Born 1952, Tokyo, Japan
EDUCATION
B.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, with Distinction, 1975
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006 Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solana Beach, CA
Costello Childs Contemporary Art, Phoenix, AZ
“Inaugural Exhibition”, Costello Childs Contemporary, Phoenix, AZ
2005 Tadu Contemporary Art Downtown, Santa Fe, NM
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Marc Katano Paintings/Minoru Ohira Sculpture”; Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Summer Painting Show”, 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 Gallery, New York, NY
“In Context: Pattern in Contemporary Printmaking”,
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2001 “New Paintings”, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
“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 “New Paintings”, Pulliam & Deffembaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
“Past and New Print Publications: Works by Marc Katano, Brad Durham, Charles C. Hill and Craig Kauffman”, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
1999 “Palimpsest”, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York, NY
Pulliam & Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“LA NY LA”, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
1998 “Works on Paper”, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 “Dusk and Dawn”, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
“California Painting Sampler: Selections from BankAmerica 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
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
“Group Exhibition”, Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1994 Gallery Fresca, Tokyo, Japan
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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 Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA
Gallery IV, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Finarte, Nagoya, Japan
1992 GH2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“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 Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Order and Intuition”, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1988 Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY
“Mind Over Matter: New American Abstraction”, International Art Project, San Francisco,CA
“Then and Now”, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1987 Mary Wright Gallery, Dallas, TX
Shaklee Building, San Francisco, CA
1986 Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Jose, CA
“Cultural Frontiers Across the Pacific”, Dominican College, San Raphael, CA
“California Directions in Painting”, Visual Arts Center of Alaska Anchorage, AK
1984 Bank of America Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hodges/Banks Gallery, Seattle, WA
“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 Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Oriental Art”, The St. Paul Company Headquarters, St. Paul, MN
“The Japanese Artist in Hawaii '83”, Amfac Center Plaza Gallery, Honolulu, HI
1982 California State University, Hayward, CA
1981 “Bay Arts '81”, juried by Jan Butterfield, Belmont, CA
“A Group Exhibition”, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“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, SF, CA
1980 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Sculpture”, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA
1979 “Introductions”, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, 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
CATALOGS
San Francisco Bay Area Painting, Group Exhibition, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 1984
Traditions Transformed, Group Exhibition, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1984 / Doizaki
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1984
American Woodcuts: Revival and Innovation, World Print Council / U.S.I.S., 1984
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
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
HAVE HOPE HELP HEAL LA billboard, 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
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