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ROY TOMLINSON  
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
21 Grand, Oakland, CA, Home
2007
Cafe Museo, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2007
Museum of Modern Art Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006

San Francisco Zen Center, San Francisco, CA
2005
Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

1999

Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997

Museum of Modern Art Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1992

Miller/Brown Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1987

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
oblidi.net, Project 1
No Subject
2010
College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA
Three Views
2005
Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Photoo: The Subvention and Subversion of Photography
2005

Alameda Art Center, Alameda, CA
Contemporary Abstracts, juror: Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle

2005

Friesen Gallery, Seattle, Washington
The Plane Truth

2005
Gallery 16, Pier 92, New York City
AAF Contemporary Art Fair
2004
Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Surface Tension

2003

Gensler Architecture, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition, Curated by: Andrea Schwartz Gallery SF

2003

SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Four Painters, Four Friends

 2003

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Being There: 45 Oakland Artists

 2002

Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Surface Tension: Pattern and Ornament in Contemporary Painting

 2002

BACCA 1010, Berkeley, CA
Landscape

 2001

Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Pattern, Curated by: Artsource SF

2001

Latham Square, Oakland, CA
Fresh Paint at Latham Square, Curated by: The Oakland Museum

 2001

Okeanos Press, Berkeley, CA
The Alphabet Show

 1994

Okeanos Press, Berkeley, CA
Visual Alchemy

 1994

Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Drawing First, Curated by: The Drawing Center NYC

 1993

University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
M.F.A. Exhibition

 1991

Worth Ryder Gallery, U.C. Berkeley, CA
Eisner Prize Exhibition

 1991

Miller/Brown Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Other Face

 1988

3735 Buchanan Street, San Francisco, CA
Small Works

 1986

A.R.E. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition

 1986

Miller/Brown Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Artists

 1986

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, CA
Chain Reaction

 1985

Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Six from San Francisco

 1985

1708 East Main Gallery, Richmond, VA
Six from San Francisco

 1984

   
SELECTED BENEFIT AUCTIONS
1986 - Present

San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Oakland Art Gallery

Sanoma State University

University of California at Berkeley

Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa

 
   
HONORS & GRANTS  
CCA Faulty Development Grant
2007
CCA Faulty Development Grant
2004
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant

 1995

Eisner Prize, University of California, Berkeley

 1991

   
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley, California
MFA

 1991

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
BFA

1979

 
TEACHING  
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon
Associate Professor, Foundation Department Chair
2009 - Present
École cantonale d'art du Valais, Sierre Switerland
Interdisciplinary Intensive in Switzerland
Summer 2005-06
California College of the Arts, Oakland and San Francisco, CA
Senior Adjunct Professor
1995 - 2008
San Francisco School of Art, San Francisco, CA
Drawing and Painting Faculty
1992 - 1995
 
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY & PUBLICATIONS  
Mark Bartlett, " Abstract Connections", a lecture on abstraction
Tate Modern, London England, March 25, 2010
 
Tanchelev, Gloria, "Roy Tomlinson at SFMOMA Artist Gallery"
Stretcher, October, 2006, www.stretcher.org
 
Zolton Zavos, "Roy Tomlinson"
Lost At E Minor,
October 31, 2006, wwwlostateminor.com
 

Nagle, Daria, "Three Views - Three Artists Make One Great Exhibit "
The Echo Times,
The College of Marin, November 28, 2005

 

Baker, Kenneth, "Photoo in Oakland"
San Francisco Chronicle, August 20, 2005, p.E10

 
Eleven Eleven, Journal of Literature & Art, Spring 2005, Volume 2, pp. 78-83  
ZYZZYVA, the last word: west coast writers and artists, Winter 2004, Volume XX3,
pp. 140 & 143
 
Jannku, Laura Richard, "Four Painters, Four Friends at SomArts Gallery"
Artweek,
March 2003, p. 15
 
Thompson, Sandy, "Surface Tension at Mills College Art Museum"
Artweek
, April 2002, pp. 18-19
 
Bonitti, David, "There is a 'There' at Oakland Show"
San Francisco Chronicle
, March 27, 2002, p. D4
 
Monique Beeler, "Pattern Painting Gains Respect, Retrospective"
The Oakland Tribune
, February 22, 2002
 
Imquiring Mind, Spring 2001, Volume 17, No.2, pp. 26-27  
Scherr, Apollinaire, Review Gallery 16
Express
, April 23, 1999, p. 44
 
Krasne, Alexandra, "The Hybrid Artist: Berkeley's Roy Tomlinson"
Micro Publishing News
, June 1999, Vol. 10, No.6, pp. NC6-NC9
 
Smolen , Marguerite, "The Printmaking Partnership"
Digital Fine Arts Magazine
, Summer 1999, pp. 42-47
 
   
RELATED EXPERIENCE  
Artsource, San Francisco, California
Public Exhibitions Consultant, Designer and Installation Fabricator
1992 - 96
San Francisco Zen Hospice Project, San Francisco, CA
Installation Coordinator and Curatorial Assistant for Art Exhibitions
1992 - 93
San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco, California
Art Installations Coordinator
 1987 - 93
Artspace, San Francisco, California
Art Installation Technician
1986 - 90
Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, California
Art Installation Coordinator
1987 - 89
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Assistant Supervisor of Art Installations
1984 - 87
San Francisco Art Institute Gallery, San Francisco, California
Art Installation Technician
1980 - 84
Douglas Elliott Gallery, San Francisco, California
Frame shop Manager
1980 - 82
   
SELECTED PROJECTS  
Liz Phillips: Graphite Ground, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Consultant and On Site Art Fabricator

1987

Howard Fried: Works from 1969 -1983, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Consultant and On Site Art Fabricator

1983

California Counterpoint: Architecture 1992, National Academy Of Design,
New York, NY. Design Consultant, Installation Coordinator and Fabricator

1982

Venice Biennale Exhibition: Architecture 1980, Pier 2 Fort Mason Center,
San Francisco, CA. Construction Contractor, Site Foreman
1982
Vito Acconci, San Francisco Art Institute Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Consultant, Technical Engineer, and On Site Art Fabricator
1981
Craig Langager: Catwalk for Myths and Legends, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
Consultant and On Site Art Fabricator

1981

Alice Aycock: Flights of Fancy, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
On Site Art Fabrication Technician
1979


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