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Solo Exhibitions
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Installations
Public Art Projects
Bibliography
Catalogs
Awards And Residencies
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Teaching Experience
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Education
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007

Greetings From the American Dream, Riverside Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

2006

Kapital, Kent Gallery, New York, NY

Trading Places: The Art of Financial Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange, NY

Material Abuse, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

Art as Money, Money as Art, Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, FL

Material Abuse, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY

Diamond Life, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada

Through The Looking Glass, Mills Building, San Francisco, CA

Money Changes Everything, Schroeder Romero Gallery, New York, NY

2005

Are the Best Things in Life Free? The City of Brea Art Gallery Brea, CA

Hot Town Summer in the City, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY

Rewind: Quotes of Art History in Contemporary Art, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany

Social Insecurity, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004

Inside Out: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Five Star Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA

Paperwork, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA

Pop Rocks, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY

Finesse, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Art Faculty Exhibition, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, CA

Danger, Off the Preserve, Napa, CA and California State University, Chico

2003

The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost: Reflections of Marcel Duchamp in Modern and Contemporary Art, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY

An Artist's Artist: The Legacy of Inez Storer, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Is Money, Money? Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

Au Naturel, Off the Preserve, Napa, CA

Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Living With Duchamp, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Danger, W.H. Horton Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College Campus Stockton, CA

In Stitches: Humor in Contemporary Fiber Art, Visual Arts Center, Denton, TX

Pins and Needles, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Kohler, WI

Fetish: Objects of Power and Desire, di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature, Napa, CA

Hybrid, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA

Sprout, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002-3

Show Me the Money: The Dollar as Art, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL; traveled to Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA; American Numismatic Association Money Museum, Colorado Springs, CO, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA (catalogue)

2002

Argent et Valeur, Le Dernier Tabou, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland

Home (Blank) Home, Bettcher Gallery, Miami, FL

Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age, CBGB's 313 Gallery, New York, NY and In These Times Building, Chicago, IL

Nature Remains, Off The Preserve!, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA

Performative Objects: Sculpture at Work and Play, Kent State University's School of Art Gallery, OH

Nature Remains, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA

Extreme Prints: Developing Concepts in Print from Computer to Hand Worked Images, Santa Monica College: Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Bootleg Identity, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY

The Medium is the Message: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

In Stitches, Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, AZ

2001

Stars and Stripes, George Bush Presidential Library, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX

Border Crossings, Thatcher Gallery, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

New Prints 2001/Autumn, International Print Center, New York, NY

Ban/Ban, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (catalogue)

Artists' Pages from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

20 Years of Excellence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2000

Korean Sculpture/World Sculpture, Moran Museum of Art, Kungki-do, Korea (catalogue) Money Making: The Fine Art of Currency at the Millennium, Federal Reserve Board, Washington D.C. traveled to Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, (catalogue)

1999

Wrapped Up!, Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Ban/Ban, Korean Culture and Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea (catalogue)

The Art of Money, Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington DC

Meaning and Message, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

Making Change: Artists Interpret the Tzedakah Box, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, (catalogue) Recent Acquisitions: Selections From The Permanent Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

Seeing Money: A Unique Art Event Of Uncommon Currency, Old Town Portland, OR

1998-99

On The Money: At the Intersection of Art and Commerce, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; traveled to SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998

From S. Francisco, B & D Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

PROJECTions, Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, Korea (catalogue)

Concepts of the Land, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA

Open Container, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA

Material Matters, Gensler, San Francisco, CA

20/20: The 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, CA

1997

The Shoe Show, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

Work/Space, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA

Eclectic Ecologies: Artists Responses to Contemporary Environmental Issues, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA

1996

Chateau Marmont Art Fair, with Haines Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Work/Space, 44 Montgomery St., in conjunction with Southern

Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA Matters of the Heart, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1995

Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

Landscape: A Concept, Oliver Art Center, CCAC, Oakland, CA

Eco Nation, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

Long Horizons: A Bay Area Landscape, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA

1994

Old Glory, New Story: Flagging the 21st Century, Capp St. Project, San Francisco, CA; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

Fragments of Flight, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek CA (catalogue)

Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collection, Oakland Museum, CA (catalogue)

Black and White, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

1993

Body Parts, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1992

Funnels, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Under Cover: The Book Becomes Art, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ

A Fragile Line: Artists Who Use Glass, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA

1990

The Camera Obscured, Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Two, Alligator Gallery, San Francisco, CA

What Have We Got to Lose? Artists and the Environmental Crisis, Gallery Route 1, Pt. Reyes, CA

1989

Chain Reaction V, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis: MFA Exhibition,Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA