Eleanore Berman was born on September 2, 1928 in Forest Hills, NY. From a very young age, she was interested in art, music and biology. At 16, she enrolled at Black Mountain College in Asheville, NC, where she studied painting with Josef Albers and sculpture with Ossip Zadkine. In 1948, at the age of 20, she sailed on the QE2 to Paris where she pursued her love of painting in the studio of the legendary Cubist painter, Fernand Leger. Later that year, her family moved to Los Angeles, CA. Eleanore spent much of her life traveling the world and living bi-coastally between her home in Beverly Hills and her loft in lower Manhattan. She spoke French, German and Spanish.

She received her BA in Fine Art from UCLA in 1950 and had a prolific 30-year exhibition history both in the U.S. and in Europe. Her work is in several major permanent collections including LACMA, the Hammer/UCLA Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art as well as many corporate collections.

Eleanore died on August 29, 2004 at the age of 75.