Simran Singh Gleason works in several media. He is self-taught in photography and poetics, and is studying Chinese painting under Chinese artist Hau Pei-Jen. He is currently working with the many levels of landscape, from geology to mythology.

Art Awards

• Finalist, Cups Cafe photography contest, San Francisco, CA. June 1992.
• 2nd place, photography, Saratoga Contemporary Artists juried show, 1990
• Honorable mention, collage, graffiti, & masks show, Pacific Art League, Feb 1990
• 1st place and 2 honorable mentions, Shoreline photography contest, color landscape. May 1988

Individual shows

• "Some Landscapes and some Figure Paintings," Jumpin' Java Cafe, Mountain View, CA, April, MAy 1996
• "Cathartiae, Ecstasies, and Trance Formations," Coastal Arts League Museum, Half Moon Bay, CA, June, July 1995
• "Enfolding Perspectives and other little Internet Art Shows," The World Wide Web (http://www.art.net/~simran), April 1994 - present
• "Enfolding Perspectives," Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant, Palo Alto, CA. May, June 1994
• "Enfolding Perspectives," Coastal Arts League Museum, Half Moon Bay, CA. March 1993
• Photocollage, Downtown Library, Palo Alto, CA. June, July 1992
• Photocollage, Mountain View Public Library. Mountain View, CA. October, 1991
• "The Perspectives of Being There," Oak Creek Club, Palo Alto, CA. June, July, 1991
• "Featured Artist," Moontown Pottery Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA. Oct, Nov 1990
• "Local Color," Mountain Home Restaurant, La Honda CA. Sept 1989 - May 1990
• "Images of Trees" Body Therapy Center, Palo Alto CA. 1989

Group Shows

• University Art Center juried competition, Palo Alto, CA. September, 1993
• Coastal Arts League juried competition, Half Moon Bay, CA. May, 1993
• Saratoga Contemporary Artists juried show, Saratoga, CA. May, 1991
• Students of Hau Pei-Jen -- Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. September 1990
• Saratoga Contemporary Artists juried show, Saratoga, CA. May, 1990
• Photography, Drawing, & Sculpture -- Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. 1990
• Collage, Graffiti, & Masks -- Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. 1990
• Photography, Drawing, & Sculpture -- Pacific Art League, 1989

Exhibitions & Crafts Fairs

• King's Mountain Art Fair, Woodside, Ca.September 1990, 91, 92, 93.
• La Honda Street Fair, La Honda, CA. July, 1992.
• Grand opening, Lotus and Inkstone artist studios, La Honda, CA. August, 1991.
• Greenpeace Festival, San Gregorio, Ca, August, 1990
• Pillar Point Harbor festival, Half Moon Bay, Ca, September, 1989
• La Honda Music and Crafts festival, La Honda, Ca, September, 1989

Poetry Awards

• First place, "First rec.arts.poems international electronic poetry competition, :-)" Feb, 1991.

Publications

• Four poems included in "Fresh Oil, Loose Gravel,," an anthology of internet poets, November, 1993, Rochester, NY.
• "Chinese Painting Poems," in The Reading Edge, (Volume II, Issue 9?), July-August, 1992, Woodridge, Illinois.
• "Movement through time," "Tassajara, guest at the monastery," "Once again the fires are burning in the branches," La Honda Poets, Volume 6, La Honda, CA. 1991
• "Two Autumn Haiku," and "On Writing Haiku," in The Reading Edge, Volume II, Issue 6, November-December, 1991, Woodridge, Illinois.
• "Tassajara, Guest at the Monastery," in Views from the South Coast, June, 1991, La Honda, CA.

Education

• Masters of Science, Computer Science, specializing in Symbolic and Heuristic Computation and Computational Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. June, 1987.
• Bachelor of Science, Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. June, 1987.
• Chinese painting classes under Paul Pei-Jen Hau. Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. 1989 - present.

Affiliations / Galleries

• Internet Curator, Coastal Arts League Museum, Half Moon Bay, CA.
• Juried member, Gallery 92 West, Half Moon Bay, CA
• South Coast Artists Association, Pescadero, La Honda, CA
• Juried member, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, CA.
• Coastal Arts League, Half Moon Bay, CA
• Saratoga Contemporary Artists, Saratoga, CA.
• Lotus and Inkstone, La Honda, CA.
• La Honda Poets, La Honda, CA.
• La Honda Creations Craft Gallery, La Honda, CA.

Other Occupations

• Software engineer, SunPRO, a Sun Microsystems company. January, 1988 - present.

Simran Singh Gleason