John Bageris (1924-2000) was an American artist.

Bageris was born in Fremont, Ohio, on May 11, 1924. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Boris Anisfeld . He earned a BFA and MFA from the University of Chicago and Wayne State University . ^[1]

Bageris' works have been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago , Detroit Institute of Art , Werbe Gallery in Detroit, the Whitney Museum of American Art , Smithsonian Institution , the Institute of Contemporary Art in Peru, Souza Gallery in Mexico City, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. ^[1]

In 1953-54 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He has been the recipient of many awards in regional and national shows for his large abstract paintings. In a 1992 Boston Globe review of a retrospective of his work, Nancy Stapen wrote of Bageris as "a gifted figurative artist who shifted to abstraction in the mid 70s." His work contained "a strong flavor of Giacometti " and was "about nature, feeling, energy, and pictoral space." ^[2]

His works are currently held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art . ^{[ citation needed ]}

Bageris taught at the Art Institute of Boston for nearly 20 years. He also worked an instructor of Painting & Drawing at the School of Visual Arts , the DeCordova Museum , and Brooklyn Museum Art School .

During his years as a teacher, Bageris mentored such artists as Sue Burrus, ^[3] Debbie Clark, ^[4] and David Pontbriand ^[5]

He retired from teaching at the Art Institute of Boston in 1993. Bageris died on May 9, 2000, in Concord, MA. ^[6]

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• John Bageris' 1979 portrait at the Herbert Katzman Museum