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SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

-2024-

Robert Fontaine Gallery, Art Palm Beach, Florida

Shemer Art Center, “Modern Makers & Materials”, curator John Randall Nelson, Scottsdale, AZ

-2023-

Thomas Reynolds Gallery, “Broad Spectrum”, Curator Andi Campognone, Santa Barbara, CA

Art Fluent, “Seeing Red”, Boston MA, Curator Amy Matteson Neill

Robert Fontaine Gallery, “At a Loss for Words”, Retrospective, Palm Beach, FLA

 

Channing Peake Gallery, “Sunshine on Tuesdays”, Santa Barbara, CA

Robert Fontaine Gallery, “Intimate”, Curator Lander de Basterra, Miami Beach, FL

 

-2022-

Robert Fontaine Gallery, Art Miami

Silo 6776, “We Are All Connected”, Curator Beatricia Sagar, New Hope, PA

 Robert Fontaine Gallery,“New Acquisitions”, Palm Beach, FLA

 

-2021-

Satellite Art Show, “Satellite 2D”, Curator Joseph Lattimore, Miami, FL

 The LINE Contemporary Art Space, “Out of Balance”, Curator Luca Curci, London

 Barcelona Contemporary 2021, “Mixing Identities”, Curator Luca Curci

San Diego Museum of Art, 2021 Summer Exhibition, Curator Anita Feldman

Las Laguna Art Gallery, “Texture & Patterns”, Laguna Beach, CA

Art Fluent, “ConTEXT”, Curator Amy Matteson Neill, Boston MA

Robert Fontaine Gallery, Palm Beach, FLA

 

-2020-

UNESCO Woman Art Award 2020 from CENTER for UNESCO in Palazzo Torfanini

Presented by Laura Francesca Di Trapani, Bologna, Italy

The LINE Contemporary Art Space, London,“Extended Body/Mixing Cultures”, Curator Luca Curci

Musa International Art Space, “Woman's Essence”, Rome, Italy

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, “5x5 Invitational”, Montecito, CA

Davis Taft Gallery, Montecito, CA

 

-2019-

The Room Contemporary Art Space.”Rituals & Consciousness”, Curator Luca Curci

58th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Ca'Zanardi, San Marco Square

Channing Peake Gallery,“Wit & Whimsy”, Santa Barbara County Arts Commission

The Grolier Club at the Grolier Society, “A Matter of Size”, Curator Patricia Pistner, New York, NY

Summerland Art Center, Good Bad Girls, Summerland, CA

The Brand Library & Art Center, “Brand ‘47”, Curator Alma Ruiz, Glendale, CA

SB Museum of Art, “Off the Wall”, Santa Barbara, CA

Davis Taft Gallery, Montecito, CA

SB City Public Library, LAMENT - PERMANENT INSTALLATION

Lois Lambert Gallery, “Truthiness”, Los Angeles, CA

 

-2018-

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, “Night and Day”, Curator Bob Alderette, Montecito, CA

Sullivan Goss Gallery, “The Red Headed Stepchild”, Santa Barbara, CA

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, “Creative Hands”, Montecito, CA

Sullivan Goss Gallery, “System Disruption”, Santa Barbara, CA

Sullivan Goss Gallery, “100 Grand”, Santa Barbara, CA

 

-2017-

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, “Out of Place”, Curator Ruth Estevez, Montecito, CA

Queens Museum of Art, “Kew Gardens Film Festival”, Imaginary Novels, Queens, New York

Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science & Technology, “Winter Whites: Poetry in White”

Arts Fund Gallery, “Disorderly Construct”, Curator Hugh Margerum, Santa Barbara, CA

SILO 118, “Stepping into the Unknown”, Santa Barbara, CA

Palm Loft Gallery, “Spring Bouquet of Hot Women”, Carpinteria, CA

Indigo Gallery, “Pulp Fiction”, Santa Barbara, CA

Carpinteria Library, “The Book”, Curator Karen Browdy, Carpinteria, CA

Sullivan Goss Gallery, “100 Grand”, Santa Barbara, CA

 

-2016-

UCSB Library, “Winter Installation-Lament”, Site Specific Public Art

SB Fine Arts Film Festival, “Imaginary Novels”, AWARD Santa Barbara, CA

Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, “Imaginary Novels”, AWARD Los Angeles

Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival, “Imaginary Novels”, AWARD Los Angeles

Sullivan Goss Gallery, “100 Grand”, Santa Barbara, CA

Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science & Technology, “Herd Around the World”, Curator R T Livingston

 

-2015-

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art,”Vital”, Curator Clara Ennis

CASA Gallery, Santa Barbara, “Buddha Abides”

Sullivan Goss Gallery, “100 Grand”, Santa Barbara, CA

Arts Fund Gallery, “Feast Your Eyes”, Santa Barbara, CA

Robert Fontaine Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

Arts Fund Gallery, “Artists' Balls”, Santa Barbara, CA

-2014-

Museum of Contemporary Art SB, “Requiem for the Bibliophile”, Curator Miki Garcia

