ISABELLA KIRKLAND BIOGRAPHY

BORN
Born in Old Lyme, Connecticut, in 1954
Lives in Sausalito, California

EDUCATION
-1977–1978 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
-1975–1976 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
-1973–1974 Worcester Museum School, Worcester, MA
-1971–1973 Guilford College, Greensboro, NC

ASSOCIATIONS
-Research Associate of the Library and the Department of Aquatic Biology at the California Academy of Sciences

SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
-2008 Toledo Art Museum, Toledo OH
-2007 National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
-2006 Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
-2005 Feature Inc., New York
-2003 Feature Inc., New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
-2006 “The Way of All Flesh,” BravinLee Productions, New York
-2005 “ECO: Art About the Environment,” Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco
-2004 “Continuities: Themes from the Fine Art Collection Reflected in Recent Northern California Art,”
Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
“Natural Histories: Realism Revisited,” Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
-2002 “Isabella Kirkland and Michael St. John,” Feature Inc., New York
-2001 “Taxa,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
-2000 “Beauty on the Wing: The Double Lives of Butterflies,” Harvard Museum of Natural History,
Cambridge, MA“6th Anniversary Group Exhibition,” Heritage Fine Arts, San Jose, CA
-1999 “Natural World Observed 1999,” Bedford Gallery, Dean Lescher Center for the Arts, WalnutCreek, CA
-1995 “Animals and Artists,” Joan Robuck Gallery, Lafayette, CA
-1992 “Still Lives,” Zen Hospice Guest House, San Francisco
-1991 “LOCOmotion,” ArtSpace, San Francisco
“Isabella Kirkland and Chris Force,” The Living Room, San Francisco
-1989 “Nepotism,” Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
-1987 “Perdurabo,” Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
-1986 “Night of Fog,” Cat Club, New York
-1985 “Payola,” MO David Gallery, New York
-1984 “Pandora’s Box: SFAI Annual,” New Langton Arts, San Francisco
-1983 “Sacred Artifacts, Objects of Devotion,” Alternative Museum, New York“Micronic Obsessions,” Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
-1980 “Micronic Problems,” 80 Langton Street Gallery, San Francisco“Untitled,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED BIOGRAPHY
-2006 Ames, Michael. “Going, Going, Almost Gone,” Idaho Mountain Express, 15 February, C1 Bossick, Karen. “‘Gone,’ ‘Back’ and ‘Nova,’” Wood River Journal, 15 February, B2
-2004 Nilsen, Richard. “How Real Can It Get?,” Arizona Republic, 30 May, E:1, 10 (reproduction) Tropiano, Dolores. “Natural World Show,” Scottsdale Republic, September (reproduction)
-2002 Nickas, Bob. “Best of 2002: Top Ten,” Artforum, December, 116–117
-2001 Bonetti, David. “Three Artists Who Grapple with History,” San Francisco Chronicle, 20 November, D1
-2000 Brand, Stewart. “Whole Earth Covers,” Whole Earth, Fall, 58–59
PUBLICATIONS, PORTFOLIOS, PROJECTS AND REPRODUCTIONS OF ARTWORK
-2006 Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction, http://speciesalliance.org/trailer
(accessed 8 August, 2006) (reproductions of artwork)
-2005 Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Summer, 67, 72, 76 (reproductions of artwork)
American Butterflies 13: no. 1 (Spring), 44–45 (reproduction and artist’s statement)
-2003 Grand Street, no. 71 (Spring), Grand Street Press, New York, 92–96 (portfolio)
-2002 Wilson, Edward O. The Future of Life (New York: Knopf) (cover art)
-2000 Whole Earth, Fall (front and back cover art)

GRANTS
-2004 Individual Artist Grant, George Sugarman Foundation
-2004 Individual Artist Grant, Marin Arts Council

COLLECTIONS
Douglas Carlston & Tomi Pierce, San Rafael, CA
William & Weslie Janeway, New YorkSteven Katz, New York
Edward & Phyllis Kwalwasser, Brooklyn
Jonathan & Diana Rose, New York