Education:

2005 Master of Fine Arts, California State University Long Beach

1994 Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Jose State University

Awards and Residencies:

2005 Artist Residency, Armory Center of the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2005 Distinguished Achievement in Creative Activity Award, CSULB

2005 Beverly Alpay Award, Palos Verdes Art Center

2004 Werby Memorial Scholarship, College of the Arts, CSULB

2004 Baker Scholarship- College of the Arts, CSULB

2002 Rotary International Group Study Exchange-Iceland

Select Solo Exhibitions:

2019 Malaga Cove Gallery, Palos Verdes Library, Palos Verdes, CA

2016 Night Moves, 4th Street Vine, Long Beach, CA

2013 Booms and Breaks, 4th Street Vine, Long Beach, CA

2010 Into the Mirror, 4th Street Vine, Long Beach, CA

2010 Funk-Fetish, Fullerton Art Center, Fullerton, CA

2009 Odd Additions, 4th Street Vine, Long Beach, CA

2008 Tish-a-Lish, Madu Salon, San Francisco, CA

2006 Flutter-Struck, Madu Salon, San Francisco, CA

2005 John Koller, enView Gallery, Long Beach, CA

2005 Funky Fetish, Gatov Gallery, CSULB, Long Beach, CA

2004 Funnel Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2004 Props, CSULB, Long Beach, CA

2004 Hard-Soft, Werby Gallery, CSULB Long Beach, CA

2001 Edo Salon, San Francisco, CA

Select Group Exhibitions:

2023 Charm Phase, Maake Projects, State College, PA

2023 Contemplating Boundaries, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

2021 Reflection (curated by Sunook Park and Terrell Tilford), Korean Cultural Center with Launch LA, Los Angeles, CA

2020 Activism and Art, South Bay Contemporary, SoLa Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2019 Fresh (curator: Steven Wong), South Bay Contemporary, SoLa Gallery, LosAngeles, CA

2018 Interplay (curator: Holly Jerger), South Bay Contemporary, SoLa Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018 Polychromatic Mojo- Color As Content, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA

2018 The Usual Suspects, Shockboxx Project Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA

2017 Dia De Los Muertos, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA

2017 Abstracted Badass: Ed Moses, We Are Coming For You, Shockboxx Project Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA

2013 Mas Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

2011 Lost and Profound, Zask Gallery, Rolling Hills, CA

2010 ou-boum (curator: Linda Day), Long Beach City College, LB, CA

2009 Obsessive Surfaces, Dominguez Hills College

2008 Lush, Salon Oblique, Venice, CA

2008 Projection, Salon Oblique, Venice, CA

2008 Some Paintings, LA Weekly Biennial (curated: Doug Harvey), Los Angeles, CA

2006 Gift Shop, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA

2006 Immodesty, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA

2005 Reveal-Revile, CSULB, Long Beach, CA

2004 Gallery 33, Long Beach, CA

2004 Elephant on Main, Hollywood, CA

2003 Funnel Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2001 Forget it Jake (Works on Paper), Los Angeles, CA

1995 Hayward Arts Council Group Exhibition, Hayward, CA

Curatorial Projects:

2013 Reflectivity, 4th Street Vine, Long Beach, CA

2012 Meta Muerto, 4th Street Vine, Long Beach, CA

2011 Death; The Future!, 4th Street Vine, Long Beach, CA

2010 Day of the Dead, 4th Street Vine, Long Beach, CA

Bibliography:

Joseph Hazani,(exhibition review-online) “Surface Play”, https://adilettante.com/review/surface-play-ft-john-koller-launch-la/, June 2022
Activism and Art (exhibition catalog), South Bay Contemporary, SoLa Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
John Koller (short story), Prolific Peninsula, Palos Verdes Library District Anthology,2019, page 69
Lorraine Heizman, (exhibition review) “Polychomatic Mojo: Color as Content”, Art and Cake, November 2018
Polychromatic Mojo- Color As Content (exhibition catalog), Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
Doug Harvey, “Some Paintings”, LA Weekly, January 9, 2008, 
Tommy Freeman, (exhibition review) “Immodesty” Exhibition Review, Artweek, November 2006