Artist's Bio/ Curriculum Vitae
Ward Schumaker has shown in New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, UC
Berkeley, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Charleston, Miami, and Nashville.
His work has been purchased
by Martin Margulies of the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse; painters Eric
Fischl + April Gornick; novelist Isabel Allende; television commentator Rachel
Maddow + photographer Susan Mikula; sculptor Cris Gianakos; designer Woody
Pirtle; fashion/costume designer Han Feng; landscape architect Topher Delaney;
gallerists Ivan Karp + Marilyn Gelfman Karp; gallerist Martin Muller;
gallerists Janice and Manuel Zeitlin; composer Allen Anderson + photographer
Tama Hochbaum; designer Patricia Bruning; designer Melanie Doherty; designer
Rob Heugel; composer Peter Scott Lewis; poet Sean Finney; painter Paulette Long
and the late Shep Pollack; fashion designer Fifi White; politician/artist Matt
Gonzaez; Oprah producer Jim Kelly.
Solo
Exhibitions:
Years of Pretty, Jack Fischer Gallery; San Francisco, CA; Sept-Oct 2013
Summon Me!, Dominican University of California; San Rafael, CA; Jun-Aug 2013
Summon Me!, Dominican University of California; San Rafael, CA; Jun-Aug 2013
Dumb
Boxes, George Lawson
Gallery; Los Angeles, CA; Nov 2012
New Work,
New York; O K Harris Gallery; New York, NY Nov 2012
Geography
Lesson; Zeitgeist
Gallery; Nashville, TN; Nov-Dec 2011
Identity
Papers; O K Harris Gallery; New York, NY;
Oct-Nov 2011
Composers; Skinner Howard Art; Sacramento, CA;
June-July 2011
Composers; George Lawson Gallery; San Francisco,
CA; Feb-Mar 2011
Misspells
+ Cross-outs; Stir
Gallery; Shanghai, China; Sept-Oct 2010
Fashion +
Logic; George Lawson
Gallery; San Francisco, CA; Feb 2010
Nina
Zurier Photographs + Ward Schumaker Paintings; Hilliard Architects Gallery, San Francisco,
CA; Aug-Nov 2009
Saved!; Townsend Center, UC Berkeley; Berkeley,
CA; March-May 2008
Books and
Drawings; Meridian
Gallery; San Francisco, CA; Feb-March 2008
I Am Big
Heaven; Stir
Gallery; Shanghai, China; June 2007
Grace; Zeitgeist Gallery; Nashville, TN;
Jan-Feb 2005
Pretty; Seam; San Francisco, CA; July-Aug 2004
Gertrude
Stein’s Paris France;
Moe’s Books; Berkeley, CA; June 2000
Group
Exhibitions:
Miami Project, Jack Fischer Gallery; Miami Art Basel; Miami, FL; Dec 2013
Aqua Art
Fair, George Lawson
Gallery; Miami Art Basel; Miami, FL; Dec 2012
The Art of
Living, Museum of
Nebraska Art; Kearney, Nebraska; Sept 2012 – Jan 2012
GuangHwaMun
International; Seoul, Korea; Apr-May; 201Collection aat the Warehouse
The
Collage Show; Jack
Fischer Gallery; San Francisco, CA; December 2011
Sight and
Identity;
Stanford-in-Washington; Washington, DC; Oct 2011 – Jan 2012
Physical
Graffiti; James
Oliver Gallery; Philadelphia, PA; Sept-Oct 2011
Rebound: A
Survey of Contemporary Artist’s Books; Sonoma Valley Museum of Art; Sonoma, CA; June-Aug 2011
Seeing
Gertrude Stein;
Contemporary Jewish Museum; San Francisco, CA; May-Sept 2011
Rebound:
Book Art; Bedford
Gallery; Walnut Creek, CA; Jul-Sep 2010
Kaboom!; La Luz de Jesus Gallery; Los Angeles,
CA; July 2010
California
Summer; George
Lawson Gallery; San Francisco, CA; July 2010
Appropriations; Rebekah Jacob Gallery; Charleston, SC;
March 2010
Selected
of the Selected;
Korean Cultural Center; Los Angeles, CA; Feb-Mar 2010
Texto-&-Figura; Nat.Gallery of Costa Rica+San
Francisco+Cascais, Portugal; 2010-11
Art
Miami Basel-Aqua Art;
George Lawson Gallery; Miami, FL; Dec 2009
Gallery
Artists Group Exhibition;
Stir Gallery; Shanghai, China; Sept 2009
2009
Lawson Gallery Artists;
Shasta College; Redding, CA; Aug-Sept 2009
