Biography

www.johnzurier.com

Born in Santa Monica, California, 1956
Lives in Berkeley, and works in Oakland

Education

1974 University of California at Berkeley
1979 BA Landscape Architecture
1982 MA Painting
1984 MFA Painting

Teaching

1988 - 2005 California College of Arts
1989 - 1991 San Francisco State University
1991 - 1996 University of California, Berkeley
1996 - 1997 Santa Rosa Junior College
2001 - 2003 Stanford University
2002 - 2005 San Francisco Art Institute
2006 - Califonia College of Arts

Awards

1983 Eisner Award in Fine Art, University of California at Berkeley
1984 Best of Show Award, Hayward Area Forum of the Arts Annual, Hayward, California
1999 Gerbode Faculty Foundation Grant, California College of Arts and Crafts, California

Solo exhibitions

2011Paintings and Watercolors, Gallery Paul Anglim, San Francisco, California

2010 White Paintings and Night Paintings, Peter Blum Gallery, Chelsea, New York
Nordic Paintings, Galería Javier López, Madrid

2009 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

2008 Night Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2007 Paintings, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Galería Javier López, Madrid

2005 New Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

2003 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Oblaka, Peer, London

2002 Broken Fragments: New Monotypes on Linen and Paper, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California

2001 Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

2000 Paintings 1997 - 1999, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

1999 Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California

1994 Abstract Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

1990 Monotypes, Concourse Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, California

1989 New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

1986 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

1985 Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California

1984 Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, California
Sun Gallery, Hayward, California

Group exhibitions

2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, curated by Sarah Bancroft
Watercolors. Jack Davidson, Laurie Reid, John Zurier, Pulliam Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2009 John Zurier & John Beech, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California
TRANSformal, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, California
Luminous Room, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2008 Pintura abstracta, Galería Javier López, Madrid
Surface and Substance, San Francisco Studio School Gallery, San Francisco, California
The 7th Gwangju Biennial: 2008 Annual Report, Gwangju, South Koreal
to: Night, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, in conjunction with Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night at the MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
To Be Looked at…, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2007 X-tra: Kunstler der Galerie, Galerie Claus Semerak, Munich
Trans: Abstraction, Weltraum, Munich
CCA: 100 Years in the Making, Oakland Museum of California
California College of Arts Centennial Exhibition Honoring Alumni, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Color / Construct: featuring works by John Zurier and Thomas Vinson, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas
Contemporary Art: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Selections from Concrete, H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, El Centro College, Dallas, Texas
Some, A changing selection of work by Gallery and Invited Artists, and Special Projects, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2006 The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California
Line and Surface: Works on Paper, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Close Proximity: Works of Intimate Scale, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas
Some New, A Survey of Gallery Artists, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Some Light (Version One), Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Introductions, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas

2005 A Motion Picture: Videos by 18 Artists, De Young Museum, curated by Tom Marioni
Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Oregon, curated by Laurie Reid

2004 Specific Light, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas
Turning Corners, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Array, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gallery Artists, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2003 Exodus: Between Promise and Fulfillment, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England, curated by David Austin
(Some) Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2002 Painted Color, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
John Zurier, Robert Ryman, Joseph Marioni: Painting, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
XXL, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California

2001 (Some) Prints, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Minimalism: Then and Now, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Selected Artists, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1999 A Quiet Storm, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Paintings, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
Beholding Beauty, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California

1998 Undercurrents and Overtones: Contemporary Abstract Painting, Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction in California, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena and the Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California

1996 Abstraction Absolved: Ten Bay Area Painters, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California
New Talent New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Three Painters: Anne Appleby, Gregg Renfrow, John Zurier, Arts Benicia Center, Benicia, California

1993 Drawing First, Southern Exposure Gallery at Project Artaud, San Francisco, California
Donald Feasel, Philip Morsberger, John Zurier: Recent Paintings, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, California
Artists’ Self - Portraits in Black and White by Eighty - Six West Coast Artists, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, California
Chad Buck, Dan Connally, John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

1992 Three Painters: Donald Feasel, Philip Morsberger, John Zurier, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California

1990 Chain Reaction Six, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California
Fifteen Artists of Gallery Paule Anglim, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, California

1988 Sixteen Young Bay Area Artists, Colorado State University Art Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado

1986 Monotypes: Garner Tullis Workshop, Pace Editions, New York
Garner Tullis Workshop, Gallery au Poisson Rouge, Praz / Vully, Switzerland
Expressive Abstraction, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
Gallery Artists, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Bárbara, California
ProArts Annual, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, California
The Art of Collaboration: Monotypes from the Studios of Garner Tullis, California State University, San Bernadino, California; traveling to Western Washington State University Art Gallery
Teachers and Pupils, Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, California

