NAOKO HARUTA Born: Fukuoka, Japan SELECTED EXHIBITIONS "Cheers & Incantations," Encantada Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2006 "Four person Show," Unity Café, San Francisco, CA, 2006 "Circle of Ten," Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, 2005 "Inaugural Show," Axe Cultural Center, Oakland, CA, 2005 "Crossing Bridges," CBS MarketWatch.com, San Francisco, CA, 2004 "AAWAA Juried Exhibition," d.p.Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA, 2004 "The SF Bay Area Artists," Pieces Gallery, Healdsburg, CA, 2003 "Making Their Mark," SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA, 2003 "Samplings from AAWAA," Asian American Women Artists, San Pablo ArtsGallery, San Pablo, CA, 2002 "Life or …?Visions of the Hopi Prophecy," Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2002 "Oakland Portraits: Then and Now, 1852-2002," City of Oakland Craft & Cultural Arts Gallery,Oakland, CA, 2002 "Crossing Bridges I & II," CBS MarketWatch.com, San Francisco, CA, 2001 "Naoko Haruta: Recent Works," Gallery on the Rim, San Francisco, CA, 2000 "A-Un: Cosmic Heartbeat, Four Japanese Women Artists," Gallery on the Rim San Francisco, CA, 2000 "Cultural Crossroads: Women Artists Converge," June Steingart Gallery," Laney College, Oakland, CA, 1997 "Motion in Stillness:Three Contemporary Japanese Artists," Gallery on the Rim, San Francisco, CA, 1996 "Naoko Haruta:Trees #1-75," Gallery on the Rim, San Francisco, CA, 1994 "Alumni Exhibition," June Steingart Gallery, Laney College, Oakland, CA, 1994 "California Artists Celebrate Los Angeles," Rachele Lozzi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,1993-94 "Two person Show", Theo's, Palo Alto, CA, 1993 PUBLICATIONS "Life, Instant and Duration in the Painting of Naoko Haruta, Occasions of Happiness: Essays in Philosophy, Poetry, Literature, and Art, by Steve Light (Forthcoming) "Root, Sign, Solarity: Naoko Haruta and the Arboreal Imagination," Occasions of Happiness: Essays in Philosophy, Poetry, Literature and Art, by Steve Light (Forthcoming) "Going through the Motions: Four Japanese Artists Explore The Movement of Life and Death," by Calvin Liu, Asianweek, April 15, 1999 "Haruta's Works in 'Motion in Stillness'" Hokubei Mainichi, December 7, 1996 "Art Notes," by Monifa Love, International Quarterly, Vol. II, Nos. 1-2, 1995 "Haruta Naoko at the Gallery on the Rim," by Reena Jana, Asian Art News, September-October, 1994 "Acrylic Paintings by Haruta, Brown at Gallery on the Rim," Nichibei Times, June 23, 1994 EDUCATION California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA,B.F.A. Painting, 1986 Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy, Painting and Art History, 1984-85 Studio of Chiura Obata, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, CA Japanese Brush Painting, 1980-84 INDEPENDENT STUDY Painting/Art History, Paris, France, April- August, 1990 TEACHING Japanese Brush Painting at Studio One Art Center, Oakland, CA, 2001 Painting at Sausalito Parks and Recreation Art Center, Sausalito, CA, 2001 Website design by HYPERSPHERE ©2006 Naoko Haruta. All rights reserved.