Curriculum Vitae

Education

1972 M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1970 B.A, San Diego State College, San Diego, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Sloan Miyasato, Kathleen Larisch:Paintings, San Francisco, CA

2010 Juliet Studio/Gallery, Kathleen Larisch: Paintings and Prints, Ross, CA

2005 b. sakata garo, Kathleen Larisch: New Work, Sacramento, CA

2005 Sloan Miyasato, Kathleen Larisch: Blossom Series, San Francisco, CA

2001 b. sakata garo, Kathleen Larisch, Sacramento, CA

1999 SFMOMA Rental Gallery, Kathleen Larisch, San Francisco, CA

1993 SFMOMA Rental Gallery, Kathleen Larisch, San Francisco, CA

1985 Pacific Basin Gallery, Floor to Ceiling, Berkeley, CA

1977 San Marco Gallery, Torsos, Dominican College, San Raphael, CA

1972 Isabelle Percy Gallery, Thesis Exhibit, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

8th Mondial de l’Estampe et de la Gravure Originale –Triennale de Chamalieres, Gallerie d’Art Contemporain, Chamalieres, France, 2010

Adorned Cloth: Contemporary Surface Design in Fiber Art, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA, 2009

Five Plus Five, Bruce Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA 1999

Director’s Choice, I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA, 1999

Landscape Fictions, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1998

Private Worlds and Feats of Clay, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1998

The Search For Order, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1997

Function: Painting and Raku, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1997

Transcendent Reflection, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1997

Subjective Reality, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1996

Impression and Expression, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1995

Defining Context, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1994

Visual Traditions, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1994

Hybridization: Contemporary Northern California Crafts, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, Oakland, CA, 1993

The Tea Show, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1993

Cultural Fragments, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1993

Markings and Ideas: Drawings, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1993

In Black and White, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1992

Fiction/Nonfiction, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1991

Crossing Dimensions, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1990

Totems, Icons & Artifacts, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1989

The Mythic Impulse, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1989

Surface Design, Textiles, Gensler and Associates, San Francisco, CA, 1986

CCAC Crafts Faculty Show, Victor Fischer Gallery, Oakland, CA, 1986

Lighting, Seating, and Floor Covering, California Craft Museum, San Francisco, CA, 1986

First California Textile Show, Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA, 1984

Textile Exhibit, Fine Art Gallery, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA, 1983

Second Annual Designer Show, Santa Fe Crossing, Berkeley, CA, 1982

Pacific Basin Faculty, California Medical Association Lobby, San Francisco, CA, 1982

Designs of Berkeley, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA, 1982

Art To Wear, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 1982

Pacific Basin, Alta Bates Community Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1979

Women Photograph Men, Pace College Art Gallery, N.Y., New York, curated traveling exhibit, 1978

Women Photograph Men, Canon House, San Francisco, CA, 1978

Works By Members of Pacific Basin School of Textile Arts and Atelier, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 1978.

Invitational Exhibit, Hayward Area Festival of the Arts, Centennial Hall, Hayward, CA, 1977

Breadth of Vision: Portfolios of Women Photographers, Fashion Institute of Technology, N.Y., New York, 1975

Photo Flo:New Dimensions, Women’s InterArt Center, N.Y, New York, 1975

Media ’72, A Western States Crafts Competition, Walnut Creek Civic Center, Walnut Creek, CA, 1972

Teaching

2017, Professor Emeritus, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

1985-2016, California College of the Arts, Associate Professor, Oakland, CA

1985-1986, California College of the Arts, Assistant Professor, Oakland, CA

1973-1985, California College of the Arts, Lecturer

1977-1983, Chabot Community College, Instructor, Hayward, CA

1976-1986, Pacific Basin School of Textile Arts, Instructor and Surface Design Chair/Administrator, Berkeley, CA

COLLECTIONS

Gallerie d'Art Contemporain, Chamalières, France

Numerous private national and international collections

Reviews, Interviews, Publications

The Sacramento Bee, Floor To Ceiling, reviewed by Ellen Schlesinger, April 11, 1985

Pacific Basin Current, Kathleen Larisch: a Personal Point of View, interview by Teliha Draheim, Fall 1983

Independent Journal, Art Review: ‘Torsos’ as Form, Landscape, reviewed by Ada Garfinkel, February 8, l977

Women Photograph Men, Wm. Morrow Publishers, 1977, published photograph