Education

2018 Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Practice, Transart Institute/University of Plymouth UK

1989 Master of City Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA

1981 B.A. Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

Painting classes and workshops: California College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, UC Berkeley Extension, Esalen Institute, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Ah Haa School for the Arts

Solo Exhibitions

• 2024 Project Orange, Orangeland Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2021 ADC Fine Art, Cincinnati, OH
• 2019 Sense of Place, Lola’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2018 Force of Nature MDG Art Advisory, San Francisco, CA
• 2010 Spring in the Air Thomas Hall Gallery, Sausalito CA
• 2009 Feast of Color and Abstraction Mona Lease Gallery, Greenbrae CA
• 2008 Living Color Thomas Hall Gallery, Sausalito CA
• 2006 Living Color Thomas Hall Gallery, Sausalito CA
• 2003 Studio Retrospective The Box Factory Artist Studios, San Francisco CA
• 2001 A Body of Work The Box Factory Artist Studios, San Francisco CA

Group Exhibitions

• 2024 Gender Gap II, Global Art Project, San Ramon Art Center, CA
• 2023 Jen Tough Gallery 2023 Autumn Collective, Santa Fe, NM
• 2023 Love Explodes in Red, Global Art Project, Margian Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 2023 YES! Global Art Project in Lecce, Italy
• 2023 Seen and Imagined, Gallery Route One, Pt Reyes, CA
• 2022 GEMS V, National Juried Exhibition at Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
  Juror: Susan Aulik, The Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA
• 2022 Blessed Unrest Juried Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Pt Reyes, CA
  Juror: Jack Fischer, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2021 Reimagining the Global Village, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
• 2021 YES! Global Art Project in Ostia, Rome, Italy
• 2021 San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild Summer Exhibition, Juror: Anita Feldman 
• 2020 The American Heart of Winter, Gallerie Renee Marie, Benicia, CA
• 2020 GAP Crossing Borders USA, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA
• 2020 ADC Fine Art, New Gallery Opening, Cincinnati, OH 
• 2019 Fresh from the Studio, Juried Show, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
• 2019 Sea to Sea, Nat’l Juried Show, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA
• 2018 Summer Juried Show, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
• 2016 Fall Juried Show, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
  Juror: Susan Snyder, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2016 North Bay Arts and Film Festival, Benicia, CA
• 2016 Art Contemporary Marin, Toby’s Feedbarn, Pt Reyes Station, CA
• 2016 Figure and Field, Rhythmix Cultural Works, Alameda CA
• 2015 Bay Area Women Artists Show, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA           Jurors: Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray, Seager Gray Gallery
• 2013 12×12, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2013 Serenity/Visions, UCSF Women’s Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
• 2013 Bay Area Women Artists Show, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
  Jurors: Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
• 2013 Bold, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
  Juror: Robert Green, Robert Green Fine Arts,  Mill Valley, CA
• 2012 Pathways to Abstraction, Agora Gallery, New York City
• 2012 MarinMOCA Fall National Juried Exhibition
  Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
  Juror: Renny Pritikin, Director of the UC Davis Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Arts Collection
• 2012 Red O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
  Juror: Toni Littlejohn
• 2010 Into the Flow O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley CA
  Juror: June Wantanabe, choreographer and performer
• 2010 Inside Out: An Exhibition of Bay Area Abstract Artists
  Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato CA
• 2010 ArtSpan Benefit Art Show & Auction, SOMArts Main Gallery, San Francisco CA
• 2009 Bay Area Women Artists O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley CA
  Juror: Donna Seager, Donna Seager Gallery
• 2009 Delicious: Work Inspired by Food and Drink STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco CA
• 2008 Contemporary Visions Atrium Gallery, Marin General Cancer Institute, Larkspur CA
• 2008 Offerings: Artists’ Work from Wild Carrots Studio Workshops, San Geronimo Valley Cultural Center, San Geronimo CA
• 2007 Offerings: Artists’ Work from Wild Carrots Studio Workshops, Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael CA
• 2006 Master Class, Painting Group Exhibition, Esalen Institute, Big Sur CA
• 2004 Arcadia: Artists Celebrate Trees Art Auction, Friends of the Urban Forest, SOMArts San Francisco CA. Curated by Janet Bishop, Curator Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Gallery Representation

Orangeland Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Jen Tough Gallery 2023 Autumn Collective, Santa Fe, NM

ADC Fine Art, Cincinnati, OH (2020-present)

Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI (2022-present)

Fuller Art House, Sylvania, OH (2021-present)

SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2013-2021)

Agora Gallery, New York City (2012-2013)

Artist Residencies

2008, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022  Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT

Other Related Work/ Memberships

Member, Global Art Project

Member, Artist Alliance

Documentary Filmmaker, Open Studio Productions

Member/Owner, New Days Films

Vice Chair Emeritus, Board of Trustees, Hampshire College, Amherst MA

Founder, Community Vision (formerly Northern California Community Loan Fund), San Francisco, CA