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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023

Reimagining Mosaic, Transformative Arts, 410 Spring St., Los Angeles, CA

2022

Collective Acts of Peace, Slipstream Gallery, 18th Street Art center, Santa Monica, CA
Echoes, solo show, Themes + Projects Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2021

Symbolic Consciousness, 18th St Art Campus, Santa Monica, CA
Monument, Minnesota Street Projects, San Franciso, CA

2020

Building Networks of Empathy, 18th St Art Campus, Santa Monica, CA
Facing Darkness, 18th St Art Campus, Santa Monica, CA
De-Fences, 18th St Art Campus, Santa Monica, CA
Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West, curated by Douglas McCulloh, UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography,
Riverside, CA
Drawing Connections, 18th St Art Campus, Santa Monica, CA

2019

Antigone, Quotidian, Los Angeles, CA
Transformation, 18th Street Center, Santa Monica, CA
On: Fire, solo show, Themes + Projects Gallery, San Francisco, CA
ETA, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2018

Systematics, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Defining Detritus, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Artspeaks! Lend Your Voice, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
3 Artists 3 Walls, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Parallel Departures, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
39th Venice Art Walk & Silent Auction, Google Headquarters, Venice, CA

2017

Ambiguous Reality, ART1307 Cultural Institution, Naples, Italy
Ambiguous Reality, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Within Limits, Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
38th Venice Art Walk & Silent Auction, Google Headquarters, Venice, CA

2016

Elemental, Solo Show, Kimba Hills Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Elements, The Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles, CA
37th Venice Art Wak & Silent Auction, Google Headquarters, Venice, CA
Material Matters, The Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Language of Perpetual Conditions, Fine Arts Gallery, CSULA

2015

LAAA Benefit Auction, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
36th Venice Art Walk & Silent Auction, Google Headquarters, Venice, CA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

2014

MAS Attack 7, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Aurora, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
LA Wood Show, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Catalyst, Solo Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
WestEdge Design Fair, Barkar Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
The Non-Objective Moment, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
LAAA Benefit Auction, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Cultural Excavation, Juried Elizabeth James of Cherry and Martin, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
In Line, Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
35th Venice Art Walk & Silent Auction, Google Headquarters, Venice, CA
Pasadena Show Case, Pasadena, CA
Eight Takes, Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Habitual, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2013

Ten Artists Talk, Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
We Are All In This Together - Do A Good Turn, ModernVideofilm, Santa Monica, CA
In House, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
LAAA Benefit Auction, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Dwell On Design 2013, Los Angeles CA
Radical Stimulus, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Venice Art Walk Auction 34th Anniversary, Google Los Angeles, Venice, CA
Pasadena Showcase House of Art, Pasadena, CA
Gleaming Apollo, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Words On Printed Page, Gallery 825, CA
The Hangar Show, Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2012

LAAA Benefit Auction, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Out There, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
GEM, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Recent Work, The Artist Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2011

Open Show, Los Angeles Art Association's Signature Survey Exhibitions, Juried by Charlie Manzo of Gagosian NY, Gallery 825, CA
Holiday Show, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Breaking In Two Silent Auction, Pacific Standard Time, Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Mona Lisa, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Building Hope Through Art, Arena1, Santa Monica, CA
H2O, Solo Show, Big Think Studios, San Francisco, CA
Recent Work, Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2009

Modest Masterpieces, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008

Fluid, Solo Show, Big Think Studios, San Francisco, CA

2007

Faceted Forms, two person show, CPF Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006

Crumpled Paper, Solo Show, Big Think Studios, San Francisco, CA

2002

Parallel Departures, two person show, Studio 210, San Francisco, CA

1996

California Small Works, Luther Burbank Center For The Arts, Santa Rosa, CA

1995

De-Fences, two person show, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
June Juried Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
February Juried Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA

1994

45th Annual Collector's Choice Art Auction, San Jose Art League Gallery, San Jose, CA

1993

3rd Annual International Mini-print Exhibition, Juniper Gallery, Napa, CA
Bay Arts 1993, Manor House Gallery, Belmont, CA
Extended Media Elastic Forms, Three Muse Art Space, San Francisco, CA

1992

Anne Bremer Annual Book Exhibition, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1987

Six Real Painters, The Lab Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1985

Group Show, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Light Brigade, The Kamm House, Portland, OR
 

PUBLICATIONS

ART1307: “Time at the Time of Isolation”, Cynthia and Renato Penna, 2020
18th Street Arts Center:
18th Art Center Catalog, 2020-2021
Lenscratch:
“Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire and the End of Nature in the New West, Aline Smithson, February 21, 2020
UCR News:
“Facing Fire Explores the Beauty, Threat, and Devastation of California’s Growing Widfires”, Jessica Weber, February 19, 2020
Exhibition Catalog, “Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West”, UCRARTS: California Museum of Photography, 2020
Exhibition Catalog, "Art Speaks! Lend Us Your Voice", Women's Caucus for Art, 2018
Chiaia Magazine, “Occhio di Riguardo” Ambiguous Reality by Sveva della Volpe, December 2017
Roma, Cultura & Spettacoli, “Ambiguità, una forza vitale” by Simona Ciniglio, November 21, 2017
Il Mattino, “Ambiguous Reality a Villa di Donato”, by Maria Carmen Villani, November 21, 2017
Il Mattino, “Da Los Angeles a Napoli l’arte ai confini della realtà” by Tiziana Tricarico, November 15, 2017
Segno, “Attualitá Internazionali dArte Contemporanea, “Ambiguous Reality” , November 15, 2017
Art Scene,  "Elements" by Genie Davis, June 2016
Huffington Post,  "Joan Wulf: Special Topics in Elemental Physics" by Shana Nys Dambrot, March 9, 2015
Fabrik Magazine, "MAS Attack 7", December 12, 2014

EDUCATION

1993    San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, M.F.A. Painting
1988    San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, B.F.A. Painting
1981    University Of California, Davis, CA, B.S. Design
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1994-97   Wulf Studios, San Francisco, CA, Instructor for private classes in Drawing and Painting
1992-94   San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Instructor, Extension Program: Painting
1992-93   San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Instructor, Interdisciplinary Freshman Core: Drawing and Painting

 

ORGANIZATIONS

Los Angeles Art Association