Carrie Ann Plank
www.carrieannplank.com
Current Position
Director, MFA & BFA Printmaking
Academy of Art University
2010-present
Education
Pennsylvania State University
MFA Printmaking
1998
East Carolina University
BFA Printmaking
1995
Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions
2016 “8th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro 2016”, Douro, Portugal
2015- 2018 “SGC International travelling exhibition”, travelling
2015 - 2017 “Absence and Presence” (travelling US, UK, Middle East and Africa)
2015 “SGCI Traveling Exhibition”, Lillian Davis Hogan Gallery, University of Minnesota, Winona, MN
2015 “Spring Open Studios”, Hunters Point Navel Shipyard, San Francisco, CA
2015 “Detroit to Baghdad: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Exhibit”, Arab American National Museum, Detroit, MI
2015 “Back Room”, A.muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Mullowney Printing, San Francisco, CA
2015 “CSP Artist in Residence Exhibition” Grunewald Press, San Francisco, CA
2015 “Global Print”, Douro, Portugal
2015 “Impulse”, ARC Gallery, San Francisco
2015 “CA, LA,& Beyond II”, Grey Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 “101st California Society of Printmakers Annual Show”, Grey Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014 - 2015 “International Print Art Triennial” Sofia, Bulgaria and
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
2014 “Elementi” Oliver Hawke Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 “More Than One Way” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2014 “Absence and Presence” San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
2014 “National Print Exhibit” University of Missouri Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City MI (awardee)
2014 “12” x 12: 2”” Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 “ART SV/SF”, San Mateo, CA
2014 “SF Art Tasting/ Artlaunch”, SomArts, San Francisco, CA
2014 “Inclusions: 6” Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 “Art Matters: Bay Area Arts Educators”, Gallery 85, San Jose CA
2014 “GRID/FLOW: Was Hängen Bleibt” Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland
2014 “Art for AIDS” City View, San Francisco, CA
2014 “BookOpolis” BookWorks Gallery, Ashville, NC
2014 “Redefining the Multiple” Gary Francis Fine Art, Alameda, CA
2014 “BookWorks” San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
2014 “Inclusions: Bernal Heights Art Walk” Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 “Pushing the Limits” Central Booking Gallery, New York, NY
2014 “Re/Appropriation” Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 “Spanning Traditions” Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Guangzhou, China
2014 “Spanning Traditions” Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
2014 “Academy of Art University Printmaking and Book Arts Faculty Show”, Atelier Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 “In Retrospect: 10 Years of AAU Faculty and Student Annual Print Exchanges”, Atelier Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 “Mail/Art/Book”, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
2014 “Unique Surfaces: Collage” Gary Francis Fine Art, Alameda, CA
2014 “An Italian Sojourn 2” Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco, CA
2014 “Spring Open Studios”, Hunters Point Navel Shipyard, San Francisco, CA
2013 “Retrospective 6” Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 “100 years in Print: California Printmakers Centennial Celebration” San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
2013 “Boston Printmakers 2013 North American Print Biennial”, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
2013 “The Art of Letterpress II” Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 “The Art of Giving Art” Gary Francis Fine Art, Alameda, CA
2013 “Inclusions 5: Art from within Bernal Heights” Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 “10 Decades” The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA
2013 “12” x 12”” Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 “Artspan’s Open Studios Exhibition” SomArts, San Francisco, CA
2013 “SuperHub” Big Umbrella Studios, San Francisco, CA
2013 ”18th Annual Fine Art Faculty Auction”, San Francisco, CA
2013 “Artspan Fall Open Studios”, Hunters Point Navel Shipyard, San Francisco, CA
2013 “Text, Language, & Numerals”, Sacramento State University Gallery, Sacaramento, CA
2013 Warnock Fine Arts, Palm Springs, CA, IFPDA member
2013 “5 Printmakers”, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 “PopUp-Gallery”, Autobody Fine, Alameda, CA
