BORN
1961
Alameda, California
EDUCATION
1979-81
College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
1981-84 California State University, Long Beach. B.F.A., Drawing and Painting,
1984
TEACHING
1995-97
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY. Instructor (C.E.), Interpretive Figurative
Painting
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
1984
Long Beach Art Association, Long Beach, CA, Open Juried Show. Honorable Mention
California State University, Long Beach. Fine Arts Affiliates Scholarship
1986 California State Fair, Sacramento, California Works. Award of Excellence
1987 California State Fair, Sacramento, California Works. Award of Excellence
Marin Society of Artists, Ross, CA, Open Fine Arts Exhibition 1987. Best of
Show Award
Jewish Community Center, Houston, TX, 21st Juried Exhibition. Honorable Mentions
(three awards)
1988 Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, 4th Annual Exhibition. Honored Artist
1989 Pro Arts, Oakland, CA, Pro Arts Annual. Honored Artist
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1991
Member, Board of Directors Exhibition Committee Chair, Pro Arts, Oakland,
CA (to 1993)
Curator, Fractured Fairytales, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA. Performance
series with installations featuring Craig Baldwin, Portia Cobb, Guerilla Girls
West, Harry Kipper, the Billy Nayer Show
1991 Curator, Urgent Images, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA. Silkscreen prints
by Esther Hernandez, Doug Minkler, Malaquias Montoya, Jos Sances
1992 Catalogue essay "Prankster with a Purpose" (with Robin Henderson),
Jos Sances-Urgent Responses, The Alternative Museum, NY
LECTURES
1990
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
California State University, Long Beach
1997 Artists Forum, San Francisco, "Obession Revealed: The Serial Portrait,"
in conversation with Bruce Nixon, May 6
Artists Forum, San Francisco, "Painting/Architecture: Abstraction of
Ideas and Forms," in conversation with Bruce Tomb, June 3
2000 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, Gallery talk in conjunction with the exhibition
David Tomb: Portraits, February 10
2001 The Avram Gallery, Southampton College, Long Island University, Southampton,
NY, in conjunction with the exhibition David Tomb: Twitch
2002 Ohlone College, Fremont, CA, slide lecture, Painting class
2003 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, gallery talk in conjunction
with the exhibition David Tomb: Ogle
2005 Louie Meager Art Gallery @ Ohlone College, gallery talk in conjunction
with the exhibition Vim and Vigor - Works on paper, Sept. 21
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1989
Hoffman Gallery, Emeryville, CA, David Tomb: Paintings and Drawings, April
7 - May 7
1990 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, David Tomb: Recent Paintings
and Charcoal Drawings, September 12 - October 13. Brochure
Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA, David Tomb: Recent Work, November
15-29
1992 Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, David Tomb: Recent Work, April
2-16
Turn of the Century Fine Arts, Berkeley, CA, October 21 - November 28
1994 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, David Tomb: Recent Work,
March 3 - April 2
1995 The William-Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA, David Tomb: Charcoal Figure
Drawings and Oil Portraits, August 18-31
1997 Artists Forum, San Francisco, David Tomb: The Subjective Perception,
May 1 - September 14. Brochure
2000 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, David Tomb: Portraits, January 7 - April
9. Catalogue
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Diorama, November 2 - December
2
2001 The Avram Gallery, Southampton College, Southampton, NY, David Tomb:
Twitch, November 5 - December 7. Brochure
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, David Tomb, Fresh Contour: Portraits
on Paper , December 6-29
2003 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, David Tomb, Ogle: Works
on Paper, July 8 - August 2
The William Scott Gallery, Boston, MA, David Tomb: Rogue's Gallery, October
3 - November 1
2004 David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN, David Tomb: Birds and Blokes, September
1-25
2005 Louie
Meager Art Gallery @ Ohlone College, Fremont, Ca., Vim and Vigor - Works on
Paper, Sept. 14 - Oct. 15
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, Ca., Portrait Parlour, Sept. 1 - Oct. 1
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, Ca., New Works by California Artists: David
Tomb, Dec. 15 - Feb. 20.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1984 California State University, Long Beach, Icons: David Tomb and Elaine
Wells
Long Beach Art Association, Long Beach, CA, Long Beach Art Association Open
Juried Show. Award
1985 Bizous Cafe-Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA, Drawings: Elaine Wells/David
Tomb, March 6 - April 6
7th Place Gallery, Los Angeles, In Spiritus: Spirituality in Contemporary
Art
1986 Hayward Forum of the Arts and Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, Sixth Annual Competition- Drawing and
Printmaking (Alonzo Davis, Juror)
California State Fair, Sacramento, California Works (Paul Wonner, Juror).
