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C.V.
EDUCATION
M.F.A. in New Media from Transart Institute, Austria 2007
M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Vermont College 1989
B.A. from California State University, Sacramento 1986
Additional studies at:
Corning Museum of Glass, New York University; San Francisco State University Multimedia Program; United Digital Artists, New York; The International School of Art, Umbria, Italy; McGill University, Montreal; Oberlin College, Ohio; Centre D' Etudes Française, Avignon, France; Parsons School of Design, NY
TEACHING
Christian Brothers High School - Sacramento
American River College- Sacramento
Previously taught at:
Cosumnes River College - Sacramento; Sacramento City College - Sacramento;
The Art Institute of California - Sacramento; The Art Institute Online, Pittsburgh, PA;
Gibbs College, Montclair, NJ; The University of California, Davis; and, in the Arts-in-Corrections Program at Duell Vocational Institution, The Northern California Women's Facility, O.H. Close School for Boys, Susanville Correctional Facility and Folsom Prison
RELATED EMPLOYMENT
Creative Director/ Documentarian, The International Readers of Homer
Multimedia Artist / GUI Designer, Soliloquy, NY, NY; Video Scriptwriter / Director, General Training Company, CA; Freelance Web Designer and Graphic Designer
SOLO ART EXHIBITIONS
Colors Through Time, Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Chamber Gallery, Sac, CA 2021
Tears of Some God, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2020
Small Abstracts, Mostly, Ella K. McClatchy Library, Sacramento, 2016
Lyrical Abstraction, Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Chamber Gallery, Sac 2016
As Above, So Below: Reflections on Immanence, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2015
En Cours, with DocumentaryArt.net, Puicheric, France, 2014
Hard Rain, Solomon Dubnick, Sacramento, CA 2012
With and Without Walls, Solomon Dubnick, Sacramento, CA 2009
Outdoor Installation, Chios, Greece 2008
6 0f 304, Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, Vermont 2006
Turning Over the World, Solomon Dubnick, Sacramento, CA 2005
Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts, New York, NY (one night video/sound installation - April 1, 2005)
A Visibility of Thought, Phoenix Gallery, New York, New York 2004
Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts, New York, NY 2003
Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1999
Stoeffel, (one-night installation/exhibition) Sacramento, CA 1998
Home, Sacramento Poetry Center - performance of New Works Video and Illuminated Painting Grant Project 1998
Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1997
Galleria della Scuola, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy 1997
Artist's Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1994
Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1992
Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1991
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
40th Anniversary Exhibition, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2026
Magical Motion, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA 2026
Working Through It: Women and Their Art, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2025
Visual Poetry, Sacramento Poetry Center, Sacramento, CA 2024
Off the Wall, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA 2023
Shapeshifters, The Barn, Yolo Arts, Woodland, CA 2023
Women of Northern California, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2023
RealART, Agoura Hills, CA 2023
Benefit for Amnesty International, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2022
The Art of Painting in the 21st Century, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2020
The Art of Painting in the 21st Century, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2019
The Art of Painting in the 21st Century, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2018
In Response: Poets and Artists in Dialogue, SMUD, Sacramento, CA 2017
Movements & Behaviors, Union Hall, Los Rios Federation of Teachers, Sacramento, CA 2017
The Art of Painting in the 21st Century, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2017
The Art of Painting in the 21st Century, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2016
The Art of Painting in the 21st Century, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2015
The Art of Painting in the 21st Century, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2014
Panama Arts Collective, Sacramento, CA 2013
Panama Arts Collective, Sacramento, CA 2012
Panama Arts Collective, Sacramento, CA 2011
Solomon Dubnick, Sacramento, CA 2008
Solomon Dubnick, Sacramento, CA 2007
Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, Vermont 2006
Phoenix Gallery, New York, New York 2004
Phoenix Gallery, New York, New York 2004
Interpretations of Sound and Music,
Morgan County Arts Council, Berkeley Springs, WV 2003
The Rennaisance Group: Artists Who Write, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ 2003
Abstract Realities, Solomon Dubnick, Sacramento, CA 2003
International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy 1999
Florence/USA, Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts, New York, NY 1999
Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT1999
Galleria ISA, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy 1996
Dietrich Contemporary Arts, New York, NY 1996
Dietrich Contemporary Arts, New York, NY 1993
In Lakesh Invitational, Sacramento, CA 1991
ART FAIRS
LA Art Fair 2020
PERFORMANCE PAINTING
Jazz Beat Festival, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2026
Jazz Beat Festival, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2017
Jazz Beat Festival, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2016
Jazz Beat Festival, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2015
DHS Orchestra, Davis, CA 2014
Jazz Beat Festival, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2013
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Triton Museum of Art
Morris Graves Museum of Art
Bio Rad
Embarcadero Corporate Partners
Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni LLP
CURRENT REPRESENTATION
John Natsoulas, Davis, California
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
Scholarship to the New York Studio School Figure Painting Marathon 2018
Full Scholarship to Corning Museum of Glass 2018
California State Fair: Juror's Award, Sacramento 2017
Documentary Art.Net Residency, Puicheric France 2014
Invited to join the Arctic Circle Science and Art Expedition 2014, reschedule pending
Banff Artist-in-Residence, Banff Centre for the Arts 2011
Student Choice Teaching Award - Art Institute of California, Sacramento 2011
Six-month working residency, Vermont Studio Center 2006
Three-month fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center 1999
New Works Painting /Video Grant from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission 1998
Two Teaching Grants: California Arts Commission, '93, '96
Northern California: Introductions Winner 1991
Nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize 1989
PUBLICATIONS & READINGS
What's Funny About Forever? Poetry collaboration with Kathryn Hohlwein. Random Lane Press, 2018
Two chapbooks: Reciprocal Questionaire and The Company of Space
Radio Interview: Radio Parallax 2014
Seventeen publication credits; numerous public readings 1988 – 2016; nomination for Pushcart Prize
Featured Reader at the San Francisco Bay Area Book Fair 1994
Interviewed by August Coppola on a PBS T.V. Special: Committing Life Through Art 1992
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