Ellery Akers

P.O. Box 1267, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
415-561-9199
info@elleryakersartist.com

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: MUSEUMS

The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, 2024
Bonita Museum and Cultural Center, Bonita, CA, 2023
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, 2021
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, 2019
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, 2018
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, 2017
Annapolis Maritime Museum, Annapolis, MD, 2016
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, 2016
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, 2015
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA, 2005
Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, 2002
Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA, 1998
Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA, 1996
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA, 1996
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA, 1994
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, 1981

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: GALLERIES AND ART CENTERS

Ellington-White Contemporary, National Drawing Competition, Rosenthal Gallery, Fayettleville, NC 2023
Trails and Vistas, Spooner Lake, Nevada State Parks, NV, 2014
Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA, 2005
T.W. Wood Gallery and Arts Center, Montpelier, VT, 2005
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, 2005
Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, CA, 2002
Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, 2001
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA (four-person show), 1997
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, 1997
Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1991
Brewer Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1991
San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1989
Hayward Gallery, Hayward, CA, 1986
Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA, 1985

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA, November 14, 2024-January 12, 2025
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (open studio), 1999
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (open studio), 1991

MUSEUM PERMANENT COLLECTION

The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, 2023

AWARDS AND HONORS: VISUAL ART

Honorable Mention, Expressions West, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, 2016
The Watson Cross, Jr. Award, National Watercolor Society, San Pedro, CA, 2010
Merit Award, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, 1996

AWARDS AND HONORS: WRITING

Fourteen writing awards, including the 2024 Blue Light Award, a 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award,  the 2015 San Francisco Book Festival Award for Poetry, the 2014 Autumn House Poetry Prize, and the 2011 Poetry International Prize.

Fellowship, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 1999
Fellowship, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, NY, 1998
Fellowship, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY, 1992
Fellowship, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 1991

BIBLIOGRAPHY (*art reviews)
Ellery Akers, A Door Into the Wild: Poetry and Art, Blue Light Press, 2024
Ellery Akers, Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance, Blue Light Press, 2020
Ellery Akers, Practicing the Truth, Autumn House Press, 2015
* Mark St. John Erickson, Daily Press, June 19, 2005
* Shari Bledsoe, The Virginia Gazette, February 9, 1994
Ellery Akers, Knocking on the Earth, Wesleyan University Press, 1989

EDUCATION
San Francisco State University, M.A. honors, San Francisco, CA, 1974
Harvard University, B.A. cum laude, Cambridge MA, 1967