Vitae

2021    Color Field, Quint Contemporary, La Jolla, CA

2017    Blooms, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

2015    Recent Paintings, Kruglak Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA

2013    Spiral, New Paintings by Gail Roberts, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

2011    Entanglement, Carnegie Museum, Oxnard, CA
            Entanglement, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA

2010    Appellations, Gail Roberts & Sondra Sherman, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La  Jolla, CA
            Gail Roberts & David Adey, Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair, sponsored by San  Diego Visual Arts                Network, San Diego, CA

2009    Cell Series, Galeria Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica

2008    Accumulation, Luis De Jesus Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA

2007    Natural Connection, Canon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA

2005    Nothing is the Same, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA
Squints, Keller Gallery, Pt. Loma Nazarene University, CA

2004    Focus Series, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

2003    Arrangement, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA

2001    Reservoirs, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA

2000    Tree Lines – Paintings and Objects, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA

1997    High Yield – Paintings and Constructions, Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, San Diego, CA

1993    Pond Series, Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL

1991    New Paintings, Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL

1990    Game Series, Conlon Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1988    Cultivation Series, Shidoni Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1987    L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA

1986    Tower Guards, Conlon Grenfell Gallery, San Diego, CA

1985    Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Irvine, CA
            Paintings/Constructions, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA

1984    Kari Hildebrand/Gail Roberts, the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA

1981    Downtown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2015    Subjective Truths, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
            Women’s Work, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
            100 Artists, 100 Years: The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild, 1915-2015, Oceanside Museum of                 Art, Oceanside, CA
            Terrestrial, City Gallery, San Diego City College, San Diego, CA

2014    Nature Improved: San Diego Artists Interpret Our Landscape, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
            Nature Improved: San Diego Artists Interpret Our Landscape, San Diego History Center, San Diego, CA
            Renewed: A Short Story About the San Diego Public Library’s Visual Arts Program, New Central Library,               Downtown San Diego, CA
            Filtered: What Does Love Look Like?, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID

2013    The Very Large Array: San Diego/Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection, Museum of  Contemporary Art                   San Diego, San Diego, CA

2012    The Very Large Array: San Diego/Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection, Museum of  Contemporary Art                   San Diego, San Diego, CA
            Images from North Mayo, Ballinglen Gallery, Ballycastle, Ireland
            Recent Acquisitions At the Athenaeum, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA

2011    Book Report, M-M Properties, Bank of America Center, Houston, TX
            Speak for the Trees, SCAPE – Southern California Artist Projects & Exhibitions, Corona del Mar, CA
            Speak for the Trees, House of Balsamic, Irvine, CA
            Intersection, SDSU Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA

2010    Group Exhibit, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA

2009    Homing In, An Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
            Social Climbing, Luis De Jesus Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA

2008    Movers and Shakers: Who’s Who in San Diego Visual Arts, Patrick Moore Gallery, San Diego, CA

2006    Unnatural Wonders, The Kinemacolor Building, Victoria, BC, Canada
            Rochefort-en-Terre Resident Artist Exhibition and Benefit, Brown Center, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2005    L’exposition Franco-Americaine, Musee du Chateau de Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France

2004    Speculative Terrain, Recent Views of the Southern California Landscape from San Diego to Santa                         Barbara,Carnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, CA; Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA; Laband Art Gallery,                  Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA; Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna, CA (CATALOG)

2002    Re:Vision, Re-Vision, University of Texas Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2000    The Next Wave – New Painting in Southern California, California Center for the Arts Museum,                               Escondido, CA
            Landscape Not Forgotten, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA (CATALOG)

1998    The Elements, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (CATALOG)

1997    Intangible Landscape, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
            Trash to Treasure, The Art of Assemblage, Simayspace, San Diego, CA

1996    Before the Forest, After the Trees, Claremont Graduate School Gallery, Claremont,CA

1995    Revisiting Landscape, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA (CATALOG)

1994    California, The Conceptual Landscape, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

1993    Outerscape – Landscapes from California, Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA
            Dreams & Tokens, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1992    A View From the Field, Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL

1990    California! 19th & 20th Century Landscape Painting, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA (CATALOG)       

1989    Small Art from a Big World, Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL
            4th International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles,CA, Conlon Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1989    Landscape Visions; Selected Faculty Artists from CSU, Long Beach, CA (CATALOG)

