SASHA PETRENKO
924 Yuba Street
Richmond CA 94805 (510) 525-9469
www.piecesofyoutopia.com
www.sashapetrenko.org
sashpetrenko@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Master in Fine Arts, Sculpture, Mills College, Oakland CA, 2004
Bachelors in Art {with High Honors} University of California, Berkeley, 2001
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The LAB, San Francisco, Pieces of You-topia, 2011
Soap Gallery, San Francisco, We will all wake up together, 2010
CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, Mary Augustine Gallery, San Francisco, Americana: Missouri (Monument to Ms Padilla or history of the western states), 2009
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Mega Mega Mega, 2011
Y2Y Gallery, San Francisco, Staging Space, with Tracey Snelling and Kathryn Kenworth, 2011
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Space Odyssey, 2010
Y2Y Gallery, San Francisco, Non*mart, 2009-2010
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Pop Noir, 2009
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA , Road Trip, 2008-2009
101 California Street, San Francisco, Structural Elements, 2008
The Lab, San Francisco, Subversive Complicity, 2008
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, Diorama Art, 2008
Root Division, San Francisco, Home, 2007
Chabot Observatory, Oakland, CA, Green-tie Gala for a Sustainable Future, 2007
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Between the Walls, 2006
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, Fellowship Exhibition, 2006
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Bay Area Now 4, 2005
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, Real World, 2005
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
The LAB, Artist Residency, San Francisco, CA 2011
Southern Exposure, Graue Award Finalist, for Non*Mart, collaborative proposal with Kathryn Kenworth, 2010
Artist in Education, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, 2008
Nominee Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, 2007
Kala Fellowship, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, 2005
Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 2005
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of San Francisco, Studio Manager, Adjunct Professor, Department of Art+Architecture, (2010-present)
Diablo Valley College, Adjunct Professor, Art Department, Pleasant Hill CA (2008-present)
California College of the Arts, Exhibitions Program Coordinator, Oakland & San Francisco, (2009-2010)
University of California, Berkeley Architecture Department, Lab Mechanician/Shop Supervisor, (2005-2010)
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Faculty, San Francisco, CA (2007-2010)
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, Assistant Preparator (2002-2009)
Southern Exposure, Artist in Education, Lead Teaching Artist, Mission Voices Summer,
San Francisco, CA (2008)
Oakland Museum of California, Exhibition Technician (2006)
Laney College, Instructional Assistant to Department Chair, Wood Technology, Oakland CA (2004)
University of California Berkeley, Department of Architecture, Mechanician/Shop Supervisor (2005-2010)
Mills College, Art Department, Graduate Teaching Assistant/Sculpture Shop Manager, Oakland, CA (2003-2004)
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Art Practice, Teaching Assistant to Randy Hussong, Metal Sculpture (2002)
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Art Practice, Teaching Assistant to Professor Ann Healy, Mixed Media Sculpture (2002)
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Art Practice, Assistant to Senior Lab Mechanician Teresa A Smith, Sculpture Area, (2000-2001)
SPECIAL PROJECTS & LECTURES
Founding member of WWAWUT, imaginary artist collective of visual and performing artists investigating the spiritual and psychic nature of objects, design and production, 2010-ongoing
Feral Share participating artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, project by Joseph Del Pesco and Jerome Wagg, 2010
Co-founder Non*Mart, with Kathryn Kenworth, barter-based shop as platform for relational art and economic exchange, featuring Alison Pebworth, Stephanie Syjuco, Francesca Pastine, Miriam Dym, Claudia Tennyson, Anthony Ryan and others, San Francisco, 2009-2010.
Installation, "Remodel Abstractions", Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 2009
Lecture "Curatorial practice and production," Collection Curation and Display, Instructor Christine La Sala, CCA, San Francisco CA, 2009
Advisory Committee "Tiny-House Project", www.tinyhouseproject.org, Director Leslie Pritchett, San Francisco CA, 2009
Curator, Plan B, exhibition, featuring Lauren Davies, Sacha Eckes, David Hamill, Kathryn Kenworth and Jeff Kao, The Lab, San Francisco, CA, 2009
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
East Bay Express, Toxic Art, Jessica Kraft, March 2011
San Francisco Weekly, [...] Art shows play Santa to the Masses, Traci Vogel, December, 2009
Metro Active San Jose, Drive, They Said. Michael S. Gant, September, 2008
East Bay Express, The Art of Diorama, DeWitt Cheng, April, 2008
HOME: The Aesthetics and Politics of Home in Contemporary Art, Liena Vayzman, San Francisco: Root Division, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle, Moving on, Reyha Harmanci, May, 2006
ARTFORUM.COM, Picks San Francisco, Glen Helfand, May, 2006
Art in America, Report from San Francisco II: New and Now, Stephanie Cash, January 2006
The Daily Californian, Kala Exhibit Sows the Seeds of Artifice, Rich Bunnel, June 2005
Headlands Center for the Arts, Cover Image, Summer catalogue, June 2005
Bay Area Now 4 catalogue, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, July 2005