JOHN AMMIRATI
San Francisco
Contact: mail@ammiratix2.com
EDUCATION
MFA, Set Design, New York University Tisch School of the Arts
BA, Theatre Arts, University of California at Davis
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS + COLLECTIONS
2004-12 McKesson Building, San Francisco, selected works on display/ongoing.
2002 Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, one person show.
2002 111 Minna Gallery, Urban Renewal.
1999 City of Seattle, Renaissance Collection. West Coast artists + recycled materials.
1994 Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, "Five O'Clock Shadow Drawings".
1994 Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, "Plumage, the Plume Project Revisited".
1993 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA, Northern California artists.
1993 Davinci Gallery, Los Angeles, "Recycler", artists working with recycled materials.
1992 Creative Arts Center Gallery, Sunnyvale, CA, Planet Earth.
1992 Long Beach Arts, "Found Object as Art", Curated by George Herms.
1990 San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, "Equations". Works by three artists.
1990 Visual Arts Center of Alaska, "Beyond the Spill". Artists respond to Exxon Valdez.
1989 San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, "Chain Reactions".
1985 Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, Reliefs and Sculpture.
1984 Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, Gallery Artists.
1982 TransAmerica Pyramid, San Francisco, "The Transamerica Show".
1978 Crocker-Kingsley, E.B. Crocker Gallery, Sacramento, "60 Northern CA artists.
SELECTED PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS
1998 Place Poem, Hallidie Plaza Project, San Francisco.
1996 Swatch Olympic Pavilion, Centennial Park, Atlanta, GA.
1995 The Black + White Ball, San Francisco, The San Francisco Symphony.
1994 Five O'clock Shadow, Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco.
1991 The Plume Project, Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, San Francisco.
1990 Phantom Bank, Union Pacific Bank, Santa Cruz, California.
1988 Condor Shadow, Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California.
COLLECTIONS, PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWS
2004 Site Matters, a book by Lucy Lippard, Carol Burns + Andrea Kahn.
2002 Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle.
1999 City of Seattle, purchase for Renaissance Collection, West Coast artists
working with found materials.
1997 Artweek, December, The Precise Location of a Moment: by Terri Cohn.
1996 Public Domain, symposium panelist, San Francisco State University.
1994 Artweek, October 20, Viewpoint, Meet Me On The Street, Bruno Fazzolari.
1992 Sculpture, January, Commissions, Phantom Bank, David Furchgott.
1991 San Francisco Chronicle, Plume Project, Steve Rubinstein.
1991 Artweek, October 31, The Plume Project, Leigh Ann Clifton.
1988 Artweek, December 17, Condor Shadow, Rebecca Solnit.