Alan Disparte comes from a long family line of farmers and was raised in the rural area of Southern California. Disparte works in a variety of mediums, including painting, drawing, video, collage, and sculpture. He is inspired by ecological malleability and is interested in the coexistence and conflicts which occur when nature and culture intersect.

Alan earned his M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute’s Painting Department and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2012
Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ, Curator: Jeff Chabot
2010
InterNatural, Riverside Art Museum - RAM, Riverside, CA
"From Memory", R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Art Works, University of Redlands, Alumni House, Redlands, CA
2009
Selected Paintings, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2013
Inspired by Surrealism , Saatchi Online Gallery,
London, United Kingdom, Curator: Rebecca Wilson
2012
War Texts, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ, Curator: Jeff Chabot
7th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Juror: Apsara DiQuinzio
Sitka Art Invitational, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
California Dreaming Collection, Saatchi Online - Featured
2011
La Cosa Nostra: This Thing of Ours, Gallerie Rheeway, Los Angeles, CA, Curators: Max Presneill and Grant Vetter
Chain Letter, Shoshanawayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Curators: Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey
Temescal Street Cinema, Hell is a Place, Opening video short presented by Royal None Such Gallery, Oakland, CA
Speculative Materialism: Abstract Art and Its Conditions, D-Block Projects, Long Beach, CA, Curator: Grant Vetter
Juried Show, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Orange County, CA
MACRO / micro, LoBot Gallery, Oakland, CA, Curator: Sarah Drasner
2009
SYZYGY, The Lab, San Francisco, CA, Jurors:David Cunningham and Misako Inaoka
Looking for Loci, Denver Community Museum and San Francisco Mobile Museum, Group Exhibition, Denver, Colorado
You wouldn't know contemporary art if it slapped us in the face, Hatch Gallery, Oakland, CA
Hypnogogia, Climate Theater, Group Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2008
Chance Operations, Climate Theater/Gallery Nine, San Francisco, CA
Summer Group Show, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
5 from San Francisco, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA, Curator: Frances McCormack
Taste, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, Guest Curator: Sarah Klein
Shape, LoBot Gallery, Oakland, CA, Curator: Ross Campbell
Biophilia, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Ashley Kalemjian
2007
Vernissage, MFA Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
American Heresy Collective, New College Film Center / The San Francisco Art Institute,CA
Saatchi on-line Gallery, London, UK
Mutato Grande, The Diego Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA 2006
Stock, Swell Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Ross Campbell
Pathological Rhetoric, New Nothing Cinema, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Rachael Manera
SFAI Spring Video Salon, San Francisco, CA
Terror, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Continuing MFA show, The Diego Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Contact, Swell Gallery, SFAI - CCA San Francisco, CA
2001
Scavengers and Seers, Arts on-line Gallery, San Francisco, CA

PRIVATE COLLECTION
Ed Frank and Sarah Ratchye Collection

CURATORIAL PROJECTS/ COLLABORATIONS
2012 War On, Video Collaboration with Renetta Sitoy, Los Angeles, CA
2010 2nd Skin, Harlan Knoll Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Red Oak On-Line art Gallery, May 2012
Rebecca Kopp, Nouveau Conservateur, Featured Artist, January 19, 2012
Phoenix New Times, Slideshows, Featured Artist, January 1, 2012
International Contemporary Artists Vol 2, ICA Publications, june 2011
Carla Weber, Neighborhood News Online, Art in the Corridor, June 2010
Robert L. Pincus, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, San Diego Union Tribune, May 2010
Cover Image & Double Spread, Studio Visit , Volume 9, ( Juror: Steven Zevitas ) 2010
John Casey, Hatch Gallery, Oakland, ArtBusiness.com, May 2009
David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, Image Reproduction, Art Forum, September 2008
Dale Tegman, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, Art Magazine, 2008
Victoria Reed, 5 From San Francisco, R.B. Stevenson, LaJolla, Artweek, July 2008
Janice Kahn, Taste 2008, Root Division, San Francisco, SF Weekly.Com, April 18, 2008
Rachel Swan, Shape, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, Critic's Choice: East Bay Express, Feb. 20, 2008
DeWitt Cheng, Biophilia, Root Division, San Francisco,ArtBusiness.com, 2008
Andres Simone, Ivan Flugelman, Bestia on-line Magazine, Premier Issue, 2007
San Francisco Art Institute MFA Exhibition Catalog, May 2007
Jim Fisher, Scavengers and Seers, San Francisco, Arts on-line , 2001

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES:
2008 Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, ACE Program, S.F. CA
2008 Advanced Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, ACE Program, S.F. CA … Read More