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Director, Art Ark, San Jose, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2014 - Classic Cars West Exhibition, Classic Cars West, Oakland, CA (April/June)
2013 - Recollections: A Series of Stratachronistic Rooms, Solo Exhibit at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA
(May/June)
2011 - Studies In Abandoned Spaces, City Lights Theater, San Jose, CA (March/April)
2010 - "Are We There Yet?", San Jose State University, San Jose, CA (April)
2008 - The Room, San Jose State University Gallery 3, San Jose, CA (April)
2007 - Please Touch, San Jose State University Gallery 8, San Jose, CA (April)
Group Exhibitions
2017- Collect: Annual Exhibition and Art Auction, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley (September)
2017- Marking Space, Richmond Art Center, Richmond (March/May)
2016 - Home, Art Ark, San Jose (May)
2015 - ICA Live!, Community Engaged Artist Performance at ICA, San Jose (November)
2015 - Masks, Art Ark, San Jose (October)
2015 - ICA Art Auction, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose (September/October)
2014 - Relics, ICA, San Jose (November 2014/January 2015)
2014 - 2014 Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, ICA, San Jose (September/October)
2014 - Paradise Ridge Sculpture Park, Santa Rosa, CA (June 2014/June 2015)
2014 - Signs and Symbols, collaboration with Steve Davis at SubZERO, San Jose, CA (June)
2014 - MFA Thesis Exhibition Part II, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (May)
2014 - MFA Thesis Exhibition, San Francisco State University Gallery, San Francisco, CA ( April/May)
2013 - Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Arts Awards Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA (September)
2013 - Student Exhibition, Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ (February)
2012 - Stillwell, SFSU Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (October/November)
2012 - Healthy Art Program, received a grant and exhibited work in San Jose City Hall, San Jose, CA (May/January 2013)
2012 - Photo Alchemy, Pajaro Valley Arts, Watsonville, CA (May/June)
2012 - Emerging Artists Exhibition, Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA (March)
2011 - Bay Area Now 6: Slideslam, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (September)
2011 - Traveling Curio Museum, SubZER0 Festival, San Jose, CA (June)
2011 - Dark Matter, Kaleid Gallery, San Jose, CA (May)
2010 - "Are We There Yet?", ZerO1 International Biennial, San Jose, CA (September)
2010 - "Are We There Yet?", SubZER0 Festival, San Jose, CA (June)
2009 - Assemblage,Construction + Collage, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA (January/April)
2009 - Spot On, Backwater Gallery, San Jose, CA (February/March)
2007 - Light Leak, Kaleid Gallery, San Jose, CA (May/June)
Related Professional Experience
2016-7 - Curator, Art Ark Gallery
2016 - Curator, Foundry Retrospective, Art Ark (February)
2015 - Our Lives In This Place, San Jose Public Art Project (June 2014/September 2015)
Publications/ Press
2017- Content Magazine, Artist Interview
2017- Panel discussion on Marking Space, filmed http://richmondartcenter.org/marking-space/
2017 - Silicon Valley Business Journal, "The Art of Affordable Housing in San Jose" by Lauren Helper
2015 - Art ltd.: Review of "Relics" at San Jose's ICA by Kim Beil. January
2015 - Droste Effect: "Relics at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art" by Catherine Nueva
España. January
2014 - NBC Bay Area News: "Exhibit Pays Homage to Departed Technology" featuring Genevieve Hastings and David
Pace. December
2014 - Metro: "Relics". November
2014 - SFGATE. "Bay Area Art to Check Out, Relics". November
2014 - San Jose Mercury: "Wide Range of Creativity Honored With Leigh Weimers Emerging Artist Award" by Sal
Pazzaro, September
2014 - Art Nerd: San Francisco: "This Is 'The Wasteland', Leave a Message". Article about thesis show, written by Sarah
Dragovich
2013 - New Times: "A Cabinet of Curiosities". Article written about San Luis Obispo Museum show, written by Anna
Weltner
2013 - Music Video "Colma" for Corpus Callosum
2009 - CD Cover Art, “Putrid Smell of an Artist” by Jagged Surface: Embarcadero Records. Released April 15, 2009
2007 - LightLeak: Two images included in the Art book: LightLeak, published Spring
2004 - Red Wheelbarrow: Cover Art and 5 other images from “Wings” series, published
in Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine
Grants
2017 - Fleishhacker Foundation Grant
2014 - Leigh Weimers Emerging Artist Award, Endowment of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the Rotary
Club of San Jose, San Jose, CA
2013 - Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Arts Award, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2012 - Healthy Art Program Grant, San Jose, CA
Lectures and Presentations
2017 - Panel Discussion at Richmond Art Center, April
2016 - San Francisco State University, DMET, April
2015 - ICA, San Jose, CA. Panel discussion with Genevieve Hastings and Dan Harden "Technology". January
2014 - San Jose State University, Image and Idea, October
2014 - San Francisco State University, Conceptual and Information Arts, Introduction to Conceptual Strategies, April
2014 - San Francisco State University, Undergraduate Seminar in Photography, February
2013 - California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Lecture to MFA class, May
2013 - San Luis Museum of Art, Museum Lecture, May
2013 - San Francisco State University, Conceptual and Information Arts, Introduction to Conceptual Strategies, April
2013 - San Jose State University, Skype Lecture to Yekaterinburg Russia via Robin Lasser, March
2012 - Center of Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA, Panel discussion on Contemporary Photography, May
2012 - Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA, Lecture, May
2012 - San Jose State University, Professional Practice Seminar, April
2012 - San Francisco State University, Photography as Critical Tool, Lecture on "The Archive", April
2011 - San Francisco State University, Conceptual and Information Arts Introduction to Conceptual Strategies, November
Education
MFA New Practices in Art, San Francisco State University, 2014
BFA Photography, San Jose State University, 2010