John Budicin

Born in 1944, in Rovigno, Italy and moved to the United States in 1955. He was educated at Riverside Community College and presently lives and maintains his studio in San Bernardino, CA. Budicin is a highly accomplished Plein Air painter and travels extensively throughout the United States and Europe.

A Signature member of the California Arts Club, the Plein Air Painters of America, the Oil Painters of America, and the Laguna Plein Air Painter’s Association. He is currently President of the Plein Air Painters of America. Budicin has won numerous major awards in open juried shows within the past few years, including six gold medals and first place awards. He has recently had three one person shows, and has his work included in recent museum shows in California and Arizona. His work has been featured in recent articles in Art of the West, American Artist, Southwest Art, and The Quarterly Magazine.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005 Debra Huse Museum, Balboa Island, CA
2000 Galerie Gabrie, Pasadena, CA
1999 A Year in Retrospect, Galerie Gabrie, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Echoing Nature, Galerie Gabrie, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 95th Annual California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibition, Pasadena Museum of California Art
2005 Six Masters on Cumberland Island, Fraser Fox Fine Art, Charleston, SC
2005 Plein Air Painters of America 20th Annual Exhibition and Sale, Tahoe, NV
2000 California Palettes, California Art Club, Los Angeles, CA
2000-1994 Plein-air Painters of America, Avalon, Catalina Island, CA
2000-1999 Laguna Plein Air Painting Competition, Laguna Beach Art Museum, CA
2000-1999 On Location in Malibu, Frederick R. Weiman Museum of Art Pepperdine
University, and Phippen Museum, Prescott, AZ
2000-1996 Annual California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibition
1998 Treasures of the Sierra Nevada, Muckenthaller Museum and Natural History
Museum, Los Angeles
Bowers Museum Invitational Exhibit
California Art Club Exhibition, Mission San Juan Capistrano
Puertas Del Santuario, Carnegie Art Museum
California Wetlands, Natural History Museum
Plein-Air Painters of America Paint San Francisco

Contemporary Southwest Painters, Phippen Museum of Western Art, Prescott AZ
Inland Exhibition, San Bernardino County Museum, CA
85 Years of Art, California Art Club, Carnegie Art Museum
1996-90 Esther Wells Collection, Laguna Beach, CA

TEACHING

2002 California Art Club
2002 Tuscany Artist Tours group
2001-00 Fredericksburg Artist School, TX, and CO
2002-1, 98-97 Plein-Air Painters of America, Steamboat Springs, CO
2002-01,00 Fechin Institute, Taos, NM
2002-01, 99-98 Scottsdale Artists’ School, AZ
1999 California Art Club, Tuscany & Umbria, Italy
Plein-Air Painters Workshop, Fallbrook, CA
Fechin Institute, Taos, NM

AWARDS

1999 First Place, California Art Club, Mission San Juan Capistrano
1998 Second Place, Sights of Santa Ana
1997 First Place and Grumbacher Gold Medal, MultiMedia Mini Show, Redlands Art Association, San Bernardino County Museum
1996 Second Place, California Art Club Exhibition, Mission San Juan Capistrano
Gold Medal, 87th Annual California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibition
First Place, Multi-Media Mini Show, Redlands Art Museum
Award of Excellence, Oil Painters of America
1994 Bud Rickerts Art Center Award, Fine Arts Institute 29th Annual Exhibit of the San Bernardino County Museum
1989 Grumbacher Gold Medal, Inland Exhibition XXV, San Bernardino County Museum

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006 Bob Bahr, “John Budicin: Making Mountains Subtle,” American Artist
Workshop, Spring
2005 M. Stephen Doherty, “The Secret of Success: Never Settle,” American Artist 
2004 M. Stephen Doherty, “Painting from Sea to Shining Sea,” American Artist
John Budicin, “Speed of Light”, the Artists Magazine Oct 2001
2001 Vicky Stavig “The Grandeur of Yosemite”, Art of the West Sept/Oct 2001

2001 Linda Price – Plein Air American ArtistNov 2001

2000 Myrna Zanetell, “An Instrument of Nature,” Art of the West,
November/December
2000 Vicky Stavig, “A Showcase of Eight Talented Artists,” Art of the West, January/February
1999 Michael Zakian, “On Location in Malibu,” American Artist, August
Vicky Stavig, “Plein Air Passion,” Art of the West, March/April
Norm Kolpas, “Chasing the Sun,” Southwest Art, February
“Master Painters of the World,” International Artist, February/March
1998 Carole Katchen, 200 Great Painting Ideas for Artists, North Light Books
“Best of the West,” Southwest Art, March
1997 Larry Palmer, “Plein Air Painters Preserve Memories,” Pasadena Magazine, Fall
Featured Artist, California Art Club Newsletter, March
“Market Report Plein Air Painting,” Southwest Art, February
Elaine Adams, “Conserving Culture,” The Quarterly Magazine, Summer
1996 Carole Katchen, “California Landscapists,” Southwest Art, February
1995 “California Impressionism, An Art Form Comes to Life,” Art Business News, March

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Mission San Juan Capistrano. Caribbean Princess Line. Joan Irvine Smith Collection. Jean Stern Collection. Roy Rose Collection. Fisher-Haas Infinity. Birtcher Enterprises. Fechin Workshop.

AFFILIATIONS
Signature Member, Plein-Air Painters of America.Signature Member, California Art Club. Signature Member, Oil Painters of America. Signature Member, Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, Signature Member North West Rendezvous