Multimedia Communications

• Apple's Multimedia Developer Group, 93
• Sumeria International QuickTime award, 94
• Persimmon Software, CEO, designed and developed educational software for children, 1994–present. Programs include Art of Dada, Vincent's Vision, When as the Rye Reach to the Chin, Weep You No More, Oh Rose: William Blake, and twenty others. Software sold at: The Guggenheim Museum, The National Gallery, Whitney Museum, Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery, MOMA, and others.
• American Booksellers' Association Best Educational Multimedia, 96

Film, Video, Television, and Theatre

• Mystery of the Green Elephant
• KDOL Using Poetry For Children
• Crimson Pearl: Graphic Novel
• New Mourning: Comedy Pilot
• Fragile X, Musical
• Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 1979–1982. Bay Guardian, East Bay Express, 1979
• National Awards: Impromptu, extemporaneous, dramatic, and debate, 1968–1975

Visual Art

• Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, 2010
• Sri Lankan Contemporary Art: Island Visions
• Lamont Gallery Exhibit: Sri Lankan Contemporary Art: Island Visions: Exeter, New Hampshire, 2007
• Zeba: Berkeley "M," 2006
• Pinecone, Paducah Kentucky, Cowboys and South Indians: Cross Cultural visual art, 2007
• Kirkland Arts Center, Seattle, WA, Menu: Edible Elements of Art, 2006
• Asian Art Week at the Water Moon Gallery, New York, 2006
• Sri Lankan Contemporary Art, 2006
• The Private Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2003
• Barefoot Gallery, 2003
• Bedford Gallery Artist Residency, Walnut Creek, CA: November 2003
• Gallery 706, Colombo, Sri Lanka, (Solo Shows): September 2003, 1998, 1979
• Project Leap Group Exhibit, Surface Matters, Emeryville, CA: January 2003
• California School for the Arts, Humbolt, CA. George Segal, Robert Graham, and Michael Bishop: 1989
• Berkeley Art Center (juried Robert Arneson, Viola Fry), Berkeley, CA: 1989
• California State Exhibition, Sacramento, CA: 1989, 1990
• Virginia Brier Gallery, San Francisco, CA: 1989
• City of Oakland: featured artist, Festival Of The Lake, Oakland, CA: 1988
• Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA: 1988
• Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA: 1988
• Art of Clay and Glass, Marin Art Center, Marin, CA: 1984
• Nine Clay Artists, Group Show, Berkeley, CA: 1983

Awards and Honors

• American Booksellers Association Award — Best educational multimedia: 1996
• Sumeria International QuickTime award, Multimedia "Dolor": 1992
• California State Exposition, Award of Excellence: 1989, Superior Award: 1990
• Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (SECA) nominee: 1989
• California State Scholar: 1971–75
• Berkeley Repertory Theatre Best for Bay Guardian, East Bay Express: 1979
• National, State and Regional speaking awards
• Impromptu, extemporaneous, dramatic and debate: 1968–75

Recent and Ongoing Projects and Bodies of Work

• Symbolic Narration of the Clouded day; works on paper
• CEO Persimmon Software: 1993–present — www.persimmonsoftware.com. Artist, developer and designer for over 50 programs sold in major art museums across the country (Guggenheim Museum, National Gallery, Whitney Museum, Art Institute of Chicago).
• Prayers for Food; illustrations of prayers from world religions to raise funds for children in need.
• The 1,000 names of the Divine Mother; illustration of the Lalita Sahasranama.
• My family at the Beach in Spain; life size figurative ceramic work.
• My Life as a Circus; figurative ceramic, glass and paintings.

Reviews and Publications

• Daily News, Ruwini Jayawardana, 2008, "'Games We Play' with vibrant shades"
• William Torphy, Fall, 2003, "Josephine Balakrishnan: Sufi Chocolate"
• Marge Spiedel, 2003, "Cross-cultural palette; painter Josephine Balakrishnan straddles both Eastern and Western worlds"
• Koch International Classics, Catero Records, and Penguin Books
• Art Week; Nine Clay artists Alan Meisel: 1986
• Ceramics Monthly: 1987
• Montclarian, feature article: 1986
• Harvest Festival, Arroyo Grande: 1968
• The Psychology of Children's Art (noted for exceptional creativity): 1963
• San Francisco Chronicle Art Awards: 1960–65

Education

• California Summer Program in the Arts, 1989
• Laney Community College, Art, 1982–85
• DeYoung Art School, 1979–1982
• Sculpture Center, New York, NY, Scholarship, 1978
• Pennsylvania State University, Nonverbal Communications, 1977
• San Francisco State University, M.A., 1976
• University of California Berkeley, B.A., 1975