BORN                                 
Oakland, California 
 
EDUCATION
B.S., University of California, San Francisco, CA
A.B., University of California, Berkeley, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021/22 Mary Ijichi: Assemblages Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2017  Frottage: The Changing Surface  Artspace Edition Shimizu,Shizuoka,Japan 
2014  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2011  Homage to Yayoi Kusama  George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008  (Text)ure George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 
2005   Extrusions  Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA 
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Gesture/Color/Form Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 

60 Years of Collecting University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of  Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

The UMass MOCA presents an overview and highlights the history of the museum's permanent collection, now totaling 4000 contemporary prints, drawings and photographs. 

Echigo-Tsumari International Mail Art Exhibition 2022, Gallery Yuyama, Niigata Pref. Japan

2021
California Girls 2 Richmond Art Center, Curator: Tom Marioni

This onine exhibition is the 50th anniversary show of 'California Girls', which was curated in 1971 but never came to fruition.

21 Expressions, an online exhibition and ebook. National Academy of Arts, Culture and Heritage. (ASWARA) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and ArtFort, India/

2020
The deYoung Open Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco CA

In celebration of the museum's 125th anniversary, The deYoung Open exhibited the work of artists from the nine bay-area counties. Jurors: Enrique Chagoya, Hung Liu, Faith Ringold

A Global Pandemic: What It Means for Me gallery Yuyama, Niigata-ken, Japan

2019
New Encounters 2019 artspace Edition Shimizu, Shizuoka City, Japan
SIA (Society of Independent Artists), Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Curator: Tom Marioni

2018
Way Bay 1 and Way Bay 2  Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Curators: Lawrence Rinder and Kathy Gevitz

Way Bay 1 and Way Bay 2 explored the creative energies that have emerged in the San Francisco Bay Area over the past two centuries. Each exhibition featured nearly two hundred works by Bay Area artists, filmmakers and others who have engaged with the region's geographic, social and cultural landscape.

2017
Half Hundred Swing Show: Homage to Joseph Cornell 2017 , Ao Gallery, Kobe, Japan Curator: Noriko Onohara

2016
Mail Art  Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano, Japan

2015
AU International Contemhibition in Naples from Japan port Art Ex  Museo Hermann Nitsch, Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy
A Celebration of Mail Art  Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada

2014
5X5 An Invitational   Westmont Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA       
Focus Latin America: Art is Our Last Hope, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
Ex Postal Facto SF Center for rhe Book, San Francisco, CA
Ever Gold 5 Year Anniversary Show  Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013                       
Arkansas 45th Collectors Exhibition   Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock AR

2012                      
Smalls, Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashand, OR

 2011                      
5X5 An Invitational ,  Westmont Museum of Art,Santa Barbara, CA
Three-person Show, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco

 2010                
Bohemia Gallery, Ashland, Oregon

 2009                    
Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco
Illegiblusion  Sabina Lee Gallery,  Los Angeles, CA

 2007                       
What is a Line?  Yale University Gallery, New Haven, CT
Los Angeles Asian & Tribal Arts Show, Santa Monica, CA

2004                         
Issho/Together: Japanese American/Japanese National Artists In America 1941-present, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA  Curator: Bob Hanamura                 
AAWAA Group Exhibition, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
Light, Surface and Translucence  Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR

 2003                    
Fine Lines: Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

Fine Lines: Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky represented works by sculptors, painters and artists whose primary medium is drawing, and who favor approaches that emphasize process and material or that challenge conventional notions of drawing.
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In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection comprised thirty-six works made within the last ten years by a younger generation of artists who have absorbed the lessons of minimal and post-minimal art but subvert its tight control.

 2001                    
Traces , Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA  Curator: Signe Mayfield

Traces presents site specific installations, works on paper, and objects by three Bay Area Artists. The work is aligned in its restraint, serene space and reverence for materials.

 1999                      
They Hold up Half the Sky - Redefining the American Art Landscape, South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

1998          
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago IL

1996         
Jan Cicero Gallery; Chicago IL

1995            
Vantage Point - Abstraction, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago IL
Biennial print and Draw Competition and Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Women of Color in Art, Carver Cultural Center, San  Antonio, TX

1994                        
Yellow Forest, SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1993          
Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Time Echoes, C.N.Gorman Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA

1992                      
Gathering, Lite Rail Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Different Voices, University of California Santa Barbara-Women’s Center,      Santa Barbara, CA
Sixth Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin - Parkside, Kenosha, WI
BACA Annual Juried National Exhibition, Part II: Works on Paper,   Berkeley, CA

1991
 Art Works Gallery, Fair Oaks, CA
 Community Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1990                       
Fort Mason Foundation Exhibition, San Francisco, CA

1989          
Worden Gallery, San Francisco, CA  (two-person show)
Fort Mason Foundation Exhibition, San Francisco, CA

COLLECTIONS
 Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
 Archive of American Art (John Held papers)
 Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
 (Sol)LeWitt Collection
 Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

COMMISSIONS
2016                 Villa Motalvo 5-Hour Sculpture
                          
  RESIDENCIES
 2022                Visiting Artist: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, in
                         conjunction with '60 Years of Collecting'                
 2001                The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
 1998                Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
 1996                Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL