M Stark Gallery features Peninsula artists whose work evokes the spirit of the West Coast and is in dialogue with contemporary fine art movements.

ABOUT MARIANNA STARK
(pronounced MARY- ÆN -NUH)

2025+ Member, Artist’s Circle, Cantor Arts Center + Anderson Collection, Stanford University
2025+ Member, Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art
2023+ Member, SECA, SFMOMA
2023 Juror, 15th Annual 50|50 Show, Sanchez Art Center
2023+ Member, San Francisco Art Dealers Association
2023+ Principal, M Stark Gallery
2021+ Member, Coastside Chamber of Commerce
2016 Director, A Stark Project, Berkeley
2014 Co-Producer, ArtComplex, Oakland
2013-2017 President of the Board, Berkeley Art Center
2012-2016 Board of Directors, Oakland Art Murmur
2011-2012 Associate Director, ArtPad art fair, San Francisco
2009-2011 Executive Director, San Francisco Art Dealers Association
2007-2009 Critic's Picks, San Francisco Arts Monthly
2007-2008 Chair, SECA, and Ex-Oficio Trustee, SFMOMA
2007-2010 Publisher, Stark Guide to Bay Area Art
2005-2010 Member, SECA, SFMOMA
2002-2004 Board Member, ArtPoint, FAMSF
1999-2001 Member, Junior Associates, MOMA
1999-2001 Member, Apollo Circle, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1993-1999 Member, Contemporary Extension, SFMOMA
1993-1999 Member, Artpoint, FAMSF
1993 BA Art History (US/Europe concentration), UC Berkeley

PRESS

2025.7 California Seaming: Layered Landscapes, by Sheryl Nonnenberg, PUNCH Magazine (Whitney Alyssa Parker)

2024.12 Nikkei Granddaughters: Preserving History Through Creative Arts, Northern California’s Northern California Japanese American newspaper, Nikkei West (Na Omi J. Shintani)

2024.9.24 Gyöngy Laky - Sculptor, Art is Awesome podcast with Emily Wilson

2024.9 Wild and Wooly, PUNCH Magazine (Birgitta Bower)

2024.6 A fluid approach to wool, Coastside Magazine (Birgitta Bower)