Resume

Barbara Van Arnam

 Barbara Van Arnam is an artist who lives and works in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains east of Fresno, California. Working in two and three dimensional format, she employs oils, acrylics, inks, pigments, and a combination of found materials from nature to produce enigmatic work that speaks to the fragile nature of life while also addressing that tenacious strength which binds all living organisms in Nature.

An award winning artist, Van Arnam’s work has been exhibited in the Cedar City Art Museum, Utah, the Alexandria Art Museum, Louisiana, and the Fresno Art Museum, California, as well as in locations throughout the United States and Russia. The artist is a member of the co-operative Gallery 25 in Fresno, California, and has had thirteen paintings published by Papier-Mache Press to fully illustrate Full Moon; Reflections on Turning Fifty, by author Susan Carol Hauser.

Group Exhibitions
2010 Millennium Hotel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
         Merced Multi-Cultural Center, Merced California
         Gallery 10 Ltd., Washington D.C.
         Kings Art Center, Hanford, California
2009 Fresno City Hall
         Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, California
         5Art, Tampa, Florida
2008 Gallery 25, Fresno, California
         Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
2007 Arte Americas Museum, Fresno, California
2005, 2004 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
2004 Fresno City Hall
         Gallery 25, Fresno, California
2003 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
         Long Beach Arts Center, Long Beach, California
2002 Gallery 25, Fresno, California
2001 Ruud Studio, Fresno, California
         Gallery 25, Fresno, California
2000 Touring Exhibit – Sterlitamak, Ufa, Ekaterinburg, Moscow, Russia
         Braithwaite Gallery, Cedar City, Utah
1999 Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, California
1998 Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
         Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
         Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana
         Braithwaite Gallery, Cedar City, Utah
1997 Yosemite Museum, Yosemite, California
         Merced College, Merced, California
         C.L. Clark Galleries, Bakersfield, California
         Braithwaite Gallery, Cedar City, Utah
1996 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
         Circle Gallery, Madera, California
1995 Yosemite Museum, Yosemite, California
1994 Long Beach Arts Center, Long Beach, California
1993 Fresno City College, Fresno, California
         C.L. Clark Galleries, Bakersfield, California
1992 Genesis Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
         C.L. Clark Galleries, Bakersfield, California
1991 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
         Helio Gallery, New York, New York
1990 Ariel Gallery, New York, New York
         John Michael Kohler Arts, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
         Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, California
         Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
         Helio Gallery, New York, New York
1989 Long Beach Arts Center, Long Beach, California
         Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas

Catalogues and Publications
2010 Natural Passages, Fresno Art Museum
2008 Preview, Fresno Art Museum
2004 Jewish Origins of Christianity, Dr. Raymond Fischer, Israel
2002 Preview, Fresno Art Museum
1998 Texas National ’98, Stephen Austin University
         Cover & Interior art, 1998 Calendar, Papier-Mache Press
1996 Cover & Interior art, Full Moon by Susan Hauser, Papier-Mache Press
1995 Cover Art, In the Garden of our Own Making by Barbara Sperber, Papier-Mache Press
         Yosemite Renaissance X, CD-ROM
1992 California Works, California State Fair
1991 Next Wave, Fresno Art Museum
1989 Collage Works International
         Artists of Central and Northern California