The lyrical geometry undergirding Bernadette Jiyong Frank’s paintings is a means for capturing the Japanese concept of ma, the space between things that is both empty and yet full of meaning. With their overlapping planes of tonal values, the meditative paintings are also expressive of nature and light, encouraging us to transcend the everyday to commune with the empyreal contours of our worlds.

//CV//

b. 1964 Tokyo, Japan

EDUCATION
1988 Continuing Education in Communication Art, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1987 Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Time Shadow, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Migrant, Bait Al Salmaniya Cultural Center, Art in Embassies Cultural Exchange Program, Manama, Bahrain
2015 Spaces in Between, Galerie Beate Berndt, Augsburg, German
2014 Spaces in Between, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Jiyong-New Work, 425 Market St. (Courtesy of Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Bernadette Jiyong Frank, New Oil Paintings, Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Color Spectrum, Carnegie Institution for Sciences, Stanford, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Relics for the Future, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
Breaking Through, US Embassy Dhaka, Bangladesh
2018 Art in Embassies Exhibition, US Embassy Manama Bahrain, Zinj, Bahrain
Here and Now, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Geometric & Kinetic, Nicholson Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Black Box, Boeckercontemporary on Tour, Kuenstlerhaus Saar, Saarbruecken, Germany, La ’S’ Grand Atelier, Vielsalm
Belgium, the Faux Mouvement, Centre d’art contemporain, Metz France, Casino
Luxemburg, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxemburg
Artist as Subject: 20th Anniversary Celebration, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 every which way, Galerie Beate Berndt, Augsburg, Germany
Pairings, Curated by Jennifer Bethke, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
2015 Summer National Juried Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
2014 FISSION: Sid Garrison and Bernadette Jiyong Frank, Gensler, San Francisco, CA
New Artist Preview, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
The Landscape is Dead, Long Live the Landscape!, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
Crocker Art Museum Art Auction Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Inspire Artists Who Inspire You, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013    Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Tallahassee International, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL (catalog)
2012 Point of No Return, Juror: Hesse McGraw, Chief Curator at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
New Images Photography Awards, Gallery Photographica, Juror Rose
Marasco, Distinguished Professor of Art, University of Southern Maine
2011 Art for AIDS, The Galleria at the San Francisco Design Center, San Francisco, CA
Marking Time, Liquid Spaces Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Aqua Miami Art Fair, Stephanie Breitbard Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA (December)
The 49th Anniversary Show – Present, Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Magical Thinking, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
Old Friends-New Faces IV, Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Pro Arts 35th Box Art Auction, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008 New Visions 2008, Juried Group Show, Jurors: Lucinda Barnes and Karen Tsujimoto, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA

PUBLIC ART
2018 SF Arts Commission, Fire Station #5, San Francisco, CA
1995 Mural Project for a Recreational Area, Ana Kolleg Boarding School, Augsburg, Germany
1993 Mural Work for a Bus Station by the Waterfront, Whangarei Arts Commission, Whangarei, New Zealand

PUBLICATIONS + REVIEWS
2020 Fall in Love With These Nine Works of Art During Coronavirus Shutdown, Jonathan Curiel, SF Weekly, April 2020
2018   Art in Embassies Exhibition Catalog, US Embassy Manama Bahrain
The Visuals that speak Endless, Interview with Weekender Bahrain, Fall 2018
The Wisdom of Uncertainty, Tricycle Magazine: The Buddhist Review, Fall 2018
    Elle Décor, March 2018
New American Paintings, Past Featured Artist Supplement, February/March
2017 Is San Francisco America’s New Art Capital? - Featured Artist, Jonathan Curiel, Celebrated Living by American Airlines, March/April 2017
Eine Galeristin packt aus, Alois Knoller, Augsburger Allgemeine, January 2017
2015 New American Paintings #121
Meditatives Betrachten, Iacov Grinberg, A3Kultur Issue #11, November
Ihre Malerei Speichert das Licht, Alois Knoller, Augsburger Allgemeine, September
SFC&G Magazine (cover), June/July issue
2014 Mathematical Formulas Meld with Abstract Paintings, Jonathan Curiel, SF Weekly, June
3D – Definitive Design & Décor Magazine
2013 28th Tallahassee International Exhibition Catalog, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
Luxe Interiors + Design Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 2
New American Paintings #103
2012 House Beautiful, September Issue
2011 Art Basel Miami Beach 2010, Pendulum Art News
A Guide to Open Studios, Amber Adrian, 7x7, San Francisco, CA
2010 Old Friends-New Faces at Triangle Gallery, Frank Cebulski, The Examiner, San Francisco, CA
2009 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 5, Boston, MA
2008 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 3, Boston, MA
1993 "Visitor's Fishy Reminder", Whangarei Journal, Whangarei, New Zealand

AWARDS
2017 Finalist, SFO International Terminal Boarding Area A, SF Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
2016 Public Art Commission, Fire Station #5, SF Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
2013 Presidential Fellowship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO
Nominee, 2 x 2 Solos, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012 New Images Photography Awards, Silver Medal, Juror: Rose Marasco, San Francisco, CA

COLLECTIONS
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, CA
The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
The Hyatt Regency, Boston, MA
Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects, San Francisco, CA
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA