EDUCATION
M. F. A., Pratt Institute, New York, NY
M. A. California State University, Fullerton, CA
M. A. Istituto Pio XII, Florence, Italy
B. A., Clarke College, Dubuque, IA
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Akademie Die Bildhauer Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2006 Haus, Pasadena, CA
2003 Looking, John Wayne Airport, Orange County, CA
2000 Words Are Slippery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
1998 Light As Substance, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
1994 Without Words: Twenty-One Drawings, Twenty-One Days, The Floating Storefront Studio
Artist-In-Residence Program, Irvine Marketplace, Irvine, CA
1994 Without Words, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Rainforest, Goldenwest College, Huntington Beach, CA
1990 Double Reflection, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Barbara Berk: Recent Work, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1987 Barbara Berk Recent Sculpture, Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
1986 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Barbara Berk, Five Feet, Laguna Beach, CA
1985 Barbara Berk Recent Work, Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
Work, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
PERFORMANCES
2015 Motherlove, Santa Monica Art Studios, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2013 Ricochet, Wall Painting 2013, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Drawn, (Southern) California Drawing, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
2010 Tip Top, OsCene 2010 – Contemporary Art and Culture in OC, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Circling Because the World is round...it Turns me on, JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach
Island. The Organic Line, Andi Campognone Projects, Pomona, CA
2008 Measured Breaths, Otis College of Art and Design, Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Solo Act, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2006 Afterlife, Haus, Pasadena, CA
2005 Floaters, Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
Standing Still Standing, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2004 Giving Way, Square Blue Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Give and Take, W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, California Polytechnic University, Pomona,
CA
2003 Pretty Lies, Dirty Truths, BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2002 Stepping in With Both Feet, Apex in L.A., George J. Doizaki Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Traces, El Camino College, Torrance, CA
2000 Two Thousand Revolutions, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1994 Without Words: Twenty-One Drawings, Twenty-One Days, The Floating Storefront Studio,
Irvine Marketplace, Irvine, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 deLINEations, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
2018 Moving Line, El Camino College, Torrance, CA
2016 Birdie, Coastline Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
2015 Ges-ture, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2014 Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven,
Connecticut
We Love L.A., Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Drawing the Line, Angels’ Ink Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2013 Wall Painting, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Paper, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles
(Southern) California Drawing, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
The Big Show II, the SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, CA
2011 Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2010
2010 Four, Coastline Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
The Organic Line, Andi Campognone Projects, Pomona, CA
2009 Driven to Abstraction, Coastline College Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
Insight/inside LA,, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Looky See, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
My Father’s Party is Busted,! BC Space, Laguna Beach, CA
In Black and White, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
Naked Truth - Figure as Form and Spirit, dba 256 Gallery, Pomona, CA
2007 Marsia Alexander-Clarke, Barbara Berk, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
It Figures, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
W. O. P., The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
Marks, Scratches and Doodles, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Hausguests, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
2005 For Shame, BC Space, Laguna Beach, CA
Drawing Matters, 4 approaches to drawing, Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
2004 Frailty, Square Blue Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Freewall Cal Poly, Pomona
Collaborative, Showcase Gallery, South Coast Plaza Village, Santa Ana, CA
2003 Pretty Lies, Dirty Truths, BC Space, Laguna Beach, CA
Modern HeART, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2002 Ex Libris, Frumkin Duval Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Apex in L.A., International Arts Festival, George J. Doizaki Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Heals, Art Works, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
2001 Ephemeral, W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly, Pomona
Shades of Gray: Four Approaches to Drawing, El Camino College, Torrance, CA
Art Heals, Art Works, Eye-Five Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 It’s About Time, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Magic of Fantasy and Memory: Seven Installations, Venice Art Walk,Venice, CA
1999 New Directions, Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, CA
Art From the Heart, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Reclamations from an Artificial Paradise - An Electronic Exhibition of Real-Object Art, Orange County
Arts Net
