EDUCATION:
M.F.A., Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA 1981
B.A., Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH 1968

AWARDS:
1981 University Graduate Fellowship, Claremont Graduate School
1979 Artists' Grant, British Columbia Cultural Fund, Victoria British Columbia, Canada

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2005
“Field Notes from Exurbia”, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
        Traveling to golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
2004
“Field Notes from Exurbia”, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA; catalogue
        Traveling to Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
2001
"Barrie Mottishaw”, Jonathan Beach Club, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Jay Belloli
2000 "Edge of the City," Koplin Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
1994 "New Oil Paintings", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991 "Fault Zones", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 "Cloud Studies", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, Walnut, CA
1987 "Along the River," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 "Paintings and Drawings," Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 "Watercolors," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        "Paintings," Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1976 "Watercolor," Brackendale Art Gallery, Vancouver, "British Columbia, Canada

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2004
“Drawings VII”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
        “Speculative Terrain,” Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA;
2003 “Speculative Terrain: from San Diego to Santa Barbara”, Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        “Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art,”
        Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA; Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA;
        Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
        "Landscapes 2003", Fine Arts Gallery Cal State University, Los Angeles, CA
2002 "From Valleys to Vistas: California Plein Air Paintings," City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
2001 "Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Contemporary So. California Art," Laguna Art Museum,           Laguna Beach, CA
        "America the Beautiful," Schomburg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 "A Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collections," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport           Beach, CA
        "It's About Time," Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1996 "Urban/Sub/ Urban," Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
        "Still Life: Seductive Objects," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,Los Angeles, CA.
1995 "Landscape : The Continuum," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
1992 "The Landscape Revisited: romantic Visions by contemporary California Artists," Bakersfield                   Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
1991 "Drawings", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 "John & Barrie Mottishaw," Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
        "Remaking L.A.," University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1988 "20th Century European and Watercolors - Yesterday and Today,"
        Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
        "Natural Selection: The Terrain of Southern California," Riverside Art Museum,Riverside, CA
        "California Landscape Art Motif - Plein Air to Present," Downey Museum of Art,Downey, CA
        "Reveal: New Works by Gallery Artists," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        "Landscape Painting in Los Angeles," The Transamerica Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1987 "Three Views of L.A.," Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
        "Vistas, Approaches to the Panoramic Landscape," G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, NY
1986 "Ten Contemporary Watercolor Painters," Lang Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont College,                   Claremont, CA
        Reaching the Summit, Mountain Landscapes in Southern California,"
        Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
        "Contemporary Self-Portraits," Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1985 "To the Astonishing Horizon, New Approaches to Landscape by
        Southern California s," Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
        "Santa Monica Art Bank Purchases," Santa Monica City Hall, Santa Monica, CA
        "Interior/Exterior," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 "Watercolors, A Contemporary Survey," University Art Gallery, CSU, San Diego, CA
1983 "Winter Show," Los Angeles County Museum of Art
        Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Group Show, Franz Wynans Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
        Group Show, The Artists-Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

EXHIBITIONS, BOOKS, REVIEWS AND ARTICLES:

2004-5 Field Notes from Exurbia, exhibition catalogue, Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges, CA and                    exhibition Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA, CA
2004 Woodward, Joseph, “Speculative Terrain at the Carnegie Art Museum,” Artweek, March, p. 21
2002 “Representing L.A.,” Fry Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2001 Alimurung, Gendy, and Ihara, Nathan, “A Paradise Reclaimed: A Field Guide to the L.A. River,”
        L.A. Weekly, Aug. 10 – 16, p. 38
        Los Angeles Attractions, Museon Publishing
        Interview with Lyn Kienholz, netropolitan.org
2000 Edge of the City: Barrie Mottishaw, exhibition catalogue, Koplin Gallery
        Illustration, Los Angeles Times, March 3
        Interview with Kitte Felde, “Talk of the City,” KPCC Radio
        Representing L.A., exhibition catalogue, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
        Wildearth, "Sprawl vs. Nature," reproductions pgs. 91-93, Winter issue
        Bates, Dianne, illustration, “Architecture/Literature”, L.A. Architect, March- April
        “Changing nature of landscapes”, San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 15
        “Landscape Not Forgotten”;catalogue, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
        Pincus, Robert, “Changing Nature of Landscapes,” San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 15, p. F1
1999 “Beverly Hills Coyote”, LA Times, June 6
1997 Tapley, George, “urban/sub/urban”, Art Week, Feb.
        Frank, Peter, “Landscape, the Continuum”, Art Week, Jan.- Feb.
1996 Kronenberg, Gali, Ventura Metro, LA Times, p. 3
1995 Illustration, Los Angeles Times, Calender Section, Jan. 1
1992 “The Landscape Revisited,” exhibition catalogue, Bakersfield Art Museum, Bakersfield, CA
1991 Muchnic, Suzanne, Los Angeles Times, Calendar, April 7, p. 8
1990 California Artists Calendar, California International Arts Foundation
1989 Tamor, Sarah, "Interview with Barrie Mottishaw", Art Sphere (Newsletter of the California
          International Arts Foundation), Fall
        Curtis, Cathy, "The Galleries," LA Times, Nov. 24
        Illustration, L.A. Weekly, Feb. 24,p.45
1988 “Natural Selection,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
        Anderson, Susan, “ Diversity in the South”, Artweek, Sept. 15
        Muchnic, Suzanne, LA Times, Oct. 8
1987 Gardner, Colin, "The Galleries" LA Times, Nov. 27, pp. 21-22
1986 Mottishaw, Barrie, "In Search of Artistic Roots," Connections, A Publication of the Claremont
          Graduate School, Vol.1, No. 2, July
1985 “To the Astonishing Horizon,” exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
        Drohojowska, Hunter, "Los Angeles Art Scene", L.A. Weekly, Feb. 15-21
        Muchnic, Suzanne, LA Times, June 17, p. 2, "The Galleries"
        Mottishaw, Barrie, “Explorers of the West,” Artweek, Oct. 26, p. 5
1983 Richmond, Ray, LA Daily News, p. 4
1981 Ward, Mike, LA Times, San Gabriel Valley pp. 1-4
1980 Peck, Stacey, LA Times, Home, 10-11, 15-16
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