Biography
EDUCATION
1976 California College of Arts & Crafts, M.F.A.
1970 Rhode Island School of Design, B.F.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Desta Gallery, Places Seen & Imagined, San Anselmo, CA
555 California Street, Jeffrey Long: Shelters & Landscapes
2019 Desta Gallery, Beyond Audubon benefit, San Anselmo, Ca
2018 Desta Gallery, Shelters, San Anselmo, CA
2017 650 California Street, San Francisco, CA
2016 555 California Street, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco City Hall, Board of Supervisors Offices, SF, CA
Ritz Carleton, Lake Tahoe, CA
Oakland City Center Gallery, Oakland, CA
350 Montgomery, San Francisco, CA
500 Terry Francois, San Francisco, CA
475 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
2015 Patz & Hall Winery, Sonoma, CA
2013 David Brower Center, Promise & Peril, Berkeley, CA
2011 Toomey Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Marji Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
TransAmerica Center, San Francisco, CA
2010 Jay Jay Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2009 Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2008 Jeff Long, Cross section of a Decade, TransAmerica Center, San Francisco, CA
2006 Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2004 Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
333 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA
2003 Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
55 California Street, San Francisco, CA
505 California Street, San Francisco, CA
90 New Montgomery, San Francisco, CA
50 Beale Street, San Francisco, CA
199 Fremont, San Francisco, CA
33 New Montgomery, San Francisco, CA
90 New Montgomery, San Francisco, CA
China Basin Landing, San Francisco, CA
199 Fremont, San Francisco, CA
201 Third, San Francisco, CA
40 Fourth, San Francisco, CA
Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Bank of America, San Jose, CA
2000 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA
1999 Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA
Shorenstein Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
1998 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Airtouch Communications, Walnut Creek, CA
201 California Street, San Francisco, CA
1996 Cabrillo College Art Gallery, Aptos, CA.
Evans/Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Gensler and Associates, San Francisco, CA
1993 Bayfront Gallery, San Francisco, CA “California’s Endangered Rivers”
1991 The Oakland Museum, Main Entrance Gallery, Oakland, CA
Gene Ramey Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Gensler and Associates, San Francisco, CA
Shaklee Corporation Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
Natural Resources Defense Council Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
1990 PAC Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
1989 The Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery, Oakland, CA
1988 Francine Ellman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Bank of America World Headquarters Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Ivory/Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 Art Dock, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Ivory/Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 Bank of America World Headquarters Galleries, San Francisco, CA
1980 Ivory Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 DeYoung Open, DeYoung Museum of Art, San Francisco
Bird, Nest, Nature, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center, Walnut Creek, CA
2017 JayJay Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Robert Allen Fine Art, Sausalito, CA
Barba Contemporary, Palm Springs, CA
2016 Sloan Miyasato Showroom, San Francisco, CA
Wild Places in Urban Spaces, Artiszen Cultural Arts Center, Vallejo, CA
2015 Bay Area Abstract, Robert Allen Fine Art, Sausalito, CA
2013 Peaceable Kingdom, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center, Walnut Creek, CA
2011 Hello Tomorrow, Bay Area Artists Envision the Future, David Brower Center,
Berkeley, CA
2010 Seven From The Bay Area, Marji Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Pushing Paint Around, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
2006 Recent Acquisitions, Crocker Art Museum, San Jose, CA
Recent Acquisitions, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2004 Fresh Paint, Los Angeles, CA
Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco International Art Fair
“CCAC Alumni Exhibition”, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
“Group Show”, Gensler & Associates, San Francisco, CA
“25th Anniversary Exhibiton”, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, CA
DeSousa Hughes Showroom, San Francisco, CA
Herman Miller Showroom, San Francisco, CA
2002 “Group Show,” Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York
“Back to the Beach,” Linda Zweig Gallery, San Francisco
2000 “To the Point of Abstraction”, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA
1999 “Earth, Fire, Air, Water,” Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA
“Northern California Painting”, Monterey Museum of Art, CA
“Survey of Bay Area Artists”, Fresh Paint, Los Angeles, CA
“Group Show”, Ortega Art and The Gap Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
1998 “Space and Surface,” Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
“CCAC Alumni Exhibition”, Office of the Mayor of San Francisco, CA
“Group Show”, Nortel Communications, Cupertino, CA
1996 Gensler and Associates, Newport Beach, CA
“CCAC: Past, Present and Future,” California College of Arts & Crafts
1995 “Anonymous Arrangement,” Richmond Art Center, CA
“Art Displayed in a New Light,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“On the Waterfront: Works from Hunters Point Artist Community,”
Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
1994 “Further Investigations,” Bank of America World Headquarters Galleries,
SanFrancisco, CA
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Art From the Heart,” Sonoma State University Art Gallery, CA
“New Beginnings,” Eaton Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
“Site Lines,” The James Irvine Foundation, San Francisco, CA
McCann Erickson, San Francisco, CA
Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA
1993 “Private Investigations,” Opts Art, San Francisco, CA
“Art About AIDS,” College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA
“Some Exceptional Artists,” Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1992 “Conceptual Landscape,” Kathryn Fleck Gallery, Aspen, CA
“Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: 3 Decades,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA
“Annual Holiday Show,” Burns Fine Art, New York, NY
1990 “Diverse Contemporary Landscapes”, One Market Plaza Gallery, San Francisco
“Enigmatic Messages”, John Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Drawn Conclusions”, John Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica and Fullerton, CA
“Art Against AIDS,” Los Angeles, CA
1989 “Tradition and Innovation, 1500-1989: Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts,” California Palace of the Legion of Honor, SF
“Exhibition to Benefit AIDS Organizations of Los Angeles,” Tortue Gallery, LA
“Ivory/Kimpton Artists”, Mendocino, CA Art Center
“Rising Stars”, Francine Ellman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Art Agains AIDS”, Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, CA
“Water Celebration”, Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA
“Yosemite Centennial Exhibition”, SF Museum of Modern Artists Gallery
1988 “New Aquisitions”, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, U of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
“What’s New”, DeSaisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA
“Big Paper, Big Work”, Fine Arts Gallery, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles
“Group Show”, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1987 “Group Show”, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 “Nature As Metaphor”, San Francisco Art Institute, Emanuel Walter Gallery, CA
1983 “Resource, Reservoir CCAC, 75 Years”, San Francisco, CA, MOMA
“Prints From CCAC”, World Print Council Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“San Francisco Painters”, Gensler & Associates, San Francisco, CA
1982 “Works on Paper”, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
“Prints From Katherine Lincoln Press”, KLP Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 “California Artists Biennial”, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
“Gallery Artists”, Ivory/Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1980 “Gallery Artists”, Ivory/Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979 “New Images/Bay Area”, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
“Bay Area Artists Exhibition/Sale”, The Oakland Museum, CA
1977 “Downtown Dog Show”, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Downtown Center, CA
“Art For Giving and Collecting”, San Francisco, CA, MOMA
1976 “Eight Bay Area Artists”, 63 Bluxome Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975 “Animal Imagery”, California State University, Hayward, CA
1974 “Three Painters”, Conn. Commission of the Arts Gallery, Hartford, CT
AWARDS
2000 Artist in Residence, Sacatar Foundation, Bahia, Brasil
1994 Gold Award, Art Stars of California Discovery Award
1987 Artist in Residence, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, N.H.
1986 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1983 Artist in Residence, Dorland Mountain Colony, Temecula, CA
1971-73 Artist in Residence, Pulpit Rock Community, Woodstock, CT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abatemarco, Michael, “Jeff Long’s Birds of the West”, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo, cover article, 10/7/11. (illus.)
Santa Fe Symphony & Chorus, 2011-2012 Program, cover. (illus.)
Sikora, Susan, Bay Area Focus, KPIX, “Jeff Long’s Birds of the West”, television interview, (broadcast November 9, 2011.)
Hanson, Jack, “Jeff Long’s Birds of the West”, News Makers, Comcast, television interview, (broadcast July, 2011.)
Perry, David, “Jeff Long’s Birds of the West”, 10%, Comcast, television interview, (broadcast July, 2011.)
Shulock, Anne, “Jeff Long at Jay Jay”, Artwatch, Bluesuadeshoes.wordpress.com, (March 30, 2010.) Illus.
Burke, Joseph Martin, “Jeffrey Long, Shimmies and Orchards”,, ISBN 0-9659475-1-3, catalogue,
(November, 2005.) Illus.
Baker, Kenneth, “Structure Prevails, Long at Schwartz”, San Francisco Chronicle, (November 7, 1998.)
Jenkins, Stephen, and Cherkovski, Neeli, “Jeffrey Long, Paintings”, ISBN 0-9659475-0-5, catalogue,
(December, 1997.) Illus.
Chiapella, Julia, “Layers of Meaning, Jeff Long’s Work Unfolds in Several Dimensions”,
Santa Cruz Sentinel, (November 15, 1996.)
“Painter Opens Show at Cabrillo”, Register-Pajaronian, (November 14, 1996.)
“Cultural Views”, San Francisco Chronicle, (April 7, 1996.)
Jenkins, Steven, “The Gang of Four: Private Investigations at Opts Art”, Artweek,
(November 18,1993) Vol.24, #22, Illus.
Baker, Kenneth, “Plan B Takes Effect”, San Francisco Chronicle, (November 26,1993.)
Webb, Barbara, “Private Investigations of Four San Francisco Artists”, Westart,
(November 12, 1993)
Plan B, “Private Investigations”, Catalogue, (October,1993), Illus.
Silander, Lisa, “Alumni Focus: When Work is the Best Medicine”, RISD Views,
(January, 1993) Illus.
“Seventh on Sale, San Francisco, Jeff Long/Visual Aid: A Light of Hope”, Catalogue,
(1992) Illus.
Nakao, Annie, “7th on Sale Honoring Unsung Heroes”, San Francisco Examiner,
(September 13, 1992)
“Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: 3 Decades”, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Catalogue,
(1992)
Kennedy, Jody, House Beautiful, (July, 1992), Illus.
Geer, Suvan, “Wrapped In An Enigma”, Los Angeles Times, (July 13, 1990)
Sato, Mitzu, “Jeff Long”, Portfolio Magazine, Tokyo, Japan, (August, 1990)
Johnson, Robert Flynn, “Tradition & Innovation 1500-1989”, The Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco, Catalogue (1989)
Brunson, Jamie, “The Polemical Landscape”, Artweek, Vol. 18, No. 4, (January 31, 1987), Illus.
Morch, Albert, “A Powerful Metaphor in a River”, San Francisco Examiner, (Jan. 19, 1987), Illus.
Maynard, Libby, “West Coast Works On/Of Paper”, The Ink People, Catologue, (1985)
Reid, Dorothy, “Nature As Metaphor”, San Francisco Art Institute, Catalogue, (1985), Illus.
Bell, Michael, “Resource, Reservoir CCAC, 75 Years”, S.F. Museum of Modern Art,
Catalog (1983)
Orr-Cahall, Christina, “California Artists Biennial”, The Oakland Museum, Catalogue,
(1985), Illus.
Anixter, Julie, “Jeff Long at Ivory/Kimpton”, Images and Issues, Vol. I, #2 (Fall, 1980), Illus.
“Introductions ’80”, San Francisco Chronicle, (June 29, 1980), Illus.
Northwood, William, “Six Artists in Search of an Idiom”, The Museum of Caifornia, magazine of
The Oakland Museum, Vol. 2, #11, (Maay, 1979), Illus.
Neubert, George, “New Images/Bay Area”, Art, magazine of The Oakland Museum Art Division,
cover story, Vol. 7, #3, (May-June, 1979), cover Illus.
McDonald, Robert, “New Images at the Oakland Museum”, Artweek, Vol. 10, #21 (June 2, 1979),
Illus.
Neubert, George, “New Images/Bay Area”, The Oakland Museum, Catalogue, (1979)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
U.S. Embassy, Manila, Philippines
The David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Mills College, Oakland, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
DeSaisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, CA
Stanford University, CA
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Racine Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
City of Hartford, CT
City of San Jose, CA
US Forest Service
David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Mobil
Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe
ARCO
Peribes Corporation
BANKCAL
3-M Corporation
Continental Bank
Security Pacific
Vesti/Chevron
Bank of Denver
Bank of America World Headquarters
Bank of San Francisco
Hirsch-Bedner
Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon
Prudential
Genstar
McDonald Corporation
IBM
ITEL
VISA
SOHIO
Dean Witter
Hughs Aircraft
Reneson Hotels
AMOCO
Wells Fargo Bank
Steelcase Corporation
Hewlett-Packard
Koll Company
Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson & Tatum
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Alza
Adobe
Indus
Trump
Carleton London
MGM
Sap Corporation
Kaiser Corporation
Think Equity
Nordstrom
Marshalls Company
Cisco
Sun Microsystems
UCLA Neurogenetic Institute
Hilton
Mandalay Bay Resort
Belagio Hotel
W Hotels
Pan Pacific
Oppenheimer
Princess Cruises
Jewell of the Sea
Allegan
Electa
Capstar
Ebay
Charles River Associates
Financial Network Investment Corporation
Teleglobe
Eastbourne Capital Management
Xenogen
Silicon Valley Bank
Royal Carribean
Waldorf Astoria
TMG Partners
Opus West
Fairmont Hotels
Cosmopolitan Hotel