Orange County Sculpture: Source and Process, Chapman College, Orange, CA
1998 Light as Substance, Cypress College Fine Arts Gallery, Cypress, CA
1997 West Coast Painting and Sculpture 1997, Oceanside Museum, Oceanside, CA
Passion - Art As Compulsive Impulse, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
Barbara Berk, Angie Bray, Maxine Hayt, Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA
Codpiece, Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA
1996 Reproducing Nature, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Unknown Connections, Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA
On and Off the Wall, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Drawn Conclusions, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1995 Contexto - Libros de Artistas, Museo de Arte y Disena Contemporaneo de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
Nature re(Contained), Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
1994 Art and the Environment, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
Barbara Berk, Jorg Dubin, Chris Gwaltney, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
Every Picture Tells A Story, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
The Generative Spirit, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
1993 Hand and Spirit, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Artists Consider the Environment, Forum Gallery, Jamestown, NY
Natural Dialogue, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
1992 Toward A Material Edge, Orange County Airport, Costa Mesa, CA
1991 Deceptive Cadences, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
Group Show, Barbara Berk, Joe Fay, David Jeter, Laura Russell, Donna Salem, Art Exhibitions, Glendale, CA
Ling Chung, Hellen Pashgian, Barbara Berk, Arteffects at Bistango, Irvine, CA
1990 Manipulated Environments, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
Water Reflections/Altered Landscape, West Los Angeles City Hall Gallery, Los Angeles
Overtures, IMC Gallery, Irvine, CA
Disconnected Choices, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Ingrained Image, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1989 Best of the Eighties, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1988 Outside New York, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Ways with Wood, The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA
Women and Energy, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Work, Barbara Berk, Richard White, R Lee Willmore, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
1987 Berk, Bernstein, Gilmore, Takenaga and Weidner, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Cross Grain: A Survey in Wood, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
Clay and More, Wita Gardiner Gallery, San Diego, CA
Barbara Berk and Grace Songolo, Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA
OCCCA 1987, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Artists’ Liaison, A.R.T./Beasley Gallery, San Diego, CA
Reflections & Illusions, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1985 Many Voices/Many Visions Multi-Media, El Camino College, Torrance, CA
The Last Picture Show, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Dimensions, Expose VII, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The State of Art 1985, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
New American Talent 1985, Honorable Mention, Juror: Patterson Sims, Whitney Museum of American Art,
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1984 California Works, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
Orange County Sculpture: Source and Process, Chapman College, Orange, CA
Objects as Illusions, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Inner Eye/Other Worlds, Vorpal Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Art Connections ‘84, Chapman College, Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA
1983 New Artists/New Art, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
New Artists/New Art, California State University, Hayward, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Linton, Meg, Barbara Berk: An Artist Quietly in the Making, OC Art Blog, March, 2023.
Frank, Peter, “‘Looky See’ at the Otis College of Art and Design”, Artweek, October, 2008.
Riverside Art Museum, “Marsia Alexander-Clarke, Barbara Berk”, Exhibition Catalog, 2007.
Carasso, Roberta, “Movement Sets Art in Motion”, Laguna News-Post, April 13, 2006.
Roth, Charlene, “’Freewall’ at Cal Poly Pomona”, Artweek, June, 2004.
Gottlieb, Shirle, “Creative Soul-Baring Lends Itself to Healing,” Long Beach Press Telegram, March 8, 2002.
Ringwald, Lydia, “Berk’s Life is Touched with Art, ” The Orange County Register-Laguna News-Post, Feb. 7, 2002.
Geer, Suvan, “‘Shades of Gray’ at El Camino College,” Artweek, November, 2001.
Buntenbach, Jamin, “Slippery Exhibit Rips Into Gallery 181,” Iowa State Daily, Nov. 7, 2000.
Walsh, Daniella, “Cypress College Show Reflects Brightly Creative Minds,” The Register, Sept. 20, 1998.
Schoenkopf, Rebecca, “Good Light, Bad Lies,” Orange County Weekly, Sept. 18-24, 1998.
Curtis, Cathy, “Artists Who Teach,” Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1997.
Curtis, Cathy, “Works in Search of a Theme,” Los Angeles Times, March 18, 1997.
Art Forum Newsletter, Rancho Santiago College Art Department, Santa Ana, CA, 1997.
ZYZZYVA, Volume XII, Numbers 3/4, Fall/Winter, 1996.
Curtis, Cathy, “A Storefront View of a Worker in Progress,” Los Angeles Times, July 16, 1994.
The Forum - The Journal of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, No. 23, 1994.
Curtis, Cathy, “A Portrait of Long Ago,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 14, 1993.
Burke, Marnie, “Growth Industry,” San Francisco Examiner, Image, Feb. 21, 1993.
Curtis, Cathy, “Museums, Galleries Don’t Just Hang Art; They Install It,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 28, 1991.
Berland, Dinah, “Contributing to Solution Through Art,” Press-Telegram, Sept. 23, 1990.