1987    The Biennial, The Inaugural Exhibition, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA

1986    Artists as Themselves, Sushi Gallery, San Diego, CA
            Ambivalent Images, Eilat Gordin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1985    Nine San Diego Artists, San Diego Art Center, San Diego, CA
            Colors/Marks/Patterns/Planes,Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, PA
            The Art Makers, Conlon Grenfell Gallery, San Diego, CA
            Ambiguous Space, University Art Gallery, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

1984    Centro en Central; Cinco Artistas de California, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA
            Dejong Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1982    Commotion, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

1981    Emerging Downtown Los Angeles Artists, Cypress College, CA

1980    Downtown Gallery, Los Angeles, CADunaway O’Neil Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca

2010    Ballinglen Foundation Artist Fellowship, Ballycastle, Ireland
            San Diego Art Prize, San Diego Visual Art Network

2008    Julia & David White Artist Residency, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica

2005    Alfred & Trafford Klots Artist Residency, Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France

2001    Women Who Mean Business Award, sponsored by the San Diego Business Journal

1994    California Arts Council Fellowship

1991    Research, Scholarship, Creative Activity Award, San Diego State University

1990    Insite Honorarium, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA

1988    NEA/City/Combo Individual Fellowship

1987    Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, San Diego State University

2020    Blue Ridge Near and Far, Gibbs Cancer Center and Research Institute, Greenville, SC

2019    Torrey Pines Panorama, Prebys Cardiovascular Institute, La Jolla, CA 

2001    Tree Lines, San Diego International Airport, commissioned by Port of San Diego, San Diego, CA

2000    Valise Project, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA

1996    Siempre Vive, Fire Station #43, commissioned by the San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture, 

            San Diego, CA

1994    Surround, City of Chicago Clearing Branch Library, commissioned by Department of Cultural Affairs,                      Chicago, IL

2021    De Valmy, “Une Exposition Flower Power en Californie”, Unik, Sept. 22, 2021

2020    Brennan, Deborah Sullivan.  “Endangered Exhibition Shows Imperiled Earth Through Artists’                                 Eyes”, San Diego Union Tribune,  January 17, 2020

2020    Daichendt, G. James. “Our Finest Art: Five Paintings to Check Out Right Now in San Diego”, San Diego                Union Tribune ,Night and Day, Jan. 8, 2020, p. 6,7

2015    Chute, James. “Artists Guild celebrates a century of creativity, Oceanside Museum of Art hosts ‘100                     Artists,100 Years’ exhibit”, San Diego Union Tribune, June 7, 2015, E3.

2014    Dwyer, Patricia and Benninger, Michael.  “RE: Creation; A Museum Curator and Local Artists Discuss the             Work That Impresses Them – Easier Said Than Drawn”, Pacific San Diego Magazine, April, 2014, p. 61.

2013    Chute, James.  “Museums practice the art of collaboration”; SD History Center, Oceanside Museum                     present ‘Nature Improved’, San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 21, 2013.
            Zaragoza, Alex.  “Scott White Contemporary is in a ‘Spiral'”, San Diego Citybeat, June 4, 2013.
            Chute, James.  “Gail Roberts and the art of nests”, San Diego Union Tribune, June 12, 2013.

2012    Donelan, Charles.  “Gail Roberts: “Entanglement” at the Carnegie Museum”, Art ltd,   March/April, p. 26.

2011    Frank, Peter.  “Gail Roberts & Robert Kushner”, Huffington Post Haiku Review, May  27, 2011.
            Harnish, Tracey.  “Big Pick”, LA Art Diary, May 11, 2011.
            Vista, Sandra.  “Gail Roberts: Entanglement at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles”, May 7, 2011.
            Hiss, Mark.  “All The Pretty Nests, Q&A With Gail Roberts”, San Diego Home/Garden  Lifestyles, April,                 2011, pp.103,104.

2010    Ruggero, Lorena Nava.  “Eyes on the Prize, San Diego Painter Gail Roberts Turns the Ordinary into                     Extraordinary”, Pacific San Diego Magazine, Sept., 2010, p. 24

2009    Pincus, Robert.  “Quint gallery homes in on local artists”, San Diego Union Tribune,   May 24, 2009, E8.

2007    Fairfax, Kirby.  “Connections by Nature”, North County Times,8/16, ,2007, Preview.
            Scaccia, Jesse.  “Exhibit looks at links between technology and nature”, The Coast News, Aug. 10, 2007.

2005    Smith, Emily. “‘Squints’: France on Canvas”,  The Point Weekly, Nov. 14, 2005, p. 10.
            Pincus, Robert L.  “A World in Flux: Nothing is the Same tackles sense of place, perception”, The San                   Diego Union-Tribune, Mar. 24, 2005.

2004    Woodard, Josef.  ‘Speculative Terrain at the Carnegie Art Museum’, Artweek, Mar.,2004, p.21.
            Sakuma, Patricia Au.  ‘MCA San Diego announces acquisitions’, Artweek, Mar., 2004, p.2.

2003    Pincus, Robert L.  ‘Looking Up’, The San Diego Union-Tribune, June 12, 2003, Night & Day, p. 36.

2001    Pullkka, Wesley.  ‘Show honors creative force’, Albuquerque Journal, Oct. 21, 2001.
            Pincus, Robert L.  ‘This Land is Our Land, Beauty of Landscapes are Still Inviting Introspection’, The San             Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 20, 2001, Night & Day, p. 38.

2000    Wollhein, Richard.  ‘A Letter from California: Thiebaud and ‘The Next Wave”, Modern Painters, Autumn,               2000, pp. 32-35.
            Pincus, Robert L.  ‘Changing nature of landscapes’, The Union Tribune,Oct.15, 2000, F1.
            Knight, Christopher.  ‘Catching the ‘Next Wave’ of Painters’, Los Angeles Times, June 20, 2000.
            Pincus, Robert L.  ‘Next Wave Shows the Versatility and Talent of Southern California’, The Union-                        Tribune, Centerpiece, June 8, 2000.
            Pincus, Robert L.  ‘Gail Roberts’ Trees and Ciel Bergman’s Sunsets are Natural Wonders’, The Union                   Tribune, Night & Day, Jan. 27, 2000, p. 36.

1999    Cohn, Terri.  ‘Earthly Delights: Eleven Artists Get Their Hands Dirty’, Artweek, Issue 2, vol. 30, Feb.,                     1999,p.14.

1998    Ollman, Leah.  ‘Art Reviews – Exposed to the Elements’, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 27, 1998.
            Pincus, Robert L.  ‘Gail Roberts at David Zapf’, Art in America, Mar., 1998, p. 111.

1997    Pincus, Robert L.  ‘City focus – San Diego – Declaration of Independence’, ARTnews, Oct., 1997,p. 68,               70.
            Pincus, Robert L.  ‘Land-Shape Artist’, The Union-Tribune, Sept. 18, 1997, Night & Day, p. 49.
            Fark, Bill.  ‘Valley Center artist in touch with nature’s apparel’, North County Times, Sept. 26, 1997,                       Preview,p.17.
            Walsh, Daniela.  ‘Painting What Nature Intended’, Orange County Register, Jan. 26, 1997, p. 10.
            Blaschy, Barbara D.  ‘Pastoral Splendor’, Orange County Weekly, January 31, 1997.
            Kendricks, Neil.  ‘Trashy Beauty; Simayspace’s deft ‘Treasure’ artists have the detritus touch’,San Diego             Union-Tribune, January 23, 1997, Night & day, p. 33.

1995    Pincus, Robert.  ‘Artist’s sharp eye reveals the secrets of trees’, San Diego Union/Tribune, Mar. 2, 1995,               Night & Day, p. 36.

1994    Pincus, Robert.  ‘Concept of nature changes with time’,San Diego Union/Tribune, Mar., D-10, 1994.
            Laskin, Tom.   ‘La-La Landscapes’, Isthmus-The Culture, September 2, 1994.
            Klein, Jennnie.  ‘Gail Roberts’, New Art Examiner, May, 1994.

1992    Ollman, Leah.  ‘Galleries’, Los Angeles Times San Diego, May 8, 1992.Pincus, Robert.  ‘Local                               Production’, San Diego Union-Tribune,  May 17, 1992, E-2.

1990    Ollman, Leah.  ‘At the Galleries’, Los Angeles,Times San Diego, Mar, 9, 1990, F-29.

1989    Frank, Peter.  ‘To be Young, Gifted, and Los Angeleno’, Visions Magazine, Summer, 1989.

1988    Bell, David.  ‘Art Market’, Journal North, Santa Fe, Feb. 17, 1988.
            Clay, Rebecca.  The New Mexican Pasatiempo Magazine, Feb. 12, 1988.

1987    McDonald, Robert.  ‘Exhibitions’, Artweek, May 9, 1987, p. 6.

1986    Pincus, Robert.  ‘Self-portraits display the many faces of art’, San Diego Union, Dec. 4, 1986, C-10.
            McDonald, Robert.  ‘At the Galleries’, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 22, 1986/PartVI, p. 14.
            Lugo, Mark .  ‘Aesthetic Melt-down and Eccentricities’,The Tribune, San Diego, Mar. 21, 1986, C-10.

1985    Olten, Carol.  ‘San Diego Artists Share Views of Downtown’, San Diego Union, Oct. 31, 1985, C-10.
            Damsker, Matt.  ‘More is More Adds to Display, Los Angeles Times, Mar. 29, 1985, Part VI, p. 1-6.

            1984    Brown, Betty.  ‘Previews of Exhibitions – Kari Hildebrand and Gail Roberts’, Art Scene, Sept,,                     1984, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 8, 9.
            Pincus, Robert L.  ‘Galleries Downtown’, Los Angeles Times, June 5, 1981/Part VI, p. 9.
            Wasserman, Isabelle.  ‘Young Artist Gail Roberts’, San Diego Union, June 11, 1979, D-3.
            Rigby, Ida.  ‘Analyzing the Still Life’, Artweek, Vol. 10, No. 19, May 11, 1979, p. 2.
            Miller, Elise.  ‘The Case of the Curious Boxes’, San Diego Magazine,Vol. 31,No. 7, May, 1979, p. 264.

2014    Dijkstra, Bram. ‘Can Art Still Improve Upon Nature? Contemporary San Diego Artists and the                                 Environment’, Oceanside Museum, Oceanside, CA and San Diego History Center, San Diego, CA.

2013    Sanroman, Lucia. ‘Meander Through a Collection’, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, Selections From the             Permanent Collection, 1990-2010, 2013

2011    Berelowitz, Jo-Anne.’Reference and Reflection, A Consideration of Entanglement-Paintings by Gail                       Roberts’, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA, 2011

2007    Pincus, Robert.’Pixilated Landscape, Ghostly Birds: Nature’s Troubled State in the Art of Gail Roberts                   and Joanne Hayakawa’, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA, 2007.

2004    Fuglie, Gordon.’Speculative Terrain, Recent Views of the Southern California Landscape’, 2003, 2004.

2000    Gamblin, Noriko.’The Next Wave – New Painting in Southern California’, California Center for the Arts                  Museum, Escondido, CA, 2000.
            Geer, Suvan. ‘Landscape Not Forgotten’, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, 2000.

1999    Canty, Scott. ‘Elements’, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1999.

1995    Shaw, Reesey. ‘The Contemporary Landscape’, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA, 1995

1994    Frank, Peter. ‘Southern California: The Conceptual Landscape’, Madison Art Center,Madison, WI, 1994.

1990    Ambrose, Richard. ‘California’, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA1990.

1989    Jacka, Mervyn N. ‘Landscape Visions’, California State University, Long Beach, CA, 1989.

Driscoll, John.  The Artist and the American Landscape.  Published by First Glance Books, Fall, 1998.

2021    Quint Gallery, La Jolla, Ca

2019    Contemporary Arts Committee, San Diego Museum of Art, Del Mar, CA

2015    East County Chapter San Diego Museum of Art, La Mesa, CA

2013    Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

2011    SDSU Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA
            Carnegie Museum, Oxnard, CA

2010    Pt. Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA

2007    Visiting Artist, University of Memphis, TN
            Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA

2005    Pt. Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA

2002    Visiting Artist, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX

2000    California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
            Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
            Laguna Art Institute, Laguna Beach, CA
            Visiting Artist, Brown University, Providence, RI
            Friends of the San Diego Museum of Art

1998    ‘Conversations with the Artists’, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1997    Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, San Diego, CA

1995    David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA
            ‘Open Studio’, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

1985    Visiting Artist, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

1984    Visiting Artist, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
            Visiting Artist, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

2010    ‘Beyond the Basement of Camino’ Panel, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA

2004    Speculative Terrain Panel Discussion, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

1997    ‘Symposium on the State of Contemporary Landscape Painting’,Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine,CA

1988    ‘The Artist and the Viewer’, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Artist’s Equity Association (AEA) and               Combined Organizations of Visual Arts (COVA)

1987    ‘Women in the Visual Arts’, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

2021    ‘Color Field’, produced by Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

1999    ‘Elements’, produced by City of Los Angeles Cultural Arts Department

1985    ‘Grand Illusions, Video Portraits of 20 Artists & Their Work’, Eilat Gordin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

Professor of Art Emerita
School of Art, Design and Art History
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA