Résumé
Richard Allen Berger
rberger94606@earthlink.net
Education
- M.A., Art, California State University, Sacramento, 1970
- B.A., Art, California State University, Sacramento, 1968
Teaching experience / lectures
- San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA, 1970 to present, beginning through graduate sculpture, and art history. Sculpture Department Chair 1972-74, and 1980-94, Contemporary Practices Coordinator, 1995 to present, Acting Dean of Undergraduate Studio Programs, spring semester 1997, Graduate Studio Program Coordinator, academic year 1998-99
- California State University Sonoma, CA, Imagery Estate Winery Artist’s Lecture Series, October 30, 2002
- Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, Academic year 1976-77, spring quarter 1980, fall quarter 1992
- California State University Hayward, Hayward CA, summer sessions 1975-75
- Reinhart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute, College of Art, guest artist, May 1974
- Notre Dame University, South Bend Indiana, guest artist, November 1973
- California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA 1969-75, part-time, beginning through graduate sculpture, 1990-91 graduate seminar.
- Sacramento State College, Sacramento CA, fall 1969
Grants and fellowships
- Adeline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute 2004
- National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Grant 1980
Public collections
- Parc Oakland Hotel, Oakland CA
- Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento CA
- Oakland Museum, Oakland CA
- Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach Florida
- Contemporary Museum, Honolulu Hawaii
- Monterey Peninsula Museum, Monterey CA
- diRosa Preserve, Napa CA
Solo exhibitions
- 2004 Adeline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute
- 1998 “Reflexions Projectees” Chateau de Coupiac, Coupiac France
- 1998 Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco CA
- 1993 Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco CA
- 1991 Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco CA
- 1990 California State University Hayward, Hayward CA
- 1987 Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco CA
- 1985 Bank of America Concourse Gallery, San Francisco CA
- 1985 Redding Museum, Redding CA
- 1984 Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco CA
- 1981 Reed College, Portland Oregon
- 1981 Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Frandisco CA
- 1978 Zara Gallery, San Francisco CA
- 1976 Zara Gallery, San Francisco CA
- 1974 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, New York
- 1974 Ohio State University Art Gallery, Columbus Ohio
- 1973 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
- 1971 Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco CA
- 1970 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
Group exhibitions
- 2003 Mentor Exhibition JFK University, Berkeley CA
- 2002 “Being There: 45 Oakland Artists” Oakland Museum of California Art, Oakland CA
- 2000 “High Touch, High Tech”, Kala Institute, Berkeley CA
- 1999 Group exhibition, Chateau de Coupiac, Coupiac France
- 1999 “Opening Tricks”, Berkeley Festival of the Arts, Berkeley CA
- 1998 “Tell-Appa-Thee 915 Battery St.,San Francisco CA
- 1997 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco CA
- 1997 “Through Things Clearly” Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley CA
- 1997 Exhibition and lecture/discussion with Charles Shere
- 1996 San Francisco Art Institute 125th Anniversary exhibition
- 1996 Joseph Chowning Gallery San Francisco CA
- 1994 “Sculpture 94” Joseph Chowning Gallery, S.F. CA
- 1994 “California Collects” curated be Reagan Louie, Oakland Museum, Oakland CA
- 1993 “Furniture” Contract Design Center, San Francisco CA
- 1991 “Sculpture Now” San Francisco Art Institute S.F. CA “Bay Area Faculty” Untitled Gallery, S.F. CA
- 1991 “Illumination” Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek Art Center, Walnut Creek CA
- 1988 “Gifts from Friends of the Museum” The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu Hawaii
- 1987 “New Works 87” Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco CA
- 1987 “Vertigo: The Poetics of Dislocation” San Francisco Art Institute
- 1986 “Visable/Invisable” Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto CA
- 1985 “Sculpture 85” Joseph Chowning Gallery San Francisco CA
- 1985 “Recent Acquisitions” Oakland Museum Oakland CA
- 1985 “Unabashed Symbiotics” The Old Warehouse Cabaret, Oakland CA
- 1984 Davis McClain Gallery, Houston Texas, Jan.
- 1983 International Water Sculpture Competition Finalist Exhibition, New Orleans Museum of Art, May
- 1983 Fendrick Gallery, Washington D.C., Nov.
- 1982 “California Connections – Sacramento State College, The Early 1970’s”, Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach CA
- 1977 “18 Bay Area Artists” University Art Museum, Berkeley CA
- 1976 “18 Bay Area Artists” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
- 1975 “The Sculptor as Draftsman” JPL Fine Arts, London England
- 1975 “The Envelope Show” JPL Fine Arts, London England
- 1974 “Five Oakland Artists” Oakland Museum, Oakland CA
- 1972 Sculpture '72”, Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
- 1971 “Young Bay Area Sculptors”, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
- 1970 Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco CA
- 1970 Centennial Show, De Young Museum, San Francisco CA
- 1969 N.C.A. Annual, Crocker Museum, Sacramento CA
Bibliography
- THE SAN FRANCISCO JUNG INSTITUTE LIBRARY JOURNAL v.17 no 14 2000, Is there a Jungian approach to art? review by Susan Thackrey p.88
- ARTWEEK November 1998 Cebulski, Frank review
- WORKS AND CONVERSATIONS vol.1 no.1 Interview & illustrations Jan 1998
- BANDICOOT vol.1 no.1 Front and back cover photographic illustration 1992
- DIABLO ARTS Nov. ’91-Feb. ’92 p.30 Santiago, Chiori Review, illustration
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- SCULPTURE AND ENVIRONMENT Byong San Choi, 1989, Chun Jung Art Discussion Co. Seoul Korea two illustrations.
- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Oct.30 ’87 Baker, Kenneth Review
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- WEST ART July ’85 review by Editor
- ART IN THE S.F. BAY AREA Thomas Albright, 1985, U.C. Berkeley Press, p.261
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Curated exhibitions
- Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, “The Third Time I Saw Phyllis She Exploded,” April 1998, Contract Design Center, San Francisco CA
- California State University, Hayward, Annual Student Exhibition, May 1998
- “Opening Tricks,” an exhibition of selected faculty from bay area institutions, and their students- Berkeley Arts Festival, May 1999
- “Tell-Appa-Thee,” Group exhibition featuring the works of the late Wallace Allen Healy, co-curated with Judy O’Shea with the cooperation of the San Francisco Art Institute 915 Battery St Gallery, San Francisco, March 1999
Publications
- INDEPENDANT BIKER Issue 21 1994 “An artists critique of the Motorcycles of Arlen Ness”
- DEUS EX MACHINA March 1996 “Pal” short story
- WORKS+CONVERSATION No.5 2002 “Elephanta” travel journal
- WORKS+CONVERSATION No.9 2004 “To All Artists, Known and Unknown”
