bio
Todd Bura
Education
MFA, University of California, Irvine
BFA, School of Visual Arts New York, NY
exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2020 “Watercolor Paintings” Ahava Shemesh, Virtual
2017 “Water Flows” Capital, NADA Miami
2016 “The Life of a Fly is Short” Capital, San Francisco
2013 “Instead of Memory” CAC, UC Irvine
2011 “Romance” Triple Base, San Francisco
2009 “Painting Spiritual Painting” Triple Base
2008 “Misfits” Triple Base
2007 “No Use No Idea” Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 “Mighty Pretty Rain” Triple Base
“Thank You All For The Music” Four Star Video, San Francisco
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Margins, Gutters, Creeps and BleedsCAPITAL, San Francisco
2017 Walk the Distance and Slow DownBMoCA, Boulder CO (forthcoming)
2017 All of This Has Happened Before and Will Happen AgainSentanyl, CA
2017Albany Library with Linda Geary and Colter JacobsenAlbany, CA
2016 “This Just In: Recent Acquisitions” Berkeley Art Museum
2014 “The Possible” Berkeley Art Museum
2013 “UCI MFA” For Your Art, Los Angeles
2012 “Chris Baird, Todd Bura, Ruth Laskey” Jancar Jones, Los Angeles
2011 “Abstract Now and Then” Berkeley Museum of Art
2010 “Hauntology” Berkeley Museum of Art
“Spatium Sets” UC Santa Barbara
2009 “Galaxy” Berkeley Museum of Art
“Front and Center” Headlands Center for the Arts, CA
2008 “Form +” Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
2007 “Set In Concrete” Spool MFG, Johnson City, NY
“Tropical Hot Dog Night” Co-Lab, Copenhagen
2006“Another Best Friend Somehow” Four Star Video, San Francisco
2003"Low Tech Organic" 38 Nine Studio, Long Island City, NY
2002"Living Room" Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
selected press
Selected Press
2019 “forgetful swan” -three paintings. Refuge, Failed States Journal (London)
2017 "Hidden Highlights - Who Are The Most Underrated Artists Today?" Art News, Spring 2017 Rinder, Lawrence. “Renewal” Roy Newell (Works From the Archive) Sotheby’s, 2017
2011 Baker, Kenneth. Review, San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 2011
Van Proyen, Mark. Then and Now @ Berkeley Art Museum, Square Cylinder,
March 12, 2011
2009 Baker, Kenneth. Review, San Francisco Chronicle, October 17, 2009
Feldman, Melissa. Review, Frieze Magazine, December 12, 2009
2008 Huston, Johnny Ray. “Neo Geo Trio”, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 5-11,
Jancar, Ava. “Form +”, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 5-11, 2008
2006 Baker, Kenneth. Review, San Francisco Chronicle, August 19, 2006
Huston, Johnny Ray. “Picks”, San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 22-28, 2006