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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS


 2017   Dora P. and Other Stories, Annex, Gallery Route One (GRO), Pt. Reyes Station

2016   Joy of Man's Desiring   Gallery Route One (GRO), Pt. Reyes Station

2013   Confessions of My Inner Dog, Gallery Route One (GRO), Pt. Reyes Station

2013   Scenes From the Life of Mars and Six Altered Books, JFK University Work in Progress gallery, Berkeley

2013   Other Worlds Than Ours, Station House Private Dining Room, Pt. Reyes Station

2012   The Magnetic Field, Annex, GRO

2011     Sleeping With the Anemones, GRO

2010   Entities, an Exhibition, Annex, GRO

2010   Selections from Night Errant, Work in Progress Gallery, JFK University
 
2009   Stalking the Feral Artist, a Series of Monoprints,  The Dream Institute, Berkeley       

2007    Stalking the Feral Artist and Other Non-Parallel Texts, MFA Exhibition, 
JFK University Arts & Consciousness Gallery 

2004    The Unfortunate Case of Dora P., JFKU A&C Gallery Annex

2003    Dear Remote Male Server (The Seaweed Letters), JFKU A&C Gallery Annex

2002   I Dream of Us, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley
 
1998    Deconstructing [Moi], California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), SF

1995    Mars+Friends, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco

1992    Confessions of My Inner Dog, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco


 
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
 

2017

       "Cart With WHeels on the Way to the Beheading",  Bay Area Women Artists, 
Jurors: Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts


   "Are You My Boyfriend" in Rhiizosphere; Celebrating West Marin's Artists...from 1960-today,
​
The Midway Gallery / San Francisco, CA

2016

 "Beneath", GRO Juried Show

"As a Generation of Leaves," "Painted Dogs", "Possum/Ranuncula",  Wabi Sabi, O'Hanlon, Center for the Arts

"Are You My Boyfriend?",  Bay Area Women Artists, 
Jurors: Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts


"Shamhat and Enkidu",  Points of Departure, GRO Member Show

"Throwing the Candidates Off the Platform", "Self-Portrait in Three Parts, Alcove, GRO


2015

 "Map of Chaos”, GRO Juried Show, Award of Merit, Juror: John Seed

"Fire Within", Bay Area Women Artists, 
Jurors: Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts

"The Dreamer" and "Peripheral Brain",
Myth and Inner Landscape, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Juror: Toni Littlejohn

 "Fire Within”, ArtWorks, GRO Member Show

 "Les Etoiles”, Sometimes Books Spring Show

 
2014

 “Liquifaction of Her Clothes” in “Muse, GRO Juried Show

 "Invention of Love" at (9 collaged book boards).
Sometimes Books Spring Show

“Continuo (Scrolls)” and “Invention of Love” at IASD show 

“He Disappeared Into the Thousand Windows of My Imagination” 
(6 collaged book boards) in Sometimes Books Summer Show 

 “Wolf Fenrir”, “Continuo”, “Le Rève “I Miss You in White Writing” and “Id
Open Secrets, GRO Member Show

“Fish Deities” at the Box Show  (box and 13 dream-wrapped roots and reeds) 

“My Deities” at Fall Sometimes Books Summer Show  
(13 dream-wrapped deities, book
and assemblage Kamadeva + Rati Ascend to Empty Sky) 

2013
Gallery Route One Box Show
The Infinite Book, Sometimes Books, Pt. Reyes Station
Travel Books, Sometimes Books, Pt. Reyes Station
GRO 30th Annual Member Show, GRO, Pt. Reyes Station
Open Studio, Gray Loft Gallery, Jingletown, Oakland

2012
International Association of Dreams (IASD), 2 Shows in Berkeley, 1st Prize. 
Duration, GRO 27th Annual Juried Show, Gallery Route One (GRO), Juror: Andrea Schwartz.
Art Dreamscapes, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, Juror: Fariba Bogzaran
Botanicals, Orangeland Gallery, San Francisco, Juror: Candace Loheed
Artifacts of Passage, Orangeland Gallery, San Francisco. 
Art as Liminal Space, JFK University Arts & Consciousness Gallery
Sometimes Books Summer Show, Point Reyes Station
Box Show,Gallery Route One (GRO), Point Reyes Station
Sojourn, Annual Members Show, Gallery Route One (GRO), Point Reyes Station

2011
Alphabet Soup, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley
Wild Book Show, Gallery Route One (GRO)
Collective Actions, Marin Community Foundation, Hamilton Landing, Novato
Reflections on El Dia de los Muertos, Orangeland Gallery, SF, Juror: Candace Lohead
Avatars / Aliases / Alter-Egos, Gallery 1044, SF
Outside the Lines, Annual Members Show, GRO

2010
Journeys, Marin French Cheese Company

2009 

GRO  25th Annual Juried Show, Point Reyes Station. Juror: Jeremy Morgan
Sometimes Books, Point Reyes Station Box Show, GRO, Point Reyes Station
On the Edge, GRO Member Show, Point Reyes Station
Alumnae Show, JFK University Arts & Consciousness Gallery
Alcove, GRO, Point Reyes Station  

2008 
Deuces Wild, GRO, Point Reyes Station 
Balancing Perspectives: East Asian Influences in Contemporary Art, JFKU
Sit Down and Read, K Gallery, Rhythmix Cultural Works, Alameda. Juror: Kathy Walkup
WOW (Women on War), Mission Cultural Center, SF. Juror: Karen Tsujimoto
Sustain Our Environment Postcard Show, WCA + CAA, Fort Worth, TX. Curator: P.Otani
Sometimes Books VI &VII, Point Reyes Station 
Wild Book Show, Point Reyes Books
Alumni Show, JFKU A&C Gallery. Curator: Doreen Coyne
 

2007
Cutting Edge Books, PCBA Annual Juried Exhibition, Cal State Hayward. Juror: Tanya Wilkinson
Multiplicity/Simplicity, Alameda Art Center. Curator: Melissa Harmon 
Nordic Mysteries, Addison Street Windows, Berkeley. 
Curator: Elizabeth Stokebye
Sometimes Books V, Point Reyes Station
Graduate Exhibition 2007, JFKU A&C Gallery

2006 
Sometimes Books II & III, Point Reyes Station
Chroma Collective, Giorgy Gallery, Berkeley
2x2, JFKU A&C Gallery
Dream Art (Web), International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD).
 
2005
CirCA NOW: What’s Hot in the Emerging Artist Scene, 
Oakland Museum Restaurant Gallery
Bound/Unbound, Sonoma County Arts Council, Santa Rosa
Dream Art 2005, IASD Conference, Berkeley. Curator: Tomoko Murikami
From Escalante to the Ocean (Artist’s Books), Cocono C.C., Flagstaff
Nordic 5 Arts 2005, Giorgi Gallery, Berkeley
Luminance, Giorgi Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Peripheral Vision; Lens -Based Art, JFKU Arts & Consciousness Gallery, Berkeley

2004 
Books 04, Noosa Regional Gallery, Australia
Paper Cuts, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo Community Arts Foundation
NIAD Invitational Print Exhibit, Florence L-K Gallery, 
NIAD Art Center, Richmond
Women Against Violence, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), SF
 
2003 
The Mediated Image, Crossman Gallery, 
University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
Under the Nails (New Prints), Ardency Gallery, Oakland
Women Against Violence, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley
Dear Thea (Handmade Books), JFKU A&C Gallery Annex, Berkeley

2002 
The Heart of China, JFKU A&C Gallery
San Francisco Coalition for the Homeless Show, Somarts, San Francisco
ProArts Open Studio Solo Show, 8th Street, Berkeley

2001 
Group Show, National Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
National Women’s Caucus for Arts Show, Goethe Institute, Kathmandu

2000 
Live Stills (Digital Art), Communications Technology Cluster, Oakland
Serial Monogamy, Communications Technology Cluster, Oakland
Bay Area Figurative 2000: A Celebration of the Human Form, Somarts, SF
The Female Gaze, Ohlone College
 
1999 
What Is Art For? William T. Wiley & Mary Webster + 100 Artists, Oakland Museum
Millennium, City College of San Francisco
Working From the Figure, Arts Benecia

