Resume
Elsa Marley
819 Marin Road, El Sobrante, CA 94803 USA
(510) 758-4471
elsamarley1@gmail.com
www.elsamarley.com
www.art-fusion.org/skylark
Education
1986 Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, PR China
1983-1985 MFA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1954-1957 BFA Vancouver School of Art, Canada
Special Studies
1961 Joan Miro, Spain
1960 Royal College of Art, London
1957 Hans Hoffman, New York, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Blue Ice, Isaac Gallery, Roswell, New Mexico
2009 (October Opening) BLUE ICE: Greenland/09, City Arts Gallery, San Francisco, Ca
2007 Tibet/07 Open Studio, El Sobrante, California
2005 Mountain Metamorphosis: Tibet to Tamalpais, Knoor Gallery, San Mateo, California.
2005 Inside Passage, 525 Market St. Gallery, San Francisco, California
2002 Tibet/02, Open Studio, Oakland, California.
1999 Recent Solo Works, Thrasher Gallery, San Carlos, California.
1999 Retrospective, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Fremont, California.
1988 Triptychs: Elsa Marley, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California
1968 Transformations, Hendricks Gallery, London, England
1965 Revelations: A Multimedia Happening, Open Theater, Berkeley, California.
1964 Assemblage Paintings and Collages, Magic Theater for Madmen Only, San Francisco, California
1963 Recent Assemblages: Elsa Marley, University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, Canada
1962 Works on Paper, Elsa Marley, Janis Gallery, London, England
Collaborations
2004 The Space Between Us, Rosenberg Library, City College of San Francisco, CA (with Ming Ren)
2003 Fourth Biennale Internazionale Dell’ Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy, gold medal winners (with Ming Ren)
2001 Ink Expression, City Art Gallery, San Francisco, California (with Ming Ren)
1998 On Collaborations, 10-Year Retrospective of Ms Marley’s Collaborations, University
Gallery, Shanghai, PR China (with Chen Keliang, Julia Strauss, Mitra Ghaffari)
1991 Joint Ventures: A Sino-American Collaboration (with Chen Keliang), U.S. tour sponsored
by d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, Cal., Montalvo Institute, Saratoga, Cal., Chinese Cultural
Institute, Boston, Haystack School of the Arts, Deer Island, Maine (with Chen Keliang)
1990 Inner Satellites: A Sino-American Collaboration (with Chen Keliang), d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, California1 Joint Ventures: A Sino-American Collaboration (with Chen Keliang), sponsored in China by China Cultural Bureau and U.S. Cultural Bureau, Shanghai; traveling exhibitions in China: Central Art Academy, Beijing, Shanghai State Art Museum, Shanghai, National Art Academy, Hangzhou
1989 Landscapes of the Heart; A Sino-American Collaboration (with Chen Keliang),
Roberta English Gallery, San Francisco, California
Group Exhibitions
2008 City Arts Gallery. CCSF, San Francisco, California
2007 MOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, California
2001 Alternating Currents: New Art Asia and The West, Hitachi Viewseum.com
2000 Beyond Boundaries, Worth Ryder Gallery UC Berkeley, (collaboration. with Mitra Ghaffari)
1998 Women on the Silk Road, Gallery on the Rim, First Interstate Bank and
San Francisco Zen Center, San Francisco, California (with Mitra Ghaffari)
1997 Breckenridge Gallery, San Francisco, California
1985 Emanuel Walters and Atholl McBean Galleries, San Francisco, California
1961 Six International Artists, Gallery Sala Rosa, group show sponsored by Joan Miró, Palma Majorca, Spain
Teaching
2000–present Professor, Chinese brush painting, City College of San Francisco, California,
2003 Visiting guest professor, Chinese brush painting,
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1997–present Watercolor classes, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Fremont, California
1994–1999 Professor, MFA Directed Study Program, Academy of Art College, San Francisco
1987–1989 Shanghai American School, Shanghai, PRChina
Lectures
1996 & 2001 “Buddhism on the Silk Road”, East West International Art Tour, PRChina
1991 Collaboration East/West San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Haystack School of the Arts Deere Island, Maine, City College, San Francisco, California
1987 “Indigenous American Art History”, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, PRChina
Awards
2003 Gold Medal, Fourth Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea (with Ming Ren)
Bibliography
2004 Tibet Poems, art book of eighteen watercolors and fifteen poems, by Elsa Marley, Skylark Publications, signed and numbered collector’s edition of 100
2003 “Artist Wins Award,” Chilliwack Progress, Canada
1998 “Painters Join Hands in Show,” Shanghai Star, China
1991 “Paintings by Chen Keliang and Elsa Marley,” California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California
1990 “An East Meets West Painting Collaboration,” Contemporary China Culture Institute, Vancouver, Canada
1990 “Art Style Meets East West,” China Daily, Chen Yu Fei
1989 “Pacific Crossover,” Los Angeles Times, Sharon Durham, Los Angeles, California.
Collectors
Peter Coyote, Mill Valley, CA -Willis Deming, Oakland, CA -Roberta English, Hong Kong, China - Masood A. Jabarr, Sun Microsystems, San Mateo, CA - Dr. Alan Steinbach, Bolinas, CA - John Handy, Oakland, CA - Diane di Prima, San Francisco, CA - Julia Strauss, London, England - Chen Jia Lin, Shanghai, PRChina - Mark Prior, Denman Island, Canada - Glen Edens, San Mateo, CA – Don Monkerud, Aptos, CA. – Lynn Brown - LA,CA - William Torphy, El Sobrante, CA Lee Winters, Fremont, CA-.Fan Xiao Ming, Hangzhou, PRChina Dr. Mani Amiri, Atlanta, GA, Duke Murphy, San Francisco, Ca.
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