BORN
San Francisco, California 1952
Lives and works Berkeley, California
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Fallout, Windows 226 Guerrero, San Francisco, California
2019 Tribute to Heinz, Windows 226 Guerrero, San Francisco, California
2014 Children’s Games, Dog House Studio, Sebastopol, California
1985 Paintings and Works on Paper, U.C.S.F. Faculty Alumni House, San Francisco, California
1983 Carol Benioff Paintings, Nanny Goat Hill Gallery, San Francisco, California
SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1998 Paintings, Windows 226 Guerrero, San Francisco, California
1998 Carol Benioff - John Stuart Berger, Coyote Gallery, Oroville, California
1984 Carol Benioff/Penny Brogden, George Orberg Gallery, Chico, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 ACCESS: An Ordinary Notion, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, California
Rising Tides, Hall Art & Technology Foundation, Alameda, California
Pint Size, Transmission Gallery, Oakland, California
2023 Death and Ritual, UMA Gallery, Oakland, California
2022 Sea, The Drawing Room, San Francisco, California
Shimmer, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, California
15th Anniversary Group Show, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California
2022 With Liberty and Justice For Some, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
Paintings, Windows 226 Guerrero, San Francisco, California
2014 Birds, Dog House Studio, Sebastopol, California
California Etchers Currents, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, California
2013 Children’s Games, Windows 226 Guerrero, San Francisco, California
2012 Inked Surfaces, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, California
2008 Impressions on Paper: Six Artists, Addison Street Windows, Berkeley, California
2007 Fresh, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
Then and Now, MOCHA, Oakland, California
2006 Mercury Rising - New Works, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California
2005 Thirty Something, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, California
New Book Editions: Old, New, Digital, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, California
2004 Eye Object, College Art Gallery - Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California
2003 The Meditated Image, Crossmann Gallery, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
Printmaking Without Borders, Estamperi a Quitena, Quito, Ecuador
Printmaking Without Borders, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, California
2002 Bay Area Printmakers, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, California
2000 high touch, high tech - crossing the divide, Space 743, San Francisco, California
1999 Under the Surface, six artists from Kala, Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley, California
The Secret Life, Contemporary Figure Drawing, Reynolds Gallery - UOP Gallery, Stockton, CA
1998 1998 Digital Print Award Exhibition , Clocktower Museum, London, England
1997 Echoes from the Third Millennium, Palazzo delle Fontane, Rome Italy
The Sequential Desire: Books Arts from the Bay Area , Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
The Collectors Gallery Salutes Kala , Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Nanny Goat Redux , Somar Gallery, San Francisco, California
1996 8th Annual Pacific Prints 1996, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California
1995 Triton Museum of Art Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art,
Santa Clara, California
The San Francisco Foundation 1995 James Phelan Art Awards in Printmaking, Kala Art Inst.,
Berkeley, California
Prints from the Graphic Arts Workshop, Stanwood Gallery, San Francisco, California
1995 Impressions: The Medium Extended, Pro Arts, Oakland, California
1991 Life Lines, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California
1988 Expressions of the Human Form, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon
1983 On Paper, Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, California
Pulse of the City, Nanny Goat Hill Gallery, San Francisco, California
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Hall Art and Technology Foundation, Alameda, California 2023
SELECTED AWARDS • FELLOWSHIPS • RESIDENCIES
2019 Vittorio, Veneto, Italy Painting Retreat
2018 Cuernavaca, Mexico Painting Retreat
1996 - 2006 Kala Art Institute Printmaking Artist in Residence
1996 Kala Art Institute Printmaking Fellowship
1995 James D. Phelan Award in Print making for
1993 Kala Art Institute Printmaking Residency
SELECTED TALKS
2022 Artists’ Exchange: Art That Heals and Sustains Us, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, California
2021 Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project Carol Benioff Interview
2006 Blurring the Boundaries: Combining Traditional and Digital Art Tools, MacWorld,
San Francisco, California
EDUCATION
Mills College, writing and publishing for children
Limestone Press etching on copper San Francisco, California
California College of Arts and Crafts, photography and painting
Printing apprenticeship Edward McCluney, Jr., Massachusetts College of Art
Painting and drawing Ronald Chase, San Francisco, California
SELECTED Articles • Reviews • Catalogs
Catalogs:
Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project The Nineties 2023
Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project The Eighties 2022
Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project The Seventies 2021
Carol Benioff Etchings 2020
Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project 2020
Prints without Borders 2003
Articles:
Memory and Illusion, by Carol Stevens, November 1998, Print Magazine
Reviews:
Under the Surface at Cecile Moochnek, December 1999, Artweek
Mood and Magic at Creative Art Center, January 1984, CN&R