campus Art Gallery of Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
On Paper, Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA
From Detroit: 1980, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
Kick Out the Jams: Detroit's Cass Corridor 1963-1977, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI  
(curated by Mary Jane Jacob and Jay Belloli)
Work from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Interiors, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1979        
Interiors, Summit Art Gallery, Summit, NJ
Work on Paper, Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1979 
Biennial of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1978        
Art on Paper, 14th Weatherspoon Annual Exhibition, Greenboro, NC
CAPS: Graphic Art Awardees Exhibition, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY
Niagra Graphics Show, Niagara Museum, Niagara, NY
Detroit and Chicago: Art of the 70's, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Group Exhibition, Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
Double Take, The New Museum, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1977        
Art in Public Spaces, Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
New Abstract Objects, HallWalls, Buffalo, NY
Memory, The New Museum and C Space, New York, NY (curated by Marcia Tucker)
1976
Arts and Crafts in Detroit/1906-1977: The Movement, The Society, The School,
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (curated by Frederick J. Cummings)
A Selection of Drawings, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
New Work, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
30th Annual Michigan Watercolor Society Exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Nine Women Artists from the Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Eshlman Library, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI
Source Detroit, Cranbrook Academy Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Womanworks, Union Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Paintings and Sculpture by Mid-West Faculty Artists, Krannert Art Museum, 
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, IL, and Indiana, University Art Museum, Bloomington Campus, IN
Drawing and Print Show, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
Michigan Collects Michigan Art, Pontiac Creative Arts Center, Pontiac, MI
1975        
Detroit Workshop of Fine Prints, Bicentennial Suite, Detroit, MI
Ten Years (anniversary show), Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI
4th Michigan Biennial (invitational), Kresge Art Gallery, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI 
Self Portraits, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1974        
Michigan Focus, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Detroit Artists Invitational, Detroit Bank and Trust Company, Detroit, MI,
(curated by Daniel Moriarity)
Selections from the Studios at Old Convention Hall, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI 
Anything on Paper, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
15th Annual Mid-Michigan Exhibition, Midland, MI
Michigan Survey Exhibition, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, 
Bloomfield Hills, MI and San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1973        
Forsythe Saga, Forsythe Building, Detroit, MI
Detroit Artists Market Group Show, Detroit, MI
19th Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, IN
1972        
59th Exhibition for Michigan Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Scarab Club Annual 'All Michigan' Silver Medal Exhibition, Detroit, MI\
1971        
All Michigan Exhibition, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Grand Rapids Biennial Michigan Painters-Printmakers Exhibition, Grand Rapids, MI
Works on Paper: Brenda Goodman, Anne Doering, J.P. Hunt, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1966        
New Faces, Arwin Galleries, Detroit, MI 

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

2015        
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art
2006        
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship
1994        
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship
1991       
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship
1985        
Ariana Foundation for the Arts, NY, Mixed Media Grant
1984        
Rutgers National 83/84 Works on Paper Purchase Award, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
1978        
Creative Artists Program Service (CAPS) Grant, NY
1975        
Detroit Institute of Arts, "Michigan Focus," Painting Prize 
15th Annual Mid-Michigan Exhibition, Drawing Prize 

COLLECTIONS 
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA 
California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chicago, IL
The First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
American Medical Association Headquarters, Chicago, IL
Rutgers-Camden Collection of Art, Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, NJ 

VISITING ARTIST 

2008        
New England Art, Bennington, VT
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2005       
Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY
2003        
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2001        
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI 
Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ
1997        
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1995        
Pennsylvania Academy for the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1993        
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1990        
Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
1988        
The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD 
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1986        
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1984        
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1982        
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1981        
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1980        
State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
1979        
Illinois State University, Normal, IL 

TEACHING POSITIONS 

1998-04  
The New York Studio School, New York, NY
1972-73  
Wayne County Community College, Detroit, MI
1967-68  
Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1966-69
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1965        
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI 

