BIO

Squeak Carnwath was born in 1947 in Abington, Pennsylvania. She has been an artist since age six, and an educator since she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1977. Before receiving her degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Carnwath attended Goddard College in Vermont. She exhibits regularly in several cities in the United States: in San Francisco at John Berggruen Gallery, in Seattle at James Harris Gallery, in Boston at Nielsen Gallery, and in Kansas City at Byron Cohen Gallery. Carnwath’s work is regularly included in group shows in galleries and museums throughout the United States including a mid career traveling museum exhibit in 1994.

Carnwath’s first university teaching position in 1982 was at UC Berkeley. A year later, she successfully applied for a tenure-track position at UC Davis, where she taught for fifteen years. In 1998, Carnwath returned to the Berkeley campus as Professor in Residence in the Department of Art Practice. Carnwath is currently a tenured Professor of Art Practice at UC Berkeley.

Carnwath’s accomplishments have been recognized with numerous grants and awards, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s 1980 SECA award, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Flintridge Foundation award in 2002. She has also completed residencies at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, and at Djerassi in Woodside, California. Her paintings are held in museums and private collections internationally. Her work has been the subject of articles in major periodicals, including ARTnews, Artforum, and the New York Times. A monograph with nearly one hundred color reproductions of her paintings, Squeak Carnwath: Lists, Observations, & Counting, was published in 1996 by Chronicle Books.

Shows in 2011 include an exhibition of new paintings at Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, California, and an exhibition at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, California. In addition, she has recently had solo exhibitions at Gail Severn Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and JCM Art Gallery in San Marcos, Texas, and a twenty-year survey of Carnwath’s work at the Oakland Museum of California with accompanying catalog.
 

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