CV Solo Exhibitions 2020 Start-Up Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA 2019 Superfine World Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA 2016 Viterbo University, University Art Gallery, Vibrations, La Crosse, WI 2015 Patterson-Appleton Center for the Visual Arts, Meadows Gallery, Light, Space and Beauty, Denton, Texas Mesa College Art Gallery, Macro Views, Micro Wonders, San Diego, CA Francis Parker, Rose Gallery, Imaginings, San Diego, CA University of Tulsa Art Gallery, Material Visions, Tulsa, OK 2014 Gotthelf Gallery, San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, "Contemplation", La Jolla, CA 2013 San Jose Textile Museum, "Translucence", San Jose, CA Monroe Arts Center, Frehner Gallery, “Radiant Visions”, Monroe, WI East Central College, East Central College Gallery, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Union, MO Capital City Arts Initiative, Nevada Courthouse Gallery, Luminosity, Carson City, NV 2012 Walkers Point Center for the Arts, South Gallery, 'Above, Below and Beyond', Milwaukee, WI Penn College of Technology, Penn State, Main Gallery, "Illuminations", Williamsport, PA Soka University, Founders Hall, Main Gallery, “Transitions”, Aliso Viejo, CA Kishwaukee College, Main Gallery, “Transformations”, Malta, IL 2011 Oceanside Museum of Art, Parker Gallery, “A Matter of Space”, Oceanside, CA Pittsburgh State University, Main Gallery, “Light Moves”, Pittsburgh, KS LUX Center for the Arts, Main Gallery, Light Play, Lincoln, NE Bakersfield Museum of Art, Ablin Gallery, Explorations: Space and Light, Bakersfield, CA 2010 San Diego International Airport, Terminal 2, Floating in Space, San Diego, CA Truckee College, TMCC Main Gallery, Light Moves, Reno, NV Rose Center for the Arts, Lower Columbian College, Weightless, Longview, WA Florida Atlantic Unversity, John D. MacArthur Library, ‘Material Resonance’, Jupiter, FL Gallery 825, ‘Light Play’, South Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 West Valley Art Museum, Light Moves, Surprise, AZ Chico Art Center, Discovery Series: Cathy Breslaw, Chico, CA Charleston Heights Art Center, Main Gallery, Weightless, Las Vegas, NV Earleville Art Center Opera House, East Art Gallery, Recent Discoveries, Binghamton, NY Southern Oregon University, Stevenson Union Gallery,Tapestries of Light, Ashland, OR 2008 Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Bever West Gallery, Topographies, Hamilton, OH University of St. Mary, Goppert Gallery, Reflections, Leavenworth, KS Riverviews Artspace, Casting Rhythms, Lynchburg, VA Waterworks Art Center, Norvell Gallery, Suspension: Color and Light, Salisbury, NC 2005 Claremont Graduate University, East Gallery, Claremont, CA 2001 First National Bank Building, San Diego, CA 2000 Falcon Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA San Diego State University, Corporate Governance Institute, San Diego, CA 1999 First National Bank, San Diego, CA 1998 Wyndham Hotels Corporate Offices, Emerald Plaza, San Diego, CA 1997 Offtrack Gallery, Leucadia, CA 1995 Wyndham Hotels Corporate Offices, Emerald Plaza, San Diego, CA 1994 First National Bank, San Diego, CA
Selected Exhibitions 2019 Coastline College Art Gallery, Districtly Speaking, Newport Beach, CA 2018 Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea 2017 CM Curatorial, San Diego New Contemporaries: Art Prize Nominees, Disappearances, San Diego, CA San Diego Art Prize Winners, San Diego Art Fair, Del Mar, CA 2016-17 San Diego Art Institute, Video Installation, Flow-Motion and Wall Installation Gravity Waves, Southern California/Baja Biennial curated by Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 2015 Sparks Gallery, Group Show, Above, Below and Beyond installation, San Diego, CA 2014 Brett Rubbico Gallery, WInter Show, Newport Beach, CA 2013 Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, The New World, Los Angeles, CA 2012 JRB Art at the Elms Gallery, “The Dance: Cathy Breslaw and Sohail Shehada”, Oklahoma City, OK 2011 Art Meets Fashion: A Collaborative Project, Crossroads, Mosaic Gallery, San Diego, CA The Sketchbook Project, 2011, permanent collection – Brooklyn Library, Brooklyn,NY Travel Exhibition: San Francisco, Portland,ME, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Winter Park,FL 2010 American Jewish University, Uncommon Threads, Platt Boorstein Galleries, Los Angeles, CA University of Minnesota, Larson Gallery, Imagine, Minneapolis, MN Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Light and Space 2010, Palm Desert, CA 2009 Preston Contemporary Art Center, Four Person Exhibition, Mesilla, NM Ft. Collins Art Center, Lincoln Galleries, Loose Ends: Contemporary Fiber, Ft. Collins, CO KSpace Contemporary, Material Revelations, Two Person Show, Corpus Christie, TX 2008 Yorkarts, Art and Industry, Weightless, York, PA Yavapai College Art Gallery, Perceiving the Planet , Prescott, AZ Estel Gallery, Common Thread, Nashville, TN Rosewood Gallery, Kettering Arts Center, Kettering, OH Maude Kern Art Center, Weight & Float: Contemporary Sculpture, Eugene, OR 2007 Southern California Open 2007, Los Angeles, CA Coleman Gallery Contemporary Art, Hidden Pictures, Alburquerque, NM Central Wyoming College, Robert A. Peck Gallery, Intertwining Ideas, Riverton, WY Mad Art Gallery, Crossing Paths:Kerry Zimmerman and Cathy Breslaw, St. Louis, MO University of Colorado, UMC Gallery, Visual Noise, Boulder, CO Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Pillow Talk: Comfort in Hard Times, Santa Monica, CA Riverside Art Museum, Material Girls, Riverside, CA 2006 Huntington Beach Art Center, MANufactured, Huntington Beach, CA 2005 Claremont Graduate University, Reheated, East Gallery, Claremont, CA Claremont Graduate University,Fresh,East Gallery,Claremont,CA 2003 Grand Central Art Center, Between Dimensions, Santa Ana, CA 2002 Interface:Exploring Science, Technology and Art, Escondido Center for the Arts, CA 2001 Escondido Municipal Arts Gallery, Escondido, CA 2000 Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO 1999 William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Annual Exhibition, Carlsbad, CA The Art and Cultural Center, Artists in Watermedia, Fallbrook, CA International Experimental Painters Annual, Huntsville Museum of Art,Huntsville, AL 1998 Layerists in Multimedia, Bradford College, Haverill, MA 1997 National Watermedia Society, Travel Exhibition, Bade Museum, Berkeley, CA Twenty-ninth Annual National Art Exhibition, San Francisco, CA International Exhibition, Society of Experimental Painters, Sarasota, FL 1996 Witchita Falls Museum and Art Center, Witchita Falls, TX Mukenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA 1995 San Diego Credit Union, Encinitas, CA 1994 Offtrack Gallery, Leucadia, CA 1993 Wagner Fine Art, Del Mar, CA
Lectures/Teaching Video interview, Featured Artists: Cathy Breslaw, Jonathan Club, Jonathan Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA March 14, 2021. Lecture, Workshop, Visiting Artist, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI, October 20, 2016. Instructor, Art History Courses, Coastline Community College, Newport Beach, CA, December 2015 – present. Lecture, San Diego City College, San Diego, CA, November 5, 2015. Gallery Talk, Mesa College, San Diego, CA, September 30, 2015. Lecture, Mesa College, San Diego, CA, September 10, 2015. Lecture, California State University, San Marcos, CA, April 23, 2015. Gallery Talk, Rose Gallery, Francis Parker School, San Diego, CA, April 23, 2015. Gallery Talk, Gotthelf Gallery, San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, "Contemplation", September 11, 2014. Lecture, East Central College, in conjunction with solo exhibition "Memories, Dreams and Reflections", March, 2013. Gallery Talk, CCAI Courthouse Gallery, “Luminosity”, Carson City, Nevada, February 8, 2013. Lecture, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, Nevada, February 7, 2013. Lecture, Douglas High School, Douglas, Nevada, February 7th, 2013. Gallery Talk, Penn College of Technology, Main Gallery, in conjunction with solo exhibition, May, 2012. Gallery Talk, Soka University, Founders Hall Gallery, in conjunction with International Festival, May, 2012. Gallery Talk, Soka University, Founders Hall Gallery, in conjunction with solo exhibition “Transitions” January, 2012. Gallery Talk, Oceanside Museum of Art, in conjunction with site specific solo exhibition “A Matter of Space”, October, 2011. Lecture, San Diego Museum of Fine Art, Contemporary Collectors’ Group, June, 2011. Gallery Talk, Bakersfield Museum of Art, in conjunction with solo exhibition, “Explorations: Space and Light”, March, 2011. Gallery Talk, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, in conjunction with solo exhibition, “Light Play”, May, 2010.
Writing Freelance contributor, Jonathan Home Edition, JC With You, 2021-present. Cultural Correspondent/writer, Vanguard Culture, San Diego, CA, March 2012 - present. Artful Life By Cathy Blog, www.artfullifebycathy.blogspot.com, March, 2012 - present. Writer, Art Scene Magazine, Los Angeles, CA, July, 2012 – 2018. Contributing Writer, San Diego Visual Arts Network, San Diego, CA, April, 2012 - 2018. Freelance, Artillary Magazine, Los Angeles, 2017. San Diego Home and Garden Magazine, 2016. Freelance, Art Voices Magazine, November, 2015.
Museum and Corporate Collections Michael Murphy Collection, Boston MA Jon and Louise Harkavy Collection, Potomac, MD Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, (CICA Museum), Seoul, South Korea Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA American Graphics Inc., San Diego, CA GEA Power Cooling Systems, San Diego, CA ADC Telecommunications, Minneapolis, MN Che Bella, Phoenix, AZ Frontier Analytics, La Jolla, CA Maxwell Technologies, San Diego, CA Residential Wholesale Mortgage Inc., Solana Beach, CA Saign & Associates, Los Altos, CA Amerigraph LLC, San Diego, CA
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Selected Awards/Recognition 2021 Excellence in Journalism Award,(2 first place awards, San Diego Press Club, San Diego, CA 2019 Excellence in Journalism Award, San Diego Press Club, San Diego, CA 2018 Excellence in Journalism Award, San Diego Press Club, San Diego, CA 2017 Final Nominees for San Diego Art Prize 2016 Appointed by Mayor Matt Hall to Carlsbad Arts Commission, Carlsbad, CA 2016 San Diego Home and Garden Magazine, Selected as one of the "Art Stars for 2016", January, 2016 issue, San Diego 2015 Home Decor Magazine - Malaysia Edition, "Artists To Watch 2015", Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2013 NEA Grant, Luminosity Exhibition, Carson City Arts Initiative, State Courthouse, Carson City, NV 2004-05 Sue Arlene Walker Memorial Fellowship, Claremont Graduate Univ,Claremont, CA 2003-04 Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 1997 International Exhibition, Society of Experimental Painters, Sarasota, FL, Merit Award Twenty-ninth Annual National Art Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, Gold Medallion Award
Residencies Painting's Edge, Idyllwild, CA 2002, 2003
Education MFA, Visual Arts, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA M.S.W., Counseling, Howard University, Washington, D.C. B.A., The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.