Marc Katano (b. 1952)
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Common Knowledge, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023 Longhand, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2022 Manner of Speaking, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 In Retrospect, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2019 When Water Freezes, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018 Selected Works, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Wirtz Art, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2017 Outside Voice, Art Museum of Sonoma County, CA
2016 New Work, Art Museum of Sonoma County, CA
2016 Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2015 Still Water, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2014 Angels’ Share, Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Incisions, paintings on wood, 1990-91, 455 Market, San Francisco, CA
curated by Bonnie Earls Solari
2009 Marc Katano: Half Light, Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Marc Katano: Eurhythmic, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York, NY
2006 Costello Childs Art, Phoenix, AZ
2005 Tadu Contemporary Art Downtown, Santa Fe, NM Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA 2003 Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, HI
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 Line Drawing, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York, NY
2001 New Paintings, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2000 New Paintings, Pulliam & Deffembaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
1999 Palimpsest, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York, NY
Pulliam & Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Dusk and Dawn, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
1995 Light and Shadows, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Penumbra, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Art Salon II, Chiba, Japan
1994 Gallery Fresca, Tokyo, Japan
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA
1992 GH2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Mary Wright Gallery, Dallas, TX
1986 Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Jose, CA
1984 Bank of America Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hodges/Banks Gallery, Seattle, WA
1983 Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 California State University, Hayward, CA
1980 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979 Introductions, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
2015 Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Sonoma, CA
2013 AKIN: The Art of Nicole and Marc Katano, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
curated by Kate Eilertsen
2010 One by the Other, The EDGE Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009 Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV, November 09
2008 Inaugural Exhibition, The Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Inaugural Exhibition, Costello Childs Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Friends, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
2007 18 Painters, Visual Arts Gallery, Mt. Hood College, Gresham, OR
CCA Artists at Wirtz Gallery, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Inaugural Exhibition, Costello/Childs Contemporary, Phoenix, AZ
Paintings on Paper 1998-2006, Costello/Childs Contemporary, Phoenix, AZ
3 Painters, Tadu Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Black and White, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
2004 Marc Katano Paintings/Minoru Ohira Sculpture,
Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Painting Show, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 In Context: Pattern in Contemporary Printmaking
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2001 Marc Katano and Minoru Ohira, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
Contemporary Prints, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the
Permanent Collection: San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2000 Past and New Print Publications: Works by Marc Katano, Brad Durham,
Charles C. Hill and Craig Kauffman: Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1999
LA NY LA, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
1998 Works on Paper, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 California Painting Sampler: Selections from Bank of America
Corporation Art Collection, Bank of America
World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
Two Person Exhibition, Katano/Sakata, L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
1996 NEWances, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Beginnings, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1996 Group Exhibition, Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1994 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
A Common Language, Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA
Marc Katano and Minoru Ohira Nature Organized,
Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Inaugural Exhibition, L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Gallery IV Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Finarte, Nagoya, Japan
1991 The Artist’s Hand: Drawings from the BankAmerica Art Collection
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Maruzen Gallery, Sendai, Japan
1990 Entetsu Art Theater Rose, Hamamatsu, Japan
1989 Order and Intuition, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1988 Mind Over Matter: New American Abstraction, International Art Project,
San Francisco, CA
Then and Now, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1987 Shaklee Building, San Francisco, CA
1985 Cultural Frontiers Across the Pacific,
Dominican College, San Raphael, CA
California Directions in Painting,
Visual Arts Center of Alaska Anchorage, AK
1984 Traditions Transformed, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
American Woodcuts Revival and Innovation, organized by
World Print Council; traveling exhibition throughout Europe, sponsored
by U.S.I.S. Mary Porter
Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
1983 Oriental Art, The St. Paul Company Headquarters, St. Paul, MN
The Japanese Artist in Hawaii ’83, Amfac Center Gallery, Honolulu, HI
1981 Bay Arts ’81, juried by Jan Butterfield, Belmont, CA
February: A Group Exhibition, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Crocker-Kingsley Annual Exhibition, juried by Betty Turnbull, E.B.
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Three at Stephen Wirtz, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SECA Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1980 Sculpture, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA
1978 Alumni Invitational, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1977 Group Exhibition, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA
1975 Hayward Area Festival of the Arts, Hayward, CA
1974 Bay Area Contemporary Artists,
Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Public Collections
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Legion of Honor, Achenback Collection, San Francisco, CA
Renown Regional Medical Center Art Collection, Reno, NV
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
Sacramento Regional Transit District, Sacramento, CA
Awards
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Absolut Vodka campaign, Los Angeles, CA
KQED-Crown Zellerbach Exhibition, jurors: Austin Conkey, Judith L. Dunham, Bonnie Earls-Solari, San Francisco, CA, 1980
Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1981