Renée Switkes

Awards

• Top Five by AMPLIFY Juror, Adrian Arias, 2024, Rose-Hidden Treasures

• Platinum Award J. Mane Gallery 2023, Dahlia - Eternal

• Platinum Award J. Mane Gallery 2023, Echeveria - Afterglow

• Bronze Award Camelback Gallery 2023, Aeonium - Everlasting 

• Bronze Award Camelback Gallery 2023, Gardenia - Harmony

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Solo Show​

• The Phantom Gallery, Milpitas, CA 2023  (juried)

• Botanical Portraits, The Forum at Rancho San Antonio, Cupertino, CA 2025 (invited)

 

​Group Exhibitions​​

2026

• Rena Charles Gallery, Art for Everyone, Healdsburg, CA (juried)

• Silicon Valley Visual Arts, Shadows of Winter Light, Burligame, CA

• Faultline Gallery, Women's+ 10 x Ten, Oakland, CA

• Studio 55 Gallery, Flowers for My Mother, Martinez, CA (juried)

• 5 Olive Gallery, April Flowers, San Francisco, CA

• Rosebud Gallery, The Nature Show, San Francisco, CA (juried)

• Drawing Room, Hot for Teachers, San Francisco, CA (juried)

• Arc Gallery, Squared Alumni, San Francisco, CA (invited)

2025

• STUDIO Gallery, Tiny & Huge, San Francisco, CA (invited)

• Noble Gallery, Interwoven, San Jose, CA (juried)

• CSMA Mohr Gallery, Expressions of Fall, Mountain View, CA (juried)

• Arc Gallery, FourSquared XVI, San Francisco, CA (invited)

• New Museum NUMU, Breaking Through, Los Gatos, CA  (juried)

• KnK Contemporary, Blue Note, San Francisco, CA (invited)

• Richmond Art Center, Big Feelings, Richmond, CA

• Fine Art in the Park, Los Altos, CA (juried)

• KnK Contemporary, Super Bloom, San Francisco, CA

• Granucci Gallery, Honoring the Feminine, Grass Valley, CA

• SOMArts Cultural Center, Art Launch, San Francisco, CA

2024​

• Arc Gallery, Joy, San Francisco, CA (juried)

• STUDIO Gallery, Tiny, San Francisco, CA

• 2358MRKT, Botanical Collection, San Francisco, CA (juried)

• Voss Gallery, Ethereal Bloom, San Francisco, CA (invited)

• New Museum NUMU, Boundaries, Los Gatos, CA (juried)

• Voss Gallery, Urban Tides, San Francisco, CA (juried)

• Fine Art in the Park, Los Altos, CA (juried)

• Triton Museum of Art, State-wide Competition & Salon, Santa Clara, CA (juried)

• The Drawing Room, Women Rising, San Francisco, CA

• Leon Event Hall, Revealed Nature, San Francisco, CA (invited)

• SOMArts Cultural Center, Art Launch, San Francisco, CA

• Arc Gallery, 6000 Circle Project; Honoring the Feminine, San Francisco, CA

• Voss Gallery, Art for the Heart, San Francisco, CA (invited)

2023​

• Hunt & Gather Gallery, pop-up, San Francisco, CA

• Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Devastating Loves and Transcendent Hatreds, Albany, CA (juried)

• Pacific Art League, Anniversary Show, Palo Alto, CA (juried)

• Voss Gallery, Refusés of the Bay, San Francisco, CA (juried)

• SFWA Gallery, Bay Area Artists' Choice, San Francisco, CA (juried)

• Four Chicken Gallery, Salon de Refuses: A Celebration of de Yong Open Rejects, San Francisco, CA

• Fine Art in the Park, Los Altos, CA (juried)

• Sausalito Center of the Arts, Spanning the Gate, Sausalito, CA (invited)

• Triton Museum of Art, State-wide Competition & Salon, Santa Clara, CA (juried)

• 6th Street Studios, Spring Blooms, Gilroy, CA

• Pacific Art League, Members Show, Palo Alto, CA

• The Drawing Room, Sky, San Francisco, CA (juried)

• SOMArts Cultural Center, Art Launch, San Francisco, CA

• Pacific Art League, Anniversary Show, Palo Alto, CA (juried)

2022

• Ark Art Gallery, More the Merrier, San Jose, CA

• SFWA Gallery, Bay Area Artists' Choice, San Francisco, CA (juried)

• 307 Cortland, Bianca Levan, Rinat Goren, & Renée Switkes, San Francisco, CA

• Far Out Gallery, Flowers, San Francisco, CA

• Pacific Art League, Members Show, Palo Alto, CA

• The Drawing Room, Women Rising, San Francisco, CA

• Pacific Art League, 101st Anniversary Show, Palo Alto, CA (juried)

• SOMArts Cultural Center, Art Launch, San Francisco, CA

• Ark Art Gallery, Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA

2021​

• Pacific Art League, 100th Anniversary Show, Palo Alto, CA (juried)

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Corporate Commissions

Tulips - Rise with Enthusiasm Banner, RINCON Center, San Francisco, CA

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Corporate Exhibitions

2024 & 2025

• CSMA Mohr Gallery, Silicon Valley Visual Arts, Los Altos, CA (juried)

2023

• Crema Coffee Roasting Co, Who Am I, San Jose, CA (juried)

• Milpitas Library, Milpitas, CA (city selected)

• Maker Nexus, SVOS Preview Show, Sunnyvale, CA

• Los Altos Library, SVOS Preview Show, Los Altos, CA

2022​

• Mission Bowling Club, San Francisco, CA (juried)

2021

• Los Altos Library, SVOS Preview Show, Los Altos, CA

2019

• Sheppard-Mullin Law Firm,  Palo Alto, CA (invited)

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Online Juried Exhibitions

• Camelback Gallery, Artist Choice (juried)

• Artsy, Into the Light (juried)

• J. Mane Gallery, 5th Anniversary (juried)

• Camelback Gallery, Flower Power (juried)

• Artsy, A World of its Own (juried)

• J. Mane Gallery, In Full Bloom (juried)

• Camelback Gallery, Shades of Green (juried)

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Open Studios

• Shipyards Hunters Point, San Francisco 2025, 2026

• Alameda Artworks, San Jose, 2024, 2025, 2026

• ArtSpan, San Francisco, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

• Silicon Valley, San Jose, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

Benefit Auctions

• STUDIO Gallery, SF-Marin Food Bank, 2026

• ArtSpan, San Francisco 2024

• Old Orchard Service League, Campbell, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024

• Kids & Art Foundation, San Francisco, 2020, 2023, 2025

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Virtual Events

• SVOS Social Media, March 30th & April 26th, 2023

• Boothy, October 26th, 2022

• ArtSpan Salon, November 18, 2022

• Morgan Hill Open Studios, October 28, 2021

• San Francisco Open Studios, October 12, 2021

• BoothCentral, September 29, 2021 

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Publications & Videos

• Women United ART MAGAZINE | Issue XIII, March 10, 2026

• Artist Mother Proud & Serious, published by Women United Art Movement, December 7, 2023

• Shoutout Colorado, September 20, 2022

• SVOS Interview October 1, 2022

• Kids & Art Amaeyzing ArtKits™ @Home November 2022