Margaret Niven

Since I was old enough to venture out on my own, I have taken long solo walks in the meadows and forests of regional parks and open spaces. First in the hills of Oakland where I grew up and now near
my home in Santa Cruz County. I've been making art for just as long. The inspiration and subject matter of my paintings, drawings and prints are the trees I encounter on my walks.

UC Berkeley, Department of Art Practice
Master of Fine Arts
Master of Arts
BA

2021:
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, Ca, Searching for Meaning, California Society of Printmakers
Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, Ca, Pressing On, MPC Printmakers
Curated by the Sea, Santa Cruz, Ca, Artists Network, Arts Council of Santa Cruz County
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, Ca, “Searching for Meaning”, California Society of Printmakers
2020:
Monterey Museum of Art, “Ripple Effect: The art of education”
2019:
“Presence of Place”, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, Ca
“This Place”, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, Ca
“Solar Impressions”, Inspiration Plus, Sag Harbor, NY
“Aperaturas”, El Taller Iris Negra, Havana Cuba,
“Coastal”, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, Ca
2018:
Faculty exhibition, West Valley College, Saratoga, Ca
“Trees of Coastal California”, Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, Santa Cruz, Ca
“ClimART”, Academy of Art, Cannery Gallery, San Francisco, Ca
“Shared Seas”, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, Ca and MPC Gallery, Monterey Ca
“Ebb and Flow” River Arts Festival, Santa Cruz, Ca
2017:
“Shared Seas”, Listhus Gallery, Olafsfjordur, Iceland
“Shared Seas”, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, Ca
New Work by Gallery Artists, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz Ca
“Ebb and Flow”, River...