 
AWARDS


2016    Award of Merit, GRO Juried Show
2015    Lucid Arts Residency, 2015
2012    1st Prize, International Association of Dreams Conference
1999    2 Awards of Distinction (design & illustration), Council for Advancement of Education
1997    Spread in Designer’s Handbook of Booklets & Brochures, RC Publications, New York
1996    Certificate of Design Excellence, Print Magazine Regional Design Annual
            

READINGS/PRESENTATIONS 

2017    Presentation, IAGG (International Association of Gerontological Societies), Dreams to Art, w/ JoAnn Damron
2016    Reading, Redford, a Marked Dog, Sometimes Books
2015     Reading, Confessions of My Inner Dog, Sometimes Books
1992     Confessions of My Inner Dog, Reading, ARAS,  C.G. Jung Institute, San Francisco, 1992
             Performance, Choreographer Deborah Hay, Whitney Museum

PUBLICATIONS

2017    The Unfortunate Case of Dora P.
2016    Confessions of My Inner Dog
2014    By Indirection…  http://www.blurb.com/search/site_search?search=Dorothy+Nissen
2012    Fish Dreams, Artifacts of Passage (A Dream Journal)
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2012   The Magnetic Field http://www.blurb.com/search/site_search?search=Dorothy+Nissen
2011    Redford, A Marked Dog
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2011    Sleeping With the Anemonies
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2010    Entities, an Exhibition, Catalog

1999  What Good Is Art? a Studio DotWiz book. 
              What Is Art For? William T. Wiley & Mary Webster + 100 Artists,
           Oakland Museum of California

ARTICLES
2008        “Stalking the Feral Artist”, Jung Journal, Fall 2008
2007        “The Earth Is an Alembic”, Jung Journal, Fall 2007
2005-8    ARTBEAT, Newsletter of NCWCA, Ed. Dorothy Nissen (+ various articles)


VIDEOS

I Dream of Us, Dream of a Painting, and La Vida Pura, youtube.com/user/dotwiz

Art in 
(Manchester) Guardian, Ms. Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Review of Books, Yoga Journal, 1992 America, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Journal of Sandplay Therapy, Jung Journal, Libera Magazine, Metis
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TEACHING
Guest Artist, Lisa Kokin Altered Books classes, JFK University
Yoga, Alameda Adult Schools
Drawing the Body From Within the Body, Collage and Drawing Process,
Bookmaking & Desk Top Publishing, Art’s Way, Emeryville, CA
Teacher of Art and Humanities, (middle school), NYC inner city schools
Assistant Teacher, Operation Headstart, Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION
MFA, 2007, John F, Kennedy University, CA
Max Beckmann Scholarship, 1965-66, Brooklyn Museum School, NY
MA, 1965, Claremont University, CA
BA, 1964, Scripps College, Claremont, CA

COLLECTIONS
California Institute of Integral Studies, The Dream Institute, Jamie & Matthew Baumayr. David Bowman, Bill & Bonnie Brody, Nancy Richter Brzeski, Jennifer Carpenter, Larry Chase & Bull, Ann Cribbs, Paula Delehunty, Naomi Epel, Lee Flynn (Viewpoints), Cathy Goodman, Sasha Goodman, Judy McCracken, Robert H Hopcke & Paul Schwartz, Phyllis Jackson & Ted Dillingham,Joanna Katz, Patrick Kelly, Pamela Kirkbride, Nancy Kleban, Efrem Korngold, Inya Laskowski, Craig Leres, Mary Leres, Pamela Kirkbride, Richard Leres, Judith May, Scott McBride, Judy McCracken, Alex McKibben, Zea Morvitz, Eleanor Murray, Annette Nibley, David & Lee Nissen, Deborah O'Grady, Annette Nibley, P. Otani, William Pezick, Cathy & Ted Postalaki, Elizabeth Ryan,Meredith Sabini, Zona Sage, Tobia Schiller, Pandora Sibley, Claudia Smelser,Chris Spencer, Meg Stockwell, Phyllis Stowell, Alene Strausberg, George Tomberlin, Mary Hull Webster & William T. Wiley.


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