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Education
1983 Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Berkeley, California
1982 Master of Art, University of California, Berkeley, California
1980 Bachelor of Fine Art, Alfred University of California, Alfred, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Dark Landscapes for a White House, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California
2017 Bell the Cat, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California
2016 Guise, Catharine Clark Gallery, New York, New York
2014 Milk Made, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California
2012 Heroine, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
2011 Tale Spin, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, California
2009 Wild Wild West Show, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
2009 Wild Wild West Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
2009 Wild Wild West Show, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 Feign, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
2008 Guise, Gallery 16, San Francisco, California
2007 Guise, de Young Museum, San Francisco, California
2007 Kink, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
2007 Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
2006 Deborah Oropallo, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
2005 Deborah Oropallo, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
2005 Stretch, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
2005 Pitfalls, Modernism West, San Francisco, California
2004 Replica, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
2002 General Purpose, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2002 Oropallo on Paper: 1990-2001, Montalvo Gallery, Saratoga, California
2001 How To: The Art of Deborah Oropallo, San Jose Museum of Art, Traveling Exhibition 2001-2003. Other venues: Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA
2001 Material Handling, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
2000 New Paintings and New Prints, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1998 House & Garden, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
1998 House & Home, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1997 Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Minnesota
1997 Deborah Oropallo: Prints & Monoprints, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
1997 Flat Pictures, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
1996 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1995 Lessons, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
1994 Selections from the Anderson Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
1993 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California Kate Block Fine Arts, Boston, Minnesota
1992 Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina Ann Jaffee Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, Florida
1991 Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina Germans van Eck Gallery, New York, New York
1990 Currents/Deborah Oropallo, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachussetts
1990 Vik Muniz/Deborah Oropallo, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990 Grant for Individual Artist: Painting Award Exhibition, Artspace, San Francisco, California
1988 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
1987 Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, California
1987 Oropallo/Pijoan, Raab Gallerie, Berlin, Germany
1986 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Utopia Reconstructed III, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2017 (Re)Writing the Narrative, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California
2017 Contemporary Women Printmakers, Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, Washington
2017 Juncture, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California MARVELOUS!, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California
2016 Iconography, Dallas A. Saunders Artisan Textiles, Geyserville, California
2016 Making Our Mark, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
2016 Pairings: 16 Artists Creatively Combined, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, California
2015 Inside Magnolia Editions: Collaboration and Innovation, Sonoma County Museum of Art, Sonoma, California (catalogue)
2015 Nourish, Napa Valley Museum, Napa Valley, California
2014 In Passionate Pursuit: The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Collection and Legacy, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
2014 Momentum: an experiment in the unexpected, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
2011 Portraiture, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, California
2011 Conjuring Houdini, The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
2011 California Contemporary, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2011 Art of Painting in the 21st Century, Natsoulas Press, Davis, California
2011 Tapestries from Magnolia Editions Modernism West, San Francisco, California
2011 Oropallo Tapestries, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, California
2009 Decline and Fall, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
2009 Conjuring Houdini, The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
2009 Tech Tools of the Trade: Contemporary New Media Art, deSaisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California
2009 Magnolia Tapestry Project, FCMOCA, Fort Collins, Colorado
2009 Dress Code, FCMOCA, Fort Collins, Colorado
2009 Open Project Photography, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2009 Inaugural Exhibition, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, California
2008 These are the People in Your Neighborhood, Gallery 16’s 15th Anniversary Group Show, Gallery 16, San Francisco, California
2006 Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
2005 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery 16, San Francisco, California
2005 Recent Editions, Gallery 16, San Francisco, California
2005 Playful Poetics, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California
2005 A Group of Mostly Unrelated Things, Gallery 16, San Francisco, California
2003-4 The Not-so Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
2003 Group Exhibition, In Camera, New York, New York
2003 On the Surface: Contemporary Paintings by Bay Area Women, Monterey Museum of Art, California
2003 Eight Years: The Editions of Gallery 16, San Francisco, California
2003 UC Berkeley Art Alumni Group Exhibit
2002, Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, California
2001 Objects Considered, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California
2001 Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2000 Celebrating Modern Art: Works from the Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1999 New Work: Painting Today, Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1999 Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
1999 Museum Pieces: Bay Area Artists Investigate the de Young, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, California
1999 American Artists’ Books Exhibition, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
1999 California Dreamin’: Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection, Bank of America Gallery, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
1998 ALTERNATIVITY: The Other Side of Christmas, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California
1998 Works on Paper, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
1998 In Over Our Heads: The Image of Water in Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
1998 Paper Thin, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
1998 Art from Around the Bay: Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1998 California Current, RARE Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Masterworks on Paper from the Collection of George Hopper Fitch, The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
1998 Hidden Treasures: Contemporary Art from Sonoma County Private Collections, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
1998 Art Making Book Making Art, The San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, California
1997 Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1997 Heart, Body, Mind, Soul, Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1997 Five Fine Arts Presses, Emmie Smock Gallery, San Francisco, California
1996 American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
1996 Group Show, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
1996 Artist/Books, City College of San Francisco, November 20 - February 20 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
