EDUCATION
Columbia University, New York City, 1976 MA, Japanese Literature
Mills College, Oakland, 1974 BA, Psychology & Asian Studies
 
RESUME

  • Owner/Partner, Arc Gallery, San Francisco. 2010 - Present
  • President, Northern California WCA.  2022 – Present
  • ArtSpan Art for City Youth Advisory Board. 2011 - 2019
  • President, National Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA).  2012 – 2014
  • Chair, International Committee, WCA.   2008 – 2011
  • Chair, WCA Pacific Region Eco-Art Conference. 2010
  • Exhibitions Chair, Pacific Center for the Book Arts.   2006-2007
  • Board, Purplesilk Music Education Foundation.  2005 – 2007
  • Gap Inc. Vice President, Global Compliance 1999-2001
  • Gap Inc. Human Resources Director. 1990-1999
 
CONFERENCE PANELS
  • "Navigating Inclusivity in Curatorial Activism," panelist, College Art Association Affiliate Panel, Chicago, IL, February 2020
  • “Considerations and Challenges: Socially Engaged Art in China,” panelist, Place and Revolution Open Engagement Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April, 2015
  • “WCA’s Blockbuster Exhibitions: Renewal, Activism & Innovation,” chair & panelist, College Art Association Affiliate Panel, New York, NY, February 2013
  • "Multiplicities in Dialogue: From Political Caucus to Engaged Community," panelist, College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2012
  • “Internationalization of CAA: Becoming More Involved with UN-NGOs, UNESCO and US/ICOMOS,” panelist & discussant, College Art Association, New York, NY, February, 2011
  • “Using Advocacy, Activism and Art to Speak Out Against Nuclear Weapons,” panelist, 62nd United Nations DPI/NGO conference, Mexico City,  September 2009
JUROR
Women Artists Making Their Mark, O'Hanlon Online Gallery Exhibition,  Mill Valley, CA, co-juried with Donna Seager, July 23 - Oct 1, 2024 
25th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, 1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607, March 2-30, 2024 
  
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
  • Women Create Space, City of Fremont's Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA 
  • Access: An Ordinary Notion, Arc Gallery (2024), San Francisco, CA 
  • Process, Art Works Downtown, (2024), San Rafael, CA
  • Roe 2.0, Woman Made Gallery, (2023), Chicago, IL 
  • Friend of the Artist: A.I.R. Biennial Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery (2023), New York, NY
  • Political Engagement, Solo Exhibition, Vargas Gallery (2022), Mission College, Santa Clara, CA
  • The Wild Side, Arc Gallery (2022), San Francisco, CA
  • Agency: Feminist Art & Power, Museum of Sonoma Country (2022), Santa Rosa, CA
  • Dollhouse: Art as Serious Play, Arc Gallery (2022), San Francisco, CA 
  • Deadlocked & Loaded, ArtRage Gallery (2021), Syracuse, NY
  • To Hear and Be Heard, Santa Clara University Department of Art & Art History (2020), Santa Clara, CA
  • F213, Arc Gallery (2019), San Francisco, CA
  • Beyond Borders: Stories of im/Migration, Santa Clara University Edward M Dowd Art & Art History Building (2018), Santa Clara
  • Resistance, Arc Gallery (2017), 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA
  • Against Trumpism: Art & Poetry of Resistance, Museum of International Propaganda (2017), San Rafael, CA
  • Women + Money, Katherine E Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota (2016), Minneapolis, MN
  • Crossing to Safety, Abrams Claghorn Gallery (2016), Berkeley, CA
  • Social Justice: It Happens to One, It Happens to All, St Mary’s College Museum (2016), Moraga, CA
  • Diversity and Access, Westbeth Center for the Arts (2015), New York, NY
  • Views from the Edge: Women, Gender and Politics, Sara Doyle Gallery (2015), Providence, RI
  • Half the Sky, Lushun Academy Gallery (2014), Shenyang, China
  • Choice, Arc Gallery(2013), 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco
  • Woman + Body, Kepco Gallery & Media Cube Gallery (2012), South Korea
  • Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, SOMArts Gallery (2011), San Francisco, CA
  • Hidden Cities, New Century Artists Gallery (2011), Chelsea, NYC
  • Control, SOMArts Gallery (2009), San Francisco
  • Women Artists on Immigration, Korean Cultural Center Art Gallery (2009), Los Angeles
  • Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship, African American Museum (2008), Oakland 
  • Women on War, Mission Cultural Center (2008), San Francisco
  • Cutting Edge Books, Cal State East Bay Gallery (2007), Hayward
  • Effects of War, California Institute of Integral Studies (2007), San Francisco
 
MEMBERSHIPS
Women’s Caucus for Art
Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art
Artspan
ArtTable