Mary Curtis Ratcliff

Education
1967 B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1963 A.A., Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Artist Residencies
2008 New Pacific Studio, Masterton, New Zealand
2005 Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France
2000 Gentoshiya, Shimabara, Japan
1999 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1997 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Eighteen solo exhibitions, including:

2009 Patterns of Emergence, Hess Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA.
2006 Arborescence, Art Scape Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2005 Surface Fancy, Craft & Cultural Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2000 Ten Days in Shimabara, Gentoshiya Gallery, Shimabara, Japan
1997 Window Dressing, Addison Street Windows, Berkeley, CA
1994 Ritual Fashion, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
Selected Group Exhibitions
Over 80 group exhibitions, including:
2008 Rhode Island School of Design Biennial, Oakland, CA
2007 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery
2006 Art-Scape Gallery, Walnut Creek
2005 22nd Annual Berkeley Art Center National Juried Exhibition (Curator: Karin Breuer)
2004 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco
2003 Sweet Tooth, Copia: The American Center for Food, Wine, and the Arts, Napa (catalog) Food Matters: Explorations in Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (catalog)
Groupe Mémoires, Galerie Dukan, Marseille, France (catalog)
2004 International Group Show, Osaka, Japan
1999 What is Art for? The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland (Curator: William Wiley)

Selected Collections
Work in over 80 public and private collections, including:

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Oakland Museum of California

Selected Bibliography

Inquiring Mind, Fall 2005 (vol. 22: no. 1): five artworks illustrated.
Patricia Beach Smith, “‘Sweet Tooth’ lets artists play with their food.” Sacramento Bee, 2/23/03
Groupe Mémoires. Paris: Tiempo Editions, 2001.
Jean-Louis Avril, “Le Groupe Mémoires: Retenir le passé… au présent qui déjà fuit.” Univers des Arts, March 2001, pp. 41–43.
“Le Groupe Mémoires à la Galerie Dukan.” Beaux Arts Magazine, March 2001, p. 123.
Sakane Kahori, “WTC Exhibit Showcases for Int’l Artistic Talent.” The Daily Yomiuri, 6/28/00.
Nami Kogi, “Exhibition titled ‘Shimabara’.” Shimabara News, 6/15/00 (in Japanese).
Matthias Gafni, “Take a trip to Ratcliff’s ‘Memory Park’.” Vallejo Times-Herald, 5/2/00, C-1,2.
Abby Cohn, “Gallery Offers Glowing Display.” San Francisco Chronicle, 3/3/00.
Abby Cohn, “Vallejo’s Living on Easel Street.” San Francisco Chronicle, 11/15/99
Jolene Thym, “What Is Art? What Are You?” Oakland Tribune, 3/7/99, L-1,4
Scott Ponemone, “Colonies aid artists’ creative flow,” The Sun (Baltimore), 2/24/98, 2A
Harry Roche, “Bay Area: Addison St. Windows,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 1997
Deirdre Boyle, Subject to Change-Guerilla Television Revisited, New York: Oxford Press, 1996
“re: Mixed Messages,” (artist statement), Art Beat, Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art newsletter, December 1996-January 1997.
Rusty Cantor, “The Artist Speaks” (interview), Art Beat, No. California Women’s Caucus for Art newsletter, April-May 1996