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Biography - Anne Appleby

Born

1954 Harrisburg, PA. Currently lives in San Francisco and Jefferson City, Montana

Education

1989 San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A.
1977 University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, B.F.A.
1971 Philadelphia College of Art

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010 MADE IN USA, Gregm Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Mayor Gallery, London, England
2009 Anne Appleby: The Blue Planet, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2009 Anne Appleby: Here We Are, Missoula Art Museum, MT
2008 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2006 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle WA
2004 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2003 Paintings and New Etchings, November 2003, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Verona Suite, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
2002 Sassuolo Ducal Palace, Camera di Fetotne, Sassuolo, Italy
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2000 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
1999 Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1998 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
1996 Anne Appleby: Paintings, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1995 Anne Appleby: Recent Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1993 Flame Series, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1991 Waters, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 The Blue List, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
The Dancing Ground, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 M.F.A. Exhibition, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1988 The Four Directions, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
1985 Contemporary Gallery, Helena, MT
1981 Governor’s Executive Mansion, Helena, MT

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 All in the Painted View, Museum of Northwest Art, La Connor, WA
Shifting Native Stories, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
Inaugural Exhibition, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
2005 La Collezione Panza: Anne Appleby, Stuart Arends, Anne Truitt Luogo, Switzerland
NewTurf , The University of Vermont; Fleming Musuem, Burlington, VT
WOW: The Work of the Work Henry Art Gallery and Western Bridge, Seattle WA
Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Race, Place, and Memory Tacoma Art Museum WA
2004 Natural Forces: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water Boise Art Museum, ID
Flirting with Rodchenko Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Seattle
2003 Some Painting, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Pushing Paint, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
Studio la Citta, Verona, Italy
Summer Group Show, Joseph Helman Gallery
Beauty With no Regrets, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM
New Montana Painting, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
Conceptual Color: In Albers After Image, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2000 The Panza di Biumo Collection; Works from the 80’s and 90’s, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
Nature, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Minimalism, Then and Now, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Recent Acquisitions from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1999 Material Issues: Recent Gifts from the collection of Katherine and James Gentry, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
ARZ Natura: The work of Anne Appleby, Mario Rels and Patrick Zentz, Mildred S. Scott Galleries, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Planes of Color, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 Around the Bay, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Hands on Color, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
In over our Heads: The image of Water in Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1998 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA.
1997 A Sense of Color, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
1996 Abstraction Absolved, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
SECA Award Show, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
SFAI 125th Anniversary Tribute Exhibition, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1995 3 Painters, Arts Benicia Center Gallery, Benicia, CA
1993 Heart of Light, The Heart of Silence, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
1991 The LAB, San Francisco, CA
1992 Zen Center Hospice Space, San Francisco, CA
Artist’s Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1990 For a Fragile Planet, Invitational Show, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
1988 Spring Student Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1987 Spring Student Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1985 Black Orchid Gallery, Butte, MT
1982 Black Orchid Gallery, Butte, MT
Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT

Selected Grants and Awards

1999 Biennial Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY
1996 SECA Award, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
1991 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
1989 David S. McMillan Award, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1985 Helena Film Society’s Grant to Artists, Helena, MT
1972 Scholastic Scholarship, University of Montana, Missoula

Selected Bibliography

Kenneth Baker, Rural Abstractions in Urban Gallery, San Francisco Chronicle, October 23, 1999.
Harry Roche, Anne Appleby and Robert Bechtle, San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 11, 1996.
David Bonetti, On the bright side, the best SECA show in years, San Francisco Examiner, September 20, 1996.

Selected Collections

Berkeley Art Museum
The Capitol Group, Los Angeles
General Mills Corporation, Minneapolis
Ann Hatch
Hewlett-Packard Corporation
Phyllis Kempner & David Stein
Betty Klausner
Peter and Eileen Michael
Microsoft Corporation
Doctor Giuseppe Panza di Biumo
SAFECO Corporation, Seattle
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Jose Museum of Art
Walker, Richer & Quinn, Seattle
Yellowstone Museum of Art