MANUEL NERI
BORN:
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1930 |
Sanger, CA |
EDUCATION:
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1956-58 |
California
School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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1951-56 |
California
College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA |
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1951-52 |
University of
California, Berkeley, CA |
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1949-50 |
San Francisco
City College, San Francisco, CA |
TEACHING:
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1965-90 |
University of
California, Davis, CA |
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1963-64 |
University of
California, Berkeley, CA |
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1959-65 |
California
School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
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1995 |
Corcoran
School of Art, Washington, DC, Honorary Doctorate |
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1992 |
California
College of Arts and Crafts, Honorary Doctorate |
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1990 |
San Francisco
Art Institute, Honorary Doctorate |
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1985 |
San Francisco
Arts Commission, Award of Honor for Outstanding Achievement in Sculpture |
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1982 |
American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Academy Institute Award in Art |
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1980 |
National
Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant |
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1979 |
Guggenheim
Foundation Fellowship |
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1970-75 |
University of
California at Davis, Sculpture Grant |
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1965 |
National Art
Foundation Award |
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1963 |
San Francisco
Art Institute, 82nd Annual Sculpture Award |
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1959 |
Nealie
Sullivan Award, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco |
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1957 |
Oakland Art
Museum, Purchase Award in Painting |
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1953 |
Oakland Art
Museum, First Award in Sculpture |
COMMISSIONS:
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1994 |
Marble
sculpture Aurelia Roma for Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO |
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1987 |
North Carolina
National Bank: Commission for marble sculpture Espanola for NCNB
Tower, Tampa, FL |
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The Linpro
Company: Commission for marble sculpture Passage for the Christina
Gateway Project, Wilmington, DE |
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U.S. General
Services Administration: Commission for marble sculpture Ventana al
Pacifico for U.S. Courthouse, Portland, OR |
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1980-82 |
Office of the
State Architect, State of California: Commission for marble sculpture Tres
Marias for The Bateson Building, Sacramento, CA |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
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2003 |
Sculptures
and Works on Paper, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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Metamorphosis:
Recent Figurative Sculpture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA * |
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2002 |
Gesture
Studies,
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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White
Sculpture and Dream Drawings, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ |
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Japonais, B. Sakata Garo,
Sacramento, CA |
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Sculpture /
Drawings,
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO |
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2001 |
Paintings
and Sculpture: 1958 – 1970, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Galerie
Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA |
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2000 |
Recent
Bronzes, Marbles, Plasters and Drawings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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Recent
Works,
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID |
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Campbell-Thiebaud
Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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1999 |
Drawings
& Sculpture, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV |
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Bronze
Sculpture and Drawing, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CA |
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Sculptures
& Drawings, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA |
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Sculpture, Galerie Simonne Stern,
New Orleans, LA |
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1998 |
Palm Springs
Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
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Recent Work, Charles Cowles Gallery,
New York, NY |
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Riva Yares
Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ |
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Robert Mondavi
Winery, Oakville, CA |
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Sculpture
and Drawings,
Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA |
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1997-98 |
Early Work,
1953-1978,
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; traveled to San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport
Beach, CA |
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1997 |
Recent
Marble Sculpture, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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Recent
Works,
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA |
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San Marco Art
Gallery, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA |
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Sculptures
et Dessins,
Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris France |
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Charles Cowles
Gallery, New York, NY |
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Campbell-Thiebaud
Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Recent Drawings,
Bronze and Marble Sculpture, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO |
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Anne Reed
Gallery, Ketchum, ID |
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1996-99 |
A
Sculptor's Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; traveled to Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO; Academy of Art College, San Francisco,
CA; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, NE; The Hyde
Collection, Glens Falls, NY; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA; Palm Springs
Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
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1996 |
Recent
Drawings and Sculpture, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN |
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1995-96 |
Classical
Expressions: Sculpture and Drawings, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV *; traveled to: Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ and
Santa Fe, NM |
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1995 |
Charles Cowles
Gallery, New York, NY |
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Recent
Drawings,
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Robischon
Gallery, Denver, CO |
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Sculptures
et Dessins,
Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France |
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1994 |
Master
Artist Tribute III, Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA * |
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Morgan
Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
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Margulies/Taplin
Gallery, Boca Raton, Fl |
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1993 |
Painted and
Unpainted,
Dia Center for the Arts, Bridgehampton, NY * |
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Drawings
and Sculpture, University of Alabama Art Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL |
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New Work:
Marbles, Bronzes and Works on Paper, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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Recent Work, Campbell-Thiebaud
Gallery, San Francisco, CA * |
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Riva Yares
Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ |
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Works on
Paper,
Bingham Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN |
|
1992 |
She Said: I
Tell You It Doesn't Hurt Me, Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA |
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John Berggruen
Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Margulies/Taplin
Gallery, Boca Raton, FL |
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Morgan
Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
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1991 |
Drawings, Part I, 1953 –
1974,
Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA |
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Charles Cowles
Gallery, New York, NY |
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Riva Yares
Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
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Eve Mannes
Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
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1990 |
Bronzes, Crocker Art Museum,
Sacramento, CA; Dominican College, San Rafael, CA * |
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John Berggruen
Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Works on
Paper,
Bingham Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN |
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Margulies/Taplin
Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL |
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1989 |
Plasters, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA * |
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Sheppard Fine
Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV |
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New Works:
Marble and Plaster, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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Sculpture
and Drawings,
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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Sculpture
of the 1980s,
Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ * |
|
1988 |
A Personal
Selection, Wiegand
Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA |
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Recent
Sculpture and Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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James Corcoran
Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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1987 |
San Antonio
Art Institute, San Antonio, TX |
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Sculptures
and Drawimgs,
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
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1986 |
Charles Cowles
Gallery, New York, NY |
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1985 |
Sculpture
and Drawings,
Robert Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA* |
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1984 |
The Human
Figure: Sculpture and Drawings by Manuel Neri, Art Gallery, California
State University, Chico, CA |
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Gimpel-Hanover
& Andre Emmerich Galerien, Zurich, Switzerland * |
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Sculpture
and Drawings,
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Middendorf
Gallery, Washington, DC |
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1983 |
Sculpture
and Drawings,
Middendorf/Lane Gallery, Washington, DC |
|
1982 |
Charles Cowles
Gallery, New York, NY |
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1981-83 |
Drawimgs
and Bronzes,
The Art Museum Association; traveled to: Redding Museum and Art Center, Redding, CA; Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA; Gardiner State
University Art Gallery, Stillwater OK; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA;
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock,
AR; Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, TX; Art Museum of Santa Cruz County,
Santa Cruz, CA; Florida International University, Miami, FL; Springfield Art
Museum, Springfield, MO; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI; Laumeier
Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO |
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1981 |
Sculpture
& Drawings, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA * |
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Sculpture /
Drawings,
The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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Charles Cowles
Gallery, New York, NY |
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John Berggruen
Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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1980 |
Sculpture
and Drawings, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA |
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Drawings, Richmond Art
Center, Richmond, CA |
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Grossmont
College Gallery, El Cajon, CA |
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1979 |
Gallery Paule
Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
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1977 |
Recent
Sculpture and Drawings, ArtSpace/Open Ring, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery,
Sacramento, CA |
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1976 |
Manuel
Neri, Sculptor, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA *; traveled to Utah
Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
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The
Remaking of Mary Julia: Sculpture in Progress, 80 Langton Street, San
Francisco, CA |
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Neri
Sculpture,
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, New York, NY |
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1975 |
Sculpture and
Drawings,
Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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1974 |
Art Gallery,
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA |
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Sculpture
and Installations, Davis Art Gallery, Stephens College, Columbia, MO |
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1972 |
Sacramento
State College Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA |
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New Sculpture, Davis Art Center,
Davis, CA |
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1971 |
Art Gallery,
University of Nevada, Reno, NV |
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Arts of San
Francisco: Manuel Neri, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco,
CA |
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Quay Gallery,
San Francisco, CA |
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1970 |
San Francisco
Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
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St. Mary's
College Art Gallery, Moraga, CA |
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1969 |
Louisiana
State University, Baton Rouge, LA |
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1968 |
Quay Gallery,
San Francisco, CA |
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1966 |
Neri
Sculpture,
Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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1964 |
Berkeley
Gallery, Berkeley, CA |
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1963 |
Neri
Sculpture,
New Mission Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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1960 |
Dilexi
Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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1959 |
Spatsa
Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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1957 |
The 6 Gallery,
San Francisco, CA |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
|
2001 |
Kinds of
Drawing,
Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA * |
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Grounds for
Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ |
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Selected
Modern Works,
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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San
Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism – Select Works, Hackett-Freedman
Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
|
2000-01 |
Made in
California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900 – 2000, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
|
2000 |
Modern
Masters: Works on Paper, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Maquettes, Models and Muses
Figurative Sculpture - Rodin to the Present,
Winston Wachter Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY |
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Generations
II,
B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA |
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Summer
Reading,
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID |
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Summer
2000,
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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Omaggio
a Modesto Lanzone: Artists, Galleries & Friends, Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, CA |
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Yellowstone
Art Museum, Billings, MT |
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1999-2000 |
Twentieth
Century American Sculpture at The White House: Exhibition VIII, Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, The White House, Washington, DC |
|
1999 |
California
Classics: Highlights from the Collection of the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art,
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to: Fukui City Art Museum,
Fukui City, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan; Tochigo Prefectural
Museum of Fine Art, Tochigo, Japan |
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Into the 21st
Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art,
San Jose, CA |
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What Is Art
For?, The
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA |
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Denver Art
Museum, Denver, CO |
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Charles Cowles
Gallery, New York, NY |
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Holiday
Selections: Recent Work by Gallery Artists, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco,
CA |
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Homage to
the San Francisco Art Institute: Artists Who Transformed American Culture, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Twenty-Five
Treasures,
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Self Images, Galerie Simonne Stern,
New Orleans, LA |
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Large
Paintings,
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
|
1998 |
The Arkansas
Arts Center, Little Rock, AR |
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A Theatre
of Art III,
Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM & Scottsdale, AZ |
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The Figure
in California Art, Robert Aichele Fine Arts, Menlo Park, CA |
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A Theatre
of Art II,
Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM & Scottsdale, AZ |
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The Winter
Show,
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
|
1997 |
The View
from Denver: Contemporary American Art from the Denver Art Museum, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria |
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Cast
Contemporary Sculpture from the Walla Walla Foundry, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman
College, Walla Walla, WA |
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The Arkansas
Arts Center, Little Rock, AR |