ELIZABETH SHER - MEDIA ARTIST VOICE 510-451-8004 / CELL 510-908-8004 / EMAIL [email protected] WWW.IVSTUDIOS.COM / WWW.PENNYTHEDOCUMENTARY PRESENT EMPLOYMENT Professor of Art - California College of the Arts, San Francisco & Oakland, CA 1979 -- 2011 Currently Professor of Art Emeritus Director - I.V. Studios – Film and Art for the 21sr Century 1982 – present Gallery Affiliation – Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland CA SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, HONORS & AWARDS 2018 RITUALS OF REMEMBRANCE, (made with Maggie Simpson Adams) 30 min documentary CONNIE (short film) EDITH (in progress) 30 min documentary in progress WEEZIE (in progress) f30 min documentary made with Maggie Simpson Adams) Solo Exhibitions “Icelandscapes” Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA artist talk ”Evolving/Revolving” M. Chapel Projects, Sarasota,FL artist talk Group Exhibitions “Melting Point” Mercuxry 2- Gallery, Oaklaknd, CA Broadcasts & Screenings RITUALS OF REMEMBRANCE: EXPLORING THE ART OF MOURNING Green Olive Arts, Tetuan, Morocco 2017 RITUALS OF REMEMBRANCE, (made with Maggie Simpson) 30 min documentary CONNIE (short film in progress) EDITH (in progress) 30 min documentary in progress Group Exhibitions “Nothing Extraneous” Vessel Gallery, Oakland, CA artist talk “20/20 Vision”, Dec 2017-Jan 2018, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA artist talk “Here”, Dec. 10-Jan 19, Berkeley Art Center, CA Broadcasts & Screenings PENNY National PBS broadcast premiered March (women’s month) and throughout the year RITUALS OF REMEMBRANCE: EXPLORING THE ART OF MOURNING PBS Broadcast October 31st, KRCB-TV Premiere Oct. 1st New Parkway Theater, Oakland, CA Q&A Morbid Cinema, Camron-Stanford House, Oakland, CA Q&A TOO YOUNG & WASH IT Women Take Off, Oct. 24th Canyon Cinema, CCA San Francisco Q&A Who Says the Avant-Garde’s Not Funny, Nov. 25th, AD HOC, Univ. of Toronto, Canada 2016 RITUALS OF REMEMBRANCE, (co-directed with Maggie Simpson) film in progress) Solo Exhibiton “Crossing the Digital Divide” Los Medanos College Gallery, Castro Valley, CA, Cat., review Group Exhibitions “Art is a Living Thing” 15 years of New Pacific Studios, Aratoi Museum, Masterton, New Zealand “Arising Project” curated by Yoko Ono, Reykjavik Museum of Art, Iceland “Waterson Summit” Oakland, CA “Here”, Berkeley Art Center, CA 2 Screenings TOO YOUNG Between Pop Culture and the Avant-Garde” The Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY Transmedia Department, Syracuse University, NY 2015 TANGLED DREAMS, (with Brooke Holve) film in progress RITUALS OF REMEMBRANCE, (with Maggie Simpson) film in progress Group Exhibitions “Here”, Berkeley Art Center, CA “Passages”, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR Jury Selection “Tributary”, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR Jury Selection “Transitions”, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA Jury Selection “West Marin Review” book launch exhibition, Pt. Reyes, CA Book illustrations “10 Years of Artist Books” curated by Donna Seager, Brookyn Public Library, New York, NY Screenings PENNY Big Muddy Film Festival, IL Official Selection Athens International Film Festival, OH Official Selection Rochester International Film Festival NY Certificte of Merit 2014 PENNY, 30 min. documentary © 2014 TANGLED DREAMS, (with Brooke Holve) film in progress RITUALS OF REMEMBERANCE, (with Maggie Simpson) film in progress Group Exhibitions “Here”, Berkeley Art Center, CA BAU Institute, Otranto Italy “Art of the Digital” City College Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA Grants and Honors BAU Artist Residency Fellow, Otranto, Italy Fleishhacker Foundation Grant for Film Screenings PENNY BAM/PFA cast/crew/donor celebration/private premier, Berkeley CA, moderated discussion “Dissecting Docs” Blog Talk Radio Review with Carole Dean and Robert Schwartz Boalt Hall (Berkeley Law School) screening, Q&A with Penny Cooper and director, moderated by Professor Elisabeth Semel OUTrageous Film Festival, Santa Barbara, CA screening and panel, Official Selection 2013 PENNY, film in progress TANGLED DREAMS, (with Brooke Holve) film in progress RITUALS OF REMEMBERANCE, (with Maggie Simpson) film in progress Solo Exhibitions “Evolutionary Processes” Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA Group Exhibitions “Array-Feature”, Berkeley Art Center, CA “Codex International Book Fair “with KALA Art Institute, Richmond, CA Private Premier, KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA ”The Residents…and a Few of the artists we met along the way…” Gatewood Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro “Big is Beautiful”, Bay Model, Sausalito, CA jury selection “Canyon Cinema Pop-Up Exhibition”, Kadist Gallery, San Francisco, CA “New Media Combinations” Berkeley Art Center, CA catalog, panel “Art in the Time of Climatological Catastrophes, WEAD, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, 3 San Francisco, CA, jury selection “Bread & Wine Festival”, Austria Screenings “Bella Bella”, Richmond Art Center, CA, panel moderated by 2012 THE DE(CON)STRUCTION OF THE RIVER, Artist Book ©2012 TANGLED DREAMS, (with Brooke Holve) Artist Book ©2012 BLOG, Artist Book © 2012 Group Exhibitions “Wonder”, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA “Convergence/Divergence”, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA “Alternative”, The LightRoom, Berkeley, CA “Aqua 12”, Toomey-Tourell at Miami Basel, Miami, FL “Kalassal Half-Off Art Sale”, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA “Miniature Book Society Asheville Book Works”, North Carolina, and traveling exhibition Cat. “In | Print”, The Warehouse Gallery, Oakland, CA “Beyond Landscape”, The Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA “Digital Mixed Media: Bay Area Artists Take Digital Photography to a New Level”, Petaluma Arts Center, Petaluma, CA “Collect”, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA “ArtPadSF”, Toomey Tourell at the Phoenix Hotel, SF, CA “The Art of the Book”, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA cat. “Blue”, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA Grants and Honors Winner for the film PENNY, The Roy Dean Film Grant 2011 ARBRES ARRENCATS D’AMETHLES, Artist Book © 2011 10 VIEWS OF MOUNT DOGGIE, Artist Book © 2011 Group Exhibitions “Shine”, Berkeley Art Center, CA “5 x 5 Invitations”, Westmont Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA “Shoes”, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA “Miniature Book Society Traveling Exhibit”, Juried, Perm. Collection, Lilly Library, Ind. Univ., Cat. “Sign Language”, Mythos Fine Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA Lec. “Keeping an Eye on Surveillance”, Performance Art Institute, SF, CA “San Francisco Center for the Book 15th Anniversary Exhibition”, Austin/Burke Gallery, SF, CA “Bibliophoria II”, Sebastopol, CA “Bookworks”, Skylight Gallery, San Francisco, CA “In Material”, 3 Person Show, Quicksilver Mine Company, Forestville, CA Cat. Panel “Urban/Urbane”, Susan Hensell Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Jury Selection “International Women’s Day 100th Anniversary Exhibition”, 2nd City Council Gallery, Long Beach, CA, Jury Selection “Of Water,” 16 Painters at the Bay Model, Sausalito, CA “The Art of the Book” Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA Grants and Honors Juror, The Art of the Line, Sebastopol Center for Art, CA Artist Stipend Grant Can Serrat Residency, Barcelona, Spain CCA Travel Grant Professor Emeritus, California College of the Arts 2010 SHHHHHH! Artist Book © 2010, DRAGONS TO SLAY Artist Book © 2010 ROOM SLUT © 2010 Film 2 ½ min. TRT TASTING CAN SERRAT © 2010 30 sec. TRT Solo Exhibitions “Elizabeth Sher Lightboxes” Marina Abramavitz Center West, San Francisco, CA Group Exhibitons 4 “Green” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA “Vanishing Pollinators”, Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, CA “Elizabeth Sher LIghtboxes” Marina Abramavitz Center West, San Francisco, CA “Maps” Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA “The Art of the Book” Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA Can Serrat Residency Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain (Lecture) “Process & Place: the transformative potential of artist residencies”, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley Artist Panel and Walk-thru. Cat., Co-curator “The Ruth Hughes Collection of Artists Books”, Oberlin College, Ohio. Mollusca Gastropoda selected for the permanent collection. Cat. Screenings “Bella Bella” Better with Age: Three documentary films on California artists, art lovers, and aging, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco, CA San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA “Another Perspective”, Panel Discussion and Screening, Ninth Street Independent Film Center, San Francisco, CA 2009 FOUND, Artist Book © 2009 NUGGETS, Artist Book © 2009 BEETLEMANIA, Artist Book © 2009 MOLLUSCA GASTROPODA FEVER, Artist Book © 2009 Screenings “Bella Bella” International Film Festival on Aging, Castro Theater, San Francisco, CA Filmmaker in Person “Alma’s Jazzy Marriage” Riverwalk, National Public Radio, San Antonio, TX Group Exhibitions 2nd International Codex Book Fair, University of California, Berkeley “Printing on the Cutting Edge” Alameda Museum, Alameda, CA, Jury Selection Civic Center Art Exhibition 2008-9 presented by City of Berkeley Public Art Program & the Civic Arts Commission, Juried Honoree “Art of the Book” Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA “Sweet and Matchless, Playspace, California College of the Arts, San Francisco “ArtRead”, Bookworks, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, juried selection 2008 MYTHS OF THE ANDES, Artist Book © 2008 PANDORA’S RECIPE BOX, Artist Book © 2008 Screenings “Bella Bella” Official Selection, Independents Film Festival, Tampa Bay, FL Baltimore Women’s Film Festival, MD Cal State University Monterey Bay, CA, Filmmaker in Person Aratoi Museum, New Zealand, Filmmaker in Person “Stalls” Faux Film Festival, Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR Broadcasts “BELLA BELLA” KCSM TV “Alma’s