User:ShibaNoodle/Chikako Okada

= Chikako Okada = Chikako Okada is a Japanese-American painter. Her work has been featured in the New American Paintings periodical and is represented byy the Andra Norris Gallery.

Education
Okada received a bachelor of engineering in architecture from Kantou Gakuin University in 1982. She attended Pitzer College for a semester, and received both her BFA (1987) and MFA (1991) in painting from San Fransisco Art Institute.

Competitions

 * "Drawing First" at the Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco, CA (1993)
 * "Wet Paint Two" at the Southern Exposure Gallery (1992)
 * "9, San Francisco Art Institue 111th Anual Exhibition" at the Walter / McBean Gallery in San Francisco, CA (1992)
 * "500 Years of Resistance Through Women's Eyes" at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, CA (1992)
 * "A Woman's Vision" at the San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery in San Francisco, CA (1992)
 * "Wet Paint" at the Southern Exposure Gallery (1991)

Solo Exhibition

 * "Awakening" at Gallery Inshi in Ginza, Tokyo (2016)
 * "Solo Show" at the Olga Dollar Gallery in San Francisco, CA (1998)
 * "Solo Show" at the Olga Dollar Gallery (1995)
 * "Introductions '93" at the Olga Dollar Gallery (1993)

Selected Group Exhibitions

 * "FEMMESCAPES" at the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, CA (2012)
 * "Old Masters Revisited" at the Olga Dollar Gallery (1999)
 * "20th Anniversary" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery in San Francisco, CA (1998)
 * "The 13th Annual Art Auction of San Francisco Art Institute" at the Walter / McBean Gallery (1997)
 * "The Intimate Brush" at the Palo Alto Cultural Center in Palo Alto, CA (1997)
 * "San Francisco Zen Center Art Auction" at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, CA (1995)
 * "ArtSpan Art Auction" at the SOMA Gallery in San Francisco, CA
 * "Altered Realism" at the Davidson Galleries in Seattle, WA (1995)
 * "The 12th Annual Art Auction of San Francisco Art Institute" at the Walter / McBean Gallery (1995)
 * "Historic References" at the Susan Cummins Gallery in Mill Valley, CA (1994)
 * "Miniatures" at the Olga Dollar Gallery in San Francisco, CA (1994)
 * "Nudes" at the Olga Dollar Gallery in San Francisco, CA (1994)
 * "Souther Exposure's 20th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition" at the Southern Exposure Gallery (1994)
 * "New Old Masters" at the Center of Arts Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, CA (1994)