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Leah Wilson is a Nevada City based artist and whitewater kayaker whose work has been seen in gallery and museum venues since 1994. Her work has been exhibited at Julie Baker Fine Art in Grass Valley, California and the Oakland Art Gallery in Oakland, California. Her paintings are in the collections of eBay, Inc. and Adobe Systems, Inc. She is currently exploring the South Yuba River in a multi-media project comprised of paintings, photography and writing. Leah received her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California. She was born in Newport Beach, California and received a B.F.A. in painting from the Art Institute of Southern California where she was the recipient of the institute's merit scholarship. When Leah is not making art she is out kayaking the South Yuba River and rivers throughout the Sierra Nevada Foothills and the world. She has been addicted to running rivers since age 13 when her dad took her rafting on the Kern River for her junior high school graduation. Since 2001 she has been teaching whitewater kayaking on the South Fork of the American River - the river she began raft guiding on at the age of 18. |
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Newport Beach, CA | |
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Education |
M.F.A., Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA B.F.A., Painting, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA |
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Selected Exhibitions |
2008 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1998 1997 1996 1994 |
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Collections |
Adobe Systems, Inc., Frankfurt, Germany |
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Bibliography |
2001 Chamberland, Celeste, “On the Cutting Edge,” The Davis Enterprise, August 1 |
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Awards |
1994 |
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