15 Facts About Squeak Carnwath

Squeak Carnwath was born on 1947 and is an American contemporary painter and arts educator.

Squeak Carnwath is a professor emerita of art at the University of California, Berkeley.

Squeak Carnwath has a studio in Oakland, California, where she has lived and worked since 1970.

Squeak Carnwath has explained "Squeak" as "a childhood name that stuck".

Squeak Carnwath received her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1977.

Squeak Carnwath has a distinctive and recognizable style which combines diaristic and personal elements with universal or existential themes.

Squeak Carnwath has described herself ironically as a "painting chauvinist" due to an abiding preference for that medium, although she is an accomplished printmaker and has created sophisticated Jacquard tapestries, artist books, and mixed media works in addition to her oil and alkyd works on canvas.

Squeak Carnwath received a Visual Arts Fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a SECA Art Award in 1980 from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which included a solo exhibition at the museum.

Squeak Carnwath's work was exhibited at Goldeen Gallery in San Francisco and Van Straaten Gallery in Chicago.

In 1994, Squeak Carnwath was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Squeak Carnwath was inducted into the National Academy of Design along with 15 others in the class of 2019.

From 1983 to 1998, Squeak Carnwath was Professor of Art at the University of California, Davis.

In 1998, Squeak Carnwath moved from the UC Davis campus to UC Berkeley.

Squeak Carnwath taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1982 until 2010, having previously taught at California College of Arts and Crafts and Ohlone College.

In 2000, Squeak Carnwath partnered with husband Gary Knecht and artist Viola Frey to establish the Artists' Legacy Foundation.