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        • Sarah Williams
        • Art Miami 2020
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        • Tom Bolles
        • Piero Spadaro
        • Cara Barer
        • Summer In SOMA
        • Wynne Hayakawa
        • John Belingheri
        • Danae Anderson
      • 2018 >
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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 >
        • 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 >
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        • John Belingheri
        • Krumm and Manfrin
        • Surface
        • Tom Bolles
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        • Bell, Corrigan, and Tidwell
        • John Nelson
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        • Philip Buller
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John Nelson

ABOUT | ARTIST STATEMENT | CV | PORTFOLIO

CV

EDUCATION 
 
1996     Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
 
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
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2024    “When Willie Went West”, Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ 
              “No Bees or Butterflies”, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA 

2023    “Dreamland”, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2022    “Curious Paintings of Fanciful and Real Beasts, Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ 
             “Intuitive Senses”, FP Contemporary, Culver City, CA
​             “Road Trip” Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021    “Signs and Ciphers”, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
              “Curious Paintings of Fanciful and Real Beasts, Lobster Town USA Gallery, Carpinteria, CA
              “On All Tomorrows”, Sue Greenwood Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2020    “John Randall Nelson: New Works”, Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
2018    “An American Vernacular” University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, AR
             “Signs & Ciphers”, Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
2017    "Weird West", Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ
              "An Animate Brand of Mobility", Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
              "Bill Braun, Jerry Iverson and John Randall Nelson", Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2016     “60/30/15 Melange”, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ
              “60/30/15 Melange”, Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
2015     “Bobo and Friends”, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ
              “Flowered”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
2014     “Polka Dots for Holly Solomon”, FP Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
             ​ “Phallic Affirmations”, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2013     “Polka Dots for Holly Solomon”, Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
             ​ “Affirmations”, FP Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2012     Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
             ​ “Fraught, Simply Fraught, with Narrative”, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
             ​ “1996-2011: 15 Years of Art-Making”, Vault Gallery, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
2011     Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
             ​ “Alter-native Signs”, Gebert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
             ​ Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010     “Crossing Aesthetic Borders”, Gebert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
             ​ “American Curious”, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
             ​ “Small Works”, Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2009     “Alchemical Alphabets”, Gebert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
             ​ Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008     Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007     Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
             ​ “Short-Lived”, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
2006     “Flower”, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005     “Vacancy”, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ; Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004     “New Religions”, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, AZ
2003     “Played”, Marguerite Oestreicher, New Orleans, LA
             ​ “100 Works”, Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
             ​ “From AZ to CA”, Solomon Dubnick, Sacramento, CA
2001     “Signs and Ciphers”, Vanier Galleries, Tucson, AZ
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
2021     “Color”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020     “Viewpoints”, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
              “Summer Breeze”, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2019     “Xhibition”, Tempe Arts Center, Tempe, AZ 
              “A City, Modified”, Modified/Arts, Phoenix, AZ
              “Deck the Walls”, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
              “Infusion”, FP Contemporary, Culver City, CA
              “Chaos Theory ‘19”, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
2018     “Neon”, FP Contemporary, Culver City, CA
2017     “Chaos Theory ‘17”, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
2016     “Story Tellers”, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
              “Context Art Miami”, FP Contemporary, Miami, FL
              “LA Art Show”, FP Contemporary, Culver City, CA
2015     “Self-Made, 15 years of Eye Lounge”, Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ
             ​ Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2014     “Self-Made, 15 years of Eye Lounge”, Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ
             ​ Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
             ​ “Strange Botany”, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2012     Wood Biennial, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ
             ​ ​Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
             ​ Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX
2011     Arizona Biennial ‘11, Tucson Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
             ​ Chaos Theory ‘11, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
             ​ Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
             ​ Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston, TX 
2010     Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX
             ​ “Building a Collection”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
             ​ Chaos Theory, ‘10, Legend City Studios, Phoenix, AZ
             ​ Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
             ​ “SITE Unseen 6”, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2009     Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
             ​ Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX
2008     Art HK 08, Hong Kong, Republic of China
             ​ Art 20, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
             ​ Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2007     Arizona Biennial ‘07, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
             ​ Art Now, Miami, Miami Beach, FL
             ​ Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2006     “Lan-guage”, The New Mexico State Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
             ​ Red Dot Fair, Miami Beach, FL
2005     Chicago Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2004     “SOFA Chicago”, Galleria Materia, Chicago, IL
             ​ “Artist’s Books”, Studio Lodo, Phoenix, AZ
2003     “Peaceable Kingdom”, Herberger Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2002     “Steeped in Traditions”, Mesa Art Museum, Mesa, AZ
             ​ Gallery Terrence Denley, Birmingham, AL
             ​ “Water”, Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
2001     Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
 
