SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004
Blood, Milk and Water, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2002
The Alchemy Of Devotion, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000
Antidotes, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM
The Last Sunsets Of The 20th Century, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
1998
Before New Mexico/After California: Paintings & Drawings, 1980-1998. Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, CA
1993-1997
Building adobe studio on Cerro Pedernal in New Mexico after move from California. Very little work produced during these three to four years of geographical and professional relocation. Resume painting in late 1997. Continuing to work on the US patented green product PLASPHALT, building plant, office, outreach, marketing and publicity, etc. which prevailed for many years throughout this decade.
1990
Good Wild Sacred, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1989
Good Wild Sacred, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987
Sea Of Clouds What Can I Do, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, CA
1986
Dark Ones, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1985
Cheryl Bowers at Ivory/Kimpton, Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
1983
Red Gate, Kirk deGooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982
Temples, Ian Birksted Gallery, London, England
Ivory/Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 Trial for Passage, Kirk deGooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1980 Work on Paper, Ian Birksted Gallery, London, England
New Work – Cheryl Bowers, Ivory/Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979 The China Poems, Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA· Patricia Hamilton Gallery Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Graffiti, Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA· Grossmont College, San Diego, CA
1978 Egyptian Concolumns, California State University, Hayward, CA
New Work, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
1977 Black Tool Paintings, University of Oregon Art Museum, Eugene
1975 Society for the Encouragement of the Creative Arts (S.E.C.A.) Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1974 String Quartet Performs from The Clay Drawings, Intersection, San Francisco, CA
1973 Spiritual Guide Maps, Malvina Miller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1968 Mendocino Windows, Gallery West, Mendocino, CA
TWO PERSON EXHIBITS
2010TREES Bergman /Walter Nelson, TREES, Greasewood Gallery, Hotel. Marfa, 2000
Ciel Bergman/Shaun Gilmore, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Ciel Bergman: SEA OF CLOUDS WHAT CAN I DO, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno Nevada, Archives of PLASPHALT, September 8-January 6, 2013
2011
In The Presence of Trees, Ucross Foundation Gallery, Claremont, WYO
ECO-ART, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland February4-May 29 Jan-Erik Andersson, Joyce Cutler Shaw, Agnes Denes, Chris Drury, Michael Flomen, Andy Goldsworthy, Helen and Newton Harrison, Ichi Ikeda, Richard Misrach, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, and Alan Sonfist. Curator Pia Hovi-Assad, with guest curators John K. Grands (Canada) and Peter Selz (USA) Catalogue, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
MNEOSYNING, Timisoara Art Museum, Timisoara, Romania, invitational international visual artists exhibition of photography, painting, drawing. Curated by Elisabeth Ochensenfeld.
2009
Selections From The Berkus Collection, Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA
2008
Place In Time, Contemporary Landscape, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA (catalogue)
GOLD, An Invitational Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe NM
Women’s Work, Four Painters, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2003
Duct and Cover, The Santa Fe Art Institute, NM
2002
Women Beyond Borders, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Representing Landscape, UCSD Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2001
SITE Unseen 2 (benefit), James Kelly/Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Originals, New Mexico Women Artists, National Museum of Women in the Arts
The Harwood Museum, September-November, Taos, NM
The Necessary Beauty, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000
WBB, Greece, United Kingdom, Singapore
1999
Before/Now, Images of the self, past and present, Bergamot Station T2, Santa Monica.
WBB, Terry, Tokyo, Japan; Sydney, Australia; Saigon; Vietnam; Ireland
1998
The Art of Drawing, James Kelly Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Trees & Faces, Santa Fe International Academy of Art, NM
WBB, Katmandu, Nepal; Toronto, Canada; Havana, Cuba; Oaxaca, Mexico
1997
Women/Beyond Borders, traveling worldwide, 200 women artists from 20countries, Kenya National Museum, Gallery of Contemporary East African Art, Nairobi, Kenya; Extra Menial-Arte Modern, Toddy, Italy; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden; United Kingdom
1996
Flower Power, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA
Women/Beyond Borders, traveling ICC Contemporary, Jerusalem, Israel; The Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria; Spain
1995
Celebration, La Galleria Arriba, Abiquiu, NM
Women/Beyond Borders (premier exhibition), Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, CACatalogue.
Scissors, Paper, Stone: Nine Women Working, Santa Maria Museum Art Center, CA
Verde Que Te Quiero Verde, joint exhibition of artists from Spain/United States, California State University, Long Beach. Catalogue.
