FIGURE 8 a virtual exhibition
The hand movements, referred to as "hands performance" within vogue femme performance, are based on a figure eight knot. In knot theory, the study of mathematical knots, a figure eight is the unique knot with a crossing number of four. While inspired by knots that appear in daily life, such as those in shoelaces and rope, a mathematical knot differs in that the ends are joined together so that it cannot be undone. Scholar bell hooks theorizes that imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy all conjoin to create an apparatus of domination.
The artists in FIGURE 8 explore how hooks’ theory mirrors the structure of a figure-eight knot. As a way to think critically about the nature of how these systems of oppression connect and prevent us from being our best selves, the artists use the gesture of collage. Each artist in their own way interweaves various materials and artistic practices, including photography, sculpture, printmaking, painting, video, performance, and the written word to create works that attempt to unravel the systematic knot of oppression. Collectively the works in the exhibition act as a critical coil for a new understanding of the politics of difference. Featured Artists:
Becca Chacon John James Hartford V Oscar Lopez Dani Melen T Shell Christian Tan Christopher Williams Zimo Zhao Xiang Zhou
Presented by Rashaad Newsome's Gesture of Collage as Practice course at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Becca Chacon grew up in San Diego, California in a Latino family of politicians and businessmen. From an early age she found fulfillment and understanding of the world around her through various forms of creating art. Becca received her BFA from San Diego State University and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Today she continues to make work inspired by her family traditions and values while staying engaged with her Latino political influences.
BECCA CHACON
[email protected] (415) 515-0914
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art [May 2020 (Anticipated)]
San Diego State University San Diego, CA Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Printmaking [May 2017]
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Jan. 2020- May 2020 San Francisco Art Institute/City Collage of San Francisco San Francisco, CA Teaching Assistant Basic Drawing, Diane Olivier Jan. 2019- May 2019 San Francisco Art Institute/City Collage of San Francisco San Francisco, CA Teaching Assistant Basic Drawing, Diane Olivier
EXHIBITIONS
April 2020 Intimate Immediacy, Schafer Gallery *Canceled due to COVID-19 San Francisco, CA Nov. 2019 “Disconnected” and “Neural Networks and Root Systems”, Another (Swell) Show, Art Attack SF San Francisco, CA Aug. 2019 Memories, Outside Wall at Schafer Gallery San Francisco, CA Mar. 2019 Dress Up in the Woods, Outside Wall at Schafer Gallery San Francisco, CA Mar. 2019 Power Suit, Paul Sack Exhibition Wall San Francisco, CA
DIRECTORSHIPS
Jan. 2019-Dec. 2019 San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA Legion of Graduate Students Elected Student Representative LOGS is comprised of every graduate student enrolled at SFAI and their three elected representatives. The LOGS representatives volunteer to serve as a communicative bridge between the graduate student population, and the following administrative bodies: the Administration of SFAI, the Dean of Graduate Students, Graduate Facilities and Operations, the MFA Director, the MA Director, the Dual Degree Director, the Faculty, the Staff, the Manager of Graduate Administration, the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, the LOGS Cabinet, as well as the undergraduate Student Alliance. LOGS representatives create space for student concerns to be heard and bring those concerns to the aforementioned and respective bodies. Through LOGS, the students form a collective voice to express academic and facilitative concerns. LOGS, in conjunction with Student Affairs, also coordinates activities to build community and unify the student body. LOGS is the entire Graduate student body, and all are encouraged to attend the regular meetings.
Currently based in San Francisco, John J. Hartford V is a nationally exhibited Artist and Curator, working across mediums, with an emphasis on the conceptual frameworks surrounding destruction aesthetics, iconoclasm, and anti-art movements, though a scope of what is being termed ‘Post-Opulence’.
With an initial background in Theatre and Psychology, John eventually shifted his focus to the Visual Arts, quickly rising to the top of his undergraduate class. Particularly under the mentorship of Robert Poplack, John’s practice broke beyond the formal education structure, into a multi-media independent study of various mediums. Conceptually, the practice evolved into its own, and the work began to explore deeper meanings within deteriorated states of form. In only the beginning years of an individual practice, a large body of work was created which then allowed him to be a part of a number of group exhibitions between both San Francisco and Los Angeles, in addition to a first solo exhibition in Southern California in 2016. This would carry him through the rest of his undergraduate career (earning his BFA/Psychology Degree), to remain as a studio/teaching assistant while taking time between programs. This, alongside being a part of a number of administrative internships with galleries such as PACE and Southern Exposure.
