Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
1987 M.A., Clinical Psychology, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, CA
1970 M.A., Studio Art, San Francisco State University, CA
1965 B.F.A., Studio Art, University of Texas, Austin
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS
2022 Ars Electronica, a Festival for Art, Technology and Society, Linz, Austria
2018 The LightRoom, Berkeley, CA
1983 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1983 Robert Else Gallery, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA
1981 Jehu Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979 Upper Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977 University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA
1976 Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1976 Women's Inter-Art Center, New York, NY
1975 Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Floating Art Museum, “Rising Tides”, Alameda, CA
2022 58th Annual Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2020 Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
2019 Images 2019, Marin Society of Artists Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2017 Museum of Solidarity, Salvador Allende, “Critical Pop” Santiago, Chile
1986 Cameraworks Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 San Francisco Art Commission Gallery
Montana State University Gallery, Bozeman, MT
Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1983 Visual Arts Center, Anchorge, AK
Penn's Landing Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Arts Council Gallery, Belmont, CA
Artist's Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1982 Belca House, Kyoto, Japan
Chevron Gallery, San Francisco, CA
World Print Center, San Francisco, CA
Alta Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1981 Heller Gallery, UC Berkeley
San Francisco Art Commission Gallery
1980 Canadian Center for Photography and Film, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City
International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY
1979 E.B. Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Word Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1978 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Xerox Reproduction Center, San Francisco, CA
Diablo Valley College Gallery, Concord, CA
Euphrat Gallery, Cupertino, CA
1977 The Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA
Center Gallery, UC Santa Barbara
California State University Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1976 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Golden West College Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
Gentolfte Kunstbibliotek, Hellerup, Denmark
University of Manitoba Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
University of North Dakota Art Gallery, Grand Forks, ND
COLLECTIONS
Ars Electronica Center collection, Linz, Austria
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archive
The Solidarity Museum of Salvador Allende (MSSA), Santiago, Chile
Archives of American Art, The Simthsonian (Jehu-Wong Gallery), Washington, DC
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
University of Texas Art Department, Austin, TX
San Francisco State University Printmaking Department, CA
PERFORMANCE WORKS
2018 Other Minds Festival Oberlin Dance Collective Theater, San Francisco, CA
1988 Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL (Artists-in-Residence for National
Performance Network and Tigertail Productions)
1986 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
School of Art and Music, Canberra, Australia
ISCM, Old Darlington School, University of Sydney, Australia
Soundworks (Sydney Biennale Festival), The Performance Space, Sydney
1985 Image/Word New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Frontiers of the Mind (Maitreya Institute), Project Artaud, San Francisco
1984 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 50th Anniversary Celebration California State University, Fresno
1983 New Music America, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
Word Works, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Music in the Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tone Roads West, Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts, NM
1982 Muziek van Nu, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Roulette Performance Space, New York, NY
The Oral Mode in Contemporary Art and Culture, Center for Music
Experiment, University of California, San Diego, CA
1981 Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1980 New Music America, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MN
80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA
1979 New Performance Gallery, San Francisco
New Music, New York, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Jehu Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1978 White Mountain Festival for the Arts, Jefferson, NH
Art in a Technological Society Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Modern Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1976 Cabrillo Music Festival, Aptos, CA
Gallerie Ghislain Mollet-Vieville, Paris, France
1975 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (with Jim Petrillo & Betsy Davids)
The Kitchen, NYC (collaboration with Petrillo & Davids)
NEW ARTS FOUNDATION COMMISSIONED COLLABORATIVE WORKS
1987-1992
Prima Materia, environmental set, Nancy Karp + Dancers, music by Ingram Marshall performed at the Zellerbach Playhouse (UC Berkeley), New Performance Gallery (San Francisco), Theater Artaud (San Francisco), EUROKAZ Festival (Zagreb, Yugoslavia) and the Sava Center (Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
1984-1988
Dot Bunch, environmental set, Nancy Karp + Dancers, music by Charles Amirkhanian, New Performance Gallery (San Francisco), Laney College Theater (Oakland, CA), Zellerbach Playhouse (UC Berkeley), EUROKAZ Festival (Zagreb, Yugoslavia) and the Sava Center (Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
TEACHING
1984-1989 San Francisco State University, Conceptual Design, Printmaking, Graduate Seminar and Painting
1981-1983 Sacramento State University, Printmaking, Sacramento, CA
1981 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Generative Systems Program, Chicago, IL,
1978-1980 San Francisco State University, Printmaking
1978 San Francisco Art Institute, Photo-Prints
1976-1977 University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting Artist in Printmaking and Visual Fundamentals
1976 San Francisco State University, Printmaking, summer session
Academy of Art College, Printmaking
1975 California College of Arts and Crafts, Relief Printing, summer session
University of California Extension, Innovative Printmaking, Berkeley, CA
1973 California State University, Fresno, CA, Printmaking
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
2022 Introduction of collaborative work with Amirkhanian, Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space Gallery, Linz, Austria
1995 Slide lecture on American Artist Residency Programs, Tokyo, Japan, Spiral Hall, sponsored by the Cultural Program of the American Center
1986 Australian lecture tour: Box Hill College, Melbourne; City Art Institute, Sydney; University of Woolongong Interdisciplinary Art Department; Tasmanian State Institute of Technology Art Department, Launceston
1982 Lecture on work as artist, California State University, Sonoma, CA
Lecture on work as artist, San Francisco Art Institute
Lecture on work as artist, University of California, San Diego, CA
Lecture, New Print(making) Technologies, World Print Center conference entitled Extensions of Printmaking Generative Systems, Mixed Media and Alternative Photography, San Francisco, CA
1976 Lecture, California Printmakers, in conjunction with print invitational at Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
1975 Lecture, 3M Color-in-Color Process, Academy of Art College, San Francisco
1974 Workshop, Printmaking: Expanded Processes, California State University, Fresno, Extension
Lecture, Women as Artists, Laney Community College, Oakland, CA
AWARDS, HONORS, RESIDENCIES, COMMISSIONS
2010 The Morris Graves Foundation, Residency in Graves Studio, Lolita, CA
2000 Ella Holbrook Walker Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation (NYC), stipend & residency, Bellagio Study Center, Italy (October 1999-August 2000)
1997 Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland (July)
1989 Commission: Cover art, Soundings XVI, ed. Peter Garland, Sante Fe, NM
1988 NEA commission grant through the New Arts Foundation for Prima Materia stage set design
1988 Commission: Cover art, Complete Studies for Player Piano by Conlon Nancarrow, five CD series and booklet photographs documenting his home by architect/artist Juan O’Gorman and studio in Mexico City, Wergo Schallplatten, Mainz, Germany
1986 NEA grant for collaborative (with Amirkhanian) interdisciplinary performance, Veto, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, CA
1986 Invitation to Syndey Biennale, Australia, to present performance works
1984 NEA commission, New Arts Foundation, Dot Bunch set design
1973 Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, five-month residency
OTHER ART RELATED WORK
1992-1997 General Manager, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
1984-1986 Founder/Manager, Brooklyn Brewery Printmaking Studio, Oakland, CA
1980-1993 Editorial Board of Leonardo, An International Journal of Art, Science and Technology, Pergamon Press and M.I.T. Press
1970-1972 Arts Instructor/Director, Berkeley Enrichment Program, City of Berkeley Parks & Recreation Department, Berkeley, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2023 March Review of DVD “Hypothetical Moments”, The Wire Magazine (Great Britain), On Screen by Julian Cowley
2022 Publication of collaborative DVD of performance works by Carol Law and Charles Amirkhanian, titled “Hypothetical Moments”, available from www.otherminds.org
2019 Womens Work, published by Primary Information, Brooklyn, New York
2004 Art, Performance, Media, 31 Interviews, ed. By Nicholas Zurbrugg, (pages 17-23) University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis/London
1990 Cover Art, Soundings XVI, Soundings Press, ed. Peter Garland, Santa Fe, NM
1988 Covers, CDs (5), Conlon Nancarrow: Complete Studies for Player Piano, Wergo Schallplaten, Germany
Cover Art, Leonardo Journal for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, Vol. 21, No. 2, Pergamon Press, London
1979 Cover and Article, New Performance, Vol.1, No. 4, Oberlin Dance Collective, San Francisco, CA
1978 Fe-Mail-Art, Vile International, Banana Productions
1974 Art et Communication Marginale, ed. Hervé Fischer, Alland, Paris, France
1973 Cover Design, Orion Records, Music of George Antheil Fourth Assembling, (Korn/Kostelanetz), New York City
Cover, KPFA Radio Folio, article Rubber Stamp Art, August 1973