Education / Residencies
1996 M.F.A., Mills College, Oakland, CA
1992 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1988 Université de la Nouvelle - Sorbonne III, Paris, France
1987 B.A. in Art Studio, University of California, Davis, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Refraction in the Line of Sight, Galleri Urbane, Dallas (November)
2013 In Living Color, Galleri Urbane, Dallas
2010 Multiple Plot Points, Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC; Paintings for the Corner of the Eye, Caffe Museo, SFMOMA
2008 Incident in the Territory of Invention, Merge Gallery, NYC
2007 Hi Jinx, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2005 Stratagems for Living, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2004 Orbits of Paradox, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2003 The Optimist’s Conundrum, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2001 Definition Proof, Post, Los Angeles
1999 Eccentricity of the Middle Ground, Four Walls, San Francisco
1998 Recent Paintings, SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco
1997 Fragile Boundaries, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 ICONS: W13, Bulgakov Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine (curated by Billy Gruner)
2018 Bread & Butter, Galleri Urbane, Dallas (curated by Adrian Zuniga)
2018 Summer Show, Gallery 1317, San Francisco (curated by Jeff Alan Gard)
2018 RNOP San Francisco, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco (curated by Billy Gruner)
2018 Artadia - Bay Area Awardees, Ascent, San Francisco (curated by Elizabeth Leach)
2018 KenxArteriors, Arteriors, Dallas (curated by Ken Downing)
2017 Black Box, Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany
2017 Personals, Skowhegan New Work Project Space, NYC (curated by Paige Laino)
2017 A Call to Action, Kustera Projects, Red Hook, Brooklyn
2017 With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles
2017 Sanctuary City, San Francisco Art Commission Galleries (curated by Monica Lundy)
2017 Carry On: the Art + Architecture Faculty Triennial, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco (curated by USF Museum Studies graduate students)
2017 The Morning After, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco (curated by Leo Bersamina)
2015 Colour & Line Are Not Lies, Modern Art Projects, Blue Mountains and Raygun Projects, Toowoomba, Australia (curated by Tarn McLean and Kyle Jenkins)
2015 Formeel Waterverven, Waterland Museum, Purmerend, Netherlands (curated by Piet Knook)
2015 New Abstraction, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley
2015 Paperazzi 4, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NYC
2014 Object, Object!!, Helmuth Projects, San Diego (curated by John Oliver Lewis and Jessica McCambly)
2014 Galleri Urbane Presents S.U.M., Salon Urbane at the Thunderbird, Marfa (curated by Adrian Zuniga)
2014 Steamed, Art + Science: Faculty Triennial, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco (curated by Joyce Grimm)
2014 Paperazzi 3, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NYC
2013 Light Space Projects/Rituals of Exhibition, H Gallery, Chiang Mai (curated by Giles Ryder)
2013 Color Theory: The Use of Color in Contemporary Art, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (curated by Katrina Traywick)
2013 Dripping Color Amazement, oqbo galerie, Berlin
2013 Uncharted, Marina Cain Gallery, SF
2013 What's the Point?, Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC (curated by Jeffrey Teuton)
2011 Gifting Abstraction, Soho20 Chelsea Gallery (curated by Mariangeles Soto-Diaz)
2011 Chroma: About Color, Marina Cain Gallery, SF
2010 Touch, Paris Concret (curated by Brent Hallard)
2010 Informal Relations, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (curated by Scott Grow)
2009 Mixtape, Jen Bekman Projects, NYC
2009 Fate and Freewill, Contemporary Art Space, Riverside, CA (curated by David Leapman)
2007 Colectiva de las Artistas, Galeria Isidro Miranda, Buenos Aires
2007 Art in Embassies, U.S. Embassy, Montevideo, Uruguay
2007 Tree, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 Neo-Mod: New Northern Californian Abstraction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, and the Monterey Art Museum (curated by Diana Daniels)
2005 The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, SF
2004 The World Becomes a Private World: Selections from the Collection of Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
2004 Architectonics, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2004 Observations, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles
2002 New Painting and Sculpture, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley
2002 Abstraction, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2001 Space Oddity, Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City
2001 Climax, jennjoy gallery, SF
2001 Poor Walls, Quotidian Gallery, SF
2001 Pierogi Flat Files, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute
2000 Paper Cuts, Rena Bransten Gallery, SF
2000 Works on Paper, Post, Los Angeles
2000 Artcouncil Award Show, Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, SF
2000 Multiple Sensations: The Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF
2000 Haulin’ Ass: Pierogi in L.A., Post, Los Angeles
2000 Yellow: The First Color, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1999 No Image at New Image, New Image Art, West Hollywood
1999 Scopic: Magnify the Times, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (curated by Julie Deamer)
1999 Nothing But Time, Southern Exposure, SF (curated by David Ross)
1999 A Skowhegan Decade, David Beitzel Gallery, New York
1999 Post-Postcard, Four Walls, San Francisco
1997 Seduced by Surface: 8 Bay Area Painters, University Art Gallery, UC San Diego (curated by Daniel Foster)
1997 Three Artists, Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose State University
1997 Fire and Light, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley
1996 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
1996 10th Annual National Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center
1996 Emerging Bay Area Artists, Mace Space for Art, San Francisco
Awards
2007 American Artists Abroad Program, Montevideo, Uruguay – Participation with the U.S. Embassy in workshops, lectures, and exhibitions
2002 SECA Nomination, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2000 Artadia Award in the Visual Arts Grant
1995 Edwin and Adalaine Cadogan Fellowship Award
1996 Juror’s Award, Berkeley Art Center’s 10th Annual National Exhibition
1994 First Place Award, San Jose Art League’s 2-D Contemporary
Selected Publications
2005 Baker, Kenneth “Artists Embrace Sleight of Hand,” SF Chronicle, 5/28/05
1999 Baker, K “Journey Through the Middle Way,” SF Chronicle, 6/26/99
2007 Bamberger, Alan “Opening at Rena Bransten Gallery,” Artbusiness.com, 5/24/07 and 5/12/05
1999 Bonetti, David “Gallery Watch,” SF Examiner, 6/30/99
2008 Bogert, Rachael “Cultural Bridge,” UCDavis Magazine, Spring 2008, p.37
2015 Bowie Style Print and Pattern: Geometric, Laurence King Press, London
2001 Cain, Marcus “A is for Abstract,” REVIEW, Vol. 3, Kansas City, July 2001
2007 Callaway, Bob “Jessica Snow at Rena Bransten,” Artfever, Blogspot.com, 6/9/07
Camplin, Todd “Jessica Snow + Donald Martini at Galleri Urbane,” Modern Dallas, 10/13
2001 Crump, Anne “Ordered Abstraction,” SF Examiner, 7/13/01
