Selected Exhibitions
Bill Kelly: Lena’s Garden: Responses to an Elegiac Fragment Hallowell Gallery, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA February 1 - April 3, 2005
Bill Kelly: Lena’s Garden: Responses to an Elegiac Fragment Hallowell Gallery, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA February 1 - April 3, 2005
Brighton Press: The Art of the Book Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA April 11 - June 20, 2004
Bill Kelly: Lena’s Garden: Responses to an Elegiac Fragment Hallowell Gallery, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA February 1 - April 3, 2005
2018 San Diego International Airport. “Figure of Speech.”
Mingei International Museum, San Diego, California. “Voluminous Art: Treasures from San Diego’s University Libraries,” March 10 – September 3, 2018.
San Francisco Center for the Book. “Catching the Light: Bookworks from Southern California,”
February 2 – April 30, 2018. Catalog.
2017 Book Club of California. “Catching the Light,” December 4, 2017 – January 8, 2018.
2016 University of San Diego, Hoehn Family Galleries. “IMPRINT: Recent Acquisitions from USD’s
Print Collection,” October 7 – December 16.
Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts. “Reading with the Senses.” Catalog.
2015 Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. “Read Image, See Text,” September 17, 2015 –
March 20, 2016.
The Maloof Foundation and Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, California. “California Handmade:
State of the Arts,” June 7, 2015 – January 2, 2016.
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California. “Silhouettes and Graphic Space,” January 10 –
February 14.
San Diego Public Library, San Diego, California. “[UN]BOUND,” January 31 – April 26.
2014 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California. “Art of the Word.” Spring 2014 – January 4, 2015.
2013 University of Connecticut, Dodd Center Gallery, Storrs, Connecticut. “A Private and Sensuous Encounter:
Women’s Fine Press and Artists’ Books, 1966-2013.” August 1 – October 23.
SDSU Downtown Gallery, San Diego, California. “Sustainable Systems.” March 15 – June 15.
Emory University’s Manuscript, Archive, and Rare Books Library, Atlanta, Georgia. “The Artist’s Book
Showcase.” Online exhibition.
2012 San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California. “BiblioTech,” January 5 – March 11.
2011 Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College, Claremont, California. “Women Over 25: Letterpress Printing
for Over a Quarter of a Century,” August 25 – September 21. Catalog.
SoFa Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. “WORDIMAGETEXTOBJECT,” January 5 – 28
(Award of Excellence.)
2009 The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California. “Impact,”
September 9 – October 23.
McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, Massachusetts. “The Book as Art: Artists’ Books from the National
Museum of Women in the Arts,” February 14 – May 31.
2008 San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, California. “New West Coast Design: Books,”
January 25 – April 25.
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California. “Recent Acquisitions,” January 11 – February 9.
Art Around Books Gallery, San Diego, California. “Re-Covery: 26 Artists Re-imagine 26 Books,” December 8,
2007 – January 12, 2008.
2007 Art Around Books Gallery, San Diego, California. “Brighton Press: 2003-2006,” November 5, 2006 – January 6,
2007.
Art Around Books Gallery, San Diego, California. “Desire Path: Paintings, Sculpture, Prints, and Artist’s
Books.” (Solo Exhibition.) November 3 – December 1, 2007.
Stanford University, Peterson Gallery, Green Library, Stanford, California. “California Printers in the Fine
Press Tradition,” February 12 – June 17.
2006 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. “The Book as Art.” October 27, 2006 –
February 4, 2007. Catalog.
2005 University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. “Artist’s Books from the Permanent Collection of the
Bailey-Howe Library.”
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California. “Recent Acquisitions from the Artists’ Books
and Artworks Collection,” February 8 – March 26.
2004 Museum of American Art, Giverny, France. “American Artists’ Books in Europe, 1960-2000.” July 11 –
October 31. Catalog.
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California. “Brighton Press: The Art of the Book.” Work by
Michele Burgess and Bill Kelly in Collaboration with Poets and Artists. April 7 – June 30.
2003 Hicks Art Center Gallery, Newtown, Pennsylvania. “Hot Off The Press: Collaborative Ventures in
Printmaking. Work by Michele Burgess, Brighton Press; Jean-Paul Russel, Durham Press; Cindi Ettinger, C.
Royce Ettinger Fine Art Printing; Eileen Foti, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper.” March 3 –
April 9.
2002 Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego, California. “Michele Burgess:
Markings of Time.” (Solo Exhibition.) November 18, 2001 – February 10, 2002.
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California. “A Good Impression: A Century of Printmaking in
San Diego,” July 13 – October 27.
2001 Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, Montana. “Third Mind: Collaborations in Book Making, featuring
Sandra Alcosser and Michele Burgess,” September 6 – October 27. Catalog.
Museé d’art Americain, Giverny, France. “Michele Burgess: When There Were Trees,” April 1 – July 12. Catalog.
2000 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. “Book as Art XII: Artists’ Books from the
Permanent Collection,” January 24 – July 1. Catalog.
Mandeville Special Collections Library. University of California, San Diego, California. “Beyond the Book.”
(Solo Exhibition.)
1999 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California. “Crossing.” March 3 – May 2.
Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois. “The Poem on the Page,”
January 10 – February 19.
University Art Gallery, CSU Stanislaus, Turlock, California. “The Book Arts: From Pulp to Pixel,”
June 15 – July 9.
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California. “Bound and Unbound: Small Presses of California,”
April 24 – May 29.
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego. “Women and Words.”
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York. “Body Work.” August 31 – October 31.
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. “Recent Acquisitions.”
1997 Artists’ Forum Gallery, San Francisco, California. “Brighton Press: The Art of the Book.”
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. “Book as Art VIII.” Catalog.
1995 Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California. “Brighton Press: Artists in Progress. Bill Kelly,
Michele Burgess, and James Renner.”
Rocket Gallery, London, UK. “Printer and Artist.”
1994 Art Chicago, “The New Pier Show.” Exhibition of artists published by Brighton Press.
Seventh Regiment Armory, New York. “Works on Paper.”
1993 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California. “Brighton Press: Contemporary Artist’s Books.”
November 17, 1992 – February 28, 1993.
Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, California. “Brighton Press: Book Arts, 1985-1993.” Catalog.