1995 Trillium's Graphics, The Artists Contemporary Gallery, Hyatt Regency Plaza, Sacramento, California
1995 Blue, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California What's in A Word? Gallery Concord, Concord, California
1994 U.S.A. ‘Within Limits’, Documenta, Galleria de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1994 Lyricism and Light, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California
1994 Of Dancing Frogs and Altarwings: Animal Allegories in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
1994 Summer Print Show, Okeonos Press, Berkeley, CA White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, Oregon
1994 Old Glory New Story: Flagging the 21st Century, CAPP Street Project, San Francisco, California
1994 Sex Sells, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
1994 Books Works: Pacific Center for the Book Arts, 7th Biennial Members Exhibition, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California
1993 Directions in Bay Area Printmaking, Palo Alto, California Offices of the Mayor, San Francisco, California
1993 43rd Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1993 Fleishhacker Award Exhibition, San Jose Museum, San Jose, California
1993 Drawing II, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1993 The Return of The Cadavre Exquis, Traveling Exhibition: The Drawing Center, New York; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Foundation for Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico; The Santa Monica Museum, Los Angeles, California; and The Forum, St. Louis, Missouri
1993 It's a Beautiful Thing, Savage Fine Art, Portland, Oregon
1992 Why Painting- Part 1, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, California
1992 Corollaries of Apprehension, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
1992 California: North and South, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
1992 Painted Word/Written Image, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1992 Somewhere Between Image and Text, Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1992 Summer Show, Germans van Eck Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Voices, Shea & Bornstein, Los Angeles, California
1992 Beyond Just Words: I, Modernism, San Francisco, California
1992 Bay Area Greats, Syntex, Palo Alto, California
1992 Katie Block Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1991 Her Story, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
1991 Contemporary Painting, Wake Forest University, Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1991 Drawing Conclusions, Molica Guidarte Gallery, New York, New York
1991 Group Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1991 The Artist's Hand: Drawings from the Bank of America Collection, a traveling exhibition organized by the Bank of America, San Francisco; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
1991 Do You Hear What I'm Saying? TransAmerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, California
1991 Erotic Drawing, Artspace, San Francisco, California
1991 Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
1991 Cruciformed, an exhibition organized by the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, September 6-November 3, and traveling to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington; MacDonald Stewart Centre, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
1991 Prints from Experimental Workshop, University of the Pacific, Santa Clara, California
1991 Group Show, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990 Prints from Experimental Workshop, San Francisco, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1990 Drinking and Driving, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1990 Word as Image, a traveling exhibition organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 15-August 26, 1990 and traveling to: Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, November 17, 1990-February 2, 1991; Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Texas, February 23-May 21, 1991
1990 Crossing the Line: Word and Image in Art, 1960-1990, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, California
1990 Contra-Costa Collects Contemporary, Bedford Gallery, Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California
1990 Words as Symbols, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1990 26th Anniversary Exhibition, Ann Jaffee Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida
1989 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1989 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1989 Germans van Eck Gallery, New York, New York
1989 Group Show, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
1989 New Works, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California
1989 New Acquisitions, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, H.M. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California
1989 Bay Area: Fresh Views, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
1989 41st Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
1988 Recent Prints from West Coast Presses, Allport Gallery, San Francisco, California
1988 Chatchke: A Source Show, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, California
1988 Contra Costa Contemporary Collections, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College, Moraga, California
1988 Selections from the Experimental Workshop, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
1987 Passages: A Survey of California Women Artists, 1945 to Present, Part IV: Emerging California Women Artists, Fresno Art Center, Fresno, California
1987 Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, California
1986 Academy of Art College - Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Academy of Art Gallery, San Francisco, California
1986 Emerging Artists: A Macedonia, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, California
1986 PARAVENT: Extending the Range of Expression, Artspace, San Francisco, California
1985 Different Directions, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California
1984 59th Crocker- Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
1984 Three Painters, Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, California
1984 Artists Choice, Emanuel Walter & Atholl McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1984 Two Person Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, California
1981 35th Annual Arts Festival, Civic Center, San Francisco, California
1981 California State Fair Art Exhibition, Sacramento, California
1981 Beyond Words, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
1981 Group Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, California
1980 4th Western Drawing Exhibit, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
1980 27th Annual Painting Show, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
1979 Solo Show, Media Gallery, Alfred University, New York
Selected Awards
2014 Grant Recipient, Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York, New York
2012 Kala Master Artist Award, Kala Institute, Berkeley, California
2006 Grant Recipient, Paul G. Allen Foundation, Boise Art Museum, Boise Museum, Boise, Idaho
2005 Award Recipient, Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York, New York
1998 Modern Masters Award Recipient, Museum of Art and Environment, Frank Lloyd Wright Marin County Civic Center, Marin, California
1993 Fleischhacker Award
1991 Award Recipient, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1990 Grant Recipient, Art Space, San Francisco, California
1988 Support Grant Recipient, Art Space, San Francisco, California
1987 Engelhard Award Recipient, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1983 22nd Annual Art Exhibit, HAFA, Second Place, Hayward, California
1982 Award Recipient, Small Format Show, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California Ann Bremer Award Recipient, University of California, Berkeley, California
Selected Collections
nderson Collection at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California ARA Services, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Bank of America, San Francisco, California
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. San Francisco, California
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California The Gap, San Francisco, California
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
MoMA, New York, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California Lang Communications, New York, New York
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Mills College Special Collections Library, Oakland, California Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
Nestle USA, Inc., Glendale, California
New York Public Library, New York, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
