Michael Foley
Box 863
Pacifca CA 94044
(650)359-9064
michael@michaelfoleymusic.com
EDUCATION
San Francisco Art Institute, Master of Fine Arts – May, 1996
San Francisco Art Institute, Bachelor of Fine Arts – August, 1993
Zhiejiang Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou, Peoples Republic of China – July 1993 Art Students League, New York, NY 1965
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 “Coastal Re”ections”, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA “Modulation,” Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 “Order”, 1870 Art Center, Belmont, CA
“Little Intimacies”, University Gallery at UMASS, Lowell, MA
“Transcending Space”, MatrixArts, Sacramento, CA
2000 “Information if Not Knowledge”, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA “Edges and Negative Space”, C.I.T.Y. 2000 Reno City Hall Gallery, Reno, NV
1998 “Recent Work”, Sanchez Art Center, Paci!ca, CA
1997 Music Annex, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008 Peninsula Museum of Art “Beaux and Eros”, Belmont, CA
2007 Peninsula Museum of Art “Beaux and Eros”, Belmont, CA
2005 Sebastopol Center for the Arts, “aRT/Music”, Sebastopol, CA (Juror: Claude Smith)
2003 Sanchez Art Center, “Arts on Fire V”, Paci!ca, CA (Juror: Keith Morrison)
2002
Bedford Gallery, “Shikishi”, Walnut Creek, CA, (Jurors Catherine Clark, Stephan Jost)
ArtsBenecia “10th Annual Art Auction”, Benecia, CA
ArtsBenecia, “WOODwards”, Benecia, CA (Juror: Robert Brady)
2001 Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, “California Small Works” (Juror: Kenneth Baker)
2000
Ceres Gallery, “Fourth National Juried”, New York, NY (Juror: Beth Handler, Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Gallery ‘76 at Wenatchee Valley College, “17th National Juried”, Wenatchee, WA (Juror: Josie DeFalla, Director, Maryhill Museum of Art)
The George Waters Gallery at Elmira College, “Spirituality 2000 National Juried”, Elmira, NY (Jurors: Elmira College Art Faculty)
St. Clouds Arts Council, “2000 National Juried”, St. Cloud, MN (Jurors: Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minnesota Museum of American Art)
Korean Cultural Center “8th Annual Juried”, Los Angeles, CA (Juror: Jill Martinez, Curator, LACMA)
Sanchez Art Center, “Arts on Fire IV”, Paci!ca, CA (Juror: Theopolis Brown)
Truman State University, “12th Annual National Art Competition Juried” Kirksville, MO (Juror: Donald Kuspit, Art Critic)
2000
Gallery Route One “Year 2000 Juried Exhibition”, Pt. Reyes Station, CA (Juror: Marian Parmenter,Curator, SFMOMA Rental Gallery)
Santa Cruz Art League, “Century NM Juried”, Santa Cruz, CA(Juror: Richard Gadd, Executive Director, The Monterey Museum of Art)
1999
Nexus Gallery, “Small Works 1999 Juried”, New York, NY (Juror: Abigail Messite, Curator Clementine Gallery)
Mills Pond House Gallery “24th Annual Juried”, St. James, NY (Jurors: Ariella Budick, Art Critic, Newsday, and Alicia Longwell, Curator, Parrish Art Museum)
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, “Apocalypse 1999 Juried”, Brooklyn, NY (Juror: Terrance Lindall, Executive Director, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center)
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA, “At The Millennium: Contemporary Paintings from Northern California” (Guest Curator,William G. Hyland)
Manor House Gallery, “The 20th Annual 1999 Bay Arts Juried”, Belmont, CA (Juror: John Killacky, Executive Director, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts)
1998
San Diego Art Institute, “43rd International Juried Exhibition”, San Diego, CA (Juror: Howard N. Fox, Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art)
Holter Museum of Art, “ANA 28, National Juried Exhibition”, Helena, MT (Juror: Peter Plagens, Painter, Critic for Newsweek)
Center for Visual Arts, “30th Annual Juried 2-D Art Regional Competition”, San Jose, CA (Juror: Phil Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum of Art)
Berkeley Festival of the Arts, “Opening Tricks”, Berkeley, CA
St. Johns Lutheran, “Religious Art Festival”, First Place, Sacramento, CA Sanchez Art Center, “Arts on Fire III”, Pacifca, CA
Sanchez Art Center, “Arts on Fire II” Paci!ca, CA
Gallery Route One, “January Juried Show”, Point Reyes Station, CA
1997 San Francisco Museum of Art Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 San Francisco Museum of Art Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“SFAI Graduate Exhibition”, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, “A Day Without Art”, San Francisco, CA
1995
San Francisco Art Institute, “Open Studios”, San Francisco, CA
Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993
Zhiejiang Academy of Art, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China,
Atholl McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 City College of San Francisco – Summer, Spring
1991 City College of San Francisco – Fall
1985 Contra Costa Art League, Pleasant Hill, CA
GRANTS, AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS
2001 The Millay Colony for the Arts Residency, Austerlitz, NY
2000 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT
2000 Sanchez Art Center, Arts on Fire IV, Award of Excellence, Paci!ca, CA
2000 Gallery Route One Year 2000 Juried Exhibition, First Place, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
1999 Santa Cruz Art League, Century NM Juried, Honorable Mention, Santa Cruz, CA
1999 Ucross Foundation Residency Program, Clearmont, WY
1999 Nexus Gallery, Small Works 1999 Juried, Best of Show, New York, NY
1999 Manor House Gallery, The 20th Annual 1999 Bay Arts Juried, Third Place, Belmont, CA
1999 Religious Art Festival, First Place, St. John’s Lutheran, Sacramento, CA
1992 Scholarship to the San Francisco Art Institute