Born in 1953, Detroit Michigan, Lives and Works in Sebastopol California

ONE- AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025 — Recent Work, The Depot, Mill Valley, CA
2023 — Deborah Kirklin and Robert Poplack, Move the Light, The Fourth Wall Contemporary Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2020 — New Work, Studio 1017, Sebastopol, CA
2019 — Art from the Bureau of Land Management, King Range, Shelter Cove Art Gallery, Shelter Cove, CA (BLM Artist-in-Residence Exhibition)
2016 — Deborah Kirklin & Robert Poplack: Paintings, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA
2013 — Robert Poplack & Jan Wurm, The Personal Landscape, Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, CA
2009 — Robert Poplack: Drawings, Gump’s Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 — Intension/Invention: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, CSMA at Finn Center, Mountain View, CA
2005 — Landscape-Based Works on Paper, Cañada College, Redwood City, CA
2003 — Land and Water: Recent Abstract Landscapes, Stanford University Faculty Club, Stanford, CA
1994 — Rural Landscapes, O.K. Harris/David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
1990 — Recent Paintings, Hackett Freedman Gallery (formerly Contemporary Realist Gallery), San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

(selected highlights, chronologically)

2025 — Faculty Exhibition, Robert F. Agrella Art Gallery, SRJC, Santa Rosa, CA
2023 — Faculty Exhibition, Robert F. Agrella Art Gallery, SRJC, Santa Rosa, CA
2019 — Parallels, Robert F. Agrella Art Gallery, SRJC, Santa Rosa, CA
2016 — Airborne, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2014 — Bowery Gallery, 23rd Annual Juried Exhibition (Juror: David Cohen), New York, NY
2011 — Abstract, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2008 — Consider the Source: Nature as Reference and Inspiration, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA
2006 — Earth in Upheaval, Sonoma Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
2003 — Unbound Vistas, Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA (Juried Exhibition)
1999 — At the Millennium, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
1996 — Palette of Light, Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA
1987 — M.F.A. Exhibition, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

(Full exhibition history available upon request.)

EDUCATION

M.F.A., Art, University of California, Berkeley, CA — 1987
M.A., Art, University of California, Berkeley, CA — 1985
Fifth-Year Graduate Certificate in Art, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA — 1981
B.A., Art, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA — 1978

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC), Santa Rosa, CA
Associate Instructor, Department of Art — 2020–Present

Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA
Professor, Department of Art — 1999–2019
• Chair, Department of Art — 2016–2019
• Major Advisor, B.A. & B.F.A. Degree Programs

Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC), Santa Rosa, CA
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Art — 1991–1999

University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Lecturer, Outdoor Painter’s Project — 1991–1997

Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC), Santa Rosa, CA
Instructor, Department of Art (Full-Time, Sabbatical Replacement) — 1989

EXHIBITION CURATOR

(Wiegand Gallery, unless otherwise noted)

2019 — The Wiegand Gallery and Its Mission: 40 Years of Exhibitions
2017 — Zeuxis: Flower as Metaphor
2016 — Matt Black: Framing Migrant Labor
2015 — Nathan Oliveira: The Kestrel and Windhover Related Works
2013 — Hank Pitcher Paintings: A 40-Year Survey
2010 — Eduardo Carrillo: Within a Cultural Context
2006 — Zeuxis: Facets of Perception
2002 — Theme, Source and Resource, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
1999 — Paul Wonner and William Brown: From the Figurative Tradition

PUBLICATIONS

2019 — Atelier One in Graton Presents Its Annual Open Studio, Sonoma County Gazette
2013 — Remembering Lundy, The Siegriest Legacy Gallery
2001 — Elements of Desire and the Paintings of Charles Pompilius, David Klein Gallery
2001 — Terry St. John as Artist and Teacher, Hackett/Freedman Gallery

ART JUROR

2017 — District 5 High School Art Competition (Rep. Mike Thompson)
2015 — Pacific Art League, Abstraction Exhibition, Palo Alto, CA
2014 — Sanchez Art Center Annual Juried Exhibition, Pacifica, CA
2007 — Smith Gallery, UC Santa Cruz
2002 — Sebastopol Center for the Arts Inaugural Exhibition

LECTURES & WORKSHOPS

2020 — Interview with Terry St. John, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 — Community Painting Workshops, Shelter Cove, CA
2017 — Leadership Arts, Culture & Media Day, San Mateo County
2013 — The Personal Landscape, Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, CA
1996 — Boston University, M.F.A. Painting Program

AWARDS

2020 — Bureau of Land Management Artist-in-Residence, King Range National Wilderness
2015 — Faculty Development Research Grant
2007 — Eduardo Carrillo Prize in Painting, Finalist
1987 — Mary Caldor Hayes Award for Representational Painting, UC Berkeley

SERVICE & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Wiegand Gallery Advisory Board (Ex Officio)
Joint Labor Management Committee, NDNU (2017–2019)
NDNU Undergraduate Standards Committee (1999–2016), Chair (2008–10, 2014–16)
Board of Directors, The Martins Foundation, San Francisco, CA (2006–2008)
Board of Directors, The Peninsula Museum, Belmont, CA (2007–2008)