JEANNE DUNN
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Forest Bathing, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2014
Wild Walk, The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2013
Fifteen Minutes of Fame, time-based installation, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
2007
Art Bakes No Bread, Bread & Cie, San Diego, CA
Market Paintings, BorrelliSpace Gallery, San Diego, CA
2002
Pear Dance Series, Cambridge University, Clare Hall Graduate College, Cambridge, England
2000
New Work, Bread & Cie, San Diego, CA
1999
Pyrus Communis, The Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
1997
Recent Work, The Rachel Long Morgan Center, University of California, Irvine, CA
1993
Jeanne Dunn: New Work, Chester Workshop Gallery, San Diego, CA
1991
Water Lilies, L.G. Arts Complex, Lemon Grove, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Spring: the group show, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA, invitational by director Ron Stevenson
2024
Summer Exhibition, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA, invitational by director Ron Stevenson
Wander/Wonder, Boston Court, Pasadena, CA, curated by Stephanie Sherwood
Some Trees, Baldwin Avenue Gallery, Sierra Madre, CA, curated by Peter Frank
Brand 52, The Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA, juror Shana Nys Dambrot
2023
Alphabet Soup, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA, invitational by director Ron Stevenson
Some Kind of Nature, Friends of Modern Art (FOMA), Santa Fe, New Mexico, curator Dominique Mazeaud
Legacy: 25 Years of Art and Community, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, curator Danielle Deery
2022
Brand 50, The Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA, juror Shannon Currie Holmes
Surrealism, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) Santa Ana, CA, juror Andi Campognone
Kipaipai, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA, curator Andi Campognone
2021
Seeing Things, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA, director Ron Stevenson
Embodied Forest, Ecoartspace, Santa Fe, NM, virtual exhibition, juror Lilian Fraiji
Anthropocene Epiphany, California Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA, juror Erika Hirugami
2020
That's What Artists Do, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA, curator and director Ron Stevenson
Eco Consciousness, Ecoartspace, Santa Fe, NM, virtual exhibition and catalogue, curator Eleanor Heartney
We Are Here-Here We Are, Durden and Ray Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sean Noyce and curatorial team
2019
LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA, Lydia Takeshita Legacy Exhibition, curator Lydia Takeshita, producer Pranay Reddy
LaunchLA, Los Angeles, CA, LA Flora, curator James Panozzo
LaunchLA, Los Angeles, CA, Beyond Redemption, curator Aandrea Stang
Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, San Pedro, CA, Intangible in Paint, curator Juri Koll
Tartu Graphic Festival, Tartu, Estonia, Edge to Edge, curator Juri Koll
Athenaeum Arts Center, San Diego, California, Indoor/Outdoor, Daniela Kelly, managing director
Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA, Inside/Outside, with inmates of J. Donovan Prison, curator Kathleen Mitchell
2018
Central Library Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, The Artist Portrait Project: San Diego Artists 2006-2016, curatorial team
Grafiska Sällskapet, Ecoartspace, Santa Fe, NM, virtual exhibition and catalogue, curator Eleanor Heartney
Krogen Amerika Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, curators Åsa Kvissberg, Anna Stump, and Kristine Schomaker
2017
Ping Pong Art/Miami 2017 at Alfred I, DuPont Building, Miami, FL, curators Peter Mays, USA and Sue Irion, Basel, CH
Venice Institute of Contemporary Art (VICA) , at Newberry Lofts, Long Beach, CA, Art in Place, curator Juri Koll
LaunchLA, Los Angeles, CA, Reality of Nature, curator Kristine Schomaker
Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA, User to User, juror Bennett Roberts/Roberts Projects
2016
MuzeuMM, Los Angeles, CA, Faux Sho’: DADA100 Part 2, curator Kio Griffith
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, MAS Attack, produced by Max Presneill, Director
Women’s Museum of California, San Diego, CA, Night Stand, curators Cindy Zimmerman and Anna Stump
Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA), Oceanside, CA, Our Selections from The Permanent Collection, curatorial team
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Gallery Tally Poster Project, originator Micol Hebron
Moorpark College Art Gallery, Moorpark, CA, Be Here Now, curator Erika Lizée
LAMAG, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA, Play
1019WEST Artist Studios, Inglewood, CA, Zero Down, exhibition and performances, curator Susan Amorde
Commissions
City of Inglewood Public Art: The Art of Trees, one of three finalists, 2022 Inglewood, Los Angeles, CA
UrbanWorks: Rogers Consulting Group, and the City of San Diego, CA
Sony ArtWalk 2000: Lindbergh Field International Airport; Childrens' Museum, San Diego, CA
Stu Segall Productions, San Diego, CA
Hungry Hunter Restaurants, San Diego, CA
Nationally televised Honda commercial. Barndog Productions and Tuesday Films, Encino, CA
Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel, San Diego, CA
Collections, Public
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
ART UK, formerly The Public Catalog Foundation, London, England
City of Inglewood, Los Angeles, CA
The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
Clare Hall College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
Malcolm Love Library, San Diego State University, CA
Brydegaard Memorial Collection, San Diego State University, CA
Bowman Marnell Corrao Associates, Las Vegas, NV
The Hungarian Multicultural Center (HMC), Budapest, Hungary
Awards and Residencies
2015
Gallery HArt Fusion Exhibition Honorable Mention, Hawthorne CA
2012
The Athenaeum 21st Annual Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention, La Jolla, CA
2010
Klots Foundation and Maryland Institute of Art Artist Residency Program Grant, Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
2009
Hungarian Multi-Cultural Center, Artist in Residency Program, Budapest, Hungary
2002
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Stuart Award, 33rd Annual National Juried Exhibition, Palm Springs CA
2001
SDSU School of Art, Design and Art History Travel Grant for solo show in Cambridge, England
2000
Gallery 21, Small Image Show, S. L. Sun Memorial Purchase Award, San Diego, CA
Books / Catalogs
2023
Legacy: 25 Years of Art and Community, Exhibition Catalog with essays by Curator Danielle Deery and Executive Director Maria Mingalone, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
2021
Embodied Forest by Patricia Watts, Santa Fe, NM. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-578-97453-8
2020
Eco Consciousness, Catalog, Patricia Watts
2018
The Artist Portrait Project: A Photographic Memoir of Portrait Sessions with San Diego Artists, 2006-2016, by Jennifer G. Spencer, She Writes Press, Tempe, Arizona, 117pp
2006
Feminists Who Changed America, Barbara J. Love, ed., University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 526 pp.
Articles, Reviews
"Artist Jeanne Dunn will present her exhibition Forest Bathing at R.B. Stevenson Gallery."
Color image of painting In the Breeze, Section B, Thursday, August 29, 2024
"A lasting 'Legacy': The Oceanside Museum of Art celebrates 25 years with dual exhibitions of iconic works"
The San Diego Union-Tribune by Seth Combs, January 15, 2023
"Jeanne Dunn: Seeing Trees for the Forest"
by Shana Nys Dambrot, Huffington Post, June 12, 2015
"Nature Improved: San Diego Artists Interpret Our Landscape"
OMA Viewpoint Triannual Publication, Oceanside Museum of Art, Winter 2013 / Spring 2014
Public Lectures
2020
"Tree Talk," with moderator Sant Khalsa, on www.ecoartspace.org, Dec. 17, 2020
2018
"Studio Practice: Ideas and Methods" Crenshaw View Park High School, Los Angeles, CA
2013
"Contemporary Issues in Art," Professor Catherine Gleason, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
2009
"Sequences and Consequences," Hungarian Multicultural Center, Budapest, Hungary
Education
M.A. in Fine Art / Painting, San Diego State University, CA
B.A. in Art and Art Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Teaching Experience
1997-2012
School of Art and Design at San Diego State University (SDSU) Painting, Life Drawing, Design
2007-2008
University of California at San Diego, Visual Arts Dept. Extension (UCSD) Painting, Life Drawing
Jeanne Dunn is represented by R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California USA