CV

CV

Education

MFA University of Delaware: Painting
Richmond College, London, England
BA (Double Major) University of San Diego: Studio Art/ English

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022What Gives, Gallery 16, San Francisco
2020Yes Way, Gallery 16, San Francisco
2019Hot Zone, Space K Adeline, Oakland
2018Slowdown Summer, Roll-Up Project, Oakland
Half-Moon, Right Window Gallery (Artists' Television Access) San Francisco
2017Never Contained the Landscape, w/ Kathryn Spence, Gridspace, Brooklyn
2015Some Other Sense of Time and Place, w/ May Wilson), Interface Gallery, Oakland
Far Away Closer, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, California
2013All The Pink Together: Boom, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco
2012Color As Space, Sense, w/ Danielle Lawrence) 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco
2011New Paintings at 101 California Street, ArtSource, San Francisco
2010Inside Out, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Thirteen Watercolors, Rose Burlingham Fine Art, New York City
2007Paintings/ Works on Paper, House of Hengst, San Francisco
2006New Paintings, Rena Bransten Gallery, New Work, San Francisco
Out of the Blue, Bau Institute, Otranto/NY, Museo Ecologie Nationale, Otranto, Italy
Out of the Blue #2, Bau Institute, Otranto/NY curated by Lilly Wei, Castle Otranto, Italy
2002Recent Paintings, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco
2001New Paintings, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco
2000New Paintings, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022House Show, curated by Matt Katsoros and David Wilson, Sunset District, San Francisco
Midas, curated by Squeak Carnwath: Maria Guzman Capron, Ricki Dwyer, Sahar Khoury, Jerry Leisure, Kyle Lypka & Tyler Cross, and John Moore, at the Berkeley Art Center
2021Seconds, curated by Griff Williams at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco
2018Way Bay Part 2, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Thinking Structure, The Buck Institute, San Rafael
2017About Abstraction: Bay Area Painters, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek
Albany Library, with Todd Bura, Colter Jacobsen, Albany, California
2016PURPLE [Tears of Rage] w/ Sofie Ramos and Laura Rokas, Guererro Gallery, San Francisco
I Dreamt That Bees Made Honey, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco
21st C Abstract Painting/Sculpture, curated by Gerald Jackson, Rush Arts, New York City
2015Ascent, curated by Elizabeth Leach Gallery, One California Street, San Francisco
New Normal #1, organized by Guererro Gallery, Oakland
After Living in the Room of Realities Nouvelles, Sonce Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles
2014Color Shift, Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archive, curated by Apsara DiQuinzio
The Possible, curated by David Wilson, Larry Rinder, Berkeley Art Museum
2013Unruly, curated by Lucinda Barnes, Berkeley Art Museum
2012Watercolors / Works on Paper at Pulliam Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2011Still Life Landscape, Castaneda/ Reiman at Baer Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco
2009Night Tide, curated by Colter Jacobsen, San Francisco
Frank Holliday, Stephen Mueller, and Gwen Thomas at Rose Burlingham, New York City
Introductions, Pulliam Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2008Three-Person Exhibition at Barry Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento
Dream With Everything That Fades Away, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco
Interference, 3-person show, HP Garcia Gallery, New York City
Introductions, 3-person, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, Oregon
20077 – 07 curated by Hung Liu, at Barry Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento
Long Time Collective Plus One, M1 Gallery, San Francisco
2006Jack Davidson, Stephen Mueller, Melissa Meyer, Rose Burlingham, New York City
Snap, Crackle, Pop, curated by Sarrita Hunn, Playspace CCA, San Francisco
2005November Show, Gruen Gallery, Chicago
Commission 05, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
2005Black Market Auction, Independent School of Art, San Francisco, curated by Jon Rubin
Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, Oregon, curated by Laurie Reid

Awards/Grants/Residencies

2022MacDowell residency/ Kendall Fellowship award
2021Pollock-Krasner grant
2020River, a permanent public mosaic at SFO, International Terminal
2019Facebook AIR mural project, San Francisco
2019Sanskriti Museum Kendra Foundation, New Delhi, India
2018Kriti Residency, Varanasi, India
2017Alma B. Shapiro award/ residency at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
2012Berkeley Art Museum Collector's Circle Acquisition
2011Bau Institute, Otranto, Italy
2007Art Omi International Artists Residency, Omi, New York
2006Bau Institute Otranto & New York, Otranto Italy
1998Elizabeth Foundation Grant, New York
1998Millay Colony, Austerlitz, New York
1995Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Other Projects

2025 Artist's Monograph book project, Snap Collective NYC
2024 With Kota Ezawa, organized Fool's Gold MFA exhibition, SF Institute of Contemporary Art
2022 Open Editions blankets/ notebooks fundraiser for Berkeley Art Center
2021 Believe In Truth Teaching/ Election Initiative w/Citizens In Action Coalition Grant SF
2020 Yes Way, Sidewalks, River, 3-catalogs, Gallery 16, San Francisco
2018 Vital Voices Book Project, w/ a focus on Kiran Bir Sethi, Washington DC
Slowdown Summer zine, for show at Roll-Up Project, Oakland
Half-Moon zine, for Right Window at Artists' Television Access, San Francisco
2014Open Mic for Studio Visit, organized by Apsara DiQuinzio, at Berkeley Art Museum
Plumb Notebooks, design project with Tucker Nichols, MacFadden & Thorpe Design
2013Studio Visit (book of 100 studio visits), with essay by Norma Cole, Edition One, Berkeley
Trapped in the Wunderkammer at the Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco
Hotbox Forever, Lecia Dole-Recio, Jeff Gibson, Mary Weatherford, Wendy White, at Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco

Teaching/Professional

2022-2025Anderson Ranch Visiting Faculty, Aspen, Colorado
2024Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art: Discussion with Theresa Baker (inaugural exhibition)
2024Mickalene Thomas' and Jasmine Wahi's The Business of Art-Making class (as student)
2016-currProfessor/Painting and Graduate Fine Arts
2011-2024Chair of Painting & Drawing, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2022Karma Gallery NYC Zoom Panel Discussion with Maja Ruznick
Midas exhibition Zoom Panel with Squeak Carnwath
2015-2019Anderson Ranch Visiting Faculty, Aspen, Colorado
2016OCAC, Conversations in Craft, Visiting Faculty, Portland, Oregon
Visiting Artist, Mills College, Oakland
Full Professor, California College of the Arts
2015Co-Organizer of Painting Expelled, at CCA in San Francisco
Visiting Artist, Shasta College, Redding, California
2014Interview with Leonardo Drew for Art 21 premiere, CCA
Visiting Artist, University of San Diego, California
Visiting Artist, University of Delaware, Newark Delaware
Visiting Artist, New York Studio Program, Brooklyn, New York
2013Visiting Critic, San Francisco Art Institute
Co-Organizer of Painting Expanded Symposium at CCA in San Francisco
2011–12Assistant Chair of Painting, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2011Juror for exhibition at Root Division, with Rene DeGuzman, Andres Guerrero, San Francisco
2010–13Associate Professor, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Assistant Chair of Painting, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2005–2010Assistant Professor, California College of the Arts, San Francisco

Bibliography

2022Linda Geary and Reed Anderson at Gallery 16, Squarecylinder, by Julia Couzens
What Gives, catalog essay for exhibition at Gallery 16 by Jaimie Baron
Thinking Structure exhibition catalog, Hamburg, Germany
The Inside Track, catalog essay for Midas, Berkeley Art Center by Julia Couzens
Faces, Furniture, Flowers, on the Midas exhibition, Berkeleyside, by Jaimie Baron
2020Jordan Stein, Linda Geary interview, Yes Way, Gallery 16, San Francisco
Larry Rinder, Could Be, writing for Sidewalks, Gallery 16, San Francisco
Norma Cole, Faster Than I Can Think, poem for Sidewalks, Gallery 16, San Francisco
Suzanne L'Heureux, When Rivers, writing for River, Gallery 16, San Francisco
Scott Hewicker, Misshapes, writing for River, Gallery 16, San Francisco
2016Amy Ellingson, Memorable Works in Art, blogspot
2015Some Other Sense of Time and Space, http://atatart.com/ Eric Dyer
KQED, by Sarah Hotchkiss
Curiously Direct blog, Aaron Harbour
Some Other Sense of Time and Space, essay by Suzanne L’Heureux
Be-Art, at Sonce Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, Beatrice Chassepot
Pasts, Presence and Future, by JD Beltran, Huffington Post
2014KQED Wish You Were Here, Sarah Hotchkiss
2013Painting Expanded Symposium at CCA, by Leigh Markopoulos
Kenneth Baker, Linda Geary at Steven Wolf Fine Arts, SF Chronicle
2012Critic’s Picks, Art Practical
Scott Hewicker, Color As Space, As Sense, 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco
Radio Interview, Margaret Tedesco’s KUSF In Exile Archive, Linda Geary and Jordan Stein
2011New American Paintings, juried by Anne Ellegood, senior curator at the Hammer Museum
In the Make: Studio Profile with Klea McKenna and Nikki Grattan: inthemake.com
David M. Roth, Still Life Landscape at Baer Ridgway, Squarecylinder.com
2010Leigh Markopoulos, Reverse Psychology, catalog essay for Inside Out
Kenneth Baker, Linda Geary at Rena Bransten Gallery, SF Chronicle
David M. Roth, Inside Out at Rena Bransten, Squarecyliner.com
New American Paintings, juried by Larry Rinder, Director of the Berkeley Museum
Bruno Fazzolari, Interview with John Zurier, ArtPractical.com
2009Mary Anne Kluth, Dream With Everything That Fades Away, Art Week February
2008Critic’s Pick, Show at Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Portland Mercury News, February
Victoria Dalkey, Critic’s Pick, Sacramento Bee, February
2007David M. Roth, ‘7.07: Year of the Pig’ at b. sakata garo, Art Week July
Maria Porges, Linda Geary at Rena Bransten Gallery, Art Forum, February
2006Kenneth Baker, catalog essay for Out Of The Blue, June
Nancy Zastudil, Snap, Crackle, Pop, catalog essay, April
2003Colin Berry, SF in Napa? Yes, At Off The Preserve!, Art Week, June
Kenneth Baker, Last Picture Show at Marcel Sitcoske, SF Chronicle, August
Jane Ganahl, Visual Aid Gathers All Night Crowd, SF Chronicle, November
2002David Bonetti, There is a ‘there’ at Oakland Show, SF Chronicle, March
SF Chronicle, Top of the Week, Geary’s work is part of Being There, April
SF Chronicle, 30 Artists Picked to Show at Bay Area Now 3, July
Kenneth Baker, Are They Spills or Deliberate Forms?, SF Chronicle, October
Kenneth Baker, ‘Bay Area 3’ Peeks Into Artists’ Inner Worlds, SF Chronicle, October
Glen Helfand, Bay Area Now 3 Returns to the Fountain, SF Bay Guardian, November
Rene DeGuzman, Bay Area Now 3, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Stephanie Cash, Report From SF, Surviving and Thriving, Art in America, November