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		Born Boston, MA Lives and Works in New York and San Francisco Education 2010 Public Art Academy 2006 San Francisco Art Institue, MFA Painting 2003 UC Berkeley, Interior Architecture 1993 Columbia University, BA, Political Science/Communications, Honors Solo Exhibitions 2022 Light of Day, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; Exhibition catalog 2019 Spectrum, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA 2018 Quietude, At Liberty Arts Collaborative, Bend, OR 2015 Luminous, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA 2014 I Look for Light, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2013 Less, Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR 2012 I Look for Light, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Water, Serenity Series at UCSF Women’s Health Center, San Francisco, CA I Look for Light, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA 2010 Stillness, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA Keira Kotler, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 Lumina, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA [in]sight, Untitled Gallery, Sausalito, CA 2007 Keira Kotler, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA 2006 Luminas: Recent Photoworks, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA The Language of Color, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA 2005 New Photography, Root Division, San Francisco, CA Group Exhibitions 2021 Photo Based: Works by Tony Berlant, Dana Hart-Stone, Robert Hudson, Keira Kotler, Meridel Rubenstein, and Paul Sarkisian, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Smalls, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2020 Nocturn, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA Virtual Online Summer Camp: New Work by NAGA Artists, Gallery Naga, Boston, MA 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog Black, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2017 Small Works, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Spectral Hughes, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA 2016 SITE Unseen 9, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Art in Embassies, US Embassy, Panama City, Panama 2015 Metaphysical Abstraction, Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA The Physicality of Color, Museum of Art, UNH, Durham, NH 2014 Metaphysical Abstraction, Yuma Art Museum, Yuma, AZ Summer Exhibition, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2012 Small Paintings, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Art Santa Fe, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Site Unseen 7, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM 2011 Collector’s Editions, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA LiveStrong presents: Art Mere/Art Pere, Los Angeles, CA Lightspace, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA Abstraction, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Headlands Center for the Arts, Benefit Art Auction, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, San Francisco, CA Wide Open, BWAC, Red Hook, NY, Curated by Nat Trotman, Guggenheim Museum, New York 2010 Julian Dashper: It Is Life, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY Art Santa Fe, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Unlocked: Art of Elysium Private Collection, Art of Elysium, Los Angeles, CA Cynosure, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA SITE Unseen 6, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2009 Altered States, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA Metaphysical Abstraction, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2008 Bridge Art Fair, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Miami, FL Phenomena of Essence, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA Wild Things, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA All Colors in Mind, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL A Flavor of POP, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM SITE Unseen 5, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2007 Art Miami, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Miami, FL Moon Proof Madness, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA Chroma, Gensler San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Still, Contemporary Quarterly Project Space, www.contemporaryquarterly.com Systems + Transmutations, Root Division, San Francisco, CA Purple Rain, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2006 Cream, From the Top, Arts Benicia Center Gallery, Benicia, CA San Francisco Art Institute MFA Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA SITE Unseen 4, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM MOMENTUM, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Taste, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2005 EMERGE! 2005, Gen Art, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Biennial Exhibition, Herbst Exhibition Hall, San Francisco, CA Considering Orange, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Gifted, CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA Considering Red, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art Chicago, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2003 Explorations, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Inaugural Exhibition, Lendrum Fine Art, Los Angleles, CA Bibliography I Look for Light, Peter Frank, Fabrik Magazine, Issue 19, January 2013 "Keira Kotler: Editor’s Pick", Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, March 15, 2012 "Lightspace", Mary Anne Kluth, Art Practical, September 2011 "‘Lightspace’ a nod to Southern California", Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, September 3, 2011 "Lightspace", DeWitt Cheng, East Bay Express, September 8, 2011 "Nothing to Declare at Cerrito", Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, June 25, 2010 "Preview: Keira Kotler Stillness", San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 01, 2010 "Lyrical Representation of Sacred", Peter Selz, Berkeley Daily Planet, October 29, 2009 "Confrontations with Becoming", essay, Daniel Coffeen, November 2009 "Altered States", Sasha Paulsen, Napa Valley Register, October 28, 2009 "Immanent Domain", DeWitt Cheng, East Bay Express, October 28, 2009 "Fluent in Confluences", Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, September 23, 2009 "First Friday 2008: A Year in Review", Piedmont Post, January 7, 2009 "Leading Artists Raise Funds for CCBF", Yahoo Finance, September 8, 2008 "Keira Kotler + Jenn Shifflet", Jakki Spicer, Artweek, February 2008 "Keira Kotler + Jenn Shifflet", Critic’s Choice, East Bay Express, Nov. 14, 2007 "Still Standing," Gay Dawson, The Bohemian, April 2007 "‘Cream’ at Arts Benicia", Cherie Louise Turner, Artweek, October 2006 "Simplest Art - Color Solo", Where Magazine, May 2006 "New View: World through Different Eyes", San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 2006 "2005 Art in Review", Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, December 2005 "Surprises at ‘Emerge,’" Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, November 2005 "Explorations at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art", THE Magazine, April 2003 Books and Catalogues Keira Kotler, Luminas III, September 2011 Bridge Art Fair, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, December 2008 Westin Verasa Art Collection, Napa, CA, November 2008 Keira Kotler, Luminas II, October 2008 Moon Proof Madness, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA, November 2007 STILL, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA, October 2007 Keira Kotler, Luminas, September 2007 San Francisco Art Institute Master of Fine Arts catalog, San Francisco, CA, May 2006 Gen Art EMERGE, San Francisco, CA, November 2005 Public Collections Art 1307 – Cultural Association, Naples, Italy Chicago Park Hyatt, Chicago, IL College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Cooly Manion Jones Kurowski, LLP, San Francisco, CA GWK, Inc., Boston, MA Jensen Architects, San Francisco, CA Marshfield Associates, San Francisco, CA Neiman Marcus Collection, Garden City, NY Ritz Carleton, Half Moon Bay, CA San Diego Marriot, San Diego, CA San Francisco Marriot, San Francisco, CA Squawk Box Studio, Los Angeles, CA The Art of Elysium, Los Angeles, CA Westin Hotels & Residences, Napa, CA Weil Gotshal + Manges LLC, Redwood Shores, CA Yogaworks Studios, San Francisco, CA Yogaworks Studios, Mill Valley, CA Awards and Honors 2011 Curate NYC selected artist 2010 Eureka Fellowship nominee 2010 SECA Award nominee 2006–present Advisory Board, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2008–2010 Member, Board of Directors, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2005–present Cancer Resource Center, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 2005 San Francisco Art Institute Curatorial Award, San Francisco, CA 1999 SITE Santa Fe Sponsored Artist, Monothon 13, Santa Fe, NM 1994 Maine Photographic Workshops, Artist Residency, Rockport, ME