Born 1962 Seal Beach, CA
Education 1988 BFA, Otis Art
Institute of Parson's School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
1985 The Bath Academy of Art, Bath, England
1984-85 American College in Paris/Parson's School of
Design, Paris, France
1981-83 Otis Art Institute of Parson's School of
Design, Los Angeles, CA
Awards 1999 Getty Fellowship Award
for Visual Arts
1996-97 Fullbright Fellowship, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
1995 Guggenheim Fellowship Art Matters, Inc.
Fellowship NEA Travel Grant: US/Mexico Exchange Program
1994 Western States Art Federation/NEA Grant
Selected Solo
Exhibitions 2001 INCARCERATION: Visions of California
in the 21st Century, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa
Barbara, CA
2000 PRISONATION: Visions of California in the
21st Century, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA In Smog and
Thunder: Historical Works from The Great War of the Californias,
Retrospective, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Historical Works
from Stonewall and Beyond, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
1999 Carioca: A Year Among the Natives of Rio de
Janeiro, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Stonewall,
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA Historical Works from
Stonewall and Beyond, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York
1998 In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works From
the War for the Californias, Part II, Catharine Clark Gallery, San
Francisco, CA Solo Exhibition, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA Contingent Reality, Diane Nelson Fine Art, Laguna Beach,
CA
1997 Carioca: A Year Among the Natives of Rio de
Janeiro, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA Skaters, Punks, and
Street Kids (Skatistas, Moleques, e Mendigos), Spruce Street Forum,
San Diego, CA
1996 Historical Paintings from the Great Battle
of San Francisco: New Work, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco,
CA Michael Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1995 The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles and Ex
Votos & Chilangos, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Tales of
The Cities, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, CA Chilangos: New
Drawings by Sandow Birk, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, "La
Esmeralda" Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, D.F.
1994 Drawings: Skaters, Koplin Gallery, Santa
Monica, CA Asphalt Landscape, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago,
IL
1993 Truce, Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA
1992 The Gates of Hell: LA Landscapes of the
'90's, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA Sandow Birk,
Bess Cutler Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 New Velvet, Earl McGrath Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
1989 Velvet, Earl McGrath Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
Selected Group
Exhibitions 2001 1010, 10th Anniversary
Exhibition, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA Capital
Art, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Cola Awards Show,
Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Printmaking Society
16th National Biennial, Laband Art Gallery, LMU, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Made in California, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA C2C, New Langton Arts, San
Francisco, CA Fact/Fiction: Contemporary Art That Walks the
Line, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA One
Night Stand, Farmer's Daughter Motel, Los Angeles, CA San
Francisco International Art Exposition, with Catharine Clark Gallery,
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
1999 Drawing the Line, Ruth Chandler
Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Courting the
Muse: Contemporary Paintings, Historical Influences, Main Art Gallery,
Cal StateUniversity, Fullerton, CA When Borders Migrate: Reflections
on the 150th Anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, The
Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA Spinal Epidural,
Please!, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA Story
Tellers, Art Institute of Southern California, Long Beach, CA
1998 Drawings IV, Koplin Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA San Francisco International Art Exposition, with
Catharine Clark Gallery, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco,
CA Anniversary of the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty, San Francisco
Art Commission, San Francisco, CA (Curated by Rebecca Solnit)
1997 Lineas de Correspondencia, Galeria Jose
Maria Velasco, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (Catalogue)
1996 New Faces, Irvine Valley College,
Irvine, CA Drawn Conclusions, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside,
CA Sandow Birk: Paintings, Micheal Solway Gallery, Cincinnati,
OH RE:MASTERS New Images from Old Sources, Rancho Santiago
College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA Consumption, Catharine Clark
Gallery, San Francisco, CA Chicago Art Fair, with Carl Hammer
Gallery, Chicago, IL VonDutch Tribute, La Luz de Jesus Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA Figure Heads & Red Herrings, Koplin Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA Drawn from L.A., Armory Center for the Arts,
Pasadena, CA
1995 Fifty, Nifty, Thrifty, Objects, Koplin
Gallery, Santa Monica, CA It's Only Rock and Roll, Phoenix Art
Museum, Phoenix, AZ, traveling (Curated by David Rubin,
Catalogue) From Behind the Orange Curtain, Muckenthaler Cultural
Center, Fullerton, CA Emulations: Quotations From The Source,
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA Social Engagement, Los
Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Curated by Scott Canty,
Catalogue) Hotel Triton Art Fair, with Morphos Gallery, San
Francisco, CA
1994 Something for Everyone, Morphos Gallery,
San Francisco, CA LA International Art Fair, with Morphos
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Crossing the Line: Civil Disobedience in
the 90's, Delta Axis Contemporary Arts Center, Memphis,
TN California-The Cutting Edge, Downey Museum of Art, Downey,
CA The Night of the Masque, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport
Beach, CA Dada-Monica, Selections from 'Downtown Lives', Sam
Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Innovators, Michael
Epstein Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
1993 Kustom Grafix, The Works Gallery, Costa
Mesa, CA Surf Show, Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA Kustom Kulture, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1992 New Work from Los Angeles, Anthony Ralph
Gallery, New York, NY Works With Animals, Stuart Katz
Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, CA Revolutions, The Works
Gallery, Long Beach and Costa Mesa, CA East Meets West, Speedway
Gallery, Boston, MA I Thought California Would Be Different,
Laguna Beach, CA New Work from Los Angeles, Anthony Ralph
Gallery, New York, NY East Meets West, Speedway Gallery, Boston,
CA
1991 Post-Pop and Beyond, Bess Cutler
Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Contemporary Visions of the Virgin of
Guadeloupe, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA Synthetic
History, Parker-Zanich Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Edge of
Night, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA Group
Show, Tom Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Heal the Bay Surfboard Invitational,
James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Vistas: Urban
Landscapes, John Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 Surfin' Bird, La Luz de Jesus Gauer, Los
Angeles, CA LA Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Next
Wave, Mark Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
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Selected
Bibliography 2000 Leah Ollman, "Great War of Californias'
Built on a Fertile, Clever Imagination," Los Angeles Times, May
2. In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works from The War of the
Californias, museum catalogue, Laguna Art Museum, in association with
Last Gasp. Louise Roug, California Goes to War, Orange County
Calendar, May 1 Rebecca Schoenkopf, "Let the Bastards Burn! Wait a
Minute: That's us in Birk's war between the Californias," Contents,
April 28 - May 4. Roberta Carasso, "Art Lessons to be Learned in Smog
and Thunder", Laguna News-Post, April 20. Sara Wolf, "History
and Art Merged," The Orange County Register, April 23. Tessa
DeCarlo, "Laying Bare the Uncertain Underside of the Truth," The New
York Times Arts & Leisure.
1999 "The Collector" by Justine Amodeo,
Coast, September. Review, "Local Artist, Sandow Birk,"
NoHoNews, April. Michal Reed, "The Art Academy," (Image only)
Artweek, March. "Birk and Brody Receive Alkazzi Awards,"
Artweek, February, Volume 30, Issue 2. "Architect of War," OC
Weekly, January 29.
1998 Holly Meyers, Art issues,
November/December. Orville O. Clarke, Jr., Art Scene, Los
Angeles, CA, September. Peter Frank, "Art Picks of the Week", LA
Weekly, October, 23-29. "Sly Scenes Picture a California Engulfed
in Civil War," by Claudine Ise, Los Angeles Times, Front Page,
Friday, October 16. Review by Glen Helfand,
sanfrancisco.sidewalk, September 17. Editor's Profile by Colin
Berry, CitySearch, September. Apollinaire Scherr,
Express, September 4. "Reality and Fanasty Melt into
Surrealism," by Rick Gilbert, The Orange County Register, July
19. "Contingent Reality," review by Roberta Carasso, Art Scene,
July/August. "Erotica," Juxtapoze, vol. 2, Fall.
1997 "A Couple of Views," by Cathy Curtis, Los
Angeles Times, Calender Section, November 4. "Sandow Birk:
Connected to the Canvas," cover story by Andrew Asch, Orange County
Register, November 9. "Alone Again, Naturally: Laguna Museum
Bounces Back," by Rebbeca Schoenkopf, November 7. "God is Brazilian,"
by Jamie Brisick, Surfing Magazine, November. "Airbone: Sandow
Birk at the Spruce Street Forum," by Robert Pincus, San Diego Union
Tribune, June 19. Zyzzyva, Spring. "Sandow Birk at
Catharine Clark Gallery," by Marcia Tanner, Artweek, March.
1996 "Sandow Birk, Catharine Clark Gallery," by
Harry Roche, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 18. "Skate
Drawings By Sandow Birk," The Hub, December. "Sandow Birk The
Color of Urban Decay," by Duna Dominguez, Axcess Magazine,
Aug/Sept. "Sandow Birk: Traversing the Spectrum." Tracks Surfing
Magazine, Syndney, Australia, January. "Sandow Birk," edited by
Steven Zevitas. New American Paintings, vol. 6. "The Golden
Land," by Doree Dunlap, OC Weekly, March 8-14.
1995 It's Only Rock'n'Roll: Rock'n'Roll Currents
in Contemporary Art, Museum Catalog, essay by David S. Rubin, Prestel
Publications. "Framed in Controversy," by Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles
Times, Calendar Section, Oct. 17. "Artists Who Surf," by Bolton
Colburn, Surfwriter's Quarterly, Vol. 1, #3, Summer. "Sandow
Birk's Art Span," by Alfred Jan, Artistwriter, June. "San
Francisco Review: Sandow Birk at Morphos," by Holly Sherratt,
Coagula, Issue No. 17, June. "Successful Artists and Dealers,"
by Alan Bamburger, Art Calendar Magazine, San Francisco,
June. "Men of Irony — Sandow Birk at Morphos," San Francisco
Chronicle, Datebook, April 9. "Social Engagements," Pick of the
Week, review by Peter Frank, L.A. Weekly Magazine, March 31-April
5. "Sandow Birk and the Streets of Los Angeles," by L . Rodriguez,
Torta di Miele Magazine, Bologna, Italy, February. (Reproduction
of "The Surrender of O.J.") "Does the Art World Care About O.J.?," by Ben
Easley, Coagula, Issue No. 16, Winter
1994 "Birk's Best," Review by Susan Kandel, Los
Angeles Times, Calendar Section, September 29. "Painters Put Slant
on News," review by Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun Times, April
16. "Surfin' the 'Hood, The Art of Sandow Birk," by John Gunnin, Art
Alternatives Magazine, NY, Spring.
1993 "Art 'n' the Hood — Paintings of and by the
Street Youth of Los Angeles," by Hope Urban, Visions Art Quarterly,
Winter. "Sandow Birk," by Scott Westerman, Axcess Magazine,
Winter. "Los Angeles, Prophet and Loss," by James Scarborough, Art
Press 184 International Magazine, Paris, October. "LA Aftermath,
The Graphic Response to the LA Riots," by Eric La Brecque, Print
Magazine, September/October. "Kar Kulture: 'Kustom Kulture at
Laguna Art Museum," by James Scarborough, Artweek, August
15. "High and Low Culture in La-La Land," by Karl Taro Greenfeld,
Wingspan Magazine, Tokyo, Japan, August. "Birk and Ocampo: City
Beat," by Penny Miller, Coagula Art Journal, Summer. "Riot
Repair — LA Artists Examine the Uprising's Effect on Our Community," by
Hope Urban, LA Reader, May 21. "Historical Violence," Review by
Susan Kandel, Los Angeles Times, April 2. "Ten to Watch in
1993," Staff Writer, Details Magazine, January. Cover
Illustration, Can Control Graffiti Magazine, Issue #4.
1992 "The More Things Change … Sandow Birk Looks
Back to the Present," by Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, Calendar
Section, September 17. "Peering Through the Gates of Hell — Artists
Chronicle Urban Landscapes with Historical Twist," by Zan Dubin, Los
Angeles Times, September 4. "Sandow Birk's Velvets," Review by
Susan Greer, Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, September
1. "Bad Boys/Good Boys — Sandow Birk and the Killing of Los Angeles,"
by J.M.S. Willett, cover story, Visions Art Quarterly, Fall. "In
the Heroic Tradition — Sandow Birk," by Bolton Colburn, Surfer's
Journal, Fall. "Dream Deferred — The Mean Streets as Seen by Sandow
Birk," by Frances Lam, URB Magazine, July. "Sandow Birk at Bess
Cutler Gallery," Staff Writer, LA Style Magazine, April. "Young
Artists Grab Spotlight in Cheeky New Show at Laguna Museum," review by
Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, February 17.
1990 "New Velvet — Sandow Birk at McGrath Gallery,"
by Lesa Sawahata, Exposure Magazine, December.
1989 "Sandow Birk's Velvet's," review by Susan
Greer, Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, September 1.
Selected
Collections Banana Republic, San Francisco, CA Nicholas
Cage, Los Angeles, CA Sophia Coppola, Los Angeles, CA Downey Museum
of Art, Downey, CA Greg Escalante, Laguna Beach, CA Michael Epstein,
Palm Springs, CA Karl Greenfeld, Tokyo, Japan Carl Hammer, Chicago,
IL Don Henley, (The Eagles), Aspen, CO Stuart Katz, Laguna Beach,
CA Anthony Keidis (Red Hot Chillie Peppers), Los Angeles, CA Laguna
Art Museum Earl McGrath, New York, NY The di Rosa Preserve, Napa,
CA Judy and Stewart Spence, Pasadena, CA
Gallery
Affiliation Catharine Clark Gallery 49 Geary Street, 2nd
Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 415.399.1439 |