Born: 1948 Wisconsin
1971 Moved to San Francisco

Education:
1970 B.F.A. in English Literature, University of Wisconsin
1972-75 Post Graduate Study in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute
2005 Wayne Theibaud critique seminar, University of California, Davis
2007-10 Jove Wang Workshop, Marin Art School, Novato, CA
Cedrick Egeli Portrait Workshop, Cape Cod, MA

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2009 Wm Torphy Fine Arts, 255 California St. San Francisco, CA
2008 Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
2006 Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakville CA
Linda Penzur Gallery, San Anselmo, CA
2000-94 University of California at San Francisco CA
1996 Sausalito City Hall, Sausalito, CA
1994 Bank of Marin, San Rafael, CA
1992 Amex Corporation, San Rafael, CA
1991 University of Wisconsin Wood County Center, WI
1989 BankAmerica World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2009-10 Gumps' of San Francisco, CA
2009-10 Pearl Canyon Gallery, Carmel, CA
2008 Claudia Chapeline Gallery, Christo's Curtain Stinson Beach, CA
2005-6-8 Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Marin/Scapes, Escalle Winery Exhibition, Larkspur (also 1992-96)
From the Artists Hand, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
2004 Bay Model Women's Exhibition, Sausalito, CA
525 Market Street Corporate Exhibit, San Francisco, CA
2003 Extemporanea di Nicola XXI, Nicola, Tuscany, Italy
2002 Outside in, Inside Out, Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain
Matanzas Creek Winery, Santa Rosa, CA
2001 "A Personal Need" Manuel Neri's Collection, Benicia Art Center
American Impressionist Society, Wm Lester Gallery, Point Reyes St
101 California Street Red Umbrellas Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
1999-2010 Falkirk Annual Exhibition, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael CA
1999-2010 Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, CA
2000-04 Downtown Art Center, San Rafael, CA
1997 Hearst Art Gallery, St. Marys' College, Moraga, CA
1991-7-8-9 Mill Valley Art Festival, Mill Valley, CA (poster 2004)
1995-98-00 Artisans Gallery, Juried Exhibitions, Mill Valley CA
1995 Nordic Five, Carnegie Art Center, Turlock, CA
1993-10 Marin Open Studios, Sausalito CA
1991-10 Industrial Center Building Annual Open Studio, Sausalito, CA
1991-94-02 Bolinas Museum Miniature Exhibition, Bolinas, CA
1991 Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR
1990 LEAA Southwest Regional Exhibition, New Mexico College, Hobbs
3 COM Corporation, Santa Clara, Ca & Loral Corporation, San Jose
1989 Jan Holloway Gallery, Marin Six, San Francisco, CA
1984 Sarah Rentschler Gallery, New York City, New York
1979 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York/ Source Gallery, San Francisco

Awards/Commissions
2004 Poster for the Mill Valley Art Festival, Commission Alice, Clem Ziroli
2000 American Impressionist Society 2nd Annual Merit Award
1991 University of Wisconsin Honorarium and Guest Artist Lecture
Teaching/Art Related Employment
1997-00 President & Board Member, SIGHT/INSIGHT Art Center, Mill Valley
1998 Project Directr Underground Gallery, Downtown Art Cnter San Rafael
1994-96 PROJECT DIRECTOR & FOUNDER, MARIN OPEN STUDIOS
1992-08 Tamalpais Community Education Teacher, drawing, painting

Selected Collections
BankAmerica Corporate Collection, San Franciso, CA
Manuel Neri, Benicia, CA
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Itel Corporation, Boston MA
U.S. Department of Labor, San Francisco CA
Vijay Mallya, Sausalito CA
Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco
Chuck Curley,Larkspur
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Seattle WA
Peggy Haas, Ross, CA
Robert Mondavi,Oakville, CA
Sim Vander Ryn,Sausalito

Statement:
My intention is to see beyond the physical qualities within a landscape. I choose locations which have a certain wildness, where the essence and story are more than contours and lines. My passion is to capture with oil paint and brush the light that illuminates our landscape. I find my emotional inspiration at the same historical sources as the California Colorists. On the coast near my longtime waterfront Sausalito studio, and the fields of Napa-Sonoma wine country and Tuscany, I work with an outdoor easel. My palette is vibrant with scarlet autumn vines, the yellows of spring, and the wind over soaring mountainsides. I offer my audience the colors of an abundant universe transforming itself moment by moment. I intend to create images which light up people's lives, opening them to deeper perceptions. My work is a meditation on seeing, a dialogue in paint with the seasons and land.
 
Kay Carlson 2010