Education
1967–1967
BFA, MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1964
BA, La Verne College, La Verne, CA
1963
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Select Solo Exhibitions
2021
M. Louise Stanley: No Regrets, 50 Years of Art and Activism, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA
2020
M. Louise Stanley, Spotlight, Frieze Art Fair, New York, NY
2019
Epic Tales, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
No Laughing Matter: M. Louise Stanley and Friends, Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA
Faces Without Noses, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Ovid Redux: M. Louise Stanley Paints the Classics, Kala Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2018
Consulting the Oracle, Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2023
XX: An Exhibition of Women Artists, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA
Women of Northern California: Making Meaning for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Natsoulas Center for the Arts, Davis, CA
2022
The Wild Side: California Women Celebrate the Untamed, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
California Funk to Figuration: A New Narrative Mythology, John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, Davis, CA
The Candy Store: Funk, Nut and Other Art with a Kick, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2021
Forbidden Fruit: M. Louise Stanley, Peter Saul, Robert Williams, The Ranch, Montauk, NY
2020
de Young Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2017
Artist as Maggid: Jewish Folktales Retold, San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Works on Paper, Carl Cherry Center, Carmel, CA
Magical Realism: Allegory, Dreams and Myth, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2016
The Butterfly Effect: Art in 1970s California, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2014
Womanhouse’ or Roaming House? A Room of One’s Own Today, A.I.R. Gallery, NY
Enticing Luminosity, curated by Olive Ayhens and Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
2013
Artik, Art and Architecture, San Jose, CA
Select Collections
Yale University, New Haven, CT
The San Jose Museum of Art, CA
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, CA
Mills College, Oakland, CA
The Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
de Saisset Art Museum, Santa Clara, CA
The Prudential Insurance Company, Inc., NY
School of Business and Administration, Santa Clara University, CA
Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc., St. Louis, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Pilot Hill Collection of Modern Art, CA
The Bailey Museum, Crockett, CA