began painting variations on darkened backgrounds, evoking celestial phenomena. In the early 2000s, Takenaga exhibited at institutions including McKinney Avenue Contemporary, the CU Art Museum (both solo), the Tang Teaching Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, among others.Berry, Ian. About Painting, Saratoga Springs, NY: Tang Teaching Museum, 2004. Recognition and public collections Takenaga has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2020), been elected an academician of the National Academy of Design (2013), and been recognized with awards from the For-Site Foundation, National Academy Museum, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New England Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts; she has received residencies from the Space Program of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Smith College printmaking workshop, and Dieu Donne Papermill.FOR-SITE Foundation. Barbara Takenaga, Artists. Retrieved September 23, 2020.Art in General. "The Conversation, Barbara Takenaga," Artist Residency. Retrieved October 15, 2020. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Crocker Art Museum, Ackland Art Museum, Arkansas Art Center, deCordova Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Museum of Outdoor Arts, Museum of Nebraska Art, New Jersey State Museum, Neuberger Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Tang Teaching Museum, and United States Embassy, as well as many college, university and corporate collections. She has exhibited at DC Moore Gallery (New York, since 2009), Gregory Lind Gallery (San Francisco, 2003–19) and Robischon Gallery (Denver), and her print publishers include Shark’s Ink (Colorado) and Wingate Studios (New Hampshire). References External links Barbara Takenaga official website Barbara Takenaga, Sound and Vision'' podcast, 2018 Barbara Takenaga artist page, DC Moore Gallery Barbara Takenaga artist page, Gregory Lind Gallery Barbara Takenaga artist page, Robischon Gallery 1949 births 20th-century American painters 21st-century American painters Living people Williams College faculty Artists from Nebraska American women painters 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women artists American women academics Washington University in St. Louis faculty University of Denver faculty