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Education
Commissions
Master Plans
Awards
One-Person Exhibitions
Outside Site-Specific Installations
Artist in Residence
Works Appearing in Collections
Reviews and Documentation
Selected Group Shows
Teaching Experience
EDUCATION
Sept. 1971-July 1973
Master of Arts, Sculpture (Environmental Media) Royal College
of Art, London, England
Funded by the Department of Education & Science
Sept. 1973-July 1974
Graduate
Diploma, Responsive Environment Architectural Association,
London, England
Funded by the Social Science Research Council
COMMISSIONS
May 2006
Lobby Ceiling Installation, King County Office Building Seattle,
Washington (in Process)
June 2006
“Oasis”, La Fiesta Plaza, Brea, California In Collaboration with
Douglas Hollis (In Process)
October 2006
“Water Scores” Wave Ramps and Benches connecting
Dolores and Sanford Ziff Ballet Opera House, and the Carnival
Symphony Hall Performing Arts Center Plaza, Miami,
Florida
Commissioned by Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
October 2005
“Waterscape”,
for San Jose Civic Center Plaza In Collaboration with Douglas
Hollis, Artist
Through the Public Art, Cultural Affairs Division,
City of San Jose. California
October 2005
“Once Upon a Time in Fresno” Water & sculptural
elements inside and outside the lobby
In collaboration with
Douglas Hollis Artist, US Federal Courthouse, Fresno, California
Commission by General Services Administration
August 2003
“Arroyo Suite”, a series of elements creating a passageway
MGM Tower, Constellation Place, Century City, Los Angeles
Commissioned by Urban Retail Properties for Cultural Affairs
Department, City of Los Angeles
September 2001
“Nine San Francisco Ecologies” 525
Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco Art Commission
March 2002
Conceptual Design approved
March 2000
“Gravity” a series of sculptures in the Vestibule,
US Mission to the United Nations New York, General Services
Administration
March 2001 Conceptual Design Approval (in
progress)
August 1998
“Skytones”,
A time based light volume sculpture,
Third Avenue Arcade and
Recital Hall Lobby for Benaroya Hall,
Commissioned by Seattle
Arts Commission, and Seattle Symphony
with support from Seattle
City Light
January 1998
“Cycles”, The Courtyard, Queens Civic Court
Percent for Art Program of the of New York Ciity Department
of Cultural Affairs and the
New York City Department of Design and Construction
January 1998
Design for Embarcadero Metro Stations In collaboration with
Sasaki Ass, S.F.
July 1996
“Edenvale Garden Park”, Hayes Renaissance Conference
Center, San Jose, CA
August 1996
Design
for Rockridge Branch Library through City of Oakland Cultural
Arts Division
with Community Group and Marquis Associates,
Architects
January 1995
“Sky Dance” Grand Hall, New Denver Airport, CO
November 1993
“Light Passageway” Metro Link, Washington University Medical
Center Tunnel, St Louis
with Austin Tao Ass, Landscape Architects & Robert Banashek,
Electrical Engineer
September 1993
Design
for Memorial Union North Courtyard, University of California
at Davis
with Landscape Architects, Hargreaves Associates & Artist
Douglas Hollis
July 93
One of 6 Artists for Design Team with Engineers & Architects
for 18 Mile long Metro
System St. Louis. which included bridge piers, tunnel stations
and station canopy
Design team funded by The National Endowment for the Arts
August 1992
“Everett Arbor” Everett
Community College, Washington
Washington State Arts Commission
December 1989
“Chaotic Chains” The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
November 1988
“Railway Suite”
Cal Train, Santa Clara Station, California Arts Council
July 1987
“If Wishes Were Fishes We Would All Cast Nets” Suspended Light
Sculpture
for Ferrucci Junior High School, Puyallup, Washington, Washington
State Arts Commissio
MASTER
PLANS
2004
Artists Design Team for Guide Way Design SMP Mono Rail.
