Sheila O'Hara • Textile Artist

14383 Spruce Grove Road • Lower Lake, California 95457-9726 • USA • Tel: 707.994.0790 • Fax:707.994.1575
E-Mail: sheila@sheilaohara.com • Website: http://www.sheilaohara.com

BORN: December 29, 1953 Kobe, Japan

EDUCATION: BFA - Textiles with Distinction - April 1976: California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA

SELECTED GROUP AND ONE PERSON SHOWS

2014    
The Tapestries of Sheila O'Hara – one person show – Lake County Wine Studio, Upper Lake, CA
Loom with a View – one person show – Recycled Lamb, Golden, CO
Complexity Exhibition – Hillestad Gallery, U of NE; Complex Weavers Seminars, Tacoma, WA
Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum 21st Annual Quilt & Textile Exhibition, Lower Lake, CA

2013    
Transformation Exhibition – New Coast Studios, Palo Alto, CA
The Art of Science & Technology – Finlandia Univeristy Gallery, Hancock, MI
Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum 20th Annual Quilt & Textile Exhibition, Lower Lake, CA

2012    
Tradition/Innovation – Conference of the Northern California Handweavers, Oakland, CA
EcoArts: 10th Annual Lake County Sculpture Walk – Middletown County Trailside Park, CA
Glamour, Glitter, Glitz – Hellada Gallery, Long Beach, CA, & Kaplan Gallery, Rockville, MD
Summer of Peace: People’s Choice Award – Lake County Arts Council Gallery, Lakeport, CA
Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum 19th Annual Quilt & Textile Exhibition, Lower Lake, CA
High Fiber Under Five – San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA

2011    
Collecting California – San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA
Contemporary Fiber Art from the Permanent Collection – The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Strands of Time – one person show – Copper Country Community Arts Center, Hancock, MI
Material at Play: Master – Works Baulines Crafts Guild – ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum 18th Annual Quilt & Textile Exhibition, Lower Lake, CA

2010
20 x 20 Exhibition – Le Centre des Textiles Contemporains de Montreal, Canada
Old San Ysidro Church Exhibition, Corrales, NM during Convergence 2010, Albuquerque, NM
Baulines Crafts Guild – 600 Townsend, SF, CA & Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA
EcoArts: 8th Annual Lake County Sculpture Walk – Middletown County Trailside Park, CA
Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum 17th Annual Quilt & Textile Exhibition, Lower Lake, CA

2009
Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection– Museum of Arts & Design, NY, NY
EcoArts: 7th Annual Lake County Sculpture Walk – Middletown County Trailside Park, CA
Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum 16th Annual Quilt & Textile Exhibition, Lower Lake, CA

2008
Core Memory/Peripheral Visions – San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
EcoArts: 6th Annual Lake County Sculpture Walk – Middletown County Trailside Park, CA
Weaving in the Computer Age – from Inkles to Jacquard, Tarpon Springs Cultural Center, FL
Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum 15th Annual Quilt & Textile Exhibition, Lower Lake, CA

2007
A Working Living: The Business of Craft – Mendocino College Gallery, Ukiah, CA
Conscious Concepts-Baulines Craft Guild Master Annual–ArtWorks, San Rafael, CA
Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum 14th Annual Quilt & Textile Exhibition, Lower Lake, CA

2006
Sheila O'Hara - Lake Effect - one person show - 455 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
Masters & Apprentices of the Baulines Crafts Guild - Crafts and Cultural Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Banishing Boundaries - Weaving Digitally - Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
The Spirit of the Baulines Crafts Guild - Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA
By the Hand - Traditional & Innovative Crafts National, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum 13th Annual Quilt & Textile Exhibition, Lower Lake, CA

2005
True Threads - four person show - La Jolla FiberArts, La Jolla, CA
Marin Art Festival - San Rafael, CA
American Craft Council Show - Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Furniture, Decorative & Functional Objects - juried show - 600 Townsend, San Francisco
Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum 12th Annual Quilt & Textile Exhibition, Lower Lake, CA

