Bio
Sandra Beard is from Ontario, Canada and now lives in Sacramento, California. She received her B.A. in Fine Art from the University of Ottawa, Ontario and an MFA from San Jose State University. Other studies include working with Master Printer, Joe Zirker and residencies at KALA, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony and the Vermont Studio Center. Her prints and paintings have been exhibited locally and internationally: Spain, France, England, Korea, New Zealand, Canada and Denmark. She is a juried member of the California Society of Printmakers, the Los Angeles Printmaking Society and the Boston Printmakers.
Selected Exhibitions
Exhibitions – Solo
2017 “Paint”, ArtSpace1616, Sacramento, CA – curator, Mima Begovic
2016 Under the Influence, FireHouse Gallery, Grant’s Pass, OR
2015 Under the Influence, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2013 Run Rabbit II, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2011 Magenta, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA – curator, Theres Rohan
2011 REM Blue: unique prints from the flat files, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2010 Tree House and other Precarious Alignments, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2010 Circle Dance, Fire House Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grant’s Pass, OR
2009 Whitewash, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2007 Butterfly Before the Falls, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2006 Run, Rabbit Run, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2004 New Works, 750 Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1994 Prints, Tied House, San Jose, CA
1994 Works on Paper, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1993 Paintings, Cupertino City Hall, Artist-of-the-Year, Cupertino, CA
1991 Prints, Town Center, Art-in-Public Places Program, Los Gatos, CA
1989 Allegra Gallery & Eulipia, San Jose, CA – Director, Russell Moore
1985 Bechtel International Center, Stanford University, CA – curator, Priscilla Hexter
1985 San Jose State University, Masters Gallery, San Jose, CA
Exhibitions – 2 Person
2018 S. Beard and J. Nakashima, Sculpture and Painting, Merced College Gallery, Merced, CA
2002 Carnegie Art Center, Painting, Prints, Installation, Turlock, CA
2002 Fire House Gallery, Prints & Books, Rogue Community College, Grant’s Pass, OR
1999 Carnegie Art Gallery, Paintings, Drawings, & Prints, Turlock, CA
1995 Art F/X, Mountain View, CA – curator, Patricia Sotelo
1994 Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA – curator, Theres Rohan
1993 Gallery, Gartner Group, Santa Clara, CA – curator, R.G. Kelley
1987 Bay Currents, The Art Corridor, Menlo Park, CA – curator, Signe Mayfield
1985 Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Prints, Installation, Fremont, CA
1985 Creative Arts Center Gallery, Sunnyvale, CA – curator, Cheryl Nonnenburg
1984 P.ART.A. Galleries, San Mateo, CA
Selected Exhibitions – Group
2023
The Art of A Story, 13th Annual Juried Exhibition, Village Theatre Art Gallery, Danville, CA
Brand 51: Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, Glendale, CA – Catalogue
2022
Crocker Kingsley, Blue Line Art, Roseville, CA – Juror, Emma Saperstein, Curator, San Luis Museum of Art, CA – Catalogue
108th Annual California Society of Printmakers, Piedmont Center for the Arts, CA
Los Angeles 22nd National Print Exhibition, Mixografia, Los Angeles, CA – Juror, Kenturah Davis – Catalogue
Stuck Together & Torn Apart, Prints in the Pandemic Invitational, Gallery 625, Woodland, CA
2021
49th National Juried Works on Paper, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA – Juror: Marvella Muro. Catalogue
Extraction, Response to the Changing World Environment, CSP, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
106th Exhibition, California Society of Printmakers, Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont, CA
CONNECT: Small Prints, Boston Printmakers Traveling exhibition 2021-2013. Lesley University, Boston, MA
2020
Virtual Axis, Past, Present and Future, A Celebration of Axis Gallery
Walk Don’t Run, a series of acrylic paintings. An invitational online exhibit invited and presented with works by Richard Gilles.
14th Annual California Centered: Printmaking 2020, Merced, California.
Due to COVID, this exhibition is presented online. Juror: Matthew Hopson-Walker, Assistant Prof. Printmaking, California State University.
