Beverly Pepper was born in Brooklyn, New York. She divides her time between her studios in New York and Italy. She studied at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League in New York and with Fernand Leger and Andre’ L’Hote in Paris. She was a painter from 1949-1960, then turned to sculpture. She is known for her site-specific and environmental works throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. The works of Beverly Pepper have been exhibited and collected by major museums and galleries throughout the world, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn; The White House Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Inst.; The San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Calif; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre George Pompidou, Paris; The Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo; Palazzo degli Uffizi, Florence; The Albertina Museum, Vienna; The Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona; The Wohl Rose Garden, Jerusalem; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Forte Belvedere, Florence; Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris; The Sacramento Stele Sculptures, Sacramento, Calif.; Vilnius Theatre, Europarkas, Vilnius, Lithuania; Palma Museum of Contemporary Art, Majorca, Spain; Casal Soleric, Palma di Majorca, Spain. Throughout the years she has received several awards, such as: Doctor of Fine Arts Pratt Institute; Doctor of Fine Arts, The Maryland Institute; Accademico di Merito, University of Perugia, Italy; Amic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France; Alexander Calder Prize for Sculpture 2002, Sache, France; Pratt Institute Legends Award 2003 Brooklyn, New York; The Crucible Legends of Sculpture 2003, Oakland, Calif. Some major site-specific commissions are: The Manhattan Sentinels, New York City, Federal Plaza: 2 mini parks including four 12-meter high cast-iron columns; Sol I Ombra Park, a 35,000 square-meter park, Barcelona, Spain; Teatro Celle, a sculpture-theater, Fattoria Celle sculpture park, Pistoia, Italy; Gottano Community Park, Tokyo; Palingenesis, 100 meter. cast-iron and grass environment, Credit Suisse, Zurich; Sacramento Stele Sculptures, 4 to 8 meters high stone columns, Sacramento, Calif.; Cromlech Glenn, 100 square meter diameter earth work, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Mo. Some of her large scale sculptures in work at this time are: (Cesar Pelli) Public Library, Minn, Mo.; (Lieberskind addition) Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado; A neighborhood park and fountain, Terni, Italy; Vilinius International Sculpture Park, Vilinius, Lithouania; New Community Park, Tokyo, Japan. She is represented by the Marlborough Gallery, New York.