Artist Susan Kraft's CV
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2012 "Splintered Humanity", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA (example)
2005 "Crossing Oceans", Chow Yang Cultural Museum, Beijing, China
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Kaleidoscope" group show , Avenue 25 Gallery San Mateo, CA (sample)
2019 "Serenity" solo show , The Main Gallery Redwood City, CA (sample)
2018 "Artists Holiday Open Studio, Redwood City, CA
2018 "Annual Group Show", The Main Gallery Redwood City, CA
2018 "Chalk On The Square" downtown plaza, Redwood City, CA
2016 "Anne & Mark's Art Party" The Irrational and Occasional, San Jose Arts Fest
2016 "Nothing is Here; Dada Is It's Name" Branner Spangenberg Gallery Redwood City, CA
2016 Triton Museum of Art, Annual Art Gala, Santa Clara, CA
2015 "Sexism: A Touchy Subject" Silicon Valley WCA , Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Wave Street Studios, Montery, CA
2014 Anne & Mark's Art Party, San Jose, CA
2014 Unseen or Not, BareBrush.com, Chelsea New York
2008 Paula Barr Gallery, Chelsea New York, NY
2005 Avalon Art Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2005, 2003 ART21 Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2002, 2000 Artistic Adventure Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
2007 Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
1998 Peggy Eriksen Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2018 Her Story on-line artisttableonline.com
2017 Plus One: The Main Gallery, Redwood City, CA
2015 Voices: An Artist’s Perspective, International Juried Exhibition, presented with UniteWomen.org online
2015 SWAN Day, juried SVWCA exhibition at Boswell Art Center, Livermore, CA
2015 invitational exhibition during International Women's History Month at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, MD
2014 Impulse, juried exhibition at Arc Gallery San Francisco
2014 Politics of Art, Live Worms Gallery, an invitational Pop-up exhibition in North Beach San Francisco
2014 The XX-Factor, Jennifer and Phillip DiNapoli Gallery in the MLK Library, San Jose, CA
2013 Women’s Right’s: An Artist’s Perspective, national juried show, Pam Foss Fine Art Gallery
2012 Consequences, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Man as Object: Reverse the Gaze, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2010 Better Luck Next Time, WORKS Invitational, San Jose, CA
2009 Pacific Art League and Silicon Valley Open Studios Invitational
2008 South Bay Area Women's Caucus for Art members' show, San Jose, CA
2006 Los Gatos Art Association, Los Gatos Art Museum, CA
2006 Hudson Valley Art Association 75th Exhibition, NY, NY
2006 SOCO Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
2004, 2003 ART21 Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2001, 2000 Artistic Adventure Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
2000 31st 2-D Competition, San Jose Art League, San Jose CA
1999 SWA Open Competition, Merced, CA
1999 CWA Blackhawk Gallery, CA
1998 SWA 48th Annual, San Francisco, CA
1998 Rakku Gallery, Jerome, AZ
1997 Virtual Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1994 Abstractions, San Jose Art Club, San Jose, CA
TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS:
Break Through talk (slide show and talk), Redwood City and San Francisco, CA ,2019
Open Studio Art Party & Demo (video), Redwood City, CA, 2016
Triton Museum of Art, Let Them Eat Cake series talk and QA, 2012
Talk Art television show, Let Them Eat Cake
Santa Clara Art Association, demo and abstract art talk, 2010
Sunnyvale Art Club, demo and abstract art talk, 2007
Gallery Vision - Society of Local Artists, 2006
Staging Your Studio – Silicon Valley Open Studio, 2004
Artists and Galleries – Santa Clara Watercolor Society, 2003
Art in the Digital Age – ART21 Gallery, 2002
SEMINARS and CONFERENCES:
http://femfederation.weebly.com/,
Congressional Day of Action , Washington DC, 2017
Honoring Women’s Rights, Salinas CA 2012
We Are Woman Rally and Lobby, 2012
EcoArts Elements, Berkeley CA, 2010
WordPress for Blue Planet Conference, 2010
Women's Caucus for Art, New York NY, Chicago IL, Los Angeles CA, 2008 - 2014
BOARDS and COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS:
Current:
Silicon Valley (formerly South Bay Area) Women's Caucus for the Arts - President, 2009 - 2016
Past:
Honoring Women’s Rights, 2012: Executive Conference Director / Press Agent
Echoing Visual Voices Together, 2012: Striking Committee member
Women’s Caucus for Arts, National Board member
Silicon Valley Local Artists, Executive Director, 2004-2007
Silicon Valley Open Studios; Board member, 2003 - 2006
ART21 Gallery, Founder and Director, 2002 - 2007 (intro press)
Palo Alto Arts and Culture Awareness, founder, 2005
Palo Alto Art Walk, Co-Founder, 2003 - 2007
Palo Alto Black and White Ball, Moonlit Cinema Paradiso, Decorate and Design committee - 2004
TELEVISION:
Talk Art television show, guest, 2012
Talk Art television series, Producer and host, 2007 – 2010
*This series was broadcast through several cable stations with up to 1 million viewers.
Arts and U, 2005, 2004
ARTICLES:
Honoring Women's Rights blog page, 2012, video links
Honoring Women's Rights press, 2012 WCA Eco-Arts conference and exhibition Press, 2010
WCA Eco-Arts conference and exhibition Blogs, 2010
Society of Local Artists e-zine, Your Painting isn’t Done Until It Is Ready To Hang, 2005
Framing for Shows, 2004
JUROR:
Pacific Art League - SVOS joint show, 2009
Pacific Art League, Color Spectrum, 2005
Palo Alto Summer Art Fair, 2005
Menlo Park Summer Art Fair, 2001
SUMMARY:
Susan Kraft has shown locally, nationally, and internationally since 1982. In 2005, she accepted an invitation to present a 22-piece abstraction series at the Chow Yang Cultural Museum, in Beijing, China, as part of the China art exchange program. in 2012, she accepted to enter her controversial Unseen, Unheard piece as the central focus to a Triton Museum of Fine Art exhibition. Her work ranges from portraits to abstractions. She creates and cultivates synergistic art groups, art walks, and a TV show interviewing artists and notables in the art field.
2012 "Splintered Humanity", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA (example)
2005 "Crossing Oceans", Chow Yang Cultural Museum, Beijing, China
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Kaleidoscope" group show , Avenue 25 Gallery San Mateo, CA (sample)
2019 "Serenity" solo show , The Main Gallery Redwood City, CA (sample)
2018 "Artists Holiday Open Studio, Redwood City, CA
2018 "Annual Group Show", The Main Gallery Redwood City, CA
2018 "Chalk On The Square" downtown plaza, Redwood City, CA
2016 "Anne & Mark's Art Party" The Irrational and Occasional, San Jose Arts Fest
2016 "Nothing is Here; Dada Is It's Name" Branner Spangenberg Gallery Redwood City, CA
2016 Triton Museum of Art, Annual Art Gala, Santa Clara, CA
2015 "Sexism: A Touchy Subject" Silicon Valley WCA , Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Wave Street Studios, Montery, CA
2014 Anne & Mark's Art Party, San Jose, CA
2014 Unseen or Not, BareBrush.com, Chelsea New York
2008 Paula Barr Gallery, Chelsea New York, NY
2005 Avalon Art Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2005, 2003 ART21 Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2002, 2000 Artistic Adventure Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
2007 Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
1998 Peggy Eriksen Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2018 Her Story on-line artisttableonline.com
2017 Plus One: The Main Gallery, Redwood City, CA
2015 Voices: An Artist’s Perspective, International Juried Exhibition, presented with UniteWomen.org online
2015 SWAN Day, juried SVWCA exhibition at Boswell Art Center, Livermore, CA
2015 invitational exhibition during International Women's History Month at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, MD
2014 Impulse, juried exhibition at Arc Gallery San Francisco
2014 Politics of Art, Live Worms Gallery, an invitational Pop-up exhibition in North Beach San Francisco
2014 The XX-Factor, Jennifer and Phillip DiNapoli Gallery in the MLK Library, San Jose, CA
2013 Women’s Right’s: An Artist’s Perspective, national juried show, Pam Foss Fine Art Gallery
2012 Consequences, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Man as Object: Reverse the Gaze, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2010 Better Luck Next Time, WORKS Invitational, San Jose, CA
2009 Pacific Art League and Silicon Valley Open Studios Invitational
2008 South Bay Area Women's Caucus for Art members' show, San Jose, CA
2006 Los Gatos Art Association, Los Gatos Art Museum, CA
2006 Hudson Valley Art Association 75th Exhibition, NY, NY
2006 SOCO Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
2004, 2003 ART21 Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2001, 2000 Artistic Adventure Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
2000 31st 2-D Competition, San Jose Art League, San Jose CA
1999 SWA Open Competition, Merced, CA
1999 CWA Blackhawk Gallery, CA
1998 SWA 48th Annual, San Francisco, CA
1998 Rakku Gallery, Jerome, AZ
1997 Virtual Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1994 Abstractions, San Jose Art Club, San Jose, CA
TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS:
Break Through talk (slide show and talk), Redwood City and San Francisco, CA ,2019
Open Studio Art Party & Demo (video), Redwood City, CA, 2016
Triton Museum of Art, Let Them Eat Cake series talk and QA, 2012
Talk Art television show, Let Them Eat Cake
Santa Clara Art Association, demo and abstract art talk, 2010
Sunnyvale Art Club, demo and abstract art talk, 2007
Gallery Vision - Society of Local Artists, 2006
Staging Your Studio – Silicon Valley Open Studio, 2004
Artists and Galleries – Santa Clara Watercolor Society, 2003
Art in the Digital Age – ART21 Gallery, 2002
SEMINARS and CONFERENCES:
http://femfederation.weebly.com/,
Congressional Day of Action , Washington DC, 2017
Honoring Women’s Rights, Salinas CA 2012
We Are Woman Rally and Lobby, 2012
EcoArts Elements, Berkeley CA, 2010
WordPress for Blue Planet Conference, 2010
Women's Caucus for Art, New York NY, Chicago IL, Los Angeles CA, 2008 - 2014
BOARDS and COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS:
Current:
Silicon Valley (formerly South Bay Area) Women's Caucus for the Arts - President, 2009 - 2016
Past:
Honoring Women’s Rights, 2012: Executive Conference Director / Press Agent
Echoing Visual Voices Together, 2012: Striking Committee member
Women’s Caucus for Arts, National Board member
Silicon Valley Local Artists, Executive Director, 2004-2007
Silicon Valley Open Studios; Board member, 2003 - 2006
ART21 Gallery, Founder and Director, 2002 - 2007 (intro press)
Palo Alto Arts and Culture Awareness, founder, 2005
Palo Alto Art Walk, Co-Founder, 2003 - 2007
Palo Alto Black and White Ball, Moonlit Cinema Paradiso, Decorate and Design committee - 2004
TELEVISION:
Talk Art television show, guest, 2012
Talk Art television series, Producer and host, 2007 – 2010
*This series was broadcast through several cable stations with up to 1 million viewers.
Arts and U, 2005, 2004
ARTICLES:
Honoring Women's Rights blog page, 2012, video links
Honoring Women's Rights press, 2012 WCA Eco-Arts conference and exhibition Press, 2010
WCA Eco-Arts conference and exhibition Blogs, 2010
Society of Local Artists e-zine, Your Painting isn’t Done Until It Is Ready To Hang, 2005
Framing for Shows, 2004
JUROR:
Pacific Art League - SVOS joint show, 2009
Pacific Art League, Color Spectrum, 2005
Palo Alto Summer Art Fair, 2005
Menlo Park Summer Art Fair, 2001
SUMMARY:
Susan Kraft has shown locally, nationally, and internationally since 1982. In 2005, she accepted an invitation to present a 22-piece abstraction series at the Chow Yang Cultural Museum, in Beijing, China, as part of the China art exchange program. in 2012, she accepted to enter her controversial Unseen, Unheard piece as the central focus to a Triton Museum of Fine Art exhibition. Her work ranges from portraits to abstractions. She creates and cultivates synergistic art groups, art walks, and a TV show interviewing artists and notables in the art field.