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Cleveland, Ohio, 1948 Lives and works in San Francisco, California Education 1975    MFA, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 1972    BFA, Ohio State University, OH Academic Experience 1988-present    Professor of Art San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 1977-1988    Lecturer San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA Chabot College, Hayward CA San Francisco City College, San Francisco, CA College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA Solo Exhibitions 2007    Surface, Brian Gross Fine Art at One Post, San Francisco, CA 2003    First Sight, An Encyclopedia of Childhood, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Cleveland, OH 2002    First Sight, An Encyclopedia of Childhood, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 1996    the flow of stress concept, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 1995    His Bedroom, International Center of Photography, New York, NY 1995    The Village, Lowinsky Gallery, New York, NY 1994    His Bedroom, The Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA 1994    The Village, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994    Real Men, Dead Heroes, His Bedroom, and The Village, UCR California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA 1991    Real Men, Dead Heroes, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1984    Oaxaca to Ohio, Art Matrix Gallery, Long Beach, CA 1981    American River College Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1977    Mercer College Gallery, Mercer College, Macon, GA 1977    13x15 Gallery, Webster Groves, MI 1977    Gallery of the Photographic Arts, Cleveland, OH Group Exhibitions 2003    Panagea Portfolio, Crocker Art Museum 2002    New Acquisitions-New Work-New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2001-2002    Fragmentos, Colleción Rafael Tous de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain 2001    Fragmentos, Colleción Rafael Tous de Arte Contemporáneo Casa del Cordón, Burgos, Spain 2001    Fragmentos, Colleción Rafael Tous de Arte Contemporáneo, Sala Amos Salvador, Logroño, Spain 2001    Sala Amos Salvador, Logrono, Spain 2001    Depicting Absence/Implying Presence, The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA 2000-2001    Fragmentos, Colleción Rafael Tous de Arte Contemporaneo, Museo Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain; Casa del Cordon, Burgos, Spain 2000-2001    Beyond Boundaries; Contemporary Photography In California Traveling Exhibition organized by The Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA. Additional venues: University Art Gallery, CSU Long Beach and Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara CA 1999    Domestic Artifacts, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999-1996    Embedded Metaphor, A traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, NY. (curated by Nina Felshin): Dalhousie Art Gallery. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Pittsburg Center for the Arts, Pitsburg PA, 1999; Ezra and Cecile Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1998; Virginia Beach Centerfor the Arts , Virginia Beach, VA, 1998; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, MA, 1998; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 1997; John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota FL, 1996 1998    Dromology: Ecstasies of Speed, New Langton Arts, San Francisco CA 1997    Fragments: Jordi Colomer, David Hilliard and Dale Kistemaker, Metr˜nom, Fundaci- Raphael Tous D'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain 1996    Masculine Measures, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI 1996    In Our Sights: Artists Look At Guns, UCR California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA 1995    The Masculine Masquerade, M.I.T. List Visual Art Center Cambridge, MA 1995    Our Lives, Negotiating Male Identity, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA 1991    Nuclear Matters, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA 1990    Lines of Force, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA 1990    Installations For The Home, Secession Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1990    Visual Voices Performance Series, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1989    The Road Show, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI 1988    Boys and Their Toys, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1985    Extending the Perimeters of 20th Century Photography, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1981    Sense of Place, Civic Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, 1980    Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco,CA 1979    San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco,CA 1978    130 Years of Ohio Photography, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH 1977    Sequential 77, Harkness House, New York, NY 1974    Photography as a Fine Art, U.S. Information Agency, and The University Gallery of the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Public Collections Los Angeles County