Pamela Merory Dernham is an Oakland, California based artist who exhibits her work nationally and whose work is collected internationally. In 2007, she was the alternate choice for a lobby sculpture at 545 Madison Avenue in New York. In November, she will be a featured artist for Mowen Solinsky Gallery at the "SOFA: Sculptural Objects and Functional Art" Exposition in Chicago. In June she was in an exhibit devoted to wire sculpture at Mowen Solinsky Gallery in Nevada City, California. Currently, she is preparing for a solo exhibit at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art which will run from January 17 to March 3, 2008.

In 2006, Dernham was proud to be invited to include her wire sculpture in "The Family of Clay: Fifty Years of Ceramics at California College of the Arts, 1950-2000". Her work was featured on a tour of the work of Dallas architect Bill Booziotis in the home of collectors Cheryl and Keith Hughes. And her large scale works were in the exhibit, "InSights: Pamela Merory Dernham, Lowell Downey, Janna Waldinger, and Dana Zed" at the St Supery Winery Gallery in Oakville, CA.

Her inspiration has always been the human figure to probe the subtleties of our relationships to each other. Dernham's work continues to evolve in the direction of abstraction. Each sculpture is less literal in the presentation of the body and more a play of the forms of the body against each other to suggest physical and psychological tensions.

Dernham earned her Master of Fine Arts Degree at the California College of the Arts. She has exhibited her work extensively in the Bay Area, including California College of the Arts (2006), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (2005), and a solo exhibit at the di Rosa Preserve (2004). She has also exhibited at the Oakland State Building, Oakland City Hall, The Jewish Museum of San Francisco, Gensler Architects in San Francisco, Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, and at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey.

Her work is included in the collections of Rene di Rosa, actor Gillian Anderson, lighting designer Bob Wilkinson, Robin Lail of Lail Vineyards, and international business consultant Tom Peters.

She is active in the local arts community in the Women Artists Leadership Network and the Pacific Rim Sculptors Group. She is a former member of the Alumni Council of CCA.