Main Gallery

2024

• Wayne Campbell: Residuum

• 32nd Annual Benefit Art Auction

• Arleene Correa Valencia: Llévanos Contigo / Take Us With You

• New Geographies

• Johanna Baruch: As Above, So Below

• Bolinas-Stinson School Student Exhibition: Art is Our Superpower

2023

• 30th Hardly Strictly Mini: A Biennial Benefit Exhibition and Sale

• Inez Storer: Museum of Rare and Wonderful Things

• 31st Annual Benefit Art Auction

• 40th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating 40 Years of Collecting

• FOCUS / Jenny Sharaf: It's All Flowers

• Miya Ando: Waiting for the Moon

2022

• Pacific Rise: Ocean Health

• 30th Annual Benefit Art Auction

• Helina Metaferia: All Put Together

• FOCUS / Fariba Bogzaran: The Art of the Lucid Mind

• William T. Wiley: & So…

• Bolinas-Stinson School Student Exhibition: Seals, Snakes, Birds, and More … Oh, My! Creating with the Local Environment

2021

• Hardly Strictly Mini: A Biennial Benefit Exhibition and Sale

• Jack Wisby: Historical Landscape Paintings of Marin County

• 29th Annual Benefit Art Auction Online & In the Galleries!

• FOCUS: Sally Robertson // A Thirty Year Retrospective

• Recent Acquisition Highlights 2016 - 2021

2020

• Marie Dern: The Art of Handmade Books

• The Golden Decade: Photography at the California School of Fine Arts, 1945-1955

• CONTEMPLATING THE NIGHT: Don Jolley’s Astrolabe Students with Astrophotography by Marsha Kirschbaum and Artwork by Bolinas - Stinson School Students

2019

• Hardly Strictly Mini A Biennial Benefit Exhibition

• FOCUS: Joanna Haigood + Wayne Campbell

• In Parallel: Windy Chien & Serena Mitnik-Miller

• Changing California: Historical Ecology of the Bay Area

• Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets, and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo (1949-1969)

2018

• Cosmic Wonders: The Moon, the Stars, and the Space Between

• Divine Gardens: Mayumi Oda and the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center

• FOCUS: Patsy Krebs

• Mirror Mirror

2017

• Hughen / Starkweather: Where Water Meets Land

• Art We Wear: Culture & Expression 1960s to Now

• FOCUS / Hats Off, Americans: Selected Works by Paul Harris

• Chair Stories

2016

• Bounty Fine Food Production in Coastal Marin From 1834 to the 21st Century

• SEAPEOPLE: The Bolinas Surf Shop, est. 1963

• Make/Shift Shelter: Jay Nelson, Whiting Tennis & Eirik Johnson

• Shipwrecked! Asian Ceramics Discovered at Sea

2015

• Hardly Strictly Mini A Biennial Holiday Benefit Exhibition More than 70 Coastal Marin & Bay Area Artists

• FOCUS: Tom Kilion / California's Wild Edge

• Larry Sultan: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace

• From Here

• Strewnfield: New Work by Thomas Campbell

2014

• Nudibranchia: Butterflies of the Sea

• Wireless Giant of the Pacific 100 Years of Marconi & RCA Maritime Radio History

• Walter Kitundu: The Ceiling of Our Day

• Bean Finneran: Spectra

2013

• 25th Annual Mini Show Benefit Exhibition

• Ned Kahn: The Architecture of the Invisible

• Keith Hansen: Birds of the Sierra Nevada

• Historical Paintings of Coastal Marin

• Cross Pollination Molas & Huipiles from the Collection of Sandy Dierks

• Carl Dern: A Delicate Imbalance

2012

• 24th Annual Mini Show

• Reflections From The Lake Morris Graves / Kay Russell

• Art Auction Preview Exhibition

• The Art of Don Ed Hardy Including, But Not Limited To

• Behind the Altar Retablo / Lamina Collection of Paul LeBaron Thiebaud

• Michael Sell: Paleography

• Women in Print Etchings from the Paulson Bott Press

2011

• 23rd Annual MINI SHOW Invitational Exhibition/Holiday Benefit for the Museum

• Coastal Californios Spanish Life in West Marin 1776-1876

• Art for the Auction Preview Exhibition

• Lawrence LaBianca & Wolfgang Bloch: Tracking Nature

• Arthur Okamura: His Bolinas Life

• Sacred Walls Deities & Marriages in Mithila Painting

• In the Eye of the Beholder The Sculptural Work of Peter de Swart

2010

• 22nd Annual Mini Show Holiday Benefit for the Museum

• Ken Botto: Life Work

• Art Preview for 18th Annual Art Auction

• Barry McGee & Clare Rojas Leave It Alone & Together At Last

• H2O-the Element of Water in Art: An informal survey

• Gordon Cook (1927-1985) A Retrospective of Real Magic

• Coyote, Deer and Gold The Karen & Malcom Whyte Collection of Contemporary American Indian Art in California

2009

• 21st Annual MINI SHOW Invitational Holiday Benefit for the Museum

• Going Origami From Art to Math to Science+Beyond

• David Conrad Mysteries of West Africa Artifacts and photographs from the collection of the eminent ethno-historian and Africanologist

• Watercolors by Five Contemporary Bay Area Painters

• Phil Frank Eye Witness A Retrospective of Phil Frank’s Assemblages, Paintings and Cartoon Art

• Spirit In Wood: Peter Boiger

2008

• The Work of Sha Sha Higby

• Ed Musante

• Dan McCormick: Sculpting the Land

2007

• Pastoral California The Art of Thaddeus & Ludmilla Welch

• Richard Shaw Ceramaic Sculpture / Tromp l'oeil

• Paulson Press: Etchings by Gee’s Bend Quilters

2006

• Bay Area Figurative 1950s and 1960s Abstract Expressionism to the Figure and California Landscape

2005

• The Piazzoni Legacy Three Generations Paint the Splendors of California

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• Bolinas-Stinson School Student Exhibition Hooray For Habitats!

• Past Main Gallery Exhibitions 2007-1990

Coastal Marin Artists Gallery

2024

• Harriet Kossman: Bead by Bead

• 32nd Annual Benefit Art Auction

• Kim Ford Kitz: Field of Vision

• Janis Yerington: Even Still

• Rob Gailey: Photomicrographs Reveal Stories within Rocks

• Bolinas-Stinson School Student Exhibition: Art is Our Superpower

2023

• Gordlandia: The Ceramics of Gordon Bryan

• StuArt Chapman: Freebox Neckties

• Herbert Pföstl: Between Field and Firmament

• Harriet Heyman: The Quickening

• Oona Ratcliffe: Life Lines

2022

• Ole Schell: The Magic of Creating a Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary

• Ido Yoshimoto: Place and Time

• Alan Giovannetti: Progressions

2021

• Carolyn Means: Timeless Ceramics

• Charlie Docherty: Reflections on World Cultures 1964 - 1976

• Sally K. Fairfax: Ice and Glass

2020

• Tom Braun: Meditations

2019

• Skill & Wit: Sheila Bryant & Mort Linder

• Ashley Eva Brock: Body Work

• Jan Langdon: Loomed

• Thomas Quinn: Wild & Elusive

• Blunk Brothers: Paintings and Sculptures by Bruno and Rufus Blunk

2018

• Joel Coen / Peek: Optical Haiku

• Patricia Yenawine: Fired Up!

