Exhibitions
2024
“In the Presence of: Asian American Women Artists Association,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, curated by Christina Hiromi Hobbs
2023
“Diablo Valley Printmakers,” Gallery at Orinda Library, Orinda, CA
“Reflections,” solo exhibition, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Signature Gallery, Alameda, CA
“120 Years of Advocacy,” 2023 California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee convention, Moscone Center, San Francisco
“California Printmakers…Tradition and Innovation,” Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
"Jade Wave Rising: Portraits in Power,” SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco
2022
“Sansei Granddaughters’ Journey: From Remembrance to Resistance,” AZ Gallery, San Bruno, CA
"New Works: California Society of Printmakers,” Radius Gallery Annex, Santa Cruz, juried by Ann Hazels, curator Radius Gallery
2020
"California Society of Printmakers 106th Annual Exhibition, Piedmont Center for the Arts and online
2019
"Shared Footsteps: A Contemporary Art Installation," an installation within the exhibition Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the Demise of Civil Liberties, The Presidio, San Francisco
"Water Life," solo show at Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Signature Gallery, Alameda, CA
"Agrarianaa: Asian American Roots in Agriculture," Japanese American Museum San Jose
2018
"Artist's Eyes, Art of Incarceration," National Japanese American Historical Society Galleries, San Francisco, 2017-18, curated by Betty Kano and Na Omi Judy Shintani
"...scapes," Misho Gallery, San Francisco
2017
"Mapping as Source: the Personal Cartography of Art Maps," Arts Benicia, juried by Katherine Harmon
"Impressions: The Art of Printmaking," Gail Morrison, Shari Arai DeBoer & Pete Villasenor, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
"Mirrored Images," California Society of Printmakers, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA
"Beneath the Surface," California Society of Printmakers, Davis Arts Center Tsao Gallery, Davis, CA
2016
"Liquid Stories," Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery, San Ramon, CA, curated by Pallavi Sharma
"Transformation: 25 Years of Asian American Women Artists," Harrington Gallery, Pleasanton, CA
"Print Mint," JanRae Community Art Gallery, Women's Cancer Resource Center, Oakland
"Eight Voices," Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery, San Ramon, CA
" Printmaking Explored," San Pablo Art Gallery, San Pablo, CA
2015
"An Exhibition by Open Studio Printmakers," Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery, San Ramon, CA
"Pressed, A Printmaking Exhibition" Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA, juried by Andrea Voinot, Kala Art Institute
"Under Pressure: Printmaking in Modern Times," Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA, curated by C.K. Itamura and Sue Labouvie
2014
"Printing the Bay Area," Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA, juried by Tom Killion
"California Etchers Currents," Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA, curated by Toru Sugita
2012
“Bay Area Women Artists,” O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA, juried by Donna Seager, Seager Gray Gallery
“Prints Galore,” Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA, juried by Robin McCloskey and Jane Gregorius
California Society of Printmakers 100th Annual Members Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
“sheRose of our Time,” Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA, curated by Eric Murphy
“H20: Fragility and Strength,” Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, juried by Don Stoker, Don Stoker Contemporary Art
2011
“INdiVISIBLE, the Art and Activism of Cynthia Tom, Shari Arai DeBoer and Nancy Hom,” University of California Santa Barbara, MultiCultural Center, curated by Shizue Seigel
“A Place of Her Own,” SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francsico
2009
"Natural Connections," Shari Arai DeBoer, Celia Wedding & Karin Werner, San Pablo Art Gallery, San Pablo, CA
“Asian American Visual Artists,” Alameda Main Library, Alameda, CA
2008
“Local Voice 2008,” Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, juried by Phil Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum of California.
“Personal Impressions,” California Society of Printmakers, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA
2006
“Pacific Prints 2006, Thirteenth Biennial Juried Original Print Competition and Exhibition,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA, juried by Joe Zirker
"Impressions 2006, Juried Print Exhibit," Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, juried by Karin Breuer, Curator of Contemporary Graphic Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
2005
“Impressions: Matrix and Image,” Alameda Art Center, juried by Benny Alba and Archana Horsting
“20th Annual Juried Show,” Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA, juried by Phillip Linhares, Chief Curator of Art, Oakland Museum of California
2004
“California Printmakers,” Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, juried by Simon Blattner
“Pacific Prints 2004, Twelfth Biennial Juried Original Print Competition and Exhibition,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA, juried by Paula Kirkeby
“2004 Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition,” University of Hawai’i at Hilo, juried by Eileen Foti, Master Printer, Center for Innovative Printmaking, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2003
“In Print,” Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, Ben Lomond, CA, juried by Bob Freimark
“Nature: A Mood, A Space, A Companion,” Creative Arts Center Gallery, Sunnyvale, CA, three artist exhibition curated by Jan Rindfleisch, director Euphrat Museum
2002
“Pacific Prints, 11th Biennial Juried Print Competition,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, juried by Carolyn Peter
“Printmaking 2002”, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA, juried by Veronica Dondero
Presentations
2023 - Artists Talk by Sansei Granddaughters Collective, Asian American studies class, San Francisco City College
2022 - Artist Talk by Shari Arai DeBoer, Pinole Artisans, Pinole, CA
2021 - Flora, Family Ghosts & Resilient Correspondence: a conversation between artists Shari Arai DeBoer, Irene Wibawa and Manon Wada, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2019 - Heart to Heart: a conversation about art & community with Emory Douglas, Tomie Arai, Shari Arai DeBoer, Erina Alejo, Leslie Lopez, EastSide Cultural Center, Oakland, CA
2018 - Artist Talk by Shari Arai DeBoer, Bend Art Center, Oregon
2018 - Post-war Reckoning, Artist talk and slideshow at Artist's Eyes, Art of Incarceration exhibition, National Japanese American Historical Society’s Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center, The Presidio, San Francisco
2017 - Artist Presentation by Shari Arai DeBoer: Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration, Asian American History class, San Francisco City College
2013 - Artist Talk, Japanese American Art & Literature class, San Francisco State University
Residency Awards
2018 - PLAYA Spring Residency, Summer Lake, Oregon
2009 - de Young Museum, Kimball Education Gallery, Artists-in-Residence, Asian American Women Artists Association, “A Place of Your Own”
Selected Commissions
2017 - Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura, artwork for an accordion book to accompany the original music composition, Pinna Records, San Francisco
2016, 2013 - Edible Eastbay magazine, cover art, Berkeley, CA
2009 - Science Tarot, fourteen artworks for reproduction in a tarot card deck
Collections
2014 - Library of Congress, Fine Print Collection, California Society of Printmakers Centennial Portfolio
2006 - Alameda County Art Collection, Artwork Purchase Program
2003 - Alameda County Public Art Collection, Alameda County Medical Center, Highland Hospital Campus
Bibliography
Nanette Wylde, “Sansei Granddaughters Journey”, Entanglements, a curated collection of contemporary culture, PreNeo Press/Hunger Button Books, 2022, 25-35
Shizue Seigel, Standing Strong! Fillmore and Japantown, Pease Press, 2016, 54-55
Asian American Women Artists Association, Cheers to Muses, Contemporary Works by Asian American Women, 2007, 46-47
Education
Bachelor of Architecture, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
International Program, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Affiliations
Asian American Women Artists Association, Advisory board
California Society of Printmakers
Sansei Granddaughters Artist Collective