BORN San Francisco, California

EDUCATION

1985 MFA, Fiberworks, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, CA

1977 Associate of Arts Degree and Certificate in Fashion Arts, College of Alameda, CA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2004

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

2003

“Switchin’ in the Kitchen,” Margaret Porter Troupe Gallery, New York, NY

Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

Walcot Chapel, Bath, England

"In the Line of Fire," installation. Museum of African American Art, Dallas, TX

"Mildred Howard," installation and constructions, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

2002

Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA

“Do We Have the Right to Remain Silent,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

2001

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2000

"Open Sentence," Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA

1999

National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

“In the Line of Fire,” installation. Gallery II, University of Bradford, Bradford, England and City Gallery, Leicester, England

“In the Line of Fire,” installation. African American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC

Mildred Howard, constructions. Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC

1998

Vita Brevis, Boston, MA

Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

Mildred Howard, installation, constructions and collages. Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA

1997

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

"The Other San Franciscan", San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA

Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA

Afro-American Museum, NC

1996

Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA

Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

Mildred Howard, installation, constructions. Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

“The Last Train from Caney Creek to 16th and Wood,” installation. Ohlone College, Fremont, CA

1994

Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Mildred Howard, constructions. Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

“Tap: Investigation of Memory,” Hammonds House, Atlanta, GA

1993

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1992

"Ten Little Children Standing in a Line (one got shot, and then there were nine)," University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

"Tap: Investigation of Memory," INTAR, New York, NY

1991

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

"Ten Little Children Standing in a Line (one got shot and then there were nine)" San Francisco Art Institute 1991 Adeline Kent Award Exhibition, CA

"Memory Garden," Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

1990

“Memory Garden: Phase II,” installation. Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

1987

“Transparent Views,” paintings, constructions. California State University, Hayward, CA

1985

"Mildred Howard This Time," Dade County Library, Miami, FL

Mildred Howard, Bomarzo Floral Design, San Francisco, CA

1984

“Gospel and the Storefront Church,” installation. Old Post Office, Mill Valley CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008

“Kindred Spirits: Installations by Betye Saar and Mildred Howard,” Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, Eatonville, FL

2006

“Ghosts in the Machine,” SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

2005

"Dispersed," Inaugural Exhibition, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA

Gateway Gallery, New Works Exhibition, Napa, CA

“Scents of Purpose: Artists Interpret the Spice Box, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

2004

Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

2003

"Sweet Tooth," Copia, American Center for Wine Food and the Arts, Napa, CA

"Not So Still Life," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Global Elegies: Art & Ofrendas for the Dead, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

Neuberger Museum of Art Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Purchase, New York

Dwellings, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA

2002

Mildred Howard, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA

"I-5 Resurfacing: Four Decades of California Contemporary Art," San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

"Parallels and Intersections," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

"Return Engagement," Copia, American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa, CA

2001

Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Z-Space, San Francisco, CA

LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2000

"Go Figure," LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

“Made in California 1900-2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Nielsen Gallery 35th Anniversary Exhibition Part II, New Works, Boston, MA

1999

"Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute," Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Fragments of the World from Collage to Readymade,” University of California Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA

“Dancin': Africanization of American Movement,” National Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, Ohio

“Beyond the Veil: African American Art & Artists at Centuries End,” Cornell Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Fl

1998

"20/20: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition", University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

"Portraits," Neilson Gallery, Boston, MA

"Crossing Cultures", LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

1997

"Bay Area African American Artists," Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

"Hello Again! A New Wave of Recycled Art & Design," Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

Eureka Fellowship Awards Exhibition, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

“Trashformations,” Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington

“Hand, Mind and Spirit, Contemporary African American Women Artists,”

Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV

1996

"Generations", Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

"Reincarnation," Oakland Museum of California Sculpture Court at City Center, Oakland, CA

"SFAI 125th Anniversary Show," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

“Mirror My Presence,” Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Group Show, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

1995

"By Virtue of Age," Solano Community College, Suisun City, CA

"Ten by Ten, Ten Women Ten Prints," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

"Seeing the Soul," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

"Altars," The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

"Engaging Environments," California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

"Ordinary Object- Extraordinary Experience," Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

"American Color," Porter Trope Gallery, San Diego, CA

"American Color," Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA

1994

"20th Anniversary Exhibition," Oakland Museum, CA

"Odon-De," CCAC, Oakland, CA

"inSITE94," Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA

"New World Dis-Order," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (traveled/ catalogue)

"Visual Arts Encounter: African Americans in Europe," Gallery Resche, Paris, France

"Sharing the Dream," Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia (traveled/catalogue)

"Living in Balance," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (traveled)

The UC Berkeley Museum of Art, Science & Culture at Blackhawk, Danville, California

"Transparency and Metaphor," California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, California

1993

"In Transit," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

"Collectibles," Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1992

"Beyond 1992," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California

"Art in the Anchorage," Creative Time, New York, New York

"Voices," Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California

LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1991

"Diverse Directions," Trans America Pyramid, San Francisco, California

"Emerging Artists New Expressions," California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, California

1990

"Celebrations, Sights & Sounds of Being," Fisher Art Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

1989

"San Francisco Art Institute Annual," San Francisco, California

1988

"Dia de los Muertos," La Raza Graphics, San Francisco, California

"Inter Arts of Marin," San Anselmo, California

1987

"Chain Reaction," San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, California

"On The Horizon: Emerging California Artists," Fresno Museum, California

"Beyond Power," Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California

"4-Person Exhibit in Celebration of Black History," Koncepts Cultural Gallery, Oakland, California

"Saludo al Pueblo de Nicaragua," San Francisco, California and Nicaragua

1986

New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California

"American of African Descent," Collections of Raymond Holbert and Mildred Howard, City College of San Francisco, CA

1985

"Spaces: Looking In, Looking Out," African American Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

"Departures," Fiberworks MFA Exhibition,Fiberworks, Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, California

1983

"Fiberworks 10th Anniversary Exhibition," Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, California

"Mildred Howard & David Bradford," Grand Oak Gallery, Oakland, California

"African Genesis," C.E. Smith Anthropology Museum, Hayward, California

"Sweethearts," Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco and Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, California

1982

"Cajas y Otras," Galeria De La Raza, San Francisco, California

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2001 Flintridge Foundation, CA

1997 Vita Brevis, Brookline, MA

1996 Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy

1994 National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture

1994 Art Matters, New York, NY

1992-93 Lila A. Wallace/Reader's Digest International Traveling Fellowship

1991 Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute, California

1985 The Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, California

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

De Young Museum, San Francisco, California

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

Oakland Museum, Oakland, California

Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut

Rene and Veronica di Rosa Foundation, Napa, California

Rena Bransten, San Francisco, California