Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

• 1984   Master of Fine Arts, Drawing, California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts)
• 1982   Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing & Painting, Mississippi University for Women. Magna Cum Laude
• 1981   Bachelor of Science, Biology, Mississippi University for Women. Magna Cum Laude

GRANTS

• 2016   The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York, NY
• 2014   Quick Grant, Creative Capacity Fund, Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco, CA
• 2013   Quick Grants (2), Creative Capacity Fund, Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco, CA
  Capelli d'Angeli Foundation, Canton, CT
• 1999   Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Tucson, AZ

SELECTED AWARDS

• 2018   First Place, Richeson75 Landscape, Seascape & Architecture 2018, Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly, WI
• 2017   First Place, 2017 Artist's Magazine All-Media Online Competition, Artist's Magazine
  Honorable Mention, Salon at the Triton, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
• 2016   Third Place, Fall National Juried Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
  Second Place, Richeson75 Still Life & Floral 2016, Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly, WI
  Honorable Mention, 2016 Artist's Magazine All-Media Online Competition, Artist's Magazine
• 2014   Best in Show-Second Place, UArt 2014, University Art, Redwood City, CA
  Second Place, American Art Awards
• 2013   Honorable Mention, 2013 Statewide Painting Competition and Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
  Best in Show, Richeson Small Works 2013, Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly, WI
  Second Place, Breath of Spring, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
• 2012   Winner, Introductions 2012, California Realists Juried Exhibition, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Second Place, Bon Appétit, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
• 2011   First Place, December 2011/January 2012 Gallery Show, Society of Western Artists, Redwood City, CA
• 1996   Gold and Silver Awards, San Francisco Society of Illustrators Annual Show, San Francisco, CA
• 1992   Bronze Discovery Award, Art of California Magazine
• 1989   Juror, California Species: Biological Art and Illustration, The Oakland Museum; Oakland, CA
• 1988   DESI Award, Graphic Design: USA, New York, NY
• 1987   First Place, Bridge Works, sponsored by KPIX/Evening Magazine and Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco, CA

COLLECTIONS

• 2018   Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, San Francisco, CA
• 2015   Imagery Estate Winery, Glen Ellen, CA
• 2011   Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS
• 2008   swissnex San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• 2000   Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.
• 1999   Geneva Observatory, Versoix, Switzerland
• 1988   SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA
• 1987   California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

• 2017   Mural, Lyman Museum, Hilo, HI
• 2015   Art for Wine Label, Imagery Estate Winery, Glen Ellen, CA
• 2003   Art for Donor T-Shirt, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA
• 2002   Murals (3), Downing Planetarium, Fresno, CA
• 1992   Art for NASA/SETI Turn-On Event, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA
• 1987   Art for Planetarium Shows, St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2016   SHAD.O, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA
  Catching Shadows, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
• 2012   Inspirations, Vargas Gallery, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA
• 2008   The Search for a World Like Our Own: Imagine Earth 2.0, swissnex San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• 2001   Extrasolar Planets, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
• 2000   The Gallery at Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA
  Planetary Systems Discovered at Lick Observatory, and Other Celestial Imagery, Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, CA
• 1998   Evergreen Galleries, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
  Paintings of the Universe, Faculty Club, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  Art of the Universe, Cogswell Polytechnical College, Sunnyvale, CA
• 1997   Discovering the Universe, Fireplace Gallery, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
• 1996   UCSF Faculty/Alumni House, University of California, San Francisco, CA

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

• 2016   Stereopticon: The San Francisco Bay Area by Charlotte C. Cook-Fuller and Lynette Cook, Stanford Art Spaces, Palo Alto, CA
• 2015   Point, Counterpoint: San Francisco Through the Eyes of Charlotte Cook-Fuller and Lynette Cook, Evergreen Museum & Library, Baltimore, MD
  DressUP, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA
• 1986   Strybing Arboretum; San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2018   Richeson75 Landscape, Seascape & Architecture 2018, Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly, WI
  Streets of San Francisco, Christian Daniels Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Spring Showcase, Christian Daniels Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Urban Landscapes, Christian Daniels Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2017   BIG Exhibition of Small Works, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
  Small Works, Christian Daniels Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  So—, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
  Cityscapes 2017, Christian Daniels Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Urban Vistas, Christian Daniels Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Streets of San Francisco, Christian Daniels Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Salon at the Triton, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
  Steep Hills and Tall Buildings, Christian Daniels Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Local Streets, Christian Daniels Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2016   Small Works, Christian Daniels Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Fall National Juried Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
  Richeson75 Still Life & Floral 2016, Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly, WI
  Richeson75 Small Works 2016, Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly, WI
• 2015   Silicon Valley Small Art 2015, Vargas Gallery, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA
  Tiny, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Delicious, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Make it Work, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  City Streets, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Crocker-Kingsley Competition, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
  Terrain, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Richeson Small Works 2015, Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly, WI
  Gallery 85, San Jose, CA
• 2014   Salon 2014 Statewide 2D Competition and Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
  Tiny, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco (International Contemporary Modern Art Fair), Gallerie Citi, San Mateo Event Center, San Mateo, CA
  Delicious, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  City Streets, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Collector, San Francisco Airport, San Francisco, CA
  Collector, Berkeley, CA
  Waves of the Current, Klein Gallery, Lafayette, CA
  Space Stories, Roll Up Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2013   2013 Statewide Painting Competition and Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
  Gems II, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
  Debut Exhibition, Klein Gallery, Lafayette, CA
  Tiny, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Falkirk Annual Fall Juried Exhibition, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
  Nature's Many Splendors: Farms, Gardens, and Woodlands, Filoli, Woodside, CA
  Collector, Berkeley, CA
  5th Annual 50/50, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
  Summer National Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
  City Streets, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Richeson Small Works 2013, Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly, WI
  Delicious, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2012   Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  The First Really Big Show, Oceana Art Gallery, Pacifica, CA
  Introductions 2012, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  February/March 2012 Gallery Show, Society of Western Artists, Redwood City, CA
  Bon Appétit, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
  28th Annual Juried National Show, North Valley Art League, Redding, CA
• 2011   December 2011/January 2012 Gallery Show, Society of Western Artists, Redwood City, CA
  Silicon Valley Small Works, Vargas Gallery, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA
  October/November Gallery Show, Society of Western Artists, Redwood City, CA
  50-50 III, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
  Ode to California, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
  2011 Alumni Invitational, Eugenia Summer Gallery, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS
• 2009   Paint the Parks 100, PaintAmerica, Traveling Exhibit, Topeka, KS
• 2003   Arts for the Parks Seventeenth Annual National Arts Competition, Top 100 Tour, National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY
• 2002   Salute to the World Space Congress 2002 Exhibition, The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake, Nassau Bay, TX
• 1999   The Artist's Universe, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
  Distant Vistas, Explora Science Center & Children's Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM
• 1997   Illuminating Science, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA
  Exploring the Art of Space, Pasadena Civic Center, Pasadena, CA

  Imagine the Universe, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL
• 1996   Arts for the Parks Tenth Annual National Arts Competition, Top 100 Tour, National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY
• 1994   Spaceweek International Space Art Exhibit, Space Center Houston; Houston, TX
  Ancient Myths, Legends, and Future Dreams, NASA Ames Research Center; Moffett Field, CA
• 1993   Reflections of O'Keeffe, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
  Free Hand: The Fine Art of Commercial Illustration, Bedford Gallery; Walnut Creek, CA
• 1992   Space Art: Probing The Outer Limits, Cleveland Museum of Natural History; Cleveland, OH
  Artists and the Universe, NASA Ames Research Center; Moffett Field, CA
  Art of the Cosmos, Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History; New York, NY
• 1991   Naturalists: Paintings and Drawings of Life, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University; Arcata, CA
• 1990   Art in the Service of Science, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian; Washington, D.C.
  Strybing Arboretum 50th Anniversary Exhibit, Strybing Arboretum; San Francisco, CA
• 1989   Guild of Natural Science Illustrators 1989 National Exhibition, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; Santa Barbara, CA
• 1987   Bridge Works, sponsored by KPIX/Evening Magazine and Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco, CA
  California Species: Biological Art and Illustration, The Oakland Museum; Oakland, CA
• 1986   Scientific Illustration at the AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Washington, D.C.
  GNSI Natural Science Illustration Exhibit, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian; Washington, D.C.
• 1985   Silent Partings, California Academy of Sciences; San Francisco, CA
• 1984   California Species: Biological Art and Illustration, The Oakland Museum; Oakland, CA

PRESS

• 2017   Skalka, Michael. "Acrylic Sifts and Shimmers." The Artist's Magazine. November.
• 2014   Miller, Ron. "The Art of Space": Elephant Book Company.
• 2012   Wall, Mike. "Exoplanet Art: The Illustrations of Lynette Cook." space.com. December 17.
  Perkins, Anika. "Cook's Space Art Helps Educate Others about Discoveries." Visions, Spring.
• 2011   Vergano, Dan. "Art Can be a Tool in Planetary Exploration." usatoday.com. Updated May 18.
• 2010   Freedman, Wayne. "Artist Turns Pixels Into Planets."
  ABC7News (KGO, San Francisco). July 5.
• 2008   Nickerson, Colin. "Portrait of the Stars." The Boston Globe. April 14.
• 2003   Woodmansee, Laura. "Women in Space: Cool Careers on the Final Frontier": Apogee Space Series 38. Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc.

REPRESENTATION

• Andra Norris Gallery (formerly named Gallerie Citi), Burlingame, CA
• Christian Daniels Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Dean Day Gallery, Houston, TX

BOOKS (SOLE ILLUSTRATOR)

• Faraway Worlds: Planets Beyond Our Solar System, by Paul Halpern
• Infinite Worlds: An Illustrated Voyage to Planets Beyond Our Sun, by Ray Villard and Lynette Cook
• The Planets, by Dava Sobel (Softcover)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Academy of Art University
• California Academy of Sciences, Adult Education, San Francisco, CA
• Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Lectures and Workshops, Various Locations
• NOVAS (NASA Opportunities in Visualization, Art, and Science), San Francisco Bay Area, CA
• Sequoia District Adult Education, Redwood City, CA
• University of California, Adult Education, Berkeley, CA
• University of California, Science Illustration Program, Lectures and Workshop, Santa Cruz, CA

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• American Women Artists
• International Association of Astronomical Artists, Fellow

WEBSITES

• https://extrasolar.spaceart.org/ (Space Art)
• https://www.lynetteinthestudio.com/ (Fine Art)