EDUCATION

1988 BFA, Otis Art Institute
1986-87 Academie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Fachhochschule fur Kunst, Munster, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 Was and Is Not and Is to Come, site-specific mural,San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Hyle, Galerie Jan-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 & 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
1998 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, 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
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

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 & 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
Fast Forward, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, CA
Selected Paintings from the Microsoft Collection, Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, WA
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 to 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Brushes with Spirituality: Ethereal Paintings, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJSELECTED
1999 – 2001 Botanica (Traveling Exhibition), Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, 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-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 & Design, Kansas City, MO
West Coast Painting and Sculpture 1997, Oceanside Museum of Art, CA
1997 Collector’s Show, The 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, The Arkansas Arts 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
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, New York, NY
Project Exhibit, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
1994 The Sacred and The Profane, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Peaceable Kingdom, Babcock Galleries, New York, NY
Flora: In Artists Gardens, San Francisco Community Arts, 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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

2004         Dykk, Lloyd, Vancouver Sun, "Making Carmina," April 17, 2004.
                Gardner, Paul. ARTNews, March, p. 130.
                Kuntz, Melissa, "Darren Waterston at Charles Cowles," Art in America, June/July 2004,                 p.178.
                Larocca, Amy. "White Noise," New York, April 12, p. 46.

2003         Baker, Kenneth. San Francisco Chronicle, February 15
                Puri, Madhu. "Change of Seasons," Art and Auction, February
                Wagonfeld, Judy. Seatt;e Post-Intelligencer, February 7
                Bing, Alison. San Francisco Gate, January 24

2002         Farr, Sheila. Visual Arts Exhibit Revies, The Seattle Times, May 3
                Hall, Emily. "In the Primordial Soup," The Stranger, April 25
                Kuspit, Donald. "Darren Waterston, Charles Cowles Gallery," Art Forum,                                             February, 2002

2001        "Darren Waterston," monograph published by St. Ann’s Press, Los Angeles
               "Portrait of the Artist," Gentleman’s Quarterly, April 2001
                Wilson, Megan. "Seven Heavens," San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 24

2000         Burton, Tim. Kohn Turner Gallery catalog
                Iannaccone, Carmine. "An Anatomy of Beguilement: Style in the Work of                                         Darren Waterston," Kohn Turner Gallery catalog
                Pagel, David. Los Angeles Times, July 14

1999         Johnson, Ken, The New York Times, November 5, 1999
                Ebony, David,  artnet.com, "David Ebony's Top Ten; Darren Waterston at                                             Charles Cowles," October 28, 1999
                Updike, Robin, Seattle Times, March 11, 1999, visual arts section.
                Hackett, Regina, "Darren Waterston's fairies are rotting in high style," Seattle                                     Post-Intelligencer, Tuesday March 23, 1999.
                Fredericksen, Eric, The Stranger, March 11-17, 1999.  p. 65
                Hale, David, "The Arts," The Fresno Bee, October 26.

1998         Karafin, Amy, ARTnews, January, p.132 & 134.
                Scott, Michael, "Visual Arts," The Vancouver Sun, December.

1997         Scott, Michael, "Visual Arts," The Vancouver Sun, March 15
                Wilinson, Jeanne C & Chambers, Karen, review, September 15, p.24
                Hackett, Regina, Art Review, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 20, p.23
                Gamblin, Noriko.  "Darren Waterston," Charles Cowles Gallery, catalogue

1996         Gladstone, Valerie.  ARTnews, June, p.149
                Schwendener, Martha.  Art in America, November, p.119
                Kandel, Susan.  Los Angeles Times, October 11, p.F28
                Updike, Robin.  "Artist Darren Waterston gives 19th century sensibilities a                                         surprising twist," The Seattle Times, October 24

1995         Schwendener, Martha.  Flash Art, March/April
                Updike, Robin.  The Seattle Times, April 20
                Scott, Michael.  The Vancouver Sun, Visual Arts section, September 23
                Burkman, Greg.  "Dark Ideals," The Stranger, April 19.

1994         Art & Antiques, review, October.

1993         Adam, Loch, Reflex Art Journal, November/December, p.14
                Ament, Deloris Tarzan, Art Reviews, The Seattle Time, September 8.
                Architectural Digest, September, cover reproduction
                Pichbeck, Daniel, Art and Antiques, May, p.21
                Bulmer, Marge, Art Scene, May 1993, p.13
                Hackett, Regina, "Art Reviews," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September.
                Pagel, David, Calendar Section, Los Angeles,Times, May 27, p. F$

1992         Green, David A., Art Issues, September/October, p.46
                Kendel, Susan, "Art Reviews," Los Angeles Times, June 11, p. F5
                Lazerow, Bill, Art Scene, May, p. 21
                Littlefield, Kinney, Los Angeles Times, calendar section, Long Beach edition,                                     March.

1991         Artscene, February 1991, Vol. 10, No.6
                Frank, Peter, "Art Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly, June 5, p.108
                Frank, Peter, "Art Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly, September 13, p.108
                Lazzari, Margaret, New Art Examiner, May, p. 52
                McKenna, Kristine, Los Angeles Times, January, calendar section, p. F21-22

1990        Barrett, Robert, Visions Art Quarterly, Winter, p.50
               Curtis, Cathy, Los Angeles Times, January 12
               Hale, David, The Fresno Bee, November 4, p.8


SELECTED COLLECTIONS   

Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Bellevue Athletic Club, WA
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Campney & Murphy, Vancouver, BC
Contemporary Museum of Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii
Department of Navy, Seattle, WA
Duke Engergy, Houston, TX
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Fidelity Investments, Seattle, WA
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
Hallmark Art Collection, Hallmard Cards Inc., Kansan City, MO
JP Morgan, 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
McCartney & Thomas, La Jolla, CA
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Munger Towles & Olsen Law Firm, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Nestle Stouffer Corporation, New York, NY
Nestles Corporation, Atlanta, GA
Nestles Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Nordstrom Corporation, Seattle, WA
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Southwestern Bell Communications, San Antonio, TX
Sun Life Assurance Company, Toronto, ON, Canada
Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
University of California Berkeley Art Museum
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA

 

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