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BORN
1965 Fresno, California
EDUCATION
1988 BFA, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1986-87 Academie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Fachhochschule fur Kunst, Munster, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Forest Eater,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Forest Eater,” The Contemporary Museum & Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
“Kingdom,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010
“Anatomies,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
“New Monotypes,” Smith Anderson Editions, Palo Alto, CA
2009
“Recent Paintings & Works on Paper,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Recent Editions,” Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
“Splendid Grief: Darren Waterston and the Afterlife of Leland Stanford Jr.,” Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2008
“Aurora,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Last Days”, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007
“Constellations: Paintings by Darren Waterston”, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
“Salon,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Fugue,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2006
“Was and Is Not and Is to Come,” site-specific mural, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
"Hyle," Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France.
2005
“Turning Back In,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 94108
“New Paintings,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2004
“Thirteen Paintings,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA (October)
"Chimera,", Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (June)
“Notations,” Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada (April)
“Delirium,” Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
2003
“Ghost,” Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
“Infatuated River,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Darren Waterston: Scapes,” Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
“Works on Paper,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002
“Works on Paper,” Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
“Recent Paintings,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“New Work,” Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
“Paintings 2002,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle WA
“New Paintings,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2001
“Darren Waterston,” Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
“Seven Heavens,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000
“Monoprints and Works on Paper”, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
"New Paintings”, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA [cat]
“New Works on Paper”, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1999
“Recent Works”, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
“Darren Waterston: In the Reeds and Rushes”, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998
“New Paintings”, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
"New Works: Paintings and Works on Paper,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“New Works”, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
KOPAC, Seoul, Korea
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Greg Kucera, Seattle, WA
1995
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
"Elegies", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992
"Elegies", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Never The Same Twice,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2010
“3+3,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“25th Anniversary Show,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Made in U.S.A.,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Wunderkammer,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
“Calling Beauty,” Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
“Crossing: Throwing: Falling: Looking,” Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2009
“Altered States: The Collection in Context,” Gatehouse Gallery, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
“Geo-Morph,” Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
2008
“15 Year Anniversary Exhibition,” Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
“The Surrealist Impulse: New Acquisitions from the Tacoma Art Museum Collection,” Tacoma Art Museum,
Tacoma, WA
“Celebrating Prints: New Acquisitions,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
“Fresh Impressionism,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2007
“On Paper,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Animal Rights,” David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA
2006
“Director’s Choice,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Altered Image,” Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
“Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
“Extreme Abstraction,” Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France
“Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Otis College of Art & Design, Alumni Show, Los Angeles, CA
2005
“Director’s Choice: Contemporary Art with Objects from Asia,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Majestic Tapestries of Magnolia Editions: Woven Works by Contemporary Artists, Bedford Gallery,
Walnut Creek, CA
2004
“Representing Landscape,” The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
“NEOMOD, “ Recent Northern California Abstraction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
“The Big Spin: 2004 Faculty Exhibition,” Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA
“Weaving Weft and Warp:” Tapestries from Magnolia Editions,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art,
San Jose, CA
“Mindscape,” Paul Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2003
“Down Town Stomp Around,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
“Works on Paper,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Darren Waterston & Beatrice Wood: A Personal Alchemy,” Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
“The Great Drawing Show 1550-2003 A.D.,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
“Fifteen – 15th Anniversary Exhibition,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“High Art: Art of the Bank of America Tower,” Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Sweet and Wild: Animals in Contemporary Art,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Representing Landscape,” University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
“Contemporary American Art,” Embassy of U.S.A., Vienna, Austria
2001
“2001 Collectors Show,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
“Fast Forward,” Berkley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
“Amused,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Selected Paintings from the Microsoft Collection,” Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, WA
“New Location and Inaugural Exhibition,” Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000
“A Gift of Light and Time”, Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, WA
