BETTY NOBUE KANO 1340 PERALTA AVENUE BERKELEY, CA 94702 510.527.1401 email: bkano@ lmi.net DEGREES: B.A. - Fine Arts: Painting, San Francisco State College, 1967 M.A. - Fine Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1977 M.F.A. - Fine Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1978 SELECTED SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2004 - (S)kinship, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco - CBS Marketwatch Corporate Headquarters, Connections, San Francisco 2003 - 25 Years of Heart and Struggle, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco - Asian American Women Artists Assoc., SomArts, San Francisco - War & Silence, Kearny Street Workshop, SomArts Main Gallery, San Francisco - Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco 2002 - Dark Mother: African Origins and Godmothers, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA - Chi Gallery, Oakland, CA - Artship Windows, Jack London Square, Oakland, CA 2001 - Artship Windows, 15th St. and Broadway, Oakland, CA 2000 - Local Color: Selections from the di Rosa Collection, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA - Nikkei 2000 Conference, Miyako Hotel, San Francisco, CA 1999 - Godzilla West Presents, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, CA 1998 - In the Wind: Betty Kano & Tomoko Murakami, Asia Resource Gallery, Oakland, CA 1997 - Estardantes, Tijuana Cultural Center, Marta Palau, curator, Tijuana, Mexico - Impressions: Contemporary Asian Artist Prints, Brandywine Workshop, Center for the Visual Arts, Philadelphia, PA (catalog) 1996 - BETTY KANO: TRANSFORMATIONS, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Illinois at Springfield, Illinois (Solo exhibition) 1996 - Faces of Home, Oliver Art Center, Calif. College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1994 - BETTY NOBUE KANO, Plaza Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA (Solo exhibition) - Odun de Odun de, Oliver Art Center, Ca. College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA - Painting: Asian American Perspectives, Marjorie Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, and Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (catalog) 1993 - All The Earth Is Red In Cuba, Installation, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA (Solo exhibition) 1993 - The Art We Love to Hate, Jennifer Heath, curator, Chicano Humanities & Art Council, Denver, CO, and Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, other touring (catalog, Pomegranate Artbooks) - Time Echoes, Asian American Women Artists,C. N. Gorman Museum, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA (brochure) - New World Order III, The Curio Shop, Godzilla, Artists Space, New York, NY 1992 - Betty Kano/Brian Tripp, Berkeley Store Gallery, Berkeley, CA (catalog) - Hopi Prophecy (installation), "Resistance 500," Addison Street Windows, Berkeley, CA - A Voice of Peace and Reason, Browsing Formal Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (catalog) - Visiting Artists Program: 20th Anniversary Show, CU Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1988-1992 - Echoes Through Time, EPCOT Center, Orlando, FL (catalog) 1991 - Fourth Havana Biennial, Museo de Belles Artes, Havana, Cuba (catalog) - Rooms for the Dead, "Executive Order," collaborative installation at Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA - Salad Bar Presents: History, Truth or Consequences, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA and Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (catalog) 1990 - Betty Kano, Ake Grudtz, Leon Dockery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA - Flags, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (catalog) 1989 - Painting Forum, Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA - Homeland: A Palestinian Quest, Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - Art Against Apartheid 1989 Exhibition, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY 1988 - Peter Selz Selects, Peter Selz, curator, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA (catalog) 1987 - Emerging Asian American Artists, George Rivera, curator, Triton Museum of Art (Inaugural Exhibit), Santa Clara, CA - New Abstraction in the West, Pritchard Art Gallery, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID - Betty Kano & Enrique Chagoya - Social Narratives: An Exploration in Content, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 1986 - Betty Kano, Artists Embassy International Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Solo exhibition) 1986 - Saludo al Pueblo de Nicaragua, Casa Gallery, San Francisco, CA and State Museum, Managua, Nicaragua 1985 - Traditions Transformed, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA and Doizaki Gallery, Japanese American Community Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) - Chain Reaction, SF Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1984 - Betty Kano, UPB Gallery, Berkeley, CA (Solo exhibition) 1984 - Japan Ima Festival, Rolando Castellon, curator, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA - May I Have Your Attention, Please? Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA 1983 - Elegant Miniatures from San Francisco and Kyoto, Tom Marioni, curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA and Belco House, Kyoto, Japan - Betty Kano and Clay Jensen, Bruce Velick Gallery, San Francisco, CA - Betty Kano & Al Rice, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 1982 - Bety Kano, Ron Salgado/Downtown Gallery,Los Angeles, CA (Solo exhibition) 1982 - Betty Kano/Jerry Concha, TransAmerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2-Person exhibit, Gump's Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1981 - Betty Kano/ Cornelia Schultz, Falkirk Community Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA - Beyond Words, (Award in juried competition, selected by Josine Ianco-Starrels), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Jose, CA 1980 - Betty Kano, Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Solo exhibition) 1980 - Painting Annual, (Award), Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA - American Artists, Fukuoka Municipal Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 1979 - Expo California, Sacramento, CA - 3-Person Exhibit, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1978 - Betty Kano, Richmond Art Center, S.F. Arts Festival Solo Exhibition Award, Richmond, CA 1978 - Aesthetics of Graffiti, Rolando Castellon, curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (catalog) - M.F.A. Candidates, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1977 - Six East Bay Painters, George Neubert, curator, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA - Crocker-Kingsley Annual, E.B. Crocker Gallery, Sacramento, CA HONORS AND AWARDS: Women of Color Resource Center, "Sisters of Fire " Award, 2002 Rockefeller Foundation Residency Fellowship in the Humanities, Asian American Center, Queens College, Queens, NY (1991-1992) Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Finalist, (1981,1982) Exhibition Award, San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA (1977) TEACHING, CURATING and RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Spring, 1999 - 2004 - Lecturer, Asian American Studies Dept., San Francisco State University, S.F., CA 2002 - Curator, Bridges: Works by Contemporary Korean American and Japanese American Women Artists, National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA, ("Nikkei Heritage") Spring 2000 - Art exhibit at Alameda County Social Services Dept. in Oakland, CA. Jan. 1997 to Current - Executive Director, Pro Arts, Inc. Oakland, CA. Curator of following exhibitions at Pro Arts: Welcome to Oakland (1997), Bay Area Sculpture (1998), Defiance OUR/SELVES: Black and Native American Photographers (1998), Art After Incarceration: Japanese American and Other Artists (1998), Fruitvale Colors/Best of Memories (1999), Homelessness (2000), Hidden Histories: African American Slavery and the Philippine American War (2000), Indigenous Festivals (2000), Sugar 'n Spice'n Everything Nice: Lives, Loves and Legacies of Women of Color (2001), Census 2000: Asian Pacific Island Americans (2001), and West Oakland Today: thehousingproject and Scrapyard Ghosts (2002), Life Or…? Visions of the Hopi Prophecy (2002). Spring, 1997 - Lecturer, Art Dept., San Francisco State University, S.F., CA Spring, 1996 - Lecturer, Board of Studies in Art, University of California, Santa Cruz Fall, 1995 through Spring, 1996 - California Arts Council, Artist-In-Residence, Museum of Children's Art, Oakland, CA Fall, 1993 through Spring, 1996 - Lecturer, Fine Arts and Ethnic Studies Depts., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1995 - Curator, Roots in Asia, featuring Sono Osato and Joe Sugayan, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (brochure) 1993 - Curator, Public and Private Journeys, Euphrat Museum, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA Spring, 1993 - Lecturer, Art Dept., Laney College, Oakland, CA Fall, 1993 - Lecturer, New College of California, San Francisco, CA 1992-1993 - Instructor, Arts Program, San Francisco County Jail #7, San Bruno, CA 1992 - Curator, The Mythmakers, Jamaica Art Center, Jamaica, NY (brochure) 1991 - Lecturer, Art Dept., Laney College, Oakland, CA 1991 - Consultant, Education Dept., Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland 1991 - Art Editor, Asian America: Journal of Culture and the Arts, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 1990 - Artist-In-Residence, Mixing It Up Symposium, Lucy Lippard, organizer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Fall, 1990 - Lecturer, Board of Studies in Art, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz 1990 - Co-Curator, Salad Bar Exhibit, Hunter's Point Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA 1989 - Curator, Masks, Monkeys, Magic and Memories, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA 1988 - Curator, About Survival, Veteran's Memorial Auditorium, Berkeley Multicultural Festival, Berkeley, CA 1985-86 - Artist-In-Residence, California Arts Council, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS WCA Conferences at Seattle, WA and New York, NY Association of Asian American Studies Conferences at UC Santa Barbara, Manoa, HI, and San Jose, CA Asian American Renaissance Festival at Minneapolis, MN; Association of American Cultures, Oklahoma, OK Mid-America College Art Association, Tucson, AZ; Western Museums Conference, San Jose, CA "Strategizing Cultures" Conference, UCLA Multicultural Symposia at San Francisco Art Instutute, SF. Lectures, slide presentations: Elmshurst College, Elmshurst, IL; School for the Visual Arts, NY; UC Davis; CCAC; New College of California, San Francisco, University of Illinois at Springfield, IL, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Merritt College, Laney College, San Francisco Art Institute symposia, Mills College, San Francisco State University, UCLA, Sonoma State University, Euphrat Museum, UC Berkeley, Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry, CA, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA COMMISSIONS, BOARDS and JURIES: 2002 - African American Museum and Library of Oakland murals jury facilitator 2001 - Creative Artists Fellowship Jurying Panel 2000- 2004 - City of Oakland, Public Art Advisory Committee (appointed) 1999 - 2000 - City of Oakland, Blue Ribbon Committee, (appointed) 1999 and 2000 - San Jose Civic Arts Commission Grants Panelist 1999 - California Civil Liberties Public Education Grant, reviewer 1998 - Selection Committee for Exec. Director, Oakland Asian Cultural Center; Creative Artists Fellowship Jurying Panel, Oakland Cultural Affairs Commission; Advancement Grant Panel, Oakland Cultural Affairs Commission; Juror - Sonoma Arts Council; Juror - Vacaville Artists League; Juror -Growing Up Asian, San Francisco, CA 1996 - San Francisco Arts Commission Grants Panel 1994 - Community Advisory Board, "Face of the Gods," University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1993 - Co-Founder Godzilla West 1991 - Juror, N. CA WCA, Women on Women, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA 1990 - Juror, 1,000 Faces, Festival at the Lake, Oakland, CA; Reviewer, Artists Earthquake Recovery Grants, Northern California Grantmakers; 3rd Annual Exhibition Award, CCAC, Oakland, CA 1989 - Co-founder, Asian American Women Artists Association 1988 - 1996 - Board of Directors, Alliance for Cultural Democracy, (Co-chair 94-96) 1988 - 1992 - Commissioner, Alameda County Arts Commission (Secretary 90 -92) 1987 - 1989 - Board of Directors, Pro Arts, Inc., Oakland, CA 1986 - 1987 - Berkeley Art Commission 1979 - 1980 - Board of Directors, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, editors, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, by Third Woman Press (2002), Art Folio George Leonard, editor, The Asian Pacific American Heritage: A Companion to Literature, Garland Publisher, "Asian American Visual Arts, An Interview with Betty Kano," by Timothy Dresher, 1999, pp. 585-591. Phoebe Farris, editor, Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas, Greenwood Press, Westport, CN, 1999, pp. 397- 403, illus. Sei-En Journal, Tokyo, Japan, number 47, Spring 1998, color cover, Sei-En Journal, Tokyo, Japan, number 46, Winter 1997, color cover Carlos Villa, Project Director, Worlds in Collision, Dialogues on Multicultural Art Issues, 1994, San Francisco Art Institute, pp 36-49, 139 Jennifer Heath, Black Velvet, The Art We Love to Hate, Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco, 1994, pp 70, 71. Glen Mimura, Asian America: Journal of Culture and the Arts, "Betty Kano: All the Earth Is Red in Cuba Todo la Tierra Es Roja en Cuba," UC Santa Barbara, Winter, 1993, pp 156-165 (photos, text). Betty Kano, Feminist Studies, "Four Northern California Artists: Hisako Hibi, Norine Nishimura, Yong Soon Min and Miran Ahn," vol. 19, no. 3, Fall, 1993, pp 628-642 (cover, photos, text). Moira Roth and Diane Tani (with essay by Lucy Lippard), Betty Kano, Visibility Press, Berkeley Store Gallery, Berkeley, 1992. Plaza Asahi, January 31 - February 13, 1992 (cover, photo, text in Japanese) J.H. Tompkins, East Bay Guardian, "Mixing Paint and Politics," April 1991, cover photo, pp 13-14 (text) Lucy Lippard, Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America, Pantheon Books, New York, 1990, p. 232 (photo, text) Shirley Lim & Mayumi Tsutakawa, ed., The Forbidden Stitch, Calyx Books, 1989 (photo, text) Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980, UC Press, 1985 (text) Thomas Albright, ArtNews, "San Francisco," February, 1978 (text) Thomas Albright, San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 10, 1977 COLLECTIONS: San Francisco Art Commission Security Pacific National Bank Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe Jerry Magnin Tom Mazzolini Charles Schwab Shirley Geok-Lin Lim Ernie Kim William Wong Rene di Rosa University of Colorado Art Museum Brobeck, Phleger, and Harrison A.T. & T. NEA Associates Gail Bernstein IBM Suzaan Boettger Washington State Arts Commission John Turpin Kenneth Nash