Richard Gilles 20091 Garnet Ct. Cottonwood CA 96022 gilles@ hues.com 916-817-9437 www.hues.com Born in Brunswick, Georgia Lives and works in Cottonwood, California Education B.A. Fine Arts, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, 1981 Solo Exhibitions 2013 Towers, dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, California 2012 Towers, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California 2011 Had Enough? (and other questions of pride), Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California 2010 Signs of the Times, dnj Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2009 Signs of the Times, b.sakata Garo Fine Art, Sacramento, California Strange Attractors (and other such phenomenon), Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California Almost Home-Less, Exit Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 2008 Almost Home-Less, dnj Gallery, Los Angeles, California The Highway Remembers, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California 2007 Almost Home-Less: A photographic exploration, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California 1982 Richard Gilles - Recent Photographs, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California Group Exhibitions 2012 Crocker-Kingsley Biannual, Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, California, Juror: Michael Duncan Road, Castell Photography Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina, Juror: W. M. Hunt Summer Collection, dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, California The Summer Show, 47th Juried Exhibition, St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, Louisiana, Juror: Miranda Lash Works on Paper, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Long Island City, New York Annual Juried Exhibit, The Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Frederick, Maryland, Juror: Sue Spaid Emerging Focus, Photo LA, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California Crossroads: A Shifting Landscape, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Math + Art, Moreau Art Galleries, Saint Mary s College, Notre Dame, Indiana 2011 The Big Show, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California SNAP: A National Photograph Exhibition, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California, jurors: Drew Johnson and Sandra S. Phillips The Observed, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio 2011 National Juried Exhibition, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, California, juror: Kate Eilertsen The Plastic Box, Arts West Gallery, Elon University, Elon, North Carolina California!, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California, jurors: Chandra Cerrito and Svea Lin Soll Brand 40, Works on Paper, Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California, juror: Peter Frank Out of Con(text), dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, California Crocker Art Auction Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
2011 Paducah Photo 2011, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky, juror: Karen Irvine 22nd Annual Juried Show, Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, juror: Julie Sasse Sources - Origins, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, Massachusetts, juror: Howard Yezerski 24th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper, Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana, juror: Dan Cameron LENS 2011, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, Illinois, juror: Natasha Egan Truth and Dare, NEXUS/foundation for today s art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, juror: Gabriel Martinez Works on/of Paper, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California, juror: Elizabeth Mitchell This Good Earth, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, Oregon The Consilience of Art and Science Exhibition, Pence Gallery, Davis, California West Coast Biennial, Art Gallery at Turtle Bay, Redding, California, juror: Bob Nugent 25th Annual International Juried Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey, juror: Joan Young Wrinkle, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California 2010 Photography 2010: Contrasting Landscapes, LH Horton Jr Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, California, juror: Carol McCusker Wonderers, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, California, curator: Matthias Geiger New*Art, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida Photo-Environment, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California, curator: Andrea Harris The Print Center s 84th Annual International Competition: Photography, LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, New Jersey, juror: Ingrid Schaffner Photography Today, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California, juror: Linda Connor Axiom of Gesture, Runnels Gallery, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico Speaking of Solitude, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, California, juror: Maria Medua Eyes Nose Mouth, SMUD Gallery, Sacramento, California 28th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas, juror: Hannah Frieser California Fine Art, California State Fair, Sacramento, California National Juried Competition: Digital Works, LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, New Jersey, juror: Marisa Olson Ninth National Juried Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, New York, New York, juror: Lowrey Sims Revisiting Beauty, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California, juror: Peter Frank 84th Annual International Competition: Photography, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, juror: Ingrid Schaffner 42nd Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas 21st Annual Juried Show, Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, Nevada National Juried Printmaking and Photography Exhibition 2010, Artspace, Richmond, Virginia, juror: Richard Waller Media Mix, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, Massachusetts, juror: Gretchen Keyworth Wide Open, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, New York Axis Tilt, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California The Romance of the Road: Photographs in Search of the Promised Land, The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina, curator: Dennis Kiel
2009 Anthology, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, curator: Kevin Miller An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area - Part 1, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California, curator: Chuck Mobley 2009 Soho Photo National Photography Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, New York, juror: Susan Kismaric 36th Annual Photo Exhibition, Larson Gallery, Yakima, Washington The Consilience of Art and Science Exhibition, Pence Gallery, Davis, California Continuum, George Segal Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey, juror: Patterson Sims Juried Annual 2009, Pro Arts, Oakland, California, juror: Ali Subotnik 23rd Annual International Juried Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey, juror: Adelina Vlas Members Show, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California Memento Mori: Contemporary Manifestations, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky, juror: Eleanor Heartney Kentucky National 2009, Eagle Art Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, juror: Mark Masuoka Photo LA, dnj Gallery, Los Angeles, California Art Connections 5, George Segal Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey 2008 Pink Week, Tangent Gallery, Sacramento, California New Visions 2008, Pro Arts, Oakland, California, jurors: Lucinda Barnes and Karen Tsujimoto 2008 National Juried Photography Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Lynchburg, Virginia Roseville Arts 32th Annual Open Show, Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, California, juror: Phil Linhares Perfect with Pixel, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio PaperWORKS!, The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, California, juror: René de Guzman 2nd Annual Juried Pinhole Show, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, California 27th Annual Expo, B. J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, New York Off Center, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, Texas Woman s University Fine Arts Gallery, Denton, Texas, juror: Lisa Hostetler 2007 Trick of the Light, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, juror: Dennis Kiel National Juried Exhibition, Stark Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona Art at the X, Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio Trans, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, Massachusetts, juror: Leonie Bradbury Punch + Soil International Juried Exhibition, Punch Gallery, Seattle, Washington, juror: Eric Fredericksen National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California Ultrasonic International II (Translating Transience), Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California, curator: Max Presneill Powder Plant Power Plant, Viewpoint Gallery, Sacramento, California Arts on Fire 11, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California Annual AXIS Members Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California 2006 National Exhibition 2006, Marin Society of Artists, Ross, California, juror: René de Guzman Cambridge Art Association s 2006 National Prize Show, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, juror: Cheryl Brutvan Group Invitational, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California
2006 Emerging Artist 2006, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, New York, Peek Through, Dangenart Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee 8th Annual All-Media Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC 2005 15th Annual Center Awards, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California, juror: Arthur Ollman Roseville Arts 30th Annual Open Show, 2237 Gallery, Roseville, California, juror: Scott Shields Local Voice, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, juror: Marian Parmenter A Sense of Place 2005, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia Alpan International 2005, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, New York, juror: Phyllis Braff 2nd Biennial International Juried Exhibition, Herbst International Exhibition Hall, San Francisco, California, juror: Marian Parmente 22nd Annual National Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California Artfully Reclaimed, Indian Valley Artists, Novato, California, juror: Michael Schwager In Focus: Photography Techniques and Trends, Target Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia, juror: Sarah Kennel Halpert 05, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone. North Carolina Photography Now 2005, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York, juror: W.M. Hunt Arts on Fire 9, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, juror: Susan Hillhouse Expo XXIV, B. J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, New York Vandals, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California 2004 Works on Paper, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, California All in the Family III, Off The Preserve, Napa, California 2002 In focus Juried Photography Exhibition, Lewis-Clark Center, Lewiston, Idaho 30th Annual Photo Exhibition, Larson Gallery, Yakima, Washington 2001 Illuminance 2001, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, Texas 1984 California Works, California State Fair, Sacramento, California Light Sensitive, Thomas Center Galleries, Gainesville, Florida 1983 Contra Costa Competitive Photography, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California Juried Photographic Exhibition, The Art Association of Newport, Newport, Rhode Island 1982 Pescadero Ceramics, photo sculpture, Contemporary Artisans, San Francisco, California New Photographics 1982, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington 1981 Alumni Show, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California Contemporary Photoworks, Downtown Center for the Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1980 Views of the Financial District II, Zellerbach Building, San Francisco, California Views of the Financial District, U.C. Extension, San Francisco, California 1979 Photographs, a Five Person Show, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California Publications International Photography Annual 1, Manifest Press, 2012 Road: conceived & curated by W. M. Hunt, Castell Photography, 2012 Manifest Volume 58, Observed, Manifest Press, 2011 24th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper, McNeese State University, Department of Visual Art, 2011 Manifest Volume 51, One, Manifest Press, 2011 Wonderers, University of California Davis, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, 2010
Publications Continued An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Part 1: San Francisco Plays Itself, SF Cameraworks Publications, 2010 Revisiting Beauty, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, 2010 Kentucky National 2009, Murray State University, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, 2009 Perfect With Pixels, Bowling Green State University, Fine Arts Center Galleries, 2008 Manifest Volume 24, Trick of the Light, Manifest Press, 2007 The Lucie Awards, IPAbooks, 2006 Group 563, A Portfolio, Academy Press, 1981 Bibliography Roth, David M. Richard Gilles @ Axis, http://www.squarecylinder.com, May 2012 Moret, A. Richard Gilles and Bernadette DiPietro, Art Scene, Vol. 29, No.6, Febuary 2010 Smithson, Aline. Richard Gilles http://lenscratch.blogspot.com, January 22, 2010 Roth, David M. Richard Gilles @ B. Sakata Garo, http://www.squarecylinder.com, December 13, 2009 Foster, Tim. Signs of the Times, Midtown Monthly, November 2009 Shoka. Six Degrees of Fuzzy Logic, Sacramento News and Review. Vol.21 Issue 32, November 12, 2009 Park, Youngna. Hey, Hot Shot! Contender: Richard Gilles, http://heyhotshot.com/blog/, April 9, 2009 Tu, Susanna. The Highway Remembers, Midtown Monthly, May 2008 Fernandez, Josh. Go ahead, stop and stare Sacramento News & Review, Vol. 20, Issue 07, May 8, 2008 Grubb, Nancy, 2007 Winter Portfolio Picks, http://www.aperture.org/apertureprize/, 2007 Moe, Liv. Photo Synthesis, Midtown/Downtown Monthly, Vol. 1 No. 10 February 2007, p.26-27 Dakley, Victoria. Critic s Pick, The Sacramento Bee, Friday, February 9, 2007 Awards Award of Excellence, 2011 National Juried Exhibition, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, California, 2011 First Place, Paducah Photo 2011, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky, 2011 Awards of Merit, Sources - Origins, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, Massachusetts, 2011 Finalist, The Manifest Prize, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2011 First Place, Voertman Award, William B. Warde Award, 42nd Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas, 2010 First Place, National Juried Printmaking and Photography Exhibition 2010, Artspace, Richmond, Virginia, 2010 Runner-up, JGS Photography Contest /1st Quarter 2010, Forward Thinking Museum, 2010 Best of Show, 36th Annual Photo Exhibition, Larson Gallery, Yakima, Washington,2009 Best of Show, Trans, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, Massachusetts, 2007 Honorable Mention, Aperture Foundation, Portfolio Review, 2007 First Place, International Photography Awards, Architecture Interiors, Nonprofessional, 2005 Juror s Award, 22nd Annual National Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California, 2005 Juror s Award, Arts on Fire 9, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, 2005 Best of Show Award, 30th Annual Photo Exhibition, Larson Gallery, Yakima, Washington, 2002 Juror s Award, Juried Photographic Exhibition, The Art Association of Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, 1983 Collections Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida University of California Davis, Richard L. Nelson Gallery & Fine Arts Collection, Davis, California