CARLOS VILLA
Painter, b. 1936

Education
Enrolled at California School of Fine Arts in 1958, painting class with Ralph Du Casse and drawing class with Elmer Bischoff. Other instructors included Manuel Neri, William Morehouse, Richard Diebenkorn, and Frank Lobdell. BFA, San Francisco Arts Insitute, 1961; MFA, Mills College, 1963. Professor, Sacramento State College, 1970-1979; Teacher, San Francisco Arts Institute, 1979 to present.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY, 1967; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1982; Gorman Gallery, UC Davis; Gallery Paule Anglim, 2003.

Selected Group Exhibitions
RATBASTARDS (with Manuel Neri, Joan Brown and Alvin Light), Spatsa Gallery, San Francisco, 1958; Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, 1962 (reviewed by Walter Hopps in Artforum); Park Place Gallery, New York, NY, 1964-1966; Whitney Annual, New York, NY, 1972; Oakland Museum of Art, 1966.

Collections and Awards
Collections include Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba; Columbia University, New York, NY; Oakland Museum; Smithsonian Institution; Whitney Museum of American Art. Recipient of NEA Grant; Rockefeller Travel Grant; San Francisco Arts Institute Adaline Kent Award.