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EDUCATION
1994 Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
1987 Art Institute of Houston, Houston, TX
1981 University of Houston, Houston, TX
1979 Brazosport Jr. College, Jackson, TX
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 "#Booksupcycled", Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco
2018 Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"Book Sculptures", RAW, ENCAUSTIC, BRONZE, Belle Brooke Studio and Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
KLOMPCHING GALLERY, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016 KLOMPCHING GALLERY, Brooklyn, NY
"When the Ice Melts", Fotofest biennial, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX
“Cendrillon”, Laura Korman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015 "Recent Works: Cara Barer & Pang Chieh Hsu”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Origins", Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014 “Origins”, Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, Canada
“Redux” Fotofest Biennial, Design Works Gallery, Galveston, TX
“Book Ends”, Carmel Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA
2013 KLOMPCHING GALLERY, Brooklyn, NY
Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, Canada
2012 “Cara Barer and Pang-Chieh Hsu”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Bound and Unbound”, Foster White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Time Capsules” Fotofest Biennal, DeSantos Gallery, Houston, TX
2011 “Overload”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 “Cara Barer and Emilio Lobato”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hulse-Warman Gallery, Taos, NM
“Unbound: A National Exhibition of Book Art”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
“Tesserae” Fotofest 2010, Design Works Gallery, Galveston, TX
2009 “Becoming a Myth”, De Santos Gallery, Houston, TX
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, UCLA campus, Los Angeles, CA
2008 “Flux” Fotofest 2008, Design Works, Galveston, TX
Hulse/Warman Gallery, Taos, NM
“Page Curler”, Wessell and Lieberman Booksellers, Seattle, CA
“The Book Project”, Tatar Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 “Metamorphosis”, De Santos Gallery, Houston, TX
“Of Words, Paper, and Shapes”, Singer Gallery, Petaluma, CA
2006 “Photography Now, 100 Portfolios”, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Pine Street Artworks, Burlington, VT
Mill Pond House, St. James, NY
“Evolutions”, De Santos Gallery, Houston, TX
2005 Assistance League of Houston, Houston, TX
Texas Photographic Society, Galveston, TX
"Circles of Confusion", De Santos Gallery, Houston, TX
Tomball College, Tomball, TX
1999 “Blue Prints”, Purse Building, Houston, TX
1997 Purse Building, Houston, TX
1996 Purse Building, Houston, TX
1994 Health Science Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 “Books Undone” Art of the Altered Book, THE GALLERY at Penn College, PA
2016 "Coast to Color", Laura Korman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015 “COLORLAB”, BAU-XI Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
“Unhinged: Book Art on the Cutting Edge”, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
“Adaptation: Turning Books into Art”, Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
2014 “Adaptation”, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
“From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Paper as Art”, Cornell Museum of Art and American Culture, Delray Beach, FL
“Up Words”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Redux” Fotofest Biennial, Design Works Gallery, Galveston, TX
“Ex Libris”, J.Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2013 “Between Lines", Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Back to the Future”, Suffolk County Historical Society, Riverhead, NY
“Out of Print”, Pine Hills Library, Albany, NY
2012 “Summer In South Park (Again)”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Life’s Fragile Nature”, NG Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2011 “That Was Then, This is Now”, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
“Speak for the Trees”, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
“Splash II”, Klompching Gallery, Brookyln, NY
“Information Revisited” Encyclopedia Project, Maloney Art Gallery, Harrisburg, PA
2010 “Book Arts”, Paragraph Gallery, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO
“Olive Branch”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle WA
“Perspectives”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle WA
“Information Revisited”, Encyclopedia Britannica Project, Belskie Museum of Art and Science, Closter, NJ
“Unbound: A Short Survey of Book Art”, Bedford Art Center, San Francisco, CA
“Altered Books: A New Object”, [Artspace] at Untitled, Oklahoma City, OK
2009 “Palimpsests”, Tarryn Teresa Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Word”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“\'flo\: art, text, new media”, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2008 “Chiaroscuro”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 “Book Works”, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
“Summer Reading”, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
“The Book, Ever After”, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX
2004 “The Big Show”, Lawndale Arts and Performance Center, Houston, TX
SELECT AWARDS
2010 Women in Photography International, 2nd Place Winner
2008 Assistance League of Houston, Third Place Award
2005 Texas Photographic Society, 2nd Place Award
SELECT COLLECTIONS
Bakersfield Art Museum, Bakersfield, CA
Bloomingdale’s, New York, NY
Camille Sourget, Paris, France
Charles Schwab, CA
Cheniere Energy, USA
Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Danielle Steel, San Francisco, CA
Davidoff corporate collection, USA
Frazier King, USA
Fred and Helen Dunbar, New York, NY
Gemma Desantos, USA
Jamie Leigh and Rob Phillips, San Francisco, CA
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Linda Koehler, San Francisco, CA
Mid State Bank, OK
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Neiman Marcus corporate collection, USA
Nordstrom corporate collection, USA
Susan Dudley, Austin, TX
Susan Magley, San Francisco, CA
Susan Spiritus
Susan Steinhauser
Trinchero Winery, CA
Trump Hollywood, Miami, FL
UCLA Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA
US State Department, USA
VISA corporate collection, USA
Wells Fargo Bank corporate collection, USA
1994 Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
1987 Art Institute of Houston, Houston, TX
1981 University of Houston, Houston, TX
1979 Brazosport Jr. College, Jackson, TX
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 "#Booksupcycled", Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco
2018 Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"Book Sculptures", RAW, ENCAUSTIC, BRONZE, Belle Brooke Studio and Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
KLOMPCHING GALLERY, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016 KLOMPCHING GALLERY, Brooklyn, NY
"When the Ice Melts", Fotofest biennial, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX
“Cendrillon”, Laura Korman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015 "Recent Works: Cara Barer & Pang Chieh Hsu”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Origins", Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014 “Origins”, Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, Canada
“Redux” Fotofest Biennial, Design Works Gallery, Galveston, TX
“Book Ends”, Carmel Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA
2013 KLOMPCHING GALLERY, Brooklyn, NY
Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, Canada
2012 “Cara Barer and Pang-Chieh Hsu”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Bound and Unbound”, Foster White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Time Capsules” Fotofest Biennal, DeSantos Gallery, Houston, TX
2011 “Overload”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 “Cara Barer and Emilio Lobato”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hulse-Warman Gallery, Taos, NM
“Unbound: A National Exhibition of Book Art”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
“Tesserae” Fotofest 2010, Design Works Gallery, Galveston, TX
2009 “Becoming a Myth”, De Santos Gallery, Houston, TX
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, UCLA campus, Los Angeles, CA
2008 “Flux” Fotofest 2008, Design Works, Galveston, TX
Hulse/Warman Gallery, Taos, NM
“Page Curler”, Wessell and Lieberman Booksellers, Seattle, CA
“The Book Project”, Tatar Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 “Metamorphosis”, De Santos Gallery, Houston, TX
“Of Words, Paper, and Shapes”, Singer Gallery, Petaluma, CA
2006 “Photography Now, 100 Portfolios”, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Pine Street Artworks, Burlington, VT
Mill Pond House, St. James, NY
“Evolutions”, De Santos Gallery, Houston, TX
2005 Assistance League of Houston, Houston, TX
Texas Photographic Society, Galveston, TX
"Circles of Confusion", De Santos Gallery, Houston, TX
Tomball College, Tomball, TX
1999 “Blue Prints”, Purse Building, Houston, TX
1997 Purse Building, Houston, TX
1996 Purse Building, Houston, TX
1994 Health Science Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 “Books Undone” Art of the Altered Book, THE GALLERY at Penn College, PA
2016 "Coast to Color", Laura Korman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015 “COLORLAB”, BAU-XI Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
“Unhinged: Book Art on the Cutting Edge”, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
“Adaptation: Turning Books into Art”, Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
2014 “Adaptation”, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
“From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Paper as Art”, Cornell Museum of Art and American Culture, Delray Beach, FL
“Up Words”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Redux” Fotofest Biennial, Design Works Gallery, Galveston, TX
“Ex Libris”, J.Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2013 “Between Lines", Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Back to the Future”, Suffolk County Historical Society, Riverhead, NY
“Out of Print”, Pine Hills Library, Albany, NY
2012 “Summer In South Park (Again)”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Life’s Fragile Nature”, NG Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2011 “That Was Then, This is Now”, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
“Speak for the Trees”, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
“Splash II”, Klompching Gallery, Brookyln, NY
“Information Revisited” Encyclopedia Project, Maloney Art Gallery, Harrisburg, PA
2010 “Book Arts”, Paragraph Gallery, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO
“Olive Branch”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle WA
“Perspectives”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle WA
“Information Revisited”, Encyclopedia Britannica Project, Belskie Museum of Art and Science, Closter, NJ
“Unbound: A Short Survey of Book Art”, Bedford Art Center, San Francisco, CA
“Altered Books: A New Object”, [Artspace] at Untitled, Oklahoma City, OK
2009 “Palimpsests”, Tarryn Teresa Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Word”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“\'flo\: art, text, new media”, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2008 “Chiaroscuro”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 “Book Works”, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
“Summer Reading”, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
“The Book, Ever After”, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX
2004 “The Big Show”, Lawndale Arts and Performance Center, Houston, TX
SELECT AWARDS
2010 Women in Photography International, 2nd Place Winner
2008 Assistance League of Houston, Third Place Award
2005 Texas Photographic Society, 2nd Place Award
SELECT COLLECTIONS
Bakersfield Art Museum, Bakersfield, CA
Bloomingdale’s, New York, NY
Camille Sourget, Paris, France
Charles Schwab, CA
Cheniere Energy, USA
Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Danielle Steel, San Francisco, CA
Davidoff corporate collection, USA
Frazier King, USA
Fred and Helen Dunbar, New York, NY
Gemma Desantos, USA
Jamie Leigh and Rob Phillips, San Francisco, CA
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Linda Koehler, San Francisco, CA
Mid State Bank, OK
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Neiman Marcus corporate collection, USA
Nordstrom corporate collection, USA
Susan Dudley, Austin, TX
Susan Magley, San Francisco, CA
Susan Spiritus
Susan Steinhauser
Trinchero Winery, CA
Trump Hollywood, Miami, FL
UCLA Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA
US State Department, USA
VISA corporate collection, USA
Wells Fargo Bank corporate collection, USA
