BORN: Tokyo, Japan, 1952
EDUCATION: B.F.A., California College of Arts, with Distinction, 1975
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 "Marc Katano: Eurhythmic" Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
2005 Tadu Contemporary Art Downtown, Santa Fe, NM
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, HI
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 “Line Drawing”, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, New York, NY
2001 “New Paintings”, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2000 “New Paintings”, Pulliam & Deffembaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
1999 “Palimpsest”, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York, NY
Pulliam & Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 “Dusk and Dawn”, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
1995 “Light and Shadows”, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Penumbra”, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Art Salon II, Chiba, Japan
1994 Gallery Fresca, Tokyo, Japan
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA
1992 ßGH2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Mary Wright Gallery, Dallas, TX
1986 Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Jose, CA
1984 Bank of America Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hodges/Banks Gallery, Seattle, WA
1983 Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 California State University, Hayward, CA
1980 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979 Introductions, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Inaugural Exhibition, The Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Inaugural Exhibition, Costello Childs Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
“Friends”, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
2007 18 Painters, Visual Arts Gallery, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
CCA Artists at Wirtz Gallery, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Inaugural Exhibition, Costello/Childs Contemporary, Phoenix, AZ
Paintings on Paper 1998-2006, Costello/Childs Contemporary, Phoenix, AZ
3 Painters, Tadu Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Black and White, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
2004 Marc Katano Paintings/Minoru Ohira Sculpture; Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Painting Show, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 In Context: Pattern in Contemporary Printmaking,
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2001 Marc Katano and Minoru Ohira: Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
Contemporary Prints, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent Collection:
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2000 Past and New Print Publications: Works by Marc Katano, Brad Durham, Charles C. Hill and
Craig Kauffman: Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 LA NY LA, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
1998 Works on Paper, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 California Painting Sampler: Selections from BankAmerica Corporation Art Collection,
Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
Two Person Exhibition, Katano/Sakata, L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
1996 NEWances, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Beginnings, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Group Exhibition, Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1994 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
A Common Language: Marc Katano and Minoru Ohira, Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA
Nature Organized, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Inaugural Exhibition, L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Gallery IV, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Finarte, Nagoya, Japan
1991 The Artist’s Hand: Drawings from the BankAmerica Art Collection,
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Maruzen Gallery, Sendai, Japan
1990 Entetsu Art Theater Rose, Hamamatsu, Japan
1989 Order and Intuition, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1988 Mind Over Matter: New American Abstraction, International Art Project, San Francisco,CA
Then and Now, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1987 Shaklee Building, San Francisco, CA
1985 Cultural Frontiers Across the Pacific, Dominican College, San Raphael, CA
California Directions in Painting, Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
1984 Traditions Transformed, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
American Woodcuts Revival and Innovation, organized by World Print Council;
traveling exhibition throughout Europe, sponsored by U.S.I.S. Mary Porter Sesnon Art
Gallery, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
1983 Oriental Art, The St. Paul Company Headquarters, St. Paul, MN
The Japanese Artist in Hawaii ‘83, Amfac Center Plaza Gallery, Honolulu, HI
1981 Bay Arts ‘81, juried by Jan Butterfield, Belmont, CA
February: A Group Exhibition, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Crocker-Kingsley Annual Exhibition, juried by Betty Turnbull, E.B. Crocker Art Museum,
Sacramento, CA
Three at Stephen Wirtz, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 SECA Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1980 Sculpture, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA
1978 Alumni Invitational, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1977 Group Exhibition, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA
1975 Hayward Area Festival of the Arts, Hayward, CA
1974 Bay Area Contemporary Artists, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
PUBLICATIONS
Creative Quarterly, Fall 2008
San Francisco Bay Area Painting, Group Exhibition, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Lincoln, NE 1984
Traditions Transformed, Group Exhibition, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1984 / Doizaki Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA 1984
American Woodcuts: Revival and Innovation, World Print Council / U.S.I.S., 1984
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Renown Regional Medical Center Art Collection, Reno, NV
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
Sacramento Regional Transit District, Sacramento, CA
AWARDS
HAVE HOPE HELP HEAL LA billboard, Absolut Vodka campaign, Los Angeles, CA
KQED-Crown Zellerbach Exhibition, jurors: Austin Conkey, Judith L. Dunham, Bonnie Earls-Solari,
San Francisco, CA, 1980
Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA 1981
