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Roland Petersen, a Danish-born American painter, printmaker, and professor, associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement and UC Davis where he taught from 1956 - 1991.
Born in Endelave, Denmark, Petersen received his B.A. and M.A. from UC Berkeley, where he studied under Chiura Obata, John Haley, and Glen Wessels. He continued his studies at the California School of Fine Arts (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute), the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Provincetown, the California College of Arts and Crafts, and Atelier 17 with Stanley Hayter.
He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1963 and a Fulbright Fellowship to France in 1970.
In 1959 he began work on his iconic and highly acclaimed picnic series. This subject has remained a significant inspiration to him even as his style evolved though the decades. His work is found in major museums thoughout the country, and has been featured in important solo and group exhibitions internationally.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Roland Petersen: A Natural Order, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Roland Petersen: Early Paintings 1958-–1969, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Roland Petersen: Recent Works, John Natsoulas Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1998 Roland Petersen: Recent Works, John Natsoulas Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1998 Endelave Museum, Endelave, Denmark (traveled throughout Denmark)
1995 Roland Petersen: Recent Works, Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA
1992 Retrospective, University of California, Davis, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UCalifornia, Davis, CA
1990 Roland Petersen: Bay Area Paintings of the Sixties, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Roland Petersen: Works on Paper, Harcourts Modern and Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
1987 Roland Petersen—Bay Area Paintings of the Sixties, Vanderwoude/Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Roland Petersen: Selected Monotypes & Watercolors, Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1980 University of Reading, Reading, England
1978 Roland Petersen Retrospective, UCalifornia, Davis, Memorial Union Art Gallery, Davis, CA
1977 Aberbach Fine Arts Gallery, London, England. Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY. University of Reading, Reading, England
1976 20 Year Retrospective of Color Prints by Roland Petersen, Washington State Art Services Program (traveling, organized by the Museum of Art), Pullman, WA
1975 Adele Bednarz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1973 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA. Adele Bednarz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ 1970 Adele Bednarz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1968 M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1967 Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY (also 1965, 1962)
1965 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1961 Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1961 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1954 Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
COLLECTIONS
Davis Arts Center, Davis, California
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, California
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, (Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts), San Francisco, California
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California (Two Seated Figures, 1967)
University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
Wesleyan University School of Art, Bloomington, Illinois
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Sacramento City College, Sacramento, California
Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, California
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
Musée Municipal, Brest, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), San Francisco, California (Flag Festival, 1981)
De Young Museum, San Francisco, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California(Untitled (Woman wearing hat decorated with flowers, 2021, Terrace Figures, 2001, Untitled, 1997, etc.)
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York (Interior with Piano and Maid, 1963)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Out Our Way, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
2002 Geometry Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 California Printmakers Association: Group Exhibition, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
1995 Andre Milan Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1993 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
1992–93 California Painting, The Essential Modernist Framework, Fine Art, CA State University, Los Angeles, CA; Traveled to University Art Gallery, California State University, San Bernardino, CA
1992 Hall of Pictures, Uman, Russia California Dreamin', Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA
1990 Northern California Figuration, Natsoulas, Novelozo, Davis, CA
1985 Sacramento/Davis Interface, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1984–86 Prints U.S.A., First overseas exhibition by the California Society of Printmakers: World Print Council, San Francisco, CA; Traveled to the National Museum, Singapore; National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand; Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany; Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico
1980 The Collectors Eye, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA; Traveled to Aberbach Gallery, London, England
1977–78 Atelier 17 Exhibition, Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; traveled to Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL; Aberbach Fine Arts Gallery, London, England; Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1972 The American Artist and Water Reclamation, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1971 Four-Person Exhibition, American Cultural Center, Paris, France
1969 The Illinois Biennial, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 1968 The Humanist Tradition with David Park in Contemporary American Painting, New York School, New York, NY. Four Person Exhibition with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and Joan Brown, Bednarz and Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1966 Contemporary American Artists in the White House, White House, Washington, DC
1964 Painting and Sculpture Today, Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1962 68th Denver Annual, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 1961 National Watercolor Exhibition, Peoria, IL 1960 First Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1956 San Francisco Art Association Invitational, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1955 Second Oil Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1954 San Francisco Art Annual, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1951 Atelier 17, New York, NY. American Painters, Florence, Italy. Young Painters, Beaux Gallery, Paris, France
1950 National College Exhibition, Andover, MA
