Exhibition History
Residencies:
2017 Residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2008 New Pacific Studio, Masterton, New Zealand
2005 Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France
2000 Gentoshiya, Shimabara, Japan
1999 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1997 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
Collections:
Oakland Museum of California
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Solo Exhibitions:
2024
Aviary, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2023
The Mary Curtis Ratcliff Group Show, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2022
Casting Shadows, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Encounters with Water and Light, 500 Terry Francois, San Francisco, CA
2021
Meditation with Trees, Siy Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Tree of Life: Symbol and Reality, Siy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Motion Variations, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2020
ScrapWorks, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019
Circles on Cedar, Cedar Street Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2018
Circumference, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Waterways, YWCA Berkeley/Oakland, Berkeley, CA
2017
What Goes Around Comes Around, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016
Full Circle, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015
Arborescence: Art in the Vineyard, Napa, CA
2014
Eye to Eye, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013
Light and Gravity, The Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2013
Charismatic Fauna, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012
Divine; A Miscellany of Timeless Works, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011
Encounters with Light, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA.
2010
Small Worlds… and Large, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA.
2009
Patterns of Emergence, Hess Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA.
2006
Arborescence, Art Scape Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2005
Surface Fancy, Craft & Cultural Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2004
Dolls & Goddesses, Pro Arts East Bay Open Studios, Berkeley, CA
Traveling West, Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA
2003
Small Celebrations, Southern Coos Hospital & Medical Center, Bandon, OR
2001
Transfer of Memory, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2000
Ten Days in Shimabara, Gentoshiya Gallery, Shimabara, Japan
Memory Park, Coal Shed Studio Gallery, Mare Island, CA
1997
Window Dressing, Addison Street Windows, Berkeley, CA
1996
Unlikely Sculpture, Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma, CA
1994
On the Wall, Standing Tall, Solano Community College, Suisun, CA Ritual Fashion, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
1993
University of the Pacific Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
1990
Selected Sculptures, 1974-1990, Christopher’s Café , Berkeley, CA
1989
Sculptures and Performance Pieces, Sumitomo Bank, San Francisco
1982
Ribbon Sculpture, Sonoma State University, Rhonert Park, CA
1980
New Work, Central Street Studio, San Francisco, CA
1974
Opening Exhibition, San Francisco Women’s Art Center, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
The Art of Healing, Ayampe, Ecuador
Couplet Pair Rebus, The University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong
Sacred Spirit, National Sculpture Society, New York, NY
2023
Shades of Gray, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
2022
The Art of Healing, Siy Gallery, San Bruno, CA
Mystic Landscapes, Siy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
M20 @ XV, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2021
Elements of Nature, Siy Gallery, Burlingame, CA.
4 × 8-Bridges, 8-Bridges, San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers, Ruth’s Table, San Francisco, CA
Future Memories, City University, Hong Kong
Geometric Abstractions, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2020
Re:Vision, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019
Truth/Dare, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Civic Center Art Exhibition, City of Berkeley City Hall, Berkeley, CA
Self-Portraits in the Age of Selfies, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018
The Sewing Room Project, Victoria Tierney and Her Collection, North Bend, OR
20/20 Vision, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, Met Breuer, New York City, NY
GENERATION: The 2018 UC Berkeley Art Alumni Exhibition, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2017
HERE: Berkeley Artists Annual Exhibition, Berkeley, CA
Videofreex; Data Report, Treize Gallery, Paris, France
Hippie Modernism, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Third Space Network Presents the Videofreex, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Malaysia
Political Pop Up Art, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016
Reunion Exhibit – Rhode Island School of Design, Class of 1967, Millbrook Gallery, Concord, NH
M20 @ 10, Mercury20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015
A Common Thread Oakland, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014
Annual Members Show, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2014
Civic Arts Exhibition, City of Berkeley, City Hall, Berkeley, CA
2014
Transformation of Connectivity, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013
Small Works: Delectable and Collectable, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012
Ancient Lives, Mythos Fine Art and Artifacts, Berkeley, CA
2012
Artists of the West Marin Review 4, Point Reyes Station, CA,
2012
After the Fall, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012
smART phone, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012
Michigan, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012
Videofreex Mayday Realtime, Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY
2012
From Here to There, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011
Sign Language, Mythos Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2011
Shine, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2011
Natural Vision/Dreams and Apparitions, Mythos Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2011
Of Water, The Bay Model, Sausalito, CA
2011
Small Worlds, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011
Flow Patterns, The Atrium, San Francisco, CA
2011
Mercury Rising, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011
Mississippi Rising, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011
Gendered Images: The Feminine Divine, Doug Adams Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2010
Mercury Multiples: editions of exponential art, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA
2010
Green, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA.
2010
Behind the Curtain: The Unseen, Mythos Fine Art & Artifacts, Berkeley, CA.
2010
Group Exhibition, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA
2010
Journeys, Cheese Factory, Marin, CA
2010
Client Appreciation Show, Warehouse Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010
Process and Place, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2009
Wood and Water, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009
Foursite, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009
In Focus, North First ArtSpace, San Jose, CA
2009
Not Your Mothers’ Paper Dolls, Fingado Gallery, El Cerrito, CA.
2008
Rhode Island School of Design Biennial, Oakland, CA
2008
Chosen Terrain, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery
Art Scape Gallery, Walnut Creek
2006
Art Scape Gallery, Walnut Creek
2005
22nd Annual Berkeley Art Center National Juried Exhibition (Curators: Karin Breuer and Don Farnsworth)
2004
Group Show, Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003
Sweet Tooth, Copia: The American Center for Food, Wine, and the Arts, Napa (catalog)
Food Matters, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
The Big Tree Project, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA.
2001
Galerie Dukan, Marseille, France
Steamie Crème with No Theme, 600 Townsend Gallery, San Francisco (curator: René di Rosa)
Groupe Mémoires, Galerie Dukan, Marseille, France (catalog)
Fantastic Landscape, Schneider Gallery, Chicago
2000
International Group Show, Osaka, Japan
Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Exhibition (curator: Ruth Braunstein), San Francisco
Yellow:The First Color, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1999
What is Art for? The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland (curator: William Wiley)
Making Change:100 Artists Interpret the Tzedakah Box, Jewish Museum, S.F. (catalog)
ProArts Juried Annual, Oakland (curators: Peter Selz & Rachel Osajima)
Through the Door Revisited:5th Annual Members’ Show, Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, S.F.
1998
feed, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco
fem’-i-nie, n… womankind, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL (catalog)
14th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, CA (curator: Janet Bishop)
Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Members’ Exhibition, San Francisco
Shadows 2000, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
1997
Generations: 25 Years of A.I.R. Gallery, A.I.R. Gallery, New York Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the United States, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Humor, Parody, Irony, & Satire, Contract Design Center, San Francisco Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Exhibition, Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA Carving the Forces of Change, Women’s Caucus For Art National 25th Anniversary
Exhibition, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL (curator: Faith Ringgold)
1996
5th Annual Juried Luggage Exhibition: Psychic, Spiritual, Physical and/or Emotional Baggage, 509 Cultural Center/The Luggage Store, San Francisco
Homages, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland
Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY (catalog)
1995
In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the ’90s, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY (catalog)
Waste Not, Want Not, Waitakere Arts & Cultural Centre, Titirangi, New Zealand
Wind and Weather, Contract Design Center, San Francisco
Envoys, Association of Women Artists Postcard Project 1993-
1995
National Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Pandora’s Box – Hope Capsule 3000, with Kati Casida, Dept. of Anthropology, U.C., Berkeley
We Are All Connected, Sunrise Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco
1994
Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto Mirror, Mirror: Gender Roles & the Historical Significance of Beauty, Oliver Art Center, Ca. College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland
People & Fashion/People & Clothes, Phase 3, Windows on the Waterfront, Oakland
1993
Crocker-Kingsley Annual, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Vessels, The Upper Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1992
Her Art Works, Women’s Caucus for Art National Competition, South Bend Art Center, South Bend, IN (curator: Lynda Benglis)
Artists Equity International Exhibition, Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco
Abstract Traditions, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
Telling Stories, Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Oakland
500 Years of Resistance through Women’s Eyes, Galeria Museo/Mission Cultural Center, S.F.
1991
A.M.D.G., Grace Cathedral, San Francisco (curated by Terrain Gallery)
1990
Pro Arts Annual Juried Exhibition, Oakland, CA (curator: Jacquelyn Bass)
1989 American Documentary Video: Subject to Change, Museum of Modern Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1984 Expo 2000, Wearable Art Exhibition, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
1983 The Invention of Hair Spray, Santa Rosa, CA
1982 One Painter, One Sculptor, Crown Zellerbach Gallery, S.F.
1981
The Exchange Show, San Francisco/West Berlin, Germany
The Western Edge, Northern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts Exhibition, S.F
1980
International Women’s Art Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Women’s Myth and Ritual, Salon Cerridwen, New York City
1979
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Shidoni Outdoor Sculpture Show, Tesuque, New Mexico
1978
Sculptural Variations, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
The Great Goddess Re-Emerging, University of California,
Santa Cruz, CA
Soap Box Derby, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Fe Art Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1977
Opening Exhibition, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
The Great Goddess, Skylight Studio, Berkeley, CA
On Color, The Exploratorium, San Francisco
Flags, Banners and Kites, Allied Arts, Seattle, WA
1976
San Francisco Art Festival, Civic Center, San Francisco
Floating Museum, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
1975
Soap Box Derby, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Awakening, Oakland Museum, CA
Introductions, San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Festival, Civic Center, San Francisco
1974 Installation, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
1973 Potrero Hill Artists’ Show, San Francisco
1972
Alternate Media Conference, Goddard College, Goddard, VT
Daze of Syracuse, Past, Present and Future, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1971 Sundance Ceremony, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1970 Vision and Television, Billy Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA
1969 Subject to Change, pilot program for C.B.S. Television, Videofreex, New York
Selected Presentations
What I Do to My Photographs San Leandro Public Library, San Leandro Art Association. August 2022.
Conversation with Harald Kraemer Singing Waves Gallery, City University, Hong Kong. March 20 2021.
Mary Curtis Ratcliff of Videofreex (Documentary Revival). The Nightingale, Chicago, IL. July 2019.
Here Come the Videofreex: Q&A sessions following screenings including: BAM Cinema Fest in Brooklyn; Independent Film Center in Manhattan; Roxie Cinema, San Francisco; Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale, NY; East Bay Media Center, Berkeley; Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley.
Third Space Network Presents The Videofreex. Nanyang Technological University School of Art Design & Media, Singapore. Networked online conversation. March 27, 2017.
Videofreex Symposium & Workshop, Université de Paris-Cergy, January 2017
Videofreex and Feminism: Bumps on a Level Playing Field, panelist. Brooklyn Museum / Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, June 18, 2015
Premieres at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and Brooklyn Academy of Music Cinemafest, June 2015.
We’re All Videofreex, panelist. School of Visual Arts, New York, April 5, 2013.