1956
Born Santa Monica, California

1979
University of California, Berkeley

1984
MFA University of California, Berkeley


Selected solo exhibitions

1984
Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco
Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA

1985
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara

1986
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1989
New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1990
Monotypes, Concourse Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco

1994
Abstract Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1999
Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco

2000
Paintings 1997—1999, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2001
Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2002
Broken Fragments: New Monotypes on Linen and Paper, Aurobora Press, San Francisco

2003
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Oblaka, Peer, London

2005
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

2007
Galeria Javier López, Madrid, Spain
Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY 

2008
Night Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

2009
John Zurier / John Beech, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2010
White Paintings/Night Paintings, Blum Gallery, New York
Nordic Paintings, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain

2011
Paintings and Watercolors, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2012
Paintings, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium

2013
A spring a thousand years ago, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Watercolors, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2014 
recent paintings, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio
John Zurier / MATRIX 255, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

2015 
Stars without distance, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
West of the Future, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY

2016
The Last Summer Light, Office Baroque, Brussels
East, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Recent Watercolors, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio
John Zurier and Friends, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
John Zurier: Summer Book, Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin

2017
Stars Without Distance, Peter Blum Gallery, NY
At the very end of the blue sky, The Club, Tokyo
John Zurier, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway
Dust and Troubled Air, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco

2018
Etchings and Monotypes, Borch Gallery, Berlin, Germany
A Mind of Winter, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
Sometimes (Over me the mountain), BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík, Iceland

2019
North from Here, Peter Blum Gallery, NY
Places and Things, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden

2021
John Zurier, Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden

2022
recent paintings, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio
Level Distance, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany

2023
On the back of a Mirror, Peter Blum Gallery, New York