Jennifer Starkweather

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EDUCATION

Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Elkins Park, PA. M.F.A.- painting, 1994
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.
Artist in Residence Program, 1993
University of California at Davis, Davis, CA. B.A. Art/Minor in German, 1988

HONORS and AWARDS
2005 New American Painting, No 61, Open Studio Press
2003 Elizabeth Foundation, Grant Recipient
2003 Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois
2002 Ucross Foundation Residency Program, Ucross, Wyoming
2002 SECA Nominee
2001 Vermont Studio Center, Artists Grant Recipient
2001 Headlands Center for the Arts, Affiliate Artist
1999- 2001 DeYoung Museum, Resident Artist
1996 Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, Grant Recipient
1995 Pew Charitable Trust, Discipline Winner
1994 Leonard B. Belber Award, Abington Art Center
1993 Tyler School of Art Scholarship to Skowhegan

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
         
2011
"Approach, Transition, Touchdown: the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge" , Electric Works, San Francisco, CA. Hughen / Starkweather (collaboration)

2010
"Short Fuses and Long Streets: A Logical Lapse",President's Gallery, Brenau UniversityGainesville, Georgia, Hughen / Starkweather (collaboration)
"Give  & Take", Chicago Art Source, Chicago, IL, Hughen / Starkweather (collaboration)
"Secret Drawings Surreal Reinventions Dream Sequences" Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

2009
“The Airport Project”, Electric Works, San Francisco, CA, Hughen / Starkweather (collaboration)
"Art on Market Street: San Francisco Arts Commission Kiosk Poster Projec"t, The Bedford Gallery Walnut Creek, CA, Hughen / Starkweather (collaboration)
"Cartographic Imagination/Atlas", San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, Hughen / Starkweather (collaboration)

2008    
"The Headlands Exhibit" Cavallo Point, Sausalito
"The Water Project" The Thoreau Center, San Francisco

2007
Nineteen 19 Going on 20 Twenty The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
"Between above and below" Electric Works, San Francisco, CA, Hughen / Starkweather (collaboration)
"Between above and below" San Francisco Arts Commission Kiosk PosterProject, San Francisco, CA , Hughen / Starkweather (collaboration)


2006    
"Monoliths-Receptors-Recordings" Marxhausen Gallery of Art at Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska

2005    
"Sprawl" Haley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
 "Inner and Outer Space" Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA

2004
"Shift" Vespine Gallery, Chicago, Il
"Periphery" Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
"How it Looks From Here" Spanganga, San Francisco, CA
"Nuit Blanche/lost in Translation" Ampersand International, San Francisco, CA/ Paris, France

2003    
"Meander: an exploration of space " - Solo Exhibit - Ampersand International, San Francisco, CA
"What We Saw When We Got There" The Lab, San Francisco, CA

2002
Night Skies and Imaginary Coordinates: Artist as Navigator" Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

2001 
"Mapping" WORKS, San Jose, CA

1999    
"Marks Based on Wind Currents" - Solo Exhibit - Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998    
"Introductions" - Solo Exhibit - Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Works on Paper," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 
"Underline"  SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  

1997    
"Exemplary Contemporary" - Curated by Peter Gordon, San Jose Museum of Art
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA.
"Changing the Rules of the Game" Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
              

REVIEWS

2004
Lindsey Westbrook 'Critic's Choice': Nuit Blanche San Francisco Bay Guardian: February 2004

2003
Mark Van Proyen "Jennifer Starkweather and Paula J. Clark at Ampersand". ARTWEEK: September 2003, page 16
David Buuck, 'What We Saw When We Got There' at The LAB ARTWEEK: March, 2003, page 13

2002    
Heather Knight "Navigator show gives art a sense of direction".THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. Friday, July 19, 2002, Page E3
John Rapko "Night Skies & Imaginary Coordinates" at the Palo Alto Art Center. ARTWEEK: September 2002, Volume 33, Issue 7, Page 13

1999    
Kenneth Baker, "Wind Pushes Starkweather", THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE December 11, 1999, page B20.
David Bonetti, "Gallery Watch", THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER,  December 10, 1999, page B19.

1998    
Kenneth Baker. "Starkweather at Wirtz," THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, July 16, 1998, page C7

1997
Gerard Brown, "Rule-Breaking and Redundancies Philadelphia Weekly, September 10, 1997m volume XXVI no.3, p.30-31

1995    
Robin Updike. "Art by Airmail," THE SEATTLE TIMES, September 7, 1995
Victoria Donohoe. "An exhibit in which disposables have been transformed into works of art," PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, April 1995
   

COLLECTIONS
Honolulu Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Charles Schwab
Genentech
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
Rena Bransten, San Francisco, California
Four Season Hotel, San Francisco, California
Dakin Hart, San Francisco, California
Rich and Lenore Niles, San Francisco
John Vasconcellos, San Rafael, California
Frank F. Drewes, Herzebrock, Germany
Kate and Michael Peppler, Carmel Valley, California