Tor Archer (American, born )

Timeline

1958
Born in Concord, Massachusetts
1977–1979
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
1980–1983
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
1985–1987
Boston University, Boston, MA
1994
Award of Merit, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1999
SECA Award Nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2001
SECA Award Nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2003
Public Art Award, City of Walnut Creek, CA
2003
SECA Award Nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Exhibitions

2013
Origins: Elemental Forms in Contemporary Sculpture, The Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2013
Out of Nature, Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2012
Mythological Reclamation, Delgado Street Contemporary, Santa Fe NM (solo)
2012
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair (Scott Richards Contemporary Art), Palm Springs, CA
2012
Trees of Life, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2012
Marin Masters, The Outdoor Art Club, Mill Valley, CA
2011
Nature’s Effigies, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2010
Figurative Perspectives, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT (solo)
2010
Magna Carta: Art/Paper, Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
The Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2009
The Altered Book: Artists Re-imagine the Book, Reed Whipple Cultural Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2009
Figurative Archetypes, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT (solo)
2009
Old Stories, New Images, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2009
The Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2009
Codex International Book Fair, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2008
Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA (solo)
2007
Re-Covery, The Brighton Press, San Diego, CA
2006
Introductions, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
Archaic Visions, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2006
The Figure, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, Utah
2005
Julie Nester Gallery, Park City Utah (solo)
2005
Hernandades Escultoricas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico
2005
Summer Reading, Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Spice Boxes, The Jewish Contemporary Museum, San Francisco, CA
2004
New Work Gallery Artists, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO
2004
Contemporary Perspectives, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
2004
Hearts In San Francisco, Outdoor Fundraiser, San Francisco, CA
2004
Arcadia, SOMAR Gallery, Fundraiser, San Francisco, CA
2002
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2001
Relief Sculpture: 1989 - Present, St. Gregory of Nyssa Church, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2000
Hackett-Freedman Gallery Artists, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, CA
2000
Current Works, SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1999
Fin de Siecle, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
Select Works: Emerging and Established Artists, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
Sculpture Walk, Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
1998
SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA (solo)
1997
Kurt Lidtke Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
1997
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
Pacific Rim Sculptors, Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA
1996
Art Fair Miami '96, Miami Beach, FL
1996
Sculpture Walk, Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
1996
Previews, Kurt Lidtke Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1995
The Gold Show, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1994
California Works, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1994
Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1994
Dancing on the Continuum: A Survey of Bay Area Sculpture, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
1992
Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992
Elena Baskin Art Center, U.C. Santa Cruz, CA
1992
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, U.C. Santa Cruz, CA
1991
Introductions 1991, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1989
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989
Small Works of Hunter's Point Artists, Art Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989
East Meets West: San Francisco and New York Sculptors, The Space, San
1989
Three Dimensional Reality, juried show, San Jose Art League Downtown
1989
AIDS Day of Remembrance/Images of St. Sebastian, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA
1987
S.F.A. Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
1986
S.F.A. Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA