Monica Schwalbenberg-Peña       
       Art about Place and Everyday Objects

​If you would like to come to my studio, please use the contact form

 in the bar, above. If you would like the studio to be tidy, please give me some advance notice.

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​Coming Up:

Urban/Rural - views of California,  Studio Gallery
April 30 - May 18, 2026
opening reception: Sunday, May 3, 3-5

I will have two Polaroid Transfers in this group show

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History:

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Contributing Artist to the Studio Gallery's San Francisco- Marin Food Bank Auction, February 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 .

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"tiny",  Participant in this annual juried small works group show, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, November-December 2012 to 2025​

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" Annual Small Works Show", Graton Gallery

Graton, CA,  2025, 2024, 2019​
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​"Terrain, Views of California", juried group show,  Studio Gallery,  San Francisco, 2025, 2023, 2022

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​​​​​"Delicious", juried group show,  Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2024, 2023, 2022 , 2021, 2018, 2016, 2013.

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​"On the Road", group show, 2023,  StudioGallery

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Sonoma County Art Trails  juried Open Studio, September 2022, September 2021, October 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014

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 "Look! Up in the Sky!" Studio Gallery, San Francisco, 2022.

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​​Favorite Things", Virtual Group Show, Sebastopol Center for the Arts,  2020.

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"Alphabet Soup", juried show, Studio Gallery, San Francisco,  2019 

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  "Make it Work" Juried show, Studio Gallery, San Francisco,  2015

 

"50-50", Juried show of 50 works in 50 days, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA,  2014, 2012.

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"Small Works", Juried show, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA, 2014.

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"Left Coast Annual" Juried show, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA,  2013.

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ARTrails Juried Open Studio Tour, Sonoma County, CA, October 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007

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"Wabi Sabi", Juried group show, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA, 2012

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Art at the Source Open Studio Tour Western Sonoma County, CA June 2012, 2007, 2006, 2002, 2001

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First prize for Landscape, Jack London Park 50th Anniversary Celebration Glen Ellen, CA May 2010

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"Sanctuary-Images of Protected Places" Invitational solo show at the Marin Headlands Visitor Center, Sausalito, CA,  2008

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"Botanica", juried group show, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 2005

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Laguna School of Painters Show and Auction, 2002, 2003

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"Four Woman Artists", Invitational show, Loanna Clarke Gallery, Petaluma, CA, November 1999 - January 2000