EDUCATION
1982 M.A., California State University, Northridge
1979 B.A., California State University, Northridge
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999-2000 Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1989 Landscapes of France, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 Paintings, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1984 Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
1982 California Contemporary Artists Number Nine: Jon Swihart, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA
Paintings, Gallery Two, California State University, Northridge
1981 Conejo Valley Art Museum, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 The Likeness, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, 2006
2003 Portraiture: Reflection, Identity and Presence, Santa Ana College, CA
Image & Enigma, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
Landscapes, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Paintings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
Juxtapoz 8th Anniversary Art Show, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Landscape and Sculpture, Los Angeles City College Fine Arts Gallery, CA
Figure This II, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Representing Representation V, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
2000-2001 Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art, curated by Gordon Fuglie,
Frye Art Museum,
Seattle, WA; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Laguna Art Museum, CA (catalog)
2000 The New Classicists, Da Vinci Art Gallery, Los Angeles City College, CA
1999 New Religion, Tacoma Art Museum, WA
Courting the Muse: Contemporary Painting-Historical Influences, California State University Fullerton, CA
The Surreal Thing, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Taleteller, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
Means to an End: An Exploration of Drawing, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, CA
Bastards: A Collaborative Exhibition, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
1998 "The Drawing Group": An Emerging School of Los Angeles, Laband Art
Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Reconfigured 1: Painting, Santa Monica Community College, CA
Bastards: Individual and Collaborative Works, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
1996 Re: Masters, New Images from Old Sources, Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, CA
Imaginary Realities: Surrealism Then and Now, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
L.A. Figures: A Survey of Figurative Painting in Los Angeles, Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Divergent Similarities, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
L.A. Realists, L.A. Harbor College, Wilmington, CA
1995 Vital Signs, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Group Show, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
Southern California Artists, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
Corpus Callosum, Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Tiny Treasures, Adamson-Duvannes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Way of the Flesh, Mt. San Antonio Community College, Walnut, CA
External Views, Internal Perceptions, Mt. San Antonio Community College, Walnut, CA
Paradox, Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
Exhibition to Reestablish the Martina and La Monte Westmoreland Art Collection, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery,
Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA
Only Paint, Breeden Gallery, Orange, CA
Portraits by Artists, Galerie at Tatou, Beverly Hills, CA
The Committed Image, Fine Arts Gallery, Mt. San Jacinto College, CA
A Group Exhibition, Parnas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Beyondappearance, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
1993 Captured Moments: The Narrative in American and European Paintings,
Adamson-Duvannes Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Interiors, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 The Landscape Revisited: Romantic Visions by Contemporary California Artists,
Bakersfield Museum of Art, CA
1991 Individual Realities in the California Art Scene, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Spiritual Landscape, Biota Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Plein Air 90’s, Santa Monica Heritage Museum, CA
Personal Mythologies, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 Artists’ Artists, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Contemporary Landscapes, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 Sacred Symbols/New Visions: Religious Imagery in Contemporary Art, Riverside Art Museum, CA
Every Fourteen Minutes, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 CSUN Continuum, The Art Store, Los Angeles, CA
Everydayland: Imagined Genre Scene Painting in Southern California, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA
1987 Contemporary Humanism: Reconfirmation of the Figure, California State University, Fullerton, CA,
catalogue with essay by Gerald M. Ackerman.
Fantastic Vision, Simard Halm Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Modern Myths: Classical Renewal, Boise Gallery of Art, ID;
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT; Museum of Art,
Washington State University, Pullman, WA; Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1986 The Flower Show, Los Angeles Design Center, CA
Alumni Exhibition, Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Art Walk '86 Salvo, Merging One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Realism: Photo and Surreal, Century Gallery, County of Los Angeles, Sylmar, CA
1985 Innocence and Experience, Greenville County Museum of Art, SC, (catalog)
Jon Swihart, Simone Gad, Marc Chambers, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
The Spiritual Eye: Religious Imagery in Contemporary Los Angeles Art, Loyola Law School, CA
1984 Diversity in Realism: Paintings-Drawings-Ceramics, Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Divergent Content, The Edge Gallery, Fullerton, CA
A Broad Spectrum: Contemporary California Painters and Sculptors ’84, catalogue with essays by
Fidel Danieli and Sandy Nelson.
Religion 1984, Bruce Velick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Five Artists, Southern California, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA,
catalogue with essay by Jay Belloli
New Artists: New Art, organized by Sandy Nelson, California State University, Los Angeles, traveled to
California State University, Hayward, catalogue with essay by Sandy Nelson
The Third Annual Juried All Media Show, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
1983 Paintings-Ceramics, Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1982 Faces, Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Second Annual Juried Exhibition, Conejo Valley Art Museum, CA
All Media ’82, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA
1982 The Sixth Annual SBCC Small Images Exhibition, Atkinson Art Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, CA
1981 The First Annual Juried Exhibition, Conejo Valley Art Museum, CA
1980 It’s All Called Painting, organized by Josine Ianco Starrels, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park,
Los Angeles, CA
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