Naomie Kremer is a painter, video artist, and stage
designer. She has exhibited widely in the US and abroad. Her work is
in many private and public collections, including the Whitney Museum
of American Art, The Berkeley Art Museum, The Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco, and the US Embassy, Beijing, China.
Kremer’s
imagery, though largely abstract, is based in the real
world–incorporating nature, architecture, language, letterforms,
and the human figure. Her work draws from a wide range of sources
and inspirations, including art history, music, poetry and
literature. Her video based set design led her to begin combining
painting and video.
“I became intrigued by the
surprising perceptual and psychological experience of viewing video
and painting simultaneously. I began referring to these as “hybrid
paintings” – a melding of painting and video that leaves the
viewer uncertain which part is paint and which is projection”.
Her video based set designs include the San Francisco
production of Tristan and Isolde, by Richard Wagner; Lucia
Berlin Stories, performed in San Francisco and Paris by Word
for Word Theater Company; Alcina, by George F Handel,
performed in Acre, Israel, by the French Baroque orchestra Les
Talens Lyriques; the world premiere production of The
Secret Garden co-commissioned by San Francisco Opera and Cal
performances; Light Moves, a collaboration with Margaret
Jenkins Dance Company; and Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla
Bartók, commissioned by the Berkeley Opera. In the Beginning
Was Desire, for which she conceived and created the animation,
is her first film project.
Kremer has taught Painting
and Drawing at California College of the Arts, San Francisco; The
San Francisco Art Institute; California State University, Hayward;
and the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, Brittany, France. She
has been a visiting artist and guest lecturer at The Ruskin School
of Drawing and Painting, Oxford University; the Syracuse University
Painting Program, Florence, Italy; Ringling College of Art and
Design, Sarasota; and Mills College, Oakland.
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Fugues. Modernism Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
2023
Naomie Kremer: Different Strokes.
Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, CA
Terra. Paintings, hybrids and video. Modernism Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
2022
Regard. Paintings
and hybrid painting. The American Gallery, Marseille, France
2021
Traces, Drawings, video and
hybrid, The American Gallery, Marseille, France
Naomie
Kremer: Drawn In. Large and small scale drawings, 2007-2021.
View catalogue here.
Tour the exhibition with Naomie here.
Read a review here.
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020
Embodiment. Paintings,
immersive video installation with sound, hybrid paintings, Modernism
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Video at Joe Henderson Lab.
Night-time video installation at San Francisco Jazz, San Francisco,
CA
2019
Incarnation. Video and print
installation for Nuit
Blanche, Piscine de la Butte aux Cailles, Paris, France
2018
Untold, Paintings and hybrids,
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017
Vantage.
Paintings, hybrid and video animation, Octavia Art Gallery, New
Orleans, LA
Vantage II. Paintings, hybrid and video
animation, Octavia Art Gallery, Houston, TX
In the
Beginning was Desire. The 40-minute experimental documentary in
collaboration with documentary filmmaker David Grubin is structured
on a series of interviews with Biblical scholar Avivah Zornberg,
with visuals conceived and created by Naomie Kremer. To see stills
from the video, please click here.
To view the entire film on Vimeo please click here
to request the password from the artist.
2016
Fugitive
Earth, paintings and video, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
Rudimentary Moves, animation, Berkeley Art Museum
outdoor LED screen, Berkeley, CA To view installation, please click
here.
2015
Walkabout.
One person exhibition of new paintings at Von Fraunberg Gallery,
Dusseldorf, Germany.
Age of Entanglement. One person
exhibition of video and hybrid paintings. San Jose Institute of
Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Video at Joe Henderson Lab.
Night-Time Video Installation at San Francisco Jazz, San Francisco,
CA
2014
Desire Lines.
Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Video at Joe Henderson Lab.