First Impressions, CSP, Tsao Gallery, Davis Arts Center, Davis, CA
Anniversary Exhibition at ArtSpace 1616, Sacramento, CA
2019
Sanctuary, ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA – juror, Bryan Yedinak, gallerist, San Francisco, CA
Traditional Techniques:Contemporary Prints, CSP+TANA, The Barn Gallery, Woodland, CA
Print It! California Society of Printmakers, Village Theatre Art Gallery, Danville, CA
2018
Climart, CSP, Cannery Galleries, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA – juror, Gail Wight, Prof.,Stanford University
CSP Annual, Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont, CA
Traces Left Behind, CSP, Kings Art Center, Hanford, CA
Points of Departure, CSP, Bridge ARTSpace Gallery, Richmond, CA
Air, Water, Earth, LAPS, The Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA – juror, Kim Abeles
12th Annual California Centered Printmaking, Merced Multicultural Center, Merced, CA – juror, Jamey Brzezinski
2017
Abstraction, National Exhibit, Marin MOCA, juror, Catherine Clark, Catherine Clark Gallery, S.F., CA
California Society of Printmakers Annual, Piedmont, CA
Brand 45, National Works on Paper, Glendale, CA – juror, Leslie Jones, curator of Prints & Drawings, LACMA, CA
30th Anniversary of the Tsao Gallery, Davis, CA – curator, Michael Acevedo, Davis Art Center, CA
Triton Museum of Art, Ray Ashley Collection, Santa Clara, CA
Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA – juror, Susan Sayre Batton, Director, San Jose Museum of Art
30th National Works on Paper, McNeese University, Lake Charles, LA – juror, Gia Hamilton, Director, Joan Michelle Center
Beneath the Surface CSP, Davis Arts Center, Davis, CA
2016
Dreams & the Imagination CSP, Merced College Art Gallery, Merced, CA
IN PRINT: Sandra Beard, Michelle Murillo, Carrie Ann Plank at Shimo Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA
East Room, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2015
The Future: The Los Angeles Printmaking Society, SG Gallery, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
7 from Axis, James Kaneko Gallery, American River College, Sacramento, CA
Prints: CA, LA & Beyond, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, juried by Michelle Murillo
2014
101st Annual, CA Printmakers, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
North American Print & Drawing Exhibition, Arts Visalia, juried by Roxanne Sexauer, Visalia CA
First Look, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Brand 42 Works on Paper, Glendale, CA, juror, Jack Rutberg, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Free Press, Prints by Sacramento artists, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, Sacramento, CA
Blue Line Arts, Exhibition & Auction, Roseville, CA , juried by Diana Daniels, Crocker Art Museum, CA
2013
Art House, Print Exchange, Graphic Arts Workshop, San Francisco, CA and the Robert Blackburn Printshop, New York, NY
Text, Language, & Numerals, CSP at Sacramento State University, Union Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Pink 2013, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA – curated by Gioia Fonda
Prints: CA, LA and Beyond, California Society of Printmakers and the Los Angeles Printmakers, CA
Blue Line Arts, Exhibition & Auction, Roseville, CA, juried by Scott Shields, Crocker Art Museum
Printmaking Society Exchange, Los Angeles, CA, juried by Roxanne Sexauer.
2012
Boston Printmakers, Colby-Sawyer College, Sawyer Center for Fine & Performing Arts, New London, NH
Side by Side, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
6th Annual California Centered: Printmaking, Merced, CA
Thoreau Gallery, CSP, Every Expression is Justified, San Francisco, CA
California Society of Printmakers /Royal Society of Printmakers Exchange Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
California Society of Printmakers 99th, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
California Centered: Printmaking 6th Annual, Merced, CA
BIG, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2011
Verge Gallery, Axis at Verge, Sacramento, CA
Boston Printmakers, Transportation Building Boston, Boston,, MA
Boston Printmakers, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Natick, MA
A Stones Throw, LAPS at Robert Blackburn 20 20 Gallery, New York, NY
The Abstract, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA – juror, Phil Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum of CA.
LA Printmaking, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA – Juror, Mick McGee, Prof. of Art at Cal State Fullerton University
Abstract, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA – juror, Jeremy Morgan, San Francisco Art Institute, CA (award)
A Marriage of Opposites: Love & Hate, Life & Death, Heaven & Hell, CSP 98th Annual, Alameda, CA
Wrinkle, Axis Gallery Annual, Sacramento, CA
2010
Boston Printmakers, Hunstville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
Boston Printmakers, Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA
5th Biennial National Print Exhibition, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ – juror, M. Yazzie, U. of Colorado
Arts On Fire, Sanchez Art center, Pacifica, CA – juror, Phil Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum, CA
4th California Centered:Printmaking, Merced, CA – juror, Jamie Brzezinski, U.C. Merced, CA
thINK, Boston Printmakers, Boston, MA, – exhibit traveling two years
Paper In Particular 31st National, Columbia College, Columbia, MO – juror, Bradlee Shanks, Un. of South Florida
Market Street Gallery, Small Works, CSP, San Francisco, CA
Circle Dance, FireHouse Gallery(solo), Rogue Community College, Grant’s Pass, OR
Tree House and other Precarious Alignments (solo), Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2009
Marin Society of Artists, National Juried, Ross, CA – juror, Scott Shields, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
Working in Wax, National, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA – juror, Eileen P. Goldberg
The Dimension of Dreams, CSP, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA – juror, Betsy Davids, Rebis Press
Today: through the artist’s eye, CSP, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA – juror George Rivera, Director, Triton Museum, CA
2008
A Stone’s Throw Exchange, LA ARTCORE, Brewery Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Roseville Arts 32nd National, Roseville, CA – juror, Phil Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum
California Society of Printmakers, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA
Brand Associates Purchase Award Collection: Retrospective Exhibition, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale CA
Strength & Vulnerability, 2nd City Council Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA – juror, Cheryl Bennet
Contemporary Ruin, California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, Escondido, CA – jurors, Mary Catherine Ferguson,
Works of Art on Paper, Long Beach Foundation of the Arts, Loveladies, NJ – juror, Charlotta Kotik, Brooklyn Mus. of Art
Off Center, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA (catalogue)
Personal Impressions, CSP, 94th Annual, Pacific Grove Art Center, CA
Hidden Spaces of Sacramento, SMUD Gallery, Sacramento, CA
The Art of Prints, CSP, Synopsys, Mountain View, CA – curator, Carol Dabb
Public Collections
Ray Ashley Collection, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
Kaiser Permanente, Modesto, California
Southern Utah State College, Utah
Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento, California
City of Sunnyvale, California
Plotter Pros, San Jose, CA
San Jose Medical, San Jose, California
Heritage Bank, San Jose, California
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Marcus & Millichap, PA
Dillingham Construction, San Jose, California
Marcus & Millichap, NY
Howell & Hallgrimson, Pleasanton, California
Ford Land Development, Chicago, Illinois
Synopsys Corporation, Mountain View, California
Kidney Dialysis Unit, Chicago, Illinois
CSB Legal Document Service, Santa Clara, California
Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, California
Saks Fifth Avenue, Corporation, San Francisco, California
Minutillo & Gorman Law Offices, San Jose, California
Awards
McNeese National Works on Paper, Purchase Award, Permanent Collection, McNeese State University, LA 2017
Abstract, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA – juror, Jeremy Morgan, San Francisco Art Institute, CA 2011
Roseville Arts 32nd National, Best of Show, Roseville, CA 2008
Arts on Fire, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA 2005
Boise State University, Women’s History Month, Boise, Idaho 2002
Arts Connect Grant, Quetzal House Project, Bill Wilson Center, Santa Clara 1999
Arts Connect Grant, Advent School Project, Morgan Hill 1999
Fine Arts Commission-Cupertino, Grant 1998
Cupertino Telecommunications Commission, Grant 1997
Matrix International. Sacramento, CA, Award 1996
Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY 1995
Award, Long Beach Arts National Abstract Exhibition, Long Beach, CA 1995
Brand Library Art Galleries, Purchase Award, Permanent Collection, Glendale, CA 1995
Vermont Studio Center, VSC Grant, Johnson, Vermont 1994
Distinguished Artist Award, City of Cupertino, CA 1993
Purchase Award, Permanent Collection, City of Sunnyvale, CA 1985
Award of Merit, California Women Artists, Sacramento, CA 1984
Award, Printmaking, Creative Arts Center Gallery, Sunnyvale, CA 1983
Purchase Award, Permanent Collection, Southern Utah State College 1983
Purchase Award, Beyond Words 2, SJICA, San Jose, CA
Graphics Award, Creative Arts Center, Sunnyvale, CA