ERIK d’AZEVEDO 1649-10th Street Berkeley, CA 94710 Telephone: 510/527-3877 E-mail; [email protected]

Born in Oakland, California, attended schools and grew up in many parts of the United States. Included in early life experiences was exposure to many culturally diverse peoples. Among these, were the Washoe Indians of Western Nevada and Eastern California, many of whom were members of the Native American Peyotist Church. Traveling with parents, doing fieldwork as anthropologists, the family traveled and lived among Washoe and other Indian tribes of the Great Basin, providing a rich and intimate glimpse of these people’s lives. Following this period, were several years living in Liberia, West Africa, among the Gola and Kpelle peoples, in the interior of this country. This stay afforded a deep integration of cultural differences and an intimate appreciation of the artistry of these tribal peoples. These experiences helped in-still profound impressions and images that shaped, in part, an evolving understanding of the arts that became a major focus later in life. EDUCATION Undergraduate studies, University of Nevada, Reno. BFA, 1974, CCAC, Oakland, CA. MFA, 1976, CCAC, Oakland, CA. SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014 Local 123 Cafe-Gallery, Berkeley, California. Solo installation show.

1988 Walnut Creek Civic Arts Center, Walnut Creek, CA

1987 Copyrose Gallery, , CA. Solo installation show, Club DV8, San Francisco, CA. Installation for Oasis Nightclub, San Jose, CA.

1984 Southern Exposure Gallery, Project Artaud, San Francisco, CA. 1973 The Center Gallery, Reno, Nevada 1972 Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada. GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 University of Nevada, Reno; “Far Out” Group alumni show, the art scene in Northern Nevada 1960-1975. The Special Collections Exhibits, The Department of Art and the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.

2002 Hang Gallery, San Francisco, Palo Alto, group exhibitions. 2001 San Francisco Art Institute. Faculty/Alumni Annual Art Auction. 2000 San Francisco Art Institute, Faculty/Alumni Annual Art Auction. 1996 California Museum of Art, Small Works 1996, Santa Rosa, CA. Guest curator Phil Linhares, of The Oakland Museum of California Art.

1994 Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley CA, 10th Annual National jurored show: works on paper. Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, Multi-Media, “Just Friends”, group show including music performance and poetry readings.

1991 S.F. MOMA Rental Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA. 1989 6 Eastbay Artists, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA. Art Explosion ‘89, Oakland Festival of the Arts, group invitational show, curated by Authur Monroe & Phil Linhares of The Oakland Museum of California Art.

1988 Alligator Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Art Explosion, ’88, Oakland Festival of the Arts, group show curated by Authur Monroe & Phil Linhares of The Oakland Museum of California Art. ‘Frisco 100’, National Competition for Small Works, Alligator Gallery, S.F., curated by Michael Bell.

1987 Ariel Arts Gallery, Albany, CA. ‘Artists who work in restaurants’, Rapallo Restaurant, Oakland, CA.

1986 “EXHIBITION 86”, Berkeley Art Center, jurored by Peter Selz and Stephen Wirtz, Berkeley, CA. VA Gallery, Oakland, CA.

1977 Group invitational show of Faculty and Alumni of CCA. Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, CA.

1976 UNR, Sheppard Gallery, Reno, Nevada “Surface and Image”, curated by Phil Linhares, Walnut Creek Civic Arts Center, Walnut Creek, CA. Isabelle Percy West Gallery, CCA. Oakland, CA.

1973 University of Nevada, Reno, Sheppard Gallery, Art Department.

1972 Center Gallery, Reno, Nevada.

GRANTS AND AWARDS Nominee for the Fleishacker Foundation, EUREKA FELLOWSHIP AWARD for the Visual Arts, 2007. Nominee for the S.E.C.A. AWARD, S.F. MOMA, 1988, 1992, 1993, 2003. POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION, INC., 2000, Individual support grant. WESTAF/NEA 1992 Fellowship. COLLECTIONS/PUBLIC AND PRIVATE Oakland Museum of California, permanent collection William Campesi, Jr., Law Offices, Berkeley, CA. Gary and Lynn Upchurch, Oakland, CA Linda Ondayko, Oakland, CA. The Louise Sills Trust, Kensington, CA. University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Art, permanent collection Lee Haworth, Emeryville, CA. Allen J. Smith, Berkeley, CA. Phil Linhares, Oakland, CA. Chad and Sue Arnold collection, Berkeley, CA. Nancy Albertini, Dallas, TX.

ERIK d'AZEVEDO PAGE Raymond Glickman, Esq. Law Offices Zief, Diment & Glickman, San Francisco, CA. Beth Harris Hoenninger, Oakland, CA

PUBLICATIONS AND FILMS Five volumes of poetry, self-published between 1983 and 1992, Publication of poems and short stories has appeared in the Ellensberg Anthology, WA., Perspectives, a New York Anthology, AENE (October, 1991 issue), and other the Bay Area small magazines. Has read publicly on KPFA radio station, Berkeley, CA., from own work. Video filmed at Ciel Bergman’s Studio in Santa Barbara, CA. in 1987, “Readings from Bay Area small magazines, with Belle Randall, Luis Garcia, and Erik d’Azevedo. Started the VA Gallery Poetry Series, Oakland, CA., in 1986, and has performed readings there, and around Area. Readings with The Word Poets, including; Luis Garcia, Belle Randall, Lennart Bruce, Erik d’Azevedo, and Jeremy Cook. Video tapings of several of these reading/events, done on location at Erik d’Azevedo’s studio, (old Rossi Cigar Factory), Center Street, Oakland, CA., including the Word Poets. International literary event, filmed in 1989. An evening of readings with Fernando Alegria (Chile), Heidi Von Born (Sweden), Erik d’Azevedo, and Luis Garcia, filmed on location at Erik d’Azevedo’s Center Street studio ,(old Rossi Cigar Factory), Oakland, CA.

Television documentary filmed in 1988 by David Howard and Art Seen Productions. A 30 minute documentary filmed on location in studio; “Erik d’Azevedo,” aired October, 1988 on cable TV in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and April 1989, . (Available through Visual Studies, 49 Rivoli St., S.F., CA. 94117, Attn. David Howard.) WORKS & CONVERSATION MAGAZINE, interview and visual references with publisher/editor Richard Whittaker, Issue #9, October 2004. Selection of works & Bio info. represented on website by art rep./dealer Wendy Moses at artistsconnect/staging.org, created in 2006. KICKASS REVIEW, journal of art and literature, Volume VI, #6; featuring color reproductions of works on paper, 2006. Kickass Press, Sebastopol.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Spring semester, 2000, instructor of painting beginning and intermediate courses, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. January 2000, guest lecturer, creative writing/literature class, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA. Teaching assistant, 1975-76, California College for the Arts, undergraduate painting classes, Jack Mendenhall, instructor.

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