Nightly Video Installation at San Francisco Jazz, San Francisco, CA
2013
Rudimentary Moves,
installation of the painting Rudimentary Pixillation, and its video
animation. Berkeley Art Museum lobby, Berkeley, CA
Sightlines,
survey exhibition, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
Arcadia. Von
Fraunberg Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Naomie Kremer:
Liquid Light. 212 Gallery, Aspen, CO
2011
Multiverse
I. Paintings. Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Multiverse
II. Hybrid paintings. Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
Motion Pictures: Hybrids
and Paintings. Frank
Pictures Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Naomie Kremer:
Flying Colors. Von Fraunberg Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Naomie Kremer: On Location. McClain Gallery<,
Houston, TX
2009
Ghosts.
Magnes Museum Windows, Berkeley, CA
Paintings and Hybrids.
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Between the Lines
(Entre les Lignes). Galerie Impaire, Paris, France
2008
Force
Fields. Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
Quote Unquote:
Text Animations and Hybrid Paintings. Knoedler & Co.
Project Space, NY, NY
2007
Pleasure
and Paint. Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
Polyglot.
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Keeping
Time: Naomie Kremer Works 1992-2004. San Jose Institute of
Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Shtetl. Video
installation with 15 prints. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA
Syncopations. Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Paint
Moves. Modernism at Foreign Cinema, San Francisco, CA
2004
Ports of Call.
Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Portails. Institut
Franco-Americain, Rennes, France
2003
Telling
Paint: Paris-Oakland. Modernism, San Francisco, CA
2001
New
Paintings. Modernism San Francisco, CA
Known/Unknown.
Plaza Gallery, Bank of America Center, San Francisco, CA
Naomie
Kremer. Denise Roberge Art Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
Text
Moves. San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2000
Naomie Kremer.
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1999
Recent
Paintings. Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1998
Recent
Paintings. Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1997
Recent
Paintings. Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Naomie
Kremer. John n Joe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Naomie
Kremer. d.p. fong gallery, San Jose, CA
1996
Paintings.
Ottocentodiciassette, Oakland, CA
1994
Paintings.
Two Transamerica Center, San Francisco, CA
1993
Large-scale
Drawings. Door Three Gallery, Oakland, CA
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Digital
Reality. Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
The
Alchemy of Place. Gallery Commonweal, Bolinas, CA
Dennis
Leon and the Art of Instruction. Oliver Art Center, Tecoah
Bruce Gallery, Oakland, CA
2021
Building Bridges, Breaking
Boundaries. Read the press release here.
Artists in the exhibition include Lia Cook, Naomie Kremer, Teddy
Milder, Francesca Pastine, Mary Curtis Ratcliff, Elizabeth Sher.
Curated by Hanna Regev, Ruth's Table, San Francisco, CA
2020
Disobey Orders, Save the Artists.
The Alma Enigma, video installation, The American Gallery,
participating in Manifesta 13 Biennial, Marseille, France
Landscape:
Awe to Activism. Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA
de
Young Open. De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Created
in Place. Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019
Not
Just Landscapes. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol,
CA
Color Theory and Interaction. Ruth’s Table, San
Francisco, CA
Through the Looking Glass. Group
exhibition with Naomie Kremer, Judy Dater, Laurie Lipton, Elina
Anatole. Foreign Cinema, SF
2018
Independent Vision: Modern and
Contemporary Art from the Martin Muller Collection. Arkansas
Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Way Bay 2. Group
exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific FIlm Archive, Berkeley,
CA
Wonder Women: 10 Bay Area Figurative Artists.
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Group Exhibition. Bank of
America Financial Center, Houston, TX
2017
Summer
Sex II. Lichtundfire, New York, NY
About Abstraction.
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Sound Maze. Video
animation in Paul Dresher musical instrument installation at Napa
Valley Museum, Napa, CA
2016
Dynamic
Gestures featuring work by Naomie Kremer, Charley Brown, Tim
Craighead, David Einstein, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Dada Here and Now, group exhibition curated by Hanna
Regev and Matt McKinley. Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2015
Artragious. Palm
Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Living with Endangered
Languages. Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Small is
Beautiful. Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Critical
Connections: Exhibition of International Contemporary Art.
Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Here:
Artists Annual Part I. Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Into
the Future: New Gifts to Commemorate the Museum's 75th Anniversary.
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Mind Matters,
Mapping the Human Brain through Neuroscience. Atrium, Sandler
Neuroscience Center, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
2013
AUTOUR
DU DESIR, All About Desire. Group exhibition. Modernism
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
Do
Not Destroy: Trees, Art and Jewish Thought. Contemporary Jewish
Museum, San Francisco, CA
Exit Art: Printed Histories, 15
Years of Print Portfolios. Exit Art, New York, NY
Group
Exhibition. 212 Gallery, Aspen, CO
Get Lucky: The Culture
of Chance. SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2011
Framing
Abstraction: Mark, Symbol, Signifier. Los Angeles Municipal Art
Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
ABSTRACT NOW:
Selections by Peter Selz. Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2010
The 13th Annual Art of
Baseball Exhibition. George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Seduction of Duchamp: Bay Area Artists' Response.
Los Gatos Museum of Art, Los Gatos, CA
In Full Color.
Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Theaters
of Memory: Art and the Holocaust. The Jewish Museum, New York,
NY. Group exhibition withartists Eleanor Antin,
Christian
Boltanski, Matthew Buckingham, Tadeusz Kantor, Anselm Kiefer, Naomie
Kremer, Fabio Mauri, George Segal, Frederic Matys Thursz
The
New Omega Workshops. September Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2008
@60.art.israel.world. Magnes
Museum, Berkeley, CA
Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond
to Censorship. African American Museum and Library, Oakland, CA
2007
Solstice. David
Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO
2006
The
Studio Visit. Video exhibition, Exit Art, New York, NY
Preview. Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
Le
Travail Vu Par... Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers,
Nantes, France
August Company. David Floria Gallery,
Aspen, CO
2005
New Paintings by
Naomie Kremer, Robert Kelly & Gary Komarin. David Floria
Gallery, Aspen, CO
Dialogues. Creative Growth Art
Center, Oakland, CA
Tantra: 2005 Exit Art Benefit
Print Portfolio Exhibition. Cecily Brown, YZ Kami, Naomie Kremer,
Erik Parker, Joyce Pensato, Fred Wilson. New York, NY
2004
Terrorvision. Exit
Art, New York, NY
Paint. SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San
Francisco, CA
2003
Is, Was,
Will Be. Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France
The
Art of Zyzzyva. 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Pulp
Fiction. French Library and Cultural Center, Boston, MA
2002
Being There. Oakland
Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Faculty Exhibition.
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Selected
Abstract Paintings. Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Banner
Project. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Invitational:
Shikishi. Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2001
The
End. Exit Art, New York, NY
1:1. Refusalon
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fresh Paint at Latham
Square. Oakland, CA
Electronic Language International Festival
2001. Museu da Imagem edo Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Open
Museum Net.Art. Irish Museum of art, Dublin, Ireland
The
Bit Screen. Druid Media, May-July 2001 Internet exhibition
1999
Invitational '99. Knoedler
and Company, New York, NY, 3-person exhibition
Faculty
exhibition. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
CCAC
Alumni Exhibition. Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
20th
anniversary group exhibition. Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1998
50/Fifty – Israeli Art from
Bay Area Collections. The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
California College of Arts and Crafts Alumni Exhibition. Mills
Building, San Francisco, CA
Faculty exhibition. San Francisco
Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1997
Group
exhibition. d.p. fong gallery, San Jose, CA
1996
Sources
and Refinements. San Bernardino County Museum of Art, Redlands,
CA
Fields of dreams and colors. Four painters, Korean
Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition. Gallery
House, Palo Alto, CA
1995
Group
exhibition. SITE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Faculty Exhibition.
University Art Gallery, CSU Hayward, CA
Beauty is
Abstract. Modesto Junior College. Modesto, CA
California
Dreaming. The Bayfront Gallery. Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Paper View. Cohen Berkowitz Gallery. Kansas City, MO
Group exhibition. Holter Museum of Art. Helena, MT
Being
on earth. Gallery Route One. Point Reyes, CA
Annual
exhibition. Gallery 2020. Santa Barbara, CA. Award winner
1994
Fever. Wexner Center
for the Arts. Columbus, Ohio. Exhibition originating at Exit Art,
New York
Three-person exhibition. SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San
Francisco, CA
Bioscape. Three-person exhibition.
Richard H. Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
1993
The Abstracted Landscape.
Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery. Oakland, CA
Drawing
First. Southern Exposure Gallery. San Francisco, CA
1992
Fever. Exit Art. New
York, NY
8th Annual National Exhibition (Drawing). Berkeley
Art Center Association. Berkeley, CA
1991
Bay
Arts Exhibition. San Mateo Arts Council. San Mateo, CA. Award winner
VIDEO-BASED WORK FOR PERFORMANCE AND FILM
2023
Nolan Gasser & The Mighty Mighty
at at Royce Hall, Los Angeles, with Naomie Kremer's immersive video
projections, for the taping of a PBS special "Encoding Musical
Taste."
2022
Nolan Gasser & The Mighty Mighty
at SF Jazz. Immersive video projections. SF JAZZ, San Francisco, CA.
See the performances at this link: Link
1.
Until Love Please. Presented by The Kitchen and
JCC East Bay. Video projections for a night of poetry, music and
dance (short excerpt here)
from the Song of Songs. Berkeley, CA
2020
Song of the Earth by Gustav
Mahler. Video backdrop. Musiques Interdites production. Marseille
Opera House, France.
En Mémoire de.... Video backdrop.
(See excerpt here)
Musiques
Interdites production. Musée d’Histoire de Marseille, France.
Toute la Lyre. Abbaye St. Victor. Musiques Interdites
production. Marseille, France
2019
Three for Two. Video
projections (view here)
for Paul Dresher Ensemble, ODC theater, San Francisco, CA
Tristan
and Isolde, by Richard Wagner. Video backdrop for concert
version production commissioned by Claude Heater Foundation,
performed at Penderecki Center in Luslawice, Poland
In the
Beginning was Desire. Film screening and Q&A with Dr.
Avivah Zornberg. A David Grubin Film with Visual Conceived and
Created by Naomie Kremer. Temple Emanuel, Streicker Center, New
York, NY
2018
Lucia Berlin: Stories. Video
set for Word for Word production, performed at Z space, San
Francisco, and touring to Paris, Nancy, and Angers, France
Tristan
and Isolde, by Richard Wagner. Video backdrop for concert
version production commissioned by Claude Heater Foundation,
performed at The Herbst Theater, San Francisco
Alcina,
by GF Handel Roxie Theater screening, 1-hour edited version of
performance in Acre, Israel, with video backdrop created by Kremer
2017
In the Beginning was Desire.
Animation for 40-minute experimental documentary film in
collaboration with filmmaker David Grubin. Based on an interview
with Biblical scholar Avivah Zornborg.
Artist's residency,
Power Art Center, Wayne, NJ
2016
Alcina. Opera by George
Frederick Handel, 2-hour 14-minute video backdrop for performance by
French Baroque Orchestra Les Talens Lyriques, Crusader’s
Courtyard, Acre, Israel
2015
The Secret Garden. Visual
Designer, East Coast Premiere, Opera Theater of Weston, VT
2013
The Secret Garden. Visual Designer for
video-based set, world premiere opera, co-commissioned by San
Francisco Opera and Cal Performances, San Francisco, CA
2011
Light Moves. A
collaboration between Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, multi-media
artist Naomie Kremer, composer Paul Dresher and poet Michael Palmer,
co-commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and University of
Maryland, Clarice Smith Center for the performing Arts. Performed at
Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; toured to The
Dance Center, Columbia College, Chicago, IL in 2012.
2008
Bluebeard's Castle. Opera by
Béla Bartók. Video set design commissioned by the Berkeley Opera,
Berkeley, CA
SELECTED AWARDS, TEACHING AND OTHER
ACTIVITIES
2023
Video projections for a concert taping of a PBS special, Encoding Musical Taste about music and the brain,
with musicologist Dr. Nolan Gasser. Performed at Royce Hall, UCLA, by Nolan Gasser & The Mighty Mighty.
2017
Journal
of Contemporary Painting, October special issue, Painting and Time.
Click here
to see Kremer text and image.
Artist's residency, Power Art
Center, Wayne, NJ
2012
Guest
lecture at Columbia College: Dance and Technology; Multi-media
Painting Studio, Chicago, IL
2011
Guest
lecture. Digital Cultural and Creativity, University of Maryland
2010
Visiting artist. Ringling
College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
2007
Visiting
artist. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Guest
lecture. Mills College, Oakland, CA
2006
Guest
lecture. Oxbow School, Napa, CA
2005
Exit
Art Benefit Portfolio Artist, 2005. Silkscreen edition of 50, New
York, NY
Visiting Artist. Pont-Aven School of Contemporary
Art, Brittany, France
Interview. Aspen public radio station,
conducted by Jim Baker, Aspen, CO
2003
Faculty,
Painting and Drawing. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,
CA
2002
Faculty, Painting and
Drawing. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Guest
lecture. Syracuse University Painting Program, Florence, Italy
Guest lecture. Ruskin School of Drawing and Painting, Oxford
University, England
2001
Faculty,
Painting and Drawing. California College of the Arts, San Francisco,
CA
2000-3
Curatorial committee.
Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999
Artist'sresidency, Djerassi
Foundation, Woodside, CA
Artist'sresidency. Joshua Tree
National Park, 29 Palms, CA
Curatorial Board. New Langton Arts,
San Francisco, CA
Board of Directors. Zyzzyva, San Francisco,
CA
1996-7
Faculty, Painting and
Drawing, California State University, Hayward, CA
1992
Cadogan Art Fellowship Award. San Francisco
Foundation, San Francisco, CA
The Bus Shelter Gallery.
Conceived, implemented, and directed six-month
program of
juried exhibitions by Bay Area MFA students at SFMOMA bus shelter,
San Francisco, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
NAOMIE KREMER: KEEPING TIME. Essays by Cathy Kimball, Eleanor
Heartney and Amei Wallach
NAOMIE KREMER: On Paper. Essays by
Jonathon Keats and Robert Flynn Johnson
AGE OF ENTANGLEMENT.
Essay by Jonathon Keats
QUOTE UNQUOTE: Text Animations and
Hybrid Paintings. Introduction by Marella Consolini
DRAWN IN:
Large and small works on paper. Essay by Jonathon Keats
MATINEE.
Artist’s book of drawings and text by Naomie Kremer
ONE YEAR
POEMS. By Naomie Kremer
SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Art, Design and
Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara,
CA
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin
Earl
Warren and Hiram Johnson State Office Building, Civic Center Plaza,
San Francisco, CA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach
Foundation for Graphic Arts, S.F., CA
Hammer Museum, University
of California, Los Angeles
Hewlett Packard Corporation,
Roseville, CA
Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA
Mills College
Art Museum
Mulia Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia
New York Public
Library
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA
Picker
Art Gallery, Colgate University
Queens Museum, NY
Reuters
Holdings PLC, San Francisco, CA
Richmond Center for Visual
Arts, Western Michigan University, MI
RISD Museum of Art,
LI
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Tang Museum
The
Brooklyn Museum, NY
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar
College
Thomas Weisel Partners, San Francisco, CA
United
States Embassy, Beijing, China
University of California,
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
University Museum of
Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Vera
List Center, New School, NY
Washington Convention Center Art
Collection, Washington DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art
Yale University
Art Gallery, CN
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
EDUCATION
1993 California College of the Arts,
Oakland, CA, MFA, Painting and Drawing, High Distinction
1977
Sussex University, Brighton, England, MA, Art History, modern
period
1975 University of Rochester,
Rochester, N.Y. BA, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude
1974
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England,
year abroad