NOREEN DEAN DRESSER

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008: James Peterson Bronx VA Chapel - Permanent Collection
2005: "Interpenetrating Subjectivities" - Casa Frela Gallery, New York City
2003: "Dangerous Lovers: The Far Right Penetrating a Democracy"

Invitational Exhibition and Public Conversation, Center Gallery,

New York City
1999: Gay Memorial Day, New York City
1997: "Queer Memorial/Memory in Nazi Germany", La Mama’s Gallery,

New York City
1995: Special Installation Holocaust Service, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah,

New York City
1994: Special Installation Inter-Faith Holocaust Service, Los Angeles, CA
1993: The School of Theology at Claremont, Claremont, CA
1992: Dayton Art, Dayton, Ohio
1992: San Francisco State University
1991: Stanford University "Openings in a Wall"
1990: Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco "Creation Myths for
an Age of Despair"
1989: Institute of Buddhist Studies, General Theological Union, Berkeley
1988: Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco "Alpha Omega at Once" Pacific

Graduate School of Psychology, Menlo Park, CA
1987: Bade Museum, Berkley "Personally Yours" Self portraits as

personal ad all genders
1986: Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Pages on Forever"
1984: West Gallery, Claremont, CA "The Eternal Now"
1980: The Women's Building, Los Angeles

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008 HOAST Invitational, New York City
2008 eARTh Day, Invitational, Casa Frela Gallery, New York City
2007 The Antioch College Post Card Show
2006 41 Shots heard ‘round the world, New York City
2006 Air Gallery Invitational, New York City
2006 Water, Casa Frela Gallery, New York City
2005 Air Gallery Invitational, New York City
2005 Harlem Open Annual Study Tour, New York City
2005 Jazz Harlem, New York City
2004 Air Gallery Invitational, New York City
2003 The Symbol: A Source of Empowerment, Oakland Invitational Craft and

Cultural Arts Gallery, Oakland CA
2003 Air Gallery Invitational, New York City
2002 Exit Art, New York City
2002 The Dark Mother, Invitational, San Francisco, CA
2002 Air Gallery Invitational, New York City
2000 Queer 2000, New York City
1999 "Passionate Art" Richard Anderson Gallery, New York City Puffin

Foundation Juried Exhibition, New Jersey
1997 Queer Memory Berlin, Visual Information on Ideology of the Right Judson

Memorial Church, New York City
1996 "Memorial" Holocaust Installation "Queer Memorial/Memory
in Nazi Germany" Satellite exhibition for the Quilt in the Capital,

Washington DC
1996 "Sex Sells" Invitational-Rinaldo Hopf, Berlin, Germany Holocaust

Installation "Queer Memorial/Memory in Nazi Germany"

Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New York City
1995 "In the Black" Invitational-Myrella Moses, California State University,

Los Angeles
1994 Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 "In The Black" Invitational- Myrella Moses, Center for the Arts, Irvine, CA
1994 "Get Back" Invitational- East Gallery, Claremont Graduate School,

Claremont CA
1994 "On Site" Juried Invitational- Josine Starrels, Angels Gate, San Pedro, CA
1993 DADA Invitational, Los Angeles, CA
1993 "Reshaping Los Angeles, the Search for Inclusion/In Praise of Diversity"

Will Hipps, AGCU Executive Director and Stella Vognar,

LAHC Gallery, curators.
1993 Angels Gate Cultural Center Gallery, San Pedro, CA
1993 "Issues of Oppression" Miriam Shaperio curator, Honorable Mention,

Orange County Contemporary Arts Center, CA
1992 Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco, "Angels"
1992Invitational, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
1992 University of California, Northridge, Los Angeles."Communitas"
1992 Juried Invitational, Dayton Area Visual Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio
1991 Private Viewing, San Carlos, CA Institute for the Living Arts,

San Francisco, CA
1990 Zocalo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Hatley Martin Gallery, "Environmental Alert"
1987 Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Berkley
1986 Invitational, Miami Valley Arts Council, Dayton, Ohio
1986 Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco
1985 Juried Invitational, San Francisco
1985 Bay Area Survey, San Francisco
1985 The Claremont Graduate School, Alumni Show
1984 Irvine, CA "Exchange Show"
1983 Stella Polaris, Los Angeles, "Art/Soul" Jungian Institute Invitational
1983 Shakti Gallery, Long Beach
1983 William Grant Still Community Art Center, Los Angeles
1979 Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles
1979 San Bernardino College Gallery
1979 Charles Mingus Jazz Festival, Los Angeles
1979 William Grant Still Gallery, Los Angeles "Instructors Show"

ARTIST SALONS/EVENTS/ PANELS/PRESENTATIONS

2007 Curator- Her-humanity Casa Frela Galley; International Feminist Theology
2005 Parlour 153 Co- Directs Visual and Performing Arts Salon
2003 Dangerous Lovers: The Far Right Penetrating a Democracy;

Public Discussion with Alison Duncan as solo singer Weimar Cabaret,

Jack Aponte pianist - The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender

Center, New York City
2003 Source of Empowerment: Woman as Symbol panel, Oakland, CA
2003 Feminist Art Today, Tufts Gallery, Harvard University, MA panel
2002 Chair Panel at CAA, “PostQueer” Gender, Sexuality, and the Subversion

of Legibility
1999 Gay Memorial Day, 1999: Address on Art as Memory
1997 Queer Memory Berlin Commentary on Transmigration of Biological/Fascist

Ideas Performance/Cabaret/Salon Judson Church, New York City Salon

Bioethicists, Historians, Media Specialist, Critics and Artists, and

Humanitarians Southern Poverty Lawyers- Klanwatch, American

Historical Association, Gay and Lesbian International

Archives... Mike Finesilver of London performs/ Suse

Eichinger Berlin Kabaret /Nicole Volpert Berlin filming.
1997 Queer Memorial/Memory in Nazi Germany films on women and children’s

experience screening the Knitting Factory, New York City

Lisa Dilollo, Nicole Volpert Directing “Der Sonderbrau”

women/selected for sexual service in camps. Markus Schmidt

and Markus Tebbert Directing “Every Time There had to be a

Miracle” produced by Hochschule fur Film und fernsehen HFF,

Potsdam/ Babelsberg (UFA/DEFA)
1996 The Art of History and Memory for Feminist Strategies for the 90's,

SCWA Panel at the Sexual Politics Exhibition, Arm and Hammer

Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles
1996 Salon/Auction, Berlin, Germany
1995 Presentation/Slide Queer Memorial/Memory in Nazi Germany for the

Holocaust Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New York City
1993 Presentation/Paper Lamentations: Visual Analysis for an Ethical

Questioning of Contemporary Society American Academy of Religion,

Washington DC
1993 Presentation/Lecture Women Activists Artists in the American Century

Chaffey College, Orange County, California
1993 Salon/Panel on Aesthetics and Social Ethics with Dr. John B. Cobb, Jr.

and Dr. Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki by The Process Center at The

School of Theology at Claremont
1992 Presentation lecture before "The First International Minion Celebration

of Partnership," Heraklion, Crete, Greece
1992 Life as Commitment a dialogue in conjunction with the Communitas Linda

Vallejo a Chicana art activist and gallery director, Dr. Susan

Marie Mahoney, social ethicist and founder of the Peace and Justice

Center, University of California, Northridge.
1992 Want A dialogue on a social/ethical response to the urban centers at the

beginning of the 21st Century" with the exhibition of "40 Wild

Mules and an Acre of Dreams", Dr.Joseph Jordon, Bing Davis,

Dr.Irwin Abrams, Jud Yalkut and Dr. Thandeka, Dayton, Ohio
1992 Restructuring Reality, Dialogue in conjunction with the exhibition of

Creation Myths - Dr. Whitney Chadwick, Dr. Mara Keller and the

public on the political, ethical, aesthetic concerns of contemporary

art and life. San Francisco State University

Postcard project for Amnesty Int. Group 19.
1991 Openings in a Wall, Salon discussion Ginetta Sagan, co-founder of

Amnesty International, West hostess with Dr. Thandeka, Stanford

fellow, moderator, sponsored by Humanities Center and the

Stanford Art Department

On and About The Body, Dr. Betty Brown Panel, Southern California

WCA at USC

Spirituality in Art: A panel discussion, Eleanor Dickinson Moderator,

Northern California WCA, Berkeley
1990 Creation Myths for an Age of Despair A dialogue with the public and

co-participants to discuss issues raised by the international/cross-

cultural points-of-view in the exhibition. Kevin Harris, Host

Program Director, KQED Television, San Francisco
1989 A dialogue with Dr. Ronald Nakasone on spiritual practice in painting.

The Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley
1988 Alpha Omega at Once A dialogue, Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco
1987 "Personally Yours" A salon on the romantic in contemporary art.

Bade Museum
1986 Personally Yours A salon, Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco

Celebrating Relationship Lecture on sexual identity and tolerance
1983 William Grant Still Art Center Gallery, Los Angeles

Installation painting/mixed media - The Black Scientist Exhibition
1982 Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Panel member with Dr. David Rubin,

Melinda Wortz, Jim Morphesis, and Eric Orr. Japanese Culture

Center Gallery University of Southern California, sponsor

AWARDS/GRANTS

1999 Puffin Foundation LTD Grant for Gay Memorial Day unveiling
1998 Selection of the Homosexual Memorial Imagination for Permanent

Collection International Association of Gay and Lesbian

Children of Holocaust Survivors
1996 Rabbi Denise Eger, Los Angeles for Washington Exhibit
1995 Invitation from Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem, Israel
1993 Honorable mention, Issues of Oppression, Miriam Shaperio
1984 The Claremont Graduate School Council Award

Who's Who in American Students and Universities (CGS)
1983 The City Council of Long Beach, "Contributions in Culture"
1980 Outstanding Young Women in America - The City Council of

Los Angeles, "Expanding the Arts"

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