EDUCATION

1990    M.F.A., Mills College, Oakland, CA
1977    B.A., San Francisco State University, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2011	Less than Large, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010	Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
	Introductions 2010, Seattle Arts Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
	Exploring Contemporary Printmaking, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, San Rafael, CA Juried by Karin Breuer, Curator, Achenback Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
	ICA Monotype Marathon 2010, ICA, San Jose, CA
	Collect, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2009	Art That Embraces an Ecological Ethic, Work by Four Eco Artists: Erica Fielder, Robin Lasser, Virginia Stears, & Kerry Vander Meer, Partners Gallery, Fort Bragg, CA
2008	Winter Exhibition, Robert Allen Fine Art, Sausalito, CA
	Red Dot Art Fair, London, England
	Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
	The Affordable Art Fair, New York, New York
	The Veil: Visible & Invisible Spaces,  Dairy Center for the Arts,  Boulder, Colorado; Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville; University of  Wisconsin-Milwaukee; University of Connecticut-Groton; East Indiana University-Richmond; California State University-Dominguez Hills.
	May Show , Soho Myriad, Altanta Georgia
2007	Three Dimensions: Eight Sculptors, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
	Common Threads, Fresh Paint, Los Angeles, CA
	Material Culture Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College,  Cupertino, CA
	Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
	Inaugural Group Exhibition, Issa Galleria, Houma, LA
	2x 2 Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
	ICA's 27th Annual Fall Auction, Institute of Contemporary Art, San  Jose, CA
2006	Hair Dialogue - An Installation Art Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
	Hair Raising, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
	New Lines: Drawn, Stitched and Sculpted, Spur Projects, Portola Valley, CA
	Happiness for all the Artists, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA
	Drawn, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
	Spring Gallery, The New Mexico Cancer Center Foundation, Albuquerque, NM
2005	Lines & Curves, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
	Eco-visions, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, CA
2004	Day of the Dead, Museum of Art, Mazatlan, Mexico
	Vital Visionaries: Artists Respond to the Environmental Crisis, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
	Inner Workings, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
	Contemporary Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA
2003	Revealing Influences: Conversations with Bay Area Artists, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
	Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle, J. Wayne Stark University Ctr. Galleries, College Station, TX
2002	Being There: 45 Oakland Artists, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
	Reactions, Exit Art, New York, NY
2001	The Art of Collecting, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
	Woven Vessels and Sculptures from the Collection of Karen and Robert Duncan,    Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney NE
	WEAD Eco-Art=eco-activism, John F. Kennedy University Arts Annex, Berkeley, CA
	An Art Odyssey, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
2000	Now What? Reflections on the past 100 years, Eyre/Moore Gallery, Seattle, WA
	Four Montalvo Artists Reflect on Organic Forms, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA
	Fall Auction,San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA  juried by Todd Hosfelt
1999	Natural Selection,  San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
	Needle Art , Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
	Eccentric Structures,Works, San Jose, CA (4 person exhibit)
	In Time and Eye, Society  for Ecological Restoration International Conference, S. F., CA
1998	Labyrinth: A Day of the Dead, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
	Bay Area Sculptors IV:  Abstraction, Oakland Museum Sculpture Court, Oakland, CA
1997	Scene-Unseen, Eastern New Mexico Univ., Portales, NM Juried by Lucy Lippard Award
	Yosemite Renaissance XII,   Yosemite Museum Gallery, Yosemite, CA & traveling Award
1996	Translucency, Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA
1995	Old Growth, Raw Space Gallery, ARC, Chicago, Illinois
	Apartment Store, Exit Art, New York, NY
1994	Mirror, Mirror. Gender Roles and Historical Significance of Beauty,The Oliver Art Center,    C. C. A. C., Oakland, CA
	Measuring Up, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
	Art As a Forum For Social Change, Student Union Art Gallery, San Francisco State University
1993	1920 The Subtlety of Subversion, The Continuitey of Intervention, Exit Art, New York, NY
	Beauty, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, NM
1992	Regeneration, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
	Marin Arts Council Sculpture Grantees,  Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1991	Art & Trends,Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., juried by Barbara Haskell, Curator, Whitney Museum: Award
1990	M.F.A. Exhibition, Mills College, Oakland, CA

