Grace Munakata
Propellers, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on gatorboard
48 1/8 x 34 1/2 in.
I would like my paintings and collages to become a place where attention shifts and refocuses, a bit like the experience of walking in a wood where one notices the shadow moving before the bird. The pieces hint at but contradict landscape space, and always contain some kind of weather where shapes float, drift, stack and move. For me they become specific places, where fragments, knots and stitches carry stories.
GRACE MUNAKATA
Education
1985
MFA, Emphasis-Painting/Drawing, University of California, Davis, CA
1984
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1980
BA, Studio Art, Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Davis, CA
TEACHING
Professor Emerita, Painting & Drawing, CSU East Bay, Hayward, CA
RESIDENCY AWARDS
2022
Morris Graves Foundation, Loleta, CA
2020
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Cascade Head, OR
2019
Monson Arts Residency, Monson Arts, Maine
2018
Skaftfell Artist Residency, Center for Visual Arts, Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland
2017
Lucid Art Residency, Inverness, CA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Grace Munakata: Biology of Flight, Anglim Trimble Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
Grace Munakata: Recent Paintings and Collage, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014
Grace Munakata: Paintings, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013
Paintings, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Contemporary Asian American Abstraction, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023
An exhibition of women artists, Anglim Trimble Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022
Dancing with Charlie: Bay Area Art from the Campbell Collection, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
2021
Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation, Manetti Shrem Museum, University of California, Davis, CA
Making Their Mark, Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Mr. & Mrs. Trevor Foster, St. Helena, CA
Linda Aldrich, San Francisco
Tom Konopiots, Chicago, IL
Peggy and Willis Newton, San Francisco, CA
Lifelong Medical Care, Berkeley CA
Estate of JESS and Robert Duncan
Jonathon Wells, Chicago IL
Manuel Neri, Benicia, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Thom W. Weisel, San Francisco, CA
Fine Arts Collection, University of California Davis
Paul Thiebaud Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Nancy & Paul Pelosi, Washington, D.C.
Joan Roebuck, Lafayette, CA
Hewlett-Packard Co., Roseville, CA
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Federal Savings San Francisco, CA
Silicon Valley Bank, San Jose, CA
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, CA
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Winters, CA
Estate of Ruth Braunstein, San Francisco, CA
Grace Munakata
Propellers, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on gatorboard
48 1/8 x 34 1/2 in.