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2017
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2015
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2014
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2012
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2004
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2003
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2002    
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2001    
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"Goings On About Town." The New Yorker, June 4, p. 20.
Slaughter, Jane. "Brenda Goodman." The Centerline, College for Creative Studies, Spring/Summer, vol. 5, issue 3, p. 10.
Chessler, Suzanne. "Artist's Homecoming," Jewish News, March 2, p. 68-69.
DiDonna, Liz. Review. Detroit MetroTimes, January 24-30, p. 21.
Cohen, Keri Guten. Review. Detroit Free Press, January 21, p. 8C.
2000    
Hammond, Harmony. Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History, NY: Rizzoli, 
p. 123, illus. p. 123.
Colby, Joy. Review. The Detroit News, June 21, p. 6E.
Cohen, Keri Guten. Review. Detroit Free Press, June. 
McQuaid, Cate. Review. The Boston Globe, March 9. 
Northridge, Matthew. Review. Art New England, June/July p. 47.
Wei, Lilly. Go Figure: The Other Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art,
Staten Island, NY.
1999    
Carducci, Vince. Review. New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL, November, p.48, illus. p. 48.
Worth, Alexi. Review. "Up Now," ArtNews, May, p. 164, illus. p. 164.
Smith, Roberta. The New York Times, April 30, pp. E31, 35.
"Goings On About Town," The New Yorker, May 10, p. 16.
1998    
Goodman, Jonathan. Review. Art in America, July, p. 99.
Cohen, Keri Guten. Review. Detroit Free Press, March 15, p. 3F.
Long, Andrew. "Openings 'Go Figure'." Art & Antiques, March, p. 32.
1997    
Johnson, Ken. Review. Art Guide, The New York Times, November 7, p. 38E.
Maxwell, Douglas F. Review. Review. November 1, p. 11.
Colby, Joy. Review. The Detroit News, September 25, p. 10F.
Cohen, Keri Guten. Review. Detroit Free Press, October 5, p. 7H.
1996    
Nawrocki, Dennis Alan. Review. Art in America, January p. 109.
1995    
Colby, Joy. Review. The Detroit News, October 5, p. 8F.
Mannisto, Glen. Review. MetroTimes, September 20-26, p. 26.
Walls, Michael. A Song for My Mother. Exhibition Catalogue, Revolution, Ferndale, MI.
Provenzano, Frank. "A Song for Mother," The Detroit Jewish News, August 25, p. 74.
Hagen, Charles. Review. The New York Times, July 14.
Merkling, Frank. Review. News-Times, July 6, p. C1.
Raynor, Vivian. Review. The New York Times, June 11, p. 22.
Maxwell, Douglas F. and Marc J. Straus. Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, p. 7, 42, illus p. 43.
1994    
Bergmann, Meredith. Review. The New York Review of Art, Vol. 1, No. 5, December, p. 18.
Cameron, Dan. "Critical Edge," Art & Auction, December pp. 66-69.
Zimmer, William. Review. The New York Times, November 27.
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Containers of Contradiction" Exhibition Brochure for Brenda Goodman: Self-Portraits, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY.
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Redefining the 'R' Word", Exhibition Catalogue for Isn't It Romantic? On Crosby Street, New York, NY, 
Echlin, Hobey. Review. MetroTimes, February 23, p. 40.
Miro, Marsha. Review. Detroit Free Press, February 13, p. 5G.
Colby, Joy. Review. The Detroit News, February 11.
1993    
Sparage, Dale. "The Vision of Brenda Goodman," Detroit Focus Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 4, Summer, p. 6.
Ten Years, 29 Artists [Exhibition Catalogue] The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
1992    
Rubinstein, Raphael. Beneath the Surface. [Exhibition Catalogue], Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY.
Miro, Marsha. Review. Detroit Free Press, November 4, p. 12B.
Miro, Marsha. Review. Detroit Free Press, September 9, p. 18.
1991    
Moorman, Margaret. Review. ArtNews, November, p. 147, illus. p. 147.
Miro, Marsha. Review. Detroit Free Press, August 11p. 5G.
Abett, Corinne. Observer & Eccentric, August 8.
Volk, Carol. Art & Auction, Summer, pp. 23-24, illus. p. 24.
Leviner, Beverly. Review. The Keystone Paper, February 19, p. 8.
Fox, Marilyn J. Review. Reading Eagle, February 3, pp. D1-2.
Abshear, Jeff. Review. The Independent, January 24, p. 21, illus. p. 21.
Woodard, Josef. "The Shape of Spirit," Artweek, Vol. 22, No. 3, January 24, pp. 15-16.
Huntington, Richard. Review. The Buffalo News, January 20, pp. 1, 4G.
1990    
Crowder, Joan, Review. Santa Barbara News Press, December 28, p. l9, illus., 19.
Doll, Nancy. Inner Natures: Four Contemporary Painters. [Exhibition Catalogue] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1989    
Crohn, Jennifer. Review. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 23, p. 7D.
Temin, Christine. Review. The Boston Globe, March 2.
Miro, Marsha. Review. Detroit Free Press, October 30, p. 6G. 
1988    
Meilgaard, Manon. Review. The Eccentric Newspapers, October 27, pp., 4, 6 Illus.
1987    
Miro, Marsha. Review. Detroit Free Press, November 15, p. 4C.
Colby, Joy Hakanson. Review. The Detroit News, November 8, p. 4K.
1986    
Farbman, Suzy. "Interview: Brenda Goodman." Detroit Focus Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 2, June, pp. 1-3.
1985    
La Palma, Mariana. Review. Artweek, Vol. 16, No. 8, February 23. 
Muchnic, Suzanne. Review. Los Angeles Times, February 21.
1984    
Rutgers National 83/84 Works on Paper [Exhibition Catalogue]. Stedman Gallery, Camdern, NJ
Self-Portraits by Women Artists [Exhibition Catalogue]. Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA 
1983    
New Epiphanies: Religious Contemporary Art [Exhibition Catalogue]. Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado Springs and the Ohio Foundation of the Arts.
Wilson, Malin. Review. Artlines, July.
Plett, Nicole. Review. Santa Fe Reporter, July, pp. 21-2, illus. p.21.
Currents: A New Mannerism [Exhibition Catalogue]. Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL.
1982    
Witz, Robert, Appearances, No. 8, Fall 1982, illus. p. 94
Henshaw, Julia. Review. New Art Examiner, Chicago, May, 1982, pp. 18, 22, illus. 22 p.2
Roth, Karen, "Interview: Brenda Goodman's Metaphorical Journey." Detroit Focus Quarterly, Vol.1, No. 2, April, pp. 4-5. 
Miro, Marsha. Review. Detroit Free Press, February 28, illus. p. 8B.
Colby, Joy Hakanson. Review. The Detroit News, February 14, p. 6H.
Armstrong, Richard, "Report from Detroit: Was Cass Corridor a Style?" Art in America, February, pp. 34-39, illus. p. 37, 39.
1981    
Warren, Lynn and Edelstein, Jeffrey, Images and Issues, Winter pp.44-47, illus. p.45.
Artnur, Alan G.. Review. Chicago Tribune, August 28, Section 3, p.12.
Hayden, Harold. Review. Chicago Sun-Times, August 21.
Elliot, David. Review. Chicago Sun-Times, July 5, p. 14.
Harrison, Helena. Review. The New York Times, January 18, p. 16.
1980    
Kick Out the Jams: Detroit's Cass Corridor 1963-1977 [Exhibition Catalogue]. Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, MI.
Henshaw, Julia. Review. New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL, October. 
Margolin, Michael H. Review. Monthly Detroit, July, pp. 34-6, Illus. p. 35.
Zimmer, William. Review. The Soho Weekly, New York, NY, June 26.
Henshaw, Julia. Review. New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL, April, Section 2, illus.
Miro, Marsha. Review. Detroit Free Press, March 2. 
Colby, Joy Hakanson. Review. The Detroit News, February 24, p. 6C.
1979
1979 Biennial Exhibition Catalogue. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, illus. p36.
Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Illus. p.239.
Glueck, Grace. Review. The New York Times, October 26.
Vaughan, Mary, "Brenda Goodman." Arts Magazine, October, Illus. p.16.
Robins, Corinne, "Whitney Biennial." Arts Magazine, June, p. 16.
1978    
Annual Report. Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Vol. 56, No. 5, illus. p.287.
Colby, Joy Hakanson. Review. The Detroit News, February 26.
1977    
Tucker, Marcia, Memory [Exhibition Catalogue]. The New Museum, New York, NY.
1976    
Kaminski, Margaret, Moving to Antartica, Dustbooks, pp. 146-57, illus. pp.146, 148, 150,152.
Wilkenson, Sylvia, Interview. Michigan Artists Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 16-17, Illus. p. 16.
Hansell, Betsey. Review. Detroit Artists Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 1, 3.
1975    
Durkee, Dee, "Interview: B. Goodman," Moving Out, pp. 20-25, Illus. pp. 22-25.
Annual Report, Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Vol. 54, No. 2, Illus. p. 11.
Askins, John, "Artist Brenda Goodman: One Woman's Struggle to Find Herself," Detroit Free Press, April 27, p. 10D, illus. p. 1.