Biography

Selected Group Exhibitions

2014 "Shift" Selected works, Curated by Heather Marx @ NWBLK, SF,CA.
2013 "San Jose State University Centennial Exhibition" Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
"Split Focus" Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
"Smitten" I. Wolk Gallery, ST. Helena, CA
2012 "Napa Artwalk" City of Napa, CA
2011 “Sea Change” Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
2009 “Concepts & Process in Public Sculpture, Santa Rosa JC, San Rosa, CA
2008 “On Beauty” Cliff Lede Gallery , Napa, CA
2007 Art in the Groves, Orinda, CA
2006 “Paradise Ridge Annual Sculpture Exhibition” Santa Rosa, CA
2002 “Matt Gil and Charles Arnoldi,” 425 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
2001 “The Inaugural Exhibition,” Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 “Sculpture Walk,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2000“Group Sculpture Show,” Vitra, San Francisco, CA
1999 “Kinetic Art,” Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
1990 “California Aftershock,” K. Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“West L.A.…Art Galleries Introduction to Glendale,” 801 North Brand,
Glendale, CA
Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago, IL
“Art Action Energy,” Barnsdale Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
1989 “Looking North,” Gensler and Associates/Architects, Los Angeles, CA
Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago, IL
“Motion Motion Kinetic Art,” Museum of Neon Art, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago, IL
1987 “Process/Print,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1986 “Holiday Party and Shoebox Show,” The Art Store Gallery, Oakland, CA
Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago, IL
International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
“Gifts of Art,” New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
“The Animated Object,” Site 311, Pacific Grove, CA
Rockford Art Center, Rockford, IL
1985 “Teachers and Their Pupils,” Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
1984 “Light, Structure and Motion,” Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA
“Works of Northern California Artists,” Crocker Kingsley Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1983 “16 Sculptors,” Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL and Los Angeles, CA
“San Francisco Fine Arts Show,” Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
1982 “Crossover: An ArTech Exhibit,” Helen Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1981 “California Artists’ Exhibition/Sales,” Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1979 “San Francisco Museum of Art’s Annual Artist Patron Exhibition,” San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco, CA
1978 “Upstarts,” Redding Art Museum, Redding, CA
1977 Union Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
“Kinetic Metal Sculpture,” Nevada Art Gallery, Reno, NV

Residencies

2005 Kunststiftung Lutz Ackermann Bildhauer, Gäufelden-Nebringen, Germany

Selected Public Collections

Palace Hotel. New York, NY
Renown, Reno, NV
Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Headquarters, Sunnyvale, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Roche Bio Science, Palo Alto, CA
Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA
Cupertino Electrical Corporation, Cupertino, CA
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Nagoya Hotel, Nagoya, Japan
North Central Michigan College, Petoskey, MI
Double Tree, Santa Monica, CA
Peninsula Hotel, New York, NY
Sydney International Airport, Sydney, Australia
London Club, Las Vegas, NV
McDonald’s Corporation, IL
Menlo Equities, Sunnyvale, CA
The City of Napa, CA

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