Catherine Wagner (b.1953)
EDUCATION
1977/81 Masters of Art, San Francisco State University, CA
1975 Bachelors of Art, San Francisco State University, CA (Honors -- Cum Laude)
1972-73 College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
1971 San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1970-71 Instituto del Arte, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (Full Scholarship)
SELECTED AWARDS
2013-2014 Fellowship, The Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2007-2009 Artist-in-Residence, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
In process Mercer West Art Project, Seattle, WA
In process Arc Cycle (working title), Moscone Central Subway Station, San Francisco, CA
2014 Global Garden, 474 Natoma, BRIDGE Housing, San Francisco, CA
2014 Wave Echo, Ocean Beach South, Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Vitreous Bench, 301 Mission Millennium Tower, Millennium Partners, San Francisco, CA
2011 Nature / Culture, Education Park Branch Library, The City of San Jose, San Jose, CA
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2013 trans/iterate, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2013 trans/literate, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Reparations, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Morphology, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 A Narrative History of the Light Bulb, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2007 A Narrative History of the Light Bulb, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Re-Classifying History, 101 California Street Lobby, San Francisco, CA
2005 Re-Classifying History, de Young Museum (inaugural), San Francisco, CA
2005 Catherine Wagner: Early Works 1975-1981, California Landscapes and Moscone Site, Gallery, Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Trilogy: Reflections on Frankenstein, the Arctic Circle, and the History of Science, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
2003 Cross Sections: Catherine Wagner, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
2002 12 Areas of Concern and Crisis, Installation at Comme des Garcons, Kyoto, Japan
2001 Cross Sections: Catherine Wagner, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2001 Catherine Wagner: Selections 1980-2000, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Art on Paper, Datz Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
2013 Tradition of Mayhem, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
2012 Yale University Art Gallery Re-Opening, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2012 Recent Acquisitions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2012 Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2012 Silver Curtain, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 The Altered Landscape, The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2011 Polaroid [Im]possible, WestLicht - Museum of Photography, Vienna, Austria
2011 HERE, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, C A
2010 Know the Rules - Then Break Them, di Rosa, Napa, CA
2010 The Gallery of California Art, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, May, (3 Scrolls)
2010 State of Mind: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, Feb-June
2010 Masterworks of American Photography: Popular Culture, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
2010 Real and HyperReal, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2010 The View From Here, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2010 State of Mind, A California Invitational, MOPA, San Diego, CA
COLLECTIONS (partial listing)
Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky
Bibliotheque National de Paris
CCA Montreal
Center of Creative Photography
Chase - Manhattan Bank
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
First National Bank of Chicago, IL
Hewlitt Packard Corporation
International Center of Photography, New York
La Salle Bank
Levi Strauss Corporation
The Library of Congress
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Museum of American Art - Smithsonian Institution, NY
E. L. Wiegand Gallery, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
The Oakland Museum, CA
Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA
Progressive Corporation
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Sprint Corporation
Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA
Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Walker Art Center, MN
Whitney Museum of Art, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, CT
SELECTED REVIEWS
2013 Artnet, Karen Vanegas, "Gallery Hopping on Thursdays - Luminous", July 18
........ LA Times, Susan Brenneman, "Literature's Greatest Hits," April, E9
........ Photograph, Glen Helfand, "Catherine Wagner: trans/literate," March/April, pg. 52
........ Photograph Magazine, Glen Helfand, "Catherine Wagner: trans/literate," January 18
........ San Francisco Chronicle, Jesse Hamlin, "Works of Braille in 2-d," January 8
2012 California Style Magazine, Melissa Goldstein, "Morphology"
........ Art Practical, Patricia Maloney, "Stage Presence"
2011 Lexus Magazine, Darrell Hartman, "Cross Sections"
........ Spot Magazine, Lisa Sutcliffe, "Catherine Wagner speaks with Lisa Sutcliffe on Reparations and its
........ connection to war, identity, and spirituality, Fall
........ Artillery Magazine, Scarlet Cheng, "Catherine Wagner, May/June
........ Art News, Lea Feinstein, "Catherine Wagner," April
2010 Visual Art Source, "Catherine Wagner's Reparations at Stephen Wirtz Gallery," Dec.
........ The Huffington Post, "Catherine Wagner's Reparations at Stephen Wirtz Gallery" Dec.
........ Art Ltd. Magazine,, Hearne Pardee, "Catherine Wagner: "Morphology" at Steven [sic] Wirtz Gallery." March.
........ Art Practical blog, Jessica Brier, "Morphology," Jan.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2014 Photograph Reproduced, Utopia, Blind Spot 47, Vik Muniz and Barney Kulok, April.
2014 Multiple Exhibition Reproductions, Cinque Mostre, Cinque Mostre: Time & Again, Posa Edizioni, Feb.
2013 Photographic Series and Interview, Catherine Wagner, Magazine Gitz
2013 Photograph Reproduced, Northern Vista, George Moscone Site, San Francisco, CA,
........Arts for the City: San Francisco: Civic Art and Urban Change, Susan Wels, pg. 117
2012 Intruoduction, My San Francisco, San Francisco City Guide, 2013, Louis Vuitton, pg. 10-11
2012 Photographs Reproduced, Early California Landscapes, HERE., Pier 24 Photography, s ection 16
2010 Profile and Photograph Reproduced, -86 Degree Freezers, Twelve Areas of Concern
........and Crisis, American Art & Philanthropy, Peter C. Marzio, pg 351 - 352
........ Photograph Reproduced, Green Energy, Le Monde Diplomatique, Cedric Gossart,
........“"Quand les technologies vertes poussent a la consommation”". July.
........ Photograph Reproduced, Emerson College, Southwick Hall, The New York Times
........Magazine, David Leonhardt, “"Half a Degree”". May 9.
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