Ciel Bergman
Ciel Bergman is represented by:
R.B. Stevenson Gallery
in La Jolla, California USA
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Ciel Bergman has exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at galleries and museums
in San Diego, La Jolla, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Brussels and London. Her
work is in number of public and private collections, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Santa Barbara Museum and The Orange County Museum of Art,
The San Diego Museum of Contemporary of Art, Several corporate collections hold work: The Gap, The
Capitol Group, Banco di Rome, Bank of America, Sax Fifth Avenue,and Atlantic Richfield among others.
Formerly, Cheryl Bowers, she was born in Berkeley, California, grew up during the early atomic decade
decade and graduated with a major in History from Berkeley High School in 1956. These formative years
provided frequent visits to the Brundage Collection at the De Young Museum which deeply influenced her
with the rich Asian aesthetic of the Pacific Basin cultures. Bergman graduated from the San Francisco Art
Institute with honors in 1973: MFA in Painting.
SELECTED 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 |
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The Last Sunset 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 in New Mexico after move from California. Very little work produced during these |
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three to four years of geographical and professional relocation. Resumepainting in late 1997. |
| 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 A ngeles, CA |
| 1982 |
Temples, Ian Birksted Gallery, London, England |
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Temples, Ivory/Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1981 |
Trial for Passage, Kirk deGooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
| 2011 |
GALLERY SELECTIONS 2011, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA |
| 2008 |
Place in Time, Scripps College, Claremont, CA. catalogue |
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Women's Work, Four Painters, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA |
| 2006 |
The Barry Berkus and Family Art Collection, Channing Peake Galler, Santaa Barbara, CA. County Arts Commission. catalogue |
| 2003 |
Duct and Cover, The Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, MN |
| 2002 |
Women Beyond Border, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA |
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Representing Landscape, UCSD Art Gallery, San Diego, CA |
| 2001 |
SITE Unseen 2 (benefit), James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
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Originals, New Mexico Women Artists, National Museum of Women in the Arts The Harwood Museum, Sep-Nov, Taos, NM |
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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, CA |
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WBB, Tenryu, Tokyo, Japan; Sydney, Australia; Saigon; Vietnam; ireland |
| 1998 |
The Art of Drawing, James Kelly Contemporary Art Santa Fe, NM |
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Trees & Faces, Santa Fe International Academy of Art, Santa Fe, NM |
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WBB, Katmandu, Nepal; Toronto, Canada; Havana, Cuba; Oaxaca, Mexico |
| 1997 |
Women/Beyond Borders, traveling worldwide, 200 women artists from 20 countries, Kenya National Museum, |
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Gallery of Contemporary East Africa Art, Nairobi, Kenya; Extra Moenia Arte Moderna, Todi Italy ;Kulturhuset, Stockholm, |
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Sweden; United Kingdom |
| 1996 |
Flower Power, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA |
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Women/Beyond Borders, traveling ICC Contemporary, Jerusalen, Israel; The Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria; Spain |
| 1995 |
Celebration, La Galeria Arriba, Abiquiu, NM |
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Women/Beyond Borders (Premier Exhibition), Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, CA |
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Scissors, Paper, Stone, Nine Women Working, Santa Maria Museum Art Center, CA |
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Verde Que Te Quiero Verde, Joint exhibition of artists from Spain/United State, California State University,Long Beach, CA |
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Flora, Contemporary Artists and the World of Flowers, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museumtraveling to Art Museum of Southeast |
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Texas, New Mexico Museum of Natural History; Gibbes Museum, NC; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, TN (catalogue) |
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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Oakland Museum of California Art,, CA |
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA |
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San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, CA |
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Orange County Museum of Art, CA |
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The Auchenbach Foundation, Palace Legion of Honor, CA |
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Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art |
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The National Gallery, Washington, DC (prints) |
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA |
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Museum of Modern Art (Eye Magazine), New York City, NY |
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Whitney Museum of American Art (Eye Magazine), New York City, NY |
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The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, FL |
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The University Art Museum, UCSB, CA |
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University Art Museum, UCB, CA |
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Richard L. Nelson Fine Art Collection, UCD, CA |
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University of Washington, Bellingham, WA |
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Contemporary Arts Society of Great Britain |
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New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, NM |
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
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Atlantic Richfield |
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Banco di Roma |
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Sax Fifth Avenue |
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Bank of America |
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The Capitol Group |
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Security Pacific National |
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R.B. Stevenson Gallery |
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Private collections in California, New York, Colorado, Illinois, Washington DC, |
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Belgium, England, Japan and Hawaii. |
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