Richard Wilson
EDUCATION
BA California State University, San Jose, CA 1967
M.A California State University, San Jose, CA 1968
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2005 Two Fold, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2004 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Redding Museum and Art Center, Redding, CA
1997 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA
1995 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA
Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Cate School, Carpenteria, CA
1993 D.P. Fong and Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA
1992 Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA
Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Victor Fisher Gallery, Oakland, CA
1990 D.P. Fong and Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA
1988 Victor Fisher Gallery, Oakland, CA
1987 College of the Siskiyous, Weed, CA
1986 Victor Fisher Gallery, Oakland, CA
1984 Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Redding Museum and Art Center, Redding, CA
1982 Hank Baum, San Francisco, CA
1980 Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1978 Redding Museum and Art Center, Redding, CA
Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fort Steilicom College, Tacoma, WA
1977 Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
1976 Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hank Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Graphics Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
San Jose Art Museum, San Jose, CA
1975 Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hank Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Graphics Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974 Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hank Baum, San Francisco, CA
Hank Baum, Los Angeles, CA
Graphics Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1973 Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Reed College, Portland, OR
1971 Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA
University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
Hank Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Graphics Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1969 Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1968 Arlene Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Redding Museum and Art Center, Redding, CA
Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Kinda Like a Buffet, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Old Friends-New Faces, Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles Art Show, PDX Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Abstraction and Landscape, 98ten Fine Art
I Candy: Current Abstraction in Southern California, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
Flow: Miami Invitational, PDX Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Aqua-Wynwood, Carl Berg Gallery, Miami, FL
Window Project, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Elegantly Frugal, Deceptively Simple, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland. OR
2006 Abstraction, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Aqua Art Miami, Carl Berg Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2001 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Three Person Show with Louis Siegrest and Joseph Romano, Triangle Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
Transcendence, Mt. San Antonio College Gallery, Walnut, CA
5th Annual Artists’ Valentine Exhibition, Nelson Gallery, U.C. Davis, Davis, CA
1997 Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
1996 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
1992 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Poetics of Order, D.P. Fong and Spratt Galleries, San Jose, CA
Harold Segelstadt Collection Exhibit, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, CA
1986 Three Person Show, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
Art Faculty/Alumni Exhibition, California State University, San Jose, CA
1985 10 California Colorists, Traveling Exhibition: San Jose Institute of Contemporary
Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Claremont College, and the University of
New Mexico
Artists Invitational/4 California Artists, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
Art Faculty/Alumni Exhibition, California State University, San Jose, CA
1984 Two Dimensions, National Art Competition, University of Texas, TX
Art Faculty/Alumni Exhibition, California State University, San Jose, CA
1983 The Planar Dimensions: Geometric Abstraction by Bay Area Artists, Civic Arts
Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Three Person Show, Chan-Elliot Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Art Faculty/Alumni Exhibition, California State University, San Jose, CA
1982 Art Faculty/Alumni Exhibition, California State University, San Jose, CA
1981 International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
Works on Paper, Spokane Falls, Spokane, WA
1980 Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
1978 International Art Fairs, Basil, Switzerland and Cologne, Germany
San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
1977 Arizona National Painting Competition, Scottsdale Center for the Arts,
Scottsdale, AZ
1975 Three Person Show, Sacramento, CA
1973 Utah State University Print Invitational, Logan, UT
2nd Annual Grand Galleria National Painting Competition, Seattle, WA
1972 Cabrillo Music Festival Art Exhibit, Aptos CA
1st Annual Grand Galleria National Painting Competition, Seattle, WA
Eight From California, Springfield, CA
15th Painting Annual, Downey Museum, CA
1971 Boxtop Invitational Painting Exhibit, Illinois State University, IL
1970 Drawings’70: 1st Annual National Drawing Show of St. John’s University,
New York
Multiples USA/70, Western Michigan University, MI
Northwest Printmakers 41st International Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Looking West 1970, Joslin Art Museum, Omaha, NB
Group Show, Jason Aver Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1969 Artists for Peace, Hansen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Holiday Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
A Selection of Young Contemporary California Artists, California Arts Commission,
Traveling Exhibition
Three Printmakers, Humboldt State College, Arcata, CA
Group Painting Exhibit, Galleria Carl Vander Voort, San Francisco, CA
1968 Young Talents ’68, Lytton Museum, Palo Alto & Oakland, CA
10th Annual San Jose City College Show, San Jose, CA
43rd Annual Kingsley Exhibit, Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
1967 9th Annual San Jose City College Show, San Jose, CA
15th Painting Annual, Richmond, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Pagel, David, Art Review, Los Angeles Times, September 1
2001 Baker, Kenneth, Summer Trio at Triangle, San Francisco Chronicle, June 30
1994 Baker, Kenneth, San Francisco Review, Art News, Summer
1990 Burkhart, Dorothy, Artist Link Is Use of Color, San Jose Mercury News, June 1
1989 Krantz, Liss, ,The Krantz Co., Chicago, IL
1986 McKenna, Kristine, Contrast of Concept and Form, Los Angeles Times,
March 29
1985 Schipper, Merle, Provocative Color, Art Week, December 7
Koland, Cordell, California Colorists’ Exhibit Leaves Reviewer Refreshed,
The Business Journal, September 2
Burkhart, Dorothy, Conviction Surmounts Colorists’ Apparent Hermiticism, San Jose
Mercury News, August 9
Krantz, Lee, American Artists/A Survey of Contemporary American Art, The Krantz
Company, Chicago, IL
Albright, Thomas, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980, University of
California Press, Berkely, CA
1983 Liss Andrea, Bay Area Geometric Abstraction, Art Week, May 7
Albright, Thomas, Lines, Cubes, and the Root of the Abstract, San Francisco
Examiner, April 17
1982 Rohrer, Judith, Interactions of Color, Art Week, March 27
Albright, Thomas, Magical Vibrations, San Francisco Chronicle, April 7
1980 Albright, Thomas, Less is More in an Abstract Realm, San Francisco Chronicle,
August 22
1979 Albright, Thomas, Mood Without Melodrama, Art News, February 9
1978 Frankenstein, Alfred, Serene and Mystic Art Works, San Francisco Chronicle,
November 17
Rohrer, Judith, Color and Space in Motion, Art Week, December 2
1977 Weeks, John, Patrick Humble-Richard Wilson, San Jose Mercury News,
January 14
1976 Wilson, William, Art Walk, Los Angeles Times, March 5
Albright, Thomas, Surveying the California Scene, September 9
1975 Johnson, Charles, Shasta Masters, Sacramento Bee, June 28
Albright, Thomas, Pinnacle of Abstraction, San Francisco Chronicle, October 11
Albright, Thomas, San Francisco Review, Art News, December
1974 Albright, Thomas, An Old Tradition is Revitalized, San Francisco Chronicle,
June 8
Wilson, William, Art Walk, Los Angeles Times, October 24
1973 Albright, Thomas, Walls of Space, Light, Infinity, San Francisco Chronicle, August 28
1972 Frankenstein, Alfred, Color Painting, San Francisco Chronicle, February 12
1971 Sledis, Henry J, Art Walk, Los Angeles Times, October 1
1970 Unknown, Looking West- 1970, Sunday World Herald, November 8
1968 Albright, Thomas, Hard Edge Art, San Francisco Chronicle, August 28
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana
Downey Art Museum, Downey, California
Fort Steilicom College, Tacoma, Washington
Pomona College, Claremont, California
Redding Museum and Art Center, San Jose, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
California State University, San Jose, San Jose, California
Shasta College, Redding, California