MARTA PELUSO

EDUCATION
1982 MFA in Studio Art. University of California, Davis. Photography & Filmmaking.
1977 Panopticon Photography Workshop. Nafplion, Greece. Instructors: Garry Winogrand & Charles
Harbutt.
1973 BA in Art & English. Allegheny College. Meadville, Pennsylvania.

EMPLOYMENT
1986-2017 Instructor of Fine Arts. Photography. Cuesta College. San Luis Obispo, California.
2006-2011 Executive Director & ARTS Space Obispo Gallery Coordinator. ARTS Obispo, San Luis
Obispo County Arts Council. San Luis Obispo, California.
1986-2002 Instructor of Fine Arts. Photography, Film/Video Art & Exhibition Design.
Cuesta College. San Luis Obispo, California.
1986-2002 Art Gallery Director. Cuesta College Art Gallery. San Luis Obispo, California.
1983-1987 Lecturer of Art. Cal Poly State University, Department of Art & Design. Photography
Classes. San Luis Obispo, California.
1983-1984 Instructor of Photography. University of California Extension. Davis, California.
1979-1980 Photographer & Reporter. Davis Daily Democrat. Davis, California.
1977-1979 Project Director & Photographer. Ethnic Impressions. Martin Luther King Center. Erie,
Pennsylvania.
1975-1979 Instructor of Photography. Martin Luther King Center. Erie, Pennsylvania.
1973-1974 Photography Editor & Feature Writer. Exit Magazine. Bowling Green, Ohio.

ONE & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2018-19 San Luis Obispo Museum of Art. “Light From A Dark Room & Jack Kerouac Alley.”
San Luis Obispo, California.
1995 ARTernatives. “Memorie.” San Luis Obispo, California.
1992 The Scarlet Palette. “Scarred Texts/Sacred Territories.” Cambria, California.
1989 Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. "The Guiding Light." Santa Barbara,
California. Juried by Lucinda Barnes, curator, Newport Harbor Art Museum.
Orange Coast College. “Selected Works/Marta Peluso.” Costa Mesa, California.
Eye Gallery. "The Guiding Light." San Francisco, California.
Video Installation with Photographs and Written Text.
College of the Siskiyous Art Gallery. “The Guiding Light.” Weed, California.
1989 University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing. Visual Media Project.
San Francisco, California.
1988 The Art Center. "Eye Poem." Video Installation : Window Onto Broad St.
San Luis Obispo, California.
1987 University Union Galerie. "Face 2 Face." California Polytechnic State University,
San Luis Obispo, California.
1984 No Nothing Cinema. "Cages & Self-Portraits." San Francisco, California.
1983 Davis Art Center. "b&w Photographs w/blue paint." Davis, California.
1982 Pence Gallery. “New Work/Marta Peluso.” Davis, California.
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery. “Truck Stops.” Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 Wicked Step Gallery. “Small Works.” San Luis Obispo, California.
2016 Natsoulas Gallery. “The Great California Art Movement.” Davis, California.

