Renée Owen Bio
CURATOR/COORDINATOR
2024 Pulp: Book & Paper Arts, Coordinator and Installer, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA
2022 Pulp: Book & Paper Objects, Sebastopol, Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2020 Falling Open: On & Off the Page, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes, CA
2018 Bound & Unbound, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
SOLO EXHBITIONS
2023 Artists’ Books: Renée Owen, SOCOBAG, Sebastopol Public Library, Sebastopol, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Juried or Invited)
2023 Guest Artist, Members’ Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2023Transformations: Recycled Art, Santa Rosa Art Center, Santa Rosa, CA
2023 Members’ Exhibition, Santa Rosa Art Center, Santa Rosa, CA
2022 Seen & Imagined Juried Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2022 Truth: Book Art & Broadsides, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2022 Wabi Sabi Juried Exhibition, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2022 Fiber Art Juried Exhibition, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2022 Pulp: Book & Paper Objects, Co-Coordinator, International Juried Exhibition, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2022 Kalligraphia, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
2022 Turning Pages: The Book as Art, Santa Rosa Art Center, Santa Rosa CA
2021 Fiber Art Now's Felt Exhibition in Print
2021 WEAD's Art on the Edge, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2020 Crossing the Divide, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2020 International Art Quilts, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2020 This Is Just To Say, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2019 Content Matters, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (Juror Jack Fischer)
2019 Reflectivity: Climate Change, Healdsburg Art Center, Healdsburg, CA
2019 Calligraphies in Conversation, SF Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
2018 Family Matters: SDA Internatl Exhibition in Print (Surface Design Journal, Vol.42.4)
2018 Calligraphies in Conversation, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, CA
2018 Bibliophoria (Juror: Macy Chadwick), Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2018 Bound & Unbound, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2018 If Only I Had Time to Tell You, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2018 Spring, Summer & Fall exhibits, Sometimes Books Gallery, Pt. Reyes, CA
2018 Wabi Sabi, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2017 International Fiber Exhibit, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2017 Bay Area Women Artists (Jurors: Seager Gray), O'Hanlon Ctr for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2017 Thread Heads, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2017 Road Maps, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2017 Wabi Sabi, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2017 Reclaiming Earth, Women Eco Artists Dialogue, Jewitt Gallery, SF, CA,
2017 Chance Operations, Sometimes Books, Pt. Reyes, CA,
2016 Reflections & Shadows, Healdsburg Ctr for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA
2016 Root & Petal, Leaf & Seed, Occidental Ctr for the Arts, Occidental, CA
2016 Leafing Out, Sometimes Books, Pt. Reyes, CA
2015 International Fiber Exhibit, Sebastopol Art Ctr, Sebastopol, CA
2015 Blood Quantum Book Art Exhibit, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 Artifacts Exhibit, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO
2015 Natural Dye Exhibit, Mendocino Art Ctr, Mendocino, CA
2015 Bay Area Women Artists, O'Hanlon Ctr for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2015 Wabi Sabi, O'Hanlon Ctr for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2015 Women Environmental Artists, Pt. Reyes, CA & Sausalito, CA
2015 Spring, Summer & Fall Exhibits, Sometimes Books, Pt. Reyes, CA
2014 Spring, Summer & Fall Exhibits, Sometimes Books, Pt. Reyes, CA
2014 Bibliophoria III, Sebastopol Ctr for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2014 Bind, Stitch & Fold, Sebastopol Ctr for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2014 Bay Area Women Artists, O'Hanlon Ctr for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2014 Wabi Sabi, O'Hanlon Ctr for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2014 Sometimes Books Exhibit, Petaluma Public Library, Petaluma, CA
2014 Mix It Up, Occidental Ctr for the Arts, Occidental, CA
2013 Sonoma County Book Arts Guild Exhibit, Finley Community Ctr, Santa Rosa, CA
2013 Library of Conserved Books and Travel Books, Sometimes Books, Pt. Reyes, CA
2013 Bay Area Women Artists, O'Hanlon Ctr for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2013 4th Annual Altered Book Show, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
2013 Innovations in Contemporary Crafts, Richmond Art Ctr, Richmond, CA
2012 Field Notes: A Wild Book Exhibit, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes, CA
2012 Wabi Sabi, O'Hanlon Ctr for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2011 20x20, Petaluma Arts Ctr, Petaluma, CA
2010 H2O, Sebastopol Ctr for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2009 Bibliophoria I, Sebastopol Ctr for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
ART AWARDS
2020 Crossing the Divide, Award of Merit, (Juror: Donna Seayer) Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes, CA
2015 Natural Dye Exhibit, Third Place, (Juror: Yoshiba Wada) Mendocino Art Center, CA
2014 Award of Merit, Mix It Up, Occidental Center for the Arts, CA
BOOK AWARDS
2020 Backbone Press Haiku Chapbook Awards Competition, Second Prize, This One Life
2020 Touchstone Distinguished Book Award, Shortlisted, This One Life (Backbone Press)
2017 HSA Merit Book Award, Hon. Mention, Scent of the Past...Imperfect, Editor (Two Autumns Press)
2015 Touchstone Distinguished Book Award, Hon. Mention, Alone on a Wild Coast (Snapshot Press)
2012 Snapshot Press Haiku Book Awards Competition, First Prize, Alone on a Wild Coast
COLLECTIONS
Private and Public
ART IN PRINT & ONLINE
500 Handmade Books (Vol.2), Lark Books
Surface Design Journal Vol. 42. No.4
Letter Arts Review (Featured Artist), Vol. 36, No.3
Letter Arts Review (Annual Juried Issue), Vol. 33, No.1
Fiber Arts Now Vol. 10.3
Alphabet (Vol. 48, No.2)
Modern Haiku
Mariposa
Moonset
Haiga Online
ORGANIZATIONS
Surface Design Association
Women Environmental Artists Dialogue (WEAD)
Pacific Rim Sculptors
Friends of Calligraphy
Sonoma County Book Arts Guild
North Redwoods Book Arts Guild
Haiku Poets of Northern CA
Haiku Poets of America
Wellspring Poets