PUBLIC ART

2023   “Duck, Duck, Goose” (Streetscape) Sierra Verde Park, Glendale, AZ 
2022   “Squash Blossom” (Sculpture) Entrada, Scottsdale, AZ
 2021  “Yip, Yip, Yip” (Sculpture) sited in Petaluma, CA
            “Signs and Symbols” (Sculpture) sited in Tempe, AZ
            “Signs and Ciphers” (Streetscape) sited in Reno, NV
2020   “Wolf Moon” (Sculpture) sited in Avondale, AZ
            “Cairns Garden” (Sculpture and Painting) sited in Tempe, AZ
            “Birdsong for Wiley” (Sculpture) sited in Peoria, AZ
             “Burrowed Owl” (Sculpture) sited in Ontario, CA
2019    “Wild Bill Bison” (Sculpture) sited in Superior, CO
             “White Fish” (Sculpture) sited in Whitefish, MT
             “Flora, Fauna, Humana” (Transit Station Installation) sited in Mesa, AZ
             “45 Haikus” (Streetscape) sited in Mesa, AZ
2018    “One-eyed Jack” ( Sculpture) sited in Scottsdale, AZ
             “Elemental Jack” ( Sculpture) sited in Chandler, AZ
2016    “Bike Path Frames” (Functional Sculpture) in Scottsdale, AZ
2014     “Matthew Henson Hope Gardens”, Matthew A. Henson/Hope VI Housing Projects, Phoenix, AZ
2011     “Anthropomorphic Bicycle”, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
2010     “Oon Only”, Mitchell Park East roundabouts, Tempe, AZ
             ​ “Dingo”, Mitchell Park East roundabouts, Tempe, AZ
2008     “La Memoria Vive”, Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, AZ
             ​ “Seven Dingbats”, Max and Lucy Building, Phoenix, AZ
2007     “A Sterling World”, SARRC campus, Phoenix, AZ
             ​ “World O’ El Futuro”, Bio 5 Building, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2005     “On Broadway Road”, Broadway Road, Tempe, AZ
2004     “Hop”, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
             ​ “Unity/Diversity”, Marcos De Niza High, Tempe, AZ
2002     “Black Birds”, Wells Fargo Bank, Tempe, AZ
             ​ “West Bliss”, Queen Creek, AZ
2000     “Tribes Of Israel”, Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus, Scottsdale, AZ
1999     “Chasing Zoe”, Mill Avenue and Broadway Road, Tempe, AZ
1998     “Harry Above the Crowd”, Tempe City Hall, Tempe, AZ
1996     “Grid Iron Hero”, Sky Harbor Airport, Tempe, AZ
 
TEACHING
 
09-18    Phoenix College, Phoenix, AZ
2018     Painting Faculty, Herberger Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

SELECT COLLECTIONS
 
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
BIO 5, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Borland International, Los Gatos, CA
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Carter Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
City of Queen Creek, Queen Creek, AZ
Disney Corp., Los Angeles, CA
Fennemore-Craig, Phoenix, AZ
Haarmann-Reimer GMbH, Holzminder, Germany
Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus, Scottsdale, AZ
Intel Corp., Phoenix, AZ
Kallish, Forrester, & Torres, Phoenix, AZ
Midwestern State University, Print Collection, Wichita Falls, TX
Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY
Nordstrom, Seattle, WA
Perrier Corp., Villaines La Juhel, Mayenne, France
Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix Public Art and Design, City of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
Printmaking Workshop, Print Collection, New York, NY
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, AZ
State University of New York, Print Collection, Buffalo, NY
Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Target Corp., Minneapolis, MN
Tempe Municipal Arts Commission, Tempe, AZ
United States Postal Service, Washington, DC
Wells Fargo Bank, Tempe, AZ
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        • John Roberts
      • 2024 >
        • Group Show
        • Elaine Coombs
        • Suhas Bhujbal
        • Heather Patterson
        • Linda Christensen & Gwen Manfrin
        • Summer in SOMA
        • Patrick Dintino
        • Albert Dicruttalo & Mitch Jones
      • 2023 >
        • Group Show
        • Tom Bolles
        • Sarah Williams
        • Piero Spadaro
        • Cara Barer & Alex Couwenberg
        • Summer in SOMA
        • John Belingheri
        • Danae Anderson
      • 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
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