:: born
Tucson, AZ
:: education
2003 MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1995 BA, Practice of Art, University of California, Berkeley
:: SELECTED SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
:: 2008
::::: upcoming :: with Lisa Congdon, Art
Stream Studios, Rochester, NH
• "Intersections" with Marin Camille Hood, Cesar
Chavez Art Gallery, San Francisco
State University, CA
• "couplets",with Aurora
Robson, SQFT
gallery, Nashville, TN
:: 2007
• “over
the river and through the woods”, Little
Bird Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA :: installation shots
• Lisa Solomon & Kerri
Rosenstein, Richard Levy
Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
:: 2006
•" The Point of Loose Ends : Lisa Solomon & Wendy Kawabata",
MiraCosta College, San Diego CA :: installation
shots
:: 2005
• Project
Room, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
::
2001
•"hand made by", Lizabeth
Oliveria Gallery, Oakland, CA
:: selected exhibitions
::::upcoming
• September 2008 "Tattered Cultures, Mended Tales", Academy
Art Center, Honolulu, HI
• October 2008 - "noise", Anton Gallery, Monterey, CA
:: 2008
• "Pattern reDefined" -with Jill Weinstock, Freddy
Chandra, Walter
Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
•"small wonders", Garrison
Baker Fine Art, NY• May 17- June 14, 2008,
• "Devotion
To Thread", Woodland
Pattern, Milwaukee WI :: show
card with more info here
• "Intricacies", Soho
Myriad, Atlanta, GA
•"Robots", San
Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
•"optical illusion", Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
• pulse art fair, New York, NY [Richard Levy Gallery]
• LA art Show, Baker Hanger, Santa Monica, CA [Richard Levy Gallery]
• Facutly Show, California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA
•"Generalized Anxiety Disorder", Walter
Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
:: 2007
• Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL [Richard Levy Gallery]
•"Pattern, Pattern, Pattern", Women
and their Work, Austin, TX
• workADay, Blankspace,
Berkeley, CA
• "27th Annual Auction, ICA,
San Jose, CA
• pulse art fair, London, UK
• Jupiter Hotel Art Fair, Portland, OR
•"Currently
West", Koumi
Museum, Nagano, Japan :: installation shots
•“Stitched II : Memory Imprinted”, Richmond Health Center,
Richomond, CA
•“No
Need to Touch”, Art Center South Florida, Miami, FL
•“Stretching
the Threads”, Atlantic
Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
•Momento Mori, the artist
network, NY
• LA Art Show, Baker Hanger, Santa Monica , CA
• I Want Sugar, Mama Buzz Cafe,
Oakland, CA :: installation
shots
•Faculty Show, Cal State East Bay, Hayward, CA
:: 2006
• pulse art fair, Miami, FL [Richard Levy Gallery]
•"embroidered stories/knitted tales", Bedford
Gallery,
Walnut Creek, CA
•"bedtimestories", Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA :: installtion
shots
•"geographic premonitions", Richmond
Art Center, CA
•“Nostalgia”, After
Modern, San Francisco, CA
•"26th Annual Fall Art Auction”, San Jose ICA, CA
•Art 212, New York, NY (Richard Levy Gallery)
• "OK City for sale", Ego
Park, Oakland, CA :: installation shots
• exposition de ete, Bickett
Gallery, Raliegh, NC
• Community Virology, Lobot Gallery,
Oakland, CA
• Wall Works, Traywick
Contemporary , Berkeley, CA
• "momentum", Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
• 505 Montgomery, San Francisco, CA
• FancyMag Auction/Benefit for Megan Dooley, Williamsburg, NY
•
Art LA, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles,
CA
• Sketch, Memorial
Union Art Gallery, UC Davis, CA
:: installation
shots
::
2005
• Pulse-Art, Miami, FL
• Aqua Art Miami, FL
• AAF, New York, NY
• "Patriot Show", Cricket
Engine, Oakland, CA
• Southern Exposure 30th Anniversary, Southern
Exposure,
San Francisco, CA
• "Artists for Tibet", Juice Design, San Francisco, CA, www.juicedesign.com
• "Stuff & Things",
City of San Pablo Art Gallery, San Pablo, CA :: installation shots
• Group Show, Graystone, San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco International Art Fair (Richard Levy, Graystone)
:: 2004
• "13", Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
• EMERGE 2004, Gen
Art,
The Old Mint, San Francisco, CA (jurors: John Weber, Paule Anglim,
Squeak Carnwarth, Martha Angus) :: installation
shots
•"pink
week", Cricket Engine Gallery, Oakland, CA
•"Dangerous
Playthings", Cricket Engine Gallery, Oakland, CA
•Alumni Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, UCB, CA
•Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY (Richard Levy Gallery)
•Toranto Art Fair, Canada (Richard Levy Gallery)
•“Hidden Treasures”, Nathan
Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
•“SF Artists for moveon.org”, I.C.A.N. Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
•Scope LA, Los Angeles, CA (Richard Levy Gallery)
•“36th Annual Textile Exhibition”, Oliver Hyde Art Gallery,
Freemont,
CA
•“
Spring Fever”, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
•“
San Francisco Art Institute Auction”, San Francisco, CA
•Scope NY, New York, NY (Richard Levy Gallery)
•“Valentine Show”, Den, San Francisco, CA
•San Francisco International Art Fair, CA (Richard Levy Gallery)
•“
small works”, Graystone, San Francisco, CA
:: 2003
•“ Night Moves”, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
•“
Threads”, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
•affordable art fair, New York, NY (Richard Levy Gallery)
•“
making ends meet”, Lucky Tackle, Oakland, CA
•Scope LA, Los Angeles CA (Richard Levy Gallery)
•“
MFA Exhibition 2003”, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
• web project: surveilling
surveillance
•“
Sewn Together”, curated by Laura Richard Janku, Gregory Lind Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
•“San Francisco Art Institute Auction”, San Francisco Art
Institute, CA
•San Francisco International Art Fair, CA (Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery,
Graystone)
:: 2002
•“ Miniatures”, Graystone, San Francisco, CA
•“Black and White”, Juice Design, San Francisco, CA www.juicedesign.com
•“
So-Exquisite”, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
•“
Register This – 10 Artists from the Gen Arts slide registry”,
StudioZ, San Francisco, CA
:: 2001
•“That Girl”, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Oakland, CA
•“
Luminous Wonders of The Electric World”, New Langton Arts, San Francisco,
CA
•“
Wendy Sussman Memorial Exhibition”, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley,
CA
•Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
:: 2000
•Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Oakland, CA
:: 1999
•" tree", nika gallery, San Francisco, CA
•“Lure”, Caesar Chavez Gallery, San Francisco State University,
CA
•“postcards”, Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
•Horizons Unlimited Auction, San Francisco, CA
:: 1998
•“postcards”, Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
:: 1996
• Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA
::1995
•“ Painting Show”, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA
•“Left to Right, Right to Left”, SUNY College at Fredonia,
NY
•“Honors Studio Show”, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley,
CA
•“Kitty Club”, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA (performance piece
and
exhibition)
•“Watchful Eyes”, Optometry Center, UC Berkeley, CA
:: awards
2007 travel award, Komi machi Museum
2005 SECA award Nominee, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art
2004 Herringer
Family Foundation Grant
2003 Mills Mini Grant
2002-03 Sara Lewis Fellowship
2001-03 Mills Graduate Assistantship
1995 Eisner Prize for Excellence in Fine Arts
1995 Honors Studio, UC Berkeley, CA
1993 Edmund G. Scholarship
1991-95 Alexander Bee Grant, Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation
:: bibliography
