KATHRYN VAN DYKE
BIOGRAPHY

BORN
1957
Wisconsin

EDUCATION
1991-1993
M.F.A., Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

1987-1990
B.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1983-1987
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA

Recent Paintings
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 2005

New Paintings
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 2002

New Paintings
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 2000

EXHIBITIONS

2005
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004-2005
"Botany 12," Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA

2003
21 Grand, Oakland, CA

2002
"New Paintings," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001
"SECA Art Award Exhibition," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"New Work," Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
"Kathryn Van Dyke," Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2000
"New Paintings," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Eye Candy: West & East Coast Contemporary Women Painters," traveling exhibition:
Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University San Bernardino;
Grand Central Art Center, California State University Fullerton
"Knowing You, Knowing Me," The Lab, San Francisco, CA
"Flat File: Pierogi 2000," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

1999
"Beholding Beauty: Bay Area Curators Explore Modern and Post-Modern Beauty," Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

1998
"New Paintings," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"New Work," Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
"Deep Forest: When Urgency Becomes Form," Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
"SAP," Lanai Motel, San Francisco, CA

1997
"Visual Aids Big Deal," SOMAR, San Francisco, CA
"Bay Area Now," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Post-Postcard," Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
"...art is cheap but priceless...," Four Walls, San Francisco, CA

EXHIBITIONS (continued)

1996
"Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters," Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Les Precieuses: Joyce Burstein, Leonie Guyer, Laurie Reid, Kathryn Van Dyke," Push Artspace, San Francisco, CA
"Visual Aid's Big Deal," SOMAR, San Francisco, CA
"Landscape," Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA
"Optimism and Sarcasm," The Lab, San Francisco, CA
"Chance and Desire," SITE, Los Angeles, CA

1995
"Introductions," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Happy Accidents, Musings, and Follies," SITE, Los Angeles, CA
"Kathryn Van Dyke," UOP Gallery, Stockton, CA
"Visual Aid's Big Deal," Space 743, San Francisco, CA
"New Works," Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

1994
"6 x 9," Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA
"Small Works," Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
"Small Works," Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA

AWARDS

2000
SECA Art Award from San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1993
Helen W. Winternitz Award from Yale School of Art
1990
Robert Rawls Memorial Merit Scholarship from California College of Arts and Crafts