Solo Exhibitions (selected)
  • 1999, Letter Space, Word Space, and Rhythms, Denenberg Fine Arts, San Francisco, Ca
  • 1998, Galerie Vivant, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1997, Calligraphic Lust, The Henry Hardy Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • l995, Inferno, Canto V, Belle Lettere Mostra, Cittadella, PD, Italy
  • 1995, The Art of Calligraphy, San Francisco Public Library, Special Collections
  • 1991, Alchemy of The Page, Himovitz Gallery Pavillions, Sacramento, CA
  • 1989, Words at Risk, The Denenberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
  • l988 Painted poetry, Pence Gallery, Davis ,CA
  • 1987, Thomas Ingmire, Calligraphy, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL
  • 1984, Words and Images, Firehouse Art Center, Norman, Oklahoma
  • 1983, Calligraphic Paintings and Drawings, Markings Gallery, Berkeley CA
  • 1982 Calligraphic Paintings and drawings, Ellis and Associates, Taos, NM
Group Exhibitions
  • 2000, “Looking at the same moon. Contemporary Japanese and western calllikgraphy,”Van Het Boek Museum, Netherlands
  • 1999, “Beautifully Banal,” The Last Calligraphy Show, Columbia College, Chicago Center of Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
  • 1999, Artist and Alphabet, 20th Century Calligraphy and Letter Art in America, New York City
  • 1997, Image/ Language, Denenberg Fine Arts, Inc., San Francisco, CA
  • l997, Premio Belle Lettere International Exhibition, Cittadella PD, Italy
  • 1996, TEXTUS, Frederick R Weisman Art Museum, Uiversity of Minnesota, MN
  • 1995, Codes and Messages, Holburn Museum, Great Pulteney St. Bath, England
  • 1991, Moments is Calligraphy, An Exhibition of Calligraphy as Art. Sun Gallery, Hayward CA
  • 1990, Lines, Letters, and Images, A two year traveling exhibition of Word/Image works by Contemporary International Artists, sponsored by Graphics Universal, Inc. Norman, OK
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AWARDS:
  • 1977, Elected Crafts Fellow of The Society of Scribes and Illuminators, London, England (the first American and first person outside of the UK to be elected to this status).
  • 1980, Newberry Fellowship, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
  • 1998, Awarded commission for public art installation, Mountain View Public Library
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THOMAS INGMIRE BSLA, MLA
1040A Filbert Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
(415) 673-4938
info@thomasingmire.com

BORN: 1942, Ft. Wayne, IN USA

EDUCATION: BSLA,1966, The Ohio State University: MLA, 1969, University of California, Berkeley: Post Graduate Study 1977-78, California State University at Los Angeles Art Department