“A Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collection”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
“Reconstructions: The Imprint of Nature / The Impact of Science”, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College,
New York, NY
“The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California”, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
"Bluer", Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
"10", Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
1999 - 2001
“Botanica”, Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN traveling to Plains Arts Museum, Fargo, ND; University Galleries, Illinois State University,
Norman, IL; Carleton College, Northfield, MN; Alexandria Museum of Art, LA, CA; Tarble Arts Center,
Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; University Gallery and
University of Delaware, Newark, NJ
1999
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
“The Great Drawing Show 1950 to 1999”, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Brushes with Spirituality: Ethereal Paintings”, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
1998
“A-Z Works on Paper”, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
“The Winter Show,” Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
"Divining Nature", S.E.C.C.A., Winston - Salem, NC
1997
“Distant Bodies”, LA Artcore’s Art Bank, Los Angeles, CA
"Out of Eden", Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
"Contemporary Masters", Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Summer Previews", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Anatomy of a Print", Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
"West Coast Painting and Sculpture 1997", Oceanside Museum of Art, CA, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
"1997 Collector's Show", The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
1996
"Matters of the Heart," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“1996 Collectors Show,” The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
“Summer Show,” Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
“Summer Previews,” Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
“Master Classes: What Makes a Master?” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995
"Metaphors," Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
"Terrain," SOMA Gallery, San Diego, CA
"From Nature," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Previews," Charles Cowles, New York, NY
"Project Exhibit" Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
"The Traditional Impulse", Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Under Glass", Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1994
"The Sacred and The Profane," Ian Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The Sacred and The Profane,” Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Peaceable Kingdom," Babcock Galleries, New York, NY
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
"Flora: In Artists Gardens," San Francisco Community Arts, 400 South Hope Street Associates,
Los Angeles, CA
“The Art Cup,” Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
"Stealth," Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
"School Days," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"The Layered Look," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA
"The Surface of the Sign," University Art Gallery, California State Univ; Chico, CA
1992
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
"Art and Nature," Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
1991
"LACE Sixth Annual," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
"Encaustic," Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
"The Edge of Night," Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
1988
Artworks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Artist Awards Exhibition," Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA
"Illustration Awards Show," Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA, Fine Arts Building Small Edition Book Show,
Los Angeles, CA
"Foot and Shoe Show," San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
1987
"Books Without Bounds," Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
"Amnesty International Poster Awards Show," Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY
"Art From the Page," Salem, OR, Onyx Cafe, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Britt, Douglas. “Check two exhibits before they’re gone,” Chron.com, June 23, 2010.
“Two intriguing shows at the Equinox Gallery,” Straight.com, January 7, 2010.
2009
Baker, Kenneth. “2009 In Review: Art,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 27, 2009.
Sardar, Zahid. “Home is a canvas for this artist,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 5, 2009.
Anderson, Kirsten. “Darren Waterston at Cantor Art Center,” Daily Du Jour, May 13, 2009.
Baker, Kenneth. “Waterston’s Big Gamble Pays Off,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 25, 2009.
Alvarez, Daniel N. “Not Just Sublime,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 23, 2009.
Cheng, Dewitt. “’The Flowering: The Fourfold Sense’ at Gallery 16,” art ltd., March 2009.
Koppman, Debra. “Splendid Grief: Darren Waterston and the Afterlife of Leland Stanford, Jr.,” Artweek,
March 2009.
2008
Miller, Tyrus. “Night Flowers: Darren Waterston’s Last Days,” Greg Kucera Gallery, catalog.
Taylor, Sue. “Darren Waterston at the Hoffman Gallery,” Art in America, May 2008.
2007
Row, D.K. "When mind and body meet", The Oregonian, September 27, 2007.
David, Benjamin. Miller, Tyrus, and Tesner, Linda. “Darren Waterston and Tyrus Miller: The Flowering (The
Fourfold Sense),” Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, catalog.
Bass, Jacquelynn. Burgard, Timothy Anglin, and Pagel, David. “Darren Waterston: Representing the Invisible,” monograph, Edizioni Charta, Milan.
Kimball, Cathy. “Apocalypse Now,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, catalog.
2006
Lobb, Annelena. “As Art Fairs Muliply, Artists, Galleries, Are Feeling the Pinch,” Wall Street Journal,
October 14.
Pagel, David. Galerie Jean-Luc and Takako Richard, catalog.
2005
Bing, Alison. “Darren Waterston and Jim Toia at Haines Gallery,” Artweek, July/August 2005.
Myers, Holly. “Abstraction brings many rich rewards,” Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2005.
Tromble, Meredith. “Overcast,” Breathe, July/August 2005.
2004
Dykk, Lloyd. “Making Carmina,” Vancouver Sun, April 17, 2004.
Kuntz, Melissa. “Darren Waterston at Charles Cowles,” Art in America, June/July 2004, No. 6, p. 178.
Gardner, Paul. “Darren Waterston” Review, ARTnews, March, p. 130
Larocca, Amy. “White Noise,” New York, NY. April 17, 2004.
2003
Helfand, Glen. “Darren Waterston: The artist’s alchemy in San Francisco,” Western Interiors & Design,
July/August, pp. 96-99.
Baker, Kenneth. San Francisco Chronicle, February 15.
Puri, Madhu. “Change of Seasons,” Art and Auction, February.
Wagonfeld, Judy. Seattle Post-Intelligence, February 7.
Bing, Alison. “Darren Waterston,” Art Review, SF Gate, January 24.
“Q&A with Darren Waterston,” Inside, Bellevue Art Museum, Winter issue, pp. 12-13.
2002
Kuspit, Donald. “Darren Waterston,” Artforum, February.
Hall, Emily. “In the Primordial Soup: Ickiness Vies with Beauty in Darren Waterston’s Paintings,” The
Stranger, April 25.
Farr, Sheila. “Waterston’s new work squirms with the energy of a liquid world,” The Seattle Times,Visual
Arts, May 3.
2001
“Darren Waterston,” monograph published by St. Annes Press, Los Angeles
“Portrait of the Artist,” Gentlemen’s Quarterly, April
Wilson, Megan. “Critic’s choice:art ‘Seven Heavens,” San Francisco Bay Guardian,
January 24.
2000
Burton, Tim. Kohn Turner, Gallery catalog.
Iannaccone, Carmine. “An Anatomy of Beguilement: Style in the Work of Darren Waterston,” Kohn Turner
Gallery catalog
Pagel, David. Los Angeles Times, July 14.
“Kohn Turner Gallery, Darren Waterston: New work,”Southern California’s Business and Entertainment
Magazine, July/August.
1999
Hackett, Regina. “Darren Waterston’s fairies are rotting in high style”, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p. D1,
March 33
Updike, Robin, “Dallying with Orientalism,” Seattle Times, March 11
Fredericksen, Eric “Swamp Fairies” The Stranger, March 11-17.
Hale, David. “The Arts,” The Fresno Bee, October 26.
Johnson, Ken. “Art Reviews,” The New York Times, November 5.
“Darren Waterston,” The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, November 1.
Ebony, David. “David Ebony’s Top Ten,” artnet.com, October.
Karafin, Amy. ARTnews, January 1998, p.132 & 134.
1998
Scott, Michael. “Visual Arts,” The Vancouver Sun, December.
1997
Scott, Michael. "Visual Arts", The Vancouver Sun, March 15.
Gamblin, Noriko. "Darren Waterston", Charles Cowles Gallery catalog
Wilkinson, Jeanne C & Chambers, Karen. Review, September 15, p.24
Hackett Regina. Art Review, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 20, p 23.
1996
Gladstone, Valerie. ARTnews, June, p.149
Schwendener, Martha. Art in America, November, p.119
Kandel, Susan. Los Angeles Times, October 11, p. F28
Updike, Robin, "Artist Darren Waterston gives 19th century sensibilities a surprising twist", The Seattle Times,
24 October.
1995
Schwendener, Martha. Flash Art, March/April 1995
Updike, Robin. The Seattle Times, April 20.
Scott, Michael. The Vancouver Sun, Visual Arts section, September 23.
Burkman, Greg. "Dark Ideals", The Stranger, April 19.
1994
Art & Antiques, Review, October 1994
1993
Adam, Loch. Reflex Art Journal, November/December 1993, p. 14
Ament, Deloris Tarzan. "Art Reviews", The Seattle Times, September 8.
Architectural Digest, September 1993, cover reproduction
Bulmer, Marge. Art Scene, May 1993, p.13
Pichbeck, Daniel. Art and Antiques, May 1993, p.21
Hackett, Regina. “Art Reviews,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 10.
1992
Pagel, David. Calendar Section, Los Angeles Times, May 27, p.F4
Green, David A. Art Issues, September/October 1992, p.46
Kendal, Susan. “Art Reviews,” The Los Angeles Times, June 11, p. F5, 1992
Lazerow, Bill, Art Scene, May, 1992, p. 21
Littlefield, Kinney, Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, Long Beach Edition, March 3, 1992
Gamblin, Noriko, "Elegies", Long Beach Museum of Art catalog
1991
Artscene, February 1991, Vol. 10 No. 6
Frank, Peter. “Art Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, June 5, p.108
Lazzari, Margaret, New Art Examiner, May 1991, p.52
McKenna, Kristine, Los Angeles Times, January 8, Calendar section.
Frank, Peter. “Art Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, September 13, p.108
1990
Barrett, Robert. Visions Art Quarterly, Winter 1990, p.50
Curtis, Cathy. Los Angeles Times, January 12.
Hale, David, The Fresno Bee, November 4, 1990 p.8
AWARDS
2005 Civatella Residency, Umbria, Italy. July through September 2005.
2004 Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Bellevue Atheletic Club, WA
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Campney & Murphy, Vancouver, BC
Contemporary Museum of Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii
Department of Navy, Seattle WA
Duke Energy, Houston, TX
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Seattle, WA
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
Hallmark Art Collection, Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, MO
J.P. Morgan, New York, NY
KMS Financial Services Corporation, Seattle, WA
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
McCartney & Thomas, La Jolla, CA
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Munger Towles & Olsen LA Firm, Los Angels, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Nestle Stouffer Corporation, New York, NY
Nestles Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Nordstrom Corporation, Atlanta, GA
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Southwestern Bell Communications, San Antonio, TX
Sun Life Assurance Company, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Art Museum, WA
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