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2014 San Luis Obispo Museum of Art. “Reflections.” San Luis Obispo, California.
Cuesta College Art Gallery. Faculty Exhibition. San Luis Obispo, California.
2012 Cuesta College Art Gallery. Faculty Exhibition. San Luis Obispo, California.
2010 Cuesta College Art Gallery. Faculty Exhibition. San Luis Obispo, California.
2008 Cuesta College Art Gallery. Faculty Exhibition. San Luis Obispo, California.
2006 Cuesta College Art Gallery. “Evidence and Desire.”
2004-05 compact. “Alms for compact.” San Luis Obispo, California.
2003-04 Cuesta College Art Gallery. “Abruptly Opinionated.” San Luis Obispo, California.
2001 Cuesta College Art Gallery. “New Space.” San Luis Obispo, California.
1996 Atkinson Gallery. “Small Images #11.” Santa Barbara City College.
Santa Barbara, California.
Cuesta College Art Gallery. “MARS.” San Luis Obispo, California.
1995 Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria. “Rethinking the Natural.” Austin, Texas.
Juried by Jon Ippolito. Traveling exhibition with catalog.
Stephen F. Austin State University. “Texas National 95.” Nacogdoches, Texas.
Juried by Leon Golub. Catalog.
University Art Gallery. “Along The Way 2.” California Polytechnic State University,
San Luis Obispo, California.
1991 Linnaea’s Café, “The AIDS’s Show.” San Luis Obispo, California.
Cuesta College Art Gallery. “A Woman’s Hand, The Shape of a Man and a Death House.”
San Luis Obispo, California.
1990 L.A. Santa Fe Gallery. “Work in the Nude.” San Luis Obispo, California.
1989 The Parlor Gallery. "The Wake (up) Exhibition I. BLACK PHOTOGRAPHS/
Out of the Ashes." San Luis Obispo, California.
ARTernatives Gallery. "The Wake (up) Exhibition II/The Phoenix Rises."
San Luis Obispo, California.
San Francisco Women Artists' Gallery. "Bridging The Gaps." National Women's
Caucus for Art Juried Exhibition of Photography. San Francisco, California.
Accurate Art Gallery. "Perspectives '89." Sacramento, California.
1988 The Art Center. "Head, Heart, Hands." San Luis Obispo, California.
1987 ARTernatives Gallery. "Camera Art from The Central Coast. A Selection."
San Luis Obispo, California.
1985 University of Kansas. "Our Lives: The Experience of Women." Lawrence, Kansas.
Monterey Street Gallery. “Universal Life Corral.” San Luis Obispo, California.
1984 80 Washington Square East Galleries. "Small Works." New York University. NY, NY.
UCEN Gallery. "Visions of 1984." University of California, Santa Barbara, California.
Cal Poly State University. “Directions.” Faculty Exhibition. San Luis Obispo, California.
1982 Cal Arts. "7th Annual Cal Arts Photo Exhibition." Valencia, California.
1981 Crocker Art Museum. "Crocker-Kingsley Annual Juried Exhibition." Sacramento, California.
Joseph Dee Photography Museum. “Photography from Davis." San Francisco, California.

PUBLICATIONS
2019 New Times. San Luis Obispo, California. Feature article by Ryah Cooley, “Piecing It
Together.” January 3 – 10.
2008 Journal Plus, San Luis Obispo, California. Feature article by Hilary Grant, “ARTS Obispo’s
Marta Peluso: Celebrating The Open Studios Tour.”
2001 New Times. San Luis Obispo, California. Feature article The Final Frontier.
Article written by Bill Beeson. October 4 - 11.
1999 ArtRag, SLO County Arts Council Journal. San Luis Obispo, California.
Wrote article: Artist/Photographer Judy Dater Coming to San Luis Obispo. Fall edition.
1997 ArtRag, SLO County Arts Council Journal. San Luis Obispo, California.
Wrote article: Serious Work Deserves a Serious Response. November.

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 The Tribune. San Luis Obispo, California. Feature article written by Bill Beeson,
Marta Peluso’s quest for the best. Arts & Culture. October 31.
Iris, A Journal about Women. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. No. 38,
Winter/Spring 1999. Publication of five photographs. pp. 12, 15 & 69.
1996 Telegram Tribune. San Luis Obispo, California. Feature article & cover,
Cuesta’s Gallery Director Shows the Way. Adam St. James. Focus Section. January 26.
1995 Rethinking the Natural. Exhibition catalog. Texas Fine Art Association. Photograph p. 36.
1991 New Times. San Luis Obispo, California. Feature article Scars of Life, Scars of Love.
Ryn Wood. October 10 - 17.
Blue Earth Press, Los Osos, California. Broadside of Guiding Light Paper printed by
Nancy Dahl for Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum exhibition.
1990-91 CALYX, a Journal of Art & Literature by Women. v. 13, #1. Winter.
Published photographs.
1990 Telegram Tribune. San Luis Obispo, California. Feature article, Guided by the ‘Light,’
David Congalton. July 14.
1988-89 LACPS (Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies) photos in auction catalog.
1988 The Church of Architecture. Published two photographs. v. 1, #2. December.
1981 Photographer's Forum. Published three photographs from the "Truck Stop" series in
v. 3, #4. p. 59. September.
1980 California Quarterly. #18, Fall, 1980 & #19, Summer 1981. Published photographs.
1979 Light Impressions Review. #3. Published photographs. January.

FILMS & VIDEOS

1987 “Eye Poem." 16 mins. Half inch, three monitor installation. Color and b&w.
San Luis Obispo Art Center. San Luis Obispo, California.
1987 “One Mind, Many Bodies.” VHS video collaboration with Film/Video Art Class.
Cuesta College. San Luis Obispo, California.
1983 "I am an artist." 13 mins. Super 8. Color. Co-directed with Lucy Currie. Shown
Davis Invitational Film Festival. Davis, California.
1981 "Famous Unpublished Writers." 22 mins. Super 8. Color and b&w.
Shown at public reading by A.W. DeAnnuntis, Rob Cook, Patti Rosenmund &
Chuck Rosenthal. Davis, California.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2005-Present Facilitator of “Ruth Fash Memorial Lecture Series” in conjunction with ARTS Obispo,
San Luis Obispo County Arts Council & Cuesta College. Rachel Rosenthal, 2005. Andrea
Bowers, 2006. William & Barbara Fash, 2007. Amy Franceschini, 2010. Jo Lauria, 2012.
Andrea Zittel, 2014.
2000-2002 Member of San Luis Obispo County Arts Council Advisory Council.
1986-2002 Curated over 100 exhibits, artists’ talks and related events for the Cuesta College Art
Gallery. San Luis Obispo, California.
1989-2002 Wrote successful grants to California Arts Council & City of San Luis Obispo for
Cuesta College Art Gallery. (Brought in over $25,000 in grants to art gallery program)
2002 Juror for Multicultural & Diversity Photography Competition. Cuesta College. April.
2001 Participant in Benefit Art Auction for AIDS Vaccine Research. Linnaea’s Café. July.
2000 Honored by San Luis Obispo County AIDS Support Network for originating and continued
involvement in EAT OUT/SAVE LIVES.
1999 Guest speaker on Dance & Video Art for Spirited Feet Video Project. October.
1998 Peer Panel Member & Juror for SLO Arts Council’s Two People Project.
1997–1999 Facilitator of KCBX/Cuesta College Art Dept. Student Art Scholarship Activities.
1996 Juror. State of California Art Teachers exhibition at Monterey Museum of Art. October.

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1995-2002 Founder & Coordinator of EAT OUT/SAVE LIVES, a fundraiser for the AIDS Support
Network of San Luis Obispo County, California.
1990-1993 Board of Directors. San Luis Obispo County Arts Council. Vice-president 1992-93.
1992 Lectured on Scarred Texts, Sacred Territories at the West Region of the Society for
Photographic Education Conference. Buellton, California.
Designed & coordinated remodel of the Cuesta College Art Gallery.
Lectured on Art in Public Places at the SLO County Arts Council’s Arts Awards’ Program.
1988-1996 Brought Ann Arbor Film Festival tour to San Luis Obispo 4 times.
1987-1990 Board of Directors. West Region of the Society for Photographic Education. Chair
of the Board: 1989-90. Secretary: 1988-89. Conference Site Coordinator: 1988-89.
1989 Facilitator & Exhibitor. "Cuesta Women Artists: Faculty-Student Invitational."
Cuesta College Conference for Women. October.

PORTFOLIOS
1979-present. Fifty-four "Ethnic Impressions" photographs. Mercyhurst College Archives of
Erie History. Erie, Pennsylvania.

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