SOLO EXHIBITONS *
The Juliet Museum of Art at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, W February through May 2022
"New Work by Ric Ambrose”, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
July 2 -28, 2019
"Drawings by Ric Ambrose”, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Jan 24 -April 16, 2019
"Psychic State II", Citicorp Center, San Francisco, CA
June 1 -July 14, 2012
“Psychic State”, 555 California Street Plaza Gallery, San Francisco
March 3 – May 12, 2012
”New Drawings", Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA, November, 2011
"Urbanscapes", Off Broadway Gallery, Pueblo, CO 1985
Eastern Montana College, Billings, Mt, November, 1985
Off Broadway Gallery, Pueblo, CO, September, 1985
Coos Bay Art Museum, Coos, Bay, OR, September, 1983
Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, CO, 1983
Colorado State University Gallery, Fort Collins, CO, 1981
Ohio State University Art Gallery, Columbus, OH, 1981
"Neighbor-scape", Arapahoe Community College, November 1983
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
"State of Perpetual Indulgence," Gray Art Show, Gray Cube Gallery, ("Best of Show") December 2021
"Home," National Juried Exhibition, ARC Gallery & Studios, San Francisco, CA ("Juror's Award") May 15 - June 12, 2021
Juror: Susan Aulik, The Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Crocker Kingsley National Art Competition," Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA, Jan 28 through Feb 21, 2021
"The deYoung Open", deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA,
October 3, 2020 - January 3, 2021
"2020 Will's Creek Exhibition of Fine Art", Cumberland, MD
(“People’s Choice Award”) August 29-September 26, 2020
Juror: Jessica Beck, Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA
"Left Coast", Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA,
June - July 2020
"Over and Under", Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, April -June 2020
“Biennial Salon Show”, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
("Best of Show"), November 2 to Feb 22, 2018
“Members Show”, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 2014, 2015 & 2017
International Print and Drawing Fair, Hespe Gallery, New York, NY, 2015
“Group Exhibition”, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, 2011
Summer Show, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, 2010
San Francisco International Art Fair, May 2010
Art Chicago, May 2010 (Hespe Gallery)
Pacific Art League, Group Exhibition, 2010 & 2011
“Reconstructed Memories”, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco
December-January, 2010
“Big Drawing Exhibit”, University of Wyoming Art Museum, February, 1988
Invitational Exhibit, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
November, 1987
“Colorado Drawing Show”, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO, 1987
“The Great Drawing Show”, Colorado Gallery of the Arts,
Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, CO, 1987
Group Exhibit, Carson Shapiro Gallery, Denver, CO, 1984, 1985 & 1987
"Realism Today", Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1983
“International Art Expo”, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, May 1983, 1984, &1986
“Colorado ’85, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO March, 1985
“27th Annual North Dakota Print and Drawing Show”,
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, 1984
“Arts ‘84”, Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, CO, March, 1984
Juror: Lewis Story Director of Denver Art Museum
“1983 Colorado Biennial” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Jurors: Lucas Samaras,& Richard Koshalek.
“Contemporary Realism”, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL, November, 1984
“National Print Exhibition”, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL
February, 1984
“September Competition,” Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, LA
September, 1983,
Juror: Michael Monroe, Curator of Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian
“Colorado ’83 Biennial”, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, ,
Colorado Springs, CO, August, 1983
Juror: Henry Hopkins, Director of SFMOMA
“Second International Exhibition of Prints and Drawings"
Porter Fine Arts Center, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA.
Work travelled to various art museums throughout the southeast
United States
“All on Paper ’82", AAO Gallery, Buffalo, NY, January, 1983
"Arts '82", Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, 1982,
Juror: Dianne Vanderlip, Curator of Contempoary Art, Denver Art Museum
“17th Annual November Art Show”, Coos Bay Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, November, 1982
“Works on Paper”, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, April, 1981
"20th Annual Regional Art Exhibition”, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO, April, 1981
"Using Paper”, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT, November, 1980
Juror: John Canaday
“Bi-state Graduate Show”, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, November, 1980
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Jacobs & CO, San Francisco,
Getty Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Charles Hespe, SF, CA
7 Unknown private collections in Bay Area
AT&T Regional Headquarters, Denver, CO
Beta West, Denver, CO
City of Littleton, Littleton, CO
Central Bank, Lakewood, CO
Central Bank, Denver, CO
Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, Denver, CO
Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, Colorado Springs, CO
Kirkland and Ellis Law Firm, Denver, CO
Professional Bank of Denver, CO
Sohio Gas and Oil Company, Denver, CO
United Bank of Skyline, Denver, CO
Walters Construction, Denver, CO
GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009- 2017
Carson Shapiro Gallery, Denver CO 1983-1990
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL 1984-1990
* I did not create or exhibit artwork between 1986 and 2010.
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