• Harriet Kossman: An Educator’s Art

2017

• Ellen Litwiller: Oceanic

• Sue Taylor: Hand-Knotted Rugs

• Terry Bell: Unbound Art

• Carey Cherney: Fire & Light

2016

• Art Rogers: Faces of the Land

• Screened: Bolinas Surf Shop Graphics

• Lloyd Kahn: Driftwood Shelters

• Capturing the Moment: Visual Journals

2015

• Chris Whitefield & Ruth Charlotte Kneass

• Bart Hopkin: Sound Chamber

• Rick Yoshimoto: Songs From The Wood

• Architecture + Furniture + Landscape: Designs by Alethea Patton

• Returning Gold to the Sun: New Work by Charlie Callahan

2014

• Like Diamonds, Plastic is Forever: Wearable Art by Judith Selby Lang

• Swept / Up: An installation by Wayne Campbell

• Bolinas-Stinson School Pinhole Camera Project

• Mardi Wood: Curves & Space

2013

• Inspired By Process: Coastal Marin Printmakers

• Tim Burns: Land of a Thousand Birds

• Andy Rappaport: Constructed Surfaces

• Particia Briceno: Dances with Wools

• Dan McCormick: Beyond the Water's Edge

• Maya Whitner: Conceptual Motion

2012

• Fire & Clay: Ten Coastal Marin Ceramicists

• Rick Springer / Stone: Animals and Objects

• Johanna Case-Hofmeister: Photographs

• Tess Felix Greene: Portraits in Beach Plastic

• Johanna Baruch: Exploring the Cosmos

• Denis Bold: Drawings

2011

• Lina Prairie: Kelp Basketry

• 38 2' 26" N, 122 47' 59" W: Coordinates of Place An Artist Family Interprets the Land and Water of Point Reyes

• Michael Porter: The Sons and Daughters of Orpheus

• Barbara Ravizza: Conversation Pieces

• Sue Gonzalez: Movement and Reflection

• Tom Soltesz

2010

• Greg King: New Inspirations from Ancient Traditions / Wool Textiles & Tapestry

• Streetside Greens: Mapping a Foodscape

• John deLorimier: Telling Stories

• Steve Lewis: Stone Carving

• Marna Clarke-Bark: Photographic Close-ups of Trees

2009

• Chris Hellman: Water Color Paintings

• Transition Trail: An Installation

• Wayne Campbell: Fire Proof An Interactive, Mixed-Media Installation

• Frank Gyorgy: Steel Sculpture

• Madeline Fitzpatrick Recent Work

2008

• Spinning Out Of Control: Spinners & Dyers of West Marin

• Arriane Dar: Regeneration An Installation Sculpture

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• Past Coastal Marin Artists Gallery Exhibitions 1989-2008

Photography Gallery

2024

• Altered Earth

• 32nd Annual Benefit Art Auction

• Gallery Route One – Latino Photography Project: Nuestra Identidad / Our Identity

• Ken Botto: Barbies

• Insight/Incite 20/20 Portfolio

• Bolinas-Stinson School Student Exhibition: Art is Our Superpower

2023

• Photographs from the Museum’s Permanent Collection

• Alice Shaw: Motherland

• Laura Plageman: Response

• Ginny Felch: Silver Linings

• Lewis Watts: Comfortable in Their Own Skin

2022

• Pacific Rise: Ocean Health

• Elizabeth Weber: An Homage to Western Monarch Butterflies

• Steven Brock: Faces of Myanmar

• Catherine Chalmers: Safari

2021

• Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era

• Johan Hagemeyer and His Circle of Friends

• Vantage Points: Selections from the Permanent Collection

2020

• Together Alone / Alone Together Pandemic Porch & Gate Portrait Project

• The Golden Decade: Photography at the California School of Fine Arts, 1945-1955

2019

• Todd Pickering: Wild Point Reyes

• Jack Fulton: Heterogeneous Medley of Recent History

• Meghann Riepenhoff: Nearshore

• Beth Moon: Diamond Nights, California

2018

• Treasures from the Archive: Photographs, Logbooks, and Artifacts from Lick Observatory

• In The Himalayas: Photographs by Linda Connor

• Sean Thackery / Venice: A Meditation

• Vertigo: People Doing Crazy Things at Great Heights Photographs from the Collection of Robert Flynn Johnson

2017

• Camille Seaman: Melting Away

• Eye Witness to A Cultural Revolution Selections from the Jon Goodchild Collection

