Tamara Albaitis, Eureka Fellow 2013
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2008-2010
TAUBA AUERBACH (San Francisco) makes art about language and logic. Though her work usually takes the form of paintings and drawings, she sees herself as a conceptual artist for whom these formats happen to be most useful. Auerbach’s training as a traditional sign painter cultivated her aesthetic love for words and letters; her work is equally focused on the internal workings of language (and its contractions and continuities), and its formal elements. Recent work has probed the limitations of binary language and the distortive properties of such highly rational structures. Solo shows were mounted at Deitch Projects in New York, and Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco. Her work has been included in group shows at Gagosian Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, among others, and is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Deste Foundation. In 2006 her first book, How to Spell the Alphabet, was published by Deitch Projects. Auerbach received her BA from Stanford University in 2003. *Artist biography at time of award.
ADRIANE COLBURN (San Francisco) has been working on a series of installations and maps that seek to organize and chart changes in natural and urban landscapes. These constructions, made of layers of hand cut paper, illustrate systems that are submerged underground, in our bodies, or within urban infrastructures. Colburn maps out these “inaccessible” places by systemizing information, often based on landscapes or history, to create an abstraction that can be both informative and ambiguous. Her work has been shown in San Francisco at Gallery 16, Bay Area Now 4 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, New Langton Arts, Southern Exposure, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Stephen Wolf Fine Arts, and The Luggage Store, where she also co-curated the No War show in 2002. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum and her awards and distinctions include a 2005 Artadia Award, 2006/07 MacDowell Colony Residency, and a 2007 Kala Institute Fellowship. Colburn received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute in Chicago and her MFA from Stanford University. She is a visiting lecturer at Stanford University and The San Francisco Art Institute. *Artist biography at time of award.
BINH DANH (San Jose) invented a process for transferring images onto leaves via photosynthesis, yielding what he terms “chlorophyll prints.” His work has been exhibited nationally at the Asia Society and Drawing Center in New York City, the Orange County Museum of Art, San Francisco Camerawork, San Jose Museum of Art, American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center in Washington D.C., and the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. His work is in the public collections of the M.H. deYoung Museum, Corcoran Art Gallery, Harry Ransom Center, Oakland Museum of California, and William Benton Museum of Art. Danh has had residencies at Light Works in Syracuse, New York, the Artist Diversity Residency Program at the University of Nebraska, and the Cite International Des Artes in Paris. He has lectured at Rutgers College, San Francisco Art Institute, Arizona State University, Alfred University, Cal Arts, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Danh received his BFA in Photography from San Jose State University and his MFA in Studio Art from Stanford University. He teaches photography around the Bay Area and his work can be seen at Haines Gallery in San Francisco. *Artist biography at time of award.
AMY ELLINGSON (San Francisco) addresses issues of formal repetition, variation, and mutation within limited serial systems and networks. Using ephemeral, computer-generated images exclusively as her source material, she creates groups of interrelated paintings that physically assert themselves through the materiality and permanence of historical painting media. Her paintings have been shown locally and nationally, most recently at Haines Gallery in San Francisco and Charles Cowles Gallery in New York. Notable group exhibitions include Bay Area Now 3 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, and Matter & Matrix at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. Ellingson is the recipient of a 2007 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship and a 1999 Artadia Award. Her work is held in various public and corporate collections including the Oakland Museum of California, the U.S. Embassies in Tunisia and Algeria, and the Contemporary Museum in Hawaii. Her paintings have been reviewed in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, NYArts Magazine, Art issues, and Kunstbeeld. Ellingson received her BA in Studio Art from Scripps College and her MFA from CalArts. She is Associate Professor of Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. *Artist biography at time of award.
KOTA EZAWA (San Francisco) uses animation and drawing processes to create abstractions of existing films, videos, and photographs. He has had solo exhibitions at The Hayward Projects Space in London, Williams College Museum of Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and New Langton Arts in San Francisco. Recent group exhibitions include On the Scene: Kota Ezawa, Sarah Hobbs, Angela Strassheim at The Art Institute of Chicago, Out of Time at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Down by Law at The Wrong Gallery, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, 2004 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, 2004 Shanghai Biennial at the Shanghai Art Museum, and Bay Area Now 3 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Ezawa’s work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others. He received a 2006 SECA Art Award, 2005 Artadia Award, and a 2003 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from Stanford University. Ezawa is Assistant Professor of Media Arts at California College of the Arts. *Artist biography at time of award.
