www.johnzurier.com
Born in Santa Monica, California, 1956
Lives in Berkeley, and works in Oakland
Education
1984 MFA Painting
1982 MA Painting
1979 BA Landscape Architecture
1974 University of California at Berkeley
Teaching
2006 - Califonia College of Arts
2002 - 2005 San Francisco Art Institute
2001 - 2003 Stanford University
1996 - 1997 Santa Rosa Junior College
1991 - 1996 University of California, Berkeley
1989 - 1991 San Francisco State University
1988 - 2005 California College of Arts
Awards
1999 Gerbode Faculty Foundation Grant, California College of Arts and Crafts, California
1984 Best of Show Award, Hayward Area Forum of the Arts Annual, Hayward, California
1983 Eisner Award in Fine Art, University of California at Berkeley
Solo exhibitions
2014 MATRIX 255, University of California - BAM Berkeley Art Museum / PFA Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
Recent Paintings, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, Texas
2013 Knowledge is a blue naiveté, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
A spring a thousand years ago, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Watercolors, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
2012 Paintings, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke - Heist, Belgium
2011 Paintings and Watercolors, Gallery Paule 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
2012
30th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
Drawing a Line in the Sand, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
2011 El Genet Blau (The Blue Rider), JiM Contemporani, Barcelona
Spain
Life of the World to Come: Twist and Shout, NIAD Gallery, Richmond, California
2010 Black and White, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, New York
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
- curated by Sarah Bancroft -
Le Tableau, Cheim and Read Gallery, New York
Watercolors. Jack Davidson, Laurie Reid, John Zurier, Pulliam Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Rare and Unreleased, NIAD Gallery, Richmond, California
2009 Evergreen: Green Paintings, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, California
Trans: Form / Color, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California
Monochrome, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Diminuendo & Crescendo: Small Works Exhibition, San Francisco Studio School Gallery, San Francisco, California
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 Korea
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
2006 Line and Surface: Works on Paper, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California
Some, A changing selection of work by Gallery and Invited Artists, and Special Projects, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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, San Francisco - 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
Drawing Room, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, California
1990 Chain Reaction Six, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California
Fifteen Artists of Gallery Paule Anglim, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, California
1989 Invitational Print Exhibition, National Institute of Arts and Disabilities, Richmond, 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 Barbara, California
ProArts Annual, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, California
1985 The Art of Collaboration: Monotypes from the Studios of Garner Tullis, California State University, San Bernadino, California; traveled 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 Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
1983 Hayward Area Forum of the Arts Annual, Centennial Hall, Hayward, 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
Public collections
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Microsoft Corporation Art Collection, Redmond, Washington
Oakland Museum of California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
University of California, San Francisco at Mission Bay, San Francisco, California
Principia College, Elsah, Illinois
