Christel Dillbohner Works Biography
1956 Born in Köln (Cologne), Germany
1978-84 Studied painting with professors Renate Lewandowsky and Karl Marx atthe Cologne Art School, Kölner Werkschule, Germany
1984 Received Masters of Fine Art degree
1987 Moved to Venice, California
1996 Moved to the San Francisco Bay Area
Solo Exhibitions – selected
2009 Ice Floe – site specific installation at ICA, San Jose, CA
2008 Topographies, Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA
observations/impressions, Don Soker Contemporary Art
2007 An den Ufern der Zeit, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Skimming the Surface, Monterey Art Museum, CA
New Assemblages, AURA, Nagoya, Japan
2006 Nach der Natur, Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2005 Histologies, Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID, 2004
2004 Burn Marks and Incisions, Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2003 Off Balance Clemson University, South Carolina
2002 Atmospheric Disturbances Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Components NOB Gallery, Okasaki /Nagoya, Japan
2001 Repository – A Collection of Familiar Curiosities, Fresno Art Museum, CA
2000 About Sippwells and Other Places – Part III Suyama Space, Seattle, WA
Part II Ellen Kim Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, Part I Gallery Naito, Mizunami/Gifu Pref.Japan
1999 Under the Hill Gallery Hirawata, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Beyond the Visible Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
1997 New Work Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA
1996 Scavenger’s Dreaming University Gallery, Reno, NV
1995 Eintragungen aus dem Logbuch Burda Holding, München, Germany
1994 New Work SPACE, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Gathering Time – Finding Continuity West Gallery, Graduate School, Claremont, CA
Über das Sammeln von Honig – The Honey Gatherers SPACE, Los Angeles, CA
1991 navigare necesse est Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1987 By The Pool SITE, Culver City, CA
Brooklyn ’86 Swimming Pool Cafe, Rheinberg, Germany
1986 Vögel fressen keine Steine Hahnentorburg, Cologne, Germany
1983 The Visit Cafe Mondrian, Moers, Germany
Collaborations:
2010 Inter Spacing – Inscenierung mit Zwischenräumen with Susanne Schossig at Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, October 2010
2009 GE – Zeiten with Susanne Schossig, Hafenmuseum Bremen, Germany
2004 Elemente der Zeit – Stille und bewegte Bilder mit Inge Kamps, BBK Köln, Germany
2003 mit Seiji Kunishima, Galerie Reinfeld Bremen, Germany
1998 Lob des Schattens Seven Installations, Deutzer Brücke, Köln, Germany
Field Work with Lothar Schmitz at El Camino College, Torrance, CA
1994 Transformer: A Change of Past Perceptions with Manfred Müller
Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA and Open Space, Victoria, B.C.
1990 Paradise Oasis Real Estate Office G.Leson, N.Woodson, I.Ivanick, SPARC, Venice, CA
Group Exhibitions – selected
2009 Out of Bounds: Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky Whatcom Museum, Bellingham. WA
2008 SPACE Gallery, Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, CA
2006 International Women’s Exhibition, Schneider Museum, Ashland, OR
2005 Derivations from – Meditations on Landscape curated by Josine Ianco Starrels, Schneider Museum, Ashland, OR
2004 Bytes and Pieces: The Art of Contemporary Collage, ICA, San Jose, CA
2002 0203 – small sculptures Gallery Hirawata, Fujisawa, Japan
2001 Traces Palo Alto Arts Center, Palo Alto, CA
2000 Paper Rock Scissors, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 At the Millenium: Contemporary Painting Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
1997 Viaggiatori / Travelers Campo d’Osservazione, Gubbio, Italy
The 6th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition UH Manoa, Hawaii
1996 Skin and Bone Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
Between Mind and Soul: A Dialogue Revealed Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO
1995 Libros de Artistas Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
Vested Powers: Icons of Domination and Transcendence CSU Fullerton, CA
1994 Continuing Tradition Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York
1992 (basically) BLACK & WHITE Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1991 Personal Reflections Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Changing Summer Show Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 Newcomers 1990 Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Köln Kunst II Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne, Germany
1987 Group show Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 BBK Landesausstellung Nordrhein-Westfalen Spinnerei, Bielefeld, Germany
1985 Köln Kunst I Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne, Germany
1984 Der Weg lohnt sich Villa Engelhardt, Düsseldorf, Germany
1983 Germination II Opening of Traveling Show at the Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
1982 Public Mural Project – Old Water Tower, Cologne, Germany
Catalogs/Publications – selected
2010 Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility, Daniella Woolf
2009 geZeiten, Hafenmuseum Bremen, Germany (monograph)
2007 Searching for Sebald, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, CA
An den Ufern der Zeit – at the shores of time, Fresno Art Museum (monograph)
2000 About Sippwells and Other Places, Suyama Space, Seattle (monograph)
1997 Bataille’s Eye, ICI Field Notes 4, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Santa Monica, CA