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Marta Thoma www.mthoma.com 650-207-2492 SOLO EXHIBITIONS and PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS 2007 National Finalist: Phoenix Arizona, $500,000. Water Wall Public Art Project National Finalist: Seattle, Washington Public Art $350,000. Transfer Station Residency. Anita Seipp Gallery, sculpture exhibition, Palo Alto, CA SPUR, San Francisco Public Urban Research commission for new Norcal Headquarters, San Francisco, CA 2006 City of Palo Alto and the Arts Commission: Installation: "Rrrun," Palo Alto California Regional Center for the Arts: "Childhood Revisited," Walnut Creek 2005 Vertigo Gallery: "Inside Out," London, United Kingdom Lowe Gallery, "New Work by Marta Thoma," Los Angeles, CA City of San Leandro Public Installation: "Three Egrets," San Leandro Marina 2004 Triton Museum of Art, Award Exhibition, Santa Clara, CA Lowe Gallery, Stretch 2, Atlanta Georgia 2003 Oakland Museum of California, "Stretch," Oakland City Center, Oakland, CA. Peninsula Community Foundation Grant: "Portraits of Youth," Palo Alto 2001 Barron Park and Escondido School, "A+ School Project," Palo Alto, CA Palo Alto Civic Center Plaza Installation, Spirtus, Palo Alto, CA 2000 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY City of Palo Alto Arts Commission installation of bronze sculpture, "Go Mama." Palo Alto, CA 1999 National Museum of Costa Rica,"Memories of Flight," Installations in San Jose, Costa Rica 1998 San Francisco Museum of Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997 Norcal Company Sanitary Fill Artist in Residency, installation of, "Earth Tear," South San Francisco, CA 1996 Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994 J. Claramunt Gallery, New York, NY 1993 San Francisco Museum of Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1991 Works/San Jose Gallery, San Jose, CA 1988 Rolando Castellon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1980 University of Oregon Museum of Art, Fantasies, Visions, Eugene, OR 1977 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006 Regional Center for the Arts, Bedford Gallery, In Dad's Shoes, part of Childhood, Walnut Creek, CA 2003 National Museum of Costa Rica, International Drawing Exhibition , Costa Rica 2001 San Francisco State University, Storytellers: The figure in Time and Space 1998 Yerba Buena Gardens, Memories of Flight, San Francisco, CA 1997 Works Gallery, From Within, San Jose, CA National Museum of Art, Watercolors, Ten Nations, , San Jose, Costa Rica Yerba Buena Gardens, When She Dreams, San Francisco, CA Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA Minna St. Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1995 Regional Center for the Arts Plaza, Walnut Creek, CA 1994 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA Works Gallery, Unbound and Exposed, San Jose, CA Santa Cruz Museum of Art, Art is…, Santa Cruz, CA Radius, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA 1993 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Uncommon Flower, Palo Alto, CA On the Beach Gallery, Modern Forensics, New York, NY Crocker Museum of Art, Kingsley Crocker Exhibition 1993, Sacramento, CA 1992 San Jose Art League, Arts Council Award Exhibition, San Jose, CA 1991 San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA San Jose Art League, Addressing Images, San Jose, CA 1990 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Poets and Artists Project, Palo Alto, CA 1989 Pie Gallery, Images of Men by Women Artists, San Francisco, CA 1987 Spangenberg Gallery, Palo Alto, CA 1988 Rolando Castellon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1986 Richard Sumner Gallery, Palo Alto, CA 1983 Portland Museum of Art, Survey of Northwest Art, Portland, OR 1979 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA Sonoma State University Museum, Animals: Celebration and Communion, CA 1978 Euphrat Gallery, Bay Area Regional Print Exhibition, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA 1976 Western Association of Art Museum's Traveling Exhibition. 1975 John Bolles Gallery, Introduction '74, San Francisco, CA EDUCATION San Francisco State University, M.A. Fine Arts 1975 University of California, Berkeley, B.A. Fine Arts 1973 AWARDS, HONORS, and RESIDENCIES 2007 Finalist for Phoenix Arizona Public Art, $600,000. 2007 Finalist for Seattle Public Art Commission $350,000. 2004 Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts: 3-Dimensional Works 2003 Peninsula Community Foundation Grant 2002 Award for Service, City of Palo Alto Art Commission Adeline Kent Nominee 1995 Twice awarded finalist for the Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles 1994 Award of Recognition, SBA Women’s Caucus for Art 1993 NORCAL Artist in Residence, San Francisco, CA 1992 Arts Council of Santa Clara County 1992 Fellowship, Visual Arts: 2-Dimensional Works PUBLIC AND INSTIT PERMANENT ART COLLECTIONS National Museum of Contemporary Art in Costa Rica Rene De Rosa Art Park and Collection Norcal Company Art Collection, San Francisco, CA City of Palo Alto Public Art Collection City of San Leandro Public Art Collection SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2004 Cebulski, Frank, Sculpture magazine, “Oakland Museum of California City Center,” June, Vol. 23 No. 5 2003 Westbrook, Lindsey, East Bay Express, “Fantastic Apparitions” November 5-11. Noguchi, Sharon, San Jose Mercury News, September 13 Sardar, Zahid, San Francisco Chronicle “Earthly Delights” 2000 Robertson, Kate, Palo Alto Weekly, “Ghostly” December 15 1997 Chun, Kimberly. San Francisco Chronicle 1996 Wykes, S.L. San Jose Mercury News, June 11 1995 Harrington, Jim, Palo Alto Weekly, “Public exposure,” July. 1994 Rubenstein, Steve. San Francisco Chronicle 1994 Jan, Alfred. “New York Art Report” Artist Writer p.12, May 1993 Tuchman, Laura J. San Jose Mercury News, August 22 1993 Kuchinskas, Susan. San Francisco Examiner, Dec. 22 1993 Hodder, Monroe. SBA WCA Newsletter, Spring 1992 Shepard, Alicia C. San Jose Mercury Times, Sept. 30 1991 Sussman, Diane. "Images of War," Palo Alto Weekly, April 24 1991 Sherman, Ann Elliott Sherman METRO, August 8-14 1990 Goodman, Tim. "Art to Art," Palo Alto Weekly, May 9 1989 Tilsner, Julie. "Studio Life," Palo Alto Weekly, April 12 1981 Crafts, Fred. Eugene Register Guard May 21 1981 Reed, Rosemary. Channel 13" 1979 Loach, Roberta Visual Dialog 1977 Loach, Roberta. "Fantasy," ARTWEEK December 10 1974 Dunham, ARTWEEK, May
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