Seattle, Washington
1995
Master
Plan for Art In Public Places Program , Broward County, Florida,for
Port Everglades and Ft Lauderdale /Hollywood International
Airport
1992
Design for Carnegie Cultural Block Landscape & Outdoor
Performing Arts Area in Tucson Arts District with Hargreaves
Assoc. Landscape Artists Douglas Hollis, artist
Design team funded by The National Endowment for the Arts
1991
Master Plan for “Right of Way,” St.
Louis Metro
with Austin Tao Assoc. Landscape Architects & Leila
Daw, artist
1989
Berkeley
Aquatic Park Master Plan,
Artist Consultant with MPA Design,
Landscape Architects, S.F.
1989
Design
for Taylor Ranch Homestead Circle Park City of Albuquerque,
New Mexico
with Douglas Hollis, artist Incorporated into Petroglyph
National Monument Master Plan
April 1997 General Management Plan approved.
AWARDS
2007
Water Scores, Americans for the Arts, Public Art Year in Review
2007
Honor Award, US General Services Administration, United States
Courthouse, Fresno, CA
2006
Waterscape, Americans for the Arts, Public Art Year in Review
2005
Danforth Chair, Mills College Oakland
2001
Faculty Development Grant, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2000
Faculty Development Grant, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1998
Faculty Development Grant, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1997
Faculty Development Grant, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1996
Design for Transportation National Award, National Endowment
for the Arts,
Washington DC ,The Metrolink Design Collaboration
1995
Presidential Design Awards,Federal Design Achievement Award
Bi-State Development Agency/Arts in Transit
1995
Faculty Development Grant, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1994
Merit Award for Excellence in Architecture
St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
1992
Artists Fellowship, California Arts Council
1987
SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Sept.–Nov. 1987
SECA Award: “Voyages” San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, CA
September 1986
“Ways In, Ways Out” Kala
Institute, Berkeley, CA
March 1986
Khiva Gallery, San Francisco
July 1985
“Folded Light” Center
for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe, New Mexico
August 1981
“The Crack”,80
Langton Street, San Francisco, CA
September 1980
“Runaways ” Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
July 1980
“Tectonics” Center
for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
OUTSIDE SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS
July–September 1988
“Memory Station”,
Art Park, Lewiston, New York
Nov. 1986–Sept. 1987
“Staged Garden,” San Francisco Arts Commission Annex
March 1983
“On Location, 4 Artists: Illuminated
Building”
Installations in downtown Oakland, CA Sponsored
by Pro Arts
August 1982
“Floating Mirrors” Sculpture
Sites, Mills College, Oakland, CA
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
June -July 2003
Sacatar Foundation, Bahia, Brazil
May 1999
The American Academy in Rome
July 1989
The Hirsch Farm Project, Hillsboro, Wisconsin
June-September 1986
Djerassi
Foundation, Woodside, California
Nov. 1988-Dec. 1989
The Exploratorium, San Francisco
WORKS APPEARING IN COLLECTIONS
March 2006
“Stupa” Joan Eckart Residence, San Francisco, CA
February 1995
“Ways In Ways Out” Hargreaves Associates, San Francisco, CA
April 1992
“Frozen Water Window” Sidney & Nancy
Unobsky Residence, San Francisco, CA
April 1989
“Falling” The Fashion Institute, San Franciscco, CA
December 1987
“Shadow Maker” Roselyne C. Swig, Art Source, San Francisco,
CA
REVIEWS AND DOCUMENTATION
2007
Design Awards, U.S. General Services Administration
US Federal Courthouse Fresno CA. P.06 -09
2006
UC General Services Administration Federal Courthouse Fresno,
California
2006
“The Culture of the Structure”, directed by Konstantia Kontaxis
film commissioned by Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
2006
Scott Johnson: The Big Idea, Criticality & Practice
in Contemporary Architecture
January 2006
Shawn Bean: “Center of Attention. The Miami
Performing Arts Center”: Florida International
Magazine
November 27, 2005
John King: Chronicle Urban Design Writer “Half-baked
dome Mayor's insistence
on rotunda detracts from new San Jose City Hall” San
Francisco Chronicle
October 2005
Kelly Flaherty Curley: “Groundbreakers” p.39: Silicon
Valley
October 2005
Brad McKee: United States Courthouse, Fresno California, Catalogue
Autumn 2005
Catherine Mason: “ Anna Valentina Murch’s
Tent at Interact”
Bulletin of the Computer Arts Society – Northern Hemisphere,
Page Sixty Two, Special Terminate Cache Issue: London,
England
Aug. 07, 2005
Jack Fischer, Mercury News Outside,
“A parade of floats and a large, cooling water feature will
adorn plaza”
Fall, 1994
Jean-Edith Weiffenbach: Art Journal, “What
Bay Area?”
13 July 2004
Jusina Marinho e Cesar Romero Correio Da Bahia, Salvador,
Brazil
“Arts Plasticas Interacao Plural” Galeria Acbeu e Fundacao
Sacatar Promovem
exposicao com artistas estrangeiros
2003
Robert Bersson, Responding to Art: Form, Content and
Context McGraw Hill
ISBN 0-697-25819-X Chapter 10, “Architecture
and Community Design,” p. 26
2002
Mark Johnstone and Leslie Aboud Holzman, Epicenter: San
Francisco Bay Area Art Now
Chronicle Books, San Francisco, ISBN 0-8118-3541-3 “Anna
Valentina Murch,” pp.166–169
2002
Garrison Roots, ed., Designing The World’s Best
Public Art,
Images Publishing, Australia. ISBN 1-8647008-2-3 “Anna
Valentina Murch,” pp. 82–91
August 1999
“Skytones” Art in America, Public Art in Review
May/June 1999
“The Embarcadero, San Francisco, California” Land Forum 01,
pp. 60–63
1999
Virginia Kent Dorris, “Queens Civil Courthouse, Queens,
New York, ”
Architectural Record, pp.114–116
1998
James Corner, “Light Passageway,” pp. 61, 156;
and “The Landscape Project,”
Designed Landscape Forum 1. p. 35,, Pacemaker
Press. ISBN 1-888931-12-4
Sept./Nov. 1998
“Benaroya Hall Opening” Seattle Arts:
Volume 21 No. - 2 A Seattle Arts Commission Publication
September 1998
Kristian F. Kofoed, Seattle Weekly “Art for
our sake; Art—in all its forms—may be
Benaroya Hall's most significant civic contribution.”
July/August 1998
“Anna Valentina Murch, Cycles 1997, Queens, New York”
Sculpture Vol. 17 No.6, Commissions
16 March 1997
Peter Whoriskey, The Miami Herald “The
Seven. This Diverse group of artists was
chosen from among hundreds to beautify Miami’s upcoming
Performing Art Center,”
11 March 1997
“PAC Makes Final Artist Selection”
Summer 1996
Sally B. Woodbridge, “A Time and a Place”
Anna Novakov,“Veiled Extracts,” Veiled Histories
Conference, Public Art Review
January 1996
Process Architecture, 128, Hargreaves: Landscape Works Memorial
Union North Courtyard,
p.120–123 Material appears in English & Japanese
November 1995
“Denver Airport’s Dawn to Dusk Sky Dance” World Architecture,
Issue No, 40
October 4 1995
Dick Egner, “Oak Grove Design OK’d for
Park” “Oak Grove to Reflect Edenvale History”
San Jose Mercury News
October 4 1995
Dick Egner, “Oak Grove Design OK’d for
Park” “Oak Grove to Reflect Edenvale History”
San Jose Mercury News
August 6,1995
Mary Voelz Chandler, “DIA’s ‘SkyDance’ Moves
Sight and Subconscious,”
Rocky Mountain News
May 24, 1995
Stephanie Sanders, “Artist Taps Community for
Edenvale Project Ideas”
San Jose Mercury News
December 1994
Tanya Yatzeck, “Metro Link Rail, St. Louis: A Design
Team Collaboration”
Maquette, International Sculpture Center
Fall 1994
“A Curious Alliance: The Role of Art in a Science Museum” Exploratorium
publication
April 1994
“Rockridge
Voters Want This One,” Daily
Pacific Builder “Rockridge Branch Library,” Progressive
Architecture Magazine
January 1994
“Artists Design St. Louis Metro”Art World section, Art in America
December 1993
“Light Passageway,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, West
End World
23 November 1993
“Light Passageway,” St. Louis Post Dispatch
Channel 2 Evening News (ABC)
Channel 5 Evening News (NBC)
June 1993
Mary Voelz Chandler, “Artistic project plays
on light at the new Denver airport”
Rocky Mountain News
May 1993
Virgil Tipton, “Glass Brightens Tunnel Vision,” St.
Louis Post Dispatch
Spring/Summer 1993
Patricia Ravarra, “Artists and Architects in
Collaboration,”Oakland Artscape
December 1992
“Design for Carnegie and Armory Park Blocks” Tucson Arts District
Newsletter
October 1992
Tessie Borden, “Firm unveils plans for amphitheater,
landscaping in Armory Park area,
” The Arizona Daily Star
Fall 1991
Jeff Huebner, “Unlimited Visibility: Public Art
at the New Denver Airport,” Public Art Review
1989–1990
Louise Steinman, “The Underworld Perspective
of an Environmental Artist,”
Contemporary Architecture Volume II; Lausanne, Switzerland
May/June 1989
Beth Wilcox, “ Creating Art at Artpark,” Sculpture
February 1989
Dorothy Burkhart, “Three Who Broke Barriers,” cover
story, San Jose Mercury News
September 1988
“Conversations with Artpark Artists,” Arts in Buffalo
September 1988
Ellen S. Comerford, “A Touching Diversity in
Artpark Projects,” Niagara Gazette
March 1988
Nancy D’Ambrosio, “Bay Area Artists,” Horizon
January 1988
“A Study in Light & Shadow,” Landscape Architecture
November 1987
Phoebe Bradley, “The Short List, Art”, Bay
Guardian
November 1987
David Wright, “Installation
by Murch” Berkeley
Voice
September 19986
Graham J. Beal, “SECA Art Award 1987 Anna Valentina
Murch”
Catalogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
November 1986
Ann Seymour,“Favorite Art Picks Around Town”Center
Voice, San Francisco Chronicle
July 1986
David S. Rubin, “Anna Valentina Murch at Khiva,” Art
in America
July 1985
MaLin Wilson, “Engaging Artist Invites Viewers
to Join Her on Higher Ground,”
The New Mexican, Pasatiempo section
March 1985
Francis Butler, “Shadow in the Visual Arts,” American
Craft
October 1983
“Video Time Distance”: Audio Visual Installations in Western Australia,
The Art Gallery of Western Australia
September 1982
80 Langton Street: Documentation Catalogue for Presentations
from May 1981 through April 1982
August 1982
“Project Sculpture,” Catalogue in conjunction with the International
Sculpture Conference, Oakland
April 1982
Who’s Who in American Art
August 1981
Janice Ross, “Gallery Round Up,” Oakland
Tribune
October 1980
Guest Speaker, KPFA-FM: “Sculpture in Public
Places”
September 1980
Dorothy Burkhart, “High Season in Full Swing
at the Galleries,”San Jose Mercury News
August 1980
Janice Ross, “Sculpture with Light and Sound,” Oakland
Tribune
February 1980
Video Shown at Venezia Biennale, Venice, Italy
December 1979
Video Shown at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
January 1979
Guest Speaker, KUSF-FM: “Fine Arts Spectrum”
November 1978
Eric Hellman, “Materials Made Alive,” Artweek
October 1978
Joanne Dickson, “Sculpture Displays Tough Elegance,”Palo
Alto Times
April 1978
Ruth Askey, “Inside and Outside the Women’s Building,” Artweek
June 1973
“Travels with McGill,” Evening Standard, London, England
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
July 2004
“Sacatar Artists” Gallery Acbeu, Salvador, Brazil
July–Sep 2002
“Parallels & Intersections,” San Jose Museum of Art
February 1990
“All for One Earth: Artists & Ecologists in Collaboration”
San Francisco–Leningrad Ecological Arts Project SOMAR
Gallery Space, San Francisco
February–April 1990
“Art from the Exploratorium,” World Trade Center, New York
June 1989
“Memory,” Mincher Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco
January–March 1989
“Designing Visions: The Metro Link Artists” A group exhibition
of 6 artists
chosen to work on the Metro Link Light Rail System, Forum,
St. Louis, MO
June 1987
“On the Horizon: Emerging in California” Fresno Arts Center & Museum
August 1985