Morris Museum of Art, “From the Collection Green/Weedman”, Augusta, GA

SBTC Gallery, “Play”, Curator Susan Tibbles, Santa Barbara, CA

Montecito Aesthetic Institute, “Eye of the Beholder”

Sullivan Goss Gallery, “100 Grand”, Santa Barbara, CA

SBTC Gallery, “Between Seer and Seen”, book signing

Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL

 

-2013-

Gibbes Museum of Art, “Vibrant Vision”, Charleston, SC

Westmont Museum of Art, “Confluence”, Curator Peter Frank, Montecito, CA

Robert Fontaine Gallery, Art Basil, Switzerland

SB Arts Collaborative, “Bar Napkin Bienale”

Robert Fontaine Gallery, Aqua Art Fair

Sullivan Goss Gallery, “100 Grand”, Santa Barbara, CA

Robert Fontaine Gallery, Scope, Miami

 

-2012-

Westmont Museum of Art, “Lift”, Curator Howard Fox, Montecito, CA

Zimmer Museum, "Art of Pop Culture", Los Angeles, CA

Robert Fontaine Gallery, Art Palm Beach

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, “Off the Wall”

Project Fine Art Zone, “Tic Tac Toe”, Santa Barbara, CA

Sullivan Goss Gallery, “100 Grand”, Santa Barbara, CA

Robert Fontaine Gallery, Scope, Miami

Wallspace Gallery, “Give”, Santa Barbara, CA

 

-2011-

Westmont Museum of Art, “5x5 Invitational”, Montecito, CA

Contemporary Arts Forum, “Eating Apples in Paradise”, Curator Miki Garcia

Naples Museum of Art, “Incognito”, Curator Richard Tooke, Naples, FL

Atkinson Gallery, “Small Images 2011”, Santa Barbara, CA

Shoshana Wayne Gallery, “Chain Letter”, Curator Doug Harvey, Los Angeles

AFS Gallery, “One Night Stand”, Santa Barbara*

Sullivan Goss Gallery, “100 Grand”, Santa Barbara, CA

 

-2010-

Sullivan Goss Gallery, “Geometric Abstraction”, Santa Barbara, CA

Ken Closs Gallery, London Art Fair

Atkinson Gallery, “Small Images 2010”, Santa Barbara, CA

AFS Gallery, “Green”, Santa Barbara, CA      

Contemporary Arts Forum, “Dusk till Drawn”, Santa Barbara, CA

Sullivan Goss Gallery, “100 Grand”, Santa Barbara, CA

 

-2009-

Atkinson Gallery, “Small Images 2009”, Santa Barbara, CA

 

-2008-

Ken Closs Fine Art, London

Naples Museum of Art, “Have a Seat”

Jonathan Green Gallery, Naples, FL

Gallery at Bayfront, “Not My Mother’s Quilt”, Naples, FL

JLD Gallery, “Art Party”, Naples, FL

-2007-

Jagged Art Gallery, London Art Fair

The von Liebig Art Center, “46th Annual”, Curator Sam Gilliam, Naples, FL

Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL

Gallery at Bayfront, Naples, FL

 

-2006-

Jagged Art Gallery, Bridge Art Fair, Miami

Left Eye Gallery, Cork St., London

Walter Wickiser Gallery, Chelsea, NYC

The von Liebig Art Center, “Emotions on the Surface”, Naples, FL

 Jagged Art Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, NYC

The von Liebig Art Center, “45th Annual”, Curator Faith Ringgold, Naples, FL

Debuys Dupont Gallery, “Undercover”, Miami, FL

Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL

The von Liebig Art Center, “21st Century Miniatures”, Naples, FL*

 

-2005-

Boca Raton Museum of Art, “54th All Florida”, Curator Louis Grachos, Boca Raton, FL

Walter Wickiser Gallery, “Icons for the Start of a Century”, New York, NY

Good Girls Gallery, Brighton Art Fair

Wynwood Contemporary Gallery, “The War Room”, Miami, FL

Eliane Gans Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL

Alan Brown Gallery, “Modern & Contemporary Masters”, Naples, FL

Wynwood Contemporary Gallery, “Undercover”, Miami, FL

 

-2004-

Ashmore Gallery, “The Art of Politics”, Miami, FL

Ashmore Gallery, “Ever POP-ular”, Miami, FL

Debuys Dupont Gallery, “Undercover”, Miami, FL

Wynwood Contemporary Gallery, “The War Room”, Miami, FL

 

-2003-

The von Liebig Art Center, “Art Encounter 2003”, Naples, FL

Naples Museum of Art, “Looking at the Bright Side”, Naples, FL

 

-2002-

HW Gallery, “Modern Masters”, Naples, FL

The von Liebig Art Center, “Art Encounter 2002”, Curator Bonnie Clearwater, Naples, FL

National Museum of Women in the Arts, “The War Room”,

Permanent Collection Fine Art Books, Washington, D.C.

RX Art Ball, Curator Diane Brown, NYC              

 

-2001-

Naples Art Museum, “Cultural Reflections”, Naples, FL

HW Gallery, “Mumtaz”, Naples, FL

HW Gallery, “21st Century Masters”, Naples, FL

 

-2000-

HW Gallery, “A Little Madness”, Naples, FL

The von Liebig Art Center, “Art Encounter 2000”, Naples, FL

 

-1999-

Friends of Art Naples, Artist Studio Tour, Naples, FL

 

-1992-

Santa Monica Artist Studio Tour, “Downwind”, CA

 

-1991-

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “#7 Show”, Los Angeles, CA    ** ??1992??

Los Angeles Arts Council, “Catch a Rising Artist”

Long Beach Arts, “Found Object as Art”   Curator George Hermes

Bobi Leonard Gallery, Santa Monica Arts Council,

“Heal the Bay Surfboard Invitational”, Curator Laddie John Dill

 

-1990-

Museum Of New Mexico, “Southwest ‘90” Curator: Henry T. Hopkins, Santa Fe, New Mexico

James Corcoran Gallery, “Heal the Bay”, Los Angeles

 

-1989-

Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson, “Eighth Annual”, Curator Robert Mangold

Silvermine Guild Art Center, “Art of the Northeast”, Curator Helaine Posner, New Canaan, CT

Yperifanos Gallery, “Zen Structures”, E. 55th St., NYC  

 

-1988-

Riverside Art Museum, “Emerging Artists 1988”, Curators Henry T. Hopkins & Betye Saar, Riverside, CA

Schreiber Cutler Gallery, “Downwind”, Soho, NYC 

Carminel Gallery, “Elegance”, E. 55th St., NYC

Gallery 54, “Art Horizons”, Soho, NYC

Los Angeles County Century Gallery, “North Region Sampler”, Curator Kathy Zubia

 

-1987-

Carnegie Art Museum, “Fifth Annual”, Curators Richard Oginz & Priscilla Bender Shore, Oxnard, CA

Bowers Museum, “Images ‘87”, Curator Henry T. Hopkins, Santa Ana, CA

Merging One Gallery, “Downwind Series”, Santa Monica, CA

The Woman’s Building, “Reflections on Survival”, Los Angeles

Burbank Fine Arts Federation, “12th Annual”

Long Beach Arts, “81st Annual” Curator Joan Hugo

Jerry Solomon Gallery, “Metro Art”, Los Angeles

 Robert’s Art Gallery, “Taboo”, Curator Mary Jane Jacob, Los Angeles

Woman’s Building City Hall Rotunda, “Women and Their Work”

Robert’s Art Gallery, “Power”, Curator Mary Jane Jacob, Los Angeles

Scarsdale Art Society, Scarsdale, NY

Cal Poly State University Gallery, “Art For Peace”, San Luis Obispo

San Francisco State University Gallery, “Arts for a Better World”

Richard Bennett Gallery, “Salon Des Independents”, Los Angeles

Catholic Charities of California, “Gloria Dei”

California Caucus For Art, “Invitational”

 

-1986-

Merging One Gallery, “Group 4”, Santa Monica, CA

 

-1984-

Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Argon Gallery, “Layers”, Venice, CA       

 

-1982-

Los Angeles County Museum of Art gift shop

Free Hand Gallery, Los Angeles

Inner Works Gallery, Los Angeles

 

AWARDS

 

-2020-

UNESCO Woman Art Award 2020 for contribution to Arts and Culture

“Woman’s Essence Project” from 

CENTER for UNESCO in PALAZZO TORFANINI, Bologna, Italy

Presented by Laura Francesca Di Trapani

 

-2019-

Spotlight Magazine

HONORABLE MENTION

 

-2018-

US CONGRESSIONAL SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD

Salud O. Carbajal, Senator from California

 2018 LOCAL HEROES AWARD for outstanding and invaluable service to the community

Santa Barbara Independent

CALIFORNIA STATE LEGISLATURE CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION

Local Hero Award

 

-2017-

Carpinteria Library, Book as Art

  SECOND PLACE AWARD

American Filmatic Arts Award

WINNER - Best Video Art Animation  

Nancy Gifford Director; IMAGINARY NOVELS

-2016-

Los Angeles Independent Film Festival

WINNER – Best Experimental Film

Paris Play Film Festival, Paris, France

WINNER – Best Experimental Film

Santa Barbara Fine Arts Film Festival

WINNER – Best Experimental Film

Hollywood International Moving Picture Film Festival

WINNER – Best Experimental Film

LA International Independent Film Awards

SILVER WINNER – Experimental Film

California Film Awards

DIAMOND WINNER Best Experimental Short

Indie Fest Film Awards

AWARD of MERIT Best Experimental Short

LA CINEFEST

 

-2002-

AWARD of MERIT, Bonnie Clearwater

The von Liebig Art Center

 

-1988-

AWARD of  EXCELLENCE

Gallery 54, New York

 

-1987-

Carnegie Art Museum  

FIRST PLACE AWARD

Fine Arts Federation of Burbank

JUROR’S AWARD

Long Beach Arts Council     Joan Hugo

HONORABLE MENTION

Los Angeles Art’s Council

MAYOR BRADLEY HONOR

Scarsdale Art Society

AWARD of EXCELLENCE

Catholic Charities of California

HONORABLE MENTION

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