Resume

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Education:

2005   MFA, Painting, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
1997   BFA, Illustration and Advertising, Directorate of Art, Bombay, India

Museum Exhibitions:

2021    ConVergence, Group Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Marin, CA
2019    Mood and Movement, Solo Exhibition, Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA
2017    Inclusion, Solo Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Abstracts from Life, New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU), Los Gatos, CA
2016    Solon at Triton, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2014    Recent Works, Two person Show, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
Visible Transparency – Exquisite Gardeners, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design,
San Francisco, CA
2012    Legacy In Continuum: Bay Area Figuration, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield,CA
2010    LandsCApes: Glimpses of Everyday California, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2009    National Juried Competition, Coos Museum, Coos Bay, OR
2008    Painterly Painting: The Next Level, The Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
2007    Best of the Show Award, 39th National Juried Art Competition,
Palm Springs Museum,Palm Springs, CA
Landscapes: Rural and Urban Realities, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Juried Exhibition, The Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA

Corporate and Museum Collections:

UCSF- John Muir Health Jean and Ken Hofmann Cancer Center, Walnut Creek, CA
Southeast Community Center, San Francisco, CA
Crocker Art Museum
Hilbert Musem of California Art at Chapman University
Heising-Simons Foundation
Bakersfield Museum of Art
VISA International
Hewlett Packard
DELL Foundation
Tamalpais Bank
Charls Schwab
GENTECH
Bloomingdale
MISC

Teaching:

2005-2008     MFA Directed Study Advisor, Academy of Art University
2006               Abstract Interpretation, Online MFA Class, Academy of Art University

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2024 Root and Grow, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 Synergy, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 Colorful Space, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2020 Synthesis, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018  Revealing Hues, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summer, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2016   Outdoor, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Otherhood, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014    Recent Figurative Works, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Yatra (Journey), Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013    Dialogue, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Silent Conversations, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2012    Figures and Portraits, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2011    Pune to San Francisco, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010    Constructing Figure, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2009    Reincarnation, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Faces, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2007    A quiet town, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions and Art Fairs:

2022   Art Market, San Francisco, CA
2021   Art Miami, Miami, FL
2020   Table for Four, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2019    Art Miami, Miami, FL
Group Show, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2018    Art Miami, Miami, FL
2017    Art Miami, Miami, FL
2016    Silicon Valley Art Fair, San Mateo, CA
Art Miami, Miami, FL
2015    Silicon Valley Art Fair, San Mateo, CA
Art Miami, Miami, FL
Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA
2014    Silicon Valley Art Fair, San Mateo, CA
Context Art, Miami, FL
Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA
2013    Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA
2012    Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA
2011    Painterly Painters, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
artMARKT, San Francisco, CA
2010    Los Angeles Art Fair, Los Angels, CA
2009    Los Angeles Art Fair, Los Angels, CA
2003    20” x 20” x 20” A Compact Competition, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Selected Awards:

Reviews and Essays:

2019   San Mateo Daily Journal
Gentry Magazine
2013   Piece and Quiet, By John Seed, Huffington Post
2014   Journey, Catalogue Essay by DeWitt Cheng
Legacy In Continuum: Bay Area Figuration, by Roberta Carasso
2012    Piece and Quiet, By John Seed, Huffington Post
Figures and Portraits, by John Seed
2011    New American Paintings # 97
Pune to San Francisco, American Art Collector
2009    Forms and Figures, by Joshua Rose, American Art Collector
Reincarnation, Catalogue Essay by Peter Campion
ART LTD., Review by DeWitt Cheng
American Art Collector, by Joshua Rose
2007   The paint strokes between realism and abstraction, San Francisco Chronicle,
by Kenneth Baker