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Lani Asher
P.O. Box 885111
San Francisco, CA 94188
laniasher@sbcglobal.net

Education:
San Francisco Art Institute
MFA New Genres 1986
University of California, Santa Barbara, College Of Creative Studies
BA Painting/Sculpture 1977, 1974-1977 Regent Scholar

Selected Exhibitions:
2008 Paperwork, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Small Wonders III, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA,
        Juror: Holly Myers, Art Reviewer for the LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Times
2007 Corazon En Fiesta, Mission Cultural Center For Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA
2007 Women’s Music, Art, Dance, & Word Festival, 2nd City Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA,
        Juror: Sara Cochran, Assistant Curator of Modern Art, L.A. County Museum
2006 Solo Exhibition, Nomad Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 The Portrait Show: A Curious Interpretation, Soap Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Looking In, Looking Out, Ceres Gallery, New York City, NY
2005 CirCA Now, Oakland Museum, Juror: Philip Linhares, Chief Art Curator
2004 Ceres 6th Annual Juried Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, New York City, NY
        Juror: Feres Daftari, Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
2003 Moment's Notice, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
2003 Group Show, Presidio Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Western States Small Works 2002, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa CA,
        Juror: Ralph Rugoff, Director of the California College of Art’s Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
2001 Fresh, 2130 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA
2000 Sustainability Show, Presidio Art Center, San Francisco, CA
1998 Smoke And Mirrors, African-American Art & Cultural Center,San Francisco, CA
1997 Reassembled, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Over, Under, and Around, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Two Views, Shiga Modern Art Museum, Ohtsu, Japan
1997 Art Inside and Out, Meridian Galley, San Francisco, CA
1996 Small Works, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Dialogues, NIAD Gallery, Richmond, CA
1995 Second Annual Artists' Book Show, Space 743, San Francisco, CA
1994 Group Exhibition, Yerba Buena Center For the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1992 Art for Arts Sake, Art Attack Gallery, San Francisco,CA
1992 I Think, Therefore I'm Dangerous, Women's Building, San Francisco, CA
1992 Outside In, Cassandra Kersting Gallery, Oakland, CA
1992 Telling Stories, Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1992 Juried Exhibition, Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA, Juror: Juana Alicia
1992 Solo Exhibition, La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
1991 Miniature Show, Bolinas Art Museum, Bolinas, CA
1991 Women on Women, Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
1991 Save the Penis, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
1991 Art Against Intervention in the Third Word, La Pena Center, Berkeley, CA
1991 Group Exhibition, Taller Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca, Mexico
1988 Group Exhibition, College of Creative Studies Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1988 Group Exhibition, Bannam Place, San Francisco, CA
1987 Group Exhibition, Bannam Place, San Francisco, CA
1986 TV Diner, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
1986 Too Much For TV, Channel 25, San Francisco, CA
1984 Screening, The New Generic, San Francisco, CA
1983 Screening, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1982 Screening, Millennium, New York City, NY
1979 Group Exhibition, Ancient Currents Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1978 Group Exhibition, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Solo Exhibition, College Of Creative Studies Gallery, UC Santa Barbara, CA

Art Residencies:
2003 Artist Residency, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA

Art Writing:
Art reviewer for Shotgun Review: a blog covering contemporary art exhibitions and events in the San Francisco Bay Area (http://shotgun-review.com)

Awards:
2002 Audience Award, Western States Small Works, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA

Curation:
1998 Smoke And Mirrors, Center For African & African-American Art,
San Francisco, CA
1997 Art Inside and Out, Meridian Galley, San Francisco, CA
1997 Reassembled, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 TV Diner, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA

Reviews:
2006 Nomad Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mission Arts Monthly, an online arts magazine covering San Francisco’s Mission district.
1997 Two Views:Lani Asher and Toru Sugita ,Shiga Modern Art Museum, Otsu, Japan, Kyoto Shinbun