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Below is a listing of selected exhibits, for a comprehensive list please contact Ilka.

 

 

CURRENT EXHIBITS
 

OCCUPY BAY AREA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Fracisco, CA

July 7, 2012 - October 14, 2012

NATIVE VOICES: NATIVE PEOPLES' CONCEPTS OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS
U.S. National Library of Medicine / National Institutes of Health & Human Services
8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD  -  Ongoing
Ilka's contibution to the exhibit is here.

TWENTY BLACK AND WHITE POSTERS OF LIFE AT INTERTRIBAL FRIENDSHIP HOUSE
 20 black and white posters
Intertribal Friendship House, Oakland CA  July 2005 - Ongoing

BLACK PANTHERS
20 black and white photographs
Alemeda County Court House / Witkin Law Library
125 12th Street, Oakland CA
Feb 2012 - Ongoing

 

PERMANENT EXHIBITS

TWENTY BLACK AND WHITE POSTERS OF LIFE AT INTERTRIBAL FRIENDSHIP HOUSE
Intertribal Friendship House, Oakland CA  July 2005 - Ongoing

ATHA WHITEMANKILLER COMMEMORATION AT THE SENATOR HOTEL
San Francisco, CA  200?

ALCATRAZ DOCK PERMANENT INSTALLATION
San Francisco, CA  200?

5 BAY AREA ETHNIC PORTRAITS AT COMMUNITY INITIATIVES OFFICE
San Francisco, CA  2009


SOLO SHOWS

OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM
San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton CA  1975
Modern Age Gallery, New York NY  1975
Fotogalerie Trockenpresse, West Berlin, Germany  1977
Öffentliche Bücherhalle, Hamburg, Germany  1981

60 BLACK AND WHITE PRINTS
Bolinas Museum, Bolinas CA  1984

ILKA HARTMANN: 20 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE AND INSTALLATION
Goethe Institut German Cultural Center, San Francisco CA  1984

IN THE SPIRIT: NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITION
Bolinas Museum Living Artists Project Resource Center
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes CA  1985

THE FALL OF THE WALL
University of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil  2000

WE WANT FREEDOM: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BLACK PANTHERS
University Library Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park CA  2003

THE OCCUPATION OF ALCATRAZ BY NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE
BAY AREA URBAN INDIAN COMMUNITY

60 Photographs,documents and publications including newspapers with
articles by Ilka Hartmann
California Indian Museum, Santa Rosa CA  2003 - 2005

20 NATIVE AMERICAN PORTRAITS
California Indian Museum, Santa Rosa CA  2003 - 2005

LIVING ON THE EDGE: PORTRAITS OF HOMELESS AND PEOPLE IN NEED
Ukiah Community Center, Ukiah CA  2004
(Read an article about this exhibit)


REFLECTIONS: A 40 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE
170 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
Thomas Starr King and Martin Luther King Galleries
First Unitarian Universalist Church, San Francisco CA  2005

UP AGAINST THE WALL: PHOTOGRAPHY BY ILKA HARTMANN
Ingalls and Associates, Miami FL  2007 - 2008 
Branch Gallery, Durham NC  2007 - 2008 

Read review of this exhibit at ArtForum.com

AMERICAN PORTRAITS
Bolinas Museum, Bolinas CA  2010 
Goethe Institut, San Francisco CA  2010


GROUP SHOWS

TRAIL OF BROKEN TREATIES
The Oakland Museum, Oakland CA  1972

THE SACRED CIRCLE OF LIFE
The Oakland Museum, Oakland CA  1972

THE RESPONSE CENTER
The Oakland Museum, Oakland CA  1974

TWENTIETH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHERS
William Lyons Gallery, New York NY  and Coconut Grove FL 1979
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco CA  1984
Camera Works, San Francisco CA  1985

REFLEXIONEN: PHOTOGRAPHS AND ESSAY
Gasteig, Munich, Germany  1986

INNER SCENES / OUTER SPACE
Bolinas Museum Living Artists Project
Bolinas CA  1988

THE GREAT MARIN STRING-ALONG PROJECT
College of Marin, Kentfield CA  1991
(Read Ilka's essay here)

500 YEARS OF RESISTANCE
Society for Threatened People
Traveling exhibit throughout Germany  1992

THE BOLINAS SOLUTION: THE POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND NATURAL HISTORY
OF THE SEWAGE PONDS
Bolinas Museum, Bolinas CA  1995

THE OIL SPILL - 25 YEARS AGO
Bolinas Museum, Bolinas CA  1996

AMERICAN INDIAN ACTIVISM
California Red Power Conference
San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA  1999

CALIFORNIA COUNTERCULTURE: THE SIXTIES
(Audio-Visual presentation within the
Made in California exhibit)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA  2000 - 2001

BOLINAS IN THE 1970s AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNITY PLAN
Bolinas Museum, Bolinas CA  2001

THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING: 
PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS OF THE 1960s AND 1970s

Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley CA; San Joaquin County Historical Museum, Lodi CA; 
Corona Public Library Heritage Room, Corona CA; Golden State Museum, Sacramento CA;
Tulare Historical Museum, Tulare CA; Turtle Bay Museums, Redding CA; Community
Memorial Museum, Yuba City CA; Hayward Area Historical Society, Hayward CA;
Museum of History and Art, Ontario, Canada; National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis TN
Traveling exhibit 2001 - 2003

LOUDER THAN WORDS: BLACK PANTHER PARTY PHOTO EXHIBIT
Golden State Museum / California State History Museum, Sacramento CA  2004

 WHAT'S GOING ON?  - CALIFORNIA AND THE VIETNAM ERA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland CA  
August 28, 2004 - February 27, 2005
(Read more about this exhibit
)


A CREATIVE MERGER: LAWYERS AND ARTISTS
Sacramento State Public Law Library and the
Attorney General's Building, Sacramento CA  2005
(This exhibit caused a controversy in the press due to one painting)

THE UNITED FARM WORKERS MOVEMENT
The Free Speech Movement Café, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA  2005

BLACK PANTHER RANK AND FILE
 23 Photographs by Ilka Hartmann
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA  2006; Southwestern Center for Contemporary Art, 
Winston-Salem NC; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD  2007

 

AIM FOR FREEDOM: A 40 YEAR POHOTOGRAPHY AND ART RETROSPECTIVE OF THE
AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT
SomArts Gallery, San Francisco CA  2008

MARLON BRANDO, POCAHONTAS AND ME
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO  2009

 

INDIVISIBLE: AFRICAN-NATIVE AMERICAN LIVES IN THE AMERICAS
 20 Photographs
California African American Museum, Los Angeles CA  2011

CALIFORNIA INDIANS: MAKING A DIFFERENCE
The California Museum, Sacramento CA  2011

CALIFORNIA CROSSINGS
The Bancroft Library Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA

September 20, 2011 - January 6, 2012

 

BLACK PANTHERS
20 black and white photographs
Alemeda County Court House / Witkin Law Library
125 12th Street, Oakland CA
Feb 2012 - Ongoing

 

OCCUPY BAY AREA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Fracisco, CA

July 7, 2012 - October 14, 2012

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