Kara Maria

Education

1998

MFA, Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley

1993

BA with honors, Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley

Select Solo Exhibitions

2023

Innumeral Infinite Songs, 555 California Street, Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

2022

Rhapsody, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA (three-person)

Precious and Precarious: Life on the Edge of Extinction, Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Unspecified Involvements, Mark Moore Fine Art, ARTSY, Los Angeles, CA (online)

de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

2021

Double Trouble, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, two-person exhibition, Sonoma, CA

Regarding Extinction, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA

The Way We Were, 555 California Street, Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2020

Cloud Crystals, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

Cloud Crystals, ARTSY online show, Mark Moore Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

2019

Kara Maria, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

Nevertheless, ARTSY online show, Mark Moore Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

Wheels Within Wheels, 425 Market, San Francisco, CA

Vanishing Fauna, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA

2018

Luminous Disturbances, Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of

California, Berkeley, CA

Post-Nature, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016

Head Over Heels, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA (catalog)

2015

Haywire, Catharine Clark Gallery,  San Francisco, CA

Arcadian Duet, two-person exhibition, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA 

Joy Spring, Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

Anthropocene Shuffle, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA

A Trash Menagerie, Recology, San Francisco, CA

2013

Vortex, Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Clara University, Clara, CA

Select Group Exhibitions

2023

Ode to San Francisco, Four Chicken Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ultrasonic VI, Mark Moore Fine Art, ARTSY, Los Angeles, CA (online)
XX: An Exhibition of Women Artists, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA

Women of Northern California, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA

2022

Making Her Mark: Women Printmakers at the Turner, Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University Chico, Chico, CA

Shifting Terrains, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Onward and Upward: Shark’s Ink., University of Colorado Boulder Art Museum,

Boulder, CO
Flora and Fauna, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Community Connections, University Library Gallery, California State University,

Sacramento, CA

2021

Looking West: a Survey of Art on the Left Coast, Mark Moore Fine Art, ARTSY, Los Angeles, CA (online)
Climate Change: The Ticking Time Bomb, Ruth’s Table, San Francisco, CA (online)

Hello Stranger, University Library Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

2020

Shark’s Ink: The California Crew, BMoCA at Fraiser, Boulder, CO

The de Young Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

Gatherings, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA; and Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

Bird, Nest, Nature, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

Solstice: Create Art for Earth, online exhibition, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Energy and Motion: Abstraction 2020, ARTSY online exhibition, Mark Moore Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

Flora, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

Mother Altar, Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY

Hotheads Wall, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

The Art of Recology, Embarcadero Conference Center, San Francisco, CA

School of Art Faculty Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, 

San Francisco, CA

2019

Abstract, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

To Freeze the Shifting Phantasmagoria: Five California Painters, University Art Gallery,

California State University, Chico, CA

Encounters: Honoring the Animal in Ourselves, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

Strange, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA

In Bloom (Again), ARTSY online show, Mark Moore Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

2018

After Audubon: Art, Observation, and Natural Science, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

Art & Activism: Drawing the Line, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY

El Grupo Espectáculo, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA

The Art of Recology, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA

Assemblage and Collage, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

Surprise: New Acquisitions, The Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University, Chico, CA

Lost Pollinators, Goodwin Fine Art, Denver, CO 

2017

Doubutsu, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA

Artadia – Bay Area Awardees, Ascent Private Capital Management, San Francisco, CA

Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Unique and Multiple: Selections from Smith Andersen Editions, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Rise Up: Art as Action, SFArtsED Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA

BARED: The Art of Bras and Breasts, The Diamond Shop Gallery, Morgantown, WV

With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to: 

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

2016

Imagery Art for Wine Collection, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

Not Alone/Exquisite Corpse of the Unknown Veteran, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Skin Deep: The Art of Tattoo, Katz Snyder Gallery, Jewish Community Center, San Francisco, CA

Waste Not: The Art of Recology, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA

Common Ground, David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA

The Human Spirit, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

Bird in the Hand, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

2015

Trashed to Treasured, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA

Djerassi: A Legacy, Ascent Private Capital Management, San Francisco, CA

Does Size Matter, Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University, Chico, CA 

Make Art, Not Landfill, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, CA

Californian and American Art: Permanent Collections, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

Glamorgeddon: The Spectacle, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA 

2014

Art Exhibition Volume 6, The Battery, San Francisco, CA

Creative in Common, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Incarnate, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Soft Muscle, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (catalog)

Building Forward/Looking Back, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Initial Public Offering, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

2013

Around the Table: Food, Creativity, Community, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

ICA: On The Road, The Club VIP Lounge, Norman Y. Mineta International Airport, San Jose, CA

The Meaning of Geographic Origin in the Digital Era, Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco, CA

Select Collections

Ascent Private Capital Management, San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Casey Family Foundation, Seattle, WA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
di Rosa, Napa, CA
Ellie Mae, Pleasanton, CA
Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA Google, Mountain View, CA
Hess Corporation, New York, NY
Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, Portland, OR
Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Montage Health, Ohana Center, Monterey, CA
Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Recology, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
The Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University, Chico, CA
University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO
Visa, San Francisco, CA

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