• Phenomenon

• Home Studies: Portraits Without People Photographs by Leslie Williamson

2016

• Lexicon of Sustainability: Visionary Principles

• Eirik Johnson: The Mushroom Camps

• Shipwrecked! Historic Shipwrecks of Coastal Marin

2015

• Ilsa Bing: Queen of the Leica From the Collection of Suzanne Ciani

• Hans Overduin: The Esthetics of Birds

• Self Made

• Dignity: Tribes in Transition Photographs by Dana Gluckstein

• A Life in Transition: Skateboard Photography by Brian Gaberman

2014

• Midway: Message from the Gyre Photographs by Chris Jordan

• Code Humpback A Multi-media installation by Charles Lindsay

• Jo Babcock: From Object to Image

• Alan Finneran: Set Ups The Further Adventures of Diamond Jim & Lily of the West

2013

• Elizabeth Opalenik: Mordancage

• Josie Iselin: The Secret Life of Seaweed

• Consuelo Kanaga Photographs and Paintings from the Collection of Susie Tompkins Buell

• Asia Then: Photographs by Alfred Palmer

• Of Golden Light: Orotones Re-Envisioned

• Michael Starkman: Sacred Grove

2012

• Slapstick: Vintage Hollywood Cinema Photography From the Collection of Robert Flynn Johnson

• Andrea Camuto

• Gertrude Southworth: Bolinas 1890s-1930s

• Una Hayes-Ingram: Trees Dreaming

• Rick Chapman: Circle

• Xavier Nuez: Alleys and Ruins

• Julie V. Garner: Woven Photographs of Constructed Landscapes

2011

• Alan George: Domesticated

• Edgar Angelone: A Photographic Homage to Irving Morrow and Frank Lloyd Wright

• 3rd Sale of Southworth Prints Historic Photos by Gertrude Southworth

• Stephen Galloway: More Roots and Shrubs

• Troy Paiva: Lost America

• Lukas Felzmann: Waters in Between

2010

• Some Dry Space: Architecture of Subtraction

• Ken Botto: House & Garden by 7 Photographers

• Sale of Gertrude Southworth Historic Photographs

• Deborah O'Grady: Crossings / Fragments

• Luis Delgado: The Organic Manifesto

• Ilka Hartmann Photography: American Portraits

2009

• Michael Garlington Photography

• Jack Gescheidt: TreeSpirit Project

• Brown Cannon III: Surface Ocean environmental photographs mounted on fine-crafted surfboards

• JeongMee Yoon: The Pink & Blue Project

• Saul Robbins: Initial Intake

• Photographs from the Permanent Collection

2008

• Sean Thackrey

• Hugh Shurley

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• Past Photography Gallery Exhibitions 2008-1989

History Room

2024

• History of the Bolinas Post Office

2023

• Celebrating 40 Years of Bolinas Museum!

• Selected Objects from the History Archive

2022

• The History of The Bolinas Community Mural Project

2021

• The Intrigue of Maps

2020

• Bolinas & Stinson Beach Sister Towns of Rancho Las Baulines

2019

• Gospel Flat: Heartland of Early Bolinas

• Pressed Seaweed from the 1880s

2018

• The Parkin Family in Bolinas at the Turn of the 20th Century

• A Dynamic History: From Coast Guard Station to Marine Biology Lab

2017

• The Waterhouse-Pepper Families: Their Bolinas Legacy

2016

• Photographs by M.B. Boissevain: Marin County's First Farm Advisor

• Human Influence on Bolinas Lagoon: A Timeline

• Getting Here From There

2015

• BCPUD Land Use

• Bear Flag

2014

• Celebrating 40 Years of Bolinas Hearsay News

• The Influence of Marconi and RCA in Local Communities

• Bolinas-Stinson School: From the Beginning

2013

• Bolinas Museum: 30 Years of History

• Mapping the Land

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• Maps at the Edge of Land and Sea