Selected Exhibitions:
12/2007 I.O.U. -- MISSION 17's Fourth Annual Juried Exhibition
Juried by: Clark Buckner (MISSION 17), Jeannene Przyblyski (San Francisco Art Institute), Elaine Santos (MISSION 17), and Meg Shiffler (San Francisco Arts Commission)
10/2007 Galleria Italarte, Rome, Italy
“Il vento scrive: Printmakers from Dore' to
De Chirico and beyond" group show
12/2004 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA:
Artist-In-Residence
7-8/2004 Oasi di Sosta, Rome, Italy
“At Home Far Away” solo show
1-2/2004 W. Keith and J. Kellog Gallery, CA
State Polyechnic, Pomona, CA “Ink & Clay 30”
Juried by Hollis Goodall, Assoc. Curator of Japanese Art,
LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
3-4/2004 SF Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
“Bay Area Printmakers” juried show
7-8/2003 SF Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
"Crosscuts" solo show
5/2003 Los Angeles Printmaking Society,
Los Angeles, CA
"Juried Members Exhibition"
4-5/2003 The Boston Printmakers, Boston, MA
"National Prize Show"
Juried by Marc Pachter, Director,
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
2-4/2003 Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, CA
"Crosscuts/Tagli Trasversali" solo show
2-4/2003 Kala, Berkeley, CA
"Cuts: The Contemporary Woodcut"
2-4/2003 The Boston Printmakers, Boston, MA
"2003 North American Print Biennial"
Juried by Clifford S. Ackley,
Curator of Prints and Drawings,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
10/2002 San Francisco Open Studios
10/2002 University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI
"Pacific States Biennial Print Exhibition"
8/2002 66balmy, San Francisco, CA
"Healing Political Divides"
8/2002 Palo Alto Art League, Palo Alto, CA
"Pacific Prints 2002"
Juried by Carolyn Peter, Assistant Curator
for the Grunwald Center for
the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum, LA
8/2002 Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
"Washington Printmakers National
Small Works Exhibition"
Juried by Joann Moser, Senior Curator
of Graphic Art, Smithsonian Museum,
Washington, DC
8/2002 David Young Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
"The Magic of the Woodblock Print"
8/2002 John and Betty Grey Gallery, Portland, OR
"Baren Woodblock Printmaking Exhibition"
8/2002 Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC "6th Annual Georgetown International Fine Art Competition"
Juried by Stacy Schmidt, Assistant Curator for Contemporary Art,
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
7/2002 Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco, CA
"The Ritual of Coffee"
10/2001 California Society of Printmakers,
Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
"The Spirit of Handmade Prints"
7-12/2001 Commissioned portrait,
woodblock printmaking demonstrations and docent lectures to accompany the show:
"Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age:
Woodblock Prints from the Meiji Era"
Presidio Trust Fine Arts Foundation,
San Francisco, CA
6/2001 Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
"Washington Printmakers National Small Works Exhibition"
5/2001 Commissioned portrait of Isabel Allende for 7x7 Magazine
2/2001 Crucible Steel Gallery@Cellspace,
San Francisco, CA
'“Somebody's been in my house" exhibition
2-4/2001 The Boston Printmakers, Boston, MA
"North American Print Exhibition"
10/2000 Los Angeles Printmaking Society,
Los Angeles, CA
"Impressions 2000"
7/2000 Featured Artist, "About Face" exhibition,
NextMonet
6/2000 Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
"Mid-Atlantic Small Print Exhibition"
3/2000 Rizzoli Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"At Home Far Away" solo show
3/2000 California College of Arts and Crafts
Institution Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"People As Material"
6-7/1999 Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA
"At Home Far Away" solo show
4/1998 Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
"National Prize Show"
1/1998 Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
"Fifth Annual New York Digital Salon"
11-12/1997 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
"Fifth Annual New York Digital Salon"
7-8/1997 Nicolet College L.R.C. Gallery, Rhinelander, WY
"Northern National Juried Art Competition",
7-8/1997 The Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY
"Of This Earth"
6/1997 Artlink, Fort Wayne, IN
"17th Annual National Print Exhibition"
3/1997 ERB Memorial Union Gallery, Eugene, OR
2/1997 Eastern Washington Univ., Spokane, WA
"10th Annual Computer Graphic Invitational"
2/1997 IAC Contemporary Art/Fisher Gallery
Regional SIGGRAPH, Albuquerque, NM
1996-97 Fractal Design Art Show
1993-1994 Group Exhibits at the
Centro Culturale Quercia
Rome, Italy
6-8/1992 Galleria Forum Interart and
Centro Culturale Mouseion
Rome, Italy
Selected Japanese-method Woodblock Printmaking Lectures and Demonstrations:
7/2007 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
“From Meiji to Manga” lecture
9/2003 Academy of Arts College, San Francisco, CA
Woodblock printmaking lectures and demonstrations
5/2003 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Woodblock printmaking demonstrations
4/2003 Asian Art Museum,
Monsoon Society members
Private tour of my “Crosscuts” exhibit
2-4/2003 Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, CA
“From Meiji to Manga” lecture and demonstrations
3/8/2003 California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
Lecture and demonstration
7-12/2001 Presidio Trust Fine Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
Lectures and demonstrations during
“Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Woodblock Prints from the Meiji Era”
Articles, Awards and Affiliations:
4/2003 "Outstanding Print Award"
The Boston Printmakers "National Prize Show"
from juror Marc Pachter, Director, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
8/2002 The California Printmaker magazine
"At Home Far Away" feature
1/2002 printshow; Italian printmaking magazine, profile:
"An italian in San Francisco and Japanese Woodblock printmaking"
12/10/2001 San Francisco Chronicle profile
"Art from hands, wood and color"
6/2001 California Society of Printmakers inductee
9/2000 Los Angeles Printmaking Society inductee
Los Angeles, CA
1/2-9/2000 NextMonet Featured Artist
12/1997 Featured in the special December issue of Leonardo about the
"Fifth Annual New York Digital Salon", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
3/1997 Toray Corp. 1st Digital Art Competition, Kobe, Japan Honorable Mention Award
Selected Collections:
Private collection of Isabel Allende, San Rafael, CA
Private collections in New York, NY, Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA, USA;
Madras, India; La Orotava, Canary Islands, Edinburgh, Scotland and Rome, Italy
Education:
10-11/2005 Residency with woodblock printmaker
David Bull in Tokyo, Japan
2000 Woodblock printmaking seminar with
David Bull, Tokyo, Japan
1999-2000-01 Woodblock printmaking seminar with Graham Scholes, Victoria, Canada
1998 Woodblock printmaking classes with Tomoko Murakami, San Francisco, CA
1990-92 Coursework at the School of Visual Arts under Bert Monroy, and at the Pratt Institute; New York, NY
1989-90 Coursework at the Academy of Fine Arts and the European Institute of Design in Rome, Italy
1989 Graduated from the
III Liceo Artistico of Rome, Italy;
selected for apprenticeship with
Gianluigi Mattia and Gianpaolo Ercolani
in traditional media; Rome, Italy
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