April Dawn Parker

April Dawn Parker was raised in California and has worked in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, New York, and now Marin County, CA. She is a graduate of Brown University, where she earned a BA with honors, and she completed one year of graduate study at Yale University School of Art in the MFA Graphic Design program. In fine arts, Parker is self-taught.

Parker’s work is in numerous public and private collections. She shows regularly in gallery shows and national juried exhibitions. Her paintings have been included in such magazines as Sunset and CA Home + Design, and she has been profiled on CBS Bay Channel 5. Online, Parker's work has been highlighted by Saatchi Art and HuffPost. In 2015, Parker did a three month residency at the San Franciso Palace of Fine Arts.

Parker is represented by Andra Norris Gallery.

Brown University, BA

Yale School of Art,
1 yr. of MFA in Graphic Design

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020
LOOK, group show, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA

Salon Style, group show, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019
Lobster Dinner: a show of small works, national juried exhibition, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (juried by Will Hutnick, Artist and Curator)

Faber Birren National Color Award Show, national juried exhibition, Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT (juried by Meredith A. Brown, Curatorial Assoc., Modern & Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Sanctuary, national juried exhibition, online portion, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA (juried by Bryan Yedinak, Director of Themes+Projects)

Bay Area Masters, juried exhibition, San Mateo County Fair, San Mateo, CA (juried by Ruth Waters, Peninsula Museum of Art)

Something About Lines, juried exhibition, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA (juried by Katy Kuhn, Artist)

Movers and Shakers, group show, The Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA

Small Works Show, group show, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Southern Exposure: 45th Annual Auction, juried auction, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA

2018
Skies of Gold: Willard Dixon, Sophie Dixon Dillo, David Molesky, April Dawn Par...