Geer, Suvan, “Space for Aggression,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 3, 1990.
Berland, Dinah, “Introspective Whimsy, Intrigue, Highlight ‘Women and Energy,’” Press Telegram, June, 1988.
Geer. Suvan, “Exhibit Splinters the Illusion That Wood Is Sturdy,” Orange County Register, Nov. 14, 1988.
La Rose, Elise, “Outside New York,” Women Artists News, Winter 1988/89.
Curtis, Cathy, “Artist Captures Mood, Sensitivity of Landscape,” Orange County Register, Nov. 14, 1985.
Geer, Suvan, “Austere Illusions”, Artweek, Feb. 16, 1985.
Reeve, Douglas, “Local Women Artists,” Dawn - The Orange County Women’s Magazine, Aug. 1985.
Pincus, Robert, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 8, 1985.
Jan, Alfred, “New Art from Los Angeles,” Lively Arts and Fine Arts, Feb/Mar, 1984.
Pincus, Robert, “Six Artists Showcase How What’s New Is Old,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 28, 1983.
Laguna News Post, Aug. 9, 1979.
Askey, Ruth, “Painterly and Sculptural Textures,” Artweek, May 19, 1979.
CATALOGUES:
2014 Odd Volumes - Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, Exhibition Catalog
2013 BC Space: Mything in Action, published in collaboration with the exhibition at California State University
Fullerton, Grand Central Art Center, Grand Central Press
2010 OCCCA 30th, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2009 Insight/Inside LA, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Marsia Alexander-Clarke, Barbara Berk, exhibition catalog, Riverside Art Museum
2007 Orange County Arts Grant for Drawing, Painting & Printmaking, the Downtown Santa Ana Business Council
2005 Celebrating 25 Years!, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
2002 Lantern of the East, Tenth International Art Festival
2002 Art Heals, Art Works, Palos Verdes Art Center, Fullerton Museum Center
2000 20/20, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
1998 Light As Substance, Cypress College
1997 West Coast Painting and Sculpture, Oceanside Museum of Art
1994 Art and the Environment, Maude Kerns Art Center
1993 Untitled: Untethered, Laguna Art Museum
1993 The Forum, Sacramento, CA
l995 Nature re(Contained), Irvine Fine Arts Center
1993 Artists Consider the Environment, Forum Gallery
1993 The Shape of Things to Come, Laguna Art Museum
1990 The Ingrained Image, Riverside Art Museum
1990 Manipulated Environments, Long Beach City College
1988 Women and Energy, Angels Gate Cultural Center
1987 Artists’ Liaison, Santa Monica, CA
1987 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art 1987
1985 The State of Art, 1985, Orange County Center For Contemporary Art
1985 Twenty-Five in Eighty-Five, Orange County Center For Contemporary Art
1985 Many Voices/Many Visions, Multi Media, El Camino College, Torrance, CA
1984 California Works 1984, California State Fair
1984 Art Connections ‘84, Orange County Arts Alliance
1983 New Artists/New Art, California State Universities, Domingues Hills, Los Angeles, Hayward
1983 All Media ’83, Laguna Beach Museum of Art
1980 1980 OCCCA, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
1980 Festival ’80, Auster, Pezman and Farrand, Inc.
1977 110 Wilshire Show, 110 Wilshire Gallery
1973 La Mirada Fiesta de Artes, La Mirada, CA
1972 La Mirada Fiesta de Artes, La Mirada, CA
1970 Artists’ Autumn Exhibition, Den Frie Udstillings Bygning, Oslo Plads, Copenhagen, Denmark
1969 Artists’ Autumn Exhibition, Den Frie Udstillings Bygning, Oslo Plads, Copenhagen, Denmark
1970 Statens Kunstfond, Kunstkob og Udsmykninger 1968-70, Copenhagen, Denmark
AWARDS
Fulbright Grant, Oslo, Norway
RESIDENCIES
Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2014
RELATED EMPLOYMENT
Teaching
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA
Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
Guest Lectures
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Arizona State University,
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, CA
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Other
Guest Curator, “re: ‘book’, Artists Books, Manipulated and Handmade,” Ontario International Airport, Ontario, CA
Guest Curator, “Is It Art Yet? - Manipulated and Handmade Artist Books,” John Wayne Airport, Orange County,
California
Co-Director of Exhibitions Committee, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Chair, Artist council, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Graphic Artist for Architects Knudsgaard and Krag, Copenhagen, Denmark