Barbara Takenaga

Born North Platte, Nebraska
Lives and works in New York

EDUCATION

1978 MFA University of Colorado at Boulder

1972 BFA University of Colorado at Boulder

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007 Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearny, NE

  McKenzie Fine Art, New York

  Brattleboro Museum of Art, VT

2006 Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, CO

  Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005 McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY

  Colorado University Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

2004 New Works, Space, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2003 Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY

2001 James Graham & Sons, New York, NY

1997 Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA

1993 Ise Art Foundation, New York, NY (2 person)

  Cambridge Multicultural Center, Cambridge, MA

  College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH

  Art In General, New York, NY

1992 Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY

  Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Mabel Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

1991 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

1990 Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA

  Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s, San Antonio Museum of Art, TX (upcoming)

2008 Midnight Full of Stars, Visual Art Center of New Jersey (upcoming)

  It's Gouache and Gouache Only, curated by Geoffrey Young, Andrea Meislin, New York, NY

2007 Workspace Program, 2001-07, Dieu Donne, New York, NY

  Prelude, Julie Chae Gallery, Boston, MA Cut, Copy, Fold, Cover, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA

  Natural Surroundings, Skylight Fine Arts, Keene Vallery, NY Block Party II, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  To the Left, CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX

  Big Bang! Abstract Painting for the 21st Century, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

  Natured Anew: Reflections on the Natural World, Brian Burkhardt, Doug Bosch, Neeta Madahar, Barbara Takenaga, David Winton Bell Gallery,
  Brown University, Providence, RI

2006 Patternings: Ed Epping and Barbara Takenaga, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (upcoming)

  ZusammenKunst, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany

  Dieu Donne 30th Anniversary Exhibition, CG Boerner Gallery, New York, NY (upcoming)

  Block Party, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  Decades of Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO

  Selections from the Cultural Corridor, Storefront Projects, Pittsfield, MA

  Jack, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA

2005 Cooperation of Pleasures: the paintings of Julie Evans and Barbara Takenaga,
  Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

  National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR (catalogue)

  How Bad Do You Want It? Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

  Collecting Contemporary Prints, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

  Good Vibrations, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY

  2005 Annual Invitational Exhibition, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (catalogue)
  Sharon Booma, Akiko Sugiyama, Sang Roberson, Barbara Takenaga, Rocky Bridges, Joel Graesser, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL

  Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts Letters, New York, NY

  From Natural to Techno Universes: Our Brave New Worlds, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program, Long Island City, NY

  Eye Tattoos, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

2004 and now they aren’t. but they are., Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  The Anxious Image, The Painting Center, New York, NY (catalogue)

  Good Fortune, (benefit exhibition) Dieu Donne, New York, NY

  About Painting, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

  Mindscapes, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

  I Want to Take You Higher, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY

  Border Crossing: Artists from the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

  179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Academy of Design, New York, NY (catalogue)

  Radial Gradient, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  Four Painters, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

  Hard & Soft, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2003 Works on Paper: Variations and Themes, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY

  Round, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY

  Obsessive Pleasures, Pavel Zoubok, New York, NY

  Flicker, Jeffrey Coploff, New York, NY

  New Prints 2003/Winter, International Print Center, New York, NY

  Beautiful Recession, Red Dot, New York, NY

2002 Accumulations, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY (catalogue)

  Vermont Studio Center Press, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT (catalogue)

  Postcards from the Edge, one day Visual Aids Benefit, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (catalogue)

  Artists to Artists, A Decade of the Sharpe Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY

  Cascade of Scales, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY

2001 Alterations, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY

  Revival, Bridewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

  Figstract Explosionism, Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

2000 Elbows and Tea Leaves, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO (catalogue)

  Small Pleasures in Idleness, Gallery 456, New York, NY

  Battenfield, Harder, Lambert, Takenaga, Nightingale-Bamford School, New York, NY

1999 Xmas Show, Kent Gallery, New York, NY

  Trippy World, Baron/Boisante Gallery, New York, NY

  Size Matters, Gale Gates, Et. Al., Brooklyn, NY

  NEFA Fellowship Recipients, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA

  Split/Shift: Bennington and Williams Faculty, Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA

1998 DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

  Contemporary Asian Women Artists, the Taipei Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)

1997 Threshold: Limits of Perception, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)

  Fermented, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

  Generations, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

  1:One, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

  The Intimate Brush, Palo Alto Arts Center, Palo Alto, CA

1996 Pulse: Works on Paper, No.B.I.A.S., Bennington, VT

  Repetition Compulsion, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY

  25th Anniversary Exhibition, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Douglass College,
 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (catalogue)

1995 In and Out of Character, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY

  Redefining Legacies, 1203 Art Space, San Antonio, TX

  Beyond Boundaries and Traditions, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI

1994 Pasando La Mano, (5 person show) Soho 20 Gallery, New York, NY

  Art to Art: Expressions by Asian American Women, Asia Society, New York, NY

1993 Art to Art: Expressions by Asian American Women, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

  The Choice of Painting, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT

  And He Was Looking For Asia: Alternatives to the Christopher Columbus Story, Asian American Arts Center, New York, NY

  NEFA Painting Fellows, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

1992 Rudolfo Abularach, Nachume Miller, Barbara Takenaga, Brattleboro Art Museum, Brattleboro, VT

1991 Inaugural Awards by the Alice Baber Art Fund: Carnwath, Gillespie, McCoy, Pitt, Takenaga, Helander Gallery, New York, NY

1990 Ancestors Known and Unknown: Boxworks, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY (catalogue)
  Itinerary includes: Art in General, New York, NY; The Wooster College Museum, Wooster, OH;
  Kean College, New Jersey; Bruce Watkins Center, Kansas City, MO; Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM (through 1994)

  In The Spirit, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brown, Brice, Barbara Takenaga (catalogue), McKenzie Fine Art, NYC  2007

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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK

Citigroup, New York, NY

CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY

Fidelity Investments, New York, NY

The Hallmark Fine Arts Program, Kansas City, MO

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

Museum of Nebraska Art, Lincoln, NE

Neuberger Berman, New York

The News Corporation, New York, NY

Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH

Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA