Résumé

Born 1965, Fresno, CA, lives in San Francisco.

Education

1988

BFA, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles

1986-87

Academie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany

Fachhochschule fur Kunst, Munster, Germany

Solo Exhibitions

2009

Splendid Grief: Darren Waterston and the Afterlife of Leland Stanford, Jr., Cantor Arts Center, Satanford University, Stanford, CA (scheduled to open March 2009)

2008

Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (scheduled for October 2008)
Last Days, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007

Salon, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Constellations and The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense), Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
Fugue, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

2006

Was and Is Not and Is to Come, site-specific mural, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Hyle, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France

2005

Turning Back In, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Paintings, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2004

Notations, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Delirium, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
Chimera, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Thirteen Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2003

Darren Waterston: Scapes, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Ghosts, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Infatuated River, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Works on Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2002

Works on Paper, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2001

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Seven Heavens, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000

Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Monoprints and Works on Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

1999

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
In the Reeds and Rushes, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA

1997

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
KOPAC, Seoul, Korea

1996

Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1995

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994

Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1993

Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

1992

Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Elegies, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

1991

Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1990

Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

New Acquisitions, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Permanent Collection Exhibition, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2007

Animal Rites, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA
On Paper, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006

Altered Image, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Extreme Abstraction, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France
Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Otis College of Art & Design, Alumni Show, Los Angeles, CA

2005

Majestic Tapestries of Magnolia Editions: Woven Works by Contemporary Artists, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2004

Representing Landscape, The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
The Big Spin, San Francisco Art Institute, Faculty Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Weaving Weft and Warp: Tapestries from Magnolia Editions, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Mindscape, Paul Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

2003

Downtown Stomp Around, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Darren Waterston and Beatrice Wood: A Personal Alchemy, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
The Great Drawing Show 1550-2003 A.D., Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002

Fifteen: 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
High Art: Art of the Bank of America Tower, Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, WA
Sweet & Wild: Animals in Contemporary Art, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Representing Landscape, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
Contemporary American Art, Embassy of U.S.A., Vienna, Austria

2001

2001 Collector’s Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selected Paintings from the Microsoft Collection, Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, WA
Fast Forward, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
New Location and Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2000

Bluer, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
A Gift of Light and Time, Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, WA
Reconstructions: The Imprint of Nature / The Impact of Science, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY
A Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
10, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

1999

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
The Great Drawing Show 1550 - 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Brushes with Spirituality: Ethereal Paintings, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ

1999-2000

Botanica (Traveling Exhibition), Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, curated by Peter F. Spooner; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

1998

A to Z: Works on Paper, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
The Winter Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Divining Nature, S.E.C.C.A., Winston-Salem, NC

1997

Distant Bodies, LA Artcore’s Art Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Previews, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Out of Eden, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO
West Coast Painting and Sculpture 1997, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
1997 Collector’s Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Contemporary Masters, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Anatomy of a Print, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

1996

1996 Collector’s Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Summer Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Previews, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Matters of the Heart, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Master Classes: What Makes a Master?, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

1995

The Traditional Impulse, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Under Glass, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Bill Carroll
Metaphors, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Terrain, SOMA Gallery, San Diego, CA
From Nature, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Previews, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Project Exhibit, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

1994

The Sacred and the Profane, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Peaceable Kingdom, Babcock Galleries, New York, NY
Flora: In Artists’ Gardens, 400 South Hope Street Associates, Los Angeles, CA
The Art Cup, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1993

Stealth, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
School Days, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Layered Look, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Sue Spaid
Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
The Surface of the Sign, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA

1992

Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Art and Nature, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

1991

Encaustic, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
LACE Sixth Annual, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
The Edge of Night, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA, curated by James Reed

Selected Collections

Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Campney & Murphy, Vancouver, BC
Contemporary Museum of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Department of Navy, Seattle, WA
Duke Energy, Houston, TX
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Seattle, WA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
Hallmark Art Collection, Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, MO
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
J.P. Morgan Chase, New York, NY
KMS Financial Services Corporation, Seattle, WA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Nestle Stouffer Corporation, New York, NY
Nordstrom Corporation, Seattle, WA
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
U.C.L.A. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA

Honors and Awards

2005

Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Umbertide, Italy

2004

Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

Selected Bibliography

2008

Sue Taylor, "Darren Waterston at the Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College," Art in America, May, p. 205.
Tyrus Miller, "Night Flowers: Darren Waterston's Last Days," Greg Kucera Gallery, catalog.

2007

Benjamin David, Tyrus Miller, and Linda Tesner, "Darren Waterston and Tyrus Miller: The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense)," Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, catalog.
Jacquelynn Bass, Timothy Anglin Burgard, and David Pagel, "Darren Waterston: Representing the Invisible," (monograph), Edizioni Charta, Milan.
Cathy Kimball, "Apocalypse Now," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, catalog.

2006

Annelena Lobb, "As Art Fairs Multiply, Artists, Galleries, Are Feeling the Pinch," Wall Street Journal, October 14.
David Pagel, Galerie Jean-Luc and Takako Richard, catalog.

2005

Alison Bing, "Darren Waterston and Jim Toia at Haines Gallery," Artweek, July/August.
Holly Myers, "Abstraction brings many rich rewards," The Los Angeles Times, March 25.

2004

Katie Kurtz, "Liminal Landscapes: Known and Unknown Worlds," The Stranger, October.
Lloyd Dykk, "Making Carmina," The Vancouver Sun, April 17.
Paul Gardner, ARTNews, March, p. 130.
Melissa Kuntz, "Darren Waterston at Charles Cowles," Art in America, June/July, p. 178.
Amy Larocca, "White Noise," New York, April 12, p. 46.

2003

Kenneth Baker, The San Francisco Chronicle, February 15.
Jacquelynn Baas, "Material, Immaterial: Waterston's Ghosts," Charles Cowles Gallery, catalog.
Madhu Puri, "Change of Seasons," Art and Auction, February.
Judy Wagonfeld, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 7.
Alison Bing, "Darren Waterston," SF Gate Art Review, January 24.
"Q and A with Darren Waterston," Inside, Bellevue Art Museum, Winter Issue.

2002

Sheila Farr, "Visual Arts Exhibit Reviews," The Seattle Times, May 3.
Emily Hall, "In the Primordial Soup," The Stranger, April 25.
Donald Kuspit, "Darren Waterston, Charles Cowles Gallery," Art Forum, February.

2001

Benjamin Weissman, "Story of Waterston," Darren Waterston (monograph), St. Ann’s Press, Los Angeles.
"Portrait of the Artist," Gentleman’s Quarterly, April.
Megan Wilson, "Seven Heavens," The San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 24.

2000

Tim Burton, Kohn Turner Gallery, catalog.
Carmine Iannaccone, "An Anatomy of Beguilement: Style in the Work of Darren Waterston," Kohn Turner Gallery, catalog.
David Pagel, The Los Angeles Times, July 14.
"Kohn Turner Gallery, Darren Waterston: New Work," Southern California’s Business and Entertainment Magazine, July/August.

1999

Robin Updike, "Dallying with Orientalism, Darren Waterston samples the Victorian fixation with an imaginary and fantastical Far East," The Seattle Times, March 1.
Regina Hackett, "Darren Waterston's fairies are rotting in high style," The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Tuesday, March 23.
David Hale, "The Arts," The Fresno Bee, October 26.
Ken Johnson, "Art Reviews," The New York Times, November 5.
David Ebony, "David Ebony's Top Ten; Darren Waterston at Charles Cowles," artnet.com, October 28.
Eric Fredericksen, "Swamp Fairies," The Stranger, March 11-17, p. 65.
"Darren Waterston, Goings on About Town," The New Yorker, November 1.

1998

Amy Karafin, ARTnews, January, p. 132, 134.
Michael Scott, "Visual Arts," The Vancouver Sun, December.

1997

Michael Scott, "Visual Arts," The Vancouver Sun, March 15.
Regina Hackett, Art Review, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 20, p. 23.
Noriko Gamblin, "Darren Waterston," Charles Cowles Gallery, catalog.

1996

Valerie Gladstone, ARTnews, June, p. 149.
Martha Schwendener, Art in America, November, p. 119.
Susan Kandel, The Los Angeles Times, October 11, p. F28.
Robin Updike, "Artist Darren Waterston gives 19th century sensibilities a surprising twist," The Seattle Times, October 24.

1995

Martha Schwendener, Flash Art, March/April.
Robin Updike, The Seattle Times, April 20.
Michael Scott, The Vancouver Sun, Visual Arts section, September 23.
Greg Burkman, "Dark Ideals," The Stranger, April 19.

1994

Art & Antiques, Review, October.

1993

Loch Adam, Reflex Art Journal, November/December, p. 14.
Deloris Tarzan Ament, "Art Reviews," The Seattle Times, September 8.
Architectural Digest, September, cover reproduction.
Marge Bulmer, Art Scene, May, p. 13.
Daniel Pichbeck, Art & Antiques, May, p. 21.
Regina Hackett, "Art Reviews," The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 10.
David Pagel, Calendar Section, The Los Angeles Times, May 27.

1992

David A. Green, Art Issues, September/October, p.46.
Susan Kendel, "Art Reviews," The Los Angeles Times, June 11, p. F5.
Bill Lazerow, Art Scene, May, p. 21.
Kinney Littlefield, Calendar Section, The Los Angeles Times, Long Beach edition, March 3.
Noriko Gamblin, "Elegies," Long Beach Museum of Art, catalog.

1991

Artscene, February, Vol. 10, No.6.
Peter Frank, "Art Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly, June 5, p. 108.
Margaret Lazzari, New Art Examiner, May, p. 52.
Kristine McKenna, Calendar Section, The Los Angeles Times, January 8, p. F21-22.

1990

Robert Barrett, Visions Art Quarterly, Winter Issue, p. 50.
Cathy Curtis, The Los Angeles Times, January 12.
David Hale, The Fresno Bee, November 4.