GILLIAN THEOBALD EDUCATION 1971    San Diego State University, M.A. 1967    San Diego State University, B.A. 1965    Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting, London, UK SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005    Elements, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2003    New Work, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 2002    Gillian Theobald: Polarities-A Retrospective, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA.            Elements: New Paintings, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 2001    Day Paintings, Linda Hodges Gallery Seattle WA New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2000    New Paintings, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 1999    New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998    New Paintings, Rocket Gallery, London, England New Paintings, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 1996    New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1994    New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993    New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Recent Paintings, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA 1990    New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Waterfall as Image, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 1989    Recent Work on Paper, Cirrus Galley, Los Angeles, CA 1988    New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Recent Paintings & Drawings, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA 1987    New Paintings, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA 1986    New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1984    Recent Works, James Crumley Gallery, Mira Costa College, Carlsbad, CA 1983    Recent Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1982   Reservoir, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA 1981    Continuous Exposures, 552 G Street, San Diego, CA   SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2004            BumberBiennale, Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts, Seattle, WA 2003    The Eight Hands of Zelda Gilroy: A Collective Project with Catherine Bell, Pat Kelly, Deborah F. Lawrence & Gillian Theobald (with 9 pieces each in response to each other’s work) Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 2002    The Eight Hands of Zelda Gilroy: A Collective Project with Catherine Bell, Pat Kelly, Deborah F Lawrence & Gillian Theobald (with 15 pieces each in response to each other’s work), Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA 2002    We Collect: An Exhibition of Works from Private San Diego Art Collections (Curated by Leah Ollman), Gotthelf Art Gallery J.C.C., La Jolla, CA. 2001    Northwest Annual 2001 (curated by Michael Sweeney, Dir. Charles Cowles Gallery, N.Y.-Third Prize), Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle WA. 2000   Transcending Earth and Sky (with Robert Cocke, Peter Edlund, Julia Fish, Stephen Hannock, Joan Nelson, and Anthony Pessler) University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 1999   New American Painting: Juried (by Lowery Sims) Exhibition in Print #25, The    Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA, pp174-177.           Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century, (Representing the N.W. along with Jacob Lawrence, Fay Jones & Galen Hanson), White-Meyer Galleries, Meridian International Center, Washington DC (Traveling to: The Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam: Museum of Fine Arts, Ho Chi Min City Vietnam; The Working People’s Cultural Palace, Bejing, China; The Jakarta Arts Center, Jakarta, Indonesia; The Metropolitan Museum, Manila, The Philippines; The Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore; The Teheran Museum Of Contemporary Art, Teheran, Iran. Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 1998   In Over Our Heads: Water in Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA 1997   Introductions: New Work, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA Nine Painters Plus One, Emmanuel Gallery, U.C. @ Denver, CO. Water, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996   Utopian Visions, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA           Cirrus Review,  Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.           Art with a View, Sushi Performance & Visual Arts Gallery, San Diego CA 1995   Made in L.A.: The Prints of Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA   1994   Painter’s Prints( inc. Joan Nelson, Ed Ruscha & Wm Wiley), Cirrus Gallery, L.A. CA Cirrus Review,  Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 1993   SELF aMUSEd:The Contemporary Artist as Observer and Observed, Fitchburg Arts Museum, Fitchburg, MA. 1992    Works on Paper, David Lewinson Gallery, Del Mar, CA Eye of the Creator: Artists’ Self Portraits, Bush Art Center, Salem, OR            Summer 1992, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Northwest International Art Competition, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA 1991    The Spiritual Landscape, Biota Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Artfair 91, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA            The Contemporary Drawing:  Existence, Passage and the Dream, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.            Lines of Vision:  Drawings by Contemporary Women, The University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, OK.            Gallery Artists, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1990    Inaugural Show, David Lewinson Gallery, Del Mar, CA Soul Survivors:  The Courage to Go Beyond, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL Art 90, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 1990    Lines of Vision:  Drawings by Contemporary Women, Univ of North Texas Gallery, Denton, TX.            Lines of Vision:  Drawings by Contemporary Women, Richard Brush Gallery, St Lawrence Univ., Canton, NY. 1989   San Diego State Choice, San Diego State University Gallery, San Diego, CA Lines of Vision:  Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hillwood Gallery, Long Island University, NY.           Lines of Vision:  Drawings by Contemporary Women (separate show, separate piece), Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY (traveling abroad through 1991) No Stomach, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA           Lines of Vision:  Drawings by Contemporary Women, Murray State Univ. Gallery, Murray, KY. 1988   Imprimatur, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina Group Show, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA California Landscape Art Motif, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA Masks at Art Space, Artspace, Los Angeles, CA Southern California Summer 1988, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles 1987   Gallery Artists, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Vistas:  A Survey of Panoramic Landscapes, G.W. Einstein Gallery, N.Y., N.Y On the Horizon: Emerging in California, Fresno Arts Center & Museum, Fresno, CA Recent Graphics from American Print Shops, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA, traveling exhibition organized by the Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Il Prints from Presses, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Oh The Current Landscape, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA 1986  International Art Fair, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA Summer Exhibition, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Invitational, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Drawings, Mesa College, San Diego, CA Reaching the Summit: Mountain Landscapes in California 1900-1986, Saddleback College South, Mission Viejo, CA Chicago Int Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Spectrum Los Angeles, Gallery Akmak, Berlin, Germany 16” x 26” Landscapes (Invitational), Mark Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA A San Diego Exposition, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA To the Astonishing Horizon, L.A.V.A. ‘85, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA 1985    Gallery Artists, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA            Carson, Cooling, Farber, Theobald, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA Scapes, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 1984    Watercolors:  A Contemporary Survey (Invitational), San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Drawing, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA 1984    Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL. Cirrus Celebrates L.A. Art, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1983    Gallery Artists, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1982    The Big Art Show (Invitational), PS2, San Diego, CA   VISITING ARTIST LECTURES 1986    Dept of Art, San Diego State University, San Diego CA Dept of Art, University of Calif. at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 1987      Women Artists Symposium, S.D.S.U., San Diego, CA 1994    Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 1995    Dept of Art Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 2000    Dept of Art, San Diego State University, San Diego CA BIBLIOGRAPHY   Baker, Richard, “Gillian Theobald” (Reproduction), Proxemics, November 19, 1982. Bulmer, Marge, “Gillian Theobald at Cirrus Gallery,”  Artscene April 1990. Curtis, Cathy, “Galleries:Gillian Theobald at Cirrus Gallery (review),” Los Angeles Times, February 19, 1988. 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Andrea and Bram Dijkstra, San Diego Artists, Artra Publishing, Del Mar, CA, 1988 Van Wagner, Dr. Judy Collischan, Lines of Vision:  Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1989.   COLLECTIONS   Los Angeles County Museum of Art| UnoCal Corp., Los Angeles Kaufman Broad, Los Angeles Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles Exxon Mobil Corp., New York Chemical Bank, New York Bank of America, San Francisco Marnell Corrao Associates, Las Vegas O’Melveny & Meyers, Los Angeles Capital Group, Los Angeles Ed & Wita Gardiner, San Diego Doug Simay, San Diego Chris Carter, Los Angeles City of Seattle Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco Vulcan Ventures, Seattle Swedish Hospital, Seattle