KAREN HAMPTON (Woodacre) is a mixed media textile artist whose work is steeped in oral history and is an expression of the narrative. A storyteller at heart, she imparts conceptualized tales about the “other” in society. She views herself as a vehicle for ancestral voices to transcend history and remain as historical memory. The canvas of her work is coarsely woven cloth that is aged and imbued with conceptualized images and text from a forgotten part of the American story. Her intention is to embed the cloth with the hopes and visions of African American lives, telling their stories from a maternal perspective. Hampton has been exhibited since 1993, most recently at Material Matters at the Museum of Folk and Craft Art in San Francisco, and Looming Large: Contemporary Weavers of the Vanguard at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek. Hampton received her MFA from the University of California at Davis. She teaches and lectures on Cross Cultural Textiles and Historical Memory in Art at the College of Marin and California College of the Arts. *Artist biography at time of award.
DAVID HUFFMAN (Oakland) is a narrative painter whose practice is drawing and painting. His technique involves laying down a wash populated with drawing, collage, and paint that chronicles a story. The paintings include both formal considerations and social/political sci-fi. Huffman’s work gained attention during the The Studio Museum in Harlem’s noted 2001 Freestyle exhibition. Other exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Institute of Visual Arts in London, the Wattis Institute at the CCA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Luggage Store Gallery, and New Langton Arts in San Francisco, Santa Monica Museum of Art; de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, and the Crocker Museum in Sacramento. Huffman’s work has been reviewed and written about in Frieze, Artforum, Art Papers, Flash Art, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, The International Review of African American Art, NY Arts, Art Journal, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He received a 2005 Artadia Award. Huffman received his BFA and MFA from California College of the Arts. He is currently an instructor at California College of the Arts. *Artist biography at time of award.
MARTIN MCMURRAY (Berkeley) is a painter whose most recent project, The Procession, features over forty paintings of former heads of state and exiled or dethroned leaders. They are portrayed squeezed into their stately automobiles and taking part in a ceremonial procession. Accompanying the paintings is a series of faux books titled The Order of Succession where McMurray conflates the role of tyrant and author. He has had solo exhibitions of his drawings and paintings at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Projects in Toronto, and Gallery 16 in San Francisco. His paintings have been featured in group exhibitions at LFL/Zach Feuer, Greenberg Van Doren, and Freight & Volume galleries in New York. His work was included in the 2006 California Biennale at the Orange County Museum of Art. McMurray’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, ArtWeek, Artnet, Time Out New York and LA Weekly. His works are in numerous private collections throughout the U.S and Europe. He received his BFA from the Center for Creative Studies in 1983. *Artist biography at time of award.
KATE POCRASS (San Francisco) produces both independent and collaborative projects dealing with pedestrian culture and social sculpture. She draws on the anonymity of daily experience, reveling in common moments that randomly happen to us each day. Pocrass develops systematic interaction through socially attuned and ephemeral projects in the public sphere. Her work is often encountered outside the gallery via hotlines, bus tours, audio tours, and participatory websites. She received two Cultural Equity Fund grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission to help self publish the books Mundane Journeys and Mundane Field Guide to Color. She has exhibited work at Southern Exposure, Rena Bransten Gallery, AIA, Spanganga, Pond, New Langton Arts, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Nelson Gallery at University of California, Davis, Artists Space in New York City, Foundation De Appel in Amsterdam, Rooseum in Malmo, Sweden, and in the 2006 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. Her work has been reviewed in The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Artforum.com, 7X7 Magazine, and ArtWeek. Pocrass received her BFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her MFA from the California College of the Arts. *Artist biography at time of award.
JUNE SCHWARCZ (Sausalito) is a sculptor who works with vitreous enamel to create three dimensional objects and wall pieces. Known as an innovator for her emphasis on technical process and alternative methods of fabrication, she has the distinction of being part of the 1956 inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York. She received three solo exhibitions from The American Crafts Museum in New York. Other notable solo shows were at the Museum Bellrive in Zurich, Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, Germany; and June Schwarcz: Forty Years and Forty Pieces at the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum. Her work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Art and Design in New York, the M.H. deYoung Museum in San Francisco; Kunstgewebermuseum in Zurich, and the Detroit Museum of Art, among others. Schwarcz’s work has been written about in American Craft Magazine, Metalsmith, Glass on Medal, L’Atelier, Goldschmiede Zeitung, and Journal of the Electroplaters Society. She is a Fellow of the American Craft Council, as well as a recipient of their gold medal, and was given a Living Treasure of California award from the Crocker Museum in Sacramento. She studied Industrial Design at Pratt Institute in New York. *Artist biography at time of award.
