STEPHEN NAMARA
BORN
Kenya, East Africa 1953
EDUCATION
California State University, San Francisco, CA 1982
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 1978
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009 Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
2007 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Koplin del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Fairfield Art Center, Fairfield, CA
1990 Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Merced College Art Gallery, Merced, CA
1988 Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Shenandoah Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1981 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 “Wintry Mix,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2014 "Naturally", popUp gallery, Alemeda, CA
"Life-Live Exhibition and Live Demonstration, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 "Life-Live Exhibition and Live Demonstration, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 "Every-Body", popUp Gallery, Alemeda, CA
2011 "Contemporary Artist's Responses to African Art"; San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society,San Francisco, CA
"An Exhibit honoring Jacques Terzian", Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA
2010 “Thinning – A 24th Anniversary Exhibition,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2008 “Visions, Surfaces and Beyond,” Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2007 “25th Anniversary Exhibtion,” Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
“10th Year Anniversary Exhibition,” Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco,CA
“International Blitz,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2005 "With Spirit," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"Stillness," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2004 “Drawings VII,” Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2003 “Atrium at the Plaza,” St. Louis, MO
2002 "Current Holdings: Bay Area Drawings/ Bay Area Collections," Palo Alto
Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
“Drawings VI,” Koplin Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2001 “New Works on Paper,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Storytellers: the figure in time and place,” San Francisco State
University, CA
2000 “Drawings V,” Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 “Drawings IV,” Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 “Drawn Conclusions,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
“Hand, Eye, Heart, Mind: Figurative Drawings,” Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
“National Drawing Invitational Exhibitions,” The Arkansas Arts Center,
Little Rock, AR
1995 “Eight Artists, Eight Views of the Figure,” Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA
“American Color: a Late 20th Century Perspective,” Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
“In the Black,” Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles, CA
1994 “Slice of Life: Contemporary Still Life’s,” Riverside Art Museum, CA
“Out of Africa: Beyond Tradition,” Opts Art, San Francisco, CA
“Drawing the Line,” Susan Cummings Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
“Lyricism & Light,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1993 “Drawings III,” Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 “Drawings II,” Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Encaustics,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1984 “The Point Gallery,” Hunters’ Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, CA
1983 Print Council of Australia, Melbourne, Australia
“Druckgrafik,” HBK Galerie, Braunschweig, Germany
“Druckgrafik,” San Francisco Sate University, CA
“Druckgrafik,” Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
1982 “Statements in Art 82,” Cupertino, CA
“Beyond Words 2,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1981 “Approaches to Reality,” Lithographs by Bay Area Artists, Kaiser Center Gallery, Oakland, CA
“California Drawing and Watercolor Survey,” Humboldt Cultural Center, Arcata, CA (awarded Best of Show)
“California Painting,” Art Link Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
Frank, Peter. “Art Picks of the Week,” LA Weekly, June 1999.
Ayres, Jane. “Waxing Artistic,” Peninsula Times Tribune, March 1992.
Eldridge, Jan. “Drawing on the Brain’s Right Side,” The Fairfield Times, September 1992.
Telford, Anne. “Stephen Namara,” Northern California Home & Garden, November 1988.
Bondy, Coleen. “Shenandoah Gallery: A Gem in the Foothill,” On the Wing, February 1987.
SELECTED CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Inhale Therapeutic Systems, San Carlos, California
Ralph Ehrenpreis, Los Angeles, California
Honolulu Advertiser, Hawaii
Stroud and Waller, Inc., Highland Park, IL
The Arkansas Arts Center
The San Francisco Art Commission