Beth Grossman is a San Francisco based artist who integrates stories and history into her artwork of painted images and text on everyday objects. She has shown nationally and internationally at venues including: the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York City, the National Jewish Museum in Wash. D.C., the San Francisco Jewish Museum, the Minnesota History Center, the Jewish Museum of Florida, the Nat’l Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia and Galleria Scoglio di Quarto in Milan, Italy.

Her artwork has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Miami Herald, New York Newsday, The Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Oakland Tribune, San Jose Mercury News and on NPR’s California Report and KRON4 News.  She has been awarded grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Avery Arts Foundation, the Peninsula Community Foundation, the Puffin Foundation and the Paulette Goddard Foundation among others. Grossman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota and a Master of Arts degree in Performance Studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

A common thread in her artwork is re-contextualized stories and interpretation of history. The Sabbath Has Kept the Jews, a feminine interpretation of the Tabernacle and Sabbath rituals, debuted with Marc Chagall and Ben Zion’s Talmud at the Hearst Art Gallery, Moraga CA, 2006.  Our Mother Mary Found portrays the story of the Virgin Mary as a Jewish mother and has shown at the Jewish Community Center of S.F., the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2005, the Basilica of St. Mary and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 2006. First Comes Love explores the myth of the middle-class American dream and relationships between men and women as they attempt to reconcile this myth with the reality of daily life. This series debuted at the Peninsula Museum of Art in the heart of Silicon Valley, CA, 2004. Passages is a series of painted doors and suitcases illustrating her family’s immigration story and has toured museums nationwide since 1995.

Grossman also works on collaborative, interactive, multi-disciplinary public art installations and performances at national monuments, museums, parks and street sites nationally and internationally.  She curated Passages: Jewish Women's Immigration and Family History, a six room art installation of six artists in the dormitory rooms at Ellis Island in 1996. Dreams for a Pure River, a public art event to call attention to the importance of restoring a local river in Chengdu, China, was created in collaboration with artists Betsy Damon and Christine Baeumler and was featured on Chinese television news in 1996. During the Iraq Wars in 1991/2003, Grossman created the War Time Pin-up Project, a series of anti-war collages, with the Brisbane Neighbors for Peace and Justice. As the artist in residence at the 2004 Jewish Women’s Summit, Grossman created a collaborative oral history art project with 200 women on a voyage down the Volga River in Russia. In July 2007, she will create Tracing History as the Artist in Residence at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. This public project explores the museum’s collection and the way it is exhibited as a story from art world and historical perspectives.

Grossman has taken many leadership roles in building artists' communities locally and internationally. She was a founding member of No Limits for Women in the Arts in New York in 1986 and led groups of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as workshops nationally from 1990-2000. She taught workshops at the Int’l Women's Conference in Beijing in 1995 and the Int’l Jewish Women's Conference in Kiev, Ukraine in 1994. She continues to organize artist salons and an Annual Evening of Arts Sharing locally and received the Mayor's Art Achievement Award in Brisbane, California, 2002.