EDUCATION
1960-63 University of California at Santa Barbara
1963-64 Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy; study with Giorgio Morandi
Special studies: drawings, prints and texts, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
1965-66 San Francisco Art Institute, study with printmaker Gordon Cook
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Salon at the Triton, Juried Group Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2022
Flora Fauna, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Let’s Face It: Selections From The Permanent Collection, The Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Outside the Open Window, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2021
The Window: Insights on Art and Wellness: Susan Manchester, Morley Baer, and Robinson Jeffers, Montage Health, Monterey, CA
FLY, Group Exhibition, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2020
LOOK, Group Exhibition, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2017
Storied Paper, Group Exhibition, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA
Salon at the Triton, Juried Group Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2016
Susan Manchester: A Contemporary Lineage, Solo Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2013-14
Momentum: an experiment in the unexpected, group exhibition,San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Face To Face: 30 years of Portraiture, group exhibition, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
Botanical Meditations, group exhibition, Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA
Contemporary Heritage: Selections from the Permanent Collection, group exhibition, Triton Museum of Art,
Santa Clara, CA
Art in Bloom, group exhibition, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
2011-12
Inaugural Exhibition, Seager Gray Gallery, group exhibition, Mill Valley, CA
Cultivating Creativity, The Doud House Now, group exhibition, Museum of Monterey, Monterey, CA
2008-09
50/fifty: 50 gifts for the Next Fifty Years, group exhibition, Monterey Museum of Art Monterey, CA
MontereyNOW, solo exhibition, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Parallel Lines, Works on Paper from Monterey County Collections, Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas, CA
2007
Susan Manchester: New & Recent Drawings, solo exhibition, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA
Thick Paint/ Thin Paint, 50 years of California Abstract Art, group exhibition,Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas, CA
2005
Works on Paper, group exhibition, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Reflecting Nature, Still Life Paintings from California Collections, group exhibition, Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas, CA
2004
Recent Acquisitions, group exhibition, the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Rendering & Articulation: A Drawing Exhibit, group exhibition, The Carl Cherry Foundation for the Arts,
Carmel, CA
Masters of the Sea, group exhibition, Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas, CA
2003-2002
Get Real: An Overview of Contemporary Realism, Edith Caldwell Gallery, Sausalito, CA
A Fine Line: Artists Who Draw, group exhibition, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA
Anyone You Know? Six Centuries of Portraits, group exhibition, Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas, CA
Small Images, group exhibition, Sullivan & Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2001-2000
Perches in the Soul, group exhibition, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
At the Millennium: Contemporary Paintings from Northern California, group exhibition, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
1999-1990
Small Works, group exhibition, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA (1999)
Susan Manchester: New Drawings, solo exhibition, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA (1998)
Works on Paper, group exhibition, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY (1997)
Three Women, group exhibition, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA (1997)
The Figure Show, group exhibition, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA (1996)
Works on Paper, group exhibition, Park Avenue Armory, New York NY (1996)
Art for the Parks, group exhibition, Nashville, TN (1996)
New Drawings by Susan Manchester, solo exhibition, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA (1995)
Contemporary Drawings, group exhibition, Quincy University Art Gallery, Quincy, IL
Contemporary Still Lifes, group exhibition, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA (1994)
Drawing the Line, group exhibition, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA (1994)
Artists’ Self Portraits in Black and White, group exhibition, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA (1993)
Introductions ‘92: Susan Manchester, solo exhibition, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA (1992)
Bay Area Talent, group exhibition, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA (1991)
Earth’s Alive, group exhibition, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA (1990)
1989-1972
Varieties of Drawings, group exhibition, Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA (1989)
Drawing Exhibit, group exhibition, College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA (1989)
A Passage of Time, New Mexico, solo exhibition, First Impressions Gallery, Carmel, CA (1988)
Watercolors and Etchings, solo exhibition, First Impressions Gallery, Carmel, CA (1986)
Paintings and Etchings, solo exhibition, Pantechnicon Gallery, San Francisco, CA (1974)
Aspects of the American Indian, solo exhibition, Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (1972)
PUBLICATIONS
Flora Fauna, featuring Elizabeth Barlow and Susan Manchester, Exhibition Catalog (2022)
Susan Manchester: A Contemporary Lineage, artist retrospective catalog (2016)
Letter Arts Review, 28:2 The Process Issue (2013)
Beyond Words, Essays on Art and Healing, Amy Essick, Community Hospital Foundation, Monterey, CA (2009)
Zyzzyva, the last word: west coast writers & artists, XXI, 2, Fall Issue Country Life, “Collectors: Take Me to Your Reader” (2005)
A Pool Of Silver Minnows, by Julia Emerson, Tantamount Press (2002)
Meditations On Design, by John Wheatman, Conari Press (2000)
Southwest Art, “Of the West”(1998)
Zyzzyva, the last word: west coast writers & artists, IX, 4, Winter Issue (1993)
Marine Algae Of California, by I. A. Abbott, Stanford University Press (1975)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
The Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Montage Health, Monterey, CA
Fine Art Collection, City of Monterey, Monterey, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Bowdoin College Art Museum, Brunswick, ME
The York School, Monterey, CA
Monterey Peninsula College Foundation, Monterey, CA
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
The Highlands Inn, Carmel Highlands, CA
Saks Fifth Avenue, Chicago, IL
The Clorox Corporation, Oakland, CA
Claridge’s Hotel, London, England
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Mr. & Mrs. William Hyland, San Francisco, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Oresman, New York, NY
Ms. Julia Emerson, Santa Barbara, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Burton McMurtry, Palo Alto, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Geoff Wharton, New York, NY
Mr. George Lucas, San Rafael, CA
Mr. Gary Smith & Mr. David Ligare, Salinas, CA
Dr. & Mrs. David Reese, Carmel Valley, CA
Mr. David Allen Smith, Carmel, CA
Apieh & Joe Claybrook, Santa Barbara, CA
Max Sidman Family Collection, Oakland, CA
Marcelle Polednik & David Kammerman, Jacksonville, FL
John and Susan Roos, Hillsborough, CA
Helaine Glick, Watsonville, CA
Davis and Christine Factor, Carmel Valley, CA
Susan and Cippy Crazy Horse, Cochiti Pueblo, NM