LESLIE SHOWS (San Francisco) is a painter who uses collage and mixed media in her work, which investigates the dynamic relationships between landscape, geology, and culture. She has had solo shows at Jack Hanley Gallery, both in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Shows has recently exhibited at Murray Guy in New York, the 2006 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s 2006 SECA Awards Show. She was the 2006 Tournesol Artist in Residence at the Headlands Art Center in Marin County, and published a book, Heap of Elements, in conjunction with her residency. Snows received a 2007-2008 Fellowship from the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. Her work has been written about in ArtReview, Artforum.com, San Francisco Bay Guardian and the LA Weekly, among others. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from California College of the Arts. *Artist biography at time of award.
JENIFER K WOFFORD (Oakland) encompasses installation, painting, drawing, photo, video, performance, teaching, and curating in her creative practice. She has exhibited locally at the Berkeley Art Museum, Richmond Art Center, Babilonia 1808, Southern Exposure, and Kearny Street Workshop. Her work has also been seen at New Image Art in Los Angeles, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum in Salt Lake City, thirtynine hotel in Honolulu, Future Prospects in the Philippines, and Galerie Blanche in France. Her awards include grants from the Art Matters Foundation, UCIRA, the Pacific Rim Research Program, and a Murphy Fellowship. Woffard has had artist residencies at The Living Room in the Philippines, Skidmore College in New York, and Chateau de la Napoule in France. She is the primary organizer of Galleon Trade, a multi-year international arts exchange project focusing on California, Mexico and the Philippines and is part of the artist collaboration Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. She serves as adjunct faculty at Diablo Valley College, California College of the Arts, and the University of San Francisco. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from University of California, Berkeley. *Artist biography at time of award.
2005-2007
CHESTER ARNOLD (Sonoma) is deeply committed to painting as a vital language and craft, and uses his content to explore the environmental and political life of our times. He has exhibited since the mid-eighties, and his recent solo exhibits include the Catharine Clark Gallery Reconstruction, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Destinies Manifest, Salt Lake Arts Center, San Jose Museum of Art In Memoriaum, and Tacoma Art Museum; and group shows at Pasadena Museum of Art, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, Tamarind Gallery at the University of New Mexico, Hempel Fine Arts in Washington, D.C., and Galleria Milan in San Paulo, Brazil, among others. His work has been written about in the San Francisco Chronicle, Artweek, San Jose Mercury News, and Artforum. He has a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (1987) and teaches drawing and painting at the College of Marin. *Artist biography at time of award.
THOMAS CHANG (San Francisco) is a photographer who received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2000) where he received the David S. McMillan Memorial Award. He is also the recipient of a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award, a Jury Award from Artadia (formerly known as The Art Council, Inc.), a MFA Studio Award from the Headlands Center for the Arts, and a Murphy Fellowship from The San Francisco Foundation. His works have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at Southern Exposure, Gallery Landing, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Bay Area Now 3, SF Camerawork Same/Difference, Andrea Schwartz Gallery Chromogenic Prints, GenArt/SF Emerge, Charles H. Scott Gallery in Toronto American Artists, and M.Y. Art Prospects in New York Absence/Presence. Currently he is a docent at Angel Island Immigration Station, where his work examines the use of photography as “document” in the way exotic representations are created through tourism. *Artist biography at time of award.
AMY FRANCHESCHINI (San Francisco) is a new media artist working with notions of community, sustainable environments, and the conflicting rituals of humans and nature. Her work manifests “on-” and “off-line” worlds in the form of dynamic websites, installations, and printed matter. Her work has shown in solo exhibitions at the University of the Pacific, Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco Fiction of Mass, RAMP Gallery in New Zealand We Are All Meteorites, Electronic Orphanage in Los Angeles Utopia, Gallery 16 in San Francisco Tention, Sapporro Art Park in Japan Oguchi Happening, and the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco SF Fashion Show. Recent group shows include the California Biennial 2004 at the Orange County Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Whitney Biennale 2002, among others. Franceschini received a BFA from San Francisco State University (1992) and a MFA from Stanford University (2002). In 1995 she founded Futurefarmers, a vehicle for bringing together multidisciplinary artists to create new work. She currently teaches New Media courses at the San Francisco Art Institute and Stanford University. *Artist biography at time of award.
PAUL KOS (San Francisco) is a sculptor whose work includes video, installations, and public art. Since 1969 his work has been shown internationally and domestically in group and solo exhibits. A 2003 show, Everything Matters, Paul Kos, A Retrospective, was exhibited by the Berkeley Art Museum. This exhibition traveled to the Grey Gallery in NY, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, and the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati. Among his commissions are Poetry Sculpture Garden (with poet Robert Hass) in San Francisco and Tunnel/Chapel (with Isabelle Sorrell) at the di Rosa Art Preserve in Napa, CA. He has been reviewed in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. Among his grants and awards are a Flintridge Foundation Grant, six National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Wallraff-Richartz Museum in Cologne, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, among others. He has a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (1967) where he currently teaches in the New Genres Department. *Artist biography at time of award.
