Resume - Exhibitions - Sharon Siskin

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004: "Collected Consciousness," Artist in Residence Program, San Francisco Recycling and Disposal, Inc., San Francisco, CA

2003: "Baby, Baby!," Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA

2001 - 02: "(In)Visible," Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

2001: "farvos(why?)," San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, La Jolla, CA

1997 - 98: "Remains/NYC: Mapping No Boundaries," Visual AIDS project, New York, NY

1995 - 96: Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA

1995: "Footprints of Disembodied Spirits," Kennedy Art Center Gallery, College of the Holy Names, Oakland, CA

1994: "Interactions: Planting Seeds of Hope," Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
"Persistence of Memory: Test of Time," S.F Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1993: "Remains/Kansas City," Fresh Widow Window Installation Space, Kansas City Artist Coalition, Kansas City, MO
"Remains," Arts and Consciousness Gallery, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, CA

1992: "Remains," Addison Street Windows Installation Space, Berkeley Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA
"Recent Work," Arts and Consciousness Gallery, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, CA

1991: "Ghosts and Prayers," Richard Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

1987: "Introductions ‘87," Gregory Ghent Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Summer of the Arts ‘87," Academy of Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Creative Arts Center of Northern California, Chico, CA

1984: Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA

1981: White Room, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1976: Tyler Hall, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS

2007

Public art finalist, teen room, Castro Valley Public Library, Alameda Arts Commission
Oakland, CA, installation addressing identity and community pride in Richmond, CA, commissioned by Touchable Stories

2000-2002: "Still Here," a collaborative project with Nancer LeMoins, Robert Corti and people living with AIDS, Market Street Art in Transit Program, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA

2001-2002: "Still Here," a collaborative project with Nancer LeMoins, Robert Corti and people living with AIDS, Potrero Nuevo Fund 2001 Prize, San Francisco, CA
2007: Public art finalist, teen room, Castro Valley Public Library, Alameda Arts Commission
Oakland, CA, installation addressing identity and community pride in Richmond, CA, commissioned by Touchable Stories

COLLABORATIVE SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002: "Still Here," a collaborative project with Nancer LeMoins and Robert Corti, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA; International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, Spain; Gay & Lesbian Center, San Francisco, CA

2001-2002: "Still Here," a collaborative project with Nancer LeMoins and Robert Corti, Market Street Transit Kiosks, San Francisco, CA

2001: "Still Here," a collaborative project with Nancer LeMoins and Robert Corti, Addison Street Windows, Berkeley, CA

2000-2001: "Mission: Possible," a collaborative installation with Ruth Morgan, Claudia Bernardi, survivors of violence and ex-violent offenders, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

1999: "Veiled Memories," a collaborative installation with visual artists Claudia Bernardi and Robilee Frederick and poet Marjorie Agosin, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

1996: "Veiled Memories," San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007: “ArtsChange Commissioned Works”, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2006: "Stiches in Time: Food and Identity", ArtsChange, Richmond Health Center, Richmond, CA

2005: "Memento Mori", 509 Cultural Center/Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Locura Cura: Laughter is the Best Medicine", ArtsChange, Richmond Health Center, Richmond, CA
"Peripheral Vision", John F. Kennedy University Art Annex Gallery, Berkeley, CA

2004-2005: "Continuation," Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

2004: "On the Edge: Invitational Exhibition," Partners Gallery, Little River, CA

2003: "What Joseph Wore," The Jewish Community Library, San Francisco, CA

2001-2002: "Borders: Crossings," Annual Sculpture Invitational, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

2001: "Consecrations: Spirits in the Time of AIDS," Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
"In the Realm of Motherhood," Downtown Gallery, Tracy, CA
"WEAD: Why We Do What We Do," Gallery Route 1, Point Reyes Station, CA

2000: "Bittersweet Legacy: Creative Responses to the Holocaust," Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
"Metamorphosis," Fifth Season Gallery, Tracy, CA
"Beneath the Skin: Body Parts as Iconography," Works Gallery, San Jose, CA

1999: "Sewing a Body of Dreams," Modesto Art Center, Modesto, CA
"Spirituality <-> otherworldliness," Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
"Faculty Exhibition," Arts Annex Gallery, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, CA
"To Your Health," Euphrat Museum, DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA
"Stories," 750 Gallery, Sacramento, CA
"Nine Lives," Works Gallery, San Jose, CA

1998: "Angels and Aliens," Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1997: "Pack Rats and Past Lives," Los Medanos College, Pittsburgh, CA

1996: "Re-Found," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Red Ribbon Tightrope: Images and Words by Artists Infected and Affected by HIV," Mendocino County Museum, Willits, CA
"Art Objects," Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
"Sharon Siskin and Kaleo Ching," 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
"Four Faculty," Arts & Consciousness Gallery, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, CA

1995: "A Foot in the Door," The Jewish Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
"Moving the Message: Artist Social Action/From Private to Public," San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994: "Becoming Visible: Art by Women Affected and Infected by HIV," M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
"California Women Artists," San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994: "Art as a Healing Force: Artists Working in Communities," Badé Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA

1992: "Journeys," Badé Museum, Berkeley, CA
"The Drawing Room," Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1991: "Faux Primitive," Eddie Rhodes Gallery, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA

1990: "Dolls by Artists," Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
"Why Are They Weeping?," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
"Born in the RSA," Berkeley Repertory Theater, Berkeley, CA
"Art About AIDS," South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

1988: "Personal Mythologies," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
"Group Show," San Francisco State University Student Union Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"In Memoriam," Los Medanos College Art Gallery, Pittsburg, CA
"In Memoriam," Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA

1987: "In Memoriam, Part 1, Rituals," Lawson Galleries, San Francisco, CA
"5th Anniversary Exhibition," Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1986: "Sharon Siskin and Minow Ohiro," Chabot College, Hayward, CA

1984: "Remembrance of Structures Past," The Women’s Building, Los Angeles, CA
"Three Artists," Napa Valley College Art Gallery, Napa, CA

1982: "The Repeated Form: Sculpture ‘82," International Sculpture Conference, University Gallery, Hayward State University, Hayward, CA

1979: "Critics’ Choice," Downtown Center for the Arts, Albuquerque, NM

SELECTED LARGE GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007: "Ripples", Oakland Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005: "Scents of Purpose: Artists Interpret the Spice Box", The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
"EcoVisions: Bay Area Artists Exploring Global Ecological Issues", Thoreau Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Sociedad da Vida", Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle," Gallery 210, St. Louis, MO
"Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle," Taxarkana Reg Arts & Humanities Council, Taxarkana, TX

2004: "Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle," Milton Hershey School Art Museum, Hershey, PA
"Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle," Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL
"Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle," Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
"Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle," McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC

2003: "Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle," J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, College Station, TX
"Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle," Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX

2001-2006: "2 x 2," John F. Kennedy University Gallery, Berkeley, CA

2002: "By Women’s Hand: Jewish Ritual Objects-New and Reinterpreted by Female Artists," Isaacs Gallery, Osher-Marin JCC, San Rafael, CA
"Turning the Tables," Gallery Route 1, Point Reyes Station, CA
"2 x 2," John F. Kennedy University Gallery, Berkeley, CA

2001: "Eco Art = Eco Activism," John F. Kennedy University Gallery, Berkeley, CA

2000: "Making Change: Artists Interpret the Tzedakah Box," San Francisco Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

1999: "Dear Mother Earth," Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA
"What is Art For?," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
"Needle Art," Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
"Afishianados," Sticks Gallery, Berkeley, CA
"Opening Tricks," Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA

1998: "Dear Mother Earth," Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
"Women in the West," Virtual Gallery, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
"No More Scapegoats," Nourse Auditorium, San Francisco, CA

1997: "Faculty Exhibition," Art Annex Gallery, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, CA
"Waterproof Wallet Art Invitational," Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
"Fahrenheit 451," San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Discards," Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996: "Small," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Breathing Lessons," Art and Healing Network, Sausalito, CA
"Family Matters: Traditional and Contemporary Depictions of Home Life," Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
"Pertaining to Food: Cooking and the Eating Environment," University Gallery, Hayward State University, Hayward, CA

1995: "National Showcase Exhibition," Alternative Museum, New York, NY
"Exquisite Corpse," Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
"(ART) Word (ART)," Trojanowska Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"About Drawing," Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Reframing Exposure: Photo Technology and Body Memory," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
"Deconstruction of Eve," New College Theater, San Francisco, CA
"Anonymous Arrangement," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

1994: "Chair Affair," Auction, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
"Ars Longa Vita Brevis," Weir Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1993: "The Return of the Cadavre Exquis," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"We Are Only Human," Gallery Concord, Concord, CA
"Artists’ Images of AIDS, Images by Artists Living with AIDS," College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA
"California Small Works 1993," California Museum of Art at the Luther Burbank Center, Santa Rosa, CA
"El Dia de los Muertos," Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
"Hope & Harmony," Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
"Women Artists ‘93," Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA

1992: "Telling Stories: Artists’ Books & Journals," Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Oakland, CA
"Berkeley Art Center 8th Annual National Juried Exhibit," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

1991: "Subversive Spirituality," Badé Museum, Berkeley, CA
"Save the Penis," Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Benefit for Oxfam America," Dow and Frosini Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1991: "The Blue Book Chronicles About War and Peace," Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Art Against Intervention in the Third World," La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA

1990: "What Have We Got to Lose: Artists and the Environmental Crisis," Gallery Route 1, Point Reyes Station, CA
"Celebration of the Human Spirit," HAFA, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA

1989: "Women Artists ‘89," Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
"Under Wraps," Irvine Art Center, Irvine, CA

1988: "About Survival," Veterans Memorial Hall, Berkeley, CA

1980: "Chatchkes," Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA
"Berkeley Art Center Annual," Berkeley, CA
"11th Annual Actualist Convention," Blake Street Hawkeyes Theater, Berkeley, CA

1987: "El Dia de los Muertos," Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
"19th Annual Creative Growth Art Auction," Creative Growth, Oakland, CA
"Beyond Power," Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1986: "Bay Arts," San Mateo Arts Council, Belmont, CA
"Hayward Area Forum of the Arts," Belmont, CA

1985: "Second Annual San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery: Celebration of Sculpture," San Francisco, CA
"Traces of Ritual," Irvine Art Center, Irvine, CA
"Nexus: The First Ten Years," Nexus Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
"California Works," California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
"Nicaragua: No Pasaran," Unitarian Fellowship, Kingston, NY
"Celebrando Nuestras Hermanas," Vida Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Art Against Apartheid," Heller Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1984: "California Women Artists," The Corporate Center, Sacramento, CA

1983: "Annual Juried Show: Painting," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
"Fiber and Paint," Fiberworks Gallery, Berkeley, CA
"Hayward Area Forum for the Arts," Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA
"Second Annual Spring Exhibition," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

1982: "29th Annual Exhibition: Sculpture," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
"Strands," San Mateo Arts Council Gallery, Belmont, CA

1981: "MFA Show," University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1980: "Women in the Southwest 2," Downtown Center for the Arts, Albuquerque, NM

1979: "Exhibition," Downtown Center for the Arts and Meridian Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
"Kimo Theater Group Show," Kimo Theater, Albuquerque, NM
"MA/MFA Show," University of New Mexico Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

1978: "The Better Half," The Galleria, Albuquerque, NM
"Women in the Southwest," Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, NM
"Small Works," Albuquerque Art League, Albuquerque, NM