biography


Saundra U. McPherson lives and works in San Francisco.

representation
Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery
Block Gallery, Oakland, California
The Gardener, Berkeley, California

selected exhibitions

2010 NRDC Environmental Art Prize, Nabi Gallery, New York, NY

"Current" Block Gallery, Oakland

Group Show, ARC Gallery, San Francisco

2009 Hyde Street Gallery, San Francisco

"Sanctus" The Gardener, Berkeley (solo)

2008 "Then and Now, A Ten Year Retrospective" HANG Art, San Francisco
"Natural Order" Axis Cafe and Gallery, San Francisco (solo)

2006 "The Color of Iron" Chazen Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, Madison

2005 Gallery Artists Group Show, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco
"Women's Work Now" Seven Bay Area Women Painters, Bank of America
Building Gallery, San Francisco

2004 "Art Walk" San Francisco Embarcadero Centers

2003 "Pacific Northwest Annual" University of Oregon, Eugene
"Bold Expressions" Northern California Arts, Sacramento, CA
Artist's Talk, The Gardener, Berkeley

2002 Membership in the National Association of Women Artists in New York
"Landscape/Mindscape" HANG Gallery, San Francisco
Artist's Talk, "Landscape/Mindscape" HANG Gallery, San Francisco
"American Portfolio" Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon
"Invisible Truths" MatrixArts, Sacramento, CA
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA

2001 Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA

2000 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
Sierra Arts Center, Reno, Nevada (solo exhibition)
Genevieve Gallery, San Francisco (solo exhibition)
St. Supery Gallery, St. Helena, CA (solo exhibition)
456 Montgomery Street, San Francisco  (solo exhibition)
"Arts on Fire" Sanchez Art Center Gallery, Exhibition Prize
"Influence/Confluence: Seven San Francisco Painters" The Gallery at the San Francisco Antique and Design Center
"The Artist and Technology" Danville Fine Arts Gallery, Danville, CA

1999 "The Heaven and the Earth and the Myriad Things As One Body" Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA


education, affiliations & publications


2010 Winner, NRDC Environmental Art Prize
2007-08 Folly Magazine (2007, 2008)

2008 Studio Visit Magazine (Fall '08)

2003 Accepted to the National Association of Women Artists, New York

1992-1999 San Francisco Art Institute Extension, and University of California, Berkeley Extension

1989 M.S. Non-Profit Arts Management, Drexel University, Philadelphia

1981 B.S. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley