SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2010
Profound Intimacies, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2007
Slate Paintings, Okamura Gallery, Kochi, Japan.
2006
Slate Paintings, Okamura Gallery, Kochi, Japan.
2005
Slate Paintings, Okamura Gallery, Kochi, Japan.
1997
Recent Work, Sun Cities Museum of Art, Sun City, AZ.
1995
Passages, Gallery on The Rim, San Francisco, CA.
RECENT COMMISSIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
2013
MESSENGER, 78” x 76” x 10”, DIVER, 52” x 70” x 12”, 577 Second Street, first and second floor lobbies, San Francisco, CA.
2008
GUARDIAN, 73” x 72” 76”, bronze, private residence, East Coast.
SELECTED GROUP & INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2015
Disruption, Grounds for Sculpture sculpture park, Hamilton, NJ. (2015-2016)
Magic Carpet Ride, curated by Peter Selz. Yianna Grammatopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece.
New Year Group Show, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2014
In 3-D, Ark Gallery, curated by Donna Napper, Curator at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.
Sculpture!, curated by John Toki, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA.
Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco Art Fair, STAR (Hunters Point Artists) Booth, curated by Robert Flynn Jonson, Curator Emeritus of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Mateo CA.
12 x 12 x (12), The Cabrillo Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos.
2012
San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Summer Breeze: James Watts & Maria Lobo, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Show, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011
Group Show, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
Landscapes, Y2K Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Metal vs. Wood, Crucible Cathedral Gallery, Oakland, CA.
2009
Modest Masterpieces, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005
The Edge II, Seigo, curator, Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan.
2004
The Edge, Seigo, curator, Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan.
2003
The Art of Zyzzyva: Works by Baldessari, Brown, Carnwath, Dater, Diebenkorn, Gutmann, Koolish, Kremer, Lobdell, McCall, Oropallo, Watts, and Wiley, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Private Reception for Suzi Gabilick, with Maya Cain, G2 building, San Francisco, CA.
2002
James Watts and Linda Geary, CPF Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2000
Of Nature Of, Arena Gallery, Chicago, Ill.
Netcentives.Com Corporate Headquarters, San Francisco, CA.
1999
New Talent Invitational, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, New York.
Before The Fall, group sculpture Show, TERRAIN Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Recent Works by Alumni, Founder’s Day exhibition, Oliver Arts Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA.
1998
Forms: Recent Bay Area Sculpture, TERRAIN Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
4th Annual Yerba Buena Gardens Gallery Walk Sculpture Show, Peter Wright, curator, San Francisco, CA.
Unseen Realms, Fiona Hammer, curator, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, New York.
1996
Myths, Milagros and Magic, Fiona Hammer, curator, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, New York.
Land, Sea, and Dreamscapes, Bonnie Charkey and Sharon Lachow, curators, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, New York.
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2014
Sculpture!, Pacific Rim Sculptors, John Toki, juror, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA.
2009
The Healing Power Of Art, Manhattan Arts International Online gallery, 12/7/08-3/31/09. Renee Phillips, Edward Rubin, Jane M. St. Lifer, ASA, Jurors.
2002
Expo XXI , B. J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, New York. Juror: Dana Miller, Ass. Curator, Whitney Museum of Art.
1997
Expo XVI, B. J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, New York. Juror: Carrie Rebora, Ass. Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1996
Art Communication International Juried CD-Rom Collection. Jurors: Ivan C. Karp of O.K. Harris Gallery, Claudia Stone of the Allan Stone Gallery, Pamela Auchincloss of the Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Angelos Camillos of Kourus Gallery, Katherine Gass of Curt Marcus Gallery, Jeffrey Hoffeld of the Knoedler Gallery, David S. Rubin, Curator of 20th Century Art at the Phoenix Art Museum, Sidney Goodman, James Harvard, Ben Kamihira, Burt Chernow.
Liberation By Seeing, The Third Exhibition of Contemporary Buddhist Art, Gold Ridge Sangha and Wilson Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA.
1993
Drawing First, Southern Exposure Gallery. Juror: Anne Philbin, Director, Drawing Center in New York.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2009
The Healing Power Of Art, Manhattan Arts International Online gallery, Honorable Mention, Renee Phillips, Edward Rubin, Jane M. St. Lifer, ASA, Jurors.
1993
Gold Award, Art of California Magazine Discovery Awards 1992. Awarded by Robert Barrett, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Fresno Art Museum; Michael Botwinick, Director, Newport Harbor Museum; Dyana Curreri Chadwick, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs, California College of Arts and Crafts.
1992
Bronze Award, Art of California Magazine Discovery Awards 1992. Awarded by Manuel Neri, sculptor and painter; Henry T. Hopkins, Dir. UCLA Wright Art gallery; Philip Lahares, Chief Curator of Art, Oakland Museum; Juanita Purner, NEA curatorial Fellow, San Diego Museum of Art.
1979
California College of Arts and Crafts Scholarship of Merit, awarded by the painting department
1978
San Francisco Academy of Art Summer Scholarship Program, awarded in painting and drawing.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Sun Cities Museum of Art, Sun City, Arizona
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Watts’ Enigmas, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/11/2010
Commissions In Brief, Sculpture Magazine, March, 2009
Where’s Everyone Going?, Atsushi Aoki, The Edge II Catalogue Essay, 2005.
Kunst ist…, The Edge Catalogue, 2004
Expo XXI Winners, Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, March 23, 2002
B J Spoke Expo Winners Named, George Wallace, The Northport Journal, March 21, 2002
Museum Musings, Alec C. Wagner, San Francisco Frontiers News Magazine, Oct. 8,1998.
Claiming Mass Produced Items For The Realm Of Expression, Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, 3/16/97.
Rethinking Beauty, Pierre Delattre. Catalog Essay, 1996
The Third Annual Discovery Awards, Art of California Magazine, December/January, 1993-4
Nine Artists at Ward-Nasse, Art Speak, New York, March, 1992
The Second Annual Discovery Awards, The Art of California Magazine, December / January, 1992-3.
California Works, Catalog, California State Fair, 1988
New Talents on The Gallery Scene, Ada Garfinckel, Marin Independent Journal, September 24, 1980.
EDUCATION
1977-79
B.F.A., Painting, California College of Arts and Crafts.
1978
San Francisco Academy of Art Summer Scholarship Program.
1973-77
B.A., Italian Renaissance history, University of California, Berkeley.
1974
University of Michigan-Sarah Lawrence summer residency in Florence, Italy. Studied Italian Medieval and Renaissance history and art history.
RELATED ACTIVITIES
1999-05
Member of Board of Directors of ZYZZYVA, literary quarterly of West Coast writing and art. Served as Treasurer and Vice-President.
2010-Present
Board member, Joseph L. Barbonchielli and Maria/manual B. Perez Foundation
2003-Present
Advisory Board, The Prague Project, Czech Republic-USA cultural exchange organization.
1996-97
President of the Executive Board of Southern Exposure, the artist-run non-profit gallery, performance space, and resource center dedicated to showing diverse and challenging art in San Francisco.
1994-97
Member of the Executive Board of Southern Exposure.
1997- Present
Member of the Advisory Board of Southern Exposure.
1991-94
Member of Town School Alumni Council. Organized a series of art shows and events which encouraged the arts as a viable career goal for the students.
1984- Present
Illustrated twenty-five published books for children, including four collections of Native American creation myths, a Tlinglit raven myth from Alaska, a classic Chinese folk-tale of the Sung dynasty, and four volumes of poetry. Illustrations have been shown at the Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration in New York. In 1993 received PARENTING magazine’s Certificate of Excellence for distinguished achievement in children’s literature. In 1983 won the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators Don Freeman Grant for Illustrators. Three books have been designated International Reading Association Children’s Choices. Books have been translated into foreign languages, including German, Swedish, and Finnish and Korean. Has lectured at the University of California Berkeley Extension, The San Francisco Academy of Art, and before many children and adults in schools and libraries on the subject of illustrating children’s books.
JUROR
1997 Stanford China Education Foundation first annual Children’s Art Competition.
2001 New Century International Youth Art Competition Committee