CHERIE RACITI
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Wall Installation, Big Blue, San Francisco State University Library, San Francisco, CA
2009 Garage Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1998 Mills College Art Museum, Mills College, Oakland, CA, (catalog)
1990 Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA (catalog)
1989 Site 375 (outdoor sculpture installation), San Francisco, CA
1983 Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
1980 Site (alternative space), San Francisco, CA (catalog)
Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1979 Fuller-Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977 Adaline Kent Award Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA (catalog)
1975 Yerba Buena Works, 1971-75, The Annual, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972 University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 EHS Gallery, Cherie Raciti and Helen Chellin, San Francisco CA
2014 Natural Inclinations: Mutations, Marks…, Morris Graves Museum, Eureka CA
Open Studios, Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, CA
2013 Natural Inclinations: Mutations, Marks…, Thoreau Center, San Francisco, CA
2012 Open Studios, Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, CA
2009 Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
2008 Pacific Light 1908 – 2008, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skarhamn, Sweden,
(catalog)
2004 New Geometries, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco, San Francisco
2 1/2, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco
2003 Conceptual Color, Santa Cruz Museum, Santa Cruz, CA
2000 Exhibition of the recipients of the Art Council Awards, Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts,
1999 25/25, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Southern Exposure Gallery,
San Francisco, (catalog)
1998 Cherie Raciti/Jack Stone, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica
1993 In/Out of the Cold, Inaugural Exhibition, Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, CA (catalog)
1992 Cherie Raciti, Jane Bauman, Terrain, San Francisco, CA
1991 AMDG, Grace Cathedral, Terrain, San Francisco, CA
1988 Colliding: Myth, Fantasy, Nightmare, Artists Space, New York, NY (catalog)
Wall to Wall, Installations, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
1987 White Works, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Language of Form/Voice of Material, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Passages: A Survey of California Women Artists, 1945 to Present,
Fresno Arts Museum, Fresno, CA
1985 SFAI Annual, Nature as Metaphor, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA (catalog)
1984 San Francisco Science Fiction, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery,
San Francisco, CA; The Clocktower, New York, NY; Otis-Parsons Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
1983 How Shall We Travel in the Future, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
Elegant Miniatures from San Francisco and Kyoto, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art,
1982 Drawings by Painters, Long Beach Museum, University of San Diego,
Oakland Museum (catalog)
Miniatures from San Francisco, Belca House, Kyoto, Japan
1982 Painted Installations, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
1979 San Francisco State University, Faculty Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
1978 Installations: Ellen Brooks, Cherie Raciti, Dorothy Reid, Ursula Schneider,
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Los Angeles, CA
From Pastel to Notation: Recent Drawings, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA
1977 Group Show, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Two Sites: Cherie Raciti, Rudy Serra; Environmental Works Sponsored by
80 Langton Street, 18 Bay Area Artists, University Art Museum, University of
California at Berkeley, CA (catalog)
1976 18 Bay Area Artists, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1975 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalog)
Information, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1974 Two Views, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA (catalog)
Four Painters, University of California at Davis, CA
1973 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Six Painters, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
Phoenix Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1971 Richmond Biennial, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
SITE SPECIFIC WORKS
Street Talk I, II, November 1977 Double White Wall, October 12, 1974
The Last Yerba Buena Wall, April 17, 1977 Black Fabric Wall, August 1974
Minna Street White Wall, August 31, 1975 Works South of Market, January 1, 1974
Tropicana White Wall, February 26, 1975 Air Wall, November 28, 1974
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pacific Light, A Survey of California Watercolour 1908-2008, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet,
Sharhamn, Sweden, 2008
Keith Lachowicz, Mark Johnson, Catalog for Possible Objects: Mixed Media Work by Cherie Raciti
Mills College Art Museum, 1998
New Langton Arts, The First Fifteen Years, Judy Moran, Ed., New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 1990
Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists, Moira Roth, Ed., Eucalyptus Press, 1988
Albright, Thomas, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980, University of California Press, 1985
Who's Who in America, 1982 to present edition, Marquis Inc.,New providence, NJ
Carter Ratcliffe; "Report from San Francisco," Art in America, May-June, 1977
Phillip Linhares; Catalog for Adaline Kent Award Exhibition, 1977, San Francisco Art Institute
Ann La Veque; "Gallery As Studio," Galleries of the Claremont Colleges
Who's Who in American Art, 23th Edition,1976 to present edition,Marquis, Inc. New Providence, NJ
Claudia King; "Five Women in Las Vegas," University of Nevada
Phillip Linhares; Interview, Currant, April-May, 1975
Lynn Hershman; "Paintings in Resin," Artweek, September 23, 1972
SELECTED REVIEWS
Tanya Zimbardo, SFMOMA Yerba Buena Works, 2102 filed under Back Page, Projects/Series
Elizabeth Johnson, artpractical, September 2009
DeWitt Cheng, Artweek, October, 2004
Jeff Kelley, Artweek, November 18, 1993
Elsa Honig Fine, Woman's Art Journal, Fall 1990/Winter 1991
Marlena Donohue; Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1987
Dorothy Burkhart; San Jose Mercury News, June 15, 1984
Steven Winn; Art News, Vol. 80, January 1981
Judith Dunham; Artweek, July 19, 1980
Harold Haydon; Chicago Sun-Times, March 21, 1980
Chris Brown; Artweek, May 19, 1979
Melina Wortz; Art News, March 1979
Thomas Albright; San Francisco Chronicle, June 9, 1977
Judith Dunham, Artweek, April 2, 1977
Thomas Albright; San Francisco Chronicle, March 14, 1977
William Wilson; Los Angeles Times, May 31, 1976
Thomas Albright; San Francisco Chronicle, November 2, 1975
Timothy App; Artweek, October 31, 1975
William Wilson; Los Angeles Times, April 11, 1975
Alfred Frankenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, October 19, 1973
Thomas Albright; San Francisco Chronicle, August 18, 1973
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Mills College, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, San Francisco
AWARDS: GRANTS: RESIDENCIES
Red Cinder Creativity Center, Na'alehu, Hawaii, Residency, 2010
Juror's Award, The Art Council, Inc. (ArtAdia), San Francisco, Chicago, New York, 2000
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Residency, October 20-November 16
The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz , NY, Artist in Residence, October, 1999
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annamaghkerrig, Ireland, Artist in Residence, October 1995
British Council Travel Grant, 1995
Djerassi Program, Artist in Residence, June 1993
Moscone Center Addition, Finalist for "Largewall", San Francisco Arts Commission, 1991
Eureka Fellowship, 1988, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA (Sculpture)
Adaline Kent Award, 1976, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
New Langton Arts, Board Member, 1988-1992
San Francisco Art Institute Artists Committee, 1974-1985
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
San Francisco State University, College of Creative Arts: Art Department, 1977 - 2007
Professor of Art, 1989 – 2007
Professor of Art Emerita, 2007 - present
GUEST LECTURES AND VISITING ARTIST
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, Lecture, 2004
San Francisco Art institute, Graduate Lecture Series, Lecture, 1998
Mills College, Oakland, CA, Lecture, 1998
University of Ulster School of Fine and Applied Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland,
Visiting Artist, 1996
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 1990, Visiting Artist
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1987, Visiting Artist
National Sculpture Conference: Works by Women, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1987, Panelist
University of Nevada - Reno, Reno, NV, 1983, Visiting Artist
Mills College, Oakland, CA, 1982, Visiting Artist
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1980, Visiting Artist
University of California, Berkeley, CA 1979
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1974
University of California, Davis, CA, Nelson I.C. Gallery, Panel, 1974
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Painting, Mills College, Oakland, CA 1979
B.A. Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 1968
Memphis College of Art, Studied 1963-65