Rick Camire Biography

RICK CAMIRE

2240 Hyde St. apt. B

San Francisco, CA. 94109-1509

rickcamire@comcast.net

EDUCATION

1981 MFA Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.

1979 BFA Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Hyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1991 Interart Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1989 Interart Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1986 Interart Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1984 Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1983 Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1980 Bridge Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1977 Market Hours Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Hyde Street Gallery,The Art Of 6, A Year In Review, San Francisco, CA.

2005 Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2004 Somarts Gallery, Corrientes/Currents.Two person exhibition, San Francisco,CA.

2003 Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2002 Visual Aid. Big Deal, San Francisco, CA.

2002 Budget Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2002 Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2002 CBS Market Watch. COM, San Francisco, CA.

2001 Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2000 Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1998 Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA.

1997 Somarts Gallery, Working Art II, San Francisco, CA.

1997 Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1996 Art Concepts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA.

1996 Center for the Visual Arts, State of the Arts, Oakland CA.

1995 Bay front Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1995 National Congress of Art and Design, Salt Lake City Utah

1992 Somarts Gallery, Entrance to Another Time, 1492-1992; La Entrada Frente A Otro Tiempo, San Francisco, CA.

1991 Lab Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1990-91 Emmanuel Walter Gallery, Annual Exhibition, San Francisco, CA.

1989 John Berggruen Gallery, Hospitality House 4th Annual Exhibition. San Francisco, CA.

1989 Emmanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1988 Clara Hatton Gallery, Sixteen Young Bay Artists. Colorado State. University, Fort Collins, CO

1988 M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA.

1988 Emmanuel Walter Gallery, Overview, San Francisco, CA.

1988 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Dissonant Abstraction, San Jose, CA.

1988 The Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Pacific Prints 1988, Palo Alto, CA.

1986 Interart Gallery, Summer Introductions, San Francisco, CA.

1986 Dealers Choice, New California Painting,Rancho Santiago College,SantAna,CA.

1985 The Old Warehouse, Unabashed Symbiotics, Oakland, CA.

1983 Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1982 Stillman Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1981 San Francisco Art Institute, Cal Arts Exchange Exhibition, San Francisco, CA

1981 Richmond Art Center, San Francisco Art Institute Faculty & Student Exhibition, Richmond, CA.

1981 Heller Gallery, University Of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

1976 Del Mar College, 10th Annual National Drawing, and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Corpus Christi,TX.

1968-70 Copley Society of Boston, Boston, MA.

UNIVERSITY TEACHING

1997-2002 San Francisco Art Institute, Painting Dept. San Francisco, CA.

2002-2005 Artist Mentor Program, Tutorial, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.

AWARDS & GRANTS

1996-97 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Grant, New York,

COMMISSIONS

2001 Four Points Hotel, Chung Ho, Taipei, Taiwan

2002 Four Points Hotel, Chung Ho, Taipei, Taiwan

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

1981 Archives Of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. The Richard Camire Papers

2000-03 San Francisco Art Institute, Board of Trustees

2000-04 San Francisco Art Institute, Artist Committee

DONATIONS

1989 Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department Of State Washington D.C.

1986 World Print Council, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1991 Artweek, Recent Works, Richard Camire, vol. 9

1989 Art In Embassies, Book 25 At The U.S. Department Of State.

By Douglas McCreary Greenwood, Library of Congress # 894409,

1989 Art in America, Recent Works, vol. 9

1989 California Art Review: American References, ed. Les Krantz Pages, 296, 347, 360

1987 Artweek, Permutations of Involvement, vol. 18, no. 1

1987 Artweek, Wrestling With Abstraction, vol. 17, no. 32

1986 San Jose Mercury News, Dissonant Abstractions, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.

1986 Orange County Register, New California Painting, Dealers Choice,

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

City Hall, Oakland, CA.

CRP Associates, Moraga, CA.

Lehmann Brothers, San Francisco, CA.

Consolidated Companies, Walnut Creek, CA.

Banco Interandino, Lima, Peru

World Print Council, San Francisco of Modern Art, San Francisco, Ca.

Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State

Four Points Hotel, Chung Ho, Taipei, Taiwan

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C. Deed of gift. The Richard Camire Papers.

City Hall, Lowell, MA.

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Mr. & Mrs. Tom DiMare Indio, Ca.

Carlos Rodríguez Paster (Former Peruvian Financial Office)

Sidney Blackard, Los Gatos, CA.

Robert Rockwood, Saratoga, CA.

Adam See, Walnut Creek, CA.

Lori Nahigian, Stockton, CA.

Jean Palmer, San Francisco, CA.

Ambassador & Mrs. Watson, Lima, Peru

Richard Mickley, Sausalito, CA.

Henry A. Osuna, San Francisco, CA.

Hi-Suk Dong, Berkeley, CA.

Joan Marechal, San Francisco, CA.

Margaret Olwell, Sausalito, CA.

Nancy Chaftin and Mark Krinsky, San Francisco, CA.

Alice Rayner, San Francisco, CA.

Linda Yao, San Francisco, CA

Three Gorges Dam Statement