SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 On the back of a Mirror, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Level Distance, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
recent paintings, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, Texas
2021 Far Again, Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden
2019 North from Here, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Places and Things, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
2018 Etchings and Monotypes, Borch Gallery, Berlin, Germany
A Mind of Winter, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
Sometimes (Over me the mountain), BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík, Iceland
2017 Stars Without Distance, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
At the very end of the blue sky, THE CLUB, Tokyo, Japan
John Zurier, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway
Dust and Troubled Air, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 The Last Summer Light, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
John Zurier, Summer Book, Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin
John Zurier and Friends, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Recent Watercolors, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, Texas
East, Galerie Nordenhacke, Berlin
2015 John Zurier: Watercolors, Galleri Gangur (The Corridor), Reykjavik, Iceland
Between North and Night, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
West of the Future, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2014 John Zurier: Matrix 255, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Recent Paintings, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, TX
2013 Knowledge is a blue naiveté, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
A spring a thousand years ago, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
John Zurier: Watercolors, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
John Zurier, Peter Blum Gallery, ADAA Art Show, New York, NY
2012 John Zurier: Paintings, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
John Zurier Paintings 1998-2012, The 30th Sao Paulo Biennial: The Imminence of Poetics, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2011 John Zurier Paintings and Watercolors, Gallery Paule Anglim,San Francisco, CA
2010 White Paintings and Night Paintings, Peter Blum Chelsea, NY
Nordic Paintings, Galería Javier López, Madrid
2009 John Zurier / John Beech, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2008 John Zurier, “Night Paintings,” Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2007 John Zurier, Galeria Javier López, Madrid, Spain
John Zurier: New Works, Peter Blum SoHo, New York, NY
2005 John Zurier: New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
John Zurier: New Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2003 John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
John Zurier: Oblaka, Peer, London, UK
2002 Broken Fragments: New Monotypes on Linen and Paper, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
2001 John Zurier, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2000 John Zurier: Paintings 1997-1999, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (catalogue with interview with
Lawrence Rinder)
1999 John Zurier: Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
1994 John Zurier: Abstract Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1990 John Zurier: Monotypes, Concourse Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
1989 John Zurier: New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1986 John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1985 John Zurier, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1984 John Zurier, Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
John Zurier, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Where we are, Berg Contemporary, Reykjavik, Iceland
2023 co/respondences: brazil and abroad, Nara Roesler Gallery, New York, NY
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World - Conversations on contemporary abstract painting, Gagosian, London, UK
Is and Isn’t: A Context for Denzil Hurley, Canada Gallery, New York, NY
40 Years of The Corridor, The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Blink – Trond Mohn Collection, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway
2022 The Artist’s Eye (co-curated by Tammy Rae Carland, David Huffman, Lava Thomas and John Zurier), Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film
Archive, Berkeley, CA
2021 Raoul De Keyser: Legacy (online), David Zwirner, New York, NY
Grounded: A Winter Group Show, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 Silence Is So Accurate, Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 Gesture, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition, BORCHs Butik, Copenhagen, Denmar
2018 George's First Print Show, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Blå (Blue), BORCHs Butik, Copenhagen, Denmark
Black & White, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, California
Kind of Blue – Winter Exhibition, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, California
In Series: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection, SF MOMA, San Francisco, CA
2017 Degrees of Abstraction, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, CA
#currentmood, Berg Contemporary, Reykjavik, Iceland
Group Exhibition, BORCHs Butik, Copenhagen, Denmark
SottoPelle (under the skin), Galleria Annarumma, Naples
THE STAND, P! Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Traces of Water, Hafnarbjorg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
Be With Me, a Small Exhibition of Large Painting, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Once we were next door neighbours, Hreinn Fridfinnsson and John Zurier, Listasafn ASI, Reykjavik, Iceland
2015 “Retrospective”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
A Studio in Iceland, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Paper Trail: Contemporary Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from the Collection, Colby Museum of Art,
Waterville, ME
2014 …And Color, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition: The Sea, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2012 30th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
Heat Waves, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY
Drawing a Line in the Sand, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2011 John Zurier, Jason Fox, Richard Allen Morris, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
El Genet Blau (The Blue Rider), JiM Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Absence/Presence: Contemporary Abstraction, Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
Life of the World to Come: Twist and Shout, NIAD Gallery, Richmond, CA
2010 Black and White, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Le Tableau, Cheim and Read Gallery, New York, NY
Jack Davidson, Laurie Reid, John Zurier, Pulliam Gallery, Portland, OR
Rare and Unreleased, NIAD Gallery, Richmond, CA
2009 Diminuendo & Crescendo: Small Works Exhibition, San Francisco Studio School Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
TRANSformal, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA
Luminous Room, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Evergreen: Green Paintings, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Trans: Form/Color, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
John Beech & John Zurier, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Monochrome, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2008 Pintura Abstracta, Galeria Javier López, Madrid, Spain
Surface and Substance, San Francisco Studio School Gallery, San Francisco, CA
To Be Looked At, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
To: Night, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY, in conjunction with “Van Gogh and
the Colors of the Night,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2007 X-Tra:Kunstler der Galerie, Galerie Clause Smerak, Munich, Germany
CCA: 100 Years of the Making, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Color/Construction: John Zurier / Tomas Vinson, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX
Contemporary Art: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, MA
Selections from the Concrete, H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, El Centro College, Dallas, TX
2006 The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Line and Surface: Works on Paper, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Some Light, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Introduction, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX
2005 A Motion Picture: Videos by 18 Artists, curated by Tom Marioni, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
2004 Specific Light, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX
Array, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Turning Corners, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Gallery Artists, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Exodus: Between Promise and Fulfillment, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2002 John Zurier, Robert Ryman, Joseph Marioni: Painting, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Painted Color, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
XXL, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2001 Prints, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Minimalism: Then and Now, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Selected Artists, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1999 A Quiet Storm, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paintings, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Beholding Beauty, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1998 Undercurrents and Overtones: Contemporary Abstract Painting, Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and
Crafts, Oakland, CA
Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction in California, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena and the
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1996 Abstraction Absolved: Ten Bay-Area Painters, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
New Talent, New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Three Painters: Anne Appleby, Gregg Renfrow, John Zurier, Arts Benicia Center, Benicia, CA
1993 Drawing First, Southern Exposure Gallery at Project Artaud, San Francisco, CA
Recent Paintings: Donald Feasel, Philip Morsberger, John Zurier, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, CA
Artists’ Self-Portraits in Black and White by Eighty-six West Coast Artists, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Chad Buck, Dan Connally, John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1992 Three Painters: Donald Feasel, Philip Morsberger, John Zurier, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Drawing Room, Nexus, Berkeley, CA
1990 Chain Reaction Six, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fifteen Artists of Gallery Paule Anglim, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, CA
1989 Invitation Print Exhibition, NIAD Gallery, Richmond, CA
1988 Sixteen Young Bay Area Artists, Colorado State University Art Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
1986 Monotypes: Garner Tullis Workshop, Pace Editions, New York, NY
Garner Tullis Workshop, Gallery au Poisson Rouge, Praz/Vully, Switzerland
Expressive Abstraction, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Gallery Artists, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
ProArts Annual, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
The Art of Collaboration: Monotypes from the Studios of Garner Tullis, California State University, San Bernadino,
CA; traveled to Western Washington State University Art Gallery
Teachers and Pupils, Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, California
1984 Three Pick Four, University of California, San Francisco, California
MFA/UCB/1984, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1983 Hayward Area Forum of the Arts Annual, Centennial Hall, Hayward, CA
1980 Paintings and Drawings, Phillippe Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, CA
MONOTYPE PROJECTS
1998-2002 Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
1989-1990 Garner Tullis Workshop, Santa Barbara,CA
1984-1986 Garner Tullis Workshop, Emeryville, CA
AWARDS AND TEACHING
2019 Honoree at the Hirshhorn New York Gala "Artist x Artist"
2010 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
2006 Present Distinguished Professor, California College of the Arts
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
Microsoft Corporation Art Collection, Redmond, WA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
University of California, San Francisco Art Collection, San Francisco, CA
Principia College, Elsah, IL
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Sarkissian, Raphy. “John Zurier: On the Back of a Mirror,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 4
2022 Bravo, Tony. “7 Bay Area art exhibitions not to miss this spring,” Datebook/SF Chronicle, March 16
2021 Stopa, Jason. “The Essential Nature of John Zurier’s Art,” Hyperallergic, October 28
2019 Clark, Andy Martinelli. “CRITICS’ PICKS: John Zurier”, Artforum (online), October 10, 2019
Lindman, Erik. “John Zurier with Erik Lindman,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2, 2019
2018 Horne, Stephen. “The Personality of Abstraction,” Border Crossings, September/October Issue 2018
Sauer, Jennifer. “Light & Memory: An Interview with John Zurier,” ArtDependence Magazine (online), May 3, 2018
Stopa, Jason. “Ambiguity as Strength: A Conversation with John Zurier,” Art in America (online), April 5, 2018
Westfall, Stephen. “Slow Painting”, Art in America, February 2018
2017 Cohen, David, moderator. “The Review Panel,” artcritical.com, episode 87, November 16, 2017
Smith, Roberta. “Weekend Arts | Galleries,” The New York Times, October 27, 2017
Pobric, Pac. “Private View,” The Art Newspaper, October 1
Kotz, Genevieve. “NYC Gallery Scene – Highlights Through October 1, 2017,” Hampton Arts Hub, September 26
Cascone, Sarah. “Editors’ Picks: 16 Things to See in New York This Week,” Artnet, September 25
Sunnana, Arnhild. “John Zurier – en kunstner vi vil se mer av!” Contemporary Art Stavanger, April 4
Borgen, Trond. “Colour as Optical Sponge,” Stavanger Aftenblad, April 18
Roth, David M. “John Zurier @ Anglim Gilbert,” Square Cylinder, May 31
“Við vorum einu sinni nágrannar - John Zurier og Hreinn Friðfinnsson,” art*zine, June 27
2016 “Fjölbreytt myndlistar- og hönnunardagskrá á Listahátíð í Reykjavík,” Listahátíð 2016, May 9
Chan, Dawn. “Land of Plenty: Reykjavik,” Artforum, June 5
Jóhannsdóttir, Anna. “Af góðum grönnum,” Morgunblaðið, June 23
“Datebook: John Zurier’s New Exhibition at Crown Point Press Gallery,” Blouin ArtInfo, September 6
Brown, Kathan. “John Zurier,” Overview, Fall
Jadrnak, Jackie. “Enchanting Art,” Journal North, October 21
2015 Sultan, Altoon. “John Zurier: Poetic Reticence,” Studio and Garden, February 24
Ray, Eleanor. “John Zurier,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 5
“John Zurier,” The New Yorker, March 9
Robinson, Emil. “A Vessel Filling Slowly,” ÆQAI, March 24
Bergman, Jeff. “Painting Lives! Zurier, Frecon and Nozkowski,” Atlas: Art News & Reviews & Interviews, April 9
Ebony, David. “John Zurier,” Art in America, May 12
Rhodes, David. “’Correspondances’: Evocations of Real World Experience in the Paintings of John Zurier,”
artcritical.com, March 12
“Here are the Nominees for the 2014 AICA Awards,” ArtNews, February 27
2014 Bennett, Steve. “Lights, colors of Iceland inform artist’s work,” San Antonio Express News, April 13
Castro, Laslie Moody. “John Zurier at Lawrence Markey,” ArtForum, April 21
Mangini, Elizabeth. “John Zurier: MATRIX 255,” Caa.reviews, June 4
Tedford, Matthew Harrison. “John Zurier on Iceland, Light, and Landscape,” KQED Arts, October 6
Baker, Kenneth. “Art reviews: John Zurier in Berkeley,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 21
Baker, Kenneth. “Art review: John Zurier in Berkeley, Jurgen Trautwein in S.F.,” SF Gate, October 31
Howard, Rachel. “Painter John Zurier stirs memories with color, light,” SFGate, December 10
Golden, Alisa. “For the Love of Painting, Texture, Light, and Place: John Zurier,” Making Handmade Books,
December 23
2013 Seed, John, “Once I get there, I Know Where I am,” The Huffington Post, July 26
Schjeldahl, Peter, “Goings on About Town: Art, John Zurier,” The New Yorker, June 24
Maine, Stephen, “One Foot In The Sublime: John Zurier at Peter Blum,” ArtCritical, May 26
“John Zurier at Peter Blum,” NY Arts, May 1
Ebony, David, “The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won’t Want to Miss,” May 9
Baker, Kenneth, "John Zurier: Watercolors," San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 2013
Johnson, Ken, "Going Solo Has Its Day, in a Hodgepodge of Styles, Art Dealers Association Show at Park Avenue
Armory," New York Times, March 7, 2013
Sultan, Altoon. “Atmosphere and Touch: The Paintings of John Zurier,” Studio and Garden, May 19
2012 Fer, Briony, "The 30th Sao Paulo Bienal," Artforum, December 2012
"Top 10 from the Sao Paulo Bienal," Art in America, September 25, 2012 (online)
2011 Baker, Kenneth "John Zurier, Paintings and Watercolors," San Francisco Chornicle, October 22, 2011
Knight, Christopher, "California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art," Los Angeles Times, Jan 6, 2011
2010 Harvey, Doug, "Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Biennial?" LA Weekly, Nov 18, 2010
Wilson, Michael, "Le Tableau," Time Out New York / Issue 777: Aug 19-25, 2010
Morgan, Robert C., "Le Tableau at Cheim and Read," Artcritical.com, July 23, 2010
Smith, Roberta, "Le Tableau: French Abstraction and Its Affinities," The New York Times, July 2, 2010
2009 Baker, Kenneth, “Abstracts Commingle Well at Meridian,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 28, 2009
Feldman, Melissa, “John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim,” Frieze, Issue 125, September 2009
Fazzolari, Bruno, “John Zurier & John Beech,” Stretcher Reviews, San Francisco, CA Stretcher.org
2008 Newhall, Edith. “A Larry Becker Show Hail the Hue,” The Philadelphia Enquirer, July 25, 2008
Newhall, Edith. “Night Paintings,” The Philadelphia Enquirer, March 20
2007 Smith, Roberta. “John Zurier: Paintings”, The New York Times, May 18
Baker, Kenneth. “Good, Bad, Ugly at Langton,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 2007.
2005 Baker, Kenneth. “Zurier at Anglim,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 18
Fyfe, Joe. “John Zurier at Larry Becker,” Art in America, November
Jayavant, Prajakti. “John Zurier, New Paintings at Gallery Paule Anglim,” Stretcher.org.
Newhall, Edith. “Paint in a Bottle,” The Philadelphia Enquirer, April 15
2003 Baker, Kenneth. “Zurier’s Quiet Brush,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 25
Searle, Adrian. “Lost in Space,” The Guardian UK, July 15
2002 Aronowitz, Al. “Column Seventy”, The Blacklisted Journalist, April 1, 2002.
Baker, Kenneth. “The Possibility of an Image,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 22
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Vicente, Mercedes. “La Biennal de Whitney,” La Vanguardia, March 7
Searle, Adrian. “Lost in Space,” The Guardian UK, July 15
2001 Baker, Kenneth. “Louise Fishman/John Zurier,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 14, p. B2.
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2000 Baker, Kenneth. “Painting’s Move Toward the Vanishing Point,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 8, p. B1.
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1999 Baker, Kenneth. “Zurier’s Wavering Lines of Uncertainty,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 20, p.B10.
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BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, AND CATALOGUES
2015 John Zurier Paintings: 1981-2014. New York, NY: Peter Blum Edition, 2015
2012 Sao Paulo Bienal "The Imminence of Poetics," (catalog), Luis Pérez-Oramas, Tobi Maier, André Severo, Isabela
Villanueva
2011 Repeat After Me - Poems by Bill Berkson, Watercolors by John Zurier. Published by Gallery Paule Anglim,
San Francisco, CA
2010 2010 California Biennial: Orange County Museum of Art, (catalog) Sarah C. Bancroft
2008 To: Night (Contemporary Representations of the Night), (catalog), curated by Joachim Pissarro, Mara Hoberman,
Julia Moreno
The 7th Gwanju Biennial: 2008 Annual Report, (catalog), curated by Okwui Enwezor, et al.
John Zurier Night Paintings: 2007-2008, (catalog), Larry Becker Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA
2005 Pope, Alexander. John Zurier: New Paintings 2005. Text from “The Essay on Man.” San Francisco, CA: Gallery Paule
Anglim, 2005. (exhibition catalogue)
2003 EXODUS: Between Promise and Fulfillment. Essay by Anthony Downey. Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge:
Cambridge, England, 2003. (exhibition catalogue)
2002 Rinder, Lawrence, et. al. Whitney Biennial 2002. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002.
(exhibition catalogue)
2000 John Zurier Paintings 1997-1999. Interview with Lawrence Rinder. San Francisco, CA: Gallery Paule Anglim, 2000.
(exhibition catalogue)
1998 Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction in California. Introduction by Jay Belloli and Jeff Nathanson.
Pasadena and Richmond, CA: Armory Center for the Arts and the Richmond Art Center, 1998. (exhibition
catalogue)
1996 Abstraction Absolved: Ten Bay Area Painters. Introduction by Keith Lachowicz. Oakland, CA: Mills College Art
Gallery, 1996. (exhibition catalogue)
1986 Garner Tullis Workshop: Monotypes. Introduction by Memory Holloway. Praz/Vully, Switzerland. Galerie Au
Poisson Rouge, 1986. (exhibition catalogue)