EXHIBITIONS (SOLO and TWO person)
POKE, The Fourth Wall, Oakland, Ca. July 8 – August 26, 2023
Centre Associafitd’ Art Contemporain, Auvillar, France, May 1- 31, 2020
Gallery Commonweal, BOLINAS, Ca. , October –Decemer 2019
RollUP Project – “A Sampling of Knots,” selected by Sqeak Carnwath- window 217 Harrison Street, Jack London Square, Oakland, Ca 2019
GearBox Gallery, “Other Conversations,”Two person with Irene Nelson Nelson October – November 2017
Jack Fischer Gallery, Potero Street location, “Approach,” two person show with Michael Sell, March, 2016
Jack Fischer Gallery, “Minor Characters and Unlikely Companions” solo, Geary St., San Francisco, Ca., September, 2012)
Alphonse Berber Gallery “New Images of Man and Woman”, Alphonse Berber Gallery,”There was Once a World”, back room, Berkeley, Ca. 2009-2010
Shreve’s, San Francisco, Ca., 1991
871 Fine Arts Gallery, 250 Sutter, San Francisco, Ca, 1991
University Press Bookstore Gallery, Berkeley, Ca,, 1986
B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1983
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Roundweather Gallery, “Exchange the Experience,” Oakland, Ca. 2021
Miami Project (satelite of Art Basel) , Miami, Florida, represented by Jack Fischer Gallery, December, 2015
Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, Ca. 2011Art MRKT San Francisco, Concourse Exhibition Center, San Francisco. May 19-22, 2011
William Havu Gallery, Denver 040 Cherokee Street Denver, Co. (06-09, 2011)
Aqua Miami, Jack Fischer Gallery, Miami Beach, Fl., Dec.2-5, 2010
Eclectix Gallery, El Cerrito, Ca., 2009
California Small Works 12th Annual Exhibition, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art,
Santa Rosa, Ca., 2000
Danville Fine Art Gallery, Danville, Ca, Printmaking: Diversity, Danville, Ca. 2000
SF Arts Commission Gallery, SF, 1987
Art in Embassies Program – United States Department of State, Vienna, Austria – 1996
871 Fine Arts Gallery, Group show, San Francisco, Ca., 1992
Village Theater Gallery, Danville, CA, “The Printed Page” Bay Area Printmakers
PRESS
“After all” November, 2019 – January, 2020
ARTOPTICON.US
January 8, 2020
Frances Lerner: “After All” at Gallery Commonweal, Bolinas CA
THE STUDIO WORK
July 27, 2017
Frances Lerner \ Studio Visit
Elise Morris
ARTBUSINESS.COM
March 26, 2016
Jack Fischer Gallery: Frances Lerner – Minor Characters and Sympathetic Criminals
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Saturday, October 3, 2012
Review: Frances Lerner “From calming to alarming” Kenneth Baker, art critic
VISUAL ART SOURCE
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Review: “Frances Lerner” DeWitt Cheng
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Saturday, December 26, 2009
‘Review: “New Images of Man and Woman” Kenneth Baker, art critic
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
“Frances Lerner paints puppets that puzzle” Jesse Hamlin, Special to The Chronicle, Thursday, January 21, 2010
EAST BAY EXPRESS
Back to the Future, Berkeley art historian Peter Selz reexamines the human condition, By DeWitt Cheng, December 16, 2009
COLLECTIONS
Berkeley Art Museum
University of San Francisco
Robert Hass and Brenda Hillman
Leo and Dorothy Braudy
Bruce Johnston and Tom Knoll
COMMERCIAL WORK, Publications
Cover image “The Loom,” Sobre un dia, en el Mundo,Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Brenda Hillman poems, Translation of Ezequiel Zaidenwerg
A Cat reprinted, Leonard Michaels (author) and Frances Lerner (illstrations)
The House Press, 2018
Chain Magazine, University of Honolulu, Hawaii (2001)
Cover for Firecage, a&bend press, San Francisco (2000)
Artwork included in Prosodia – The New College of California Poetics Journal -(1999)
Cover for Ploughshares literary magazine,
Covers for The Seneca Review for Hobart and William Smith Colleges
The Penumbra Press, fine arts and poetry books
1 ‘Epervier Press
Maryland Arts Council publications
Book illustrations for A Cat by Leonard Michaels, Riverhead Books – Div. of Putnam Books, Madison Avenue, NY,NY, 1995
AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES
Moulin a Nef, Auvillar France, Artist in Residence 2018 Awarded by VCCA
Sole Artist-in-Residence, City of Salzburg, Austria August/September 2016
Vermont Studio Center 2007 – Full Fellowship
Sonoma County Arts Council 2004
Napa Valley Arts Council 2003, 2004
Artist in Embassy Program, Austria, 1996
Maryland Arts Council 1983,84,85
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 1982
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, summa cum laude
Master of Arts, summa cum laude, University of Iowa
Concentration: Printmaking
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ohio State University
Master of Social Work, cum laude
University of Maryland School of Social Work
Licensed Clinical Social Worker: State of California
ART INSTRUCTOR
2004 Santa Rosa Junior College – Extended Education for Adults
2004 Santa Rosa Junior College, College for Kids
2003,04 Napa Valley Arts Council – Artist in Schools Program
2002, 03 Marin Country Day School – Turtle Rock Institute
2002 Cultural Arts Council Sonoma County – Arts in Education
2001 Nueva School, Hillborough, California –Create With Computers
1985 D.C. Commission for the Arts and Humanities
1980 to 1981 Maryland Center for the Arts – Goucher College ip
OTHER
Speaker at the North Bay Puppetry Guild, June 5, 2011
“Art and the Mentally Ill” – committee member -Marin General Hospital representative – organized comprehensive art show of patients’ work –Marin Civic Center 2000