Barbara Horiuchi
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Barbara R. Horiuchi
Resident of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State
E-mail: [email protected] 

Areas of Specialization: Painting, Video, Installation Art, Written work


Art Exhibitions (* solo exhibitions marked with an asterisk)
2025         P
ostcards From the Edge, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York City, NY

2019         Crocker Art Museum, Annual Art Auction, Sacramento, CA

2018         Crocker Art Museum, Big Names, Small Art, Sacramento, CA               

2017        
Something from Nothing: Art and Handcrafted Objects from America’s Concentration Camps, Thacher
                 Gallery, University of San Francisco, CA
                
Crocker Art Museum, Annual Art Auction, Sacramento, CA
                 Shifting Movements: Art Inspired by Yuri Kochiyama (1921-2014), SOMArts Cultural Center, San
                 Francisco, CA
                 Postcards From the Edge, Metro Pictures, New York City, NY


2016        
Transformation: 
25 Years of Asian American Women Artists, Harrington Gallery, Firehouse Arts Center, Pleasanton, CA
                 Crocker Art Museum, Big Names, Small Art, Sacramento, CA
                 
Social Justice: It Happens to One, It Happens to All, Gutfreund Cornett Art at the St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga,
                 CA, slideshow exhibition
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2015         Crocker Art Museum, Annual Art Auction, Sacramento, CA           

2014         Community Matters: SJSU Alumni in San Jose, San Jose City Hall,  San Jose, CA (to March 2015)
                 Postcards From the Edge,
Luhring Augustine, New York City, NY

2013         Crocker Art Museum Annual Art Auction, Sacramento, CA 
                 Transport: Where We Go From Here..., Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
                 Postcards From the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. ,  New York City, NY

2012         San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Fall Auction, 2012, San Jose, CA
                 Summer National Juried Exhibition 2012, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
                 Crocker Art Museum Annual Art Auction, Sacramento, CA
                 Arts of Pacific Asia, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
                 Saratoga Library, exhibition of works on metal, Saratoga, CA
                 Postcards From the Edge, Cheim & Read, New York City, NY
                 
2011         Winter Wunderkammer, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
                 31st Annual Auction & Exhibition, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
                 HeArt to Help Japan, El Rio, San Francisco, CA
                 Postcards From the Edge, CRG Gallery, New York City, NY

2010       ICA 30th Annual Auction & Exhibition, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
                Lift Off, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
                Saratoga Library Exhibition, Saratoga, CA
                *Morbid Curiosities, Group Exhibition, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
                *Freedom & Justice, Manzanar National Historic Site, Independence, CA (performance)
                *Muffy Fontanosa, John Pickelle Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
                Postcards From the Edge, ZieherSmith, New York City, NY

2009      *With Liberty and Justice for Some, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
                *Solo Exhibition, Monarch Contemporary, Seattle, Washington
                Digital Art LA International New Media Expo, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, LosAngeles, CA
                Digital Shorts Screening, “Mizu no Kokoro,” Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los  Angeles, CA
                *ATC, Herbert Sanders Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
                Postcards From the Edge, Visual Aids, Metro Pictures, NY

2008       de Young Museum College Night, A Tribute to Asian/American/ Art & Cultural Expressions,1900-Present in  
                 Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA, Curated by Robert C. Melton
                 Group MFA Graduate Exhibition, Herbert Sanders Gallery, San  Jose State University, San Jose, CA
                 APAture, 10th Annual Juried Exhibition, Kearny St. Workshop, San Francisco, CA
                 Interrupt! Intervene! Rethinking Art as a Social Practice, UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State University Archival Lounge, Santa     
                 Cruz, CA (performance)

2007        Postcards From the Edge, Visual Aids, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
                *Solo Exhibition, Black Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

2006       Works Benefit Auction Show, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
                 APAture, 8th Annual Juried Exhibition, Kearny St. Workshop, San Francisco, CA
                 *Solo Exhibition, Herbert Sanders Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
                 Flux: Works Members Show, Works Gallery, San Jose CA
                *Solo Exhibition, Gallery 8, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

2005       Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids, Robert Miller Gallery, NY

2004       South Bay Artists Exhibition, Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, CA, Curator: Joanne Northrup, San Jose Museum
                of Art
                South Bay Art Momentum Finalists Show, Phantom Galleries, San Jose, CA
                South Bay Art Momentum, Le Petit Trianon, San Jose, CA

Selected Public and Private Collections
Crocker Art Museum
Monterey Museum of Art
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula Collection
William and Barbara Hyland
Richard and Elizabeth Waldo
Eric and Babette Restani

Education
2010                 MFA, Pictorial, San Jose State University
2002-2007     Post Baccalaureate, Art & Design, San Jose State University and Asian Studies, San Francisco State University
2001                 BA, Creative Arts for Teaching, San Jose State University

1978                  AA, AS, RT Imaging, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA

Bibliography
San Francisco Foghorn, USF, Finding Something from Nothing: Art Created Inside Japanese Internment Camps, 2017

Good Luck Soup, My Father in the 442nd, 2015
Collecting Nisei Stories, The Wound, 2014
Women's Caucus for the Arts website, Best of 2012, December, 2012
Art Slant, Juried Showcase Finalist, Paintings, Online Exhibition, July, 2012
Momentum, Women's Caucus for the Arts, Catalog, February 2012
Women's Caucus for the Arts website, Featured Artist, Online, February 2012
Asian American Arts Alliance, Featured Artist week of Feb. 22nd, Online, February, 2010
Visual Overture Magazine, Spring Edition, Juried International Emerging Artists Competition, February, 2010
Art Slant , Juried Showcase Finalist, Installations, Online Exhibition, January, 2010
Art Slant, Juried Showcase Finalist, Paintings, Online Exhibition, September, 2009
My Art Space Featured Artist, online artist network, April, 2009

Talks and Readings

Southwestern College, School of Arts, Communication & Social Sciences, Portfolio Review Guest Speaker, November 2020
Asian American Women's Artist Association Slide Slam with Margo Machida, January 2018
University of San Francisco, CA,
Crafting Something from Nothing: Voices from the Camps, Presented by the Thacher Gallery at USF and the National Japanese American Historical Society, September 2017
San José State University, Department of Art and Art History, Interdisciplinary Critique Rountable Discussion, Life After Graduate School, Guest Speaker, May 2016
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Tateuchi Public Program Series, Nikkei Genealogical Society, October 2015
Japanese American Museum San Jose, CA Perspectives on Camp, Open Mic Poetry reading, April 2015
Collecting Nisei Stories, Inter-generational Reading & Celebration, Berkeley Methodist Church, CA, September 2014

Art Related Experience
2018-2020       Grant Review Pool Panelist, California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA
2016-2018        City of San Jose Public Arts Advisory Committee, CA
2016-2017         Grant Review Panelist, California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA
2015                   Juror,
City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs’ Public Art Program: Iris Chang Park artwork, CA
2013                   Juror, Saratoga Library, Saratoga Union School District, Student Art, Saratoga, CA
2009-2010       Project Manager, San Jose State University MFA Graduate Lift Off, San Jose, CA
2008-2019       Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Bay Area Art Grind, an online arts website
2008                  Juror, Franklin McKinley School District Art Show, San Jose, CA
1997-2003        Art Instructor, 5th Grade Teacher, 7th Grade Teacher, Saratoga Union School District, Saratoga, CA
1996-2000       Art Docent Committee Chair/Co-Chair, Art Docent Instructor, Saratoga Union School District, Saratoga,                           CA

Awards & Scholarships
2013           Puffin Foundation Grant Award
2009         North Orchard Commercial Scholarship
2008         North Orchard Commercial Scholarship

Past Gallery Representation
Monarch Contemporary, Seattle, WA






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