MARK KATANO BORN Tokyo, Japan, 1952 EDUCATION BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, with Distinction SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2000 "New Paintings" Pulliam & Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR 1999 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997 "Dusk and Dawn", Stemmel 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 GH2 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, CA 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 GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1999 Cirrus Gallery (New Editions), Los Angeles, CA 1998 Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY 1997 "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, Port land Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA 1995 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 1994 "A Common Language", 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 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", USIS worldwide 1983 "Oriental Art", The St. Paul Company, St. Paul, MN "The Japanese Artist in Hawaii '83", Amfac Center Plaza Gallery, Honolulu 1981 "Bay Arts '81", juried by Jan Butterfield, Belmont, CA "February: A Group Exhibition", Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco "Crocker-Kingsley Annual Exhibition", E. B. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA "Three at Stephen Wirtz", Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA "SECA Award Exhibition", SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA 1980 "Sculpture", Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA 1979 "Introductions", Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1978 "Alumni Invitational", California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland 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