| Marta
Thoma - Biography
SOLO EXHIBITIONS and PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS
2006 Public Art Installation: Rrrun, Palo Alto,
CA.
California
Regional Center for the Arts: Childhood Revisited,
Interactive
sculpture installation, Walnut Creek, CA
2005 Vertigo Gallery: Inside Out, London, United Kingdom
Lowe
Gallery, New Work by Marta Thoma, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Triton Museum of Art: Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist
Award
Exhibition, Santa Clara
Lowe Gallery, Stretch 2, Atlanta Georgia
2003 Oakland Museum of California, Stretch, Gallery 555,
Oakland, CA.
Peninsula Community Foundation Grant: Portraits of Youth,
City Hall
Plaza, Palo Alto
2001 Palo
Alto Civic Center Plaza Installation, Spiritus, Palo Alto,
CA
2000 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1999 National Museum of Art, San Jose, Costa Rica
1998 San Francisco Museum of Art Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
1996 Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 J. Claramunt Gallery, New York, NY
1993 San Francisco Museum of Art Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
1991 Works/San Jose Gallery, San Jose, CA
1988 Rolando Castellon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1980 University of Oregon Museum of Art, Fantasies, Visions,
Eugene, OR
1977 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Regional Center for the Arts, Bedford Gallery, In Dad's
Shoes, part of
Childhood,
Walnut Creek, CA
2003 National Museum of Costa Rica, International Drawing
Exhibition ,
Costa Rica
2001 San Francisco State University, Storytellers: The figure
in Time and
Space
1998 Yerba Buena Gardens, Memories of Flight, San Francisco,
CA
1997 Works Gallery, From Within, San Jose, CA
National
Museum of Art, Watercolors, Ten Nations, San Jose, Costa
Rica
Yerba
Buena Gardens, When She Dreams, San Francisco, CA
Euphrat
Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA
Minna St. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Regional Center for the Arts Plaza, Walnut Creek, CA
1994 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Works Gallery, Unbound and Exposed, San Jose, CA
Santa
Cruz Museum of Art, Art is…, Santa Cruz, CA
Radius, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
1993 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Uncommon Flower, Palo Alto,
CA
On the Beach Gallery, Modern Forensics, New York, NY
Crocker
Museum of Art, Kingsley Crocker Exhibition 1993,
Sacramento, CA
1992 San Jose Art League, Arts Council Award Exhibition,
San Jose, CA
1991 San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
San
Jose Art League, Addressing Images, San Jose, CA
1990 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Poets and Artists Project,
Palo Alto, CA
1989 Pie Gallery, Images of Men by Women Artists, San Francisco,
CA
1987 Spangenberg
Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1988 Rolando Castellon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Richard Sumner Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1983 Portland Museum of Art, Survey of Northwest Art, Portland,
OR
1979 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Sonoma State University Museum, Animals: Celebration and
Communion, CA
1978 Euphrat Gallery, Bay Area Regional Print Exhibition,
De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1976 Western Association of Art Museum's Traveling Exhibition.
1975 John Bolles Gallery, Introduction '74, San Francisco,
CA
EDUCATION
San Francisco State University, M.A. Fine Arts
1975
University of California, Berkeley, B.A. Fine Arts 1973
AWARDS, HONORS, and RESIDENCIES
2004 Arts
Council Silicon Valley Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts: 3-
Dimensional
Works
2003 Peninsula Community Foundation Grant
2002 Award for Service, City of Palo Alto Art Commission
Adeline Kent Nominee
1995 Twice finalist for the Department of Cultural Affairs
Los Angeles
1994 Award of Recognition, SBA Women’s Caucus for Art
1993 NORCAL Artist in Residence, San Francisco, CA
1992 Arts Council of Santa Clara
County 1992 Fellowship, Visual Arts:
2-Dimensional Works
PUBLIC AND INSTITUTIONAL PERMANENT ART COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Contemporary Art in Costa Rica
Rene De Rosa Art Park and Collection
Norcal Company Art Collection, San Francisco, CA
City of Palo Alto Public Art Collection
City of San Leandro Public Art Collection
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2004 Cebulski, Frank, Sculpture
magazine, “Oakland
Museum of California
City
Center,” June, Vol. 23 No.
5
2003 Westbrook, Lindsey, East Bay Express, “Fantastic
Apparitions”
November
5-11.
Noguchi,
Sharon, San Jose Mercury News, September 13
Sardar,
Zahid, San Francisco Chronicle “Earthly Delights”
2000 Robertson, Kate, Palo Alto Weekly, “Ghostly” December
15
1997 Chun, Kimberly. San Francisco Chronicle
1996 Wykes, S.L. San Jose Mercury News, June 11
1995 Harrington, Jim, Palo Alto Weekly, “Public exposure,” July.
1994 Rubenstein, Steve. San Francisco Chronicle
1994 Jan, Alfred. “New York Art Report” Artist
Writer p.12, May
1993 Tuchman, Laura J. San Jose Mercury News, August 22
1993 Kuchinskas, Susan. San Francisco Examiner, Dec. 22
1993 Hodder, Monroe. SBA WCA Newsletter, Spring
1992 Shepard, Alicia C. San Jose Mercury Times, Sept. 30
1991 Sussman, Diane. "Images of War," Palo Alto
Weekly, April 24
1991 Sherman, Ann Elliott Sherman METRO, August 8-14
1990 Goodman, Tim. "Art to Art," Palo Alto Weekly,
May 9
1989 Tilsner, Julie. "Studio Life," Palo Alto
Weekly, April 12
1981 Crafts, Fred. Eugene Register Guard May 21
1981 Reed, Rosemary. Channel 13"
1979 Loach, Roberta Visual Dialog
1977 Loach, Roberta. "Fantasy," ARTWEEK December
10
1974 Dunham, ARTWEEK, May
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