Darren Waterston

Born 1965, Fresno, CA.
Lives and works in San Francisco.

EDUCATION
1988: BFA, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
1986-87: Academie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany and Fachhochschule fur Kunst, Munster, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Bestiary, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA (forthcoming)
The Forest Eater, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI (forthcoming)
    
2010
Anatomies, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
New Monotypes, Smith Anderson Editions, Palo Alto, CA

2009
Splendid Grief: Darren Waterston and the Afterlife of Leland Stanford, Jr., Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Recent Paintings + Works on Paper, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Recent Editions, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

2008
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Last Days, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007
Salon, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Constellations and The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense), Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
Fugue, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

2006
Was and Is Not and Is to Come, site-specific mural, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Hyle, Galerie Jean-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 and 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

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, CA

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
2010
Material Evidence, Beach Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
3 + 3, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Calling Beauty, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
Crossing Falling Looking Throwing, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2009
Altered States, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Work on Paper, Pence Gallery, David, CA

2008
15 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
The Surrealist Impulse: New Acquisitions from the Tacoma Art Museum Collection, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Celebrating Prints: New Acquisitions, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Fresh Impressionism, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2007
Animal Rites, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA
On Paper, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

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 and 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
Selected Paintings from the Microsoft Collection, Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, WA
Fast Forward, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
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 - 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Brushes with Spirituality: Ethereal Paintings, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ

1999-2000
Botanica (Traveling Exhibition), Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, 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 to 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 and Design, Kansas City, MO
West Coast Painting and Sculpture 1997, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
1997 Collector’s Show, 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, Arkansas Art 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, Seattle, WA
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 Gallery, New York, NY
Project Exhibit, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

1994
The Sacred and the Profane, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Peaceable Kingdom, Babcock Galleries, New York, NY
Flora: In Artists’ Gardens, 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 Collections
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Campney & Murphy, Vancouver, BC
Contemporary Museum of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Department of Navy, Seattle, WA
Duke Energy, Houston, TX
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Seattle, WA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
Hallmark Art Collection, Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, MO
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
J.P. Morgan Chase, 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
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Nestle Stouffer Corporation, New York, NY
Nordstrom Corporation, Seattle, WA
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
U.C.L.A. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA

Honors and Awards
2005
Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Umbertide, Italy

2004
Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

Selected Bibliography
2009
Theresa Johnston, "Grief's Beauty," Stanford Magazine, July/August.
Kenneth Baker, "Waterston's Big Artistic Gamble Pays Off," San Francisco Chronicle, April 25, p. E8.
Daniel Alvarez, "Not Just Sublime," San Francisco Chronicle, 96 Hours, April 23, p. 12.
Kenneth Baker, "Waterston at 16" San Francisco Cronicle, January 17, p. E10.
Dewitt Cheng, "Darren Waterston: The Flowering: The Fourfold Sense at Gallery 16," Art Ltd., March.

2008
Sue Taylor, "Darren Waterston at the Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College," Art in America, May, p. 205.
Regina Hackett, "Never fear, painting is here: 'The Prom' and 'Last Days' crank up the wow factor," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 17.
Tyrus Miller, "Night Flowers: Darren Waterston's Last Days," Greg Kucera Gallery, catalog.

2007
Benjamin David, Tyrus Miller, and Linda Tesner, "Darren Waterston and Tyrus Miller: The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense)," Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, catalog.
Jacquelynn Bass, Timothy Anglin Burgard, and David Pagel, "Darren Waterston: Representing the Invisible," (monograph), Edizioni Charta, Milan.
Cathy Kimball, "Apocalypse Now," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, catalog.

2006
Annelena Lobb, "As Art Fairs Multiply, Artists, Galleries, Are Feeling the Pinch," Wall Street Journal, October 14.
David Pagel, Galerie Jean-Luc and Takako Richard, catalog.

2005
Alison Bing, "Darren Waterston and Jim Toia at Haines Gallery," Artweek, July/August.
Holly Myers, "Abstraction brings many rich rewards," The Los Angeles Times, March 25.

2004
Katie Kurtz, "Liminal Landscapes: Known and Unknown Worlds," The Stranger, October.
Lloyd Dykk, "Making Carmina," The Vancouver Sun, April 17.
Paul Gardner, ARTNews, March, p. 130.
Melissa Kuntz, "Darren Waterston at Charles Cowles," Art in America, June/July, p. 178.
Amy Larocca, "White Noise," New York, April 12, p. 46.

2003
Kenneth Baker, The San Francisco Chronicle, February 15.
Jacquelynn Baas, "Material, Immaterial: Waterston's Ghosts," Charles Cowles Gallery, catalog.
Madhu Puri, "Change of Seasons," Art and Auction, February.
Judy Wagonfeld, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 7.
Alison Bing, "Darren Waterston," SF Gate Art Review, January 24.
"Q and A with Darren Waterston," Inside, Bellevue Art Museum, Winter Issue.

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

2001
Benjamin Weissman, "Story of Waterston," Darren Waterston (monograph), St. Ann’s Press, Los Angeles.
"Portrait of the Artist," Gentleman’s Quarterly, April.
Megan Wilson, "Seven Heavens," The San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 24.

2000
Tim Burton, Kohn Turner Gallery, catalog.
Carmine Iannaccone, "An Anatomy of Beguilement: Style in the Work of Darren Waterston," Kohn Turner Gallery, catalog.
David Pagel, The Los Angeles Times, July 14.
"Kohn Turner Gallery, Darren Waterston: New Work," Southern California’s Business and Entertainment Magazine, July/August.

1999
Robin Updike, "Dallying with Orientalism, Darren Waterston samples the Victorian fixation with an imaginary and fantastical Far East," The Seattle Times, March 1.
Regina Hackett, "Darren Waterston's fairies are rotting in high style," The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Tuesday, March 23.
David Hale, "The Arts," The Fresno Bee, October 26.
Ken Johnson, "Art Reviews," The New York Times, November 5.
David Ebony, "David Ebony's Top Ten; Darren Waterston at Charles Cowles," artnet.com, October 28.
Eric Fredericksen, "Swamp Fairies," The Stranger, March 11-17, p. 65.
"Darren Waterston, Goings on About Town," The New Yorker, November 1.

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

1997
Michael Scott, "Visual Arts," The Vancouver Sun, March 15.
Regina Hackett, Art Review, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 20, p. 23.
Noriko Gamblin, "Darren Waterston," Charles Cowles Gallery, catalog.

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

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

1994
Art & Antiques, Review, October.

1993
Loch Adam, Reflex Art Journal, November/December, p. 14.
Deloris Tarzan Ament, "Art Reviews," The Seattle Times, September 8.
Architectural Digest, September, cover reproduction.
Marge Bulmer, Art Scene, May, p. 13.
Daniel Pichbeck, Art & Antiques, May, p. 21.
Regina Hackett, "Art Reviews," The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 10.
David Pagel, Calendar Section, The Los Angeles Times, May 27.

1992
David A. Green, Art Issues, September/October, p.46.
Susan Kendel, "Art Reviews," The Los Angeles Times, June 11, p. F5.
Bill Lazerow, Art Scene, May, p. 21.
Kinney Littlefield, Calendar Section, The Los Angeles Times, Long Beach edition, March 3.
Noriko Gamblin, "Elegies," Long Beach Museum of Art, catalog.

1991
Artscene, February, Vol. 10, No.6.
Peter Frank, "Art Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly, June 5, p. 108.
Margaret Lazzari, New Art Examiner, May, p. 52.
Kristine McKenna, Calendar Section, The Los Angeles Times, January 8, p. F21-22.

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