Currently concluding his Dual Degree (MFA/MA Museum & Exhibition Studies) with SFAI, John remains to be active within the San Francisco area, having served as Director/Curator of Swell Gallery, current Director of Art Attack SF, as well as Vice-President of the recently founded Vacant AIR non-profit program which aims to generate accessible representation of emerging and student artist community across the city. John James Hartford V Curriculum Vitae: Education
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Focus: Painting and Drawing), 2015 Notre Dame de Namur University - Belmont CA, USA Graduated Summa Cum Laude, GPA 3.96, Dean's List. - Museum Administration & Curation Internship, 2012-2014 Peninsula Museum of Art - Burlingame CA, USA - Art Administration Internship, 2015 Southern Exposure Gallery - San Francisco CA, USA - Duel Degree MFA/MA - Exhibition & Museum Studies San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco CA, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
● 2012 Notre Dame de Namur University Student Showcase - Wiegand Gallery, Belmont CA
2013
● Emerging Artists Group Exhibition - CSUEB Campus Gallery, Hayward CA ● Art of Darkness Group Exhibition - Submission, San Francisco CA ● Pancakes and Booze 2013 Group Exhibition - 4N5 Gallery, San Francisco CA ● Chocolate and Art Group Exhibition - KGB Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2014
● Patent of the Perfect Child Group Exhibition - Native Sons Hall, Pescadero CA ● Chillin' Productions Anniversary Art Show - Mezzanine, San Francisco CA ● Pancakes and Booze 2014 Group Exhibition - Minna Gallery, San Francisco CA
2015
● Abstractions: Juried Group Exhibition - Pacific Arts Leauge, Palo Alto CA ● Notre Dame de Namur University Student Showcase - Wiegand Gallery, Belmont CA ● Dab Art Emerging Artist Group Exhibition - Hud Gallery, Ventura CA ● Holiday Group Exhibition - Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco CA
2018 ● 2018 Santa Clara Indoor Sculpture: Out of the Darkness, Light - Santa Clara Cultural Commission, Santa Clara CA ● Anne Bremer Memorial Library Art Book Contest & Exhibition - Anne Bremer Memorial Library, San Francisco CA ● Monster Mash - Artvale Gallery, Oakland CA ● Serenade & Nocturne - Swell Gallery, San Francisco CA ● De-contextualized - Real Old Paper Gallery, San Francisco CA 2019 ● Fleeting Moments - Schafer Gallery, San Francisco CA ● MINT's 2019 Annual Juried Exhibition - MINT Gallery, Atlanta GA ● Degenerate Elements - Oakland Secret, Oakland CA ● San Francisco Art Institute MFA Graduate Exhibition - SFAI Graduate Studios, San Francisco CA ● The Dirty Dozen: UCSF Alliance Health Project Benefit - The Lone Star, San Francisco CA ● Fear - Volition Gallery, Orangeburg NY
2020 ● Artist as Curator - City Senate Building, San Francisco CA Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 ● 2015 Notre Dame de Namur University Solo Showcase - Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont CA 2016 ● Mirror Mirror: Form and Facade - Metro Gallery, Bakersfield CA
Curation
2018 ● 'In Bloom' - Swell Gallery, San Francisco CA ● Serenade & Nocturne: From Light to Dark - Swell Gallery, San Francisco CA ● First Thursday Art Walk (Polk St.) - Various Locations, San Francisco CA ● Bloom & Decay: Beyond Opulence - Swell Gallery, San Francisco CA 2019 ● Make your Mark - Art Attack SF, San Francisco CA ● Ariel Gold/AASF Artists - Art Attack SF, San Francisco CA ● David Puck/AASF Artists - Art Attack SF, San Francisco CA ● Rock/Paper/Scissors - Art Attack SF, San Francisco CA ● Another (Swell) Show - Art Attack SF, San Francisco CA Guest Lectures ● Curation: Elevation of Art & Space - Wiegand Gallery, Belmont CA Awards
Abstractions: Bay Area Juried Exhibition - Palo Alto CA Third Place Ribbon and Special Mentions
Notre Dame de Namur University - Belmont CA Awarded Solo Exhibition in the Wiegand Gallery Minor Space
Notre Dame de Namur Art Department - Belmont CA Award for academic and outstanding service within the department
Press & Publication
● Bakersfeild Californian ● Art Business (SFAI Open Studios 2017) ● Arts ATL ● San Francisco Art Institute 2019 MFA Graduate Catalog ● Art Business (SFAI MFA Exhibition 2019)
Oscar Lopez
