Naomie Kremer is a painter, video artist, and stage designer. She has exhibited widely in the US and abroad. Her work is in many private and public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Berkeley Art Museum, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the US Embassy, Beijing, China.

Kremer’s imagery, though largely abstract, is based in the real world–incorporating nature, architecture, language, letterforms, and the human figure. Her work draws from a wide range of sources and inspirations, including art history, music, poetry and literature. Her video based set design led her to begin combining painting and video.

“I became intrigued by the surprising perceptual and psychological experience of viewing video and painting simultaneously. I began referring to these as “hybrid paintings” – a melding of painting and video that leaves the viewer uncertain which part is paint and which is projection”.

Her video based set designs include the San Francisco production of Tristan and Isolde, by Richard Wagner; Lucia Berlin Stories, performed in San Francisco and Paris by Word for Word Theater Company; Alcina, by George F Handel, performed in Acre, Israel, by the French Baroque orchestra Les Talens Lyriques; the world premiere production of The Secret Garden co-commissioned by San Francisco Opera and Cal performances; Light Moves, a collaboration with Margaret Jenkins Dance Company; and Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók, commissioned by the Berkeley Opera. In the Beginning Was Desire, for which she conceived and created the animation, is her first film project.

Kremer has taught Painting and Drawing at California College of the Arts, San Francisco; The San Francisco Art Institute; California State University, Hayward; and the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, Brittany, France. She has been a visiting artist and guest lecturer at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Painting, Oxford University; the Syracuse University Painting Program, Florence, Italy; Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota; and Mills College, Oakland.

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023
Terra. Paintings, hybrids and video. Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2022
Regard. Paintings and hybrid painting. The American Gallery, Marseille, France

2021
Traces, Drawings, video and hybrid, The American Gallery, Marseille, France
Naomie Kremer: Drawn In. Large and small scale drawings, 2007-2021. View catalogue here. Tour the exhibition with Naomie here. Read a review here. Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2020
Embodiment. Paintings, immersive video installation with sound, hybrid paintings, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Video at Joe Henderson Lab. Night-time video installation at San Francisco Jazz, San Francisco, CA

2019
Incarnation. Video and print installation for Nuit Blanche, Piscine de la Butte aux Cailles, Paris, France

2018
Untold, Paintings and hybrids, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2017
Vantage. Paintings, hybrid and video animation, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Vantage II. Paintings, hybrid and video animation, Octavia Art Gallery, Houston, TX
In the Beginning was Desire. The 40-minute experimental documentary in collaboration with documentary filmmaker David Grubin is structured on a series of interviews with Biblical scholar Avivah Zornberg, with visuals conceived and created by Naomie Kremer. To see stills from the video, please click here. To view the entire film on Vimeo please click here to request the password from the artist.

2016
Fugitive Earth, paintings and video, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Rudimentary Moves, animation, Berkeley Art Museum outdoor LED screen, Berkeley, CA To view installation, please click here.

2015
Walkabout. One person exhibition of new paintings at Von Fraunberg Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany.
Age of Entanglement. One person exhibition of video and hybrid paintings. San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Video at Joe Henderson Lab. Night-Time Video Installation at San Francisco Jazz, San Francisco, CA

2014
Desire Lines. Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Video at Joe Henderson Lab. Nightly Video Installation at San Francisco Jazz, San Francisco, CA

2013
Rudimentary Moves, installation of the painting Rudimentary Pixillation, and its video animation. Berkeley Art Museum lobby, Berkeley, CA
Sightlines, survey exhibition, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2012
Arcadia. Von Fraunberg Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Naomie Kremer: Liquid Light. 212 Gallery, Aspen, CO

2011
Multiverse I. Paintings. Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Multiverse II. Hybrid paintings. Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010
Motion Pictures: Hybrids and Paintings. Frank Pictures Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Naomie Kremer: Flying Colors. Von Fraunberg Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Naomie Kremer: On Location. McClain Gallery<, Houston, TX

2009
Ghosts. Magnes Museum Windows, Berkeley, CA
Paintings and Hybrids. Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Between the Lines (Entre les Lignes). Galerie Impaire, Paris, France

2008
Force Fields. Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
Quote Unquote: Text Animations and Hybrid Paintings. Knoedler & Co. Project Space, NY, NY

2007
Pleasure and Paint. Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
Polyglot. Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005
Keeping Time: Naomie Kremer Works 1992-2004. San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Shtetl. Video installation with 15 prints. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA
Syncopations. Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Paint Moves. Modernism at Foreign Cinema, San Francisco, CA

2004
Ports of Call. Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Portails. Institut Franco-Americain, Rennes, France

2003
Telling Paint: Paris-Oakland. Modernism, San Francisco, CA

2001
New Paintings. Modernism San Francisco, CA
Known/Unknown. Plaza Gallery, Bank of America Center, San Francisco, CA
Naomie Kremer. Denise Roberge Art Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
Text Moves. San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2000
Naomie Kremer. Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1999
Recent Paintings. Modernism, San Francisco, CA

1998
Recent Paintings. Modernism, San Francisco, CA

1997
Recent Paintings. Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Naomie Kremer. John n Joe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Naomie Kremer. d.p. fong gallery, San Jose, CA

1996
Paintings. Ottocentodiciassette, Oakland, CA

1994
Paintings. Two Transamerica Center, San Francisco, CA

1993
Large-scale Drawings. Door Three Gallery, Oakland, CA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Digital Reality. Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
The Alchemy of Place. Gallery Commonweal, Bolinas, CA
Dennis Leon and the Art of Instruction. Oliver Art Center, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, Oakland, CA

2021
Building Bridges, Breaking Boundaries. Read the press release here. Artists in the exhibition include Lia Cook, Naomie Kremer, Teddy Milder, Francesca Pastine, Mary Curtis Ratcliff, Elizabeth Sher. Curated by Hanna Regev, Ruth's Table, San Francisco, CA

2020
Disobey Orders, Save the Artists. The Alma Enigma, video installation, The American Gallery, participating in Manifesta 13 Biennial, Marseille, France
Landscape: Awe to Activism. Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA
de Young Open. De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Created in Place. Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019
Not Just Landscapes. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
Color Theory and Interaction. Ruth’s Table, San Francisco, CA
Through the Looking Glass. Group exhibition with Naomie Kremer, Judy Dater, Laurie Lipton, Elina Anatole. Foreign Cinema, SF

2018
Independent Vision: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Martin Muller Collection. Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Way Bay 2. Group exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific FIlm Archive, Berkeley, CA
Wonder Women: 10 Bay Area Figurative Artists. Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Group Exhibition. Bank of America Financial Center, Houston, TX

2017
Summer Sex II. Lichtundfire, New York, NY
About Abstraction. Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Sound Maze. Video animation in Paul Dresher musical instrument installation at Napa Valley Museum, Napa, CA

2016
Dynamic Gestures featuring work by Naomie Kremer, Charley Brown, Tim Craighead, David Einstein, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Dada Here and Now, group exhibition curated by Hanna Regev and Matt McKinley. Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

2015
Artragious. Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Living with Endangered Languages. Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Small is Beautiful. Flowers Gallery, New York, NY

2014
Critical Connections: Exhibition of International Contemporary Art. Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Here: Artists Annual Part I. Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Into the Future: New Gifts to Commemorate the Museum's 75th Anniversary. Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Mind Matters, Mapping the Human Brain through Neuroscience. Atrium, Sandler Neuroscience Center, UCSF, San Francisco, CA

2013
AUTOUR DU DESIR, All About Desire. Group exhibition. Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2012
Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art and Jewish Thought. Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Exit Art: Printed Histories, 15 Years of Print Portfolios. Exit Art, New York, NY
Group Exhibition. 212 Gallery, Aspen, CO
Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance. SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

2011
Framing Abstraction: Mark, Symbol, Signifier. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
ABSTRACT NOW: Selections by Peter Selz. Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

2010
The 13th Annual Art of Baseball Exhibition. George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Seduction of Duchamp: Bay Area Artists' Response. Los Gatos Museum of Art, Los Gatos, CA
In Full Color. Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY

2009
Theaters of Memory: Art and the Holocaust. The Jewish Museum, New York, NY. Group exhibition withartists Eleanor Antin,
Christian Boltanski, Matthew Buckingham, Tadeusz Kantor, Anselm Kiefer, Naomie Kremer, Fabio Mauri, George Segal, Frederic Matys Thursz
The New Omega Workshops. September Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2008
@60.art.israel.world. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA
Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship. African American Museum and Library, Oakland, CA

2007
Solstice. David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO

2006
The Studio Visit. Video exhibition, Exit Art, New York, NY
Preview. Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
Le Travail Vu Par... Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Nantes, France
August Company. David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO

2005
New Paintings by Naomie Kremer, Robert Kelly & Gary Komarin. David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO
Dialogues. Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA
Tantra: 2005 Exit Art Benefit Print Portfolio Exhibition. Cecily Brown, YZ Kami, Naomie Kremer,
Erik Parker, Joyce Pensato, Fred Wilson. New York, NY

2004
Terrorvision. Exit Art, New York, NY
Paint. SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003
Is, Was, Will Be. Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France
The Art of Zyzzyva. 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Pulp Fiction. French Library and Cultural Center, Boston, MA

2002
Being There. Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Faculty Exhibition. California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Selected Abstract Paintings. Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Banner Project. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Invitational: Shikishi. Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2001
The End. Exit Art, New York, NY
1:1. Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fresh Paint at Latham Square. Oakland, CA
Electronic Language International Festival 2001. Museu da Imagem edo Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Open Museum Net.Art. Irish Museum of art, Dublin, Ireland
The Bit Screen. Druid Media, May-July 2001 Internet exhibition

1999
Invitational '99. Knoedler and Company, New York, NY, 3-person exhibition
Faculty exhibition. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
CCAC Alumni Exhibition. Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
20th anniversary group exhibition. Modernism, San Francisco, CA

1998
50/Fifty – Israeli Art from Bay Area Collections. The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
California College of Arts and Crafts Alumni Exhibition. Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
Faculty exhibition. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1997
Group exhibition. d.p. fong gallery, San Jose, CA

1996
Sources and Refinements. San Bernardino County Museum of Art, Redlands, CA
Fields of dreams and colors. Four painters, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition. Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA

1995
Group exhibition. SITE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Faculty Exhibition. University Art Gallery, CSU Hayward, CA
Beauty is Abstract. Modesto Junior College. Modesto, CA
California Dreaming. The Bayfront Gallery. Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Paper View. Cohen Berkowitz Gallery. Kansas City, MO
Group exhibition. Holter Museum of Art. Helena, MT
Being on earth. Gallery Route One. Point Reyes, CA
Annual exhibition. Gallery 2020. Santa Barbara, CA. Award winner

1994
Fever. Wexner Center for the Arts. Columbus, Ohio. Exhibition originating at Exit Art, New York
Three-person exhibition. SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bioscape. Three-person exhibition. Richard H. Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

1993
The Abstracted Landscape. Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery. Oakland, CA
Drawing First. Southern Exposure Gallery. San Francisco, CA

1992
Fever. Exit Art. New York, NY
8th Annual National Exhibition (Drawing). Berkeley Art Center Association. Berkeley, CA

1991
Bay Arts Exhibition. San Mateo Arts Council. San Mateo, CA. Award winner

VIDEO-BASED WORK FOR PERFORMANCE AND FILM

2022
Nolan Gasser & The Mighty Mighty at SF Jazz. Immersive video projections. SF JAZZ, San Francisco, CA. See the performances at this link: Link 1.
Until Love Please. Presented by The Kitchen and JCC East Bay. Video projections for a night of poetry, music and dance (short excerpt here) from the Song of Songs. Berkeley, CA

2020
Song of the Earth by Gustav Mahler. Video backdrop. Musiques Interdites production. Marseille Opera House, France.
En Mémoire de.... Video backdrop. (See excerpt here) Musiques Interdites production. Musée d’Histoire de Marseille, France.
Toute la Lyre. Abbaye St. Victor. Musiques Interdites production. Marseille, France

2019
Three for Two. Video projections (view here) for Paul Dresher Ensemble, ODC theater, San Francisco, CA
Tristan and Isolde, by Richard Wagner. Video backdrop for concert version production commissioned by Claude Heater Foundation, performed at Penderecki Center in Luslawice, Poland
In the Beginning was Desire. Film screening and Q&A with Dr. Avivah  Zornberg. A David Grubin Film with Visual Conceived and Created by Naomie Kremer. Temple Emanuel, Streicker Center, New York, NY

2018
Lucia Berlin: Stories. Video set for Word for Word production, performed at Z space, San Francisco, and touring to Paris, Nancy, and Angers, France
Tristan and Isolde, by Richard Wagner. Video backdrop for concert version production commissioned by Claude Heater Foundation, performed at The Herbst Theater, San Francisco
Alcina, by GF Handel Roxie Theater screening, 1-hour edited version of performance in Acre, Israel, with video backdrop created by Kremer

2017
In the Beginning was Desire. Animation for 40-minute experimental documentary film in collaboration with filmmaker David Grubin. Based on an interview with Biblical scholar Avivah Zornborg.
Artist's residency, Power Art Center, Wayne, NJ

2016
Alcina. Opera by George Frederick Handel, 2-hour 14-minute video backdrop for performance by French Baroque Orchestra Les Talens Lyriques, Crusader’s Courtyard, Acre, Israel

2015
The Secret Garden. Visual Designer, East Coast Premiere, Opera Theater of Weston, VT

2013
The Secret Garden. Visual Designer for video-based set, world premiere opera, co-commissioned by San Francisco Opera and Cal Performances, San Francisco, CA

2011
Light Moves. A collaboration between Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, multi-media artist Naomie Kremer, composer Paul Dresher and poet Michael Palmer, co-commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and University of Maryland, Clarice Smith Center for the performing Arts. Performed at Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; toured to The Dance Center, Columbia College, Chicago, IL in 2012.

2008
Bluebeard's Castle. Opera by Béla Bartók. Video set design commissioned by the Berkeley Opera, Berkeley, CA

SELECTED AWARDS, TEACHING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

2017
Journal of Contemporary Painting, October special issue, Painting and Time. Click here to see Kremer text and image.
Artist's residency, Power Art Center, Wayne, NJ

2012
Guest lecture at Columbia College: Dance and Technology; Multi-media Painting Studio, Chicago, IL

2011
Guest lecture. Digital Cultural and Creativity, University of Maryland

2010
Visiting artist. Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL

2007
Visiting artist. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Guest lecture. Mills College, Oakland, CA

2006
Guest lecture. Oxbow School, Napa, CA

2005
Exit Art Benefit Portfolio Artist, 2005. Silkscreen edition of 50, New York, NY
Visiting Artist. Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Brittany, France
Interview. Aspen public radio station, conducted by Jim Baker, Aspen, CO

2003
Faculty, Painting and Drawing. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2002
Faculty, Painting and Drawing. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Guest lecture. Syracuse University Painting Program, Florence, Italy
Guest lecture. Ruskin School of Drawing and Painting, Oxford University, England

2001
Faculty, Painting and Drawing. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2000-3
Curatorial committee. Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999
Artist'sresidency, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA
Artist'sresidency. Joshua Tree National Park, 29 Palms, CA
Curatorial Board. New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Board of Directors. Zyzzyva, San Francisco, CA

1996-7
Faculty, Painting and Drawing, California State University, Hayward, CA

1992
Cadogan Art Fellowship Award. San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
The Bus Shelter Gallery. Conceived, implemented, and directed six-month
program of juried exhibitions by Bay Area MFA students at SFMOMA bus shelter,
San Francisco, CA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

NAOMIE KREMER: KEEPING TIME. Essays by Cathy Kimball, Eleanor Heartney and Amei Wallach
NAOMIE KREMER: On Paper. Essays by Jonathon Keats and Robert Flynn Johnson
AGE OF ENTANGLEMENT. Essay by Jonathon Keats
QUOTE UNQUOTE: Text Animations and Hybrid Paintings. Introduction by Marella Consolini
DRAWN IN: Large and small works on paper. Essay by Jonathon Keats
MATINEE. Artist’s book of drawings and text by Naomie Kremer
ONE YEAR POEMS. By Naomie Kremer

SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Art, Design and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin
Earl Warren and Hiram Johnson State Office Building, Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco, CA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, S.F., CA
Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
Hewlett Packard Corporation, Roseville, CA
Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA
Mills College Art Museum
Mulia Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia
New York Public Library
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University
Queens Museum, NY
Reuters Holdings PLC, San Francisco, CA
Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University, MI
RISD Museum of Art, LI
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Tang Museum
The Brooklyn Museum, NY
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
Thomas Weisel Partners, San Francisco, CA
United States Embassy, Beijing, China
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Vera List Center, New School, NY
Washington Convention Center Art Collection, Washington DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art
Yale University Art Gallery, CN
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University 

EDUCATION

1993     California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA, MFA, Painting and Drawing, High Distinction
1977     Sussex University, Brighton, England, MA, Art History, modern period
1975     University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.  BA, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude
1974    London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England, year abroad