1984 Three Pick Four, University of California, San Francisco, California
MFA/UCB/1984, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California

1980 Paintings and Drawings, Phillippe Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, California


Monotype projects

2002 Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California
1998 Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California
1990 Garner Tullis Workshop, Santa Barbara, California
1989 Garner Tullis Workshop, Santa Barbara, California
1986 Garner Tullis Workshop, Emeryville, California
1985 Garner Tullis Workshop, Emeryville, California

Bibliography
Catalogues
2002 Whitney Biennial 2002, Lawrence Rinder et al., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2000 John Zurier Paintings 1997-1999, interview with Lawrence Rinder, Gallery Paule Anglim San Francisco, California
1998 Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction in California, introduction by Jay Belloli and Jeff Nathanson, Armory Center for the Arts and the Richmond Art Center, Pasadena and Richmond, California
1996 Abstraction Absolved: Ten Bay Area Painters, introduction by Keith Lachowicz, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California
1986 Garner Tullis Workshop: Monotypes, introducción de Memory Holloway, Galerie Au Poisson Rouge, Praz / Vully, Switzland

Articles
2003 Kenneth Baker, “Zurier’s Quiet Brush”, San Francisco Chronicle, October 25th
Adrian Searle, “Lost in Space”, The Guardian UK, July 15th
2002 Kenneth Baker, “The Possibility of an Image”, San Francisco Chronicle, December 22th
Nancy Princenthal, “Whither the Whitney Biennial”, Art in America, June
Al Aronowitz, Column Seventy, The Blacklisted Journalist, April 1st
Roberta Smith, “Bad News for Art at the Whitney Biennial”, The New York Times, March 31st
Michel Moutot, “La Biennale du Whitney Museum descend dans Central Park”, Agence France - Presse, March 9th
Jerry Saltz, “American Bland Stand”, Village Voice, March 7th
Mercedes Vicente, “La Biennal de Whitney”, La Vanguardia, March 7th
Edward Sozanski, “Three Painters”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 1st
2001 Kenneth Baker, “Louise Fishman/John Zurier”, San Francisco Chronicle, April 14th
Jessie Hamlin, “John Zurier Captures Joy in Fields of Color”, San Francisco Chronicle, April 4th
2000 David Bonetti, “John Zurier’e New Work at Gallery Paule Anglim”, San Francisco Examiner, January 12th
Kenneth Baker, “Painting’s Move Toward the Vanishing Point”, San Francisco Chronicle, January 8th
1999 “Zurier’s Wavering Lines of Uncertainty”, San Francisco Chronicle, March 20th
1998 Claire Wolf Krantz, “Practice and Process”, SEE, September - October
David Bonetti, “Abstraction is Back”, San Francisco Examiner, October 22nd
“Ten Takes on Painterly Abstraction”, San Francisco Examiner, August 11th
Victoria Martin, “Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction at the Armory Center for the Arts”, Artweek, Vol. 29, nº 4, April
William Wilson, “Pasadena Armory Showcases California Abstractionists”, Los Angeles Times, March 30th
1996 David Bonetti, “Return of the Abstract at Mills College”, San Francisco Examiner, December 6th
Mary Hull Webster, “Anne Appleby, Gregg Renfrow and John Zurier at Arts Benicia”, Artweek, Vol. 27, nº 4, April
Benny Shaboy, entrevista con John Zurier, studioNOTES, nº 10, January / March
1994 Kenneth Baker, “Reviews: John Zurier at Paule Anglim”, Artnews, Vol. 93, nº 8, October
“John Zurier at Anglim”, San Francisco Chronicle, August 13th
1993 “Abstract Painting at Anglim”, San Francisco Chronicle, January 20th
1992 “Three Painters at Oakland Show”, San Francisco Chronicle, December 24th
1990 “Zurier’s Monotypes at Bank of America”, San Francisco Chronicle, September 20th
1989 “Forthright, Bold Abstracts”, San Francisco Chronicle, June 17th
1987 Alexandra Mochary, “Bay Area Art - Take Another Look”, Antiques and Fine Art, November / December
1986 Jamie Brunson, “A Sense of Spiritual Metaphor”, Artweek, Vol. 17, nº 40, November 29th
Charles Shere, “Strong Statement for Expressive Abstraction”, Oakland Tribune, November 27th
“Vitality Spills Out from Canvases of Young Bay Artists”, Oakland Tribune, February 4th
1985 “Pro Arts Stages Welcome Revival of Juried Annual”, Oakland Tribune, December 24th
Rebecca Solnit, “A Familiar Future”, Artweek, Vol. 16, nº 25,July 13th
Richard Ames, “John Zurier at Pamela Auchincloss Gallery”, Santa Barbara California News Press, October 12 th