Biography
Terry Kreiter
Solo Exhibitions
2004 Direction-Dimension, Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2004 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Blu, Santa Clara, CA
2001 Solo Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Artists Gallery San Francisco, CA
1988 Inaugural Exhibition, Burton Waller Gallery, San Jose, CA
Invitational Exhibitions
2009 The 10th International Shoebox Exhibition, 2009-2011
A World Traveling Exhibition, organized by the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
2009 Assemblage+Collage+Construction, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA
2008 Ten Year Celebration, The Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2008 30th Year Anniversary Exhibition, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Current Events, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CA
2007 Big Ideas, Small Works, Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Three-Person Show, SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Art Object Exhibition, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CA
2005 Assemblage / Collage, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CA
2005 Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CA
2005 Emotion, Gallery Blu, four-person Show, Santa Clara, CA
2004 Bronze Sculpture, The Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2004 Signs of Life, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CA
2003 Sculpture 2003, Works in Bronze, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2003 Art Exhibition, Anchorage Museum of Art and History, Anchorage, AK
2003 Artist’s Gallery, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2003 The 8th International Shoebox Exhibition, 2003-2006
A World Traveling Exhibition, organized by the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
2000 Sculpture Is, San Jose Art League 39th Annual 3D Competition, San Jose, CA
1999 The Foundry Fifty, The Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1997 The 6th International Shoebox Exhibition, 1997-1999
A World Traveling Exhibition, organized by the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
1997 Evocation of a Dream, Four-Person Show, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
1997 The Shoe Show, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1996 Drawing: Realism to Abstraction, A contemporary Survey of the Bay Area,
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1995 …Of Time Remembered, Three-Person Show, Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA
1994 The 5th International Shoebox Exhibition, 1994-1996
A World Traveling Exhibition, organized by the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
1993 Gallery Artists, Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA
Three Artists / Three Dimensions, d.p. Fong & Spratt Galleries, San Jose, CA
1992 Cire Perdue, Cast Bronze International Invitational, Chemekete College, Salem, OR
1992 North American Sculpture Exhibition, The Foothills Art Center, Golden CO
1992 KTEH Art Invitational, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1991 California Small Works, California Museum of Art, Luther Burbank Center, Santa Rosa, CA
1991 Member’s Group Exhibit, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
1991 The 4th International Shoebox Exhibition, 1991-1993
A World Traveling Exhibition, organized by the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
1990 Earths Alive: Sculpture Exhibition, Fine Art in Metal Foundry Invitational,
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, CA
1990 Bay Area Techno-Metal, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA
1990 Self Portraits, Invitational Group Exhibition, Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1989 Artists Inside: Sculpture Exhibition, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, CA
1989 Intercessors, San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA
Competitive Exhibitions
2008 Visual Politics, National Juried Exhibition, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
2006 By The Hand, National Juried Exhibition, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2005 Annual Open Juried Show 2005, Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
Juror: Karen Tsujimoto, Senior Curator of Art, Oakland Museum
2004 Annual Open Juried Show 2004, Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
Juror: Philip Linhares, Chief Curator of Art, Oakland Museum
1999 25th Annual All 2-Dimensional Competition, Center For The Visual Arts,
San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA Juror: Philip Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum
1999 National Multi-Media Exhibition, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
1999 Biennial Statewide Competition & Exhibition: Pastels, Triton Museum of Art,
Santa Clara, CA
1998 Toys In Contemporary Art II, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
Juried by Philip Linhares, Chief Curator of Art, Oakland Museum of California
1997 Toys in Contemporary Art, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
1996 California Works, Art Exhibition, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1996 Art Communication International, San Francisco, CA, Executive Jurors, Alan Stone of
Alan Stone Gallery New York, NY & Ivan Carp of O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Biennial Statewide Watercolor Competition & Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art,
Santa Clara, CA
1996 Found Objects 1996, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA
1994 69th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1994 Peninsula Sculpture VI, Peninsula Sculptors Guild, Belmont, CA, Juror: Kenneth Baker, Art Critic
for the San Francisco Chronicle
1994 California Works, Art Exhibition, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1993 68th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1992 Three-Dimensional Works, Sculpture Exhibition, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1991 21st Annual Traveling National Competition, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY / Greensboro
Cultural Center, Greensboro, NC / Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Found Object As Art, Long Beach Arts, Juror: George Herms, Long Beach, CA
1991 California Works Premium List, Art Exhibition, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1991 First Biennial Competition, Bedford Gallery, Regional Center For The Arts, Walnut Creek, CA,
Juror: Philip Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum
1991 2D Contemporary, 19th Annual Statewide Competition, San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA
Juror: Michael Danoff, Director, San Jose Museum Of Art
1990 International Painting & Sculpture Competition, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
Jurors: Wayne Thiebauld, Elmer Bischoff, David Gilhooly
1990 19th Annual 3D Competition, San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA, Juror: John Caldwell, Chief
Curator, San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art
1990 Northwest Juried Art 90, Cheney Cowels Museum, Spokane, WA, Juror: Jim Edwards,
Curator, San Antonio Art Museum, TX
1988 Regional Competition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, Juror: Alan Stone, Alan Stone Gallery,
New York, NY
1988 Olympiad Of The Arts, Visual Arts Competition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1988 The 3rd International Shoebox Exhibition, 1988-1989
A World Traveling Exhibition, organized by the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Juror’s: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Poland; Seung Teak Lee, Korea; James Surls, USA
1988 Gallery House Juried Exhibition, Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA jurors, Ruth Bernhardt; Kenneth
Trapp, Oakland Museum; Barbara Gibbs, director Crocker Art Museum
1987 National “87” Small Work Exhibitions, County Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY, Juror, Lisa Dennison,
Curator, Guggenheim Museum
1987 Excellence “87” Exhibition: National Juried Exhibition, Texas Sculpture Gallery, Dallas, TX
1987 Political Satire, Regional Competition, 1870 Gallery, Belmont, CA
1987 Regional Competition, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
1985 Pro Arts Annual Competition, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA Jurors: Kenneth Baker, critic,
San Francisco Chronicle, painter, Elmer Bischoff and Constance Lewallen, curator, The University
Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Honors and Awards
2006 Juror’s Award, By The Hand, National Exhibition, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2005 Juror’s Award, Open Juried Show, Los Gatos Museum, Los Gatos, CA
2004 Juror’s Award, Open Juried Show, Los Gatos Museum, Los Gatos, CA
2003 Artist Fellowship, Arts Council Silicon Valley, Triton Museum Exhibition, Santa Clara, CA
2000 First Place Award, Sculpture Is...San Jose Art League 39th annual Competition, San Jose, CA
1996 Award, A National Photography Competition, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM
1995 Award of Excellence, California Works, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1994 Juror’s Award, from Kenneth Baker, Critic, S.F. Chronicle, Peninsula Sculpture VI, Peninsula
Sculptors Guild Gallery, Belmont, CA
1992 First Place Award, KTEH Art Invitational, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Juror: Philip Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
1992 Award of Excellence, Three Dimensional Works, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1991 Award of Excellence, California Premium List, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1991 Purchase Award, First Biennial Competitive Exhibition: Bedford Gallery, Regional Center for the
Arts, Juror, Philip Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum of Art
1991 Special Award, 19th Annual All 2-D Statewide Competition, San Jose Art League,
San Jose, CA, Juror; I. Michael Danoff, Director, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1988 First Place Sculpture, Olympiad of the Arts, Visual arts competition, Triton Museum
Santa Clara, CA
Recent Community Activity
2007 Art lecture, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA
2005 Art lecture, Independence High School, San Jose, CA
2005 Art Lecture, Nova High School, Los Gatos, CA
2005 Art Lecture, Los Gatos High School, Los Gatos, CA
2003 Bronze pour demonstration, for Mission College, Artists studio/foundry, Santa Clara, CA
2002 Hospice Mask Project; a community driven art project to raise money for the Hospice programs of
California