SASHA PETRENKO
1972.NY, USA
Mills College, Oakland CA
University of California, Berkeley
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 Me and you-topia or You and me-topia, The Lab, San Francisco**
2010 Pieces of You-topia, Soap Gallery, San Francisco**
Space Odyssey, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
2009 Non*mart, Y2Y Gallery, San Francisco (collaborative project with Kathryn Kenworth)
Americana: Missouri (Monument to Ms Padilla or history of the western states),
CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA**
Pop Noir, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
25th Anniversary Artist Auction/Fundraiser, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2008 Road Trip, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Structural Elements, 101 California Street, San Francisco, CA
Subversive Complicity, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Terra Incognita, 1369 Solano, Albany, CA**
Diorama Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Optic Illusion, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2007 Home, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
SOEX Marks the Spot, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
Green-tie Gala for a Sustainable Future, Chabot Observatory, Oakland, CA
2006 Between the Walls, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Fellowship Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2005 Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Real World, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley CA
**solo exhibition
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2008 Artist in Education, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2007 Nominee Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship
2005 Kala Fellowship, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2005 Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
SPECIAL PROJECTS & LECTURES
2009 Co-founder Non*Mart, with Kathryn Kenworth, barter-based shop as platform for relational art and economic exchange, San Francisco
Installation, "Remodel Abstractions", Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Lecture "Curatorial practice and production," Collection Curation and Display, Instructor Christine La Sala, CCA, San Francisco CA
Advisory Committee "Tiny-House Project", www.tinyhouseproject.org, Director Leslie Pritchett, San Francisco CA
Curator, Plan B, exhibition, featuring Lauren Davies, Sacha Eckes, David Hamill, Kathryn Kenworth and Jeff Kao, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2008 Guest Artist, Intro to Sculpture 3D design, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA
Artist Talk, "Diorama Art" Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2007 Guest Speaker, Model-making materials and practice, Materials and Props, FIDM San Francisco, 2007
2006 Fellowship Artist Lecture, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2005 Guest Artist, 3D Concepts, Art Department, Mills College Oakland, CA
Guest Artist, Methods and Materials , Art Department University of San Francisco, CA
Artist Lecture, Show & Tell, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
December 2009 SF Weekly, Traci Vogel, [...] Art shows play Santa to the Masses.
September 2008 Metro Active, San Jose. Michael S. Gant, Drive, They Said.
April 2008 East Bay Express. DeWitt Cheng, The Art of Diorama.
May 2006 San Francisco Chronicle. Harmanci, Reyha, Moving on.
ARTFORUM.COM. Helfand, Glen. Critics Pick San Francisco.
January 2006 Art in America. Cash, Stephanie, Report from San Francisco II: New and Now.
June 2005 The Daily Californian. Bunnel, Rich. Kala Exhibit Sows the Seeds of
Headlands Center for the Arts, Cover Image, Summer catalogue.
July 2004 Bay Area Now 4, catalogue, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
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