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In Memory of Peter Krasnow

William Hemmerdinger

Occupation: Painter, Critic
Media: Mixed Media Painting & Sculpture.
Born Burbank, California, July 7, 1951.
Education
Coll Desert, California, AA, 72. Univ California, Riverside, BA, 73. Claremont Grad Sch, MFA, 75, PhD, 79.

Teaching Positions
Coll Desert, California, 74-84, California State Univ, Long Beach, 79-80, Otis Art Inst, Parsons Sch Design, Los Angeles, 79-81, Univ California, Riverside, 82-83, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California, 88 & Pomona Col, Claremont, California, 90-94; Boston Archit Center, Massachusetts, 2002-.

Business and Professional Positions
Cur, Mus Photog, Univ California, Riverside, 73-74; Hemmerdinger Fine Art & Appraisal, Palm Desert, California, 84-2002.

Commissioned Works
A Vintage Foyer, comn by the MacDonalds, Indian Wells, California, 98; A Shellfisherman's Temple (mixed media sculpture), comn by the McCartys, Osterville, Massachusetts, 97; California Stories, comn by the Nortons, Indian Wells, California, 97; California Paintings, Le Merigot Hotel, Santa Monica, California, 98; Plaza Hotel Murals, New York; and others.

Public Works
Smithsonian Inst; Tate Gallery, London; Barbara Hepworth Mus, Cornwall, Eng; Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco; Mus Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Mobil Oil Corp, New York.

Exhibitions
Solo exhibs, Cirrus Eds, Ltd, Los Angeles, 82, 84, Brand Libr Art Center, Glendale, California, 90 & Old Selectmens Building Gallery, Barnstable, Massachusetts, 96-99; Olympic Arts Festivals, Los Angeles, California & Seoul, Korea; Act IV: Mixed Media, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Ten Contemporary Watercolor Painters, Scripps Coll, Claremont, California, 87; Boyusan Citizen's Hall, Pusan, Korea, 87; Lalit Kala Acad, National Gallery of Art, New Delhi, 96; Cahoon Mus America Art, Cotuit, Massachusetts, 97; Lantern of the East, Pyong-Taek Municipal Mus, Pyong-Taeki, Korea, 98; National Academy of Design, New York, 71; America Watercolor Soc, New York, 71; Int Contemporary Art Fairs, London, New York, Chicago, Basel, 72-2000; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 77; Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea, 89; Fukuoka Prefecture Mus, Japan, 2000; Otto Galerie, Munich, Ger, 2001 ; Kitakyushu Mus of Art, Kyushu, Japan, 2001; Double Vision Gallery, Los Angeles, 2002.

Bibliography
Michael Zakian, PhD (author), William Hemmerdinger: Paintings, Old Selectmen's Bldg Gallery; Katherine Holland (author), The Art Collection, Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco; Robert Perine (author), The California Romantics, Artras Press.

Publications
Author, Lowell Nesbitt (exhib catalog), Louis Newman Galleries, Los Angeles, 87; Matsumi Kanemitsu (exhib catalog), Japanese America Community Cult Center, Los Angeles, 88; Katherine Chang-Liu (exhib catalog), Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, 88; Chinese Artists (exhib catalog), Macao Mus, 93; Bong Tae Kim: Thirty Years of Printmaking, Song Bong Ku Press, Seoul, Korea, 94.

Honors and Awards
Award for Drawing, Nat Watercolor Soc, 74; Nat Watercolor Soc, 79.

Research Area
Appraisals; archives profiling America artists of Southern California.

Dealers
Ming Fei Gao Double Vision Gallery Los Angeles CA.

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