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- b. Scotland, 1948
- d. San Francisco, CA, 2014
- Education
- 1971–73
- Royal College of Art, London, England
- 1973–74
- Architectural Association, London, England
- Teaching
- 1991–2014
- Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, California
- Awards
- 2008
- Confluences, Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Award
- 2007
- Water Scores, Americans for the Arts, Public Art Year in Review
- Honor Award, US General Services Administration, United States Courthouse, Fresno, California
- 2006
- Waterscape, Americans for the Arts, Public Art Year in Review
- 2005
- Danforth Chair, Mills College Oakland
- 1996
- Design for Transportation National Award National Endowment for the Arts, Washington DC, The Metrolink Design Collaboration
- 1995
- Presidential Design Awards, Federal Design Achievement Award, Bi-State Development Agency/Arts in Transit
- 1994
- Merit Award for Excellence in Architecture, St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
- 1992
- Artists Fellowship, California Arts Council
- 1987
- SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Solo Exhibitions
- 2008
- Dissolving, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California
- 1987
- Voyages, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
- 1986
- Ways In, Ways Out, Kala Institute, Berkeley, California
- Khiya Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1985
- Folded Light, Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 1981
- The Crack, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, California
- 1980
- Runaways, Works Gallery, San Jose, California
- Tectonics, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, California
- Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2006
- A Private Look at the Public Art of the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, Miami Herald, Art Basel, Miami Beach
- 2004
- Sacatar Artists, Gallery Acbeu, Salvador, Brazil
- 2002
- Parallels & Intersections, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
- 1990
- All for One Earth: Artists & Ecologists in Collaboration, SOMAR Gallery Space, San Francisco, California
- Art from the Exploratorium, World Trade Center, New York, New York
- 1989
- Memory, Mincher Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, California
- Designing Visions: The Metro Link Artists, Forum, St. Louis, Minnesota
- 1987
- On the Horizon: Emerging in California, Fresno Arts Center & Museum
- 1985
- Art Department Faculty, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley
- Dealer’s Choice, San Francisco Airport, San Francisco, California
- A Summer Place, Sarah Rentschler Gallery, New York, New York
- The Use of Shadow in Contemporary Art, Bruce Velick Gallery and Gensler Associates, San Francisco, California
- 1984
- Art Department, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California
- 1982
- Illuminated Sculpture, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, California
- 14 Proposals for Battery Hill 129, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, Berkeley, California
- Illuminated Sculpture, In conjunction with the International Sculpture Conference through the Berkeley Arts Center
- 1981
- Three Sculptors: “Edges,” Kaiser Center Sculpture Gallery, Oakland, California
- 1980
- Sculpture in Public Places, San Mateo County Arts Council Invitational
- 1978
- Two-Person Show: Installations, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
- Four Bay Area Artists, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California
- 18 Bay Area Women: “Inside Outside,” The Women’s Building, Los Angeles, California
- 1977
- Holiday Exhibition: “Art for Giving & Collecting”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
- Variations on the Sculpture Idea, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, California
- Four Californian Artists: Sculpture Now, Inc., Max Hutchinson Galleries, New York, New York
- 1976
- The Women’s Free Arts Alliance, London, England
- 1974
- Cockpit Theatre, London, England
- 1973
- Tent Installation, Computer Arts Society, Edinburgh Festival,
- 1972
- Environmental Media Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, England
- Commissions
- 2006
- Confluences, Lobby Ceiling Installation, King County Office Building, Seattle, Washington
- La Fiesta Plaza, Brea, California
- Water Scores, Wave Ramps and Benches connecting Dolores and Sanford Ziff Ballet Opera House and the Carnival Symphony Hall , Performing Arts Center Plaza, Miami, Florida, Commissioned by Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
- 2005
- Waterscape, for San Jose Civic Center Plaza In Collaboration with Douglas Hollis, Artist,Through the Public Art, Cultural Affairs Division, City of San Jose, California
- Once Upon a Time in Fresno, US Federal Courthouse, Fresno, California, Commission by General Services Administration
- 2003
- Arroyo Suite, a series of elements creating a passageway MGM Tower, Constellation Place, Century City, Los Angeles, Commissioned by Urban Retail Properties for Cultural Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles
- 2001
