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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
IPNC, Taste of Place, Portlans, OR, Performance
Boonville Hotel, Taste of Place at the Table, Boonville, CA
2008
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young; Kimball Education Gallery; Relative Connections
University of California, Santa Cruz; Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice; conference
2006-07
Sesnon Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz, CA; Taste of Place
2004
Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA; Agricultural Works
Heartland Conference, Medesto CA; Terroir, Performance
2002
Chateau Nieuil Gallery, Nieuil, France; New Work
2001
Jewett Gallery, SF Public Library, Main, CA (inc. 7 part lecture series); LandScape, the Farmer as Artist
2000
Olive Hyde Art Center, Fremont, CA, LandScape; the Farmer as Artist
1999
Smith Ranch Gallery, San Rafael, CA
Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA; Abundance
1998
Chateau De Nieul, Nieuil, France; Cascade
MR Galerie, Angouléme, France; Cascade
1997
San Mateo Arts Council, Belmont, CA; Installations
1996
Stanford Faculty Club, Palo Alto, CA; France/Iowa
State Capital, Sacramento, CA; France/Iowa
Flea Street, Menlo Park, CA; Varietal
1995
Lupin, Los Gatos, CA; Figures
Le Trou, San Francisco, CA; Melons
1994
Le Trou, San Francisco, CA; Form
Boonville Hotel, Boonville, CA; Veritable Interludes
1993
dava dava, San Francisco, CA; Symmetry and Balance
Le Trou, San Francisco, CA; France/Iowa
1992
Le Trou, San Francisco, CA; Pears
Atrium Court, Santa Rosa, CA
1990
Le Trou, San Francisoc, CA; Torso
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Intersection at 5M, San Francisco, CA
2009
Sanchez Art Center, 50/50, Pacifica, CA
2008
Green Museum.org; Overlap in the Green, At the Table
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA; Open
Root Division, San Francisco, CA; Taste 2008
2007
Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA; Food for Thought
2007 Garage Biennial, San Francisco, CA ; Food for Thought
Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA; Books
2006
Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA; Hybrid Fields
2005
Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA; Nature as Muse
San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA; Roadworks
2004
COPIA Sales Gallery, COPIA, Napa, CA
San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA; Road Works
SF Public Library, Main, San Francisco, CA; Reversing Vandalism
2003
Sanchez Art Center, Invitational, Pacifica CA
Pacific Center for the Book Arts, Skylight Gallery, San Francisco Public Library, Main, San Francisco, CA
Mechanics Library, San Francisco, CA
MR Galerie, Angouléme, France
Chateau Nieuil Gallery, Nieuil, France
2002
Pacific Center for the Book Arts, Skylight Gallery, San Francisco Public Library, Main, San Francisco, CA
MR Galerie, Angouléme, France
2001
Chateau Nieuil Gallery, Nieuil, France
2000
Skylight Gallery, San Francisco Public Library, Main; Valentines
MR Galerie, Angouléme, France
City of Sunnyvale, CA; Wiggle and Squirm
1999
MR Galerie, Angouléme, France
Mendocino Collage, Ukia, CA; Still Life
1998
Emmie Smock Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Merav
1997
MR Galerie, Angouléme, France
Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum; Cologne, Germany; Gender Relations
1996
Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College; Cupertino, CA; Families
Falkirk Cultural Center; San Rafael, CA; Cooking the World
1995
Falkirk Cultural Center; San Rafael, CA; All Saints; All Souls
Triton Museum of Art; California; Drawing and Print Biennial
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center; San Antonio, Texas; Re/Defining - Power/Transition
1994
SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Public/Private
Bedford Gallery, Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA; Fragments of Flight;
Wilkes Bashford, San Francisco, CA; Laura Parker & Deborah Jones
Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA; Figure as Focus
The Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NY; Elections ‘94
1993
Pacific Coast Art League, Half Moon Bay, CA
Gallery 25, Fresno, CA
1992
SF State University, Student Union Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bayfront Gallery, Fort Mason; San Francisco, CA
Prieto Gallery, Mills College; Oakland, CA; Telling Stories
KTEH Art Invitational; San Jose, CA
1991
Dow & Frosini Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Atrium Gallery, Lurie Company San Francisco, CA; Laura Parker & Katherine McKay
City Hall, San Francisco, CA; Hand in Hand Together
The New World Gallery; San Francisco, CA
Juniper Gallery; Napa, CA; Figures
1990
Le Trou; San Francisco, CA; Pears, An Exploration of Form, Laura Parker & Debroah Jones
Mendocino Arts Center; Mendocino, CA; Figurative Works
Algonquin Hotel, New York, New York; Sherlockian Artists
EDUCATION
1978 University of California, Berkeley, CA
1977 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1967-68 San Francisco Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA
1965-67 Colorado Institute of Art, Denver, Colorado
GRANTS & AWARDS
2007 Nominated for the Eureka Fellowship for visual Artists 2008-2010
Cultural Equity Grant, San Francisco Art Commission
2006 Residency, Campbelltown Art Center, Campbelltown, Australia
2002 Artist for Agriculture Grant, Veritable Vegetable
2001 California Council for the Humanities Grant
1992 Discovery Awards, Art of California Magazine, Bronze Award
1991 Award of Merit, International Ass. of Business Communicators
1987 Certificate of Merit, Kirk Paper Competition
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Splended Table, PBS radio, in segment March 25
The Huffington Post, WebEcoist, Eat Dirt! Earth & Soil Effects on Food Quality, January 25th 2010, Delana, online
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/31/laura-parker-a-taste-of-p_n_404510.html
New York Times Magazine, The 9th Annual YearIn Ideas, December 13th, 2009, pg. 42, Gourmet Dirt; Dara Kerr, http://www.nytimes.com/projects/magazine/ideas/2009/#culture-4
Edible Geography, Sweet and Sour Soils, December 9th 2009, Nicola, online
http://www.ediblegeography.com/sweet-and-sour-soils/
iconoculture, Forget wine tasting, let’s go eat dirt, October 23rd 2009, Tory Davis, online
http://blog.iconoculture.com/2009/10/23/forget-wine-tasting-let’s-go-eat-dirt/
Culinate, www.culinate.com/search/q,vt=top,q=dirt/235913;Tasting dirt, the continuity of terrior first-hand; Anne Zimmerman
San Francisco Magazine, July 2009, pg. 36, Evan Elliot
Gastronomica, Journal of Food and Culture; Summer 2008, pg. 4, OPEN for Business, Frances Baca
Wine Spectator, online
Gastronomica, Summer 2007, University of California Press; pp4; Johanna Kolodny
Artweek, volume 04, number x, December 2006; pp5, Terri Cohn, Viewpoint; pp12, Barbara Morris, Reviews
PBS, Santa Rosa; Postcards, December 2006; Taste of Place at the Sonoma County Museum
Places Magazine, UC Press, Vol 16 #3, 2004; Terri Cohn, How far are you From the Farm: A mile or a generation, pp70
Weir Cooking with Joann Weir, PBS television, 2003
Capital Press, Sacramento, California, Nov 9, 2002
American Heartland, PBS television, originally aired Jan 9, 2002
San Francisco Chronicle, SF Gate, Oct 31, 2001
Charente Libre, October 14, 1998
San Mateo Times, July 9, 1997
Fragements of Filght, Terri Cohn, Bedford Gallery, 1997
Merav; video produced by Janet Martinez, 1997
Artweek, volume 27, number 6, june 1996, pp14
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Chateau de Nieuil, Nieuil, France
Insalata’s, CA
Napa Valley Grill, Illinois
Napa Valley Grill, CA
Apple Farm, Philo, CA
Kaiser Permente Medical Centers,
Novato, Santa Rosa & San Rafael CA
Olivia Cruises, CA
Sucrée et Salée; Niort, France
T. Marquardt Fine Art, CA
Urepel, San Sebastian, Spain
Veritable Vegetable, CA
Virginia Berry, CA
Michele & Chuck Chupin, Pennsylvania
Sandra Cook, CA
Jesse Cool, CA
Wendy Cosin, CA
Mr. and Mrs Alec DiSanto, Illinois
Louise and Max Fiszer, CA
Carol Reif and Jeffery Gilman, CA
Cary and Laurie Glenner, Illinois
Gary & Lynn Goodman, CA
Deborah Jones, CA
Margaret and Richard Kaspar, Illinois
Heidi Krahling, California
Philippe and Jacquline Lefebvre; Niort, France
Kathleen. Morris & Garth.Phillips, CA
Lisbeth O’Connell, New York
Bruce and Nan Parker, Texas
Cutris Ratcliff, CA
Linda Rawls, CA
Linda Reuther, CA
Jo Smith, CA
Sondi Stankof, Austrailia
US REPRESENTATION
Donna Seager, San Rafael, CA
Ellen Wallace Art Consulting, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois
Jillian Glowienke, LA, CA
Joan Sapiro Art Consultants, Littleton, Colorado
Saltman Art Associates, Encino, CA EUROPEAN REPRESENTATION
MR Galerie, Angouléme, France
Chateau de Nieuil Galerie, Nieuil, France
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