SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2003 2003 2001 1999 1999 1997 |
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland CA. Chinese Restaurant Pictures. Ampersand International, San Francisco CA. Pastel Diaspora. Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa CA. Supply. Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco CA. Introductions. Crucible Steel Gallery at Cell, San Francisco CA. American American. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale NY. fixations/collections/crushes. |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2004
2003 2002 2001 1999
1998
1997
1996 |
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito CA. Roadside Elixir, HCA Spring Open House. New York Public Library, New York NY. Ninety from the Nineties: A Decade of Printing. Oakland Museum of California, Oakland CA. The Art Health Fair. Islip Art Museum, East Islip NY. Sew Fine. office/gallery, San Francisco CA. La perruque. Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek CA. Needle Art. Travels 2003-2004. Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A Book Is Not A Book Is Not A Book. Paul Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown WV. Bound to Happen. Center for Book Arts, New York NY. Out West: The Artist’s Book in California, Part I. Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City UT. Westward Bound. Traveled through 2000. Catalog. Southern Exposure, San Francisco CA. shrink. Kala Art Institute, Berkeley CA. The Sequential Desire. San Francisco Art Commission Gallery. Fahrenheit 451. San Francisco Center for the Book. You Call That A Book? Sculptural Expanded Books. Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley CA. Science Imagined. |
GRANTS & AWARDS
Creative Work Fund, Visual Arts Award for collaboration with Chinese Historical Society of America, 2004.
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Residency Award, 2003.
Give Something Back, materials grant for Supply, 2000.
Yaddo, Residency Award, 2000.
Centrum, Residency Award, 1999.
The Millay Colony for the Arts, Robert Simpson Fellowship Residency, 1997.
Women’s Studio Workshop, Artists’ Book Residency Grant, 1996.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence RI
Cincinnati Art Museum
DePaul University, Chicago IL
Dickson Art Center, Univeristy of California Los Angeles
Duke University, Durham NC
The Getty Center, Los Angeles CA
Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Los Angeles Public Library
Maryland Institute, College of Art
Mills College, Oakland CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
New York Public Library
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
San Francisco Public Library
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Stanford University, Stanford CA
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park PA
University of Washington Seattle
Special Collections, Margaret Clapp Library, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA
Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University
Numerous private collections.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Giant Robot. "Sweet and Sour Sister: China Buffet," Robert Ito, Issue #33, 10 Year Special, Summer 2004.
The New York Times. “Books as Art Objects (Reading Is Optional),” Michael Frank, 2 January 2004.
San Francisco Chronicle. “Are chop suey and deep-fried everything really Chinese food? Artist Indigo Som says takeout menus can tell us something about Asian culture in America,” Annie Nakao, 11 October 2003.
Stretcher.org. “Chinese Restaurant Drive-Thru,” Indigo Som, September 2003.
The New York Times. “Art Reviews; When Embroidery Is More Than a Craft,” Helen A. Harrison, March 2002.
Stretcher.org. “La Perruque (The Wig), the office/gallery,” Courtney Fink, February 2002.
SFStation.com. “La Perruque (The Wig) at the office/gallery,” Greg Youmans, September 2001.
Reviewwest.com. “Indigo Som, Collector’s Gallery, Oakland Museum,” Eileen Tabios, December 2000.
Sculpture. “Textual Objectives: Objectified Text,” Terri Cohn, September 2000.
Surface Design Journal. “Indigo Som: Gingham as Social Commentary,”Virginia Davis, Fall 1999.
New Art Examiner. “Extended Review: Needle Art,” Terri Cohn, September 1999.
San Francisco Chronicle. “Bedford Needlework Exhibit Pokes Holes in Gender Roles,” Sam McManis, June 1999.
Artweek. “ ‘American American’ at Crucible Steel Gallery,” Berin Golonu, April 1999.
Art Papers. “New Directions in Book Arts,” Terri Cohn, Nov/Dec 1997.
EDUCATION
University of California Berkeley, Ethnic Studies BA 1989
California College of Arts, 1986-87
Brown University, 1984-86
