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        • Cara Barer
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        • Wynne Hayakawa
        • John Belingheri
        • Danae Anderson
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        • Ned Evans & Jeff Metz
        • Gwen Manfrin & Tim Yankosky
        • Alex Couwenberg
        • Donald Bradford
        • Barbara Kronlins & Sarah Wililams
        • Patrick Dintino
        • Suhas Bhujbal
        • Seamus Conley & Albert Dicruttalo
      • 2017 >
        • Mitch Jones Julian Voss Andreae Exhibition 2017
        • John Belingheri Exhibition 2017
        • John Bonick - Tracy Krumm Exhibition
        • Chad Hasegawa
        • Cara Barer and Jamie Brunson
        • Gugger Petter
        • Tom Bolles
        • Piero Spadaro
        • Wynne Hayakawa - Ferdinand Florence
      • 2016 >
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        • Robin Kandel
        • Patrick Dintino
        • ASG - SFAI MFA Highlights
        • Peter Combe
        • Suhas Bhujbal
        • Palladini and Weinstein
        • Alex Couwenberg
        • Imboden and Lobato
      • 2015 >
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        • John Belingheri
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        • Surface
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        • Seamus Conley
        • Bell, Corrigan, and Tidwell
        • John Nelson
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        • Philip Buller
        • Patrick Dintino
        • Florence and Hayakawa
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        • Gugger Petter
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Cara Barer

ABOUT | ARTIST STATEMENT | CV | PORTFOLIO

CV

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
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  • Exhibitions
    • Current
    • Previous
    • By Year >
      • 2023 >
        • Group Show
        • Tom Bolles
      • 2022 >
        • Group Show 2022
        • Deborah Bell & Heather Patterson
        • Suhas Bhujbal
        • Ned Evans & Mitch Jones
        • Barbara Kronlins & John Nelson
        • Patrick Dintino
        • Donald Bradford
        • Wynne Hayakawa
      • 2021 >
        • Group Show 2021
        • Ferdinanda Florence & Gwen Manfrin
        • Heather Patterson
        • Piero Spadaro
        • Cara Barer
        • COLOR
        • Tom Bolles
        • John Belingheri & Albert Dicruttalo
        • Robin Kandel
      • 2020 >
        • Gallery Group Show
        • Ned Evans
        • Suhas Bhujbal
        • Alex Couwenberg & Jeff Metz
        • Stitch Group Show
        • Patrick Dintino
        • Sarah Williams
        • Art Miami 2020
      • 2019 >
        • Gallery Group Show
        • Out of Town Group Show
        • Tom Bolles
        • Piero Spadaro
        • Cara Barer
        • Summer In SOMA
        • Wynne Hayakawa
        • John Belingheri
        • Danae Anderson
      • 2018 >
        • Group Show
        • Ned Evans & Jeff Metz
        • Gwen Manfrin & Tim Yankosky
        • Alex Couwenberg
        • Donald Bradford
        • Barbara Kronlins & Sarah Wililams
        • Patrick Dintino
        • Suhas Bhujbal
        • Seamus Conley & Albert Dicruttalo
      • 2017 >
        • Mitch Jones Julian Voss Andreae Exhibition 2017
        • John Belingheri Exhibition 2017
        • John Bonick - Tracy Krumm Exhibition
        • Chad Hasegawa
        • Cara Barer and Jamie Brunson
        • Gugger Petter
        • Tom Bolles
        • Piero Spadaro
        • Wynne Hayakawa - Ferdinand Florence
      • 2016 >
        • Anderson and Dicruttalo 2016
        • Robin Kandel
        • Patrick Dintino
        • ASG - SFAI MFA Highlights
        • Peter Combe
        • Suhas Bhujbal
        • Palladini and Weinstein
        • Alex Couwenberg
        • Imboden and Lobato
      • 2015 >
        • Barer and Hsu
        • John Belingheri
        • Krumm and Manfrin
        • Surface
        • Tom Bolles
        • Seamus Conley
        • Bell, Corrigan, and Tidwell
        • John Nelson
        • LA | SF
      • 2014 >
        • Suhas Bhujbal
        • Philip Buller
        • Patrick Dintino
        • Florence and Hayakawa
        • Bonick and Yankosky
        • Gugger Petter
        • Brunson and Kronlins
        • Robin Kandel
        • Crowd
  • Artists
    • Search by Name
  • News
  • Gallery
    • Staff
    • Gallery Rental
    • Artist Submissions
  • Contact
  • Bardessono
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