Mary Ijichi
Born 1952 in Oakland, California
Education
1982Bachelor of Science, University of California, San Francisco, CA
1974Associate Baccalaureate, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Selected Exhibitions
2004Issho/Together: Japanese American/Japanese National Artists
In America 1941-present, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
AAWAA Group Exhibition, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
Light, Surface and Translucence Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashland,
OR
2003Fine Lines: Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private
Collection, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA
2001Traces , Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA Curator: Signe
Mayfield
1999They Hold up Half the Sky - Redefining the American Art Landscape, South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
1998Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago IL
1996Jan 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
1994Yellow Forest, SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Time Echoes, C.N.Gorman Gallery, University of California,
Davis, CA
1992Gathering, 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
1991Art Works Gallery, Fair Oaks, CA
Community Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990Fort Mason Foundation Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
1989Worden Gallery, San Francisco, CA (two-person show)
Fort Mason Foundation Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
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Publications
2004Previews, by Debra Koppman, Artweek March 2004 Vol 35 Issue 2
2003“Gallery Show Features Bold Expression” by Gloria Russell: Sunday Republican April 20, 2003
2002“Mary Ijichi: Transcendent Text” by Chiori Santiago: Nikkei Heritage,
National Japanese American Historical Society, Vol. IX, Number 1, Winter 2002
2001“Vestiges of the Unconscious” by Laura Reiley: Palo Alto Weekly
May 18, 2001
Collections
Wynn Kramarsky
Sol LeWitt Collection
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Yale University Art Gallery
Residencies
2001The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1998Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1996Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
Community Work
1987, 1988Sakura Kai Asian American Exhibit & Auction, Co-chair,
El Cerrito, CA
1985Asian American Theater Company, Committee Co-chair, San Francisco, CA