About The Artist

Ellen Langer Contact information: 6178167030 langer@wjh.harvard.edu additional paintings may be viewed at: www.wjh.harvard.edu/~langer (or just google Ellen Langer and click on the name) Ellen Langer is a self-taught artist. She made her debut in the members juried show at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum the summer of 2001 (June 15 July2, 2001). She is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University, where she teaches and conducts research. Her work has led to numerous academic honors including four Distinguished Scientists awards and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In addition to her four best selling trade books, Mindfulness , The Power of Mindful Learning, On Becoming an Artist: reinventing yourself through mindful creativity (which brings together her two lives, artist and psychologist.) , Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Psychology of Possibility, and The Art of Noticing, Langer has described her work in over 200 research articles and 11 books. Selected Shows July 2001, May, 2006, December, 2006, Juried Shows, Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) August 2002, PAAM August 2003,PAAM August 2004,PAAM August 2005,PAAM August 2013, PAAM Invidia Gallery, Cambridge, Ma, One woman show, 2014 Represented by Julie Heller Gallery (Provincetown) and J& W Gallery (New Hope)-2002-2014 Julie Heller Gallery: One woman show: August 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Julie Heller Gallery: Two person shows: 2003, 2005, 2013 Borowicz Gallery: One woman show: June 2007 J & W Gallery, New Hope, Pa. Featured article in Psychology Today on becoming an artist, 2001 Provincetown Arts interview, 2004 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, art show and lecture on Mindful Creativity Full color prints of her paintings are featured in her book, On Becoming an Artist, Ballentine Publishers, NY, 2005 The Three Nancys, painting is on the cover of American Psychologist, March, 2005 The Art of Noticing, 2014. This book consists of 100 paintings each with a one-liner that has been culled from research conducted over the past forty years.