BORN

San Francisco, California 1952

Lives and works Berkeley, California

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Fallout, Windows 226 Guerrero, San Francisco, California

2019 Tribute to Heinz, Windows 226 Guerrero, San Francisco, California

2014 Children’s Games, Dog House Studio, Sebastopol, California

1985 Paintings and Works on Paper, U.C.S.F. Faculty Alumni House, San Francisco, California

1983 Carol Benioff Paintings, Nanny Goat Hill Gallery, San Francisco, California

SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1998 Paintings, Windows 226 Guerrero, San Francisco, California

1998 Carol Benioff - John Stuart Berger, Coyote Gallery, Oroville, California

1984 Carol Benioff/Penny Brogden, George Orberg Gallery, Chico, California

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 ACCESS: An Ordinary Notion, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, California

Rising Tides, Hall Art & Technology Foundation, Alameda, California

Pint Size, Transmission Gallery, Oakland, California

2023 Death and Ritual, UMA Gallery, Oakland, California

2022 Sea, The Drawing Room, San Francisco, California

Shimmer, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, California

15th Anniversary Group Show, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California

2022 With Liberty and Justice For Some, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California

Paintings, Windows 226 Guerrero, San Francisco, California

2014 Birds, Dog House Studio, Sebastopol, California

California Etchers Currents, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, California

2013 Children’s Games, Windows 226 Guerrero, San Francisco, California

2012 Inked Surfaces, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, California

2008 Impressions on Paper: Six Artists, Addison Street Windows, Berkeley, California

2007 Fresh, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California

Then and Now, MOCHA, Oakland, California

2006 Mercury Rising - New Works, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California

2005 Thirty Something, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, California

New Book Editions: Old, New, Digital, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, California

2004 Eye Object, College Art Gallery - Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California

2003 The Meditated Image, Crossmann Gallery, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater

Printmaking Without Borders, Estamperi a Quitena, Quito, Ecuador

Printmaking Without Borders, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, California

2002 Bay Area Printmakers, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, California

2000 high touch, high tech - crossing the divide, Space 743, San Francisco, California

1999 Under the Surface, six artists from Kala, Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley, California

The Secret Life, Contemporary Figure Drawing, Reynolds Gallery - UOP Gallery, Stockton, California

1998 1998 Digital Print Award Exhibition , Clocktower Museum, London, England

1997 Echoes from the Third Millennium, Palazzo delle Fontane, Rome Italy

The Sequential Desire: Books Arts from the Bay Area , Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California

The Collectors Gallery Salutes Kala , Oakland Museum, Oakland, California

Nanny Goat Redux , Somar Gallery, San Francisco, California

1996 8th Annual Pacific Prints 1996, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California

1995 Triton Museum of Art Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art,
Santa Clara, California

The San Francisco Foundation 1995 James Phelan Art Awards in Printmaking, Kala Art Inst.,
Berkeley, California

Prints from the Graphic Arts Workshop, Stanwood Gallery, San Francisco, California

1995 Impressions: The Medium Extended, Pro Arts, Oakland, California

1991 Life Lines, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California

1988 Expressions of the Human Form, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon

1983 On Paper, Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, California

Pulse of the City, Nanny Goat Hill Gallery, San Francisco, California

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Hall Art and Technology Foundation, Alameda, California 2023

SELECTED AWARDS • FELLOWSHIPS • RESIDENCIES

2019 Vittorio, Veneto, Italy Painting Retreat

2018 Cuernavaca, Mexico Painting Retreat

1996 - 2006 Kala Art Institute Printmaking Artist in Residence

1996 Kala Art Institute Printmaking Fellowship

1995 James D. Phelan Award in Print making for

1993 Kala Art Institute Printmaking Residency

SELECTED TALKS

2022 Artists’ Exchange: Art That Heals and Sustains Us, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, California

2021 Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project Carol Benioff Interview
                 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAiyobd53N8&t=3s

2006 Blurring the Boundaries: Combining Traditional and Digital Art Tools, MacWorld,
                 San Francisco, California

Education

Mills College, writing and publishing for children

Limestone Press etching on copper San Francisco, California

California College of Arts and Crafts, photography and painting

Printing apprenticeship Edward McCluney, Jr., Massachusetts College of Art

Painting and drawing Ronald Chase, San Francisco, California 

SELECTED Articles • Reviews • Catalogs • Books

Catalogs:
Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project The Nineties 2023
Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project The Eighties 2022
Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project The Seventies 2021
Carol Benioff Etchings 2020
Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project 2020
Prints without Borders 2003

Articles:
Memory and Illusion, by Carol Stevens, November 1998, Print Magazine 

Reviews:
Under the Surface at Cecile Moochnek, December 1999, Artweek
Mood and Magic at Creative Art Center, January 1984, CN&R

Books:
Painter 10th Edition Wow Book-Printing and Archival Concerns,
by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, published by Peachpit Press, 2012