GEORGE KUCHAR (San Francisco) began making films in the 1950’s with his twin brother Mike, and since then he created over 200 films and videos in every format known. Active in the underground film movement in the early 1960’s, his titles include Hold Me While I’m Naked, Corruption of the Damned, Color Me Shameless, and Lust for Ecstasy. With the advent of 8mm camcorders in the 1980’s he jumped formats and produced a body of works including video diaries, dramas, and portraits of places that include Vile Cargo, Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness, Kiss of the Veggie Vixon, and The Migration of the Blubberoids. His solo exhibitions include the San Francisco International Film Festival, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Andy Warhol Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chicago Underground Film Festival (Lifetime Achievement Award), and The American Film Institute (Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists). With his brother Mike he co-authored a memoir, Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool (Zanja Press, 1997), and they were both recently honored at the New York Film Festival with a retrospective of their early Super-8mm films. He taught filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute and passed away in 2011. *Artist biography at time of award.
JOSH LAZCANO (San Francisco) is a mixed media artist whose work combines an edgy street sensibility with self-irony. His work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Untitled Show, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Ten By Twenty, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture which traveled to the Orange County Museum of Art, Gazonrouge Gallery in Athens, Greece The Sneeze 80 x 80, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the 3 More Gallery in Brooklyn Todd James Presents. His work has been written about in numerous publications including Stephen Powers’ The Art of Getting Over (St. Martin’s Press, 1999). He has an Associate Degree in Art from Skyline College (1996). *Artist biography at time of award.
MADS LYNNERUP (San Francisco) bases his work on simple ideas and actions that are primarily conceived through sculpture, photography, performance, and video. His recent shows include the Orange County Museum of Art The California Biennial 2004, Bergstulb Projekte in Berlin Something in Between, Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco 17 Reasons, Suite 106 Gallery in Torino Artissima, Riga Art Hall in Latvia The Project, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Construct 3, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Grapefruit, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Slowdive, and GenArt/SF New Fangle 2001. His work has been written about in Artweek, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, and Flash Art International, among others. He is the recipient of numerous awards including The Bay Area Visual Arts Award 2002 presented by New Langton Arts. His works are in the permanent collections of the Miami Museum of Art and the San Jose Museum of Art as well as private collections in the U.S. and Europe. He has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2001). *Artist biography at time of award.
LOURDES PORTILLO (San Francisco) is a filmmaker whose works focus on the search for Latino identity and include Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Columbus on Trial, The Devil Never Sleeps, and Senorita Extraviada. Her work has screened in numerous domestic and international film festivals including Sundance, San Sebastian, Toronto, and Sydney as well as the American Film Institute and New Directors/New Films. Her work has also been shown at major American museums including the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as well as being aired on public television nationwide. There have been retrospective screenings of her work at the Fine Arts Museum in Berkeley, the Cineteca National de Mexico, Buenos Aires Museo de Arte Moderno, Stanford University, and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Among her numerous awards and distinctions are Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association, Women of Vision Award from Amnesty International, three Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and five National Endowment for the Arts grants. She has a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (1978). *Artist biography at time of award.
RIGO 23 (San Francisco) is an interdisciplinary artist known for large-scale public artworks where he appropriated traffic sign imagery and invested it with poignant ecological and political messages. He has had solo exhibits at Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, Artists Space in New York, IT Park Gallery in Taipei, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gallery 54 in Gotheborg, Sweden, and The Lab in San Francisco. His commissioned and mural work is in public spaces in Porto, Portugal, Havana, Cuba, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Among his awards are the Biennial Award from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Best Public Art Project of the Year from The San Francisco Bay Guardian. Public collections holding his work include the di Rosa Preserve in Napa, California, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work has been written about in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angles Times, The New York Times, and Mother Jones Magazine, among others. He has a MFA from Stanford University (1997). *Artist biography at time of award.
CLARE ROJAS (San Francisco) is a mixed media artist who also creates films, record albums, and performances. She has presented her work in solo and group shows at Deitch Projects in New York Table Turners, the Belkin Satellite Gallery in Vancouver, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago Doing my Day, White Columns in New York East of the Sun West of the Moon, the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco Outerspace, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia Scratch Off the Serial. Her films have screened at the New York Underground Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Big Muddy Film Festival, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival. She has performed at Noise Pop and the In the Street Festival in San Francisco, and at the Material Clothing Company in Tokyo. She has released four record albums under the name “Peggy Honeywell.” She has a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2002). *Artist biography at time of award.