Art Department Faculty Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley
July 1985
“Dealer’s Choice,” San Francisco Airport “A Summer
Place,”
Sarah Rentschler Gallery, New York
April 1985
“The Use of Shadow in Contemporary Art” Bruce Velick Gallery
and Ginsler Associates, San Francisco
October 1984
Visiting Faculty, Art Department, UC Berkeley
August 1982
“Illuminated Sculpture” In conjunction with the International Sculpture
Conference
through the Berkeley Arts Center
June 1982
“14 Proposals for Battery Hill 129” An Exhibition of Site-Specific
Work for the
Marin Headlands, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
August 1982
“Illuminated Sculpture”
July–September 1981
Three Sculptors: “Edges” Kaiser Center Sculpture
Gallery, Oakland
September 1980
Sculpture in Public Places, San Mateo County Arts Council
Invitational
November 1978
Two-Person Show: Installations, Southern Exposure,
San Francisco
November 1978
Two-Person Show: Installations
September 1978
Four Bay Area Artists, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
February 1978
18 Bay Area Women: “Inside Outside” The
Women’s Building, Los Angeles
December 1977
Holiday Exhibition: “Art for Giving & Collecting” San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
November 1977
“Variations on the Sculpture Idea” Center for the Visual Arts,
Oakland
June 1977
Four Californian Artists: Sculpture Now, Inc. Max Hutchinson
Galleries, New York
March 1976
The Women’s Free Arts Alliance, London
February 1974
Installation & Performance, Cockpit Theatre, London
September 1973
The Tent Installation, Computer Arts Society, Edinburgh Festival,
Scotland
October1972
Environmental Media Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Sept. 1991–present
Professor of Art Mills College, Oakland, CA
2005-2007
Joan Danforth Chair of Studio Art
2003-2004
Chair, Fine Arts Division
2000–2002
Chair, Art Department
Sep. – Dec. 1998
Visiting
Critic, teaching a Design Studio and Seminar in Public Art
with
Douglas Hollis at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard
Fall 1998
Visiting Critic, Art & Architecture, M.I.T.
1991–May 1992
Visiting Lecturer, Sculpture & Two-Dimensional Composition
Mills College, Oakland
Sept. 1987–May 1990
Visiting Lecturer, Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute
December 1988
Visiting Artist, Mills College, Oakland
May 1987
Visiting Artist, Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT
January–May 1987
Visiting Lecturer, Sculpture, East Carolina University, Greenville,
NC
Sept. 1986–Jan. 1987
Visiting Lecturer, Clay Sculpture
Sept. 1985–Jan. 1986
San Mateo Community College
March 1986
Guest Artist, Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute
1984–May 1986
Visiting Lecturer, “Introduction to Sculpture”
Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley
June 1986
Guest Critic, “New Aesthetics” California State
University, San Luis Obispo
March 1984, May 1985,
Visiting Critic, Architecture Department
April 1984
Visiting Artist and Critic, Design Village Conference
California State University, San Luis Obispo
November 1983
Guest Artist, Interdepartmental Course in Installation San
Francisco Art Institute
Sept. 1975–April 1976
Youth Leader, London County Council, York Way Youth Club
involving painting, murals, performance, costumes, & 3D
Nov. 1974–May 1975
Visiting Lecturer, Foundation Course Epsom College of Art,
Surrey, England
September–December 1974
Visiting Lecturer, Foundation Course, Salisbury College of
Art, Wiltshire, England
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