Education
1981 BA, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1981-82 École de Cuisine La Varenne, Paris, France
1987-88 The International Center of Photography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2011 “The Velocity of Ideas,” Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2009 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2007 di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
2006 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2006 "Structure and Void," Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
2005 "Three-legged Inversions," Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2004 "Impermeable," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2003 University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
2003 "Extruded," Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, SC
2001 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2001 University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach (catalog)
1999 SECA Art Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (catalog)
1998 "Black Hose Mountain and Other Works," Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
1996 "New Pictures and Sculpture," Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
1996 Littlejohn Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1995 "Counterspace," off-site project organized by Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 PHOTOS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 The Friends of Photography at the Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 "Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
"Absence/Presence: Contemporary Abstraction," University Art Gallery, Sonoma State
University, Sonoma, CA
2010 “Now & When,” (“Do Not Enter: Angus’ Room,” collaboration with Bob Schmitz)
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Excessive Obsession,” Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
“Ordinary Miracles,” SlaughterhouseSpace, Healdsburg, CA
“Out of Order: Geometric Systems in Contemporary Bay Area Art,” Fine Arts Gallery
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2009 “Counter Intelligence,” The Luckman Gallery, California State University
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2008 "The Space Between", ICA, San Jose, CA
2005 “Anoka Faruqee, Gay Outlaw, Shirley Tse,” Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2003 “The Gray Area, Uncertain Images,” California College of the Arts,
Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
2001 "Active Ingredients," Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa, CA (catalog)
2001 "Personal Abstractions: Lee Bontecou, Gay Outlaw, Diana Cooper,"
Sculpture Center, New York, NY
2001 "Making the Making," Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York, NY
1999 "Gay & Graham," Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
1999 "Far from the Soil-- Gay Outlaw & Charles Goldman," Rare Art Properties, New York, NY
1999 "Mi Casa Es Su Casa," NOGA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1998 "Adopt-a-Highway," Refusalon at Dogenhaus, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
1998 "PROJECTions," Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan, Korea (catalog)
1997 "Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press," California Palace of the
Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
1997 "Stirred, not Shaken," Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
1996 "Food for Thought," Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
1996 "Inside: The Work of St. Clair Cemin, Joel Otterson, and Others,"
California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA (catalog)
1996 "Photogravure - A Survey: 1903-1996," Marlborough Graphics, New York, NY
1995 "Division of Labor: Women's Work," The Bronx Museum, New York, NY
1995 "Gravure Group," Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
1995 "Inscrutable Objects," Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
1995 "(dis)still(ed) lives," Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
1994 "Bad Girls West," UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
1992 "John Cage," Jernigan Wicker Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Commissions
1998 "Dark Matter Redux," sponsored by the Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA
1995 "Tinned Wall / Dark Matter," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
commissioned by the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
Selected Collections
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts,
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Selected Bibliography
Kenneth Baker, "Dodging and disguise in Gay Outlaw's artworks,"
San Francisco Chronicle, February 14, 2009, pp.E2, C5.
Castro, Jan Garden, Sculpture, November, vol. 25, no. 9, pp.75-76.
Morris, Barbara, "Gay Outlaw at Mills College," Artweek, November 2005, vol. 36
issue 9, pp. 17-18.
David Pagel, "Everyday Objects, Concisely," Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2001, p. F2.
Kathan Brown, "Gay Outlaw Trial Patterns," Overview Crown Point Press Newsletter, Fall 2001.
Grace Glueck, "Personal Abstractions," New York Times, February 16, 2001, p. E2.
Karen Levine, interview, Open, SFMOMA magazine, no. 1, Winter/Spring, 2000, pp. 44-7.
Karen Kerston, "Gay Outlaw and Laurie Reid," Zing Magazine, vol. 3, no. 11,
Winter 2000, pp. 222-3.
Susan Marquez, "Food Glorious Sculpture," World Sculpture News, vol.6, no. 1,
Winter 2000, pp.36-7.
Ken Johnson, "Charles Goldman and Gay Outlaw," New York Times, June 11, 1999, p. E2.
Mark Van Proyen, "San Francisco: e-mail," Art Issues, no. 57, March/April, 1999, pp.32-3.
Apollinaire Scherr, "Over There," East Bay Express, January 29, 1999, p. 33.
Betty Klausner, "Gay Outlaw at Refusalon," Art in America, no.7, July 1998, pp.103-4.
David Hunt, "Gay Outlaw at Refusalon," Sculpture, vol.17, no.6, July/August 1998, pp.66-7.
David Bonetti, "Different Styles, Different Scales," San Francisco Examiner,
January 29, 1998, p. C1.
Kenneth Baker, "Outlaw's Sculptures Literal," San Francisco Chronicle, January 22, 1998, p. E1.
Glen Helfand, "Gay Outlaw," San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 14, 1998.
Donna Schumacher, "Gay Outlaw, Public Sculpture at Center for the Arts Theater Plaza,"
Art Papers, vol. 20, November/December 1996, p. 44.
Kenneth Baker, "Expressionism, Without All the Self," San Francisco Chronicle,
November 14, 1996, pp.C1, C5.
Glen Helfand, "Witness: Art in the Urban Landscape," West Magazine, Spring 1996.
Randal Davis, "Defamiliarized Zone," Artweek, vol. 25, no.11, June 9, 1994, p.19.
Darwyn Marable, interview, Photo Metro, 9, no. 86, February 1991, pp.3-9.
