MFA The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
BA University of California, Davis
Current/Upcoming Exhibitions:
Nov 30 – Dec 4 Red Dot Art Fair, Miami (courtesy George Billis Gallery, LA)
2012 Solo Exhibition opening March 31, George Billis Gallery, LA
One-Person Exhibitions:
2011 “Taking Time” North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks ND, September 17 – October 23, 2011
“Margaret Wall-Romana: Painting Before and After Words”
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, January 20 through April 3, 2011
2007 “The Spaces” Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 “Distillations” Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 “Up Against Gravity” Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco
1999 “Decompositions” Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 “Recent Work” Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Two-Person/Group Exhibitions:
2010 “Movement-Process-Reflection” Paintings by Jil Evans and Margaret Wall-Romana at Bethel University Johnson Gallery, St.Paul, MN September-November 2010
2009
ARTmn 2009 “The Precious Object”
Hennepin County Central Library, Cargill Gallery
2008
“Landscape, Nature & Space”
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA February 22 -March 22
2007
Aqua Art Miami (all Art Fairs 1999-2007 courtesy Bucheon Gallery)
2003
Scope LA, The Affordable Art Fair, NYC
2002
Art Chicago, The Affordable Art Fair NYC, San Francisco Int’l Art Expo
2001
Fast Forward Miami
1999
Die Erste Internationale Hotel-Kunstmesse, Vienna
The Art Exchange, NYC
1993
“Sacred Spaces: Women and the Land”
Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, FLA
“Margaret Wall-Romana/Laurel Engel
Los Medanos Community College, Pittsburg, CA
1992
“Rodeo: A Contra Costa Studio Community” (catalogue)
Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
“Margaret Wall-Romana/Grace Munakata”
Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Bibliography
2011
“Ambushed by Beauty” exhibition review of “Painting Before and After Words” at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, by Mary Abbe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 25, 2011. http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/art/116851683.html
Margaret Wall-Romana interview at Local Artist Interviews, March 14, 2011 http://www.local-artist-interviews.com/2011/03/margaret-wall-romana-painter.html Local Artist Interviews is a website devoted to creating exposure and opportunities for Minnesota artists and organizations through interviews and networking.
Art Beat// “Nature Documentaries” by Dylan Thomas, SouthWestJournal - exhibition review of Margaret Wall-Romana & Peter Happel Christian at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts http://www.swjournal.com/index.php?&story=16597&page=152&category=64
“Landscapes Real and Imagined” Marianne Combs, State of the Arts, Minnesota Public Radio
Margaret Wall-Romana and Peter Happel Christian in the MAEP Galleries, Minneapolis Institute of Arts http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/state-of-the-arts/archive/2011/02/landscapes-real-and-imagined.shtml
2010
“Painting Experience/Painting Perception: Jil Evans and Margaret Wall-Romana” by Christina Schmid, for the exhibition at Bethel University http://www.quodlibetica.com/painting-experiencepainting-perception-jil-evans-and-margaret-wall-romana-at-bethel/
2007
San Francisco Chronicle review of “The Spaces” exhibition, Kenneth Baker
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/19/DDG3CPT1T01.DTL
The Highlights, Jacqueline Cooper’s essay, “Margaret Wall-Romana at Bucheon Gallery” July 2007 http://thehighlights.org/?p=20 (scroll down until image appears)
2004
flavorpill.com/sanfrancisco May 2004
Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, May 19 2004
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/29/DDGFV6T0551.DTL (please scroll halfway down to “Wall-Romana at Bucheon)
2002
Five Finger Review, Issue 20
Public Collections
St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Professional Experience
1997 – 2002
Art Department Faculty, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA