Biography
Born Jackson, Michigan 1950
Lives and works in Emeryville, California
Education
1972 BA in Art History, Purdue University
1983 New School for Social Research, New York City
1987 MFA, California College of Arts and
Crafts (with Viola Frey), Oakland, California
Awards
2010 Artist in Residence, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
2010 Artist in Residence, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California
2007 Oberpfalzer Kunslerhaus Resident Artist Award, Schwandorf, Germany
2004 Public Art Award, Americans for the Arts, Public Art Network, Year in Review
2003 Interview broadcast on Spark, a program about Bay Area Artists produced by KQED Television, San Francisco
1999 Djerassi Resident Artist, Helen L. Bing Fellowship
1998 California Arts Council Individual
Fellowship (Visual Arts)
Public Art and Private Commissions
2009 Lafayette Public Library and Learning Center Purchase Award, Lafayette, California
2007 Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, Infinite Possibilities, Library, Cesar Chavez Park
2006 Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, Promenade, Skyline Park, Denver, Colorado
2003 State of California Capitol Area East End Complex, Enough, Not Enough, Sacramento
2001 Djerassi Resident Artist Program, To Market, To Market, Woodside, California
2000 Palo Alto City Hall Temporary Art Installation, To Market, To Market, Palo Alto, California
1999 Private Commission, Haycorns, Atherton, California
1999 Seattle Arts Commission, Slow Life, Seattle Public Utilities Renaissance Works Project
1998 Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition, 110’ Ceramic Tile Mural, Palo Alto, California (community collaboration with artists with disabilities from Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California)
1996 Private Commission, However Many
Times It Takes, Atherton, California
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Love and Other Audacities, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California (catalogue)
2011 Sculpture and Drawings, William Havu Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2011 Ann Weber, Drawings and Sculpture, 101 California, San Francisco, California
2010 Infinite Possibilities, Chehalem Cultural Center, Inaugural Exhibition, Newborg, Oregon
2009 Corrugated: Sculpture by Ann Weber, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
2009 New Work, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, California
2009 Sculpture, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Nevada
2008 Night Blooming, University of San Francisco, San Francisco
2008 Wonderland, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
2008 Sculpture, William Havu Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2007 Strange Fruit, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, California
2007 Sculpture: Ann Weber, Sculpture Court, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
2007 Poetics of Structure, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, California
2006 Pulp Modernism, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California. Curator: Jacqueline Pilar
2006 Cardboard! Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California,
2006 Re:Form, Dominican University Gallery, San Rafael, California
2005 New Sculpture and Drawings, Kay Kimpton Contemporary Art, San Francisco
2005 Sculpture, Bg Site, Dean Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California
2002 Random Encounters, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California. Curator: JoAnn Northrup
2002 Balancing Acts, Gallery 555, curated by Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
2001 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco
1998 Sculpture, Davis Art Center, Davis, California
1997 Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, California
1997 Gregory Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, California
1994 Introductions, Claudia Chapline Gallery Stinson Beach, California
1994 June Steingart Gallery, Laney College, Oakland, California
1993 Joan Roebuck Gallery, Lafayette, California
1984 Greenwich House Pottery, New York City
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Magna Carta, Cain Schulte Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California
2010 Natural and Creative Capital, Sculpture on the Grounds, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California
2010 Out of Order, San Francisco State University Gallery, San Francisco
2009 Afterlife, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose. Curator: Kathryn Funk
2008 Reclaiming Materials, Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco
2008 Present Tension, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, California
2008 This End Up: The Art of Cardboard, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
2007 Alumni at the Centennial, Oliver Art Center, California, College of Art, Oakland, California
2007 Ripple, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California
2007 Sculpture Walk: Invitational Sculpture Exhibition, Chandler, Arizona
2007 California Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery
2006 Family of Clay, Oliver Art Center, California College of Art, Oakland, California
2006 Paper, Katrina Traywick Contemporary Art, Berkeley, California
2006 Happiness for All the Artists, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, California
2005 In the Round, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California. Curator: Cathy Kimball
2005 New Work, Artscape, Walnut Creek, California
2005 Local Voice, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California
2005 CCA Faculty New Work 2005, California College of the Arts, Oakland, California
2004 Off the Rim: Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
2004 Inner Workings, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California
2004 Art Furniture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco
2003 Landings, Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Curator: Man Ray Hsu
2003 Give and Take, University of San Francisco, San Francisco. Curator: Richard Kamler
2003 The Big Tree Project, Dean Lescher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California
2003 Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery
2002 Being There: 45 Oakland Artists, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
2001 Monotype Marathon VII, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
2001 Natural Selections, 600 Townsend, San Francisco
2001 Recycled, Reclaimed, Reconstituted, Allegheny College Gallery, Meadville, Pennsylvania
2000 Kay Kimpton Contemporary Art Gallery, San Francisco
1999 What is Art For? Oakland Museum of California. Curators: William Wiley and Mary Hull Webster
1999 16 Sculptors, California State University, Sacramento, California
1999 Unboxed: Cardboard Sculpture, Dean Lescher Center for the Arts, Bedford Gallery (three person show), Walnut Creek, California
1999 Art in City Hall, Oakland City Hall, Oakland, California. Curator: Carrie Lederer
1998 Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco
1998 Primary Elements, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California (three person show)
1998 Bay Area Sculptors Group Show IV: Abstraction, Oakland Museum of California Sculpture Court, Oakland, California (four person show)
1998 The 3rd Time I Saw Phyllis, She Exploded, Contract Design Center, San Francisco
1998 California College of Arts and Crafts Alumni Exhibition, Mills Building, San Francisco,California
1997 Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, California
1997 From Within, Works Gallery San Jose, California. Curator: Mel Adamson
1997 Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, Contract Design Center, San Francisco
1996 Pacific Rim Sculptors Exhibit the Mother Lode, Central Sierra Arts Council, Sonora, California
1996 Installation, Bedford Gallery, Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California
1996 Cast Bronze, Merced College Art Gallery, Merced California
1995 Artists of No Color, SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco
1995 Through the Door, Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, Contract Design Center, San Francisco
1995 Works on Paper, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, California
1994 The Haggin Museum, Stockton, California. Curator: Rupert Garcia
1994 Works on Paper, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California. Curator: Cheryl Haines
1994 Black and White, Long Beach Arts Center, Long Beach, California
1991 Pro Arts Gallery. Curated by The Guerrilla Girls, Oakland, California
1991 Five Artists, Periscope Gallery, Oakland, California
1991 66th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 2nd Prize
1990 Beyond Fragments: After the Earthquake, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California. Curator: Regina Mouton
1988 Natsoulas Novelos Gallery, Davis, California
1987–89 American Ceramics Now, exhibition originating at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; traveling to American Craft Museum, New York City; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown,Ohio; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama