Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Writ in Steel
2017 Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA, War Toys: Fire & Fury
2016 Vessel Gallery, Oakland,CA
2013 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 50 Year Survey
2011 Nieto Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Anxious Objects
Public Glass, San Francisco, CA, Works in Glass and Steel
2010 San Luis Obispo Museum, San Luis Obispo, CA
Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Overview
2009 The Atrium @ 600 Townsend, San Francisco, CA, Metal and Glass
Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Bella Feldman–JP Long Dialogue
2008 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2007 Sculpturesite, San Francisco, CA
Buschlen Mowatt, Palm Desert, CA
2006 Sculpturesite, San Francisco, CA
Habatat Gallery, Chicago, IL, Glass Engravings
2004 Habatat Gallery, Chicago, IL, War Toys Redux
Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA, War Toys Redux
Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Crafts and Cultural Arts Gallery, California State Building, Oakland, CA
2003 Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA, War Toys Redux
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, War Toys Redux
2002 Tucson Museum, Tucson, AZ
Habatat Chicago, Chicago, IL, Flasks of Fiction
Buschlen Mowatt, Palm Desert, CA
Habatat Pontiac, Pontiac, MI
2001 Habatat Chicago, Chicago, IL
2000 Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Habatat Chicago, Chicago, IL
1998 D. P. Fong, San Jose, CA
Pat Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, New Work
1996 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA. (Distinguished Woman Artist of 1996),
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Decompression Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
1994 Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, War Toy Installation
1993 Shidoni Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Downey Museum, Downey, CA
St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1992 California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Oakland Museum, Downtown Sculpture Court, Oakland, CA
1991 Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
SPACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1988 Foxley Leach Gallery, Washington, DC
SPACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, Bella Feldman, Steel Sculpture (funded by
Chicago Arts Council)
SPACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Fiber Forms of Bella Feldman
Monterey Peninsula Museum, Monterey, CA, Sculpture
1983 University of Denver, Denver, CO, Sculpture by Bella Feldman
1982 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Bella T. Feldman/Sculpture
1980 Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA,
Spine Series
1976 Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1975 Gallerie Bernard Letu, Geneva, Switzerland, Bella: Sculptures
University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, Installation Metamorphosis
1973 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. Metamorphosis
Group Exhibitions (*indicates curator)
2017 Contraption: Rediscovering California Jewish Artists
2015 Petaluma Art Center, Petaluma, CA, All That Glitters
Yianna Grammatopoula Gallery, Athens, Greece, Magic Carpet Ride
San Luis Obispo Museum, San Luis Obispo, CA. CA Sculpture Slam
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA. The Object and the Void
Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, CA, Vesse
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA. Dorothy Saxe Invitational
Vessel Gallery, Oakland, CA. Woman
Cabrillo College Gallery, Apton, CA. Material Illusions
2014 A New Leaf Gallery/Sculpturesite, Sonoma CA. Being Woman
Paradise Ridge Winery Santa Rosa, CA 20@20
2013 A New Leaf Gallery/Sculpturesite, Sonoma CA. Black_White_Red
Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA. Armed Medium: The Military Vehicle
as Subject
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, New Media Combinations
Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa CA. Tradition of
Mayhem
2012 Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, Playing with Fire: Artists
of the California Studio Glass Movement.
2011 Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA, 75th Anniversary Show
Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Amorphous Dreams
2009 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA, estro-GEN
2008 Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, Artists of Invention: 100 years CCA
2007 Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2006 Fresno Art Museum and Art Center, Fresno, CA, 18 Profiles, Distinguished
Women Artists of California.
Whitney Biennial 2006, Peace Tower, New York, NY
2005 Habatat Chicago, Chicago, IL
Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, Toys
2001 Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Being There: 45 Artists
1996 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, Generations: The Lineage of Influence in the Bay Area,
1994 Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL, Menorah Exhibit
Alternative Museum, New York, NY, National Showcase
1993 Rockford Museum, Rockford, IL, War Toy Installation
1992 Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, Crossovers
1991 Oakland Museum, Downtown Sculpture Court, Inaugural Exhibition, Phil Linhares*
1989 Baeker Galerie, Cologne, Germany, Five California Artists
1988 Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore, MD, Tangents: Seven Artists,
Mary Jane Jacob* Traveling to Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Cleveland Art Institute, Cleveland, OH
1986 Fresno Art Museum and Art Center, Fresno, CA, Survey of California Women Artists 1945 Present, Joyce Aiken*
1985 San Francisco Airport Commission, San Francisco, CA, Menagerie-Contemporary Animal Images
Focus Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland, Six Artistes of the Biennale
Musee de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, Fibre/Sculpture Biennale
1984 Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX, The Presence of Light, Betty Park*, Dominique Mazaud*
Twining Gallery, New York, NY, Art in Craft Media, Mildred Constantine*
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI, Fiber Cross Currents
1983 Musee de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, Fibre/Espace; Tapisserie Biennale
Japan Traveling Exhibit, Art and/or Craft USA: 1982 Japan, Sherri Warner*
1982 Walnut Creek Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA, Between the Lines: Lightweight Sculpture
Visual Art Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, National Sculpture Invitational, (Traveled to Fairbanks and Juneau)
1978 80 Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit, Paper as Medium, Jane Farmer*
1976 SPACE Gallery, Los Angeles, Death Show, Ed Lau*
Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, The Handmade Paper Object, Richard Kubiak* (Traveled until 1982)
Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA, The Multiple Image
1975 Athol McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Paper Sculpture
1974 Womanspace, Los Angeles, CA. Taboo Show
Awards
2005 Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Distinguished Artist Award
2004 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, Distinguished Artist Award
1996 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, Distinguished Woman Artist
1995 Florsheim Art Grant
1994 California Arts Council Grant
Spertus Museum Award
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist’s Fellowship (Major award)
1975 E. L. Cabot Trust Fund at Harvard University (Travel award)
Collections
Di Rosa Collection, Napa, CA
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
Architectural Commissions
Sculpture Fountain, Federal Home Loan Bank Lobby, 600 California Street, San Francisco, CA
Sculpture Fountain, Barclay Simpson Garden, Orinda, CA ~ Ron Lutsko, Landscape Architect
Mosaic Tile Facade, Crystal Elementary School, Suisun City, CA ~ Van Bourg, Architect
Mosaic Panel, Medical Building, Redding, CA ~ Burns Cadwalader, Architect
Panels for Garden Wall, IBM, San Jose, CA ~ John Bolles, Architect
Mosaic Mural, Executive Office, Lovable Brassiere Co., Atlanta, GA
Relief, Temple Rodef Sholom, San Rafael, CA ~ Marquis & Stoller, Architects
Relief, City Hall, Mountain View, CA ~ George Dueker, Architect
Relief, Science & Industrial Arts Building, Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School, Berkeley, CA, ~ Aitkin & Collin, Architects
Sculptures, Marina Vista Plaza, Vallejo, CA and Potrero Project, Richmond, CA ~ Royston, Hanamoto & Mayes, Landscape Architects
Sculpture, Hydronautics, Inc., Washington, DC suburb James Hilleary Associates, Architects
Group of Sculptures, Newport Shopping Center, Newport, CA ~ Sasaki, Walker, Landscape Architects.
Published
2008 Bella, Bella, a Documentary Film by Elizabeth Sher
2006 Eighteen Profiles, Distinguished Women Artists of California, Fresno Art Museum
Bella Feldman, (cover story) Artist Blacksmith, UK Summer 2006
2001 Bella-Works in Glass and Mixed Media
1996 Bella: Survey of Sculpture, 1974-1996, catalogue for Fresno Art Museum Distinguished Woman Artist of 1996 exhibit.
1992 Leonardo Theme Publication #8, Women, Art and Technology.
1984 Leonardo, Journal of the International Society of Arts, Sciences and Technology, Dec ~ Jan Issue. A View of Evolution Expressed in Sculpture: A Reflection of Nuclear Angst.
1983 African Arts, University of California Press, Los Angeles, Fall Issue. The So Cattle Sculpture of Uganda, co-authored with Dr. Ross Coates.
Bibliography
1996 Bella: Survey of Sculpture, 1974-1996, catalogue for Fresno Art Museum Distinguished Woman Artist of 1996 exhibit.
1991 Blasier, Paula. Profile: An Interview, CITY LIFE.
1987 International Who’s Who of Business and Professional Women, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England.
Possibility and Paradox in Fiber Art, The Oakland Museum, Sept.-Oct. 1987.
1986 Matson Jones, Virginia. Contemporary American Women Sculptors, Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ.
Singer, Elizabeth. Sculpture of Bella Feldman, Textic Kunst, Hannover, Germany
1984 Scarborough, Jessica. Vision of Bella Feldman, FIBER ARTS MAGAZINE.
1979 Frym, Gloria. Editor, Second Stories, CHRONICLE BOOKS.
1974 Erickson, Barbara. BERKELEY GAZETTE, Feature article.
Catalogues
2013 Bella Feldman Retrospective 1991 - 2012
2001 Bella, Works in Glass and Mixed Media
1996 Distinguished Woman Artist of 1996, catalogue for Fresno Art Museum
1992 War Toys, An Installation Traveling.
1985 Fibre/Sculpture, Musee de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1983 Fibre/Espace, Musee de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1982 Art and/or Craft, USA: Japan
Center for the Visual Arts, Sculpture Catalogue, Oakland, CA
Atlantic Coast/Pacific Coast, 75th Anniversary Exhibit,
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1976 The Handmade Paper Object, Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Selected Reviews Since 1982
Selz, Peter. Solidity is Always Undermined, SCULPTURE MAGAZINE October 2014
Fancher, Lou. Exhibit: 50-year Survey of Oakland artist Bella Feldman,
OAKLAND TRIBUNE September 2013
Burke, Sarah. Reflecting on the work of Bella Feldman, EAST BAY EXPRESS October 2013
Baker, Kenneth. Bella Feldman: Sculptor gets a retrospective,
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE October 2013
Roth, David. Bella Feldman at Sculpturesite Gallery, ARTWEEK, November 2006
Farr, Sheila. War Toys: Weapons of Mass Devotion, SEATTLE TIMES, July 9, 2004.
Whitney, Kathleen. Feldman at Habatat Gallery, WORLD SCULPTURE NEWS Summer, 2000.
Whitney, Kathleen. Bella Feldman-Remarkable Pieces of Apparatus, SCULPTURE MAGAZINE, June 2000.
Ollman, Leah. Metaphoric Richness in Steel and Glass, LOS ANGELES TIMES, June 1999.
Dalkey, Victoria. Imagination Highlights Sculpture SACRAMENTO BEE, May 1999.
Bella Feldman at d.p. Fong, ARTWEEK, November 1998.
Porge, Maria. Bella Feldman, SCULPTURE MAGAZINE, October 1998.
Keeler, Guy, Heavy Mettle, FRESNO BEE, September 22, 1996.
Baker, Kenneth. Feldman’s Moving Sculpture Exhibit, SAN FRANCISCO CRONICLE, March 7, 1996.
Santiago, Chiori, Exploring the Dark Side, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, July 21, 1996.
Nilsen, Richard. Inventive Artworks are Scary, Funny, ARIZONA REPUBLIC, May 21, 1995.
Rinheart, Betty. Toying with Our Emotions, ARIZONA NEW TIMES, April 20~26, 1995.
Review of Exhibit for Center for Creative Studies, SCULPTURE MAGAZINE, December 1994.
Colby, Joy Hakanson. Sculptor’s War Toys Make a Play for Peace, DETROIT NEWS,March 11, 1994.
Miro, Marsha. Sculptor Uses Ridicule to Stress War’s Folly, DETROIT FREE PRESS,March 13, 1994.
Lebzelter, Bill. Solidity is Always Undermined in the Work of Bella Feldman, PASATIEMPO, Santa Fe, May 7, 1993.
Baker, Kenneth. Scavenged Material Becomes Sculpture, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, September 15, 1992.
Cohn, Terri. Bella Feldman, ARTWEEK, January 9, 1992.
Suvan, Geer, Form that Uses Movement as an Idea and Reality, LOS ANGELES TIMES, April 18, 1991.
Baker, Kenneth. Summer Surprises, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, August 26, 1989.
Anderson, Roger. Murmurs of the Art, EAST BAY EXPRESS, May 27, 1988.
Baker, Kenneth. Home Grown Sculpture, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, March 31, 1988.
Donohue, Melinda. LOS ANGELES TIMES, March 4, 1988.
Baker, Kenneth. New Works of Art in Search of a Context, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, May 2, 1987.
Gardner, Colin. LOS ANGELES TIMES, January 23, 1987.
Jordan, Jim. A Vocabulary of Subtle Aggressions, ARTWEEK, November 1984
Bornstein, Anne. Sculpture Recreates Our Link to Nature, DAILY CALIFORNIAN, October 26, 1984
Scarborough, Jessica. Bella Tabak Feldman, Recent Sculpture FIBER ARTS MAGAZINE, March, April 1983.
Meisel, Alan R. From the San Francisco Bay Area, CRAFT INTERNATIONAL, January 1983.
Boettger, Suzaan. Best of 1982, BAY GUARDIAN, December 1982.
Boettger, Suzaan. Potent Allusions, ARTWEEK, October 1982.
Curtis, Cathy. Lightweight Sculpture Comes of Age, ARTWEEK, February 1982.
Burkhart, Dorothy. Seethrough Sculpture Reshapes Our Ideas about Space and Mass,
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, September 1982.
Academic Positions
Teaching Positions
1965-2001 Professor of Sculpture, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA
1996, 1987-1989 Chair, Sculpture Department, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA
1987 Consultant, African Nomadic Art Exhibit, National Museum of African Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1975-1979 Graduate Director, California College of Arts, Oakland CA
1972-1975 Founder, Sculpture Program, Santa Rosa Jr. College, Santa Rosa, CA
1968-1970 Lecturer, Fine Art School, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
1961 Lecturer, University of California, Extension Division
Guest Artist
2014 Visiting Artist, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2004 Visiting Artist, California State University, San Jose
2003 Visiting Artist, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1998 Visiting Artist, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
1997 Visiting Artist, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1994 Visiting Artist, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1992 Visiting Artist, California Polytechnic Institute at San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA
1990 Cultural Specialist for the U.S. Information Service, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
1989 Lecture tour, three Japanese art colleges.
1986 Visiting artist, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Visiting artist, Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ
Visiting artist, California State University at Humboldt, Arcata, CA
1985 Visiting artist, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1984 Visiting artist, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1983 Visiting artist, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
1982 Sculpture workshop for International Sculpture Conference, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1981 Visiting artist, Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, AK
1980 Visiting artist, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
1979 Visiting artist, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1975 Visiting artist, Sonoma State University, Cotati, CA
1974 Visiting artist, University of Washington, Pullman, WA
Juror
2015 San Luis Obispo Museum, San Luis Opisbo, CA
2003 Colorado Arts Council, Denver CO
2002 Fairbanks Art Association, Fairbanks, AK
1997 Pacific Rim Sculptors, San Francisco, CA
1995 San Francisco Women Artists, San Francisco, CA
1989 National Women’s Art, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1987 State Grants to Artists, State of Rhode Island
1984 Annual Juried Exhibition, San Mateo Art Association, CA
1982 Fiber Art, Iowa City, IA
1967 California State Fair, CA
Education
M. A., San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
B. A., Queens College, Queens, NY
Diploma, H. S. of Music and Art, New York, NY