:: CATALOGUES/Books
•Monem, Nadie, Contemporary Textiles, Black Dog Publishing ,
2008 ISBN 978-1906155292
•featured in Illustration * Play – Craving
for the Extraordinary,
Victionary Press, 2007 ISBN 978-988-98229-3-4
•Hayashi, Yoshimi & Minoru Nakashima Currently
West, Exhibition Catalogue, Koumi Museum, Nagano Japan, June 2007
•Janku, Laura Richard, Sewn Together: Graphic uses of Thread,
exhibition catalogue {Gregory Lind Gallery}, 2003
:: OTHER ARTICLES
•ruzik_tuzik, "Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon", Huliq News, June 3,
2008 :: read it here
•Blexrun-Strigens, Betty, "Commentary forms fabric of textile exhibit",
The Milwaukee Journal Sentenial, June 3, 2008 :: read it here
•Moriarty,
Judith Ann, "Devotion
to Thread at Woodland Pattern",
Vital Source, May 2008 :: read it here
•KTVU channel 2 news segment on "Robots : a cultural icon",
my work featured in the visuals :: watch it here
•McCollum,
Charlie, "Robots
invade museum",
the Mercury News, April 17, 2008 :: read it here
•San Jose Museum of Art in conjunction
with the Robots Show,
Podcast/video interview of me:: see it here
•Hughes,
Justin, "Violence
and Softness 'Intersect' at Gallery",
Golden Gate Xpress, March 20, 2008 :: read it here
•Solomon, Lisa "love at first site", compiled by Timothy
Buckwalter, Artists
share a love at first sit art experience. I wrote on David Park Feb. 14,
2008 :: find it here
•Tong, Sophia, "CSUEB Annual Faculty Show", Pioneer, January
31, 2008 :: download pdf here
•"Aurora
Robson + Lisa Solomon",
Juxtapose Online, January 14, 2008 :: read
it here
•Maddox,
David, "Domestic
Terrorism",
Nashville Scene, January 10, 2008 :: read it here
•Mitchell, Charles Dee, “Report from Austin, Art by Southwest”,
Art in America,
December 2007 [image on pg. 59] :: see
it here
•melamine plate feaure in "Handmade for the Holidays", ReadyMade
Magazine, December 2007 :: see it here
•Swan,
Rachel, "workAday
- Critic's Choice",
East Bay Express, October-November 2007 :: see it here
•Batey, Charla, "Work
That Makes Art",
NovoMetro, October 20, 2007 :: see it here
•Buckwalter, Timothy, "Critic's Pick
- workAday", The
Montly, October 2007 :: see it here
•Solomon, Lisa "Give me a C" [and interview I conducted
with Lacey J. Roberts for], Kitchen Sink Magazine, vol 16, Fall 2007 :: see
it here ::
pdf here
•Halvarson,
Jan, “New Art”,
Diesel Cult, October 2007 :: see it here
•“the
weekend guide”, LA Daily Candy, October 11, 2007
•"Currently
West",
Shinano Mainichi Shimbun, June 19, 2007 :: see it here
•"Currently West" - my work is featured - Shinano Mainichi
Shimbun, June 21, 2007 :: see it here
•Cagina, Renee & Richard Shack, "No
Need to Touch",
Gallery Diet, South Florida Monthly magazine
•"no
need to touch / art center south florida", MAG
- Miami Art Guide, June 2007
•Marseglia, Paul, "Art Patrons in for Twice the Pleasure",
The Daily Journal, April 6, 2007 {my work in the photo} :: see it here :: pdf here
•Reed,
Victoria, "Wendy
Kawabata and Lisa Solomon at Kruglak Gallery, Mira Costa College", Artweek,
Feb. 2007 :: pdf here ::
online here
•Buckwalter, Timothy, "Sweets to the Sweet",
The Monthly, Feb. 2007 :: see it here :: pdf here
•Buck, David, "'Geographic Premonitions' at the Richmond Art Center", Artweek,
Feb. 2007
•Halvarson, Jan "interview
with Lisa Solomon", Design
Sponge Guest Blog, online,
Jan 2007
•Westbrook,
Lindsey, "'Nostalgia
at After Modern", Artweek,
Dec. 2006-Jan. 2007 :: pdf here ::
online here
•"Lisa Solomon",
What you Make It Zine, online,
Nov. 2006 - Feb. 2007
• Woodward, Christopher, "Geographic Premonitions", Richmond Art
Center 70th Anniversary Catalogue, November 2006
•"doily art", free
people blog, November 2006
•Taylor,
Robert, "Yarn
Art Gets a Modern Makeover at Bedford", Contra Costa Times,
September 28, 2006
•Castro, Stephanie "The Originals", 7x7
magazine, September
2006 [pg. 221] :: see
it here
•Saltzman,
Aaron, "Memorial
Union Arts Gallery Exhibits: Sketch", The California Agee,
February 2, 2006
•images in knit
knit 6 Dec. 2005
•"synchronized
tanks: pink plaid", 3rd
Floor, issue
#2 2005
•Tobin,
Richard, "Aurora
Robson: Wake up, Wake up, It's in the morning", The - Santa
Fe's Monthly Magazine of the Arts, May 2005, read
it here
•Olsen,
Marisa S. "'Emerge'
at the Old Mint", Artweek,
March 2005
•Satish,
Arathi, “A
Tribute to Miss Olive Hyde”,
What’s
Happening’s Tri-City Voice, May 25 – June 8, 2004
•Lhamo, Rinchen, “Threads”, The – Santa
Fe’s Monthly Magazine of the Arts, Dec.2003/Jan.2004
•Allen, Steve Robert, “High Brow Seamstresses – Threads at
the Richard
Levy Gallery”, Alibi, December 25-31, 2003
•Westbrook, Lindsey, “In Between. Grad student art at Mills”,
East
Bay Express, April 23-39, 2003
•Jost, Stephan, Exhibition Introduction Essay, Mills MFA Online Catalogue,
April
2003, www.mills.edu
•Weber, John, Catalogue Essay, Mills MFA Online Catalogue, April 2003, www.mills.edu
•Bing, Alison, “Sewn Together”, e-pick on www.sfgate.com,
April 10,
2003
•Koppman, Debra, “Previews”, Artweek, March 2003
•images in The Walrus Literary Journal, Mills College, 2003
•Cheng, DeWitt, “Register This”, www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com,
May 2002
•Kroth, Maya, “ ‘That Girl’ s Feminism has a new face”,
www.sfstation.com, December 2001
•Monoit, Marie-Adele, “That Girl”, e-pick on www.sfgate.com,
December
2001
•Helstrup, Anjee, “Handmade by Lisa Solomon, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery”,
Zero Magazine, November 10 – December 10, 2001
•Monoit, Marie-Adele, “Lisa Solomon”, e-pick on www.sfgate.com,
October
2001
•Helstrup, Anjee, “Fishwife Tales, Art Around the Bay Area – Art
to
Check Out”, Zero Magazine, October 10 – November 10, 2001
•Ruttenberg, Danya "Over There - A Critical Guide to San Francisco
Events", The East Bay Express, August 13, 1999
•Rant and Rage - a magazine of art and ideas, Spring 1996
:: lectures
•April 2008, Senior Project, Beverly Rayner, San Jose State, San Jose,
CA
•April 2008, Mixed Media Class, Mel Prest, CCA, San Francisco, CA
•March 2008 San Francisco State Visiting Artist Lecture, CA
•November 2007,
Senior Seminar, Ron Nagle, Mills College, Oakland, CA
•July
2007, Drawing Class, CCA, Ariana Killoran, Oakland, CA
•June 2007, several visits to Elementary Schools, workshops at the museum
and lecture to college Design Students - all in conjunction with the Currently
West exhibition, Nagoya, Japan
•April
2007, Senior Project, Beverly Rayner, San Jose State, San Jose, CA
•March 2007, CCA, Textile
Department, Oakland, CA
•March 2007, Mixed Media Class, James Pitt, CCA, Oakland, CA
•November 2006, Multiple studio and art History Classes,
Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA
•June 2006, Drawing and Composition, Aida Gamez,
University of California at Berkeley
•March
2006, Core 2D-3D class, James Pitt, CCA, Oakland, CA
•February 2006, Undergraduate Review, CCA, Oakland, CA
•February 2005, Tour of my studio and Q/A with graduate students, Lucy
Puls, University of California at Davis
•November
2004, Painting Class, Katherine Sherwood, University of California At Berkeley
•April
2004, Graduate Photography Seminar, Connie Begg, Academy of Art College,
San Franciso,
CA
•February 2004 Senior Seminar, Ron Nagle, Mills
College, CA
•November 2003 Painting Class, Robin McDonnell, Mills College, CA (individual
critiques with Students)
•August 2003 Painting Class, Cynthia Innis, University of California
At Berkeley (slide lecture and critique)
•February 2003 Seminar, Sue Whitmore, Chico State University, CA
•November 2002 Senior Seminar, Hung Liu, Mills College, CA
•October 2002 “A
Space of One’s Own; HTML as Art” , History
Of Performance Art, Moira Roth, Mills College, CA
•April 2001 Panelist and Roundtable Leader, Creative Career Forum San
Jose State University
•September 2000 Tour of my studio + Q/A to University of California at
Berkeley Art Students of Katherine Sherwood