- Nine San Francisco Ecologies, 525 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco Art Commission
- 2000
- Gravity, a series of sculptures in the Vestibule, US Mission to the United Nations New York, General Services Administration
2001 Conceptual Design Approval
- 1998
- Skytones, a time based light volume sculpture
- Third Avenue Arcade and Recital Hall Lobby for Benaroya Hall, Commissioned by Seattle Arts Commission and Seattle Symphony with support from Seattle City Light
- Cycles, The Courtyard, Queens Civic Court, Percent for Art Program of the of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Department of Design and Construction
- Design for Embarcadero Metro Stations in collaboration with Sasaki Associates, San Francisco
- 1996
- Edenvale Garden Park, Hayes Renaissance Conference Center, San Jose, California
- Design for Rockridge Branch Library through City of Oakland Cultural Arts Division with Community Group and Marquis Associates, Architects
- 1995
- Sky Dance, Grand Hall, New Denver Airport, CO
- 1993
- Light Passageway, Metro Link, Washington University Medical Center Tunnel, St. Louis with Austin Tao Associates, Landscape Architects & Robert Banashek, Electrical Engineer
- Design for Memorial Union North Courtyard, University of California, Davis, with Hargreaves Associates and Douglas Hollis
- One of 6 Artists for Design Team with Engineers & Architects for 18 Mile long St. Louis Metro System. which included
bridge piers, tunnel stations and station canopy, Design team funded by The National Endowment for the Arts
- 1992
- Everett Arbor, Everett Community College, Washington, Washington State Arts Commission
- 1989
- Chaotic Chains, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, California
- 1988
- Railway Suite, Cal Train, Santa Clara Station, California Arts Council
- 1987
- If Wishes Were Fishes We Would All Cast Nets, Suspended Light Sculpture for Ferrucci Junior High School, Puyallup, Washington, Washington State Arts Commission
- Artist in Residence
- 2003
- Sacatar Foundation, Bahia, Brazil
- 1999
- The American Academy in Rome
- 1989
- The Hirsch Farm Project, Hillsboro, Wisconsin
- 1988–89
- The Exploratorium, San Francisco
- 1986
- Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, California
- Selected Bibliography
- 2008
- Public Art / A World’s Eye View: Integrating Art Into the Environment throughout the World pg. 180-195 pg. 200-201, published by ICO ISBN 978-4-931154-32-2
- Catherine Mason: A Computer in the Art Room: The Origins of British Computer Arts 1950-1980, Published by JJG Publishing
- 2007
- Design Awards, U.S. General Services Administration, US Federal Courthouse Fresno CA. P.06 -09
- 2006
- UC General Services Administration, Federal Courthouse Fresno, California
- From Vision to Reality: Public Art at Carnival Center for the Performing Arts. Miami Dade County P. 24 - 29
- The Culture of the Structure, directed by Konstantia Kontaxis, film commissioned by Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
- Scott Johnson: The Big Idea, Criticality & Practice in Contemporary Architecture
- Shawn Bean: “Center of Attention. The Miami Performing Arts Center”: Florida International Magazine
- 2005
- John King: Chronicle Urban Design Writer, “Half-baked dome Mayor's insistence on rotunda detracts from new San Jose City Hall” San Francisco Chronicle
- Kelly Flaherty Curley: “Groundbreakers, ” p.39: Silicon Valley
- Brad McKee: United States Courthouse, Fresno California, Catalogue
- Catherine Mason: “Anna Valentina Murch’s Tent at Interact” Bulletin of the Computer Arts Society – Northern Hemisphere, Page Sixty Two, Special Terminate Cache Issue:
- Jack Fischer, Mercury News, Outside, “A parade of floats and a large, cooling water feature will adorn plaza”
- 2004
- Jusina Marinho e Cesar Romero, Correio Da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil “Arts Plasticas Interacao Plural Galeria Acbeu e Fundacao Sacatar Promovem exposicao com artistas estrangeiros
- 2003
- Robert Bersson, Responding to Art: Form, Content and Context, McGraw Hill ISBN 0-697-25819-X Chapter 10, “Architecture and Community Design,” p. 26
- 2002
- Mark Johnstone and Leslie Aboud Holzman,
Epicenter: San Francisco Bay Area Art Now
Chronicle Books, San Francisco, ISBN 0-8118-3541-3
“Anna Valentina Murch, ” pp.166–169
- Garrison Roots, ed., Designing The World’s Best Public Art,
Images Publishing, Australia. ISBN 1-8647008-2-3
“Anna Valentina Murch, ” pp. 82–91
- 1999
- “Skytones” Art in America, Public Art in Review
- “The Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, ” Land Forum 01, pp. 60–63
- Virginia Kent Dorris, “Queens Civil Courthouse, Queens,
New York, ” Architectural Record, pp.114–116
- 1998
- James Corner, “Light Passageway, ” pp. 61, 156; and “The Landscape Project, ” p. 35, Designed Landscape Forum 1, Pacemaker Press. ISBN 1-888931-12-4
- Public: Art: Space: Pierhead Liverpool P. 84 – 85
Merrell Holberton Publishing London, ISBN:1-85894-048-6
- Seattle Arts: Volume 21 No. - 2 , A Seattle Arts Commission Publication, Benaroya Hall Opening
- Kristian F. Kofoed, Seattle Weekly
“Art for our sake; Art—in all its forms—
may be Benaroya Hall's most significant civic contribution.”
