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BORN

 

Wolfboro, NH


EDUCATION

2002 Master of Fine Arts, Mills College, Oakland, CA


1995 Bachelor of Arts, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008

  • Solo Show, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA


2007

  • Hyper-ordinary, Y2Y Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006

  • Holidayland, Blankspace, Oakland, CA
  • Von Jedem Etwas (Something From Everyone), Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany
  • Zusammenkunst, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany
  • Nancy Boy, University Art Gallery, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
  • Microcosm, Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA
  • Sketch, Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
  • Art LA, Project Booth, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA


2005

  • Nancy Boy, L.H. Horton Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
  • Around the Corner, Solo Show, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Take Shape, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Material Matters, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
  • Nancy Boy, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
  • Microcosm, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA

2004

  • and now they aren't. but they are., Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Summer Group Show, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Intersections, Chela, Baltimore, MD
  • Spring Fever, Richard Levy Galley, Albuquerque, NM

2003

  • Closer Than You Think, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Threads, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
  • The Red Thread, Solo Show, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Sewn Together: Graphic Uses of Thread, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002

  • The Tiny Show, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
  • Of, relating to, or derived from: organic matter, 66balmy, San Francisco, CA
  • Knot Quite: Twisted Works, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Mills College Museum, Oakland, CA
  • The Milhaud Chair in collaboration with Alvin Curran, Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland, CA
  • 34th Annual Textile Exhibit, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
  • The Art of Collecting, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA

2001

  • Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship Recipients, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997

  • Invitational Show, Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA
  • National Juried Show of Small Works, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
  • Christmas Stocking Show, Nancy Margolis Gallery, Portland, ME
  • Holiday Show, Pinch Pottery, Northampton, MA

1995

  • Thesis Show, Johnson Library Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst,MA


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006

  • American Craft, Portfolio Section. August/September 2006, p. 56
  • Art in America, Stephanie Cash, Report from San Francisco: New and Now,
    January 2006, pp. 56-63

2005

  • Stockton Record, Ian Hill, Across the Lines: Male Artists Consider Female Forms in Delta College Show, October 6, 2005
  • Artweek, Marisa Olsen, 'Take Shape' at Rena Bransten Gallery, October 2005, p. 12
  • sfgate.com, e-Pick Art, Alison Bing, Seth Koen: 'Around the Corner' Solid Ideas,
    September 2005
  • Artweek, Colin Berry, 'Material Matters' at the LAB, September 2005, p. 14
  • sfgate.com, e-Pick Art, Alison Bing, Take Shape, August 2005
  • Artweek, Barbara Morris, 'Nancy Boy' at Richmond Art Center, May 2005, p. 15

2004

  • Radar, Erik Wennermark, Intersections, June 2004, pp. 22-23
  • Sculpture, Laura Richard Janku, The Red Thread, May 2004, pp. 69-70

2003

  • Alibi, Steven Robert Allen, High Brow Seamstresses, December 25-31, 2003
  • SF Station Arts Review, Nirmala Natarai, Closer Than You Think, December 2003
  • sfgate.com, e-Pick Art, Alison Bing, Seth Koen, 'The Red Thread' / Mel Prest, 'Open Line', June 2003
  • Spark, KQED-TV, Pam Rorke Levy (series producer), Threads, June 25, 2003
  • ARTnews, Rufus Anneli, City Focus: San Francisco, June 2003
  • sfgate.com, e-Pick Art, Alison Bing, Sewn Together: Sew Complex, April 2003
    San Francisco Bay Guardian, Critic's Choice: Art, Lindsey Westbrook,
  • Sewn Together: Graphic Uses of Thread, April 2, 2003, p. 77
  • Artweek, Previews, Debra Koppman, Sewn Together: Graphic Uses of Thread,
    March 2003, p. 25
  • Catalog essay, Gregory Lind Gallery, Laura Richard Janku, Sewn Together, 2003
  • San Francisco Examiner, Ex Files, Anne Crump, For Art's Sake, August 21, 2001,
    sec. C, p. 1


VISITING ARTIST LECTURES

2007

  • Mills College, Oakland, CA

2006

  • Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
  • Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
  • Mills College, Oakland, CA

2005

  • University of California, Davis, CA
  • California College of Arts, Oakland, CA
  • Mills College, Oakland, CA

2003

  • University of California, Berkeley, CA

2002

  • California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA

2001

  • California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA


AWARDS AND HONORS

2007

  • Juror, Annual Art Exhibition, St. Francis Catholic High School, Sacramento, CA

2006

  • Nominated for the SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Juror, Annual Art Exhibition, St. Francis Catholic High School, Sacramento, CA

2004

  • Nominated for the SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

2002

  • Jay DeFeo Prize, Mills College
  • Graduate Research Grant, Mills College

2001

  • Trefethen Fellowship for Merit, Mills College
  • Cadogan Fellowship, The San Francisco Foundation
  • Nominated to the Master of Fine Arts Fellowship, The Dedalus Foundation

 

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