Irene Belknap
251 Reed Street, Mill Valley, CA 94941 • T (415) 383-3613 F (415) 381-0147 e-mail: ibelknap@comcast.net
BIOGRAPHY
Born Irene Angelika Pschorr, Munich, Germany
Education MFA in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, 1991
BA in History of Art, Sweet Briar College, Virginia, 1963, with distinction
Kokoshka School Summer Program, Salzburg, Austria, 1962
Silvermine Academy Summer Program, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1959
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Atelier Berner, Montmartre, Paris
2008 String Theory, Sausalito, CA
2006 Dressed In Words, DeKalb, Illinois
2004 Perchance To Dream, McLean, VA
2003 Mill Valley Art Commission, Mill Valley, CA
1998 Commonweal, Bolinas, CA
1996 Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
1995 Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
1994 Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
PostMark, San Francisco, CA
Marin Theater Company, Mill Valley, CA
1993 Rennaisance Salon, San Francisco, CA
1992 The Bridge Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Brava Strada, San Francisco, CA
1990 Mill Valley City Hall Council Chambers Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
SELECTED JURIED GROUP
2012 Mill Valley City Hall
2006 Homage to Julius, Vallejo, CA
2003 Sonoma Creates, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
2002 Crocker-Kingsley 73rd Exhibition, Crocker Museum, Sacramento, Ca
Bay Area Art V Napa Mill, Napa, CA
It Figures Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, Ca
2001 Go Figure Art Resources Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2000 Ira Pinto Gallery, Washington D.C.
Seeing Red Sonoma Cultural Center, Santa Rosa, Ca
Garments Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1998 The Idea House, San Francisco Design Center, San Francisco, CA
1997 The Figure, Five Marin Artists, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
1996 Concordia-Argonaut Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 (Art) Word (Art), National Poetry Association, San Francisco, CA
International Gorbachev Conference, San Francisco, CA
50th Anniversary Memorial, Aushwitz, Germany
Marin Theater Company, Women In Controversy, Mill Valley, CA
1994 Uman Cultural Center, 20 From Marin, Ukraine, Russia
Sebastopol Art Center, Celebrating Ethnicity, Sebastopol, CA
1993 Texas Fine Arts Association, Drawing Into The 90s, Austin, Texas
Brea Gallery, Sylvia White Selects, Brea, CA
Lilian Paley Center For The Visual Arts, In Honor of Euterpe–Art Inspired
By Music, Oakland, CA
S.J.S.U. & S.J.Institute of Contemporary Art, What Heaven Looks Like
1992 Falkirk Cultural Center, Hope & Harmony, San Rafael, CA
Brigham Young University, Drawing 1992, Provo, Utah
Grace Cathedral, Inferno, Paradiso, Dante-Inspired, San Francisco, CA
The Haggin Museum, Print and Drawing Exhibition, Stockton, CA
Matrix Gallery, Women Artists 1991, Sacramento, CA
1991 Southern Exposure Gallery, Wet Paint, San Francisco, CA
Matrix International, Sacramento, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, MFA Exhibit, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Matrix Gallery, Women Artists 1991, Sacramento, CA
1990 College of Marin, The Great Marin String Along, Kentfield, CA
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Chain Reaction, San Francisco, CA
Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA
College of Marin, Three Person Show, Kentfield, CA
1989 Artisans Gallery, Furs, Feathers, and Fins, Mill Valley, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, Spring Show, San Francisco, CA
Marin Society of Artist, Ross, CA
Artisans Gallery, Garden Party, Mill Valley, CA
Harcourt Gallery, Berkeley Free Speech Art Project, San Francisco, CA
1988 San Francisco Art Institute, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, Spring Show, San Francisco, CA
1987 San Francisco Art Institute, Spring Show, San Francisco, CA
1980 Illuminarium Gallery, Unicorn Show, Sausalito, CA
1979 Illuminarium Gallery, Illuminations II, Sausalito, CA
SELECTED AWARDS AND PRIZES
2003 Marin Shakespeare Co., Seductions Of Shakespeare, Best Of Show
1994 Sebastopol Center For The AMrtserit Award
1993 Art of CA Discovery Awards G old Award (contemporary painting)
Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, Art At The Movies, Best of Show
1999 Art o f CA Discovery Awards: Silver award (graphics), Bronze award (painting)
1991 St . Francis Foundation Honoree, San Francisco, CA
1990 Napa County Fair Best of Show/First Place (graphics)/ Second Place (painting)
Hayward, CA Celebration of the Human Spirit, Award of Excellence
1988 Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, A Look Forward, A Look Back
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Harvard Divinity Bulletin
2006 Marin Magazine, cover
2006 The Three Marriages, A talk by David Whyte, CD cover
2003 Review By Corinne Van Houten for Art Papers p.56 12/03
2003 A Change For The Better, A Talk by David Whyte, CD Cover
2002 You Want To Sell Me A Small Antique, collected poems by Rebecca Lilly, cover
2001 Women Artists, calendar cover Cedco Publishing Company
1997 Institute of Noetic Sciences, summer edition, pp. 10, 11, 13, 14
1995 Gnosis Magazine, summer edition, front coverP
PostModern Identities, Edinburgh University Press, Cover
1994 Quest Magazine, spring edition, front & back cover
1993 Quest Magazine, winter edition, p. 47
1990–1992 Women in Art Engagement Calendar, Pomegranate Publication
1985 Albright, Thomas, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, pg. 172, U.C. Press
1986 Bradley, Josephine, In Pursuit of the Unicorn, Pomegranate Artbook
1987 The Wonderful Series, Four Limited Edition Prints for Children
1968 –70 East Totem West, Poster and Card designs—sold worldwide
1969 California Living, Cover and feature story, April 1969, pp 10–15 & cover
COLLECTIONS
60 Private collections
Zankel, Barko, Tarrant & Miller
Victoria Albert Museum, London, England
Rene De Troye, Amsterdam
TELEVISION
2012 A Forum on Spirituality