PHILLIP ROSS (San Francisco) is a sculptor known for his installations using diverse organic materials including fungus, shellfish, and table scraps, which he transforms into sculptural artifacts. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco Lineaments of Gratified Desire, the Biennial of Electronic Arts in Perth, Australia, at Machine in Los Angeles Organized, Vox Populi in Philadelphia Flipping the Bird, GenArt/SF New Fangle, the Oakland Museum Mycological-Fair, and the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco’s Annual Juried Show. Among his awards are The Art Council Grant, the Bay Area Visual Arts Award 1996 presented by New Langton Arts, and artist residencies at The Exploratorium and the Headlands Center for the Arts. He has a MFA from Stanford University (2000). *Artist biography at time of award.
CHRIS SOLLARS (San Francisco) is an installation artist who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Sculpture (1998) and received a Skowhegan Fellowship from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His recent group and solo shows include Exit Art in New York The Choice, the Mercer Union in Toronto Placecards, New Langton Arts in San Francisco Closed Circuit, the Berkeley Art Museum Fast Forward II, Art Basel Miami Beach Free Spirits Artist Lounge, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art Bjorn Again, and the Soap Factory in Minneapolis Your Heart Is No Match for My Love. His work has been written about in the SF Weekly, NY Arts Magazine, and The New York Times, among others. Sollars’ work is in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and the Miami Art Museum. He is also the director and curator of 667 Shotwell, an artists’ project space. *Artist biography at time of award.
2002-2004
KIM ANNO (Berkeley), a painter whose works have been exhibited since the 1983, holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (1985) and has been Associate Professor of Painting, Drawing, Cultural Studies and Graduate Studies at the California College of Arts and Crafts since 1996. Recent solo exhibitions have been at the San Francisco Main Public Library Lost & Found, Patricia Correia Gallery in Santa Monica and Zaloren Arte Contemporaneo Gallery in Mexico City; and group shows at The Oakland Museum of California, Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio, Ben Shahn Gallery at William Patterson University in New Jersey, and Sarah Moody Gallery of Art at the University of Alabama. Her work is owned by public collections such as SFMOMA, Brooklyn Museum, Oakland Museum and Herzog-Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunshweig, Germany. *Artist biography at time of award.
JOHN BANKSTON (San Francisco) is a painter whose current work “is inspired by the idea of secret societies, Igbo masquerade, African American slave narratives and fairy tales.” He has had recent individual and group exhibitions at the Rena Bransten, Bucheon and John Berggruen Galleries in San Francisco and Jack Shainman Gallery and Lombard Freid Fine Art in New York, and he was included in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ group show, Bay Area Now 2. His work has been collected by the Studio Museum in Harlem, Norton Family Foundation, University of Illinois and City of Chicago’s Harold Washington Memorial Library Center. Recipient of a 2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, he studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received his MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1990). *Artist biography at time of award.
CASTENEDA/REIMAN (San Francisco), a collaboration between Charlie Castaneda and Brody Reiman, is the second collaborative group to receive a Eureka Fellowship since the program began in 1986. Their mixed-media sculptures and installations have been included in group shows at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles and Bay Area Now 2, New Langton Arts The Bay Area Awards Show and various galleries and art spaces in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh. They have had solo shows at John Berggruen, Four Walls Art Space and Southern Exposure in San Francisco, Sandroni Rey in Los Angeles, and Thomas Healy in New York. Adjunct Professors at the California College of Arts and Crafts since 2000, they have also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, University of California at Berkeley and Davis and Carnegie Mellon University. They have been affiliate artists and artists in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, and artists in residence at Villa Montalvo. Their work is in the collections of SFMOMA and Phillip Morris. *Artist biography at time of award.
MAY CHAN (Oakland) is a mixed-media, installation, video and performance artist who holds an MFA in Media Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art (1998), BFA in Painting from the University of Iowa (1995) and Diploma in Design from Hong Kong Polytechnic (1990). Her work incorporates such media as paper from a Chinese calligraphy exercise book, hair, thread, mulberry paper from used tea bags, and video and S-8 film projections. She was selected for the Juried Annual 2001-02, Census 2000: Asian Pacific Islander Americans and New Visions: Introductions 2001 group shows at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, and her work is in the collections of the Denver Art Museum and Norlin Library of the University of Colorado. *Artist biography at time of award.
JIM CHRISTENSEN (Oakland) is a mixed-media and installation artist whose work was included in the San Francisco exhibitions The Sunshine State at Quotidian Gallery, and Juvenilia and Bay Area Now 2 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. His installation, Mrs. Cipriani’s Kindergarten, reconstructs a classroom which uses a subjective scale—“the chairs a little too small, the chalkboard a little too tall, and the teacher’s desk enormous—to function like a memory made tangible” through abstractions. Born in Pennsylvania, he received a BFA from Tyler School of Art (1991) and MFA from Mills College (1995). *Artist biography at time of award.
CHRIS FINLEY (Rohnert Park) is a painter. Among his solo exhibitions have been shows at Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco, ACME in Los Angeles and Jack Tilton Gallery in New York. Recent group exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, MASS MoCA, Laguna Art Museum and Sonoma State University, and in San Francisco, SFMOMA 01.01.01: Art in Technological Times and New Langton Arts Stranger Than You. Recipient of a 1999 SECA Award, he has work in the collections of the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum, SFMOMA, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He holds a BFA from the Art Center College of Design (1993). *Artist biography at time of award.
TOM MARIONI (San Francisco) has had drawings, prints, sculptures, installations and performance/actions exhibited nationally and internationally since the 1960s. Recent solo shows have been at the Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, Margarete Roeder Gallery in New York and Cincinnati Art Academy, with recent group shows at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Made in California, Chester Springs in Pennsylvania Studio Reenactment/Rapprochement and Generali Foundation in Vienna Replay: The Beginning of Media Art In Austria. Among the numerous public collections in which his work is included are SFMOMA, Fine Arts Museums and Museo Italo in San Francisco, Oakland Museum of California and Mills College, Santa Barbara Museum, Newport Harbor Art Museum, New York Museum of Modern Art, Consortium in Dijon, France and Stadtische Kunsthalle in Mannheim, Germany. His work in sculpture has been supported by the Flintridge Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts, and he received a Guggenheim award for conceptual art. *Artist biography at time of award.
HECTOR MENDOZA (San José) works in mixed-media sculpture and drawing. His work was included Hecho en Califas: The Last Decade, a show that was exhibited at Plaza de la Raza in Los Angeles in 2000 and traveled to Galeria Posada in Sacramento, Richmond Art Center and Mexican Heritage Corporation in San José in 2001. His work has been shown in Mexico, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Japan, and is included in the collections of the di Rosa Preserve in Napa, Mexican Heritage Corporation in San José, Swagger Group in New York and La Corporation Jimenez in Mexico City. He holds a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts, and studied painting and sculpture at San José City College and graphic design and illustration at California Polytechnic State University. *Artist biography at time of award.
RACHEL NEUBAUER (San Francisco) is a mixed-media artist whose works have been included in Bay Area group shows such as SECA 2000 at SFMOMA, Bay Area Now 2 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Bay Area Awards Show at New Langton Arts and The Sunshine State at Quotidian Gallery. Recent group and solo exhibitions of her work have been at the Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco and New York, WORKS San José, Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio and Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. She studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture after receiving her MFA from Ohio State University (1995) and BFA from Florida International University in Miami (1993). *Artist biography at time of award.
SHAUN O’DELL (San Francisco) has had solo shows of his drawings and video/video installations in San Francisco at Southern Exposure Gallery, 509 Cultural Center and Luggage Store Gallery, Gallery 16, ESP and others, and been included in such group exhibitions as Pierogi 2000 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF Freestyle at Southern Exposure Gallery, Red Man Show at Backroom Gallery in San Francisco and “Marked” Bay Area Drawing at Hunter College in New York and Sonoma Museum of Art. The recipient of a Bay Guardian Goldie Award for outstanding local artist in 2001, he is a resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Project Studio 2002. His works are in the collections of SFMOMA and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Berkeley Art Museum and di Rosa Preserve in Napa. He holds a BA from New College of California. *Artist biography at time of award.
ROBERT ORTBAL (Oakland), a mixed-media artist, has had recent individual shows, installations and site specific works exhibited at Pond in San Francisco (seeing is believing), 911 Media Arts Center in Seattle Openings and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Fertile Waste. He has been included in group exhibitions of The Oakland Museum of California Being There: 45 Oakland Artists, The Lab in San Francisco Knowing You, Knowing Me, Bedford Gallery of the Dean Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek Needle Art and the 20th anniversary exhibition of SFMOMA Artists Gallery. He received an MFA from the University of California at Davis (1989) and a BA from San Francisco State University (1985). *Artist biography at time of award.
MICHAEL TEMPERIO (Oakland) is a photographer whose recent exhibits have included Mikes in San Francisco, Introductions 99 at the Traywick Gallery in Berkeley and MFA Exhibitions at Mills College, where he received his MFA in Studio Art, Photography (1999) and currently teaches photography. He received his BA in Studio Art, Photography from San Francisco State University (1996), where he has also taught. His work has been exhibited since the early 1990s in places ranging from Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco Camerawork, Falkirk Cultural Center, Danville Fine Arts Center and the art galleries of San Francisco State University and City College of San Francisco, to the Gaal Imre Gallery in Budapest. *Artist biography at time of award.
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JIM CAMPBELL (San Francisco) is a video/installation artist whose works have been exhibited in galleries, museums, and alternative art spaces since 1990, and whose film and video work was screened from 1980 to 1990 in festivals, media arts centers, and movie houses. Among Mr. Campbell’s recent installations is Memory Works (1994-1998), a series in which each piece is based on a digitally recorded memory of an event from a personal or collective memory (for example, the Bible or the text of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech). In each piece, electronic memories are manipulated to transform associated objects to explore the “hiddenness” common to both human and computer memory. Mr. Campbell holds a BS (1978) in both Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. *Artist biography at time of award.
GEOFFREY CHADSEY (San Francisco) has had his drawings exhibited locally in group shows at New Langton Arts Bay Area Awards Show, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Pins and Noodles, and Southern Exposure Limbo and Re: drawing. Site-specific work in 1994 included an installation at the Federal Building of 85 1-inch-square photographs on elevator doors, and Wanderings and Ramblings, a MUNI kiosk comic. His freelance illustrations have appeared in coloring books, trade magazines and a museum docent manual. Recent work includes a series of blue watercolor pencil drawings on notebook paper. Mr. Chadsey holds an MFA in Photography and Drawing (1996) from the California College of Arts and Crafts, and a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies (1989) from Harvard University. *Artist biography at time of award.
DE LA TORRE.MORALES+NUNO (San Francisco) are the first artists in the program’s history to receive a Eureka Fellowship as a collaborative team. Sergio De La Torre holds a BFA in Photography (1996) from the California College of Arts and Crafts. Julio Morales, born in Tijuana, has had artist residencies with youth programs through Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Oakland Museum, Southern Exposure, New Traditions Elementary School, and French-American School. Domingo Nuno, also born in Tijuana, holds an MFA (1994) from San Francisco State University and a BA (1990) in Art from California State University, Fullerton, both degrees with an emphasis in Photography. As De La Torre.Morales+Nuno, the three artists (who have also produced installations and performed as “Los Tricksters”) created The Eighth Wonder (1998), a video installation about the elusiveness of representation, presented at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Disappearing (1998), a video installation based on a story about the disappearance of a little girl due to drug trafficking in a border town; Correr (1997), a digital image exploring ideas of immigration, mobility and the accident, displayed on San Francisco MUNI bus shelters (1997); Mexiclone (1997), a public installation at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts exploring the roles of museums in society; and The Indecision of El Rio Bravo (1996), a video installation at the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery with a narrative about border crossing. *Artist biography at time of award.
LEWIS DESOTO (San Francisco), whose video, sound and mixed-media installations have been exhibited and reviewed internationally, has been an artist in residence at List Visual Arts Center at MIT, ArtPace in San Antonio, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Among Mr. deSoto’s public projects are the Civic Center Historic District Improvement and Court House Design projects, both funded by the San Francisco Art Commission, and two projects — On the Air and a 12,000-square-foot terrazzo floor — at the San Francisco International Airport. Recent installations include Recital (1998) at MIT, Dervish (1997) at the Metronom in Barcelona, and Tahquitz (1996) at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. A Professor of Art at San Francisco State University, Mr. deSoto received an MFA (1981) from Clarement Graduate School, and a BA (1978) from the University of California, Riverside. *Artist biography at time of award.
FREDERICK HAYES (San Francisco), whose work was first selected in the 1982 Ethnic Art Collective exhibition at the Diego Rivera Gallery in San Francisco, has been included in group shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Bay Area Now, Luggage Story Gallery and Triton Museum in Santa Clara, and in solo shows at the Western Addition Cultural Center and Diego Rivera Gallery. Among his recent works is a series of charcoal and pastel portraits of African Americans. Mr. Hayes was an artist in residence with Headlands Center for the Arts in 1998, and is a member of the Artist Committee of the San Francisco Art Institute, where he received both a BFA and an MFA. *Artist biography at time of award.
TODD HIDO (San Francisco), a photographer whose solo exhibition House Hunting was presented in 1998 by San Francisco’s Stephen Wirtz Gallery, has also had one-person exhibitions at San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, and Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and local group shows at the Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Four Walls, Southern Exposure, and Intersection for the Arts. Mr. Hido received an MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts (1996), and a BFA (1991) from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He also studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. *Artist biography at time of award.
TERRY HOFF (Pacifica) is an installation artist who has had solo shows at Four Walls, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, and RARE Gallery in New York (scheduled 1999). Since 1993, his work has been included in group shows in New York and Texas, as well as in San Francisco at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Bay Area Now), Southern Exposure (Round and Round and Confess), Four Walls (Glean), and Intersection for the Arts (Object), in Walnut Creek at the Regional Center for the Arts, and in San Jose at Works. Recent mixed-media installations include Tilt (1998) and Cornered (1997). Mr. Hoff studied at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, where he taught for 10 years. *Artist biography at time of award.
JOYCE HSU (San Francisco) makes toy/sculptures, among them The Flying Machine, TV Pet Dog, the car-like P•U•C•H and the airplane like Bobby. Her kinetic sculptures, displayed with their owner’s manual, have been exhibited locally at the Haines Gallery, Contract Design Center, Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason, Diego Rivera Gallery, Walter McBean Gallery, and Southern Exposure, which has organized a 1999 solo exhibition. Her work is included in New Langton Arts’ 14th annual art auction. Ms. Hsu holds an MFA (1998) from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a BFA (1996) from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. *Artist biography at time of award.
JASON JAGEL (San Francisco) received a BFA (1995) from California College of Arts and Crafts. His works on paper in oil, ink and watercolor were included in two 1997 Bay Area survey shows at New Langton Arts and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and have been exhibited locally in group shows at Southern Exposure A Spoon Full of Sugar and Limbo, Four Walls Glean, and Acme Gallery Thrift Store Art, as well as Susan Cummins Gallery in San Francisco and Mill Valley, and Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco. His works have also been included in the fundraising auctions of Headlands Center for the Arts and New Langton Arts. *Artist biography at time of award.
YOUNG KIM (San Francisco) is a photographer/installation artist whose work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the Bay Area at the Friends of Photography Dispersion, Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery Interval, and California College of Arts and Crafts CCAC: Past, Present, Future and Cultural Identities and Immigration, as well as the CEPA Gallery in Buffalo Uncommon Traits, Houston Center for Photography When Two or More: New Typologies, and Newport Harbor Art Museum Who’s Afraid of Freedom?. Among her works is Interval, an ongoing project since 1989 of daily photographic self-portrait. Ms. Kim holds an MFA (1992) from the California College of Arts and Crafts and a BA in Art (1986) from San Francisco State University. *Artist biography at time of award.
LISA KOKIN (Richmond), a book and installation artist, holds both a BFA (1989) and an MFA (1991) from the California College of Arts and Crafts. Recent solo exhibitions include Bookmaking is Not a Crime at College of Charleston, South Carolina, Art Book Art and Circumstances Beyond Our Control at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, My Trip to Buchenwald at 1078 Gallery, Chico, and Remembrance at the Buchenwald Memorial. Among Ms. Kokin’s works are Book of Scraps and What Remains (1997), a mixed-media book hog gut, found objects, stitching, fabric, paper, and installation composed of 563 small personal items that serve as a memorial to a deceased elderly friend; and Jewish Science (1998), a mixed-media book/sculpture composed of altered Christian Science pamphlets, bubble wrap, and found book and magazine images. *Artist biography at time of award.
STEPHANIE SYJUCO (San Francisco), who was born in the Philippines, holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (1995) and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and New York Studio Program. Her mixed-media works and installations have been exhibited locally in group shows at the Asian Art Museum At Home and Abroad: Twenty Contemporary Filipino Artists, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Bay Area Now, Chinese Culture Center Dare to Be Different, Refusalon Nothing Matters, Acme Gallery Snacks, and Southern Exposure Cozy: Notions of Domesticity and Safety, as well as The Drawing Center and 451 Greenwich St. in New York, Hollywood Motel in Los Angeles, and Museo Ng Maynila in Manila. Ms. Syjuco works at The Exploratorium. *Artist biography at time of award.
1996-1998
1998
Enrique Chagoya
Paul DeMarinis
Margaret Kilgallen
Po Shu Wang
1997
Lawrence Andrews
Yolanda Lopez
Chico MacMurtrie
Gustavo Vazquez
1996
Rebeca Bollinger
Jim Goldberg
Mildred Howard
Kathryn Spence
1993-1995
1995 – Painting
Dewey Crumpler
Susan Marie Dopp
Barry McGee
Deborah Oropallo
1994 – Painting
Daniel Galvez
Carrie Lederer
Gustavo Rivera
Randall Shiroma
1993 – Painting
Shirley Carter
Oliver Jackson
Hung Liu
Long Nguyen
1989-1991
1989 – Sculpture
Lauren Elder
David Ireland
Mark Pauline
1990 – Photography
Mark Durant
Tom Ferentz
Reagan Louie
Larry Sultan
1991 – Photography
Morri Camhi
Ann Chamberlain
Richard Misrach
Diane Tani
1986-1988
1986 – Painting
Miran Ahn
Christopher Brown
Barbara Fisher
Harry Fritz
1987 – Painting
Drew Beattie
M. Louise Stanley
Douglas Sutherland
Roger Van Ouytsel
1988 – Sculpture
Tim Collins
Tony Labat
Cheri Raciti
Peter Richards