2004
California Design 2004 & Second Generation - Contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA
American Craft Council Show - Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
The Bennett Collection - San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum 11th Annual Quilt & Textile Exhibition, Lower Lake, CA

2003
The Curatorial Eye: Fifteen Perspectives - Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
Inspired Objects: The Crafts of Mendocino County - Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA
Telling Tales in Textiles – one person show – 989 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
Quilts & Textiles – Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum, Lower Lake, CA
Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum 10th Annual Quilt & Textile Exhibition, Lower Lake, CA

2002
Sheila O'Hara Textiles - one person show - Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum, Lower Lake, CA
Threads of Memory: Contemporary Narrative Textiles - Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO
California Design 2002 - Contract Design center, San Francisco, CA
Baulines Crafts Guild 30th Anniversary Exhibitions - Falkirk Center, San Rafael, CA and Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA

2001
Fabrications - Mendocino College Art Gallery, Ukiah, CA
The Diverse Artforms of Weaving - Bay Model, Sausalito, CA

2000
Between the Lines: Narrative Art from Nancy Erickson & Sheila O'Hara -San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA
VIe Triennale International des mini-textiles - Museé Jean Lurçat - Angers, France

1999
Textiles - Sheila O'Hara & Susan Hart Henegar - 425 Market Building, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Fiber and Art to Wear: Recent Acquisitions - M.H. de Young Memorial
Museum of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Sheila O'Hara Tapestries - one person show - Village Spinning & Weaving, Solvang, CA

1998
Winter Wonderland - Blue Room Christmas Tree, The White House, Washington, DC,
O'Hara's ornament, Frostyana, shared the very top of the tree with one other ornament
Faculty Exhibition 98 - College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
The Artist Collects: The Chairs of Garry & Sylvia Bennett - Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Rhythms & Hues: Convergence 98 - Handweavers Guild of America Conference, Atlanta, GA

1997
The Continuous Thread - College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
California Design '97 - Contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA
The Continuing Thread: Contemporary Work in an Ancient Tradition - San Francisco Tribal & Folk Textile Arts Show, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Textiles - one person show - Cushman/Wakefiled Lobby, San Francisco, CA

1996
Generations: The Lineage of Influence in Bay Area Art - Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
CCCA Master/Apprentice Annual - Claudia Chaplin Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
Structural Appreciation: Five Fiber Artists - Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
Images: Fiber Work - Meadows Gallery, Denton, TX and Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
North Americamn Weaving:Ancient Traditions/New Technology - Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Take Time: Convergence 96 - Handweavers Guild of America Conference, Portland, OR

1995
A Textured Language: Honoring 20 Years of Fiberarts Magazine - Blue Spiral, Asheville, NC
The Possibilities of Weaving - Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK
New Works - one person show - Helstrom Studios, Colorado Springs, CO
Facets of Fiber - Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
Art of the Box and Wall Works in Fiber - Banaker Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994
Local Media - Within and Beyond Traditions - Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
Creativity and the Computer in Weaving - Lane Community College, Eugene, OR
Convergence 94 - Handweavers Guild of America Conference, Minneapolis, MN

1993
Design and Fabric Technology - Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institution, NY, NY
Textiles - one person show - Equitable Building, San Francisco, CA
Loom with a View - Walker Art Gallery, University of Nebraska at Kearney, NE
State of the Art: Contemporary Fiber - Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO

1992
California Design 92 - Contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA
Fiber Arts/New Directions for the Nineties - Manchester Institute of Arts & Sciences, NH
Celebrating Jack (Lenor Larsen) - American Craft Museum, NY, NY

1991
California Design 91 - Contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA
Woven Structures in the Computer Age - Purdue University, Indiana; Texas Woman's University; Texas Tech University; University of North Dakota
Art & Industry - The Jacquard Project - Museum for Industrial Culture, Nürnberg, Germany; Texas Woman's University; California Crafts Museum; North Dakota Museum of Art

1990    
The Fifth Annual International Textile Design Contest - The Space, Tokyo, Japan
Building a Permanent Collection - American Craft Museum, NY, NY
Architexture - Recent Tapestries - one person show - Center for Tapestry Arts, NY, NY
Fiber Directions: West Coast - Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR

1989
Progressions - 1979 - 1989, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
Design 89 - Showplace Design Center, San Francisco, CA            
Beauty IN the Beast - Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Woven Structures in the Computer Age - Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
Fiber Exhibitions - Highlight Gallery & Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA

1988
Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans - North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
        followed by a two year Asian tour
Sheila O'Hara - one person show - Elaine Potter Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Woven Pictures - Gayle Willson Gallery, Southampton, NY
Design 88 – Showplace Design Center & Galleria Design Center, San Francisco, CA

1987
Textiles as Language - Philadelphia College of Art - Philadelphia, PA
13th International Biennial of Tapestry - Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Switzerland
Design 87 – Showplace Design Center & Galleria Design Center, San Francisco, CA

1986
Charlottenborg Invitational - All Crafts - Copenhagen, Denmark
California - Elaine Potter Gallery, San Francisco, CA
High Tech Meets High Touch - University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Design 86 – Showplace Design Center & Galleria Design Center, San Francisco, CA

1985
Line on Design - American Institute of Architects Convention, San Francisco, CA
Design 85 - Showplace Square West, San Francisco, CA
Sheila O'Hara - one person show - Modern Master Tapestries Gallery, NY, NY
Textile Constructs - Art Gallery, California State University, Northridge, CA

1984
Tenth Biennial National Invitational Crafts Exhibition - Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Oakland Museum - Bay Area Craftsperson of the Year Award, Oakland, CA

1983
Hugh Kepets and Sheila O'Hara - Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Humor & Play in Art - Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkhill, NY

1982
Sheila O'Hara - one person show - Modern Master Tapestries, NY, NY
The Fan - Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg TN

1981
Fiber Art: An Uncommon Thread - Modern Master Tapestries, NY, NY
Weavings, Glass & Wood - Following Sea, Honolulu, HI
New Wave - East Meets West - International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC

1980
New Works in Fiber & Fabric - College of Santa Fe, NM
California State Exposition - First Place - Textiles - Fine Arts Show - Sacramento, CA
Weavings by Sheila O'Hara -one person show - Western Women's Bank, San Francisco, CA

1979
Bay Area Artists - California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
Visual Poetics - California State University at Los Angeles, CA
Pat Kinsella and Sheila O'Hara - Pacific Basin School of Textile Arts, Berkeley, CA

1978
California Textile Artists - Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
California State Exposition - Fourth Place - Textiles - Fine Arts Show - Sacramento, CA
Surface Design 78 - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

1977
California Craft Media 77 - Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, CA
Loom Masters - San Francsico School of Fabric Arts, CA

1976
San Francisco Art Festival - Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Composite - BFA Show - California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA

Selected Publications

American Craft - New York, NY: Feb/Mar 1996, p 96; Feb/Mar 1994, p 44; Aug/Sept 1993, p 102; Feb/Mar 1992, pp 38-41; Oct/Nov 1988, p 77; Apr/May 1985, p 71; Oct/Nov 1981, p 41

American Crafts - A Source Book for the Home - Pearson, 1983, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, NY, pp 152,153,156

American Fabrics & Fashion Magazine - NY, NY: No. 128, l983, p 77

Ars Textrina - Vol. 6, December 1986, University of Winnipeg, Canada, pp 9-55

Artweek - San Jose, CA: Mar 28, 1981

Asheville Citizen Times - Asheville, NC: Dec 17, 1995, pp 1L & 5L

California Computer News - Sacramento, CA: Nov l992, pp 22

Complex Weavers Journal - www.complexweavers.org - June 2011, #96 p 30-31; Feb 2009, #89 p 41-42

Designer's West - LA, CA: Apr l986, pp 128-129

Design Though Discovery - An Introduction to Art & Design, Bevlin, 1994, Harcourt Brace College Pub., NY, NY, p 306

Featured in AVL Looms ad in Threads, Fiberarts, Textilforum, Handwoven, Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot and Weavers Magazines: 1988-1995

