Exhibitions, Employment and Education
2024 Harper’s Magazine - October 2024, collage illustrations for Day 121 by Solvej Balle
RE/ALIGNED: A Visual Journey in Collage, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA
Salon at the Triton 2024, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
2022 Harper’s Magazine - June 2022, collage illustration for Ina a short story by Ottessa Moshfegh
2021 RePurposedful: The Art of Collage and Assemblage, SCRAP (Scroungers Center for Reusable Art)
at the Randal Museum, San Francisco, CA
Salon at the Triton Museum, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
2020 Slumber with a Key, Surreal Artist Dreams, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Vanessa Woods, curator
Bird, Nest, Nature - Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California
Noir Nouveau wine label design - Imagery Winery, Glen Ellen, CA
Catamaran Literary Reader - Vol. 8, Issue 1, Spring 2020
2019 A Natural History of Collage, solo exhibit, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
Visual Stories, solo exhibit, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
hot love/cold facts, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, Jack Fischer, curator
Catamaran Literary Reader - Vol. 7, issue 3 Fall 2019 - Collage Illustration
“The World Writes Back:Postcards to Emily Dickinson,” Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA
2018 American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist
no rhyme or reason, group collage exhibit, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
PAPER CUTS: LARGE-SCALE COLLAGE, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Built for Books juried show, collaborative books with Vanessa Woods, Pacific Grove Library, Pacific Grove
2018 Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2017 Echo Poems - Catie O'Leary and Vanessa Woods, Jack Fischer Gallery/MinnesotaStreetProject, S.F.
MARVELOUS! An International Exhibition of Collage, Assemblage and Construction,
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2016 Metamorphic: Collage in the Dadaist/Surrealist Tradition, Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford, CA
Connect & Collect: 36th Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, ICA, San Jose, CA
Judy's Cabinet of Dada Curiosities & More, r.blitzer gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
ArtSeed Exhibit, Thoreau Center Gallery, The Presidio, San Francisco, CA
The Sand City Juried Art Exhibition, Independent Gallery, Sand City, CA
Hybrid: A Collage Show, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
2015 BOTANICA all things plant life, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
ArtSeed - Communication, Collaboration, Thoreau Center Gallery, The Presidio, San Francisco, CA
Hybrid: A Collage Show, a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA- Juror’s Award
2014 Catamaran Art Show, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
(n)collage: a mixed media collage exhibit, Ice House Gallery, Petaluma, CA
Catamaran Literary Reader - Vol. 2, Issue 1 Winter 2014 - Collage Illustrations
kolaj magazine - Collage Artist Trading Cards - Pack 2
San Francisco Center for the Book - Mail / Art / Book
2013 Six week artist residency at the Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Swandorf/Fronberg, Germany
Copy.right? 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 The Collage Show, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, California
Reclamation: Bay Area Collage and Assemblage, Studio Quercus, Oakland CA
International Mail Art Exhibition, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada
2010 San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Secret Drawings, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Unbound-A National Exhibition of Book Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2009 Permutations from Nature’s Perimeter, Radius 2009, Palo Alto Art Center, CA
Assemblage + Collage + Construction, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
Michael Rosenthal Gallery “Mixed Metaphors and Obsessive Compulsive Behavior, S.F. CA
Arts on Fire XIII, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, Jacquelin Pilar, Juror
Structure and the Meaning of Life – ArtSeed, Gallery Thoreau, The Presidio, CA
Faculty Exhibition Cañada College, Redwood City, CA
2008 Michael Rosenthal Contemporary Art, Group Show, Redwood City, CA
2007 Achenbach Inspired:Works on Paper, Curated by ArtSeed
The Point Gallery and Studio, Hunters Point Shipyards Artists Studios, S.F., CA
2006 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, Access Program, San Francisco, CA
ZYZZYVA – Vol. XXII, No.1 Spring 2006 – Collage Illustrations
Multiple Choice, cabrillo gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos CA – merit award
Women Beyond Borders, permanent collection, exhibit Palo Alto Art Center CA
2004 The Ceremony of Tea, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Festa Brazil, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2003 Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage, deSaisset Museum Santa Clara University, CA
2001 Objects Considered, Modern and Postmodern Still Life, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2000 California Small Works, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
Kids’Lit 1.0 Wonder, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
1999 Artist’s Books/Art from Books/Sketchbooks, Sunnyvale Creative Arts Center Sunnyvale, CA
1998 Small Works, Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Radius 1998, Two Person Exhibition, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CAjuror - Todd Hosfelt
The Light is Diverse in California, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
West Coast Women’s Juried Exhibition, Helios Gallery, Ashland, Oregon
PulpFictions: Works on Paper, Texas Fine Art Associations, Austin Museum of Art
Teaching Experience Cañada College, Redwood City, California
Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California
Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho
volunteer art teacher - Roosevelt Elementary School, Boise,Montana
Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
Education 1976 MFA - Lone Mountain College, San Francisco, CA
1972 BA - University of California Santa Barbara, CA
1970 AA - Cañada College, Redwood City, CA