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Rails, 1996, Photo etching and woodcut, AP (ed. 40), 29 x 27 1/2 (image)
BORN 1954 Hackensack, NJ
EDUCATION
1983 M.F.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA
1982 M.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA
1979 B.F.A., Alfred University, Alfred, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Heroine, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Tale Spin, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2010 Pomp, diRosa Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA
2009 Wild Wild West.Show, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Wild Wild West.Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Wild Wild West.Show, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Feign, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Guise, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2007 Guise, deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
Kink, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
05-06 "Deborah Oropallo," Boise Art Museum, ID
Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2005 Stretch, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pitfalls, Modernism West, San Francisco, CA
2004 Replica, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 General Purpose, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Oropallo on Paper: 1990-2001, Montalvo Gallery, Saratoga, CA
01-03 How-To: The Paintings of Deborah Oropallo, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA;
other venues: Museum of Glass, International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA;
Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA
Material Handling, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 New Paintings and New Prints, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 House & Garden, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
House & Home, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1997 Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Flat Pictures, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Lessons, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 Selections from the Anderson Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1993 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Kate Block Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1992 Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Ann Jaffee Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, FL
1991 Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Germans van Eck Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Currents/Deborah Oropallo, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Vik Muniz/Deborah Oropallo, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1988 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 Oropallo/Pijoan, Raab Gallerie, Berlin, Germany
1986 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Houdini: Art and Magic, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2011 Houdini: Art and Magic, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Houdini: Art and Magic, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2009 Decline and Fall, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tech Tools of the Trade: Contemporary New Media Art, deSaisset Museum,
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Dress Code, FCMOCA, Fort Collins, CO
Open Project Photography, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Inaugural Exhibition, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
2008 These are the People in Your Neighborhood, Gallery 16 15th Anniversary Group Show,
Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Magnolia Tapestry Project, FCMOCA, Fort Collins, CO
2006 Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2005 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Recent Editions, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Playful Poetics, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
A Group of Mostly Unrelated Things, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
03-04 The Not-so Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture,
San Jose Museum of Art, CA
2003 In Camera, New York, NY
On the Surface: Contemporary Paintings by Bay Area Women, Monterey Museum of Art, CA
Eight Years: The Editions of Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
UC Berkeley Art Alumni Group Exhibit 2002, Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2002 "On the Surface: Contemporary Paintings by Bay Area Women," Monterey Museum of Art, CA
"Eight Years: The Editions of Gallery 16," San Francisco, CA
"UC Berkeley Art Alumni Group Exhibit 2002," Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2001 "Objects Considered," Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts,
Walnut Creek, CA
Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2000 "Celebrating Modern Art: Works from the Anderson Collection,"
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1999 "New Work: Painting Today, Recent Acquisitions," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA
"Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection," San Jose Museum of Art,
San Jose, CA
"Museum Pieces: Bay Area Artists Investigate the de Young," M.H. de Young Museum,
San Francisco, CA
"American Artists' Books Exhibition," California Palace of the Legion of Honor,
San Francisco, CA
"California Dreamin': Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection,"
Bank of America Gallery, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
AWARDS AND HONORS
2007 High Fiber, The Katzen American University Museum, Washington, D.C.
2006 Paul G. Allen Foundation grant in support of solo show at Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
2005 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Award Recipient
1998 Modern Masters Award from the Museum of Art and Environment,
Frank Lloyd Wright Marin County Civic Center, California
1993 Fleischhacker Award
1991 National Endowment for the Arts Award
1990 Art Space, Grant, San Francisco, CA
California Arts Council Grant
1988 Art Space, Support Grant, San Francisco, CA
1987 Engelhard Award, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1983 22nd Annual Art Exhibit, HAFA, Second Place, Hayward, CA
1982 Richmond Art Center Award, Small Format Show, Richmond, CA
Ann Bremer Award, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1981 California State Fair Art Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Sacramento, CA
California State Fair Art Exhibition, Second Place, Sacramento, CA
1978 College Register Certificate of Recognition, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Michael Cory Levins Sculpture Award, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1977 F.C.-J.C. Fine Art Award, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Anderson Collection, Palo Alto, CA
ARA Services, Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. San Francisco, CA
The Gap, San Francisco, CA
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Lang Communications, New York, NY
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Mills College Special Collections Library, Oakland, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
New York Public Library, NY
Nestle USA, Inc., Glendale, CA
Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs CA
Progressive Corporation Mayfield, OH
Robertson Stephens & Company, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
PARTNERS COLLECTION
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