Award. Catalogue
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA (Kenneth Baker, Juror)
1987 Marin Society of Artists, Ross, CA, Open Fine Arts Exhibition 1987 (Michael
Schwager, Juror). Award
California State Fair, Sacramento, California Works. Award. Catalogue
Jewish Community Center, Houston, TX, 21st Juried Exhibition (Mary Jane Jacob,
Juror), September-October. Award. Catalogue
Marin Arts Guild, San Rafael, CA (Kenneth Baker, Juror)
1988 Ironworks, Oakland, CA, Arts Explosion (curated by Phil Linhares and
Arthur Monroe)
Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary,Williamsburg,VA, American
Drawing Biennial (Frank Gettings, Juror), March 19 - May 1. Brochure
North Carolina Print & Drawing Society, Davidson College Art Gallery,
Davidson, NC, 11th Annual United States Print & Drawing Exhibition (Douglas
M. Schultz, Juror), March 25 - April 15. Travel: Center Gallery, Holt McPherson
Center, High Point, NC, May 2 - June 17. Brochure
Hayward Area Forum of the Arts, Hayward, CA (Mark Levy and George Rivera,
Jurors)
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, 4th Annual Exhibition (Theresa Heyman and
Allan Stone, Jurors). Award
1989 Pro Arts, Oakland, CA, The Annual (curated by Mary Jane Jacob), January
18 - March 4. Catalogue
Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA, Provart/Tomb, February 4-26
Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, Line and Form (Robert Flynn Johnson,
Juror), March 2 - April 21. Catalogue
Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, Art Against AIDS, May 8 - June
18. Catalogue
Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA, New Bay Area Painting, December
7, 1989 - January 20, 1990. Brochure
1990 Pro Arts Tempspace Gallery, Oakland, CA, Mary Jane Jacob Selects Briscoe,
Tomb, Vukelich: The '89 Annual Honored Artists, January 17 - February 17
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Oakland's Artists '90, March 24 - July 1.
Catalogue
1990 Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland,
CA, Contemporary Realist Painting: Perception and Experience, May 30 - July
21
Gallery North, Setauket, NY, Once by the Pacific: California Bay Area Artists,
July 1 - August 5
1991 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA, New Bay Area Painting
II, January 31 - March 2
1992 The Dungeon of Art, Municipal Gallery, Beaver, UT, Daniel Brice/David
Tomb/Kathryn Villeneuve, July 23 - August 1
1993 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Bay Area Painting III,
January 7-30
Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Drawings by American Artists,
March 4-27
Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Artists' Self Portraits in Black
& White, May 5-29
Turn of the Century Fine Arts, Berkeley, CA, Ship of Dreams: David Tomb &
Lewis Meyers, Jr., November
1994 Anya Horvath Gallery, Sacramento, CA, David Tomb, Michael Provart, Chris
Fields, January
Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, Drawing the Line (curated by Townsend
Wolfe), February 28 - April 2
1995 Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Daniel Brice/David Tomb: Recent
Drawings, April 6-29
Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Opening Statement, May
1996 K & E Gallery, New York, NY, Heads, July 11 - August 1
William Scott Gallery, Boston, MA, Group Show, November
1997 Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, Fantastic Visions, September
19-28
Monterey Museum of Art, La Mirada, CA, Toward the Millennium: Contemporary
Painting from Northern California, November 22, 1997 - February 15, 1998
1998 Artists Forum, San Francisco, CA, Landscapes: Real and Imagined, April
23 - June 26. Brochure
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, National Drawing Invitational (curated
by Townsend Wolfe), May 7 - June 21. Catalogue
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, Drawings IV, July 11 - September 12
2000 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, Drawings V, July 27 - September 2
Fairfield Center Gallery, Fairfield, CA, Effigies of the Spirit: Bay Area
Portraiture, November 16, 2000 - January 19, 2001
2002 The Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Trillium Press: Contemporary
Prints, January 10 - February 2
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Drawings VI, July 27 - September 7
2003 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, Equinox: Bob Burdette, Tom McKee, Barbara
Mittman, David Tomb, March 21 - April 15
2004 The William-Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Season Preview Salon, May
28 - June 16
2005 S.F.M.O.M.A.
Artists Gallery, San Francisco, Ca., Trillium Press, Jan. 12 - Feb. 4
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, Ca., Face Paint... A new portrait show, March
4 - April 3
Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, Ca., Fresh Flesh, March 4 - April
16
William
Scott Gallery, Provincetown, Ma., Season Preview Salon, May 27 - June
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Achenbach
Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Triton
Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
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Lonestar
1994
oil on canvas
72 x 96"
by David Tomb
