Curriculum Vitae:
KEITH WILSON
San Rafael & The Sea Ranch, CA
website: www.KeithWilsonART.com
EDUCATION
1976 BA Environmental Design,(minor in etching) U.C. Berkeley
1979 Master of Architecture, U.C. Berkeley MA Thesis “Paul Klee + Memory: An approach to Architectural Ornament.
Architect Charles Moore, Thesis Advisor
2012-14 College of Marin - Oil painting study - Instructor: Chester Arnold
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2023 DE YOUNG OPEN 2023- De Young Museum, San Francisco September-January
2023 BRIGHT SIDE - Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, Juror: Jen Tough,
2023 LUSH - Artist Alliance, Juror: Jen Tough, online exhibition: Artsy.net
2022 STRICKLY ABSTRACT, O’Hanlon Online Gallery, Juror: Embert Korn, Desta Gallery Mill Valley,CA
2022 LUMINOSITY - Artist Alliance, Juror: Jen Tough, online exhibition.
2022 ARTIST VISION 2022 - Marin Art Society, Juried online exhibition.
2021 JAM SESSION - Artist Alliance, Juror: Gina Tuzzi, online exhibition.
2021 FIGURES AND FACES - Artist Alliance, Juror: Jen Tough, online exhibition.
2019 NEW CURRENCIES - GPG@TheBank, Jennifer Perlmutter, Lafayette, CA
2018 ARTISTS SPRING - Sofie Contemporary Arts, Calistoga,CA
2018 stARTup Fair - Hotel Del Sol room 203 - San Francisco, CA
2017 BLUETS – GEARBOX GALLERY- Oakland - Juror: Jack Fischer
2017 Contemporary Landscape Exhibition – Marin MOCA - Juror: Chester Arnold
2017 FALKIRK FALL OPEN JURIED EXHIBITION – San Rafael - Juror: Dorallen Davis
2017 stARTup Fair - Hotel Del Sol room 223 - San Francisco, CA
2016 SUMMER NATIONAL PAINTING EXHIBITION – Marin MOCA - Juror: Brian Gross
2016 ARCHITECTURE SHOW – Artworks Downtown, San Rafael - Juror: Erick Moreau
2015 FALL NATIONAL DRAWING EXHIBITION – Marin MOCA - Juror: Jack Fischer
2015 MICROCOSMOS SHOW – Gallery 621, Benicia - Juror: Chester Arnold
2015 BOLD– O’Hanlon Arts Center - Juror: Robert Green
2015 THE HOME SHOW - Gualala Arts Center
2015 COMPOSING CHAOS – O’Hanlon Arts Center - Juror: Chester Arnold
2015 ABSTRACTIONS – Pacific Art League, Palo Alto - Juror: Robert Polack
2012 BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES Sebastopol Center for the Arts- juried show
2011 SHATTERED – Marin MOCA Juror: Kenneth Baker
2011 BLACK & WHITE – O’Hanlon Arts Center - Juror: Richard Whittaker
2011 NATURE’S PALETTE – Marin Arts Gallery, San Rafael
2010 WEST COAST BIENNIAL - Redding (Juror’s Award) Juror: Bob Nugent
2010 THE MAY SHOW - Gualala Arts Center (1stPrize) Juror: Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator BAM
2009 CIVIC CENTER - Juried Art Exhibit- Berkeley City Hall
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS
2024 Exhibition of Paintings, Main Lobby, The Sea Ranch Lodge UPCOMING JANUARY 2024
2023 Studio Discovery Tour, 39295 Pacific Reach, The Sea Ranch LABOR DAY WEEKEND
2022 Exhibition of Paintings, Main Lobby, The Sea Ranch Lodge April 2022
2022 Studio Discovery Tour, 39295 Pacific Reach, The Sea Ranch LABOR DAY WEEKEND
2021 Gualala Arts Center, Combined Forces, artwork in collaboration with photographer Arun Patel (April)
2021 Studio Discovery Tour, 39295 Pacific Reach, The Sea Ranch LABOR DAY WEEKEND
2019 Keith Wilson Paintings, ArtReach Gallery, Portland, OR (Sept./October.)
2019 Studio Discovery Tour, 39295 Pacific Reach, The Sea Ranch LABOR DAY WEEKEND
2018 Sofie Contemporary Arts, Calistoga – Forgotten Cities of the Heart 80 - watercolors from 1987-2000
2018 Studio Discovery Tour, 39295 Pacific Reach, The Sea Ranch LABOR DAY WEEKEND
2016 Placewares Gallery, Gualala - The Building Plan Artistically Considered - Sept 3-Nov 20
2015 Art By The Sea - The Sea Ranch open studio tour
2014 Placewares Gallery - Black & Gold in Color
2013 Placewares Gallery, Gualala - A Structure of Color
2013 Art By The Sea - The Sea Ranch open studio
2012 BraytonHughes Design Studio-The invention of an Architectural World - -SF
2012 Art By The Sea - The Sea Ranch Open Studio
2011 Marin Arts Open Studio- San Rafael
2010 ProArts East Bay Open Studio, Berkeley
2009 Artist Studio Tour, 118 Horizon Reach, The Sea Ranch
2009 Placewares Gallery, Gualala (Sea Ranch)
2007 Placewares Gallery, Gualala (Sea Ranch)
2006 Pro Arts Open Studio, 210 Stonewall Rd., Berkeley, Ca
2004 Giorgi Gallery Berkeley, Ca
2002 Elements Gallery, Pasadena, Ca.
2001 Phoenix Lake Gallery, San Rafael, Ca
1994 Clocktower - San Francisco - Watercolors
1992 Agnes Bourne Showroom- San Francisco
1991 SF Open Studio Exhibit - 1450 Oak St., SF
1990 SF Open Studio Exhibit - 1450 Oak St., SF
1987 Builders Booksource - Berkeley, Ca
1984 University of Idaho Gallery - Moscow, Idaho Watercolors and Architectural Inventions
1983 La Belle Helene Gallery - St. Helena, Ca Terra Cotta Wall Reliefs and Drawings
1983 Philippe Bonnafont Gallery - San Francisco, Watercolors, Drawings And Terra Cottas
1982 Equivalents Gallery - Seattle, Washington Terra Cotta Constructions and Watercolors
1981 Philippe Bonnafont Gallery - San Francisco, Exhibition of Watercolors, Etchings, & Oils
1980 La Belle Helene Gallery - St. Helena, Ca Watercolor Paintings and Drawings - Catalog Published by Yolla Bolla Press
1980 Philippe Bonnafont Gallery - San Francisco, Keith Wilson “One Hundred Watercolors”
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020-23 Ongoing exhibit of oil paintings at Lyndon Design Gallery, The Sea Ranch.
2021 RUTH’S TABLE, San Francisco- “Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers,” Curated by Hanna Regev (Feb.-April)
2020 Sofie Contemporary Arts, Calistoga, CA “Hope is the Thing”
2020 Lyndon Design Gallery, The Sea Ranch, CA (ongoing through 2022)
2019 Sofie Contemporary Arts, Calistoga, CA “So Far…”
2018 Spindrift Gallery, Gualala, CA – "FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT"
2018 Sofie Contemporary Arts, Calistoga,CA "Artist Spring: The Fire and the Rose are One"
2017 Spindrift Gallery, Gualala, CA – "ART.LIGHT.JOY"
2010 Placewares Gallery, Gualala, Ca
2006 Rockridge Library - Oakland, Ca 2002 Limn Gallery-SF
2002 Limn Gallery-SF Digital Prints/ Imaginary Architecture
2002 ZIA Houseworks - Berkeley, Ca - Prints
2001 Limn Gallery - San Francisco, Ca. “Drawings from Experience”
1992 Japonesque Gallery – SF - Large Format Ink Drawings
1989 Contemporary Realist Gallery - San Francisco “Ornamentation in Architecture”
1987 Leap Benefit - Howard Street, SF “The Architect as Artist”
1987 Chicago Art Institute - SOM 50 Years Exhibit - Eight Watercolors of Imaginary Interiors
1985 John Stubbs Rare Books - New York, NY
1985 College of Marin Gallery - Kentfield, Ca - Architecture in Paintings Exhibit
1984 Charles Campbell Gallery -SF- Gordon Cook and Keith Wilson
1984 American Institute of Architects, National Convention - San Francisco - Exhibit of Architectural Drawings
1984 Jewish Community Museum - San Francisco Invited Competition to Design a Sukkah
1984 Shasta County Art Association Gallery - Redding, Ca. “Architectural Drawings by Three Artists”
1982 Ballenford Gallery - Toronto, Canada “Drawings by Architects”
1982 American Institute of Architects Gallery - Seattle, Washington “Drawings by Architects”
1979 Wurster Hall Gallery -UC Berkeley - Thesis Exhibit of Watercolors of European Architecture
1976 La Mamelle Gallery - SF“The Printed Word: Books by Artists”
1975 Worth Ryder Gallery - UC, Berkeley “Etchings and Books
PAINTING COMMISSION 1982-84
“THE ATHENS OF THE WEST” A seven panel egg tempera and burnished gold leaf on gesso panel painting Inspired by the historic architectural design of the UC Berkeley Campus. LOCATION: Lobby, Intramural Sports Facility.
PUBLICATION OF WORK
2022 BAY AREA ARTISTS published by JEN TOUGH GALLERY, Santa Fe
2019 KEITH WILSON from Empathy to Abstraction - interview with Dr. Sheldon Hurst, Director ARTREACH
2018 THE COVE.com – Artists Respond to Fire
2017 The Sea Ranch SOUNDINGS - article on Keith Wilson's work and inspiration
2016 MFA NEVER, Catalog published by Root Division San Francisco
2015 The Placewares+LyndonDesign Gallery: The First Ten Years in Gualala
2011 Drawing on front & back cover and 5 interior pages of Awareness, The Feldenkrais Journal, # 23 “Aesthetics”.
2007 Drawing on front & back cover of Awareness, The Feldenkrais Journal, # 20.
2005 Painting published in fall 2005 issue of Inquiring Mind, entitled “Earth Dharma”
1980 Keith Wilson Catalog. Printed by Yolla Bolla Press
COLLECTIONS
GATX Leasing Co. Embarcadero Four - San Francisco Pacific Bell Headquarters - San Ramon, California
Mahoney Corp. - San Francisco
Jewish Community Museum - San Francisco
Kala Institute - Berkeley, California
Bramalea Pacific - Oakland, California
Skidmore Owings and Merrill - San Francisco, California
Paul Anka - Carmel, California
University of California, Berkeley
Standard Oil Company - San Francisco
Raychem Corporation - Tokyo, Japan and Shanghai, China
Kaiser Permanente Hospitals - Roseville, Oakland
United States Embassy, Tunisia
TEACHING AND LECTURES
Gallery Event: “From Empathy toward Abstraction”- ARTREACH GALLERY, Portland, OR, 2019
Gallery Talk: “Deserted Cities of the Heart”- Sofie Contemporary Art, Calistoga Ca, 2018
Gallery Talk: "The Building Plan Artistically Considered"- Placewares Gallery, Gualala - 2016
Adjunct Professor, California College of Arts And Crafts: Interior Design Program 1988- 1993
Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley Extension: Interior Design Studio II, Fall 1987 Teaching Associate, U.C. Berkeley, Department of Architecture: Architectural Drawing 1978 and 1979
Teaching Assistant, U.C. Berkeley, Department of Art: Etching Studio, Winter 1978
Western Addition Lecture: “Painted Houses” San Francisco Art Institute, 1980