Marguerite Elliot: CV

Education
B.A. in Studio Art, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA

Artist Residency
Domaine de Boisbuchet, Lessac, France, May 2023
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, April 2022
Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland, July 2021
Buffalo Creek Artist Residency, Gardnerville, Nevada 2020
Hollufgard Artist Residence, Odense, Denmark, September 2019
Salem Art Works Residency, Salem, New York, June 2019
Kemijarvi Artist Residency, Kemijarvi, Finland, September 2018

Public Art
Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 2023
Domaine de Boisbuchet, Lessac, France, 2023
Pepperwood Nature Preserve, Santa Rosa, CA 2023
Newport Beach Civic Center Sculpture Park, Newport Beach, CA 2022
Hesperian Triangle, San Leandro, CA 2021
Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland 2021
Fairfax Parkade, Fairfax, CA 2021 Collaborative Environmental Art Event and Installation
Buffalo Creek Sculpture Park, Gardnerville, Nevada 2020
Fairfax Parkade, Fairfax, CA 2020
Hollufgard Sculpture Park, Denmark 2019
Cary Hill Sculpture Park, Salem, New York 2019
Kemijarvi Sculpture Foundation, Kemijarvi Finland 2018

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Forthcoming (2026)
Solo Exhibition: Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia

2024
She/They, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
Behind The Mask/The Art of Women Welders, Culture Lab, New York City, NY
Kinship with Birds In Flight and Plight, Women Environmental Artist Directory, Kunztmatrix

2023
Solo Exhibition — Sentinels: Protectors of Wild and Beautiful Places, Pitzer College, Claremont
Sentinels: Protectors of Wild and beautiful Places, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
Finding the Form: Bay Area Sculpture, Sausalito Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Songs of the Earth, Collaborative Installation with author Annabel Abbs, Domaine de Boisbuchet, Lessac France
Portals, Curated by Karen Gutfreund, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
Art &Ecology, Juried by Obi Kaufman, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA

2022
The Wild Side, Curated by Cynthia Aurora Brannval, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
Composing the Future II, curated by Karen Gutfreund, Di Napoli Gallery, San Jose State College, San Jose, CA (catalogue)
Decades, Devilled Egg Gallery, Petaluma, CA Eco-Sculpt, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

2021
Incantations of Earth and Sky, collaborative installation with Dymphna de Wild, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland 2021
Sculpture of the Pacific Rim, curated by Robert Melton, Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, CA
Movement, O Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
Beauty or Truth, curated by Chandra Cerrito, ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
Composing the Future, Livermore Art Center, Livermore, CA (catalogue)
Sculpture Show, Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek, CA

2020
48 Pillars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
The Earth Upon Which We Stand, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA (catalogue)
Emotional Numbness: The impact of war on the human psyche and ecosystems, Tehran, Iran

2019
Affinity: A Winter Show, Ross Common Artspace Gallery, Ross, CA
Bioneers Conference, Marin Civic Center, CA Portraits Of Nature, North Berkeley Investment Partners, Berkeley, CA
A Fond Farewell, San Pablo Art Gallery, CA F213, Protest Literature Library, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018
Metamorphosis, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
Observed, San Pablo Art Gallery, San Pablo, CA
In The Fields: Botanical Lore, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
Miracles Happen, Metabolic Studio, Los Angeles
ka-POW!, Pacific Pinball Museum, Alameda, CA

2011
Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, curated by Meg Linton and Sue Maberry, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, a Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibition, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 1980-2020

Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (catalog);
University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Books Without Bounds, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York City, NY
Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Street Harvest, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Street Harvest in Los Angeles, Art Dock, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
End of the Rainbow, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
The Art of the Women’s Building, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Secular Attitudes, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
The Fate of the Earth, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

GRANTS, COMMISSIONS, COLLECTIONS

The Museum of Modern Art, Permanent Collection, New York City, New York
The Getty Archives, Los Angeles, California
Public Commission: City of San Leandro, CA
Public Commission: Gijon Foundation, Dallas, Texas
Private Commission: Irma Velasquez, Sherman Chan, Sebastopol, CA
Private Commissions: Gene Adcock, Los Angeles, CA
Private Commission: Robert Kagan, Avon, CT
Private Commission: Christine and Bill Bone, Beverly Hills, CA
Public Collection, Domaine de Boisbuchet, Lessac, France National Endowment for the Arts Grant

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Bidwell, Colleen, Fairfax Artist's Work, Archived at the Getty Museum, Marin Independent Journal, August 17, 2019
Lambert, Audra, The Empowering Artistic Practice of Marguerite Elliot, Ante Magazine, April 6, 2019
Gowdy, Adelina, Master of Metal, Interview With Marguerite Elliot, A Visionary Sculpture Artist, August 26, 2019
Palmquist, Katia, “Inspired By Kemijarvi”, Lapin Kansa, Finland, September 20, 2018
McCarthy, David, “American Artists Against War, 1935-2010”, University of California Press, 2015 p. 117
Elliot, Marguerite and Karras, Maria, “The Woman’s Building & Feminist Art Education, 1973-1991”, published with the Getty Initiative and Otis College of Art and Design, 2011
Wilson, William, “Off The Street”, Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1985 Muchnic, Suzanne, : “Art Shading Into Politics”, Los Angeles Times, March 14, 1985 Paul, James, “The Center of Strange in San Francisco”, Washington Post, June 24, 1984 Lippard, Lucy, “How Cool Is The Freeze?”, Village Voice, June 15, 1982

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

PUBLIC TALKS

Public Talks Still Unleashing the Power: Marguerite Elliot in Conversation with Elizabeth Addison “How Feminist art continues to challenge today’s issues and has shaped my own practice”, O’Hanlon Art Gallery, September 9, 2020

Pitzer College Art Galleries: Alumni Artist Talks, Pitzer@Home Presents: Alumni Artist Talk w/ Marguerite Elliot '71, October 15, 2020

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