Flora: Contemporary Artists and the World of Flowers, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, traveling to Art Museum of Southeast Texas; New Mexico Museum of Natural History; Gibbes Museum, NC; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, TN. Catalogue and curated by Thomas Garver
1994
Just Friends, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Selected Antidote Drawings, Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Romantic Modernism, Santa Fe Museum of Art, NM
1993
The Sacred in the Arts, Synod Hall, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
Excellence Has No Gender, Barbara Warwick Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992
Arte Actual de Los Angeles: Obras sobre Pape, 31 Artistas-Profesores Californianos, Departmento de Didactica de la Expresion Plastica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
An Issue of Water, Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV. Catalogue
Dreams and Shields, Spiritual Dimensions in Contemporary Art, Salt Lake Art Center, UT . Catalogue and curated by Frank MacEntire
1991
Challenging Myths – Five Artists, Bakersfield Art Museum, CA
Santa Barbara Artists I, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Trees, Warwick Gallery, Seattle, WA
Faculty Exhibition, UCSB Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
1990
Memory – Kevin Beer, Ciel Bergman, Terry Robertson, Masako Takahashi – Tokoro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cultural Imperatives in the Ecological Age, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
On Paper Gallery II, Man and Nature, a communication for peace, with an appreciation by Paul Winter, the second in a thematically linked book of postcards, mailed worldwide; published in Tokyo, Japan, invitational
Garbage Out Front, A New Era of Public Design, the New York City Municipal Art Society, NY
1989
Revelations – The Transformative Impulse in Recent Art, Aspen Art Museum, CO
Bold Strokes and Quiet Gestures: 20th Century Works on Paper, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Faculty Exhibition, UCSB Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Private Reserve: Important Work by Artists Represented by the Gallery, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Passages: A Survey of California Women Artists, 1945 to the Present; the Years of Passage: 1969-1975, Fresno Art Center and Museum, CA
Diversity and Presence, Women Artist Faculty of the University of California, travel to six campuses. Catalogue
Women’s Sensibilities, National Juried Exhibition, WARM Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. Catalogue
1985
A City Collects, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
X-Change, Celebrating Art Made Out-of-the-Mainstream, traveling, Anchorage, AK and Moscow IDCatalogue
New Directions/California Painting 198C, Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, AK
Faculty Exhibition, UCSB Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
D’Annunzio Project, collaboration with 16 painters and sculptors, Oranges & Sardines, Los Angeles, CA
Biennale des Friedens, Skulpturen, Bilder, Mailart, Video, Akustische Objekte, Installationen, Kunsthaus und Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
To the Astonishing Horizon, Los Angeles Design Center, CA
From Avery to Zuburan – A New View of the Permanent Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Santa Barbara Landscape, College of Creative Studies, UCSB, CA
Watercolor: A Contemporary Survey, San Diego State University, CA
1983
National Print Invitational, University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI
By the Sea, Paintings and Sculptures by Invited Artists, Meredith Niles Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
History Painting Today, Ian Birksted Gallery, London, England
Of This Time, of That Place, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
1982
Fresh Paint – 15 California Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1981
Work on Paper, Ian Birksted Gallery, London, England
San Francisco Art Institute Alumni Exhibition, throughout The City, CA
1980
Work on Paper, Ian Birksted Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1979
Lithographs, Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA
Chroma, Cedar/Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Santa Barbara Artists, Invitational, CAF, Santa Barbara, CA
1978
Abstract Drawing, Baum/Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Various Directions, Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1977
Crimes of Passion, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington
Three California Artists, Florida Institute of Technology, Orlando
1976
Visiting Artists, Worth Ryder Gallery, UCB, Berkeley, CA
Oakland ’76, Oakland Museum of California Art
18 Bay Area Artists, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
Three Bay Area Artists, University Art Museum, UC, Riverside, CA
1975
Whitney Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and
Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Bowers, Gonzales, Voulkos, Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Interstices, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
KQED Art Auction (juried), Crown Zellerbach, San Francisco, CA
Achenbach Invitational Drawing Show, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1974
Drawings from the Gallery, Malvina Miller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Black and White: A Drawing Show, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, Capricorn Asunder, CA
MFA Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1973
Toys by Artists, New Museum of Modern Art, Oakland, CA; John Doyle Gallery, Chicago,
Women from the Permanent Collection, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Christmas Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Recent Acquisitions, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Davidson National Print and Drawing Competition, Juror C. Greenberg, NC
National Drawing Competition, Juror Larry Rivers, NY
Lithographs, Kiko Gallery, Houston, TX
1972
Ninth Annual Small Drawing and Sculpture Exhibition, Bellingham, WA
1971
KQED Competition, John Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1969
Invitational, Honors Award, Jack London Group Show, Oakland, CA
EDUCATION
1973 MFA, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, with honors
Audit Graduate Seminars with Robert Hudson, UCB
1972 Extended conversation with Georgia O’Keeffe, Abiquiú, NM(5 hours together)
Audit Graduate Seminars with Peter Plagens, Robert Hudson, UCB
1964-1967 Private Study: Peter Blos, Vincent Perez, C.C.A.C
1960-1964 Lived in Germany, traveled extensively throughout Europe studying major works in museums England, France, Italy, and Switzerland
1956-1959 RN, Psychiatry, Santa Rosa School of Nursing, CA
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