William Harsh is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area with over 30 years of dedicated studio practice.  Primarily an oil painter, he also works extensively with other painting and drawing media and with monotype printmaking.  Raised in Europe and the US, he studied with Philip Guston and James Weeks at Boston University, and has for many years taught studio art at colleges in New England and California. His work is included in numerous collections in the US, Canada, and Europe.

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Current Gallery Representation

Vessel Gallery; Oakland, CA

Stewart-Kummer Gallery; Gualala, CA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery; San Francisco, CA

Recent Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2010     MORPHOLOGIES:  William Harsh, Maru Hoeber, Eve Singer, Vessel Gallery; Oakland, CA

2008     AFFINITIES AND VARIATIONS: CIRCLING THE ENIGMA, Arts Benicia Gallery; Benicia, CA

2003     NEW WORKS BY WILLIAM HARSH AND C. DAWN DAVIS, Aliya Gallery; Atlanta, GA

2001     WILLIAM HARSH: PAINTINGS/WORKS ON PAPER, Arts Benicia; Benicia, CA

1997     WILLIAM HARSH: PAINTINGS/WORKS ON PAPER, Domaine Chandon Winery;

             Yountville, CA 

             WILLIAM HARSH: PAINTINGS/WORKS ON PAPER, Louvre, Inc.; San Francisco, CA

1995     TWO PAINTERS: RECENT WORK - WILLIAM HARSH AND MARILYN BARDET, Arts  

              Bencia, Benicia, CA

Selected Invitational and Group Exhibitions

2011     ABSTRACT: 2000 - 2010; Sacramento Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA

             HELLO TOMORROW: BAY AREA ARTISTS ENVISION THE FUTURE; Hazel Wolf Gallery, the David

              Brower Center, Berkeley, CA

2009    WILLIAM HARSH, KEITH GASPARI, MITCHELL JOHNSON; Stanford Art Spaces,

            Stanford University; Palo Alto, CA           

2008    CIVIC ARTS EDUCATION 45TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION, Bedford Gallery; Walnut Creek, CA

            REFLECTIONS OF THE BAY, California Modern Art Gallery; San Francisco, CA

            THE AMALGAMISTS, Solano College Gallery; Suisun, CA

2006     HYBRIDS: THE NEW SURREALISTS, Peninsula Museum of Art; Belmont, CA

             SEVEN PAINTERS, Stewart-Kummer Gallery; Gualala, CA

2005     EAST BAY AREA ABSTRACT PAINTERS, Lynn House Gallery;  Antioch, CA

2004     PRINTMAKING & PROCESS, Arts Benicia; Benicia, CA  

             PLEASURE PLACES IV, Center of the Earth Gallery; Charlotte, NC

2002     CROCKER-KINGSLEY 73rd EXHIBITION, Crocker Art Museum; Sacramento, CA

1999     FOUR PAINTERS, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery; San Francisco, CA

1998     GROUP EXHIBITION, Old Navy Corp./Ortega Art; San Francisco, CA

             ART HOUSE III, Courrier Art House; Washington D.C.

1996     GROUP EXHIBITION, Tepper/Takayama Fine Arts; Boston, MA

1994     LEGACY: NINE ARTISTS WHO STUDIED WITH PHILIP GUSTON, The New Art Center;           

             NEWTONVILLE, MA

Reviews

2011    William Harsh:  “Morphologies” at Vessel Gallery, review by DeWitt Cheng, Art LTD, Jan/Feb 2011

2010    Aftermath at Vessel Gallery: William Harsh Resuscitates Modernist Figuration, review by DeWitt

             Cheng, East Bay Express, November 2010

            William Harsh’s powerful and cryptic oil paintings at Oakland Gallery, review by DeWitt Cheng, Benicia       

              Magazine, November 2010

2008     Mary Oros and William Harsh at Arts Benicia, review by DeWitt Cheng, Artweek , December  2008

2007     Hybrids: The New Surrealists, review by Art Hazelwood, San Francisco ArtMagazine.com, February    

             2007

2001     William Harsh in Benicia, review by Colin Berry, Artweek , October 2001

Publications

2011    William Harsh on Tradition, Anonymity, Picasso and the Barbaric Yawp: Interview with DeWitt Cheng,

             Art 21 Bog, Nov. 4, 2011

2011     Abstract: 2000 - 2010, Sacramento Temporary Contemporary Gallery; Sacramento, CA

2009   American Art Collector, Alcove Books; Oakland, CA

2004   Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism, by Judith Bookbinder

2002    Art of Northern California, Alcove Books; Oakland, CA

            The Artful Home, Guild Publishing; Madison, WI

2000   Beautiful Things: Original art from the artists of Guild.Com, Guild Publishing; Madison, 

            WI

1997    New American Paintings, Open Studios Press; Wellesley, MA

Teaching 

2008-present      Walnut Creek Civic Arts Education Program, Walnut Creek, CA       

2001-present      Arts Benicia Education Program, Benicia, CA

1986-1992    Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA

1988    University of California Extension, San Francisco, CA

1986    Chabot College, Livermore, CA

1984    Boston University, Boston, MA

1981-1983    Assumption College, Worcester, MA

1979-1980    Amherst College, Amherst, MA

Education    

1977; 1979         BFA, MFA; Boston University, School of Fine Arts