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EDUCATION

1981  M.F.A.  California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1970  B.A.  Holy Names College, Oakland, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010  Particular Pieces II, Oakland Museum of California at City Center, Oakland, CA

2009  Time Present...Time Past, Cuesta College, San Luis Obisipo, CA

2009  From My Parents' Garden to Giverny, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008  In My Parents' Garden, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA

2004  New Work 2004, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA

2000  Rock, Paper, Scissors, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1997  Epiphanies, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI

1994  Long Division, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI

1992  Sculpture, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI

1992  Susan Martin: Sculpture, Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan State College, Traverse City, MI

1991  Sculpture, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1987  Sculpture, Fiberworks, Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, CA 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008  Unlikely Arrivals, 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco, CA

2006  Formica Formatted, The Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2006  Wall Works 2, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA

2003  Faculty Exhibition, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

2003  Big Tree Project, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2002 Group Show: Gallery Artists, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA

2002 Faculty Exhibition, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

2000  Group Show: Gallery Artists, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1999  Hover: 118th Annual Exhibition, Walter McBean Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA

1998  Revolver, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1998  Epiphanies II, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1998  Review/Preview, Byron Cohen/Lennie Berkowitz Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

1998  Woodworks: Bay Area Portfolio, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

1996  re(Petition), Bertha and Karl Leubsdrof Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY

1996  The Chair: Deconstructed/Reconstructed, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI

1996  Soul in Order, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY

1995  Wax, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY

1993  93NY50, Socrates Park, Long Island City, NY

1992  Seven Artists (Who Happen To Be Women), curated by Daphne Anderson Deeds, Bemis Foundation, Omaha, NE

1990  Mixed Media, Bemis Foundation, Omaha, NE

1990  Particular Pieces, West Los Angeles City Hall Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1988  34th Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Ball State University, juried by Charlotta Kotik, catalog, Muncie, IN

1988  ArtQuest '88, traveling exhitition, juried by Melinda Wortz, Neal Benezra Susan Herschfeld, Hillwood Art Gallery C.W. Post College, Long Island University, NY; Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA; University of California Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine, CA

1984  Structural Sculpture, Mills College Gallery, Oakland, CA 

1983  DeTe Tabula Narrator, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

1981  M.F.A. Exhibition, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1980  Containers, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN

FELLOWHIPS/AWARDS

2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY (nominee)

2004 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA (nominee)

2001  Commission, Pink Triangle Memorial, San Francisco, CA

1998  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY

1993  Yaddo, Artist-in-Residence, Saratoga Springs, NY

1992  Lila Wallace Reader's Digest International Artists Program, Giverny, France

1990  Bemis Foundation , Artist-in-Residence, Omaha, NE

1990  MacDowell Colony, Artist-in-Residence, Peterbough, NH (deferred)

1990  John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program, Artist-in-Residence, Kohler,l WI

1988  ArtQuest "88, Third Place: Sculpture

1987  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY

1982  Briarcombe, Artist-in-Residence, Bolinas, CA

LECTURES

2010  Oxbow School, A Sculptor's View, Napa, CA

2010  Berkeley Art Center, Artist Residencies, Berkeley, CA

2009  Cuesta College, Time Present...Time Past, San Luis Obisipo, CA

2004  San Francisco Art Institute, Artist Residencies, San Francisco, CA

2002  Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Artist Residencies, San Francisco, CA

2001  Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), 77th Annual Meeting, The Critique as an Effective Form of Learning, Irvine, CA

1993   Chrysler Museum, Giverny: A Sculptor's View, Norfolk, VA

1993  Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

1992  Queens College, Graduate Program, Queens, NY

1992  Centr for Creative Studies, College of Art and Design, Detroit, MI

1990  Bemis Foundation, Sculpture, Omaha, NE

1987  Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

1987  Fiberworks, Center for the Textile Arts, Sculpture, Berkeley, CA

1986  Department of Cultural Affairs, Critical Issues in the Education of Emerging Artists, New York, NY

1984  California College of Arts and Crafts, After Graduate School, Oakland, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Baker, Kenneth, San Francisco Chronicle, July 4, 2009

Storck, Jeanne, "Unnlikely Arrivals", FlavorPill, June 2008

Berry, Colin, "Susan Martin at Traywick Contemporay: Site1", Artweek, May 2004

Baker, Kenneth, "Susan Martin", San Francisco Chronicle March 2004

Art in America, "international Artists", January 1993

Macmillan, Kyle, Omaha World-Herald, July 1992

Deeds, D.A., "Seven Artists (Who Happen to be Women), June 1992

Miro, M., Detroit Free Press, January 1992

Porges, Maria, Art Forum, January 1991

Wortz, Melinda, ArtQuest '88, catalog 1988

34th Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture, catalog 1988

Artweek, photograph and description, 1987

Roder, Sylvie, "Tales Old and New", Artweek 1983

Rossback, Ed, "Themes and Variations in Fiber, Artweek, 1978