2010 Giorgi Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Spume, Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Splash, Serpentine, San Francisco, CA
Poesis, Cottage Industry, San Francisco, CA

2007 (Two–man exhibition) Equinox, Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
(Two-man exhibition) Radhus, Tonsberg, Norway

2005 Recent Landscapes, Las Fuentes Villa, Carmel Valley, CA
State of Being, Municipal Building, Raleigh, NC (catalog)

2004 Pan in Arcadia, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA

2002 Recent Painting, Faculty Club, Berkeley, CA

2001 Poetics of Dream, Karpeles Museum, Charleston, SC
Psychologic Paint, Gamil Gallery, Raleigh, NC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2011 Suggestivism, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Group Show, City Hall & Public Library, Chapel Hill, NC

2010 Mischief, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
100 Artists See Satan, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Selections, San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau, CA
Installation, Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, NC
Empty Time, the fridge, Washington, D.C.
Protagonist, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summer Group Show of Gallery Artists, Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
Group Show of Gallery Artists, Terry Martin Gallery, Palm Springs, CA

2009 Odd Nerdrum: Kitsch - mer enn kunst, Telemarksgalleriet, Norway
I’ll Bet You Can’t Paint a Portrait: the Genesis of Bay Area Figurative Art Now, ArtSpace 712, San Francisco, CA
On the Bay in Monterey, Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club, Monterey, CA
Point Lobos Project, Fine Art Base, Sand City, CA

2008 Group Show, ArtZone 461, San Francisco, CA
400 Meter Kunst, Voss, Norway (catalog)
Kitsch Biennale, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany (catalog)

2007 Kitsch, Gallery KS, Tønsbery, Norway
Intimate Landscape,Senson Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz (catalog)

2006 Intimate Landscape, Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA
All Wet, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA

2005 Auto Show, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
My California: Views from the Golden State, National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA
Sirens of the Garden, Tomatofest, Carmel Valley, CA

2004 Art of the Mediterranean Games, Italian Institute of Culture, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
Objects of Obsession, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA
Context, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA

2002 Recent Paintings, Faculty Club, UC Berkeley Campus, Berkeley, CA
Greatest Hits, Gamil Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2001 Small and Miniature Show, Aaron Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Winners’ Circle, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (catalog)

SELECTED STUDIO TRAVEL AND RESIDENCIES

2010-09 Honorary Artist in Residency at the Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club Member, Monterey, CA

2009 May Artist in Residence,Fine Art Base, Sand City, CA

2008 Summer-Winter Studio in Vienna, Austria visits around central Europe and brief studio in Umbria

2008 Late Spring Artist in Residence, Fundacja Nakielska, Naklo Palace, Poland

2008 Spring Artist Retreat, Jackowo Dolne, Poland

2008/2007 Winter Studio, Maison Lafitte, France

2007-2006 Resident Artist and Assistant, Odd Nerdrum Studio Reykjavik, Iceland and Stavern, Norway

2006 Studio in Silverlake, Los Angeles California

2003-2005 Studio in Carmel, California

2001-2003 Studio in Seattle, Washington

1999 Summer Studio Rome, Italy and visits to London

1997-1998 Semester at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Jogykarta Indonesia

1995 Summer Studio Oslo, Norway and visit to Amsterdam

EDUCATION:

1992 – 1995 Studied w/ Plein Air painter, Walter Bartman

1995 - 1999 University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California,
Bachelor of Arts, Dept. of Art Practice,
& PreMed with an emphasis in Neurobiology

2000 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2001 – 2002 Assistant to Gabrielle Bakker, Seattle, Washington

2002 Gage Academy, Seattle, Washington

2004 – 2006 visits to David Ligare’s studio, Salinas, California

2006 – 2008 Apprentice to Odd Nerdrum, Iceland and Norway

SELECTED PRESS:

“Q/A interview with Nathan Spoor” Juxtapose Magazine website, November 2009

“Making Foam” with David Molesky. Juxtapose Magazine. May 7, 2009 (video Making Foam and “foam spume #1)

Spoor, Nathan. “Master & Apprentice Part I & Part II.” ISM Magazine. Spring 2008/issue 14, p. 12-15

Fauntleroy, Gussie. 21 Under 31. Southwest Art Magazine. September 2007, p.135 (Crash, 2006, illustrated in full color)

Galuska, Frank. Intimate Landscape. October 2006, p.29 (Beach Break 2005, illustrated in full color)

Watson, Lisa Crawford. “WaterWorks.” Go! The Monterey County Herald, March 30-April 5, 2006 (Sea Foam #3, 2005. illustrated)

Gangelhoff, Bonnie. Artists to Watch. Southwest Art Magazine. September 2005, p.30 (Monument, 2005, illustrated in full color)

Deragon, Rick. “Be Still My Heart.” Monterey County Weekly. February 2004, p.4 (Polythemus, 2004,
illustrated in full color)

Bible, Adam. Gallery. Spectator, September 6-12, 2000, p.22

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