Museum of Art Fundaci-Raphael Tous D'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA San Jose Museum of Art Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA The Samsung Museum of Transportation, Seoul, Korea Lowinsky Gallery, New York, NY Witkin Gallery, New York, NY Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Mercer College, Macon, Georgia San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, San Francisco, CA United States Information Agency Bibliography Kabat, Nora. "Beyond Boundaries; Contemporary Photography In California," The Ansel Adams Center San Francisco, CA. Tous, Rafael, Metr˜nom, Fundaci-Raphael Tous D'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain, 1998, Curtis, Leslie Stewart "Dale Kistemaker: "the flow of stress concept," Dialog Jan/Feb1998, Pincus, Robert L. "Obsessed with Stress," The Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 15, 1997 Kurlander, Amy. "An Interview with Dale Kistemaker" Bulletin Number 2, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin,OH, pp 32-42. Felshin Nina. Embedded Metaphor, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, NY 1996. Pp 16, 17, 42, 43 Israel, Nico. "The Masculine Masquerade", MIT List Visual Arts Center, Artforum, New York, NY, Oct.1995, pp 105. Perchuk, Andrew, Posner, Helaine. The Masculine Masquerade, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. pp 25, 26, 110, 111. Tyler School of Art. Quiver #12, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, October 1995. Silver, Joanne. "A Masterful Masquerade," The Boston Herald, Boston, MA, February 17, 1995, pp S22. McQuaid, Cate. "By Definition," The Boston Phoenix, Boston, MA, February 3, 1995, pp 6. Hill, Shawn. "The Male Muse" Bay Windows, Boston, MA, February 25, pp 25,26. Nixon, Bruce. "Nan Goldin at Fraenkel Gallery and Dale Kistemaker at Robert Koch Gallery," Artweek, San Jose, CA, Feb. 1995 Vol. 26, # 2, pp 25,26 Temin, Christine. "Seeing The Man Behind The Mask," The Boston Globe, January 24, 1995, pp 23,28. Knaff, Devorah. "Boys will be boys or else" The Press Enterprise, Riverside, CA, January 8, 1995, pp E2. Hershensen, Karen. "Artist Gathers Things of Youth for 'His Bedroom' Installation," Contra Costa Times, Vol. 84, No. 178, November 18, 1994, pp 49. Friedman, Roberto "Remembrance of Things Plastic" Bay Area Reporter, Vol. XXIV, No 31, Sept.8, 1994, pp 37. The Friends of Photography. "review" Newsletter of the Friends of Photography, San Francisco CA, Sept/Oct 1994, pp 5. Bonetti, David, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, CA, October 14, 1994, pp C10. YLEM. YLEM Artists Using Science and Technology, Vol. 14, No. 6, June 1994, Cover Photograph. Solnit, Rebecca. "San Francisco Fax: "Unveiling Masculinity and Dale Kistemaker," Art Issues, Los Angeles, CA , January /February 1992, pp29, 30. Rapko,John . "Means of Social Construction," Artweek, San Jose, CA, September 5, 1991 Volume 22, Number 28, pp 14,15. Bonetti, David. "Alternative Transformations," San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, CA, August 9,1991, pp D2 Gerhard, Susan. "8 Days a Week," San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco, CA,Vol. 25,No 43, pp5, 87, 88 Cohn, Terr. "Interior Destinations," Artweek, San Jose, CA, Vol. 21, No. 27, August 30, 1990, pp 15,16. Stein, Ruthe. "Gallery Puts Art in Real-Life Settings," The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, August 15, 1990, pp B3, B4. Lufkin, Liz. "Three Galleries Play Up Children's Photos," The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA December 3, 1988 pp C7. Green, Jonathan. A Critical History of American Photography, Abrams, 1984, pp 154. Koch, Robert. 19th and 20th Century Photography, Robert Koch Gallery, catalog, 1982, pp 54 Witkin, Lee, London,Barbara. The Photograph Collector's Guide, New York Graphic Society 1979, pp 358. Hedgepeth, Ted. "Traditionalism In Conflict With Formalism," Artweek, Oakland, CA 12/29/79, p 15 The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. 130 Years of Ohio Photography, 1978 p 33 Fischer, Hal. "Pictures - A Competition," Artweek, Oakland, CA, 2/18/78, p 11. "Prints and Photographs Published". "Dale Kistemaker," The Print Collector's Newsletter, New York, NY, Vol.III No.1 March April 1977, p 17. Curatorial Projects with Published Catalogs "Jesse Alexander, Motor Racing Photographs," 16 page catalog with Curator's introduction, 1pp. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA. Aug. 23-Oct. 5, 1986. Akron Museum of Art, Akron Ohio. Feb. 14-April 6, 1986. San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA. Oct.29-Nov. 30, 1985. "Passion and Precision: The Photographer and Grand Prix Racing 1894-1984." 119 page catalog with 12pp essay and 82pp text. Funded by: The Long Beach Museum of Art, the City of Long Beach, Department of Recreation and Human Services, Founders Society, Detroit Institute of Arts and the Ford Motor Company. The Hall of Champions, San Diego, CA. Oct. 12, 1985-Jan. 6, 1986. The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan. June 6-26, 1984. The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA. Mar. 25-May 13, 1984.
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