GRANTS & RESIDENCIES

2001  Artist in Residence, Foundation Valpariso, Spain
2000  Artist in Residence, Millay Colony, Austerlitz, New York
1997  Artist in Residence, Cill Railaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Ireland
1995  Artist in Residence, Villa Montalvo, Santa Clara, CA
1991  Visual Arts Grant in Sculpture, Marin Arts Council, Marin County, CA
1990  Departmental Assistantship & Residence Award, Mills College, Oakland, CA

RELATED EXPERIENCE

1993-present   Instructor, Creative Growth Art Center, Pleasant Valley Adult School, Oakland, CA
2001-present   Board Member, WEAD Women's Environmental Art Directory
1996-00    Artist in Residence, Community Economic Development Agency, City of Oakland,CA
1998          Panelist, "Art and Environment", W.C.A. Conference, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1993-97    Board Member, Secession Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995-96    Instructor, California Summer School for the Arts, Cal Arts, Valencia,CA
1991-95    Instructor, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
1991          Instructor, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA.
1990          Instructor, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1980-83   Co-Founder & Executive Director, Public Art Works, San Rafael, CA

REVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS, MEDIA (selected)

2011    Cheng, DeWitt, The East Bay Express, "Co-Options", Oct. 19-35
2006   NBC Channel 11, News interview by Bob Redell on "Hair Raising" show at San Jose ICA Jan 23
             KGO, Channel 7 (ABC) "What's Hot", film on Hair Raising Show, Feb.
             Michael S. Gant, Metro Active, "Threads of Memory: Human Hair Connects the Generations at SJICA"
             Anastasia Hendrix, S.F. Chronicle, "Tressed Out: Art of the top of our Heads", Jan. 15
2003   Cash, Stephanie, Art in America, "Report From San Francisco: Surviving and Thriving", November
            Alison Bing, Artweek, “Craft: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?” November
             A Report “Revealing Influences, Museum of Craft and Folk Art Conversations with Bay Area Artists”, October
2002   Thompson, Sandy, Artweek, "Mary Mountcastle Eubank, Zea Morvita and Kerry Vander Meer...," June
2001   Rohan, Theres, "The Gallery at Villa Montalvo: Selected Exhibitions from 1996 through 2000
1999   Cebulski, Frank, Artweek, "Essential Structures at Works/San Jose"
             Thym, Jolene, The Oakland Tribune, "Come Visit Frog Pad at Hang Gallery",  July 16
             Ruttenberg, Danya, The Express, "Over There",  July 2
             San Francisco Focus, "Happenings", July
1998   Thym, Jolene, Oakland Tribune, "Sculpture Court Shows off its Eclectic Collection", July 3
1997   Spotlight Sentinel, "Beneath the Surface "Translucency" Explores the Unknown", March
1996   Hull Webster, Mary, Artweek,  "Manipulated Desires", July 21
             Ginley, Jacqueline, West County Times, "Art in Pursuit of Beauty", Sept. 27
1993   Cotter, Holland, The New York Times  "Group Show  with Feminist Message", April. 16
1991   Conway, R., Diablo Valley College Enquirer  "Vander Meer Art Fluid in Form",
1990   The New Fillmore  "On the Wall and Off the Wall ", July
1989   Talley, Charles, Artweek  "Plateaus of Invention",  March 18
1985   Fiberarts Magazine  "Public Fiber: Looking at the Logistics", interview by J. Koplos, Jan.

COLLECTIONS/CORPORATE COMMISSIONS (selected)

San Francisco Art Commission Collection, San Francisco, CA
Alameda County Art Collection, Alameda County, CA
Oakland Museum Permanent Collection, Oakland, CA
BankAmerica Corporation Art Collection, San Francisco, CA
Imagery Winery Glen Allen, CA
Cill Railaig Art Collection, Ballenskelligs, Ireland
San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Baltimore Federal Savings &Loan Association, Baltimore, MD
nextmonet. com, San Francisco, CA
e-Bay, San Jose, CA
Cindy Sherman, New York, N.Y.
Neiman-Marcus, Copley Place, Boston, MA
Foundation Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain