RODNEY EWING 720 York Street #107 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110 Telephone: 510-467-5946 e-mail: [email protected] website: rodneyewing.com
EDUCATION
1992 Master of Fine Art: Printmaking, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
1989 Bachelor of Fine Art: Printmaking, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020 Longitude and Latitude, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV Strange Fruit, Cathedral Gallery, Los Angeles, CA This Year Spring Came Early, Idora Park Project Space, Oakland, CA Come To Your Census: Who Counts in America?, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco,CA
2019 The Devil Finds Work, Headlands Center for the Arts-Project Space, Sausalito, CA Longitude and Latitude, Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA National Veterans Art Museum Triennial, Chicago, IL Trap, Trauma, Transformation, Greenlining Institute, Oakland, CA Ancestral Journeys, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA
2018 re:home, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA Space is the Place: A Bay Area Funk Lesson, The Growlery, San Francisco, CA Take Action: A For Freedoms Exhibition, CCA Hubbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 140 Characters, Root Division, San Francisco, CA Between Walls and Ceilings: Recology, San Francisco, CA Untitled Art Fair: Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Let Me Be A Witness: Root Division, San Francisco, CA Art on Market Street/Sanctuary City, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA Artifacts: National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL Pass7 presents: Build it Here, Rua do Passadiço 7, Lisbon, Portugal Art on Market Street/Sanctuary City Unveiling, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA Days and Occasions: Moving Pictures, Private Commission, San Francisco, CA Home: Jackson Street Gallery/UHS, San Francisco, CA Take Action: A For Freedoms Exhibition, CCA Hubbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA Telling Stories: Throckmorton Main Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Silence Out Loud: Contemporary African Portaits: MONCA, Chico CA
2017 Days and Occasions: The Unexpected Griot, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Detritus, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Four Square, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Veteran's Views: Art By Those Who Served, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA Vanishing Point: Three Point Nine Art Collective. Katz Synder Gallery, San Francisco, CA McNeese State University 30th Annual Works on Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA Sanctuary City: With Liberty and Justice for Some? San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA Reconstruct: Long Island University Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY Beyond Printmaking 5: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas Justice for All?: Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza Community College, Cupertino, CA Call for Beauty: Root Division, San Francisco, CA With Liberty and Justice for Some? Walter Maciel Gallery/Berkeley Art Center/San Francisco Art Commission, Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA, Berkeley, CA Vanishing Point: The 3.9 Art Collective Reflects on Black Communities in San Francisco: Jewish Community Center, San Francisco, CA 2016 Commission-Bay Area Activist: In Collaboration with Precita Eyes, Google Offices, San Francisco, CA stArtup Art Fair LA: Highland Gardens Hotel, Hollywood, CA stArtup Art Fair Chicago: Mile North Hotel, Chicago, IL Declarations for the New Year: Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Selected Works, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Fact&Fiction/Cloud Jars/Agility Project: Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 5 Hour Sculpture/A Pop Up Arts Festival, Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA Untethered: Stories from the Fillmore, Nancy Toomey Gallery, San Francisco, CA Not Alone: Exploring the Bonds Between and With Members of the Armed Services, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA Reclaimed: New Jersey University Galleries, Jersey City, NJ Then & Now (Again) Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA
2015 What’s Inside Her Never Dies… A Black Woman’s Legacy, Yeelen Gallery, Miami, Fl Voices, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA Artist in Residence, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA Passport, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA Security Question, David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA stArtup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA Obsidere: Micro Climate/Alterspace Gallery, San Francisco,CA Hiraeth: 3.9 Collective explore the concept of home, Thacher Gallery, USF, SF, CA
2014 Ebb/Flow, Pro Arts Annual, Oakland, CA Placed/Displaced, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA Introductions 2014, Root Division, San Francisco, CA The Intuitionist Show: The Drawing Center, New York, NY Wabi-Sabi: MicroClimate Collective, Alter Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA Scope Art Fair: A Simple Collective, New York, NY
2013 Rituals of Water, IcTus Project Space, San Francisco, CA Pulp 3 (ire straits): Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, Al Bay Area Currents: Navigating the New, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA Collective Works: 3.9 Collective, ArtPadSF 2013, San Francisco, CA ArtSpan Selections, ArtPadSF 2013, San Francisco, CA Trace+Gestures: Greymatter Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2012 Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop, Pittsburg, PA AfroSolo RACE: Art Before Answers, SF Public Library Main Branch The African American Art and Cultural Complex, San Francisco, CA
2009 Echo: Eight San Francisco Artists Respond to Surrealist Masterworks Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, California Tech Tools of the Trade: Contemporary New Media Art De Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California Art Dubai, Dubai Art Fair-Frey Norris Gallery, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
2008 Discursive Acts: African American Art at UD and Beyond, Mechanical Hall, University of Delaware Banned and Recovered: Artist Response to Censorship African American Museum and Library, Oakland, California Quorum Group Exhibition, LIMN Gallery, Los Angeles, California Public Safety Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, California
ARTIST RESIDENCIES Kala Veterans Artist Residency, Berkeley, CA 2020 Project Space: The Headlands, Marin, CA 2019 Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA 2019 Bemis Artist In Residence, Omaha, NE 2019 Djerassi Artist in Residence, Woodside, CA 2018 Recology Artist in Residence, San Francisco, CA -2017-2018 Hangar Artist in Residence, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017 de Young Artist in Residence, de Young Museum of Art, 2015
PRESS
Pregame Magazine, June 1st, 2018, “Featured Artist”
Huffington Post, October 13, 2016, “Expanding a Difficult Dialogue: San Francisco Artist Focuses on Issues Affecting the African American Community” by Amy Pleasant- 2016
Square Cylinder.com Northern California Art, November 3rd, 2016 “Monica Lundy and Rodney Ewing @ Nancy Toomey : “Untethered-Stories of the Fillmore District” by Maria Porges-2016
KQED, April 6, 2016, “Berkeley Art Center’s Agility Projects Support Daring Reflections on Identity” by Sarah Hotchkiss-2016
Artillery Magazine, November/December “Banned and Recovered,” by Dewitt Cheng-2008
Artweek, September “Rodney Ewing: Public Safety at Frey Norris Gallery,” by Dewitt Cheng -2008
Artweek, February “Code Switching,” by Lindsey Westbrook-2008
Art News, December “Who’s Afraid of San Francisco,” by Lea Feinstein-2006