Education
2001 | California College of the Arts, Masters of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
1995 | University of California Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Santa Cruz, CA |
Allan Chadwick Farm and Garden Program (Sustainable Agriculture), Santa Cruz, CA | |
1993 | International Honors Program (Sustainable Development), Travel and Study |
1992 | The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, School of Architecture, New York, NY |
1990 | The Urban School of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
Select Solo Exhibitions
2024 | OBLIVION SEEKERS: Scraping Heaven, The Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA |
2023 | Mercurochrome, Changing Room, Berlin, GR |
2015 | Skyfuel, OchiProjectsLA, Los Angeles, CA |
2014 | Plate Tectonic, N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami, FL |
2012 | New Work: Drawings, Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID |
2011 | Knock Out, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA |
2010 | Diamond Rings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA |
2010 | No More Mr. Nice Guy, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID |
2010 | The Rings We Road in On, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA |
2009 | Recent Paintings, Shasta College, Redding, CA |
2007 | Folded Pours, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA |
2005 | SuperBall, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA |
2005 | New Work, Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID |
2003 | Organic, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL | 2002 | New Paintings, New Year’s Show, Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID | 2001 | Introductions: Shooting Pool in Public, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA | 2000 | Cars and Wilds, CCA Nave, San Francisco, CA |
Select Group Exhibitions
2024 | Legacy, Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center, Manhattan Beach, CA |
2023 | Bay Area Legends Exhibition SUPER-SILLY-US: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon & Nellie King Solomon, MarinMOCA, Hamilton, CA |
2023 | Art, Earth and Sky (with James Turrell Curated by J McCabe), SMoCA Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary , Scottsdale, AZ |
2022 | Sightlines, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA |
2021 | FINALLY, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, LA, CA2021 |
2021 | 9/11 Memorial & Museum, New York, NY |
2021 | NOMAD, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA |
2020-21 | BEYOND: Works by Nellie King Solomon and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, curated by Jennifer McCabe, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art SMOCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
2020 | Palm Springs Art Fair, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Springs, CA |
2020 | Drawing Connections, 18th St. Art Center, Santa Monica Airport, Los Angeles, CA |
2020 | Sotheby’s Palm Springs Museum Auction, Palm Springs, CA |
2019 | LAXART, Draw the Line (in collaboration with Hamza Walker, Christopher Oliveira, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon), Los Angeles, CA |
2019 | Hardly Strictly Mini, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas CA |
2018 | Way Bay I, BAMPFA Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA | 2016 | The Battery Show, curated by Thomas Moller, The Battery, San Francisco, CA | 2010 | Gesture, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA | 2005 | Neo Mod: New Northern California Abstractionists, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA | 2005 | Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA | 2002 | A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals, Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY | 2001 | Introductions South, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA | 1996 | Dibujos y Suenos, Del Sol, Barcelona, Spain |
Select Projects & Public Installations
2024 | MERCURIO & PETROLEO, Exterior Installation on The Milchhof Building, DT Berlin, GR |
2023 | Mercurochome, Live Painting Performance, Changing Room, Berlin, GR |
2022 | Cooper Design Space Lobby, Hang ‘em High UUUUU, Los Angeles, CA |
2020 | One Post St. Lobby, 14′ x 14′ “Air 3”, San Francisco, CA |
2019 | Paintings Commission, Bellagio, Las Vegas, NV |
2015 | Interior Onsite Lobby, Rocha Art, San Francisco, CA |
2015 | Exterior Onsite Three-Story Mural Project, Ian Ross Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2006 | Wynn Las Vegas (Permanent Installation), Steve Wynn, Las Vegas, NV |
2005 | Design of 12′ high 200′ long Painted Freeze Exterior to wrap around 6th floor of new building, Oxford Plaza, Housing Design, Berkeley, CA |
Select Notable Collections
Crocker Art Museum, SMoCA Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, BAMPFA Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive |