SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Accumulations, Smith Ranch Homes Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2023 Accumulations and Excavations, Thompson Dorfman Partners, Mill Valley, CA
2008 Vernissage, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2008 New Landscapes, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2005 Transitions, Buckley Center Gallery, University of Portland, Portland, OR
2005 Material Culture, Mirror Pond Gallery, Bend, OR
2001 Accumulations, Nil Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2000 Reifications and Substantiations, Johnson City Area Arts Council, Johnson City, TN
JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Identities, Gallery 1337, ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
Curator: Jonathan Carver Moore, director of Johathan Carver Moore Gallery
2024 Collage/Assemblage, SITE: Brooklyn website
Curator: Regine Basha
2024 Influx: Relicalibrating the Unknown, Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA
Curator: Jeremy Morgan
2024 Bay Area Arts and Crafts, Sausalito Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Curator: Shiva Pakdel
2024 Artworks Downtown, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
Juried by Stan Gibbs
2024 Surf, Mountains, Flowers and a Moment in Time: Contemporary Artists’ Visions of Marin, Thompson Dorfman Partners, Mill Valley, CA
Juried by Elisabeth Setten
2024 A Question of Balance, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA
Jurors: Jeff Nathanson, Art Curator, Museum of Sonoma County Art Curator
& Kate Eilertsen, Chief Curator of Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art
2023 The Next Big Thing ‘23, Studio Channel Islands, Ventura, CA
Curator: Shana Nys Dambrot, arts editor for L.A. Weekly
2023 Finding The Form: Bay Area Sculpture, Sausalito Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Curator: Shiva Pakdel
2023 Laws of Nature, Petaluma Art Center, Petaluma, CA
Curator: Vicky Kumpfer
2023 Slice: A Juried Exhibition of Regional Art, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
Juror: Kelly Lindner, Curator for University Galleries, California State University, Sacramento
2023 Landscape Perspectives, Gallery 1337, ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
Juror: Kim Eagles-Smith, Kim Eagles-Smith gallery
2023 Landscape: Constructed and Wild, Site: Brooklyn online exhibition
Juror: Alexxa Gotthardt, SFMOMA
2022-23 Crocker Kingsley Exhibition, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
Juror: Emma Saperstein, Chief Curator, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art
2021 Small Works Exhibition, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
Juror: Jack Fischer
2021 Weave, Cut, Bundle and Layer: Artists With Material Instincts, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Curator: Lisa McCutcheon
2021 BEAUTY or TRUTH, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
Juror: Chandra Cerrito
2021 International Sculpture Center Chapter Member Showcase, online at Artsy.com
Jurors: International Sculpture Center members
2021 A Moment of Reflection, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
Juror: Emebet Korn
2020 The Red Wood, online exhibition at https://www.theredwood.show/
Curator: Julia Westerbeck
2020 Inspire: Teaching Artist Exhibition, Youth in Arts Gallery, San Rafael, CA
Curator: Morgan Schauffler
2020 Tunnels of the Mind, ZAZ Corner digital gallery, Times Square, New York, NY
Curator: Orit Ben Shitrit
2019 Echoes: From Here to There, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Fran, CA
Jurors: Tim Berry and Jeremy Morgan
2019 Alchemy, Sonoma Arts Guild, Sonoma, CA
Juror: Jenny Gheith, SFMOMA
2019 National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Curator: Amy Owen, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art
2019 Said I Meant, Artpoetica, Brooklyn, NY
Curated by JoAnne McFarland
2019 Made In California, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
Juror: Yevgeniya Mikhailik
2019 Matter of Form, Shoh Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Juror: Christine Koppes, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
2019 Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
Juror: David Pagel, Claremont Graduate University
2018 Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Township, NJ
Juror: Kim Conaty, Whitney Museum of American Art
2017 Miami Art Week, International Sculpture Center Chapter Exhibition Online
Jurors: International Sculpture Center members
2017 Migrations, 1337 Gallery, ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
Juror: Emily A. Kuhlmann, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
2017 EXPO Chicago, International Sculpture Center Chapter Exhibition Online,
Jurors: International Sculpture Center members
2017 Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Township, NJ
Juror: Jane Panetta, Whitney Museum of American Art
2017 Flora and Fauna, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Juror: Suzanne Gray, Seager Gray Gallery
2016 SFAI Alumni Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Juror: Katya Min, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2016 Palette, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA
Jurors: Lisa Solomon, Theodora Mauro, Kelly Inouye
2016 Architecture, ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
Juror: Eric Moreau
2015 Small Works Exhibition, ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
Juror: J.D. Beltran, San Francisco Arts Commission
2015 Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Township, NJ
Juror: Carter E. Foster, Whitney Museum of American Art
2015 Build It! IDEA Museum, Mesa, AZ
Curator: Jeffory Morris
2012 De-Mobbing: Landscape, Structure and Bioform, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Curator: Brian Karl
2010 My San Francisco: A Neighborhood MashUp, collaboration with CENTS artist collaborative, Children’s Creativity Museum, San Francisco, CA
Curator: Irina Zadov
2010 Denizen, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA
Curator: Niki Shaprio
2009 Invisible Homes, collaboration with CENTS artist collaborative, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Curator: Justin Hoover
2009 Raw, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Curator: John K. Melvin
2009 Wonderland, collaboration with CENTS, installation at Civic Center Park, San Francisco, CA
Curator: Lance Fung
2008 Lucky Number 7, Site Santa Fe Biennale, Hiroshi Fujisan Opera Project participant, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Reconfigurations, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2007 Negotiating Space, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2005 Nine Square Grid, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Curator: Emily Silver
2005 Craft Biennial, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
Jurors: Gerri Ondrizek, Ted Vogel, and Namita Wiggers
2001 Nothing & Everything, The Waiting Room Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Juror: Joe del Pesco
2000 Commodity & Contradiction, 4x Gallery, Portland, OR
2000 Art On Paper, Maryland Federation of Art Gallery on the Circle, Annapolis, MD
Juror: Phyllis Rosensweig
1999 Texas National 99, SFA Gallery, Stephen Austin State Univ., Nacogdoches, TX
Juror: Donald Sultan
1999 Positive/Negative 14, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State Univ., Johnson City, TN
Juror: Stephen C. Wicks
1999 Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AB
Juror: James Rondeau
1998-99 RISD On The Road Textiles Exhibition, four-gallery tour:
Contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA
Ester M. Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Jurors: Jack Lenor Larsen and Sherri Donghia
1998 First Tennessee Bank Exhibition, Carroll Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
Juror: William Christenberry
1996 University of Tennessee Film Festival, Screening of Strip Tease: Roadside Art & Architecture, Knoxville, TN
1995 Early Graduates BFA Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Curator: Mark Moscone
1994 Picture Him, Picture Her, independent exhibition, Providence, RI
Juror: Tia Shin
1994 Sculpture Biennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Jurors: Jay Coogan, Michael Beresford, and Ellen Driscoll
1991 Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1990 Scholastic Art Awards National Student Art Exhibition, State of Illinois Center, Chicago, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Crocker-Kingsley catalog, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA 2023
'Eerie orange’ day spurs local artist to curate online gallery, Sonoma Index Tribune, 1/1/2021 - https://www.sonomanews.com/article/entertainment/eerie-orange-day-spurs-sonoma-artist-to-curate-online-art-gallery/
Echoes: From Here To There catalog, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2019
National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2019
Made in California Exhibition catalog, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA, 2019
Crocker-Kingsley catalog, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA 2019
Flora and Fauna catalog, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2017
Palette catalog, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2016
Wonderland catalog, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Council, San Francisco, CA, 2010
Wonderland brightens Tenderloin, artists' spirit,” San Francisco Chronicle, 11/8/2009
New York Times San Francisco Arts Monthly, Wonderland preview by Jean Schiffman, 9/27/2009
Xavier University blog - http://xavierartdept.blogspot.com/2010/07/xavier-art-alumni-artist-barry-beach.html
SFWeekly.com, review of Ways and Means exhibition by Traci Vogel, 4/16/2008
Thinking, making, learning, San Francisco Art Institute catalog, San Francisco, CA, 2006
The Beacon, University of Portland newspaper, review of Transitions installation, 10/24/2005
Southeastern Juried Exhibition catalogue, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AB, 1999
Texas National 99 catalogue, Stephen F. Austin State Univ. Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX, 1999
Positive/Negative 14 catalogue, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State Univ., Johnson City, TN, 1999
Scholastic Art Awards National Student Art Exhibition catalog, Scholastics, Inc, New York, NY, 1990
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
2016 EE Ford grant from Marin Academy for travel and paper clay workshop at Anderson Ranch Art Center
2016 Innovation grant from Marin Academy to design new course Three Dimensional Thinking
2016 Innovation grant from Marin Academy to create STEAM curricular connections with sciences
2014-16 Voted by faculty as FacBusters faculty representative, Marin Academy
2005-08 Full tuition MFA Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute
2005 Higher Education Art Educator of the Year, Oregon Art Education Association
1999 Award of Merit, First Tennessee Bank Exhibition, Carroll Reece Museum
1999 Honorable Mention, Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art
1999 Residency merit scholarship, Vermont Studio Center
1993-95 Sylvia Leslie Young Herman Scholarship, Rhode Island School of Design
1990-91 Full tuition Scholastic Art Awards scholarship, Xavier University
1990 National Gold Key Award and two Regional Silver Key Awards, Scholastic Art Awards
1989 Full scholarship, room and board to Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts
TEACHING
Marin Academy, San Rafael, CA since 2012
Valley International Academy, Campbell, CA, 2009-2011
San Francisco Art Institute, 2007
EDUCATION
MFA 2008 San Francisco Art Institute
BFA 1995 Rhode Island School of Design