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Public Collections
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC
Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Bowdoin College Museum, Brunswick, ME
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Federal Reserve Bank, Washington, DC
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Fondes National, Paris, France
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Our Time, Shoh Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2020
Humans Being, Shoh Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2016
Stehekin Poems, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Sandy Walker: Figures and Landscapes, Gary Francis Fine Art Gallery, Alameda, CA
2013
In Nature, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2011
The Art of Wood, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT
2009
Concerning the Forest, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue by Theres Rohan and David Cohen)
2007
Humans Being, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2005
The Quickening Body, Trieschmann Art Gallery, Conway, Arkansas
2004
Large Ink Drawings, Wooster Arts Space, New York, NY
2003
American Visions: The Paintings of Sandy Walker, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS (catalogue by David Butler and Janice Ross)
2002
The Judith Suite, Caffe 817, Oakland, CA
2001
Sandy Walker: Paintings and Prints, Phoenix Lake, San Rafael, CA
1999
Painter and Printmaker, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
1997
Large Scale Paintings 1986-1996, Bank of America World Headquarters Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Woodcut Prints, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
1995
Small Paintings & Works on Paper, The Collectors Gallery, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Sandy Walker: Woodblock Prints, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; traveling to Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; catalogue by Katy Kline
Sandy Walker: Paintings, Drawings & Woodblock Prints, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1994
Inner Visions, Marathon Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992
Sandy Walker, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Sandy Walker, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
1989
Sandy Walker, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA; catalogue by Robert Lamberton
1986
Large Scale Paintings, 1975-1985, Bank of America World Headquarters Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Drawings, Khiva Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sandy Walker, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983
Very Large Drawings, Hargate Art Center, Concord, NH
1982
Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1980
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Hull Gallery, Washington, DC
1979
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1978
Hull Gallery, Washington, DC
2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Kaffie Gallery, Corpus Christie, TX
1977
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1976
Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC.
Thomson, McKinnon, Washington, DC
1975
Fine Art Works Center, Provincetown, MA
Rear 315 Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC
1974
Rear 315 Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC
Group Exhibitions
2022
Fresh Coffee and a Fresh Start, Grand Theater for the Arts, Tracy, CA
2021
Mercedes Matter Awards Show, 122 Grand St, New York, NY
First Impressions, Davis Street Art Center, Davis, CA
Nature’s Cycles: From the Ground Up, Arts and Humanities of Stehekin, Stehekin WA
2020
A Second Cup of Coffee, Cherry Art Center, Carmel, CA
BNSA, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2020 Alumni Exhibition, New York Studio School, New York, NY
The Second Half Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Stehekin Community Show 2020, Arts and Humanities of Stehekin, Stehekin, WA
2019
Umbra: New Prints for a Dark Age IPCNY, New York, New York
First Impressions, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
Regional Collective: California Society of Printmakers, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA
Not Just Landscapes Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2018
NYSS: West Coast Connections Hacket Mill Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Breakfast Group: The Liberty of Jive, the Art of Java, Liberty Arts Center, Yreka, CA
Annual Members Show, Selected as a Spotlight Artist, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
CSP Members Show Kings Art Center, Hanford, CA
2017
Pressing On: Contemporary Printmaking, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2014
IPCNY Large Prints, 1285 Gallery, New York, NY
Redefining the Multiple, Gary Francis Fine Art, Alameda, CA
8th Annual California Centered: Printmaking, Merced Multicultural Arts Center, Merced, CA
KALA 40 Art Auction and Anniversary Gala, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
The Breakfast Group: A Half Century of Java and Jive, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Greenup Time: Artist Auction to Help Save Meridian Gallery, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Figure: A Bay Area Legacy, Gary Francis Fine Art, Alameda, CA
2013
Holiday Delights, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
The Breakfast Group: A Half Century of Java and Jive, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA
100 Years in Print: California Society of Printmakers Centennial Celebration, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
Ten Decades: California Society of Printmakers’ Centennial Exhibition, Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, CA
New Prints / Autumn, University of Texas/Austin Visual Arts Center Gallery, Austin, TX
2012
New Prints / Autumn, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
Revelations, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
CSP/RSP Exchange Exhibit, Bankside Gallery, London, England
California Centered: Printmaking 2012, Merced Multicultural Arts Center, Merced, CA
2011
Artist’s Annual Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
In the Presence of Trees, Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY
Off the Hinge, North Cascades National Park, Stehekin, WA
Extremis: Prints Monumental, Intimate, and Encompassing, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
Art in the Embassies, American Embassy, New Delhi, India
Dynamic Equilibrium, The San Francisco Studio School, San Francisco, CA
2009
California in Relief: A History in Wood and Linocut Prints, Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA
Diminuendo & Crescendo, The San Francisco Studio School, San Francisco, CA
Surface & Substance, The San Francisco Studio School, San Francisco, CA
The Artists of ZYZZYVA, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Alumni Association Biennial,New York Studio School, New York, NY
2008
Sight & Sensibility, The San Francisco Studio School, San Francisco, CA
Art in the Embassies, American Embassy, Athens, Greece
2007
Printmakers Bay Area, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2006
Sandy Walker and Ellen Salk, Wooster Arts Space, New York, NY
Nine at Gaia, Gaia Arts Center, Berkeley, CA
New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition , The Painting Center, New York, NY
2005
Celebrating 20 Years, The Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
2004
Black and White, Wooster Arts Space, New York, NY
2003
Anti-Chromatic, The Art of Black and White, Dorothy Herger Gallery, Suison City, CA
Cuts, The Contemporary Woodcut, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2002
A Legacy in Landscapes, New York Public Library, New York, NY
2001
Recent Acquisitions of Works on Paper by California Artists, California Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
2000
The Art of Collaborative Printmaking, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Pro Arts 2000 Juried Annual, Oakland, CA. Juror: Larry Rinder
California Society of Printmakers Annual Exhibit 2000, College Art Gallery, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA.
1999
Fourth Annual California Prints from Wood, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Faultlines/Watermarks: California/Amsterdam, California Society of Printmakers and the Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, at Der Zaaijer, Amsterdam, Netherlands, traveling to the Contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA, and the Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA
Small Works from the California Society of Printmakers,, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
1998
Third Annual California Prints from Wood, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Sandy Walker and O’Brien Thiele, Richmond Public Library, Richmond, CA
Tradition and Transition in the 90s, South of Market Cultural Center (SOMAR), San Francisco, CA
A Tradition Continued: Relief Prints, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA
Pacific Prints 1998, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
Light is Diverse in California, Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
85th Anniversary Annual Exhibition, California Society of Printmakers, Academy of Art College Gallery 551, San Francisco, CA
California Prints from Wood II, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
1997
West Coast Painting and Sculpture, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Spectrum-Woodblock thru Microchip, Berkeley Store Gallery, Berkeley, CA
California Prints from Wood, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
1996
Recent Abstract Painting, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Two-person Exhibition, Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA
Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; traveling to Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC (catalogue by Alan Gussow)
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Contemporary Prints, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (catalogue by Timothy Rub, number 57)
1995
Peaceful Images, North Cascades National Park, Stehekin, WA
The Permanent Collection: Recent Acquisitions, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Image/Abstraction/Ambiguity, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
One of a Kind, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1994
Diversity in Vision of the Printed Image, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1993
Breckenridge Fine Arts Center, Breckenridge, TX
Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival, Fort Worth, TX
Community Visual Art Association, Jackson, WY
Self Portraits in Black and White, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992
Printmaking by Members of the California Society of Printmakers, Art Works Gallery, Fair Oaks, CA
The First Decade, New York Studio School, New York, NY
Contemporary Relief-Printmaking, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX
Winter Exhibition, Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY
California Works 1992, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
Selected Works, California Printmakers Society, Memorial Union Art Gallery, Davis, CA
1991
California Society of Printmakers Membership Show, Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA
Pro Arts Annual, Oakland, CA
Works on Paper, Nassau Community College, Nassau, NY
1990
11th British International Print Biennale, Bradford, England (catalogue by Michael Regan and David Kiehl, numbers 242 and 243)
Exhibition 1990, Part Two, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1989
25th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; (catalogue by Barry Walker, number 80)
1988
Sandy Walker and Joe Haske, Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1987
Permanent Collection, Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
Wood, The Art Store Gallery, Oakland, CA
Group Show, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1986
Large Drawings, Independent Curators, Inc., New York, NY; traveling to Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, AK; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (catalogue by Elke Solomon)
1985
Seattle Art Museum Rentaloft, Seattle, WA
20th Anniversary Show, New York Studio School, New York, NY
1982
Sur Papier, Villeparis, France
Great Big Drawings, Hayden Gallery (M.I.T.), Cambridge, MA
Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France
1981
IV Bienal Americana de Artes Graficas, Museum of Modern Art, Cali, Columbia
Graphica Creativea, Alvor Aalto Museum, Jyvaskla, Finland
1980
Paper Works 80, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
New York Realists 1980, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY (catalogue by Roger Howrigan & Linda Nochlin
The Contemporary Landscape, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
1979
Collector’s Choice, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
The Landscape: Different Points of View, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
1978
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
Drawing the Line, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
1977
Artist in Residence, 75, 76, 77, America the Beautiful Fund, Palisades Interstate Park, NY; (catalogue by Alan Gussow)
Sacred Images, East & West, St. John the Divine, New York, NY
1976 – 93
Art in Embassies, State Department, Washington, DC
1975
National Print and Drawing Exhibit, 2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Madams Organ Collective, Washington, DC
Works on Paper, Gallery 641, Washington, DC
1974
19th Area Show, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Alternative To, Market V Gallery, Washington, DC
Tom Green, Mac Veasey, and Sandy Walker Harold Rivkin Gallery, Washington, DC
1970 Flag Show, Judson Church New York, NY
1968 18th Area Show, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Residencies
2021
Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing, Skowhegan, ME
2020
Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA
2013
Ucross Fountation, Ucross Ranch, Clearmont, WY
2009
Red Cinder Creativity Center, Na’alehu, HI
2004
Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, WY
Red Cinder Creativity Center, Na’alehu, HI
1996
Smith Anderson Editions, Palo Alto, CA
1993
Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA
1991
Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA
1982
Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA
1980 – 82
Foundation Gardilanne-Moffat, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1980
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1977
Palisades Interstate Park, New York, NY
Performance Work
2021
Cypress Site Performance, Film Showing, Film by Theron Yeager, Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing, Skowhegan, ME
2013
PPP is dance No. 10, presentation/conversation with Ellen Webb, produced by the SALTA Dance Collective, Subterranean Art House, Berkeley, CA
1997
Home Movies, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA
1995
Hiroshima, visual design for Ellen Webb Dance Company, Cowell Theater, San Francisco, CA
1994
Color II, collaboration with Ellen Webb, Oakland Museum Garden, Oakland, CA
1993
Color I, collaboration with Ellen Webb, Oakland Museum Garden, Oakland, CA
1991
Dreams of Personal Satisfaction, collaboration with Ellen Webb, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA
1990
Flag Show, dance/installation, collaboration with Ellen Webb, San Francisco Art Institute Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Freedom of Expression, dance/installation, collaboration with Ellen Webb, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Cypress Site Performance, collaboration with Ellen Webb, Oakland, CA
1988
This and/or That, collaboration with Ellen Webb, On Stage Zellerbach, Berkeley, CA
For/Me, set for Ellen Webb dance solo
1987 – 88
Mountain, Tree, Water, performance collaboration with Ellen Webb.
1987
“Women Duet,” set for Ellen Webb
1984
New Filmmakers’ Showcase, Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY
1982
“Dance for Patty G.,” conceived for Patty Giovenco and performed in Oberlin and London
1981 – 82
“Collaboration II,” performance collaboration with Ellen Webb, New York, San Francisco, Paris, Vienna
1981
Film Showing, Patrick Gallery, Austin, TX
1979
“Collaboration I,” performance collaboration with Ellen Webb, Danspace, St. Mark�s Theatre, New York, NY; traveled to: Eugene, OR; Austin TX; Berkeley, CA
1977
5-Day Workshop Performance, with Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Custom House, New York, NY
“Celeste,” choreographed by Douglas Dunn, American Dance Festival, New London, CT
Awards
1989
Isadora Duncan Dance Award, Visual Design, San Francisco, CA
Professional Activities
2021
Artist talk at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2016
Guest Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2014
Guest lecture, San Francisco State University, CA
Guest Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2012
Guest lecture, University of California at Davis
Lecture, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT
2008
CSP publications committee, The California Printmaker; the journal of the California Society of Printmakers
2007 – 11
Visiting Artist, San Francisco Studio School, San Francisco, CA
2007
Guest Lecture, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH
1999
Guest Editor, The California Printmaker; the journal of the California Society of Printmakers. Interviewed Alex Katz, Doris Simmelink, Ruth Fine, Sheila Marbain, Janet Bishop, Karin Breuer, and David Bonetti
Guest Lecture, California Society of Printmakers, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1998
Lecture, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
Juror, 54th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Terre Haute, IN
1997
Lecture, Fresno Art Museum Graphic Arts Society, Fresno, CA
1995
Lecture, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
1994
Lecture, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1990
Lecture Demonstration, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
1984
Visiting Artist, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
1980
Seminar Panelist, “The Art of Survival,” Columbia University, New York, NY
1979
Visiting Critic, New York Studio School, New York, NY
1975
Visiting Artist, Provincetown Art Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1973 – 76
Painting and Drawing Instructor, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA
1971 – 72
Art Therapist, Psychiatric Institute of Washington, Washington, DC
1968
Art Instructor, Harlem Education Project, New York, NY
Professional Affiliations
1989-present California Society of Printmakers
1992-93 Chairman, Exchanges Committee, Steering Committee for Cultural Plan for City of Oakland, Oakland, CA
1989-90 Citizens Emergency Relief Team, Oakland, CA
1974-75 Madams Organ, Washington, DC.
1970-72 The Collaborative Art Group, Washington, DC
Education
1966 – 68 Columbia University, MFA, Brevoort Fellowship, New York, NY
1965 – 66 New York Studio School, New York, NY
1964 – 65 Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston, MA
1963 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1960 – 64 Harvard College, BA cum laude, Cambridge, MA
1950 – 60 St. Albans School, Washington, DC