I am originally from Mexico City where I grew up. Being from the city, my first contact with art was graffiti. Graffiti was the only art form that I could afford to partake in, and the fact that it was a free form of art that all people could access influenced me in many ways. After years of working with spray paint I had the opportunity to move and start a new life in the United States. The move meant changing my studies from computer science, and during this time I began to learn the beauty of drawing at the same time I was learning my new language. Since then I have continued to study both privately with the help of books and videos, as well as in more structured settings such as ateliers, workshops, and colleges. Finally, last fall I earned my BFA at SFAI and I'm currently a candidate to get my MFA in this amazing community as well.
Currently I'm working on understanding my heritage, and how that connects to what I have to say as a human in my artwork. Painting and drawing and mural making are a major part of the process. Oscar Lopez Visual Artist (650) 669-1528 [email protected] www.artbyoscarlopez.com
EDUCATION:
Candidate To Master in Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute. Bachelor on Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute. 2019 Associate Degree on Art Studio and Art practice. Foothill College. Los Altos Hills, Ca. 2015. Safe House Atelier. Master apprenticeship Classical Realism. San Francisco, 2014 Academy of Art University. San Francisco, Ca. 2010
EXPEREINCE:
Public Education Instructor. San Francisco Art Institute, Figure Drawing. Spring 2020. TA. Jeremy Morgan. Acrylic Painting , San Francisco Art Institute, 2020. Public Education Instructor. San Francisco Art Institute, Drawing From Line to Life. Summer 2019 Collaborative Project, Diego Rivera SF MOMA and SFAI. 2019 Under Dr. Cristobal Martinez. Painting Demo, Direct painting Techniques San Francisco Art Institute.2019 TA. Felicita Norris. Painting 1, San Francisco Art Institute, 2019. Teaching, MLK Joy Art Project, 2019 TA, Drawing and Painting, Foothill College. 2018 on going Mural designer and painter, Foothill College. On going since 2017. TA. Felicia Forte portrait Workshop. 2014. TA. Assistant art program at Sadie Valerie Atelier. 2012-2013. TA. Coung Nguyen Master Class. 2012
CONFERENCE:
Speaker at MLK Joy Project, San Francisco.2019 Speaker at Foothill College, Research and Service Leadership Symposium. 2018; Speaker at "SOLUTIONS", an Eco-Sustainability Un-conference. 2018;
SHOWS:
Awaking from the amnesia. Paul Sack Exhibition Hall, Fort Mason, San Francisco.2020 Our Privilege. Diego Rivera gallery. San Francisco. 2020. Group show Wood wind Gallery, Stockton 2019. Multicultural salon style. Main Gallery Fort Mason 2019. A View of Me, Foot Hill College President office Gallery. Los Altos Hills. 2019. Going through, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco CA. 2019; Avatars//Ghosts, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA. 2019. BFA Art Show, SF MOMA Artist Gallery. San Francisco CA. 2018; Avatars, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco CA. 2018; Happy Birthday, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco CA. 2018; Remembers, Group Juried Show Fort Mason Art Center, 2018; Los Altos Rotary's 43rd Annual Open-Air Juried Art Show 2018; Pop Icons! Juried Show, Fort Mason Art Center, 2017; Salon At The Triton Museum: Statewide 2D Competition and Exhibition 2017; 59th Stockton Art League Juried Exhibition, Group Show. The Haggin Museum. 2016; 58th Stockton Art League Juried Exhibition, Group Show. The Haggin Museum. 2014;
AWARDS:
Best in Show, Stockton Art League. 2019 Quick Draw Honorable Mention Award, Plein Air Painting. Capitola. 2019 SFA Fellowship. Award. San Francisco Art Institute. 2019 Ellen Hart Bransten Scholarship. San Francisco Art institute. 2019. Best in Show, Dean Rissler Award. San Francisco Art Institute. 2018; Ivan Majdrakoff Honor art Award, San Francisco Art Institute. 2018; Honorable Mention Plain Air Quick Draw, Recognition by the Santa Clara County, State of California. Board of Supervisors. June 2017; Bold Brush Painting Competition, January 2017. Outstanding Pastel; Doris Camp Memorial Award 2016, National Art Competition. 59th Juried Exhibition at the Haggin Museum; 3rd Place, 2016 Annual Art Student Competition, "The Artist's Magazine" 2016;
PUBLICATIONS:
Los Altos Towns Crier. Summer 2017 The Artist's Magazine. December, 2016; Aero arte en Graffiti, Mexico 2001;
MURALS:
Athlete's Mural, Foothill College, 2019 Veteran's Mural, Foothill College, 2018. Designed with the VRC at Foothill College and dedicated to their service and life journeys. Dreamer's Mural, Foothill College, 2017. Designed with the dreamer community and dedicated to their journeys.
Dani Melen is a womxn artist based in the Bay Area. She discusses identity politics in post- modern portraiture, critiques the stigma of marginalized women, and challenges the isolation endured within both private and public spaces. The splintered collage elements in Dani’s work scrutinizes common perceptions of embodiment and the definitions of self and memory. She approaches her work as both an act of rebellion against - and a conversation with - the history of art that objectifies the female body.
In 2018, Dani received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking at San Francisco Art Institute, then became a staff member to stay involved in the art community after graduation. After a year of building her portfolio, she was awarded the MFA Fellowship at SFAI and enrolled in the graduate program. During her time here, her art practice became more interdisciplinary, creating installations, collages, and assemblages. SFAI has since closed its doors to graduate students, but, with a matched scholarship, Dani will transfer to the School of Visual Arts in New York City in the fall of 2020. Dani is relocating to New York to be immersed in rigorous critique and fast-paced art making.
DANI MELEN
San Francisco, CA 707.738.0980 [email protected]
EDUCATION
MFA — SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS NYC, 2020-21 Fine Arts scholarship
MFA — SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, 2019-20 SFAI MFA Fellowship
BFA — SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, 2018 Painting major, printmaking minor 3.9 GPA, Undergraduate Honor Studio (2017-18) Ivan Majdrakoff Art Materials Award (2017, 2018)
STUDIO ART CENTERS INTERNATIONAL — BFA STUDY ABROAD, 2016 Painting, printmaking, book arts, jewelry design
SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE — PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAM, 2013 College credits for drawing, photography
EXPERIENCE
GENERAL SERVICES COORDINATOR, SFAI — 2018-2020 Academic Affairs room booking, help students + faculty in everyday operations, process mail, order supplies
KEYHOLDER, PAPER SOURCE MARINA — 2015-2018 Creative Lettering Workshop Instructor, Director of Window Displays
PRE-COLLEGE ASSISTANT — 2017-2018 Offer artistic guidance to pre-college students, co-curate final exhibition with faculty
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2020: Figure 8 — Rashaad Newsome online collaborative exhibition
2020: Poetry as Critical Form — Diego Rivera Gallery
2019: It Is (Not) Our Privilege — Diego Rivera Gallery
2019: Book Show No. 5 — Root Division
2019: Staff Group Show — Diego Rivera Gallery
2018: BFA Final exhibition — Diego Rivera Gallery + SFAI Courtyard
2018: Painting exhibition, faculty curated — Atrium Gallery
2018: New Images of Woman — Diego Rivera Gallery
T Shell was born in 1994 in Royal Oak, Michigan. In 2016 they received their Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Creative Writing at Albion College. Finding it difficult to navigate institutional spaces in their queer body, they reached to art. Their work deals with visual manifestations of emotionally and physically traumatic experiences from early childhood. In 2017 they made the move to San Francisco California to pursue graduate school at San Francisco Art Institute. Since moving, they have earned two Masters Degrees, one in Studio Art (MFA) and the other in The History of Contemporary Art and Theory (MA), and have also Co- Directed the Schafer Gallery at SFAI’s Fort Mason Campus for a full calendar year. They find that their research practice heavily informs their art practice and vice versa. Their recent dissertation entitled FRAGILE Contains Feelings, Public Intimacies: The Stressed Body in Contemporary Performance Art was published and presented at SFAI’s graduate symposium in May of 2020. During a span of three years, T has exhibited their work in numerous academic ran exhibitions. They have also performed for art spaces and at annual performance festivals outside of campus such as Almost Public/Semi-Exposed 6e at th ATA Window Gallery and 4 Waves: 40 Performances for the Hole at SOMArts. T has soft plans to stay in the Bay Area following their graduation from SFAI, with interests to pursue any opportunities that present themselves as they pertain to performance, sculpture, special effects, writing and art exhibiting.
