awards + honors
2019
Inducted into National Academy of Design
2018
Lee Krasner Award, Pollock-Krasner Foundation
2008
Emil and Dines Carlsen Award, 183rd Annual: An Inivitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2006
Research Enabling Grant, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2005
Research Enabling Grant, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Teaching Mini Grant, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2004
Research Enabling Grant, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Teaching Mini Grant, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2003
Faculty Research Award, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2002
Award for Visual Artists, Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, CA
Faculty Research Award, University of California, Berkeley
2001
Special Recognition Award for the SFO Art Enrichment project, Fly, Flight, Fugit, Precita Eyes Muralists Association, Inc., San Francisco, CA
1998
Modern Master, Museum of Art and the Environment, Marin, CA
1996
Alma B.C. Schapiro Residency for a Woman Painter, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Hometown Heroes, Oakland Artists Who Have Made a Difference, Office of the Mayor, Oakland, CA
1994
Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY
1992
Rosenkranz Family Fellowship, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
1990
Alice Baber Art Award, Alice Baber Art Fund, Jamaica, VT
Faculty Research Award, University of California, Davis
1989
Faculty Research Award, University of California, Davis
1987
Faculty Research Award, University of California, Davis
Faculty Summer Fellowship, University of California, Davis
1986
Faculty Research Award, University of California, Davis
1985
Individual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
Faculty Research Award, University of California, Davis
1980
Individual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
SECA Award in Art, Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA