Stephen Von Mason (American, 1954 - )
1954 Born: South Bend, Indiana
1971 – 1972 Studied figure drawing at the University of Notre Dame, South
Bend, IN – college preparatory
1973 – 1977 Studied printmaking and painting at John Herron School of Art,
BFA, Indianapolis, IN
1977 –1979 Studied printmaking and painting at the San Francisco Art Institute,
MFA, San Francisco, California
1981 – 1983 Taught at the University of California, Berkeley, California with the
ASUC division
1991 Lectured at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA and the Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2002 Taught summer art school at Washington Elementary School,
Oakland, CA
2003 Taught summer art school at Glenview Elementary School,
Oakland, CA
2008 - 2022 Taught art at Making Waves Academy, Richmond, CA
2010 – 2011 Taught painting over the summer at the Richmond Art Center,
Richmond, CA
2012 Received an invitation from President Barack Obama to present my
Art Program’s success with Making Waves Academy to the
“President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities” at a Salon
hosted by Pamela Joyner in San Francisco. Other presenters were,
Alfre Woodard, Theaster Gates, Louis Vuitton Family and Pixar.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Echoes of Resilience, Biafarin Online Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2024 Unyielding Voices, Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
2024 Cultural Healing, Art Channel Gallery, Toulouse, France
2023 Something All Our Own: The Creation of a Fine Arts Museum, Virtual
Exhibition, TeraVarna Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 In Search of Humanity, Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue
Mountain Lake, NY
1988 Without Sanctuary II, Judith Weintraub Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1988 Sanctuary, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Kitera-Space Art Gallery – Perceptions Unscripted International Biennial, NYC, NY
2025 Make Art Gallery – MET Gallery Metaversum 3, Rome, Italy
2025 Artist Space Gallery – Green Art Exhibition, New York, NY
2025 The New York Boyer Foundation – The Future & The Past, New York City, NY
2024 Whitelock Art Center – The Boundary Between Dream & Reality,
International Art Exhibition, Excellence Award Winner, New York City, NY
2024 Midwest Nice Art Gallery – Art as Storytelling, Aberdeen, South Dakota
2024 The Gallery by MUI – I Saw Everything in Color, Washington, DC
2024 HMVC Gallery – Harmony & Diversity, International Exhibition, New York City
2024 Aedra Fine Arts - Runaway 2024, International Exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia
2024 Community Art Channel – Figurative 2024, International Exhibition, Second Place Award Winner, Toulouse, France
2024 Gallery 4% - Faces & Features-3, International Exhibition, Distinction Award Winner, San Francisco, California
2024 CollexArt - Ideas in Art, International Art Exhibition, Silver Award Winner, Portland, Maine
2024 Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation - Spring Primavera 2024, Barcelona, Spain
2024 TeraVarna Art Gallery - 7th Color, Honorable Mention Award Winner, Los Angeles, California
2024 Arteom Art Gallery - Broaden The Horizon, Krakow, Poland, Times Square
Display, New York, City
2024 Marin Society of Artists Art Centre - Sculpture and Assemblage – An
Exploration, San Raphael, California
2024 Omnibus Art Gallery - Figuration, International Juried Exhibition, Dresden,
Germany
2024 SwaKarya Art Gallery - Live Art Showcase, Honorable Mention Award
Winner, Malaysia, SouthEast, Asia
2024 Chinwe Russell Art Gallery - Living Artist Contemporary Art Auction,
Featured Article, January Edition 2024 - Doncaster, England
2023 Cross Currents Gallery – Color, Shape, Space, International Juried
Exhibition, Award Winner, Wheeling, West Virginia
2023 Brouhaha Art Gallery - Portrait Artist of the Year, International Juried
Art Exhibition, Hong Kong, China
2023 Art Collide Art Gallery - Life, Death, Love, International Juried Art
Exhibition, Notable Entry Distinction, New Delhi, India
2023 Grey Cube Gallery – “Faces Art Show: July 2023” - International Art
Competition and Exhibition, Helsinki, Finland
2023 Saint Frajou Museum of Painting - 9th International Art Resilience Fair 2023, Saint Frajou, France
2023 Hilton Geneva, HelvetArt - July 2023 Art Competition & Exhibition,
Geneva, Switzerland
2023 TeraVarna Art Gallery, “Color” – Talent Award Winner,
5th International Juried Visual Arts Exhibition, Los Angeles, California
2023 HelvetArt Gallery, March 2023 – Merit Award Winner, International
Juried Visual Arts Exhibition, Geneva, Switzerland
2023 Camelback Gallery, 10thArtist Choice International Juried Visual Arts
Exhibition, Bronze Award Winner, Scottsdale, Arizona
2023 Contemporary Art Gallery Online, 4th Annual BHM National Juried
Visual Arts Exhibition, Silver Award Winner, Middleton, Delaware
2019 Venice Biennale, 58thInternational Art Exhibition, Biennale Project,
Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale, Venice, Italy
2019 Coos Bay Museum of Art, 3rdPlace Award Winner, “Expressions
2014 Color - Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
Figuratively Speaking - Agora Gallery, Chelsea New York, NY
#SeeMeTakeover Times Square, New York, NY
2013 Saatchi Screen - Saatchi Gallery. London, England
Angel Orensanz Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Story of the Creative - See//Exhibition Space, Queens, New York, NY
Faith - San Francisco 49ers Vernon Davis Gallery 85, San Jose, CA
2011 Faculty Exhibit - Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1997 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1995 Emanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Rotterdam Art Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1992 Stedelijk Museum of Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
De Krackeling Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
1991 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1990 Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
1988 Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1986 Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
1985 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Introductions 85”
1984 Cartwright Hall, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
1983 Zaner Gallery, Rochester, NY
Allen Priebe Gallery, Oshkosh, WI
1977 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, IN
AWARDS and RECOGNITION
2023 Camelback Gallery - 10thArtist Choice International Juried Art
Exhibition, Bronze Award Winner,Scottsdale, Arizona
2023 HelvetArt Gallery – Merit Award Winner, March 2023 International
Juried Art Exhibition, Geneva, Switzerland
2023 Contemporary Art Gallery Online - 2nd Place Award Winner, 2023
BHM National Juried Art Exhibition, Middleton, Delaware
2023 TeraVarna Art Gallery – Talent Award Winner, 5th Color
International Juried Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, California
2019 Coos Bay Museum of Art, “Expressions West”, 3rd Place Award,
Coos Bay, Oregon
2014 ArtSlant Prize - Showcase Winner, 4th round – painting,
ARTslanT - Chicago, IL
Fourth Annual Figurative Exhibition – Special Recognition Award
in Painting, LSTOL Gallery – Jupiter, FL
1992 Eureka Fellowship Finalist, Fleishacker Foundation, nominated by
Robert Flynn Johnson – Achenbach Collection – Palace of the
Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Achenbach Collection
of Works on Paper, San Francisco, CA
Rotterdam Art Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
Fairmont Hotels, New Orleans, LA and Dallas, TX
Health America, Nashville, TN
LITERATURE and JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2019 McCormack, Geoffrey, South Coast Beat – “Expressions West”, Coos
Bay Museum of Art, Coos Bay. Oregon
2018 Talib, Ayesha, Scene & Heard Magazine – 2 page spread – A Journal
of Artistic Reflections,
2014 Reid, Graeme, Director of Collections & Exhibitions at the Museum of
Wisconsin Art, “Art Kudos” – an International Juried Art Competition
& Exhibition 2014-15, Atlanta, GA
Lauren Hinkson, Assistant Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, “Color”, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition,
Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
Math, John R, “Fourth Annual Figurative Exhibition, LSTOL Gallery,
May - Exhibition Event Catalogue – Issuu.com, Jupiter, FL
2012 Aldrich, Jeffrey, “Art Takes Miami”, See//Exhibition Gallery, New
York City, NY (Coffee Table Book)
1997 Hillhouse, Susan, “African American Painters’, Triton Museum of
Art, Santa Clara, CA (catalogue)
1990 Castellon, Rolondo, “Patterns and Patents”, Porter Sesnon Gallery.
UC Santa Cruz (catalogue)
1986 Gordon, Allen, Works on Paper at the Crocker”, Crocker Museum of
Art, Sacramento, CA (catalogue)
1984 Hopper, Robert, “Eighth British International Print Biennale”,
Cartwright Hall, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (catalogue)
1983 Haldoupis, John, “The American Annual Works on Paper Exhibition
83”, Zaner Gallery, Rochester, NY (catalogue)
Harrington, Bev, “Contemporary Images Watercolor: 1983”, Allen
Priebe Gallery, Oshkosh, WI (catalogue)
SELECTED ARTICLES
White, Marian, ARTWEEK, Featured Artist, San Francisco, California, May 2nd, 2025
Mazzoli, Carlotta, Collect Art Magazine, Cover Featured Artist, Tbilisi, Georgia, March 2025
Williams, Ann, The Art Insight, Featured Artist, New York City, NY, February 22, 2025
Alvarez, Sophia, ARTWEEK, ART JOBS & ARTRABBIT, Solo Exhibition, Unyielding Voices: Freedom, Heritage, and the Spirit of Heroism, Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation, Barcelona, Spain – December, 2024
Gina & Astrid, Artist Closeup Contemporary Art Magazine, Volume 25, Featured Artist, Amsterdam, Holland, December 10th, 2024
Williams, Ann, Art Muse Express, Featured Artist, New York City, NY, October 2th, 2024
Williams, Ann, The Art World Post, Featured Artist, New York City, NY, October 15th, 2024
Barcelia, Suso, New Visionary Magazine, Issue 11, Featured Artist, New York City, NY, August 27th, 2024
Mazolli, Carlotta, Al-Tiba9 ContemporaryArt,Artist Interview, Barcelona, Spain, March 19, 2024
Maginnis-Honey, Amy, Daily Republic, The deYoung Museum Open Triennial 2023, October 29th, 2023
Bammer, Richard, The Vacaville Reporter, The deYoung Museum Open Triennial 2023, September 12th, 2023
Artist Choice X Awards, Art Week Online Magazine,Camelback Gallery, Contemporary Juried Art Exhibition, page 1 – February 2023
Lemonidou, Eve, a two page spread with 4 color reproductions, International Contemporary Artists – Volume VIII, page 198 – May 2014
Sinclair, Theresa, a third page expose with one color reproduction and review, ArtisSpectrum Magazine – Volume 31, page 44, Agora Gallery - May 2014
Klaber, Karen, color reproduction on the cover and on page 2, The East Bay Monthly – March issue - 2014
Ventitre01, two color reproductions, Ventritre01-Roma Magazine – spring issue – published by Ventitre01 Art and Investments – Rome, Italy - 2014
Reeves, Ingrid, four color reproductions, Artist Portfolio Magazine – “San Francisco vs. Chicago”, Issue 16, page 42 – 45, spring - 2014
Osmond, Susan Fegley, “Feral Fusion”, Ten full page color reproductions, The Washington Post Magazine-The World & I- February, 1993, p. 208-217
Fredriks, Ineke, “BoekieBoekie Kunst te leen”, reproductions and converted version of my book “Brother Anansi and the Cattle Ranch into: Tales from Afrika-TV, a children TV show called “Anansi Comes to the Netherlands”, September and October – 1992, Rotterdam Art Center Newsletter
Murphy, Anthony, “A Portfolio of Promising Futures”, color reproductions, American Visions Magazine, fall issue – 1992, p. 18 and cover
Rooks, Belvie, “Bomani Gallery on the Contemporary Scene”, San Francisco Chronicle, February 16, 1992 p. 6
Baker, Elizabeth, “The Figure Identified”, Art in America, Annual Issue, 1992, p. 57
Brzezinski, Jamey, “Reassurance, The Figure Identified”, Art Week, October 17, 1991, p. cover
Kirby, John, “Gallery News”, Antiques and Fine Art, spring issue, 1991, p. 93
Dalkey, Victoria, “The New Black Art”, The Sacramento Bee – Encore Section, January 12, 1986, p. 16
Liss, Andrea, “Introductions 85”, Art News Magazine, October, 1985, p. 115
Burkhart, Dorothy, “Disquieting Presences, Knockout Paintings in San Francisco”, San Jose Mercury News, July 26, 1985, p. 19E
TELEVISION and RADIO
“Anansi en Broer Tijger”, My Children’s Book adapted for Dutch Television,
Vehalen uit Afrika op School T. V., Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Holland,
1992
“Bay Sunday”, Art exhibit at the Ebony Museum,
KPIX Channel 5, Television, An interview with Barbara Rogers,
aired February 6th1994, San Francisco, California
Black Renaissance”, an interview with Ben Hazard, Art work exhibited,
KBHK Channel 44, Television, aired January 29th, 1994 San Francisco,
California
“Catch he Spirit”, Documentary, Children’s Book Press, produced by the,
Nashville Methodist Communications Television also aired on B. E. T.
Cable Television. Twice in November 1989
“Cross Roads”, Interviewed by Cyrus M. Musiker,
KQED National Public Radio, San Francisco, California, aired December
17th, 1990
“Q” Art and Entertainment, Interviewed by Brian Copeland,
KQED Channel 9, Television, aired April 1992
Stephen Von Mason – 707-515-9887 - email – stephenmasonart@gmail.com