VIDA RATZLAFF HACKMAN
Studio: 6333 Rivergrove St., Bakersfield, CA 93308, 805-399-2849, fax 805-399-2849*51
Home: 3940 Sunswept Dr., Studio City, CA 91604, 818-763-4882, fax 818-761-4828
CURRICULUM VITAE ABBREVIATED
EDUCATION
Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA 1954
BA, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1956
MA, California State University, Northridge, CA, 1965
MFA, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA., 1967
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Visiting Artist/Guest Instructor, 1969 – 1993: West L.A. College, Santa Barbara City College, CSULong
Beach, CSUNorthridge, UCSanta Cruz, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, Bakersfield
College. 1994 -1997: Board Member, Arts Council of Kern; 1994-1998, Trustee, Adobe Krow
Archives for Vivian E. Browne, Bakersfield, CA
GRANTS, HONORS, AWARDS
1969 – 1981: Purchase Award from the Library of Congress and National Collection of Fine Arts, and
purchase awards from seven National University Exhibitions; 1969, James D. Phelan Award in
Printmaking, SF, CA; 1983, Artist-in-Residence, ARCO Grant, Northridge, CA; Residency Grant
funded in part by the NEA, Women’s Graphic Center, LA; 1984, Recipient, Vesta Award and Mayor’s
Certificate of Appreciation, LA; 1988, Guest Artist, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ; 1996, Cash Award, San Diego Art Institute 41st. Annual International Exhibition, San
Diego, CA; 1997, Recipient, Cultural Arts Achievement, Arts Council of Kern Art Awards; 1998,
Richrd R. Florsheim Art Fund Grant
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1975 – 1988: College of St. Catherine, St. Paul , Minnesota; LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA; LAValley
College, Van Nuys, CA; SOHO 20, NY, NY; Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA; Douglass
College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; 1984, 1985,
1987, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1998 Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
SELECTED INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1972 – 1996: Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Herbert F.
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA; Texas
Women’s University, Denton, Texas; University of Wisconsin; Florida State University; University of
Texas, San Antonio; 1997: Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA;
Oakland Museum of California, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
INTERNATIONAL JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Yorkshire, England; Grenchen, Switzerland;
Seoul, Korea; SFMA, San Francisco, CA; Honolulu, Hawaii; San Diego, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
AT&T, NY and Chicago; CSULong Beach, CA; CSUNorthridge, CA; Chase Manhattan Bank, NY;
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware; Flour Corporation, Irvine, CA; Grunwald Center for the
Graphic Arts, UCLA; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville,
Alabama; Otis Art Institute, LA, CA; Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA; Standard Oil, Chicago,
Illinois; TransAmerica Corporation, San Francisco, CA; US Department of State Permanent Collection,
WA, DC; University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; UCSanta Barbara, CA; University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, Michigan; University of Dallas, Irving, Texas