WARD SCHUMAKER
Lives and works in San Francisco
Ward Schumaker’s work has appeared in over 150 periodicals, including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New Yorker, Esquire Japan, and Le Figaro. He has illustrated two limited edition letterpress books for the famed Yolla Bolly Press: Two Kitchens in Provence by MFK Fisher, and Paris France by Gertrude Stein. His work on the Stein book won a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators. He has received awards from the AIGA, CA Illustration/Design Annuals, Print Magazine, Graphis and American Illustration. His work has been the subject of articles in Communication Arts, Print, Step-by-Step, Design Journal (Korea), and Portfolio (Japan). With the Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, he received a Federal Design Achievement Award. The artist lives and works in San Francisco with his wife, artist Vivienne Flesher.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Fashion and Logic: Recent Paintings, George Lawson Gallery; San Francisco
2008 Saved!; Townsend Center, UC Berkeley; Berkeley, CA
Books and Drawings; Meridian Gallery; San Francisco
2007 I Am Big Heaven; Stir Gallery; Shanghai, China
2005 Grace; Zeitgeist Gallery; Nashville, TN
2004 Pretty; Seam; San Francisco
2000 Gertrude Stein’s Paris France; Moe’s Books; Berkeley, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 California Summer; George Lawson Gallery; San Francisco
Selected of the Selected; Korean Cultural Center; Los Angeles, CA (juried invitational)
Appropriations, Rebekah Jacob Gallery; Charleston, SC
2009 Ward Schumaker (Paintings), Hillard Architects, Inc. and Gallery; San Francisco
2009 Selected Drawings, George Lawson Gallery; San Francisco
2008 Stir Gallery; Shanghai, China
Works on Paper; Zeitgeist Gallery; Nashville, TN
2006 Salon; Exploding Head; Sacramento, CA
X Libris; San Francisco Center for the Book; San Francisco
23rd Annual; Berkeley Art Center; Berkeley, CA
Surface Tension; Korean Cultural Center; Los Angeles, CA
Picture Mechanics; Zeitgeist Gallery; Nashville, TN
2005 The Shape of Words; Exploding Head Gallery; Sacramento, CA
2004 Picture Mechanics; Exploding Head Gallery; Sacramento, CA
Dialogue; Pete & Susan Barrett Gallery; Santa Monica, CA
Detail; Zeitgeist Gallery; Nashville, TN
2003 Switchyard; Zeitgeist Gallery; Nashville, TN
Picture Mechanics; Zeitgeist Gallery; Nashville, TN
2002 Picture Mechanics; 69A Gallery; San Francisco
Public and Academic Collections
Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Boston Public Library
California Poly State University
California State Library
California State University, Hayward
California State University, Chico
Claremont College
Indiana University
Kansas State University
Los Angeles Public Library
Miami University Library (OH)
New York Public Library
Occidental College
University of Alberta (Canada)
University of Buffalo
University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library
University of California, Irving
University of California, Los Angeles Library
University of California, Riverside
University of California, San Diego
University of Iowa
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Missouri, Kansas City
University of North Carolina
University of San Francisco, Gleeson Library
University of Southern California
University of Utah
San Jose State University Library
Scripps College, Denison Library
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
Wake Forest University