Fiberarts Design Books - Hastings House, New York: Book Seven 2004, Book Five 1995, Book Four 1991, Book One 1980

Fiberarts - Asheville, NC: Mar/Apr 2001 pp 58-59; Summer 1995, pp 58-59; Jan/Feb 1993, pp 8-9; Nov/Dec 1992, p 61; Mar/Apr 1992, pp 12-13; Nov/Dec 1989, p 24; May/June 1986, p 26; Jan/Feb 1983, pp 64-67; Mar/Apr 1981, pp 67-68; May/June 1979, pp 72-73

Fiberscope - Loveland, CO: Number One, Interweave Press, 1979

The Guild, The Sourcebook of Artists: Designers Edition - Kraus Sikes Inc., Madison, WI: 1996, Book Eleven p 152; 1995, Book Ten, p 8; 1986, Book One, p 134

Handweaving - A Handbook of the Fiber Arts, 3rd Edition by Shirley Held, Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999, pp 71-73, 364

Handwoven - Loveland, CO: Mar/Apr 2010, pp 34-36; Nov/Dec 2008, pp 60-61 and web article; Sept/Oct 2006, pp 56-59; Jan/Feb 2005, pp 44-46; Sept/Oct 2003, pp 40-43; Sept/Oct 2002, cover & pp 24-27, p 54; May/June 2001, p 104: Mar/Apr 1991, p 106; Sept/Oct 1989, pp 88-91

Inside Today's Home - Faulkner & Nissen, 5th ed., 1986, Holt Rinehart & Winston, NY, pp 282 & 288

Interior - London, England, August l993

Interweave - Loveland, CO: Winter 1980/1981, pp 42-45

Jacquard - Florence, Italy, Sept 2007- #60, p 6 & 7; Sept l991, p 14

Lake County News – CA – on line: Aug 30, 2014, 3 pgs; Aug 25, 2013, 2 pgs; Aug 24, 2012, 2 pgs

Marin Independent Journal - Novato, CA: Dec 19, 1998, C1 & 4

Metropolis - The Architecture & Design Magazine of New York: Sept l993, p 89; Jan/Feb 1985, cover & pp 37-43

New York Times - NY, NY: Jan. 9, 1986; Feb 6, 1983; Dec. 17, 1981

The Oakland Tribune - Oakland, CA: Jul 6, 1999, p Local 2; Dec 24, l998 p Local 1; Jan 28, 1989, p B-5; Jan 31, 1987, p C 1-2

The Record Bee - Lakeport, CA: Aug 21, 2014 p 2; July 21, 2013, p B1; July 21, 2012, p A2; August 11, 2011, p A7; August 21, 2010, p A1

The Register Guard - Eugene, OR: Jan 28, 1994, pp 1C & 6C

The Sacramento Bee - Sacramento, CA: April 16, 1988, CL 10-11 & cover; Oct 17, 1987, pp CL 10-12

San Francisco Examiner - California Living Magazine, Oct 14, 1984; Picture Show, pp 4-5

The Saturday Mercury - Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, April 6, l991

SF Magazine - San Francisco, CA, Aug 1990, pp 38-39

Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot - West Hartford, CT: Summer 1997, p 19; Winter 1991/1992, pp 44-46; Winter 1990/1991, cover & pp 38-41; Spring 1987, pp 54- 5; Fall 1981, pp 20-23

Surface Design Journal - Oakland, CA: Vol 16-No.2 Winter 1992, pp 6-8;Vol 13-No.4 Summer 1989, p 29

Textiel - Holland: Mar 1992, pp 25-27; Sept 1987, pp 12-13

Textile Fibre Forum - Mittagong, Australia: No 31, 1991, p 30; No 32, 1991, pp 38-39

Textilforum - Hanover, Germany: Mar 2001, p 36; Sept 1991, pp 26-40; Mar 1990, pp 26-27; Sept 1988, cover & pp 28-31; Sept 1987, pp 16-17

Vav Magasinet - Linkoping, Sweden: January 2011, 1/11 pp 44-45

Weavers - Sioux Falls, SD: Spring 1997, #35, p 37; Summer 1995, #28, pp 54-55; 4th Qtr 1991, #15, pp 32-35; 4th Qtr 1990, #11, pp 30-35; 2nd Qtr 1990, #9, pp 32-34

Corporate
Arthur Andersen & Co., Denver, CO AT&T, San Francisco, CA & Oakton, VA BankAmerica World Headquarters, SF, CA Beneficial Corporation, Wilmington, DE Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, CA Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, San Jose, CA Ceago Vinegarden, Nice, CA Dean Witter, San Francisco and Cupertino, CA Delta Towers, Century City, CA Far West Laboratory, San Francisco, CA Federal Home Loan Bank, Alameda, CA Friedman and Kovan, Chicago, IL Kaiser Hospitals, Vallejo and Berkeley, CA Komatsu Store, Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan		Lloyds Bank International Ltd., New York, NY MBIA, Armonk, NY Mesa Engineering, Petaluma, CA Oakland Federal Building, Oakland, CA Presbyterian Hospital, San Francisco, CA Ricci • Leopold, Palm Beach Gardens, FL Savnik & Co., Oakland, CA Sister City of Santa Rosa, CA, Cheju, S. Korea Standard Oil of Ohio, San Francisco, CA Tides Warf & Restaurant, Bodega Bay, CA Treesweet Orange Juice, Miami, FL Twin Pine Casino, Middletown, CA Wells Fargo Banks in San Francisco, Stockton, Sacramento, Walnut Creek and Los Angeles, CA

Private
Garry & Sylvia Bennett, Alameda, CA Louise Lemieux Berube, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Steven Binder & Barbara Anscher, Berkeley, CA Mr. & Mrs. John Blake, Pleasant Hill, CA Doug Boilesen, Lincoln, NE Virginia Breier, San Francisco, CA Helen M. Canzoneri, Wichita, KS Janet & Bob Carr, Oakland, CA Sue Horn-Caskey & Rick Caskey, Portland, OR Mr. & Mrs. Norman Cavior, Walnut Creek, CA Dotti & Bob Day, Larkspur, CA Steve and Nancy Denkin, Petaluma, CA Susan Druding, Berkeley, CA Rudi Dundas, Mill Valley, CA Marina & Robert Efroymson, New York, NY Kathy Fisher & Tom Sinclair, Oakland, CA Mr. & Mrs Sanford Gallanter, San Francisco, CA Mary & Clint Gilliland, San Jose, CA Mr. & Mrs. Jack Gorelick, San Rafael, CA Susie & David Hodges, Berkeley, CA Knute & Terry Holum, Boulder, CO M. Hulbert & K. Fout, San Leandro, CA Marion Kawulok, Tucson, AZ Pat Kinsella, Prato, Italy		Nancy Knoble, Tiburon, CA Jack Lenor Larsen, East Hampton, NY Lorraine Leber & J. Seckman, San Francisco, CA Ms. Joyce Lekas, San Jose, CA Marie Lepage, Neufchatel, Quebec, Canada Mr. William Lipton, New York, NY Suzy Locke & Marvin Cohen, Piedmont, CA Patricia Lucas, San Jose, CA Merielle and Andrew Olson, Berkeley, CA Harold & Gertrud Parker, Tiburon, CA Javier Perez, San Francisco, CA Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Robin, El Macero, CA Deborah Santucci & John Parker, Castro Valley, CA Mrs. Seits, New York, NY Kay Sekimachi, Berkeley, CA Toni Fountain Sikes & Bill Kraus, Madison, WI Arthur Stern, Benicia, CA Rebecca & Gary Stevens, Washington, D.C. Peter Straus & Nancy Evens, Chico, CA Corky Stuckenbruck, Argyle, TX Madelyn van der Hoogt, Coupeville, WA Katy Webb, Oakland, CA Mim Wynne & Greg Thomas, Elkins, AR Susan York, Mill Valley, CA