| Education
2004 MFA University of California, Berkeley
1995 BS University of California, Davis
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2009
Choose Your Own Adventure, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008
Sirens Sing You to Shipwreck, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY
2007
Sirens Sing You to Shipwreck, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago,
IL
2006 Wargames (don't try this at home) , Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago,
IL
Laura Ball, Kaviar and Kind, West Hollywood, CA
Laura Ball and Andrew Schoultz, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY
Peter Miller Gallery Project Room, Chicago, IL
2005 Laura Ball, Water Pistols and Merrilee Challis, Organ Garden,
Bucheon Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2007
Aqua Miami Fair, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Red Dot Art Fair Miami, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
The Little Show, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
Spiel-Platze (Play Grounds), Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Celebrating Ares, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Red Dot Art Fair, with Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Allston Skirt Gallery Group Show curated by Amy Ross
2006
Through the Rabbit Hole, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
flow art fair with Morgan Lehman Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Bridge art fair with Peter Miller Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Drawing Gifts, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Toronto Alternative Art Fair with Morgan Lehman Gallery, Toronto
Bay Area Group Show, curated by Catherine Saiki, Ego Park, Oakland, CA
year06, London Art Fair with Bucheon Gallery, London
Drawn, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Paperworks, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Deluge, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
fresh stART, Arena 1 Gallery Santa Monica, CA
Objects of Desire, sixspace, Culver City, CA
Fantasy, Gallery 10G, New York, NY
artla, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
Commission '05, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
Who New?, Group Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Got Quirk?, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Juror Susan Gescheidle
Bay Area Currents 2005, Oakland Art Gallery, Juror Rosamund Felsen
SCOPE New York, Bucheon Gallery, New York
Face Paint, A Portrait Show, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco
artLA, Bucheon Gallery, Los Angeles
UC Berkeley Faculty Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley
74th Crocker-Kingsley, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Juror Mel Ramos
2004
Frisbee Miami, Bucheon Gallery, Miami, Florida
Creature Comfort, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Big Deal, SOMArts, San Francisco
Engage!, Haley Martin Gallery, San Francisco
Berkeley Art Center Annual Exhibition, Juror Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson
the opening band, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles
Paper Cuts, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA
Go West!, Juror Renny Pritikin, Richmond Art Center
Compass Points, Berkeley Art Museum
Prelingual, Curated by Eleanor Harwood, New Image Art, Los Angeles
Women's Festival, Juror Irene Hofmann, Curator of Contemporary Art
at the Orange County Museum of Art, Ebell Club, Long Beach
2003
Annual MFA Exhibition, b. sakata garo, Sacramento
Defining Space, Design Museum, UC Davis
Visual Aid's Big Deal X, SOMArts, San Francisco
Peninsula Open Studios, Juror Marian Parmenter, Herbst Exhibition Hall, San
Francisco
Search Engine, Curated by London based curators of The Center of Attention
Gallery,
shown at Spanganga, San Francisco
2002
Please Pay Attention, Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
Pence Gallery Annual Juried Show, Juror Shirley Dubnick, Davis
2001
Introductions 2001, b. sakata garo, Sacramento
Interesting. But is it Art?, Juror Noel Korten, The Second City Council, Long
Beach
Davis' First Annual Juried Show, Juror David Hollowell, Pence Gallery
2000
Annual Christmas Show, b. sakata garo, Sacramento
Women's Work, Woodland Community College, Woodland
Annual Juried Competition, The Vacaville Art League, Vacaville
1999
Group Show, b. sakata garo, Sacramento
The Art of Fast Food, Edison Community College, Piqua, OH
1998 Emerging Artists, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis
Bibliography
2006 East Bay Express, November 8, 2006, The World Domination of
Painting (and Drawing), by Jakki Spicer
CenterstageChicago.com, October 30, 2006, “Artists get into
games, get into girl power and go glamorous, by Joanne Hinkel ”
Chicago Tribune, November 3, 2006, Small parts, big picture, by
Alan G. Artner “ ”
San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 7 2006, “Deluge , ”by
Katie Kurz
Artweek, Dec 2005/Jan 2006, “Laura Ball at Bucheon Gallery
,”by Amber Whiteside
Art in America, January 2006, Report from San Francisco II, by Stephanie
Cash “ ”
2005 New American Paintings, Vol. 61, December 2005 (cover)
Artweek, July/August 2005, ' Bay Area Currents' at the Oakland Art
Gallery , review by Lindsey Westbrook
Artist interview with Anna L. Conti at www.bigcrow.com/anna/journal/interviews.html
The Davis Enterprise, Thursday, March 3, 2005, "Yolo County
artists win coveted spots in regional show," by Sue Munich
2004 What I Value in Art and Why, Teresa Roberts (unpublished) “ ”
2003 Kalliope, A Journal of Women's Literature & Art, Vol. 25,
no. 2, Fall 2003
San Francisco Chronicle, April 11, 2003, A truly minimalist art
show, by Kenneth Baker
2002 Book cover image for the novel Boxes of Years by Katrina Prado
Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, vol 20 n 3, Summer
2002, Cover
The Vacaville Reporter, April 12, 2002, "Juried show marked
by diversity,
by Dana Costello
2001 The Sacramento Bee, July 22 2001, "Newcomers shine in
summer shows...,"
by Victoria Dalkey
Sacramento News & Review, July 12, 2001, "Mao exhibitor," by
Douglas Slayton
Sacramento News & Review, July 5, 2001, "Three's Company," by
Jackson Griffith
The Davis Enterprise, Tuesday, April 17, 2001, "Landmark show
at Pence, by Paul Dorn
Honors and Awards
Ludwig Vogelstein Grant
Eisner Prize for Achievement in the Creative Arts, UC Berkeley
Department of Art Practice tuition grant, UC Berkeley
Public and Private Collections (Selected)
Beck, Los Angeles, CA
Irving Blum, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY
Robert Callaway, San Francisco, CA
Stephen Cohen, Los Angeles, CA
Beth Rudin Dewoody, New York, NY
Michael and Sirje Gold, Los Angeles, CA
David Keihl, New York, NY
Alix Madigan, Los Angeles, CA
Sabina Ott, Chicago, IL
Parker Posey, New York, NY
Kathy Azarmi Rose, Beverly Hills, CA
Sunrise Ruffalo, Los Angeles, CA
Howard Tullman, Chicago, IL
Naomi Watts, Hollywood, CA
Steve Wilson, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
Teaching Experience
2005 Spring Semester, UC Berkeley, Figure Drawing
2004 Fall Semester, UC Berkeley, Beginning Drawing and Color Theory
2003 Fall Semester, UC Berkeley, Introduction to Visual Art |
