With their powerful orchestrations of color and gesture, John DiPaolo’s abstract paintings are prisms through which we can reflect upon how we exist in the world as matter and energy. Their intensity and impact reverberate through the body and awaken an upsurge of memories and emotions. About his process, DiPaolo has said: “There is no formula, no method, just a compulsion to experiment.... The interaction with painting is so primal.”

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b. Brooklyn, NY 1946

EDUCATION
1975 - 1977 MA, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1971 - 1974 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1965 - 1966 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 Light After Darkness, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 John DiPaolo: Four Decades of Painting, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
2016 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012   Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Visions 1982-2002 John DiPaolo Retrospective, Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
2001   Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
1982 Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
1979 Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Stay Inspired, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Lightning Strikes: 22 poets. 22 artists. Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco,CA
2017 ARTIST AS SUBJECT: 20th Anniversary Celebration, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Hello, Goodbye, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Selections from Permanent Collection, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2010 Juicy Paint, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2003 Di Napoli Skybridge, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2002 Spring Exhibit, The Heritage Fine Arts Collaborative, San Jose, CA
1999-2000 At the Millennium Contemporary Paintings from Northern California, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
1995 D.P. Fong Gallery, San Jose, CA
1991 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1989   Six Italian-America Artists, Museo Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
1988 Ivory/Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 Faculty Spring Exhibit, De Young Museum Art School, San Francisco
1981 New Artists, Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1980-83 San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
1980 The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Downtown Center, CA
1979 Italian-American Artists, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
1976 Bi-Centennial Landscape Exhibition, Capricorn Asunder Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973 Almond Rod Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1964 Lever House Museum, New York, NY

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young & Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Adobe Inc., US Corporate Headquarters, San Jose, CA
Alza Pharmaceuticals, Mountain View, CA
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, San Francisco, CA
Don Sebastiani and Sons Corporate Headquarters, Sonoma, CA
Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA
KPMG, San Francisco, CA
Magley & Associates, San Francisco, CA
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., New York City, NY
Oracle Corporation, US Corporate Headquarters, Redwood Shores, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
VeriSign Inc., US Corporate Headquarters, Mountain View, CA
Charles Schwab, Inc., San Francisco, CA