2013 “LA, CA, and Beyond”, LA Print Space, Los Angeles, CA
2013 “An Italian Sojourn” Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco, CA
2013 “Gesturing into Consciousness” Zoller Gallery, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2013 “Celebrazioni Moriandiane” (travelling venue), Bologna, Taromina, and Bodio Lomnago, Italy
2012 “Royal Society of Painters-Printmakers” Bankside Gallery, London, GB
2012 “California Society of Printmakers: New Work” Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2012 “H2O: Fragility and Strength” Falkirk Cultural Center, San Raphael, CA
2012 “Every Expression is Justified” Thoreau Center, San Francisco, CA
2012 ”17th Annual Fine Art Faculty Auction”, San Francisco, CA
2011 “Four Corners and a Center” Danville Art Gallery, Danville, CA
2011 “American Youth Printmaking”, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2011 “Hanga Ehon: Handprinted Books”, Yamazaki Art Gallery, Kyoto Japan
2011 “Water’s Edge” Studio One Art Center, Oakland, CA
2011 “New York Art Marathon”
2011 “Water’s Edge” Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
2011 “Equilibrium/Disequilibrium” 2011 SGC International, St. Louis, MO
2011 “Book Works, PCBA Triennial Exhibition” San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
2011 “Light/Dark: Selections by Enrique Chagoya”, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2011 “Mokuhanga: Dialogue and Dialect”, International Woodblock Conference, Kyoyo, Japan
2011 “SplitGraphic: International Graphic Art Biennial”, Split, Croatia
2011 “Works from Italy” 410 Bush Gallery, Academy of Art University
2011 “Marriage of Light and Dark”, Alameda Public Library, Alameda, CA
2010 “Imprint”, Georgetown College Fine Arts Galleries, Georgetown, KY
2010 ”15th Annual Fine Art Faculty Auction”, San Francisco, CA
2010 “It’s Our Nature”, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 ”WORKING WITH WAX: Contemporary Encaustic Painting in Northern California”,
Santa Rosa junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
2010 “Prints from the Archives”, Print Summit 2010, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Professional Organizations
Steering Committee: (SGCI) Southern Graphics Conference International 2014
Board Member California Society of Printmakers
Member Boston Printmakers
Member Achenbach Graphic Arts Council
Member Seattle Print Arts
Member American Print Alliance
Member Southern Graphics
Member Pacific Center for the Book Arts
Selected Collections
The Library of Congress
The Achenbach, San Francisco Museums of Fine Art works on paper collection
Iraq National Library, Baghdad
Guanlan Print Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Guangzhou, China
Druckwerk Atelier, Basel, Switzerland
Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence Italy
Public collections Veneto Region, Italy
Public collection of the city of Venice, Italy
Ringling School of Art & Design, Kimbrough Library, Special Collection
Otis College of Art & Design, Library, Artist Book Collection
Herron Art Library at Purdue University
UCLA Arts Library, Artist Book Collection
University of Wisconsin, Golda Meir Library, Special Collections
Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA
University of California Berkeley Environmental Design Library
San Jose State University Special Collection
Baylor University, Crouch Library, Special Collections
University of Southern California, Doheny Library, Special Collections
University of Washington Special Collection, Seattle WA
Miami University Libraries, Special Collection
Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University
SGC International Archives, University of Mississippi, Washington University Special Collections
University of Virginia
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Honolulu Academy of Art
East Carolina University
Academy of Art University
Jay Keasling
Janet Napolitano
Adam O’Donnell
Residencies
2015 Bullseye Glass, Emeryville CA (Grant)
2015 Werkram Wartek, Basel, Switzerland (Invitational)
2015 Haystack Mountain School of craft, Deer Isle, ME (Grant)
2015 Mullowney Printing (Grant)
2014 Werkram Wartek, Basel, Switzerland (Invitational)
2013 Druckwerk Atelier, Basel, Switzerland (Invitational)
2011 Venice Printmaking Studio
2009 Monte Azul, Costa Rica
Selected Publications
February 2015 issue, Art In Print, News of the Print World
April 2015 issue, C Magazine California Style, Culture section
April 2015, Bernalwood
500 Handmade Books, Volume 2
California Society of Printmakers: 100 Years, 1913–2013
Mail/Art/Book
Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art