T Shell website: tshellart.com | email: [email protected] | phone: 248-252-0781
Education
2018 - 2020 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,CA MFA in Studio Art and MA in The History of Contemporary Art and Theory
2016 Albion College, Albion, MI Bachelors of Studio Art, Creative Writing and an emphasis in poetry
Group Exhibitions
2020 Full Frontal, undisclosed location, San Francisco, CA
2019 Almost Public/Semi-Exposed 6, ATA Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA 4 Wave: 40 Performances for the Hole, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA Exit From Within, Diego Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fleeting Moments, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Parsing Dissent, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Everyone is Touching; Textured Apogee, Diego Gallery, San Francisco, CA Bloom and Decay: Beyond Opulence, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA Strength in Awareness, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Open Book Show, 1890 Bryant Street Studios, San Francisco, CA Wise Wounds, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 In Mulieribus, Bobbitt Gallery, Albion, MI Curatorial Projects
2019 Exit From Within, Diego Gallery, San Francisco, CA Echo, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA . . . , Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA residue / cocoon, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Vitality and Vivacity, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Regrettable Foreseeable Preventable, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA A Lucid Labyrinthine, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Dream Variations Part 2, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Lived Landscape, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Longing for Anything, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Seen/Unseen, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Loam, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA In the Fold, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Gentle Dispositions, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Smash the Dunes, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Turning Over Tendencies, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Dress Up In The Woods, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Worlds Apart, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA What’s Between Us, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA P.R.I.S.M. OR Practice Recreating Imaginary Squalls and Metamorphosis, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Moments, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Master Never Talks Of, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Fleeting Moments, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Unfamiliar Again, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Strength in Awareness, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Publications
2020 MA dissertation, Fragile Contains Feelings Public Intimacies: The Stressed Body in Contemporary Performance Art
2012-2016 The Albion Review (Literary reviews were released annually), Roles included: General Staff Member, Poetry-Editor and Editor-in-Chief
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
2019 Outstanding MFA Graduate Student, San Francisco Art Institute 2016 Outstanding Senior Art Major Award, Albion College 2015 FURSCA Summer Grant, Albion College
2013-2016 Arthur and Eva Janson Art Scholarship, Albion College 2012-2016 Webster Scholarship; for academic achievement, Albion College
Related Work Experience
2018-2019 Co-Director of Schafer Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
2018-2020 Student worker at Graduate Operations, SFAI, San Francisco, CA Graduate
Office Assistant, SFAI, San Francisco, CA Tutor at Academic Resource Center, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
2017-2018 TA for Modernity and Modernism, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
2015-2016 Tour Guide, Albion College Art Department, Albion, MI Desk Worker, Albion College Art Department, Albion, MI TA for 3-D Design, Albion College Art Department, Albion, MI
Christian Tan
After graduating with my BFA in Photography and a Printmaking minor in 2018, I left California to spend time in the Midwest and Eastern coast of the USA. I left my job as a staff member of the International Center of Photography in NYC to come back to SFAI in 2019 to pursue my MFA — hoping to maintain a lasting relationship with the Arts and Education communities of San Francisco Bay Area. I was most impacted by COVID-19 when I received the news of the suspension of the MFA program that I’m currently attending. I think about the fragility of our capital and institutions; the fragility of our seemingly normal conducts that have grown far too reliant on excessive anthropocentric commodities. Christian Tan
CV:
Metamorphosis – Dyed Silver Gelatin Print & Madagascar Sunset Moth taxidermy -Still Lights Gallery, 2016 Labyrinth – Silver Gelatin Print -Paul Sack Building Awards 1st Place Black and White, Paul Sack Gallery, 2016 Refinery – Archival Pigment Print of Scanned E6 film -Paul Sack Building Awards 2nd Place Black and White, Paul Sack Gallery, 2017 Archive – Mixed Photo Media -Paul Sack Gallery, 2017 Interstate 80 – Archival Pigment Print - Paul Sack Gallery, 2018 Manifest Rust – Photographic Rust Print on Paper - Paul Sack Building Awards Honorable Mention, Still Lights Gallery, 2018 I Love You More Than My Own Skin – Melanin on Paper - Diego Rivera Gallery, 2018 Hidden Lakes – Archival Pigment Print on Wood & Hand-Bound Archival Inkjet Book - SFAI BFA exhibition, 2018 Melt Down – Litographic Print - W.O.L.F Sanctuary Permanent Collection, 2019 Antithetical - Between Here and There – Archival Pigment Print on Styrene - SFAI Atrium at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, 2019 Assembly - Tower – Physarum Polycephalum, Agar, Recycled Materials, Death and Decay - SFAI Atrium at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, 2019 Recoveco – Archival Pigment Print on Styrene - Paul Sack Gallery at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, 2019 Towers, Black Boxes – Physarum Polycephalum, Agar, Recycled Materials, Death and Decay - Schafer Gallery at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, 2020
Publication:
Still Lifeless – Sacred and Profane, Linda Connor, 2017 Hidden Lakes – 2018
Through books, prints, paintings and collages, Christopher Williams’ art practice focuses on Black Joy- a spiritual feeling that has uplifted the African Diaspora through countless trials and tribulations in the quest for freedom and equality. It defies a simplistic explanation. What makes the journey of my work unique is my ability to develop authentic empathy for my subject matter. I have found this process is like walking to the edge of darkness and then summoning the courage to take one more step to understand what lies beyond our differences. These steps are necessary to overcome bigotry, hatred and indifference, to embrace the pursuit of joy. Christopher Adam Williams theblackdavinci.com
Education San Francisco Art Institute — MFA Attending 2020
San Francisco Art Institute — BFA 2017
Career History ARTIST – January 2005 - present
• Curating and assisting in the development of artistic content across numerous platforms. • Developing ideas. • Drawing landscapes, portraits, and abstract pieces of work. • Creating high quality, photo real images of characters and objects. • Drawing live in front of large audiences. • Drawing pictures that are to be used in books, magazines, and websites. • Communicating with gallery owners, curators, sculptors, and other artists. • Writing up attractive projects and portfolio proposals. • Attending art exhibitions. • Displaying art in galleries, museums, and conventions. • Using computers and specialist software to create artwork.
Recognition & Awards 2020 Rick Cramer Memorial 2019-2020 Mary H. Keeling Scholarship 2019-2020 Allan B. Stone Scholarship 2020 SFAI Diversity Scholarship 2018-19 SFAI Diversity Scholarship 2017 Clyde & Company Award 2017 Honors Studio Award 2017 Deans Scholarship 2017 La Victoria scholarship winner 2017 Clyde & Co scholarship winner 2017 SFAI Honors Graduate program award
Selected Bibliography 2019 Art Auction, Crocker Art Museum 2018 Chanel 13 news Comics and Ron Lim, Sacramento, https://www.abc10.com/video/news/local/ sacramento/marvel-comics-legend-creating-comic-books-for-the-hearing-impaired/103-8122101 2017 Clyde & Company Award catalog. 2017 Dream Variations (part one) SFAI. https://www.sfai.edu/exhibitions-public-events/detail/dream- variations-part-one 2015 Monica Stark, “Met the artist: Pocket resident Christopher Williams Pocket News & Review. http://www.valcomnews.com/?p=17273 2015 Good Day Sacramento Feature. http://gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.com/video/category/ spoken-word-good-day/3286412-mystudio/ 2015 Fox 40 live interview- Sac Anime. 2004 Joe O’Bannon, Broadway News, August 2004
Art Shows/Fairs “White walls, Black Joy,” Diego Rivera gallery, November 2019 “Dream Variations,” Schafer gallery, October, 2019 “It is our privilege,” Diego Rivera gallery, 2019 Crocker Art Museum, BNSA Art Auction, March 2019 12 Artists, SFAI Fort Mason, April 2019 From The Tower: Andy Warhol March, 2019 ICA MECA Window Display, Portland ME. Aug-Sept, 2018 Chanel 13 news Comics and Ron Lim, Sacramento, May, 2018 Woz con, San Jose CA, April, 2018 Mindcatcher.org MLK 8th grade Mural, April,2018 Crocker Art Museum Black History Festival 2018 SFAI BFA Show - December 2017 Clyde & Company Award Show- October 2017 Crocker Art Museum Con 2017 Diego Rivera Honors Art Show -August 2017 California State Fair Featured Artist, Sacramento, July, 2017 Curator - Dream Variations, SFAI courtyard exhibition -2017 Gearfest USC 2017 Black Comic book Expo 2017 Amber Rose Slut Walk, 2016 Tracy-con 2016 California State Fair Featured Artist, Sacramento, July, 2016 California State Fair, Sacramento Featured Artist, July, 2015 My Studio: Featured on Good Day Sacramento, August, 2015 Sac Anime: Featured on Fox 40, Jan 2015, September, 2015-2016 Crocker Art -Con 2015-current Ubunto Green wine event, Sacramento, 2014 Sac Con, 2012- 2017 Cafe Pomegranate, San Jose, 2012 Comics & Collectibles, multiple, 1998-present Alternative Press Expo, APE, 2011 Wondercon, 2008 Broadway Art Festival 2004 & 2006
Gallery Affiliation My Studio- Sacramento CA-Closed
Zimo Zhao, Chinese photographer working in both China and America, has been starting her photography since 2019 and studying oil painting for 8 years. Her work takes a critical view of social events which have happened in the world and have a profound impact on our contemporary social environment. Often referencing social violent events, online celebrity culture and female security problems. And she also makes self-portraits to explore and communicate with herself. Zimo Zhao [email protected] Tell: 6285026622
EDUCATION
2019 - present M.F.A Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,CA
2015 B.F.A Oil Painting, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
Second Major: Journalism EXHIBITIONS
2020 How I died in China, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2019 Endangered, Paul Sack Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2019 442, Art Museum of Renmin University of China, Beijing
2018 Shuxiangtongrong, Art Works Exhibition ,Art Museum of RUC, Beijing
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2017 Earning the first prize of social and voluntary service scholarship of
RUC, Beijing
2016 The Second prize of social and voluntary service scholarship of RUC, Beijing
2016-2018 The Second prize of learning scholarship of RUC, Beijing
2016 The third prize of Logo design Competition of RUC Museum, Beijing
2016 The Excellent Photojournalist of Youth RUC, Beijing WORK EXPERIENCE
2020 - present Teaching assistant in Dewey Crumplers’ Narrative Painting Class, SFAI
2019.08-09 Interning in Funtasy Pictures (Wuxi) Co.,Ltd as the assistant director
2018.10-11 Interning in Polaroid for the promotion of instant camera named Onestep2
Beijing 2017.08- Director of photography department of Youth RUC
2019.08 Publications
2019 Foreign land, Zine of Zimo, OFPIX, May 29th Skills
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Xiang Zhou is an independent filmmaker, a student studying film in San Francisco Art Institute, and got her bachelor's degree in digital media art from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. While studying in Beijing, she found that she had a strong interest in film, so she chose to come to the United States to study film. She made several short films in the past two years (On the road, You and me, Cake, John, Who is on the phone, Not Alone.).
The experience of multiple-roles where she acted as the director, screenwriter, cinematographer, post-editor and score composer in different shootings, she accumulated a wide range of information and fundamental skills in completing the designated parts, the appealing scripts, the expressing of extended spirit and shooting ankles, the artistic contrast of sound and light and so on.