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Education

2004 MFA University of California, Berkeley

1995 BS University of California, Davis

Teaching Experience

2005 Spring Semester, UC Berkeley, Figure Drawing

2004 Fall Semester, UC Berkeley, Beginning Drawing and Color Theory

2003 Fall Semester, UC Berkeley, Introduction to Visual Art

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2009 Boundary of the Interior, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2008 Sirens Sing you to Shipwreck, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY

Choose your Own Adventure, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

Laura Ball, The Last Lap, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007 Laura Ball, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT

2006 Wargames (don't try this at home) , Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

Laura Ball, Kaviar and Kind, West Hollywood, CA

Laura Ball and Andrew Schoultz, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY

Peter Miller Gallery Project Room, Chicago, IL

2005 Laura Ball, Water Pistols and Merrilee Challis, Organ Garden, Bucheon Gallery,

San Francisco, CA

Selected Exhibitions

2008 The Other Side, Roseark, West Hollywood, CA

The Sum of its Parts, Swarm Gallery, Oakland CA

Arco Art Fair, Madrid, with Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2007 Aqua Hotel, Miami Art Fair with Morgan Lehman Gallery

Red Dot, Miami Art Fair with Swarm Gallery

Celebrating Ares, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

Allston Skirt Gallery Group Show curated by Amy Ross

2006 Through the Rabbit Hole, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY

flow art fair with Morgan Lehman Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

Bridge art fair with Peter Miller Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

Drawing Gifts, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Toronto Alternative Art Fair with Morgan Lehman Gallery, Toronto

Bay Area Group Show, curated by Catherine Saiki, Ego Park, Oakland, CA

year06, London Art Fair with Bucheon Gallery, London

Drawn, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

Paperworks, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Deluge, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

fresh stART, Arena 1 Gallery Santa Monica, CA

Objects of Desire, sixspace, Culver City, CA

Fantasy, Gallery 10G, New York, NY

artla, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Los Angeles

2005 Commission '05, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Who New?, Group Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Got Quirk?, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Juror Susan Gescheidle

Bay Area Currents 2005, Oakland Art Gallery, Juror Rosamund Felsen

Face Paint, A Portrait Show, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco

artLA, Bucheon Gallery, Los Angeles

UC Berkeley Faculty Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley

74th Crocker-Kingsley, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Juror Mel Ramos

2004 Frisbee Miami, Bucheon Gallery, Miami, Florida

Creature Comfort, New Langton Arts, San Francisco

Big Deal, SOMArts, San Francisco

Engage!, Haley Martin Gallery, San Francisco

Berkeley Art Center Annual Exhibition, Juror Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson

the opening band, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles

Paper Cuts, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA

Go West!, Juror Renny Pritikin, Richmond Art Center

Compass Points, Berkeley Art Museum

Prelingual, Curated by Eleanor Harwood, New Image Art, Los Angeles

Women's Festival, Juror Irene Hofmann, Curator of Contemporary Art

at the Orange County Museum of Art, Ebell Club, Long Beach

2003 Annual MFA Exhibition, b. sakata garo, Sacramento

Defining Space, Design Museum, UC Davis

Visual Aid's Big Deal X, SOMArts, San Francisco

Peninsula Open Studios, Juror Marian Parmenter, Herbst Exhibition Hall, San Francisco

Search Engine, Curated by London based curators of The Center of Attention Gallery,

shown at Spanganga, San Francisco

2002 Please Pay Attention, Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley

Pence Gallery Annual Juried Show, Juror Shirley Dubnick, Davis

2001 Introductions 2001, b. sakata garo, Sacramento

Interesting. But is it Art?, Juror Noel Korten, The Second City Council, Long Beach

Davis' First Annual Juried Show, Juror David Hollowell, Pence Gallery

2000 Annual Christmas Show, b. sakata garo, Sacramento

Women's Work, Woodland Community College, Woodland

Annual Juried Competition, The Vacaville Art League, Vacaville

1999 Group Show, b. sakata garo, Sacramento

The Art of Fast Food, Edison Community College, Piqua, OH

1998 Emerging Artists, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis

Bibliography

2006 East Bay Express, November 8, 2006, “The World Domination of Painting (and Drawing),

by Jaki Spicer

CenterstageChicago.com, October 30, 2006, “Artists get into games, get into girl power

and go glamorous,” by Joanne Hinkel

Chicago Tribune, November 3, 2006, “Small parts, big picture,” by Alan G. Artner

San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 7 2006, “Deluge,” by Katie Kurz

Artweek, Dec 2005/Jan 2006, “Laura Ball at Bucheon Gallery,”by Amber Whiteside

Art in America, January 2006, “Report from San Francisco II,” by Stephanie Cash

2005 New American Paintings, Vol. 61, December 2005 (cover)

Artweek, July/August 2005, “' Bay Area Currents' at the Oakland Art Gallery”, review by

Lindsey Westbrook

Artist interview with Anna L. Conti at www.bigcrow.com/anna/journal/interviews.html

The Davis Enterprise, Thursday, March 3, 2005, "Yolo County artists win coveted spots in

regional show," by Sue Munich

2004 “What I Value in Art and Why,” Teresa Roberts (unpublished)

2003 Kalliope, A Journal of Women's Literature & Art, Vol. 25, no. 2, Fall 2003

San Francisco Chronicle, April 11, 2003, “A truly minimalist art show, by Kenneth Baker

2002 Book cover image for the novel Boxes of Years by Katrina Prado

Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, vol 20 n 3, Summer 2002, Cover

The Vacaville Reporter, April 12, 2002, "Juried show marked by diversity, by Dana Costello

2001 The Sacramento Bee, July 22 2001, "Newcomers shine in summer shows...," by Victoria Dalkey

Sacramento News & Review, July 12, 2001, "Mao exhibitor," by Douglas Slayton

Sacramento News & Review, July 5, 2001, "Three's Company," by Jackson Griffith

The Davis Enterprise, Tuesday, April 17, 2001, "Landmark show at Pence,” by Paul Dorn

Awards and Grants

Ludwig Vogelstein Grant

Eisner Prize for Achievement in the Creative Arts, UC Berkeley

Department of Art Practice tuition grant, UC Berkeley

Collections

Beck, Los Angeles, CA

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Irving Blum, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY

Robert Callaway, San Francisco, CA

Stephen Cohen, Los Angeles, CA

Beth Rudin Dewoody, New York, NY

Michael and Sirje Gold, Los Angeles, CA

JP Morgan Chase New York, NY

David Keihl, New York, NY

Alix Madigan, Los Angeles, CA

Sabina Ott, Chicago, IL

Parker Posey, New York, NY

Kathy Azarmi Rose, Beverly Hills, CA

Sunrise Ruffalo, Los Angeles, CA

Howard Tullman, Chicago, IL

Naomi Watts, Hollywood, CA

Michelle Williams, Hollywood, CA

Steve Wilson, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY