The following information comes from the artist's website with his permission:

Sandy Walker was born on August 30, 1942 in Washington, D.C., the son of a physician. He attended St. Alban's School and after graduation in 1960 went on to Harvard University to study art history. After Harvard, he spent a year at the Boston University School of Fine Arts and the following year at the New York Studio School, where he worked with teacher Mercedes Matter. Walker received an M.F.A. in painting from Columbia University as a Breevort Fellow in 1968. His teachers included Morton Sachs, Walter Murch, Charles Cajori, Nicholas Carone, Stephen Greene, Tony Harrison, and John Heliker.He established a studio in Brooklyn, and married his first wife in 1968. The couple's many moves, from New York to Wyoming, California and finally Washington, D.C. provided the artist with the opportunity to explore the American landscape as the essential subect for his painting. After their divorce in 1972, Sandy worked and taught in the Washington area for 4 years, having his first public exhibition of his work during that time.

Beginning in 1975, he began his pattern of traveling to specific landscape sites, creating series of drawings, then small paintings, culminating in the creation of larger scale works, which condensed and summarized his sense of vision of a certain place. In 1976 he painted for six month traveling to the Grand Canyon, Mount Shasta, and Niagara Falls, creating one large diptych at each site.

His show at the Grace Borgenicht Gallery in New York in 1977 focused on his American landscape paintings and was a success. He had two more solo shows at the gallery in 1978 and 1980.

Walker continued traveling and painting and was invited as a resident to the MacDowell Colony in 1980, and later the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. Thereafter, he concentrated on painting in his studio, arriving at a more abstract and symbolic rendering of landscapes.

In 1984, he and his second wife, a dancer and choreographer, settled permanently in Oakland, California, where they subsequently raised their family. Husband and wife also collaborated on projects which combined their interests, with Walker winning the Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Visual Design in 1989.

In the 1980s, the artist began making woodblock prints, painting the block directly in the landscape that was his subject. In the 1990s he began experimenting with color prints in collabration with master silk screen printer Sheila Marbain in New York. Also in the 1990s he rediscovered his interest in figure painting, and his work since then shows a close relationship between landscape and figure, creating an ambiguity, which has been a characteristic in his work for the past thirty years.

Solo Exhibitions:
2004 Wooster Arts Space, New York, NY
2003 American Visions: The Paintings of Sandy Walker, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
2002 The Judith Suite, Caffe 817, Oakland, CA

2001 Phoenix Lake, San Rafael, CA.
1999 Painter and Printmaker, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
1997 Large Scale Paintings, 1986-1996, Bank of America World Headquarters Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Woodcut Prints, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
1995 Small Paintings & Works on Paper, The Collectors Gallery, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Sandy Walker: Woodblock Prints, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; traveling to Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; catalogue by Katy Kline Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1994 Inner Visions, Marathon Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Sandy Walker, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Sandy Walker, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
1989 Sandy Walker, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA; catalogue by Robert Lamberton
1986 Large Scale Paintings, 1975-1985, Bank of America World Headquarters Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, CA Drawings, Khiva Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Very Large Drawings, Hargate Art Center, Concord, NH
1982 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1980 Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Hull Gallery, Washington, DC
1979 Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Hull Gallery, Washington, DC
2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Kaffie Gallery, Corpus Christie, TX
1977 Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1976 Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC.
Thomson, McKinnon, Washington, DC
1975 Fine Art Works Center, Provincetown, MA
Rear 315 Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC
1974 Rear 315 Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC

Group Exhibitions:
2006 NYSS Alumni exhibition , The Painting Center, 52 Greene St, NYC
2005 Celebrating 20 Years, The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
2004 Black and White, Wooster Arts Space, 147 Wooster St. New York, New York City
2003 Anti-Chromatic, The Art of Black and White, Dorothy Herger Gallery, Suison City, CA
Cuts, The Contemporary Woodcut, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2002 A Legacy in Landscapes, New York Public Library, New York, New York City
2001 Recent Aquistions of Works on Paper by California Artists, Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
2000 The Art of Collaborative Printmaking, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Pro Arts 2000 Juried Annual, Oakland, CA. Juror: Larry Rinder
California Society of Printmakers Annual Exhibit 2000, College Art Gallery, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA.
1999 Fourth Annual California Prints from Wood, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Faultlines/Watermarks: California/Amsterdam, California Society of Printmakers and the Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, traveling to Der Zaaijer, Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA, and the Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA
Small Works from the California Society of Printmakers, 1999 annual exhibition, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
1998 Third Annual California Prints from Wood, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Sandy Walker and O'Brien Thiele, Richmond Public Library, Richmond, CA
Tradition and Transition in the 90s, South of Market Cultural Center (SOMAR), San Francisco, CA
A Tradition Continued: Relief Prints, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA
Pacific Prints 1998, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
Light is Diverse in California, Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
85th Anniversary Annual Exhibition, California Society of Printmakers, Academy of Art College Gallery 551, San Francisco, CA
California Prints from Wood II, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
1997 West Coast Painting and Sculpture, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Spectrum-Woodblock thru Microchip, Berkeley Store Gallery, Berkeley, CA
California Prints from Wood, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
1996 Recent Abstract Painting, M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Two-person Exhibition, Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA
Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; traveling to Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, catalogue by Alan Gussow
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995 - Contemporary Prints, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; catalogue by Timothy Rub, number 57
1995 Peaceful Images, North Cascades National Park, Stehekin, WA
The Permanent Collection: Recent Acquisitions, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Image/Abstraction/Ambiguity, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
One of a Kind, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1994 Diversity in Vision of the Printed Image, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1993 Breckenridge Fine Arts Center, Breckenridge, TX
Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival, Fort Worth, TX
Community Visual Art Association, Jackson, WY
Self Portraits in Black and White, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Printmaking by Members of the California Society of Printmakers, Art Works Gallery, Fair Oaks, CA
The First Decade, New York Studio School, New York, NY
Contemporary Relief-Printmaking, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX
Winter Exhibition, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
California Works 1992, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
Selected Works, California Printmakers Society, Memorial Union Art Gallery, Davis, CA
1991 California Society of Printmakers Membership Show, Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA
Pro Arts Annual, Oakland, CA
Works on Paper, Nassau Community College, Nassau, NY
1990 11th British International Print Biennale, Bradford, England; catalogue by Michael Regan and David Kiehl, numbers 242 and 243
Exhibition 1990, Part Two, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1989 25th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; catalogue by Barry Walker, number 80
1988 Sandy Walker and Joe Haske, Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1987 Permanent Collection, Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
Wood, The Art Store Gallery, Oakland, CA
Group Show, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Large Drawings, Independent Curators, Inc., USA & Canada; catalogue by Elke Solomon
1985 Seattle Art Museum Rentaloft, Seattle, WA
New York Studio School, 20th Anniversary Show, New York, NY
1982 Sur Papier, Villeparis, France
Great Big Drawings, Hayden Gallery (M.I.T.), Cambridge, MA
Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France
1981 IV Bienal Americana de Artes Graficas, Museum of Modern Art, Cali, Columbia
Graphica Creativea, Alvor Aalto Museum, Jyvaskla, Finland
1980 Paper Works 80, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
New York Realists 1980, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY
The Contemporary Landscape, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
1979 Collector's Choice, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
The Landscape: Different Points of View, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
1978 Sandy Walker and Betsy Damon, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
Drawing the Line, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, New York, NY
1977 Artist in Residence, 75, 76, 77, America the Beautiful Fund, Palisades Interstate Park, New York, NY; catalogue by Alan Gussow
Sacred Images, East & West, St. John the Divine, New York, NY
1976- 93 Art in Embassies, State Department, Washington, DC
1975 National Print and Drawing Exhibit, 2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Madams Organ Collective, Washington, DC
Works on Paper, Gallery 641, Washington, DC
1974 19th Area Show, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Alternative To, Market V Gallery, Washington, DC
Sandy Walker, Tom Green and M.C. Veasey, Harold Rivkin Gallery, Washington, DC
1970 Flag Show, Judson Church New York, NY
1968 18th Area Show, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC

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