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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