Selected
Drawings; George
Lawson Gallery; San Francisco, CA; Aug 2009
Who Cares? Works on Paper; Stir Gallery; Shanghai,
China; May 2009
Being; Stir Gallery; Shanghai, China;
September-October 2008
Works on
Paper; Zeitgeist
Gallery; Nashville, TN: Aug-Sept 2008
Salon; Exploding Head; Sacramento, CA; Sept
2006
X Libris; San Francisco Center for the Book; San
Francisco, CA; July 2006
23rd
Annual; Berkeley Art
Center; Berkeley, CA; July 2006
Surface
Tension; Korean
Cultural Center; Los Angeles, CA; April 2006
Picture
Mechanics; Zeitgeist
Gallery; Nashville, TN; March -April 2006
The Shape
of Words; Exploding
Head Gallery; Sacramento, CA; July 2005
Picture
Mechanics; Exploding
Head Gallery; Sacramento, CA; Sept 2004
Dialogue; Pete & Susan Barrett Gallery; Santa
Monica, CA; Feb-Mar 2004
Detail; Zeitgeist Gallery; Nashville, TN;
Jan-Feb 2004
Switchyard; Zeitgeist Gallery; Nashville, TN;
July-Aug-Sept 2003
Picture
Mechanics; Zeitgeist
Gallery; Nashville, TN; March -April 2003
Picture
Mechanics; 69A
Gallery; San Francisco, CA; March 2002
Four
Artists; Montalvo
Center for the Arts; Saratoga, CA; 1983
Related
Professional Appearances:
Collections:
Drawings
and paintings in public collections:
Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami Beach, FL
Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Joslyn
Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Limited-edition
Yolla Bolly books in public collections:
Boston
Public Library
California
Poly State University
California
State Library
California
State University, Hayward
California
State University, Chico
Claremont
College
Indiana
University
Kansas
State University
Los
Angeles Public Library
Miami
University Library (OH)
New
York Public Library
Occidental
College
University
of Alberta (Canada)
University
of Buffalo
University
of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library
University
of California, Irving
University
of California, Los Angeles Library
University
of California, Riverside
University
of California, San Diego
University
of Iowa
University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University
of Missouri, Kansas City
University
of North Carolina
University
of San Francisco, Gleeson Library
University
of Southern California
University
of Utah
San
Jose State University Library
Scripps
College, Denison Library
Stanford
University
Swarthmore
College
Wake
Forest University
Hand-painted
books in private collections:
Donna
Anderson and Henrik Kam; San Francisco, CA
Philippe
Arnaud; Paris, France
Mary
Austin and Brewster Kahle: San Francisco, CA
Bob
and Cathy Barner; San Francisco, CA
Laura
Cirolia; Oakland, CA
Topher
Delaney; San Francisco, CA
Eric
Fischl and April Gornik; New York, NY
Lori Barra and Nico Frias: San Rafael, CA
Lori Barra and Nico Frias: San Rafael, CA
Fran
and Bud Johns; San Francisco, CA
Emiko
Kaji and Peter Scott Lewis; San Francisco, CA
Paulette
Long; San Francisco, CA
Stefanie
Peek; San Francisco, CA
Cameron
Woo; Berkeley, CA
Janice
and Manuel Zeitlin; Nashville, TN
Exhibition
Design:
Unlimited
by Design; wall-sized images for exhibit; Cooper Hewitt, The National Design
Museum, Smithsonian, New York, New York
As an illustrator, Mr. Schumaker's work has appeared world-wide, working
for such periodicals as the New York Times, The Boston Globe, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The
Washington Post and Le Figaro; The New Yorker, Oprah Magazine, Martha Stewart,
Enjeux Les Echoes, and Newsweek. He has created images for such companies
as United Airlines, Hermès, Herman Miller, and American Express.
