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Born:  1944, San Francisco, California
Studied:  San Francisco Art Institute;
San Jose State, Ca; Glassell, Houston,  TX
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2006:  Texas Collaborative Arts Press, prints of Siptak gouaches, printed by Kelly Moran
2006: Gail Siptak, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
2004:  Unframed Gail Siptak, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
2003: Recent Paintings, Cidnee Patrick Gallery, Dallas, TX
2001:  Recent Paintings:  Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
2000:   Ordinary Strange:  Buchanan Gallery, Galveston,  TX
Working:  O’Kane Gallery, University
of Houston Downtown
Recent Paintings:  Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1999: Oeuvres Sur Papier:  Centre D’Etudes D’ Architecture et D’Urbanisme,  Saintes, France
Cycle:  Karan Ruhlan Gallery, Sante Fe, 
NM
1998: Into the Snarl: University of Texas Medical School Gallery, UT - Houston Health Science Center
1997:

Popular Neurosis:  Karan Ruhlan Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico
Interior Space:  Weekend Gallery, Houston, TX

1996: Everyday Matters: Houston Area Women’s Center
Recent Paintings:  C.G
Jung Center,  Houston, TX
1994: Recent Paintings:  Kilgore College, Killgore, TX
1992: Kaleidoscope: The College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX
1991: Drawings:  Lynne Goode Gallery, Houston, TX
1990:

Recent Paintings:  Galerie Sct Gertrud, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rumors Confirmed: Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
Paintings:  Lynne Goode Gallery, Houston, TX

1988:

Recent Work: Griffith Gallery, Stephen F. Austin  State University, Nacodoches, TX

1986:

Paintings: University of Wisconsin Center, Marshfield,  Wisconsin
Paintings:  McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX

1984: Paintings:  McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
   
Fellowships and Awards:
1999: Centre E’Etudes D’Architecture et D’Urbanisme, Saninte, France
1991: Fellow, Yaddo Colony for the Arts,  Saratoga Springs, NY
1996: Houston YMCA Outstanding Woman of the Year in Arts
1986:

Fellow,  Millay Colony for the Arts,  Steepletop, NY

1986:

Grant, Texas Commission on the Arts, Houston , TX

   
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2005:
Lawndale Live, 25 Years;   Lawndale Art Center, Curator Gus Kopriva;  catalog.
2005: Art on Loan Project; Houston City Hall, Curator Gus Kopriva and Wayne Gilbert.
2005: Everybody Art:  Show Us Your Feminism, University of Houston Women's Studies;  Vine Street Studios
2004: Small Pleasures, Austin College, Sherman, TX
2004: Contemporary Feminism, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
2004: An Eclectic Gathering of Gulf Coast Artists, CyFair College, Cypress, TX
2003: Way Cool, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, Texas
2002: Cidnee Patrick Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2000: Body Text,  Fort Hayes University, Hays, Kansas
1999: Objects of Desire,  ArtScan Gallery, Houston,  TX
1998: Ripples in the Water, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX
1997: Intimate, Barbara Davis Gallery, Pennzoil Place, Houston, TX
1996: USA Exhibition, Yekaterinberg, Cis (Russia)
1995:

Texas Art for Russia, Traveling Jan-Dec 1995 to Yekaterinberg, Tomsk,  St. Petersburg, Rostovondon, Nizhiniy-Noverod, and Moscow

1993: 

Houston in Hope, The Faith and Charity in Hope Gallery, Hope, Idaho (curators, Ed and Nancy Reddin Kienholz) 

1992: 

Narrative Painting, Storytelling in Texas, The Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX

1991: The Power of Scale: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
1988: Classical Myth and Imagery in Contemporary Art,  Queens Museum, NY 
1986:

Collaborators: Artists Working Together in Houston 1969-1986, Glassell School of Art,  Houston, TX

1985:  Houston Artists in Los Angeles, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. 
1984: The Figure, Three Views, Transco Tower, Houston, TX
1983: Contemporary Views of Houston, Art League of Houston, TX
1980:  Humor in Art,  Boulevard Gallery, Houston, TX
   
Selected Public Collections
  University of Texas at San Antonio
  The Barrett Collection, Dallas, TX
  Fritolay Collection, Dallas, TX
  San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
  Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, TX
  Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
  Museum of Yekateringberg, Russia