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"...elegant symmetries and oceans of light...mediate on transience...In their unfashionable formalism, they make for a memorable show." - Kenneth Baker, Art Critic, San Francisco Chronicle

"Her images feel like they've been touched by the gods." - Barbara Lapcek, Director, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York and Maine

Selected Recent Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:

Winter Light - Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA (Sept, '06)

After/Image - Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA ('06)

Presence - Concurrent solo exhibition - Sepia International Gallery, New York City ('05)

Great Performances with Bella Feldman - Atrium Gallery, State Building, Oakland, CA ('04)

Katherine Westerhout, Photographs - The Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA ('03)

Concurrent solo exhibition - Sepia International Gallery, New York City ('02)

Interiors - The Latham Building, Oakland, CA ('02)

Group Exhibitions:

Sepia at Seven: A Celebratory Group Show - Sepia International Gallery, New York City ('06)

Inner Vision at contemporaryquarterly.com (with catalogue) ('06)

Print - Gensler Architects, San Francisco, CA ('06)

The Affordable Art Fair with Kala Art Institute, New York City ('05)

9th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction (with catalogue), New York City ('05)

Majestic Tapestries of Magnolia Editions - Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA ('05)

Thirty Something - Kala Art Institute Anniversary Exhibition, SFMOMA Artists Gallery ('05)

Tapestries from Magnolia Editions - Bank of America Building, San Francisco, CA ('04)

The Magnolia Tapestry Project - San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA ('04)

Dislocation: New Bay Area Photography - James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
('04)

High Fiber - Eight-person exhibition - Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA ('04)

Four-person exhibition - S.F. Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery ('04)

Eastern Exposure - Sloan Miyasato - The San Francisco Design Center ('04)

Newer Genres in Printmaking - Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, NJ ('03)

Second Anniversary Invitational - Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA ('03)

Berkeley Art Center 20th Annual - National juried exhibition, Berkeley, CA ('03)

Water World - Seven-person exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA ('03)

Group retrospective - Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA ('02)

Bay Area Currents 2002 - Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA ('02)

Being There - Oakland Museum of California Sesquicentennial Exhibition ('02)

Toxic Landscapes - Puffin Foundation international traveling exhibition ('02)

Berkeley Art Center 18th Annual - National juried exhibition, Berkeley, CA ('01)

Sugar 'n Spice - Nine-person exhibition, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA ('01)

Pro Arts Annual - Oakland, CA ('00)

The Female Gaze - Louie Art Gallery, Ohlone College, Fremont, CA ('00)

Photography 2000 - Annual, Mumm Napa Valley Gallery, Rutherford, CA ('00)

A Vision Honored - Annual, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA ('99)

What is Art For? - Oakland Museum of California & Collector's Gallery ('99)

Third Biennial - A.I.R. Gallery, New York City ('98)

Awards

Photographer - Public Art Guidebook, City of Oakland Cultural Arts Department ('06)

Individual grant - City of Oakland Cultural Arts Department ('04, '99)

Residency - Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA ('03--'04)

Individual grant - The Puffin Foundation ('03)

Selected Publications

Tech and Textiles, Michael S. Gant, Metro Silicon Valley, 7/26/06

Previews: Virginia Davis, Katherine Westerhout…Debra Koppman, Artweek, 7&8/06

Tapestry Exhibit Interweaves Art & Technology, Robert Taylor, Contra Costa Times, 12/9/05

Mystic Halls, Kelly Vance, East Bay Express, 4/6/05

High Fiber, Virginia Davis, FiberArts, 11/12/04

Dislocation: New Bay Area Photography at Nicholson Gallery, Alison Bing, Artweek, 9/04

Photos Rooted in Past Evoke Present.., Robert Taylor, Contra Costa Times, 10/5/03

Critics' Picks, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 3/28/03

Trespassing in Art's Name, Lindsey Westbrook, East Bay Express, 3/12/03

In Desolate Settings, a Laboratory of Form, Kenneth Baker, S.F. Chronicle, 3/1/03

Serene Spaces, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 2/23/03

Shades of Meaning in 'Bay Area Currents,' Monique Beeler, Oakland Tribune, 6/14/02

There is a 'There' at Oakland Show, David Bonetti, San Francisco Chronicle, 3/27/02

Oakland Light and Dark, Lindsey Westbrook, East Bay Express, 3/27/02

Doors Wide Open, Cicely J. Sweed, Urban View, 6/6/01

Selected Public Collections

Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA

Alameda County Public Art Collection, CA

Bell, Rosenberg and Hughes, Oakland, CA

Walter Hood Design, Oakland, CA

Mumm, Napa Valley, CA

San Francisco State University, CA

The Zen Center, San Francisco, CA

Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, NJ

Zukor Art Conservation, Oakland, CA

Teaching/Presentations

Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA ('03--'06)

Yerba Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA ('06)

Alameda Art Center, Alameda, CA ('05)

San Francisco State University, CA ('04)

Berkeley Art Center, CA ('03)

Vista College, Berkeley, CA ('02)

Oakland Museum of California ('02)

Oakland Art Gallery, CA ('02)

Pro Arts panels, Oakland, CA ('01, '02)

Art and Poetry in the Oakland Public Schools, CA ('01)

Formal Education

BA in Art/Photography, San Francisco State University; J.D., New College of California

Represented by

Sepia International Gallery, 148 W. 24th Street, Eleventh Floor, New York City

Michael Hoppen Gallery, 3 Jubilee Place, London, England

Swarm Gallery, 560 Second Street, Oakland CA

Kelly Sueda, Fine Art Associates, Honolulu, Hawaii

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco

Michelle Bello Fine Art at Sloan Miyasato in the San Francisco Design Center

Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

Randy Rosenberg, The Rosenberg Group, Berkeley, CA

Chandra Cerrito, Napa Valley, CA.