- “Anna Valentina Murch, Cycles 1997, Queens, New York”
Sculpture Vol. 17 No.6, Commissions
- 1997
- Peter Whoriskey, The Miami Herald
“The Seven. This Diverse group of artists was chosen from among
- “PAC Makes Final Artist Selection”
- 1996
- Sally B. Woodbridge, “A Time and a Place”
Anna Novakov, “Veiled Extracts, ”
Veiled Histories Conference, Public Art Review
- Process Architecture, 128, Hargreaves: Landscape Works
Memorial Union North Courtyard, p.120–123
Material appears in English & Japanese
- 1995
- “Denver Airport’s Dawn to Dusk Sky Dance”
World Architecture, Issue No, 40
- Dick Egner, “Oak Grove Design OK’d for Park”
“Oak Grove to Reflect Edenvale History”
San Jose Mercury News
- Mary Voelz Chandler, “DIA’s ‘SkyDance’ Moves Sight and Subconscious, ” Rocky Mountain News
- Stephanie Sanders, “Artist Taps Community for Edenvale
Project Ideas” San Jose Mercury News
- 1994
- Jean-Edith Weiffenbach: Art Journal, “What Bay Area?”
- Tanya Yatzeck, “Metro Link Rail, St. Louis:
A Design Team Collaboration”
Maquette, International Sculpture Center
- “A Curious Alliance: The Role of Art in a Science Museum”
Exploratorium publication
- “Rockridge Voters Want This One, ” Daily Pacific Builder
“Rockridge Branch Library, ” Progressive Architecture
- “Artists Design St. Louis Metro”
Art World section, Art in America
- 1993
- “Light Passageway, ” St. Louis Post Dispatch, West End World
- “Light Passageway, ” St. Louis Post Dispatch
- Channel 2 Evening News (ABC)
- Channel 5 Evening News (NBC)
- Mary Voelz Chandler, “Artistic project plays on light
at the new Denver airport”
Rocky Mountain News
- Virgil Tipton, “Glass Brightens Tunnel Vision, ”
St. Louis Post Dispatch
- Patricia Ravarra, “Artists and Architects in Collaboration, ”
Oakland Artscape
- 1992
- “Design for Carnegie and Armory Park Blocks”
Tucson Arts District Newsletter
- Tessie Borden, “Firm unveils plans for amphitheater,
landscaping in Armory Park area, ” The Arizona Daily Star
- 1991
- Jeff Huebner, “Unlimited Visibility:
Public Art at the New Denver Airport, ” Public Art Review
- 1989–90
- Louise Steinman, “The Underworld Perspective of an
Environmental Artist, ” Contemporary Architecture Volume II;
Lausanne, Switzerland
- 1989
- Beth Wilcox, “ Creating Art at Artpark, ” Sculpture
- Dorothy Burkhart, “Three Who Broke Barriers, ”
cover story, San Jose Mercury News
- 1988
- “Conversations with Artpark Artists, ” Arts in Buffalo
- Ellen S. Comerford, “A Touching Diversity in Artpark Projects, ”
Niagara Gazette
- Nancy D’Ambrosio, “Bay Area Artists, ” Horizon
- “A Study in Light & Shadow, ” Landscape Architecture
- 1987
- Phoebe Bradley, “The Short List, Art”, Bay Guardian
- David Wright, “Installation by Murch”
- 1986
- Graham J. Beal, “SECA Art Award 1987 Anna Valentina Murch”
Catalogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Ann Seymour, “Favorite Art Picks Around Town”
Center Voice, San Francisco Chronicle
- David S. Rubin, “Anna Valentina Murch at Khiva, ” Art in America
- 1985
- MaLin Wilson, “Engaging Artist Invites Viewers to Join Her on Higher Ground, ” The New Mexican, Pasatiempo section
- Francis Butler, “Shadow in the Visual Arts, ” American Craft
- 1983
- “Video Time Distance”: Audio Visual Installations in Western Australia, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
- 1982
- 80 Langton Street: Documentation Catalogue for Presentations
from May 1981 through April 1982
- “Project Sculpture, ” Catalogue in conjunction with the International Sculpture Conference, Oakland
- Who’s Who in American Art
- 1981
- Janice Ross, “Gallery Round Up, ” Oakland Tribune
- 1980
- Guest Speaker, KPFA-FM: “Sculpture in Public Places”
- Dorothy Burkhart, “High Season in Full Swing at the Galleries, ”
San Jose Mercury News
- Janice Ross, “Sculpture with Light and Sound, ” Oakland Tribune
- Video Shown at Venezia Biennale, Venice, Italy
- 1979
- Video Shown at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
- Guest Speaker, KUSF-FM: “Fine Arts Spectrum”
- 1978
- Eric Hellman, “Materials Made Alive, ” Artweek
- Joanne Dickson, “Sculpture Displays Tough Elegance, ” Palo Alto Times
- Ruth Askey, “Inside and Outside the Women’s Building, ” Artweek
- 1973
- “Travels with McGill, ” Evening Standard, London, England
- Collections
- Joan Eckart Residence, San Francisco, CA
- Hargreaves Associates, San Francisco, CA
- Sidney and Nancy Unobsky Residence, San Francisco, CA
- The Fashion Institute, San Francisco, CA
- Roselyne C. Swig, Art Source, San Francisco, CA
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