Mildred Howard
Mildred Howard (b. 1945, San Francisco, CA) is best known for her multimedia assemblage work and installations. Howard completed her Associates of Arts Degree & Certificate in Fashion Art at the College of Alameda, Alameda, CA in 1977 and received her M.F.A. from Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts at John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA in 1985. In 2015, she received the Lee Krasner Award in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement. She has also been the recipient of the Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2017), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2004/5), a fellowship from the California Arts Council (2003), the Adaline Kent Award from San Francisco Art Institute (1991), and, most recently, received the Douglas G. MacAgy Distinguished Achievement Award at San Francisco Art Institute (2018). Her large-scale installations have been mounted at: Creative Time in New York, InSITE in San Diego, CA; the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA; the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the New Museum in New York, the City of Oakland; and the San Francisco Arts Commission and International Airport. Her works reside in the permanent collections of: the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; the Museum of Glass and Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA; the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA; and the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, among others.
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2023
Wilson, Emily. “Mildred Howard’s Art of Giving.” Hyperallergic, January, 2023.
2022
Roth, David M. “Best of 2022.” Square Cylinder, December 14, 2022.
Pritikin, Renny. “Time Traveling with Mildred Howard.” Square Cylinder, October 25, 2022.
2021
Bravo, Tony. “Mildred Howard talks about race, museums and how the art world needs to continue evolving in 2021.” SF Chronicle, Datebook. February 24, 2021.
Hickman, Matt. “Mildred Howard’s The House That Will Not Pass for Any Color Than Its Own shimmers in the NYC snow.” The Architect’s Newspaper. February 16, 2021.
Battery Park City Authority. “Battery Park City Authority Introduces a Glass House to Belvedere Plaza.” Hyperallergic. February 11, 2021.
Janiak, Lilly. “10 Bay Area artists on the presidential changeover from Trump to Biden.” SF Chronicle. January 13, 2021.
2020
”Mildred Howard, The House That Will Not Pass for Any Color Than Its Own.” Artforum. Spotlight. December 2, 2020.
Taft, Catherine. “Mildred Howard.” Artforum. December 2020 issue, Print.
Michno, Christopher. “Mildred Howard.” Artillery. November 10, 2020.
Kron, Cat. “Mildred Howard: A Survey, 1978 - 2020.” ArtReview. October Issue, Print.
Simmons, Jessica. “Mildred Howard at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery.” Contemporary Art Review LA. September 16, 2020.
Kane, Jenny. “Basquiat to Beyonce: Nevada Museum of Art features diverse artworks in 'World Stage' exhibition.” Reno Gazette Journal. June 30, 2020.
Schwendener, Martha. “The Art Show at the Armory: Blue-Chip Brands Show Their Best.” The New York Times, February 27, 2020.
2019
Mendel, Emily S. “Striking artwork by long-time Berkeley resident, artist Mildred Howard installed at OMCA.” Berkeleyside, March 1, 2019.
Public Affairs. “Berkeley Talks: Berkeley artist Mildred Howard on the impact of gentrification in the Bay Area.” UCBerkeley News. June 24, 2019.
Curiel, Jonathan.” Mildred Howard, Black Oakland, and the Power of Memory.” SF Weekly, March 7, 2019
Hill, Doug. “Fred Jones presents exhibition by West Coast artist Mildred Howard.” The Transcript, January 24, 2019.
2017
Whiting, Sam. “Berkeley’s beloved homegrown artist Mildred Howard priced out.” SF Chronicle. January 6, 2017.
Vandenburgh, Jane. “Mildred Howard at the Richmond Art Center: Art as Weapon, Art as Shelter.” Huffpost, December 6, 2017.
2016
Leibovitz Steinman, Susan. “Mildred Howard.” Wead Magazine. Issue No. 11/ 2016.
2015
Hamlin, Jesse. “Why Mildred Howard wields 130 butcher knives for art.” SFGate, March 18, 2015.
2002
Reif, Rita. “A Pyramid for New Treasures of an Age-Old Art,” The New York Times, Art/Architecture, p. 26, Sunday, July 21, 2002.
Zinko, Carolyne. “The Scene,” Living Style, San Francisco Chronicle, p. E9, June 30, 2002.
Anderson, Peggy. “Ex-San Jose Museum Chief Remakes Tacoma Facility,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 11, 2002.
Muchnic, Suzanne. “Clarifying a Vision,” Los Angeles Times, Calendar, p. 68, Sunday, July 7, 2002.
1995
McEvilley, Thomas. Insite 94, Artforum, Summer 1995.
1994
McKenna, Kristine. “Survey Offers Upbeat View of Black Experience in America,” Los Angeles Times, February 5, 1994.
1992
Smith, Roberta. “When Medium Doesn’t Agree with the Message,” The New York Times, August 28, 1992.
1991
Porges, Maria. “Mildred Howard,” ArtForum, p. 152, May 1991.