SELECTED PRESS ARTICLES
2024
Artlyst – “Pioneering Computer Artist Barbara Nessim Launches New Exhibitions In Paris And LA", 9/15
ARTnews – “9 Shows to See During the Getty’s Science-Themed PST ART Festival” by Alex Greenberger, 9/10
2023
Hyperallergic – “50 Years Ago, She Broke Illustration’s Glass Ceiling” By Rhea Nayyar, 12/7
Matt Sephton’s Blog – “Early Computer Art by Barbara Nessim (1984)", 11/14
2021
AI-AP DART Design Arts Daily – “Barbara Nessim’s Workspace” by Peggy Roalf, 4/30
2020
PRINT Mag blog – “The Daily Heller: Barbara Nessim’s Little Red Books” by Steven Heller, 12/15
3x3 Magazine – “Barbara Nessim Inducted Into SOI Hall of Fame” by Charles Hively
2017
Apartamento Magazine – “Barbara Nessim” by Leah Singer
AIGA – “A New L.A. Show Highlights the Importance of Barbara Nessim’s Early Drawings” by Madeleine Morley, 3/28
2016
Riposte Magazine, Issue 6 – “Gloria Steinem & Barbara Nessim” by Kate Bolick
i-D Magazine – “Gloria Steinem and Barbara Nessim on Friendship and Their First NYC apartment” by Kate Bolick
2015
Bard Graduate Center – “Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life” 8/19/14 – 1/11
Metropolis Magazine blog – “Barbara Nessim’s Illustrated Life” by Zachary Edelson, 1/7
2014
Ms. Magazine blog – “Barbara Nessim: Five Feminist Decades of Art” by Sheila Weller, 12/31
Print – “Nessim & Steinem: Writers, Artists, Activists, Role Models” by Ellen Shapiro, 12/10
Huffington Post – “How to Be a Revolutionary Feminist Artist, While Hardly Noticing” by Priscilla Frank, 10/21
Time Out – “Barbara Nessim interview: ‘Since I love what I’m doing, why should I stop at any age?’ by Ned Dymoke, 8/18
The Atlantic – “50 Years of Reinventing Illustration” an interview by Steven Heller, 8/18
ArtLyst – “Barbara Nessim: First US Retrospective Explores This Pioneering Feminist Artist Illustrator” 8/13
BCS blog – “An Artful Life” by Catherine Mason, 2/4
2013
Huffington Post – “One of The First Prominent Female Illustrators Tells Her Story” by Priscilla Frank, 11/26
New Museum – Studio visit: Barbara Nessim, 9/1
Victoria & Albert Museum Magazine – “Barbara Nessim: Dancing between Discipline and Chaos” by John O’Reilly
Victoria & Albert Museum – Press Release “Barbara Nessim Gives Archive to V&A”
AI-AP-DART: Design Arts Daily – “Barbara Nessim at the V&A”, by Peggy Roalf, 4/22
ARTnews – “An Illustrated Life” by Barbara A. MacAdam 4/13
New York Times – “Illustrating Her Own Narrative” by Carol Kino, 3/21
Female Artists in London (blog) – “Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life” 3/14
Artlyst – “Barbara Nessim’s Provocative Feminist Drawings and Paintings V&A London” 2/20
The Upcoming – “Exhibition review: Barbara Nessim – An Artful Life at the V&A” By Melanie Weaver, 2/18
ArtLyst – “Gloria Steinem and Zandra Rhodes Pay Tribute to Artist Barbara Nessim” 2/16
London Evening Standard – “Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life – image gallery” 2/14
The Guardian – “Illustrator Barbara Nessim: ‘I was just steering my own ship’” By Hermoine Hoby, 1/4
2012
Communication Arts Columns – “Barbara Nessim,” about archiving and keeping her work fresh, by Anne Telford
2009
2001
Communication Arts Magazine – “Barbara Nessim” by Ellen Shapiro, 12-page retrospective on work, March/April
1991
OMNI – “Art for a Brave New World,” by Robert K.J.Killheffer, May
1988
PCComputing – “The Art of Barbara Nessim,” by Carol Olsen Day, October
Macweek Graphics Art – “‘Arc’ Angel Marries Art to Computer Technology,” by Elinor Craig, 5/17
VIDEOS & PODCASTS
2022/9/13
DIGITAL ART: Los Angeles ACM SIGGRAPH x EZTV/CyberSpace Gallery, “The SECOND of FOUR – The 1990’s”
2020
Society of Illustrators, 2020 Hall of Fame Inductee
2015
Winsor & Eaton Brand Ambassador
2013/7/17
Victoria and Albert Museum, “Barbara Nessim, An Artful Life”
SPEAKING PANELS
2018 – School of Visual Arts, Gloria Steinem & Barbara Nessim in conversation
2014 – Bard Graduate Center, Gloria Steinem in Conversation with Barbara Nessim
2013 – The Brooklyn Museum, Barbara Nessim: from There to Here