Bio

Originally from Western Pennsylvania, Grossman earned an associate’s degree from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1988 to work as an illustrator for Hallmark Cards, Inc. Grossman began plein air (open air) painting from direct observation in earnest when she discovered the tallgrass prairies of east-central Kansas, and left Hallmark in 1995 to pursue painting full-time. She received a BFA from the University of Kansas in 1999.

Grossman has had over thirty solo shows around the Midwest and on both coasts. Over 1800 of her works have found their way into private homes, corporations, schools, libraries, hospitals, and museums including the collections of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas, the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, the Mulvane Art Museum at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, and the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Missouri.

She is a 2019 Phoenix Award recipient from the City of Lawrence, KS, which honors a career of artistic achievement, and a 2009 recipient of the Kansas Arts Commission’s Mid-Career Fellowship. Grossman has served eight times as an artist-in-residence in the national parks. She is represented by Haw/Contemporary in Kansas City, Missouri, and SNW Gallery, in Manhattan, Kansas.

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