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Mary Mocas
www.marymocas.com
marymocas@mocasart.com
@marymocas
Education
2016 MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1971 BA, Marietta College, Marietta, Double Major in Art and English; Degree with Honors in Art
Awards
2023 Juror’s Award for IS Pink exhibited in the exhibition About Face at the Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA Jurors, Zoë Latzer, Associate Curator and Director of Public Programs, ICA San Jose and David Reyes, Curator of exhibitions and Collections, Huntsville Museum of Art
2021 Juror’s Exhibition Award for One Day in July and Two Days in August, Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA
Solo Exhibition
2022 2021 Left Coast Annual Awards Exhibition, The Space We Hold, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA, Juror Christine Koppes, Curator, San Francisco Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
2023 Earth, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, Juror, Jodi Roberts, Director of the Marin Museum, Novato, CA
Art and Terroir Maxville Winery, Healdsburg, CA Curated by Ray Beldner
About Face; Perspectives in Portraiture, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, Lesher Center for the Arts, Jurors, Zoë Latzer, Associate Curator and Director of Public Programs, ICA San Jose and David Reyes, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, Huntsvill Museum of Art
2022 Reno Tahoe International Art Show, Reno, Nevada
More Than Everything, Upstart Modern, Sausalito, CA
LCA Awards Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA
2021 Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA
2019 Collect and Connect, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Wild Projects Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2018 Art for Aids, UCSF Alliance Health Project, San Francisco, CA
Collect and Connect, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2017 Art for Aids , UCSF Alliance Health Project, San, Francisco, CA
Collect and Connect, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Bluets: to fall under a spell Gearbox Gallery, Oakland, CA, Juror, Jack Fischer, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
StartUp Art Fair San Francisco, CA
2016 Here I, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Collect and Connect, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
West Coast Craft, California College of the Arts Exhibition, San Francisco, CA,
Commencement Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
CCA MFA Thesis Exhibition, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2015 Crank, Southern Exposure, Juror, Lorelei Stewart, San Francisco, CA
Resonant Conversations, New York Studio Group Exhibition, The California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Connect & Collect, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
CCA New York Open Studios, AICAD/NYC, Studio Residency Exhibition, The NYSRP Studios DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Connect & Collect, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art,
2013 Array, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Four Artists on Paper, City of Berkeley Health, Housing and Community Services, Berkeley, CA, curated by John Wilson White and Mel Prest
2012 50-50 show: 50 Artworks in 50 Days, Juror, Barry Sakata, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
Curatorial Projects
2019 Curator of The Glass Cube Project Hubbell Street Gallery, San Francisco,CA
2017 Juror of Abstracted San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Residencies
2023 Vermont Studio Center, Painting Residency, Johnson, Vermont
2018 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Coast to Coast/Studio Momentum Snowmass, Colorado, Wendy White and Linda Geary
2017 Anderson Ranch Arts Center Studio Momentum, Snowmass, Colorado, Wendy White
2015 New York Studio AICAD Residency, Brooklyn, New York
Bibliography
2019 New American Painting Issue 145 Pacific Coast Edition, Juror’s Selection, Juror Christine Y. Kim, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Sam Whiting, “SF Art World Shifts South with Dogpatch Complex’s Opening” San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate, March 14, 2016
2016 Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis California College of the Arts Commencement Exhibition Catalogue
Collections
Visa International, Foster City, CA
Numerous Private Collections