BORN
Oakland, California
EDUCATION
B.S., University of California, San Francisco, CA
A.B., University of California, Berkeley, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Frottage: The Changing Surface Artspace Edition Shimizu,Shizuoka,Japan
2014 George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Homage to Yayoi Kusama George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 (Text)ure George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Extrusions Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
The deYoung Open Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco CA
In celebration of the museum's 125th anniversary, The deYoung Open exhibited the work of artists from the nine bay-area counties. Jurors: Enrique Chagoya, Hung Liu, Faith Ringold
A Global Pandemic: What It Means for Me gallery Yuyama, Niigata-ken, Japan
2019
New Encounters 2019 artspace Edition Shimizu, Shizuoka City, Japan
SIA (Society of Independent Artists), Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Curator: Tom Marioni
2018
Way Bay 1 and Way Bay 2 Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Curator: Lawrence Rinder and Kathy Gevitz
Way Bay 1 and Way Bay 2 explored the creative energies that have emerged in the San Francisco Bay Area over the past two centuries. Each exhibition featured nearly two hundred works by Bay Area artists, filmmakers and others who have engaged with the region's geographic, social and cultural landscape.
2017
Half Hundred Swing Show: Homage to Joseph Cornell 2017 , Ao Gallery, Kobe, Japan Curator: Noriko Onohara
2016
Mail Art Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano, Japan
2015
AU International Contemhibition in Naples from Japan port Art Ex Museo Hermann Nitsch, Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy
A Celebration of Mail Art Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada
2014
5X5 An Invitational Westmont Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA
Focus Latin America: Art is Our Last Hope, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
Ex Postal Facto SF Center for rhe Book, San Francisco, CA
Ever Gold 5 Year Anniversary Show Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013
Arkansas 45th Collectors Exhibition Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock AR
2012
Smalls, Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashand, OR
2011
5X5 An Invitational , Westmont Museum of Art,Santa Barbara, CA
Three-person Show, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco
2010
Bohemia Gallery, Ashland, Oregon
2009
Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco
Illegiblusion Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
What is a Line? Yale University Gallery, New Haven, CT
Los Angeles Asian & Tribal Arts Show, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Issho/Together: Japanese American/Japanese National Artists In America 1941-present, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
AAWAA Group Exhibition, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
Light, Surface and Translucence Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
2003
Fine Lines: Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Fine Lines: Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky represented works by sculptors, painters and artists whose primary medium is drawing, and who favor approaches that emphasize process and material or that challenge conventional notions of drawing.
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In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection comprised thirty-six works made within the last ten years by a younger generation of artists who have absorbed the lessons of minimal and post-minimal art but subvert its tight control.
2001
Traces , Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA Curator: Signe Mayfield
Traces presents site specific installation, works on paper, and objects by three Bay Area Artists. The work is aligned in its restraint, serene space and reverence for materials.
1999
They Hold up Half the Sky - Redefining the American Art Landscape, South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
1998
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago IL
1996
Jan Cicero Gallery; Chicago IL
1995
Vantage Point - Abstraction, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago IL
Biennial print and Draw Competition and Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Women of Color in Art, Carver Cultural Center, San Antonio, TX
1994
Yellow Forest, SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993
Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Time Echoes, C.N.Gorman Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
1992
Gathering, Lite Rail Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Different Voices, University of California Santa Barbara-Women’s Center, Santa Barbara, CA
Sixth Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin - Parkside, Kenosha, WI
BACA Annual Juried National Exhibition, Part II: Works on Paper, Berkeley, CA
1991
Art Works Gallery, Fair Oaks, CA
Community Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990
Fort Mason Foundation Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
1989
Worden Gallery, San Francisco, CA (two-person show)
Fort Mason Foundation Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
COLLECTIONS
Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Archive of American Art (John Held papers)
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
(Sol)LeWitt Collection
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
COMMISSIONS
2016 Villa Motalvo 5-Hour Sculpture
RESIDENCIES
2001 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1998 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1996 Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL