Resume
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born 1947, Santa Monica, California
EDUCATION
MFA University of California, Santa Barbara, 1971
BA College of Creative Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara, 1969
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2006 Awarded Professor Emeritus, Sonoma State University
2004-2005 Professor of Art and Department Chair, Art And Art History
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
1991-2004 Professor of Art
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
1989-1991 Professor of Art and Department Chair, Art And Art History
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
1981-89 Director, University Art Gallery
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
1973-81 College of Siskiyous, Weed, California
1972-73 Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
1971-72 University of Hawaii, American
Samoan Contract, Samoan Islands
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2006 Gourmand Award from France, Author, Best Illustrated Wine Book in
America
2001 U.S. State Department Cultural Exchange Grant, São Paulo, Brazil
1994 Research Grant, São Paulo, Brazil; California State University
1990 Artist Fellowship, California Arts Council
Artist Fellowship, Sonoma County Foundation/NEA Grant
Research Grant, Matto Grosso, Brazil; Sonoma State University
1986 Fulbright Foundation Travel Grant; Brazil
1984 Travel Grant, São Paulo, Brazil; California State University
1983 Travel Grant, Kyoto, Japan: California State University
1979 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship
1977 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship
1972 Tyrus Wong Award for Painting
COMMISSIONS/SPECIAL PROJECTS
2011 Grupo VR, Sao Paulo, Brazil
University of California, La Jolla, California
2008 Atlantis Hotel, Dubai, Saudi Arabia
2007-2008 Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
2004-2007 Label Design, Imagery Estate Winery, Glen Ellen, California
2002-2005 Cave Drawings, Benziger Family Winery, Glen Ellen, California
2001 Wine Country Film Festival, Sonoma, California
Label Design, Imagery Estate winery
2000 Label Design, Benziger Family Winery
Label Design, Imagery Estate Winery
1999 Hyatt Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona
Westin Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana
Label Designs, Benziger Family Winery
1997 Sonoma Mountain Brewery, Glen Ellen, California
1993-96 Label Designs, Benziger Family Winery
1992 “Amazonas”, Metropolis Hotel, San Francisco, California
1988 Label Design, Glen Ellen Winery Imagery Series
1987 “Iquitos”, Kaiser Hospital, Santa Rosa, California
1986 “Aichi I” and “Aichi II” Print Edition, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, California and Chicago, Illinois
1985 “Serie Dos Jardins”, (22 Wall Sections) Kirkland/Ellis Project for Skidmore/Owings/Merrill, Denver, Colorado
1984 Flying Colors, Flag Design for City of Oakland1983 “Obara Variation”, Meridian Hotel, San Francisco, California
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected) Over 100 Solo Exhibitions
2011 North Central College, Naperville, Illinois
Sonoma Academy, Santa Rosa, California
2010 Tercera Gallery, Palo Alto, California
Dan Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
UNIP-Universidade Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
2009 Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Carniegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2008 Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Talley Gallery, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota
199 Fremont, San Francisco, California,
Herrett Museum, Twin Falls, Idaho
Multicultural Arts Center, Merced, California
Tercera Gallery, Palo Alto, California
Shasta College, Redding, California
2007 Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
Elins/Eagles-Smith, San Francisco, California
Erickson Fine Art, Healdsburg, California
2006 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
2005 Elins/Eagles-Smith, San Francisco, California
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2003 455 Market St., San Francisco, California
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2003 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
College of the Sequoias, Visalia, California
Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California
2002 Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2001 Gallery 76, Omaha, Nebraska
Erickson and Elins, San Francisco, California
Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, California
2000 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, California
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, California
1999 Dan Galleria, São Paulo, Brazil
Galleria Anita Schwartz, Rio de Janeiro
D.P. Fong Gallery, San Jose, California
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1998 Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
1998 Ventura College, Ventura, California
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California
1997 Dan Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
Blue River Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida
1996 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Claudia Chaplin Gallery, Stinson Beach, California
Manwaring Gallery, Connecticut College, New London
1995 Sunspot Gallery, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls
Herrett Museum, Twin Falls, Idaho
1994 Alexa Lee Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Tavern Club, Chicago, Illinois
1993 Documenta, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinios
Robert Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1991 Magnolia Editions, Oakland, California
1990 Simon James Gallery, Berkeley, California
1989 Robert Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Gwydion Gallery, La Jolla, California
Robert L. Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1988 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska
1987 Scott Hanson Gallery, New York
Robert L. Kidd Galleries, Birmingham, Michigan
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1986 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Magnolia Editions, Oakland, California
1986 Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Over 600 Group exhibitions, including)
2011 Artiscope, Brussels, Germany
MASS MoCA, Massachusetts
2010 Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Graton Gallery, Graton, California
Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico State, Chico, CA
2009 Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach, California
Arts at Mark’s Garage, Honolulu, Hawaii
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville Tennessee
2008 Merced Multicultural Arts Center, Merced, CA
Yavapai College, Prescott, Arizona
The Gallery of Sea and Heaven, Santa Rosa, California
Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2007 Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, California
2007 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
JR Kortman Gallery, Rockford, Illinois
D’Adamo/Woltz Gallery, Seattle, Washington
California State University, Chico, California
2006 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
2005 Art Fair, São Paulo, Brazil
Opening Night Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Gallery Dan, São Paulo, Brazil
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Erickson Fine Art, Healdsburg, California
2004 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
AVA Gallery and Art Center. Lebanon, New Hampshire
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California
2003 Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Associacão Alumni, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Arts Benicia, Benicia, California (two-person)
Elins/Eagle-Smith, San Francisco, California
Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
Erickson Fine Art, Healdsburg, California
Off The Preserve, DiRosa Foundation, Napa, California
2002 Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasilia Binational Center, Brasilia, Brazil
Instituto Cultural Brasileiro Norte-Americano, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2001 Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued)
2001 Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska
Alumni Headquarters, São Paulo, Brazil
William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California
2000 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo alto, California
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Dan Galleria, São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
Scuola Internationalze di Graphica, Venice, Italy
1999 Galerie Felixe Jeneweina Mêsta Kutné Hory, Czech Republic
Dan Galleria, São Paulo, Brazil
Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois
Illinois State University, Bloomington, Illinois
Diane Nelson Fine Art, Laguna, California
1998 Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California
Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Claudia Chaplin Gallery, Stinson Beach, California
D.P. Fong Gallery, San Jose, California
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, California
Dan Galleria, São Paulo, Brazil
1997 Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
California State University, Bakersfield, California
Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
Fresh Paint, Culver City, California
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois
Illinois State University, Bloomington, Illinois
Millworks Gallery, Akron, Ohio
1996 Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, California
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, California
Illinois State University, Bloomington, Illinois
Art Fair, Seattle, Washington
California State University, Long Beach, California
1995 Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued)
1995 Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Alexa Lee Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut
1994 Cumberland Gallery, Nashville,Tennessee
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
Northern California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa
1993 University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
Center for the Book Arts, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Patti Gilford Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois
Northern California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa
Magnolia Editions, Oakland, California
1992 Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Napa Valley College, Napa, California
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Robert Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Magnolia Editions, Oakland, California
Ira Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, California
Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
1991 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Metro Arts Commission, Nashville, Tennessee
University Art Gallery, CSU Los Angeles, California
Ira Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, California
University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University
University Art Gallery. CSU Hayward, California
1990 Nordjyllands Kuntsmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany
Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Lancaster Museum, Lancaster, California
Minot State University, Minot, North Dakota
San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, California
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Prichard Gallery, Moscow, Idaho
1989 Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, New York
Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, Michigan
Associated American Artists, New York, New York
Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
Brendan Walter Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Bergstrom Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin
Harleen & Allen Fine Art, San Francisco, California
MAJOR COLLECTIONS
Oakland Museum of Art
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach
International Telephone and Telegraph
International Paper Corporation
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Bank of America
Banco Sudameris, Brazil
J.P. Morgan
Coca Cola Corporation
McDonald’s Corporation
Fairmont Hotels Inc.
Washington State Collection
Museum of American Samoa
Arizona State University
Triton Museum of Art
Valley Bank of Nevada
Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cerritos College
Connecticut College, New London
University of California, Santa Barbara
Air France Airlines
Western Electric, New York
Kemper Insurance, Chicago
Catallactics Corporation, Chicago
Santa Barbara City College
La Jolla Museum of Art
Macrovision, San Jose
Kaiser Permanente
Ventura College
Hyatt Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona
Westin Hotel, Indianapolis
Indiana University
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro
San Francisco City Collection
Hyatt Regency, Cologne, Germany
Pepperdine University
Northern California Museum of Art
General Mills Corporation
Sonoma State University
Benziger Imagery Series Collection
Art Museum of Santa Cruz County
California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa
Center for Book Arts, São Paulo, Brazil
Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
Manufacturers Bank, Chicago
Globo Television, São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
3M Corporation
City of Lafayette, Lafayette Library, California