KIRSTEN STOLLE

RESUME

Education   
  1990-91  Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
  1985-89  Framingham  State College, Framingham, MA
  1988    Richmond/Kensington College, London, England

Awards/Honors
   2009    Artists’ Fellowship Residency, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland
   2008    Individual Artist Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission
Artist Residency, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
   2007    Senior Artist Residency/Fellowship, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
Finalist, Chateau de La Napoule Artist Residency/Fellowship, La Napoule, France
   2006     Artist Residency, Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN
                Finalist, Artist Residency, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
   2005     Artist Residency, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
   2004    Print and Drawing Council, Minneapolis Institute of Arts Purchase Award
Applebaum Family Purchase Award
Maxine and Stuart Applebaum Award of Excellence
   2002    Individual Artist Grant, Peninsula Community Foundation
   2001    Invited Artist, Trillium Press
   2000    Individual Artist Grant, Peninsula Community Foundation

Solo Exhibitions
   2010    Anatomy of a Future Forest, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA   
   2007    Evolutionary Soup, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Arboretum and Exquisite Inspirations, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
   2006     Uncovered:  New Works by Kirsten Stolle, Julie Nester Fine Arts, Park City, UT
   2005    Room to Breathe: New Paintings by Kirsten Stolle, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
   2003    Ohm and Shorthand:  New Monotypes and Paintings, Tercera Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
   2002    Kirsten Stolle: New Monotypes from Trillium Press, Trillium Press, Brisbane, CA
New Works:  Kirsten Stolle, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NY, NY
   2001    New Prints by Kirsten Stolle, Turner Martin, Palo Alto, CA
   2000    Retro(spective): Monoprints and Monotypes by Kirsten Stolle, Octavia’s Haze Gallery,
San Francisco, CA

Select Group Exhibitions
2009     Sounding Out, Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008        Encaustic Paintings, Julie Nester Art Gallery, Park City, UT
Seventeenth Biennial Art Auction, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Moving Pictures, Julie Nester Art Gallery, Park City, UT
Solvent Whisper, Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art on the Vine Centennial Auction, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
2007    The Little Show, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
Senior Artist Fellowship Group Show, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
    10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Dolby Chadwick  Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006    5th Minnesota National Print Biennial, University of Minnesota, Katherine E. Nash Gallery
             5th Minnesota National Print Biennial, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
             Natural and Unnatural:  Imagining Landscape, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
2005    17th Anniversary Show, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Out of Line, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction, Monterey Art Museum, Monterey, CA
2004    Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Inaugural Exhibition, Julie Nester Contemporary Art, Park City, UT
    New Works by Kirsten Stolle and Chris Metz, Ballard Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, WA
    Printmaking & Process, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
   2003    4th Minnesota National Print Biennial, University of Minnesota
         Juror: Siri Engberg, Associate Curator, Walker Art Center, Marjorie Devon, Tamarind Institute
77th Annual International Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA,
      Juror:  Mark Pascale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago
    2002     Trillium Press: Contemporary Prints, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
    2001     Surfacing:  Furniture, Boxes and Monotypes, Tercera Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
    1999     Ink & Clay, 25th Anniversary Show, W. Keith and Janet Kellog Art Gallery, Pomona, CA
  
Select Group Exhibitions (con’t)
    1998     First Northern Ireland Print Exhibition, Townhouse Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
Community of Prints: Laney College and the CSP, Laney College, Oakland, CA
    Tradition and Transition in the 90’s, Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA       
    1997     Beyond Boundaries, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
    1995     Biennial Print and Draw Competition & Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA 
    1994     Drawn to Abstraction, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA 
Small Works Juried Exhibition, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
    West Coast Works On/Of Paper, The Ink People, Eureka, CA
    1992     Stockton National Print/Drawing Exhibition, the Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA   


Commissioned Works
 Graciela Hotel, Burbank, CA       
 Pillsbury, Winthrop LLP, San Diego, CA
 Excelsior Peabody Hotel, Little Rock, AR

Museum Collections
  Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN       
  Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA

Private Collections
 Lynn Schnitzer            Julie and Brent Baker        Todd Dobratz & Rick Simon
 Nancy Mueller, Nancy’s Inc.        Gary Applebaum        Tom and Janice Bolles
 
Corporate  Collections
  Northwest Trust Bank, NYC
  Imperial Bank, Palo Alto, CA
  M-Power, Inc., San Francisco, CA
  Royal Park, Yokohama, Japan
  Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, Redwood City, CA
  Gordon & Goddard, LLP, Oakland, CA
  KPMG Peat Marwick, Menlo Park, CA
  Kimpton Group, San Francisco, CA
  Mastercard Collection, Dover, DE
  Hilton Hotels, Atlantic City, NJ and Memphis, TN
  Prescott Hotel, San Francisco, CA
  Four Seasons, San Francisco, CA
  Four Season, Chicago, IL
  Onset Ventures, Menlo Park, CA
  Navy GSA, San Francisco, CA
  Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, Scottsdale, AZ
  Marriott Desert Ridge, AZ
  Pfizer, NYC
  Hyatt Hotels, Chicago, IL
  AG West, CA
  Much Chelist, Chicago, IL
  Adams Street Partners, Chicago, IL
  Slanted Door Restaurant, San Francisco, CA
  Don Sebastiani & Sons, Sonoma, CA
  Friedman & Taitelman, Los Angeles, CA
  Spear Street Capital, San Francisco, CA
  Scios, Inc., Fremont, CA
  Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA
  Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP, San Francisco, CA
  Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP, Los Angeles, CA
 

Corporate  Collections (con’t)
  Speak Street Capitol, San Francisco, CA
  Balboa Bay Club, Newport Beach, CA
  Wellington Management Company, Boston, MA
  KPMG Peat Marwick, San Francisco, CA
  Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
  Coudert Brothers LLP, San Francisco, CA
  VeriSign, Inc., Mountainview, CA
  Greenberg Traurig LLP
  Nordstrom, Seattle, WA
  Barclays Global  Investors, San Francisco, CA
  Miles and Stockbridge, Baltimore, MD
  Backen Gillam Architects, Sausalito, CA
  Hotel Palomar, Washington, DC
  Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE
  Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, NV
  Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
  Shokolaat, Palo Alto, CA
  Intercontinental  Hotel, San Francisco, CA
  Essex Investment Management Group, Chicago, IL

Bibliography   
   ElevenEleven, Issue #5, editor Hugh Behm-Steinberg, June 2008
  “Color from the Hive, New Encaustic Paintings at Julie Nester Gallery”, Geoff Wichert, 15Bytes, September 2008
  “Kirsten Stolle, Evolutionary Soup”, Catalog  Essay, Diana Daniels, Assistant Curator, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 2008   
  “Kirsten Stolle: Evolutionary Soup at Dolby Chadwick Gallery”, Art. Ltd., March 2008
  “Previews”, Artweek, November 2007
  “September Shebang Flattens for Fall”, Portland Tribune, October 2007
  New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, Pacific Coast Edition, Volume 61, 2005
  Derailed, starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen, Spring 2005
 “Crown Prints”, St. Paul Pioneer Press, January, 2004
  “An Artists Mecca”, San Mateo County Times, June, 2003
  Hayden’s Ferry Review, Spring/Summer 2002
  85th Anniversary Catalogue of Prints, California Society of Printmakers, 1998
  Hayden’s Ferry Review, Spring/Summer 1998