Donna McGinnis’s drawings are included in The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco’s permanent collection, and her work also appears in other numerous private and public collections. She has shown her work at the Oakland Museum, Arkansas Art Center, Triton Museum of Santa Clara, and the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, CA

Education:

BA Fine Arts, Washington State University

Solo Exhibitions:

2024 “Abstracts & Landscapes” Infinity Towers, ArtHaus Consulting, San Francisco

2022 “Solace” Desta Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

“New Work” Fulton Crossing Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA

2021 “Recent Paintings” 455 Market Lobby Gallery, San Francisco

2020 “3x3” Fulton Crossing Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA

“Beyond” Desta Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

2019 “Paintings” Le Crema Winery, Healdsburg, CA

“Sonoma Summer” Fulton Crossing, Santa Rosa, CA

2018 “Pairings”, ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco

“Portals”, 555 California, Casey & Assoc. Art Advisors, San Francisco

“Two Views” Fulton Crossing Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA

“Wonder & Earth Angels”, Desta Gallery, San Anselmo, CA

2016 “Nature Abstracted”, Cathy Baum Associates, San Francisco

“Landscapes”, 455 Market Lobby Gallery, San Francisco

2015 “Abstracts and Landscapes”, Eminent Design, Sonoma, CA

2014 “California Landscapes”, Gail Van Dyke Atrium Gallery, Greenbrae, CA

“NEW year/New work”, Arthaus Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013 “Sky and Land Views”, Cathy Baum & Associates, San Francisco, CA

“Landscapes”, FORMA, Mill Valley, CA

2012 “New Work”, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Paintings”, Art Institute of California-Orange County, Santa Anna, CA

2011 “California Landscapes”, Cathy Baum Associates, San Francisco

2010 “Abstracts”, William Merrill Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

“Abstracts and Clouds”, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco

“Honoring Artist Donna McGinnis”, Thomas Bartlett Interiors, Napa, CA

2009 “Earth and Sky”, Gallery One, Petaluma, CA

2008 “Abstract Paintings”, Palette Art Gallery, Healdsburg, CA

2007 “From Landscape to Abstraction”, Cohen Rese Gallery, San Francisco

“Earth”, William Merrill Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

“Landscapes Remembered”, Gallery 391, Gualala, CA

2006 “Landscapes and Vistas”, Chelsea Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

“Pacificus”, Chelsea Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

2005 “New Works 2005”, Twelve Twelve Gallery, Burlingame, CA

2004 “New Landscapes”, Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica

“Landscapes”, Bechtel Corporation, San Francisco

“Landscapes”, Lurie Fine Art Galleries, Boca Raton, FL

2003 “New Vistas”, William Merrill Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

“Landscape Memories”, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

2002 “Oil Paintings”, The Gallery, Burlingame, CA

“Mood Landscapes”, Ramsden Morrison Gallery, San Diego

2001 “New Work”, I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA

“Donna McGinnis”, William Merrill Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2000 “Landscapes Remembered”, Museum West, Palo Alto, CA

“Recent Paintings & Drawings”, The Gallery, Burlingame, CA

1999 “Domestic Realism”, Shorenstein Company, San Francisco

1998 “New Work”, The Gallery, Burlingame, CA

“Drawings”, Pima College, Tucson, AR

1997 “Common/Uncommon”, I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA

1996 “Pencil Drawings”, Reed Whipple Museum, Las Vegas, NV

“Paintings in Oil”, The Gallery, Burlingame, CA

“Objects: Common and Extraordinary”, Greenwood Gallery, Seattle,

“Drawings”, C.I.T.Y. 2000 Gallery, Reno, NV

1995 “Paintings and Drawings”, The Gallery, Burlingame, CA

“Common Objects”, Maturano Museum, Ridgecrest, CA

“Pencil, Paper and Water”, Thistle Dew Gallery, Sacramento, CA

1993 “Paintings and Drawings”, Patricia Stewart Gallery, Napa, CA

“New Work”, The Gallery, Burlingame, CA

“Large Watercolors”, Merced College Art Gallery, Merced, CA

1992 “Paintings and Drawings” Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco

“The Common Object”, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

1991 “Paintings”, Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR

“Works on Paper”, St. Francis Foundation, San Francisco

“Works on Paper”, The Gallery, Burlingame, CA

1990 “The Empowered Object”, Harleen and Allen Gallery, San Francisco

1989 “Drawings and Paintings”, The Gallery, Burlingame, CA

”Three Women Artists From California, The Eva Cohon Galleries, Chicago

1988 “Pastel Paintings”, Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles

1987 “Drawings and Paintings”, Marin Theater Co., Mill Valley, CA

“Works on Paper”, The Gallery, Burlingame, CA

1986 “Pastel Paintings”, Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles

1985 “Oil Pastel Paintings”, Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles

1984 “Drawings”, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA

“Drawings”, Allport Associates Gallery, San Francisco

“Drawings”, Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles

1983 “Drawings”, Seipp Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

1982 “Drawings and Watercolors”, Allport Gallery, Larkspur, CA

“Messages”, Dominican College, San Rafael, California

1981 “Large Drawings”, Allport Associates Gallery, Larkspur, CA

1980 “Drawings and Collage”, Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA

1979 “Objects and Images”, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA

“Drawings”, Marin Civic Center Galleries, San Rafael,

Select Group Exhibitions:

2024 Illumination, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA

Dart For Art 2024, Lymelight Foundation, Mt. View, CA

2023 Rooted in Wonder, Desta Gallery, Mill Valley

Winter Salon, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame

2022 Kneedler Fauchere, San Francisco

Dart For Art 2023, LymeLight Foundation, San Mateo, CA

Deck the Walls, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA

Summer Spotlight, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA

2021 “Silver Anniversary Show” ArtHaus, San Francisco

“Vault 11” Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA

“Kaleidoscope” Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA

2020 “Gallery Artists” ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco

“Reimagined” ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco

“Off the Rack” ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco

2019 “Twenty/Twenty” ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco

‘Designers Picks” Arthaus Gallery, San Francisco

“Summertime” Arthaus Gallery, San Francisco

2018 “Spring Wine Country Invitational” Gallery One, Petaluma, CA

“Marking Time” Arthaus, San Francisco

“Fast Forward, New Space/New Work” Arthaus, San Francisco

2017 “Arthaus 20th Anniversary Show” Arthaus, San Francisco

“Oceans 12” Arthaus, San Francisco

“Heavy Rotation” Arthaus, San Francisco

“Spring Invitational” Gallery One, Petaluma, CA

2016 “2016: The Great Exhibition” Arthaus, San Francisco

“Surf & Turf”, Arthaus, San Francisco

2015 “Blue”, Arthaus, San Francisco

“The Heat”, Arthaus, San Francisco

“Spring Collection” Arthaus, San Francisco

2014 “Sonoma County Scapes”, Gallery One, Petaluma, CA

“Summertime” Arthaus Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Cambridge City Art Fair 2014”, Cambridge, England

“Contemporaries” Arthaus Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013 “White Plus One”, Gallery One, Petaluma, CA

“Untitled”, Gallery 300, Santa Rosa, CA

2012 “The Sixth Annual Invitational”, Graton Gallery, Graton, CA

“Love”, Santa Rosa Convention & Visitors Bureau, Santa Rosa, CA

2011 “Seventh Street Artists, Gallery One, Petaluma, CA

“Holiday Show”, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Holiday Cards”, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA

2010 “New Possibilities”, Gallery One, Petaluma, CA

“Mid-Spring Gala”, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

“Artist Event”, SFMOMA Artists Gallery

“Ira Wolk Memorial Scholarship Benefit”, St Helena, CA

2009 “Keeping Art Alive”, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

2008 “30th Anniversary Show Invitational”, SFMOMA Gallery, San Francisco

“Artfully Yours”, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

2007 “Triton Triumph”, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

2006 “Art for Life Auction & Exhibit”, Santa Rosa, CA

2005 “San Francisco Art Institute Auction” San Francisco

“Small Treasures”, William Merrill Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2004 “Landscape: The Eternal Solitude”, Lurie Fine Art Galleries, Boca Raton, FL

“Group Show”, Galleria Store, Minneapolis, MN

“Landscapes Real and Ideal”, Oakland Museum of California

“Interpretation of a Landscape”, William Merrill Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

“Group Show”, CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA

2003 “Attitudes Toward Color”, Gualala Art Center, Gualala, CA

“Small Treasurers”, William Merrill Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA