Leo Bersamina

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Education  

2000

MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT 


1993

BFA, Honors, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA


1986

Liberal Arts Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA


1986

AA, Liberal Arts and Fine Arts Studies, Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz, CA


Solo Exhibitions


2018

Zoloft in the Fog, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

Capture and Flow, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA

Pieced Together, Moto Gallery, New York, NY


2016

Grow, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA 


2015   

The Land Scorched, Bilpin International Ground for Creative Incentives, Bilpin NSW, Australia

Resident Artist Exhibition, Bilpin International Ground for Creative Incentives, Bilpin NSW, Australia



2013

The Sea Within Me, DIG, The Seagram Building, New York, NY


Select Group Exhibitions


2023 

Abstraction, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA

Kala Art Institute Auction Benefit Exhibition, Art Kala 2023, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

Holy Inventions, Addison Ripley, Washington, DC


2020

California People, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA


2019

Small Works, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Sabbatical, Diablo Valley College Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA


2018

The DNA of Painting, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Strange Forest, The Richmond Arts Center, Richmond, CA

Generation, Worth Rider Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA  

Untitled Art Fair, The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA


2017        

Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Jose, CA
We Can Be Heroes, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Private Collections, Bretbart/Simon Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Benefit Art, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Spectral Hues, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA


2016       

Spectral Hues: artists + color, Palo Alto Art Center, CA

David Huffman and Leo Bersamina, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, SF, CA

Searching For Clues, The Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA


2015       

Retrospective, Paule Anglim, Gilbert Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Benefit, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

We Will All Live Under the Sea, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Coastal Wood II, Oceana Gallery Pacifica, CA

Equilux, SOUTHERN EXPOSURE, San Francisco, CA 


2014

Everybody's Ocean, Santa Cruz Museum of art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

Coastal Wood, Oceana Gallery, San Francisco, CA


2013

Lure, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Faculty Exhibition, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

B.O.P, Oceana Gallery, Pacifica, CA

Miami Art Fair, Gallery Paule Anglim, Miami, FL


Select Collections


Microsoft

Swiss RE Bank

The Oakland Museum

JP Morgan Chase