Judy Glantzman graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1978.  She began exhibiting in the early 1980’s in the East Village art scene, at Civilian Warfare and Gracie Mansion. She followed with shows at BlumHelman and Hirschl & Adler Modern in the 1990’s and at Betty Cuningham Gallery, where she has shown for the past 15 years. She had a 30 year retrospective at Dactyl Foundation in spring 2009 and in 2018, a solo exhibition titled Vigilant On Behalf of Kindness at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

The artist’s work can be seen in numerous public collections, including the Whitney Art Museum, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; National Academy of Design, New York, NY; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; The Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH; and the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, most notably the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2001; the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Grant, 1997; the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, 1994; the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, 1992; and Dartmouth College Artist-in-Residence, 2018.  Glantzman lives and works in New York, NY.