JoAnn Ugolini

JoAnn Ugolini has been exhibiting paintings and collages since 1980, including solo and group shows in Rome and California. Before becoming a member of Gallery 621 in Benicia, CA, she was represented by Barbara Anderson Gallery in Berkeley and Hunsaker-Schlesinger and Ruth Bachofner in Los Angeles. She recently exhibited a work at The DeYoung Open 2023 and will have an exhibit in the spring of 2024 at Eric Rose in Berkeley.

Working from Berkeley, California, and Rome, Italy, her paintings are drawn from both physical and emotional landscapes and the chaos and beauty of everyday life. Her collages, constructed from fragments of drawings or Roman posters pulled from the walls of Rome, depict a unique visual language.

As part of a collaborative Artist’s Book, S E C O N D Language, with poet, Kathleen Fraser, she produced a series of collages while working as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. The original book is in the Special Collections at the Beinecke Library (Yale University). Copies are in the Stanford, Brown, and University of Delaware Special Collections. Her work is in numerous private collections. She lives and works in Berkeley, California, and Rome, Italy.

Exhibitions include:

Painting included in The DeYoung Open 2023, San Francisco, CA, Nov 2023–Jan 2024
LOOK up, Gallery 621, Benicia, CA, 2024
The Edge and Over, Gallery 621, Benicia, CA, 2023
My Life as a White Person, Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2018
In Piazza, New Work, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 2012
S E C O N D Language, Constructions in Collaboration, American Academy in Rome studio exhibit, 2009
Recent Work from the Walls of Rome, Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2008
Now More Than Ever, Pratt Institute, group show, Rome, Italy, 2004
Artists’ Miniatures, small paintings on paper, Graystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2003
Cauldron & Net 2002, Claire Dinsmore, editor, volume4 virtual group show curated by K. Fraser
Rome Series 2002, paintings and works on paper, Studio di Architectura e Design, Rome, Italy, 2002
Nel Paese dei Sogni, paintings and collage paintings on paper, Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2000
Dipinti e Disegni, Pratt Institute, drawings and paintings, Rome, Italy, 1999
Faces and Abstractions, collage paintings on paper, Barbara Anderson Gallery, 1997
I Venti/The Winds, paintings/collage on Roman posters, Barbara Anderson Gallery, 1993
Ecco il Momento, paintings/collage on Roman posters, Barbara Anderson Gallery, 1992
Chicago Art Expo, group show, Chicago, IL, 1987
Monoprints, Chine Collé, Magnolia Editions Gallery, Oakland, CA, 1986
Experimental Printmaking, San Francisco Cameraworks, continuous-tone prints, group show, San Francisco, CA, 1984
Paintings on Paper, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1984
World Print Council, Palace of Fine Arts, group show, San Francisco, CA, 1982
Women Writers and Artists – Broadsides, Stanford University, CA, 1981