Lee Michael Altman
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Lee Michael Altman biography

EDUCATION
MFA Printmaking, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1976
BFA Fine Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1974
Literature and Creative Writing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1965-67
Theatre and Literature, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 1963-65

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2014-08 Private Instruction in Printmaking/Painting, Benicia, CA
2012-06 California State Summer School for the Arts/CSSSA, CalArts, Valencia, CA – Instructor in Printmaking and Design
2010-09 Petaluma Arts Center, Petaluma, CA – Experimental Multi-Media on Paper workshops
2009 California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA – YASP Program (Young Artists Studio Program) Drawing from Life
2008 College of Marin, Indian Valley campus, Novato, CA – Instructor in Design
2007 De La Salle High School, Concord, CA – Semester Artist Resident, Instructor in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture
2007 Arts Benicia Gallery Education Program, Benicia, CA – Instructor in Collage/Drawing
2005 Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA – Instructor in Printmaking
2003-1992 Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA – Adjunct Professor in Printmaking, Sculpture and Filmmaking (Acting Chair, Department of Art, two academic years 1998-2000) Classes taught: Sculpture, Filmmaking, Printmaking, Drawing, Art History, and Collegiate Seminar: Greek and Christian Thought.
1997 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA – Graduate Review Committee and Graduate Tutorial in Printmaking, Painting, Photography & New Genres
1993 Printmaking Workshop, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
1991-90 Printmaking Workshops, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
1991 Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco, CA – Instructor in Art
1988-82 Private Instruction in Printmaking/Painting, Nevada Building, Palo Alto, CA
1986-82 Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA – Instructor in Printmaking
1981-80 California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA – Instructor in Printmaking
1979 Graphic Arts Workshop – Printmaking Workshop, San Francisco, CA
1978-77 Private Instruction in Printmaking/Painting, Nevada Bldg. Palo Alto, CA
1977 Guest Lecturer in Printmaking, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
1977-76 Stanford University, Stanford, CA – Instructor in Printmaking and Drawing (sabbatical replacement for Nathan Oliveira)
1976-74 Stanford University, Stanford, CA – Teaching Assistant for Nathan Oliveira, Printmaking and Drawing

ASSOCIATED EXPERIENCE – AWARDS – HONORS
2017-05 Auctions for Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia CA
2014-09 Art Reader and Rater for Praxis/Princeton Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
2013 Exhibition Committee member, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia CA
2010, 2008 Benicia Community Arts Scholarship Committee, Benicia, CA
2009 Richard Diebenkorn: The Stanford Monotypes – A Recent Acquisition, De Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA (Karin Breuer, Curator in Charge, brochure acknowledgement)
2007 Jurors’ First Place Award, 30th Annual Vacaville Juried Art Exhibit, Vacaville, CA
2006 Juror for Teen Art, Sunvalley Shopping Center, Concord, CA
2006 Juror for the 10th Anniversary San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival Arts Exhibition, Vallejo, CA
2004 Student nominated recognition in the publication Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2003-2004 issue
2001 Juror’s Award, Juror: Kala Institute Director Archana Horsting, Imprints: A Survey of Traditional and Experimental Printmaking, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA
1996 Artist in Residence, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerliz, NY
1996 Faculty Development Award, Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1995 Juror’s Award, Flying without Limit, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
1991-85 Macintosh Computer Graphics Production, Abney International, Sebastopol, CA
1984 Juror’s First Place Monotype Award, Juror: Henry Hopkins, Northern California Regional Print Competition, Pacific Art League Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1983 Palo Alto studio photograph in the collection of American Art Archives, Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C., submitted by 3 EP, LTD. Press
1980-78 at 3 EP, LTD. Press, Palo Alto, CA, Collaborative Printer in Intaglio and Monoprint for: Nathan Oliveira, Frank Lobdell, Tom Holland, Joseph Goldyne and Ed Moses
1979 Juror of Printmaking Exhibition, Studio Performance Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1977 Juror for Painting Exhibition, City of Menlo Park, CA
1976-74 Stanford University Fine Arts Press, Stanford, CA – Collaborative Printer of Monotypes, Etchings and Lithographs for: Nathan Oliveira, Frank Lobdell, Richard Diebenkorn, and Wayne Thiebaud

EXHIBITIONS
2023 Inspirare, Group Show, Juror Robert Rhoades, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino CA
2017 Unique and Multiple: Selections from Smith Andersen Editions, Group Show, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University CA
2017-01 Arts Benicia Gallery, Annual Auction, Benicia, CA
2015 Why Make Art – Twenty-Five Benicia Artists Respond, Group Show Invitational, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia CA (book)
2015 Fragments: The Art of Collage & Assemblage, Group Show, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia CA
2013 Coming Home: Artists of Solano County, Group Invitational, Solano Community College, Fairfield CA
2012 From the Arsenal and Beyond, Group Show Invitational, Gallery 621, Benicia, CA
2012 AB25 Collective Memories, a Major Retrospective Celebrating 25 Years, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia CA
2012 Human Voice, Group Show Invitational, Gallery 2110, Sacramento, CA
2012-06 CSSSA Faculty Exhibitions, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2010 Works on Paper by Lee Altman and Linda Grebmeier, Kings Arts Center, Hanford, CA
2010 The Art of a Community, Group Shows in ‘10 –’96, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA
2008 Contemporary American Monotypes – Works from the Anderson Graphic Arts collection, De Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA (Karin Breuer, Curator in Charge, artwork images in brochure)
2007 24th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Group Competition, Jurors: Peter Selz and Nancy Buchanan, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2007 One Person Show “Twenty Books Series,” Stanford University Faculty Club, Stanford, CA
2007 30th Annual Vacaville Juried Art Exhibit, Group Competition, Jurors: Mark Perlman and Terry Miura, Vacaville Art Gallery, Vacaville, CA (Juror’s Award)
2007 44th Annual Regional Juried Art Show, Group Competition, Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, Fairfield, CA
2006 Multiple Choice, Group Show, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA
2005 Monotypes and Paintings, One Person Show, Wertheimer Dress & Co. CPAs, One Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Human Form, Group Show, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2003 Unbounded Vistas: Artists Interpret the Northern California Landscape, Group Show, Juror: Terry St. John, Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
2003 One Person Show, “Acrobat Series,” Stanford University Faculty Club, Stanford, CA
2002 Impressions Print Show, Group Show, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2002 Printmaking 2002, Group Show, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA
2001 Acrobat Series, One Person Show, Marilyn O’Rourke Art Gallery, Benicia Public Library, CA
2001 Imprints: A Survey of Traditional and Experimental Printmaking, Group Show, Juror: Kala Institute Director Archana Horsting, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA (Juror’s Award)
2001 Watershed 2001: Landscape Painting, Group Invitational, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA (Catalog)
2001 1st Annual Solano County Visual Arts Exhibition, Group Show, Fairfield Center Gallery, Fairfield, CA
2001 Los Angeles Printmaking Society:16th National Exhibition, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Printmaking: Diversity, Group Show, Danville Fine Arts Gallery, Danville, CA
2000 SMC Faculty Exhibition, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
2000 Watershed: Environmental Poetry Festival, Group Painting Show Invitational, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1999 McNeese National Works On Paper Exhibition, Group Show, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
1999 Works on Paper 1999, Group Show, Louisiana State University, LSU Union Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
1999 27th Bradley National Print & Drawing Exhibition, Group Show, Bradley University, Heuser Art Center, Peoria, IL
1998 Works on Paper, Group Regional Competition, Juror: John Berggruen, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
1998 The Watershed Landscape, Group Show Invitational, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA
1998 Gesture as Value II, Group Drawing Invitational, N.Y. Information Technology Center, NY
1998 Crocker-Kingsley 71st Exhibition, Group Competition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1998 Lead into Gold: Alchemical Practice & Metaphor, Group Show, JFK University Arts and Consciousness Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1998 Honoring the Feminine, Group Competition, Center for the Visual Art, Oakland, CA
1997 The College Collection, Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1997 Gesture as Value, Group Show Invitational, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Gesture as Value, Group Show Invitational, Franziska Pia Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
1997 EBMUD Watershed Landscape Painters Show, Invitational Show, EBMUD Building, Oakland, CA
1997 Special Places in Benicia, Invitational Landscape Show: 150th Anniversary, City Hall Chamber, Benicia, CA
1997 Beyond Boundaries, Group Show, Juror: Wayne Thiebaud, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1996 Beyond Boundaries, Group Show, Bank of America Concourse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Point of View, Group Show, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
1996 Watermark, Group Show, Gallery Concord, Concord, CA
1996 Monotype 1996, Group Show, Central Connecticut State University, New Britan, CT
1996 Juried Show 1996, Davis Art Center, Juror Price Amerson – Director of Richard L. Nelson Gallery & Fine Arts Collection at UC Davis, Davis, CA
1996 17th Annual Paper National Exhibition, Group Show, Columbia College, Columbia, MO
1995 Works on Paper, Group Show, Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto, CA
1995 Flying without Limit, Group Show, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA (Juror’s Award)
1995 SMC Faculty Exhibition, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1994 California Small Works, Group Show, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
1994 Figuration, Group Show, Rhodes Art Gallery, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA
1994 Saint Mary’s College Faculty, The Art Store, Oakland, CA
1994 Faculty Show, Saint Mary’s College Library, Moraga, CA
1993 9th Biennial Drawing and Printmaking Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1992 Monotypes, One Person Show, Hearst Building, San Francisco, CA
1991 Monotypes/Monoprints, Group Show, San Mateo Council of Arts, Belmont, CA
1991 The Anderson Print Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1990 Prints, Group Show, T. Marguardt Fine Art, Santa Rosa, CA
1988 Fate of the Animals, Group Painting Show, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1987 Woman Portrayed, Group Show Invitational, Sunnyvale Creative Arts Center Gallery, Sunnyvale, CA
1986 New Acquisitions for the City of Palo Alto, Group Show, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1985 Content Art, Group Show, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 Northern California Regional Print Competition, Group Show, Juror: Henry Hopkins, Director San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Art League Gallery, Palo Alto, CA (Juror’s Award)
1984 The Singular Image, Group Show, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA
1983 Artists as Printers, Group Show Invitational, Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1983 Art of the Monotype, Group Show Invitational, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
1983 American Artists, Group Show, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1982 Monotypes, Paintings, Sculptures, One Person Show, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1980 Introductions 1980, Three Person Show, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1980 Prints and Monotypes, Group Show, Allport Gallery, Larkspur, CA
1979 Monotypes, Group Show Invitational, Sacred Heart Schools, Art Corridor Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
1979 Monotypes 1979, Group Show, Barridoff Gallery, Portland, ME
1979 Contemporary American Monotypes, Traveling Group Show, Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA;
1979 Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA; Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
1977 Prints from Stanford, Group Show Invitational, Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University CA; Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary‘s College, Moraga CA; University of Washington, Seattle WA; Stanford University, Stanford CA; Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, Atherton CA; Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco CA; DeYoung Fine Art Museum, San Francisco CA; The City of Palo Alto, Palo Alto CA; Portland Art Museum, Portland OR; Kaiser Permanente, Santa Rosa CA; Intel Corp., San Francisco CA; Crocker Bank, San Francisco CA; Dean Witter, San Francisco CA; Wertheimer Dress & Co. CPAs, San Francisco CA, Mr. James Landau, Orinda CA and other private collections across the country.

MASTER PRINTER CREDITS
Richard Diebenkorn: The Stanford Monotypes – a Recent Acquisition, De Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA 2009
Frank Lobdell, T. A. Burgard, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA 2003
Joseph Goldyne, Prints, Catalog raisonné, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2003
The Art of Collaborative Printmaking, Smith Andersen Editions, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, 1998
Variations in Time, Nathan Oliveira, Monotypes and Monoprints, Robert Flynn Johnson and Giovanna Bertazzoni, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1997
American Prints: Process & Proofs, Judith Goldman, Whitney Museum of American Art, Harper & Row, 1981 (master printer for Nathan Oliveira etching)
The Painterly Print-Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, Editors, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 1980 (master printer for Diebenkorn and Thiebaud monotypes)
Richard Diebenkorn Monotypes, Gerald Nordland, University of California, Los Angeles, 1976

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sestanovich, Nick, Benicia Herald, “Why Make Art – Twenty-Five Benicia Artists Respond,” October 14, 2015
Monk, Bethany, Benicia Herald, “A Community shows its art, and its heart,” January 31, 2010
Santiago, Brandon, The Sentinel-Hanford, “Fresh perspectives: Upcoming exhibits: Works on Paper by Lee Altman and Linda Grebmeier,” January 15, 2010
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Weller-Renfrow, Kathryn, Inside Benicia, “Benicians Kindle Their Inner Spirit” September 2006
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Horton, David, Artweek, “Watershed at Berkeley Art Center,” September 2001
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Faught, Judith, Daily Republic, “Exhibit Celebrates the Work of Local Artists,” April 20, 2001
Pal, Meera, Contra Costa Sun, “Professors Exhibit the Art of Teaching,” March 22, 2000
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Clairmont, Julie, Solano Times, “Inner Beauty,” September 10, 1998
Allen, Stuart, The Davis Enterprise, “Juried Show,” January 31, 1996
Rusk, Connie, Saint Mary’s College Update, “Faculty Win Top National and Campus Honors,” 1996
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