Brian Gross Fine Art: Artists: Sono Osato

Born: 1960; Baden Baden, Germany
Education: 1986; MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland; 1983; BFA, Arizona State University, Tempe
Solo Exhibitions: 2023; Diluvia, Brian Gross Fine Art; 2017; Submergence, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; 2009; Babylon: The Buried Language Series, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; 2007; Silent Language, Gallery Twenty-Four, Brooklyn, New York; 2006; Destinations, Outdoor Projection of Revenant, Art in Odd Places, Lower East Side, New York, New York, curated by Jeremy Helton; 2005; Angels in Dust, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; 2004; Revenant, Simultaneous Projections, DUMBO Arts Center, “Art under the Bridges Festival,” Brooklyn, New York; 2003; Echo: Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; 2002; Paintings/ Assemblages, Brian Gross Fine Art at One Post Plaza, San Francisco, California; 2000; Robert Lowery Gallery, Athens, Georgia; 1999; New Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; Permanent floor installation, Natalie & James Thompson Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, California; 1998; S(o)UND, Natalie & James Thompson Gallery, San Jose University, San Jose, California; 1994; S(P)OO(o)R, Terrain, San Francisco, California; It’s Kinda Like a Ratatouille, A La Carte Restaurant, Berkeley, California; 1993; Performance and reading for Beyond the Written Word, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California; Oakland Drawers, Oakland Museum Sculpture Court, California; 1992; New Sculpture, Terrain, San Francisco, California; 1991; Turn of the Century Fine Art, Berkeley, California; Utland, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California; Laguna Art Museum Satellite at South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, California; Monoprints, Terrain, San Francisco, California; Davis Art Center, Davis, California; 1989; Innojo Eard Onacna, Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, California; New Work, Terrain, San Francisco, California; 1986; New Art Gallery, San Francisco, California; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California; 1985; California College of Art and Craft Graduate Gallery, Oakland; 1982; Harry Wood Art Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe
Selected Group Exhibitions: 2020; 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog; 2014; The Right Amount of Wrong, Curated by Lovina Purple, ISE Foundation, New York, New York; Traces, Presented by Armchair/Shotgun, 7 Dunham, Brooklyn, New York; 2013; A Cage Went in Search of a Bird, Radiator Arts, New York, New York; 2011; Piece of Mind, Elga Wimmer, New York, New York; 2010; Summer Collage Show, ACA Galleries, New York, New York; 2008; 33 Washington: A Retrospective, Rabbithole Studios, Brooklyn, New York; Art Auction for Louisiana ArtWorks, Louisana Artworks, New Orleans; Beauty’s Burden, The Ernest Rubinstein Gallery at the Educational Alliance, New York, New York; 2007; CCA(C) at di Rosa Preserve: Celebration of CCA’s Centennial with Prominent Alumni in the Collection, Napa, Cailfornia; Honoring CCA at 100: Works by Arneson, De Forest, Fleming, Osato and Solomon, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; Tuttavia Povera, Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, New Jersey; 2006; 2006 International Assemblage Artists Exhibition, GALLERY twenty-four, Berlin; Egg Drop Soup, Salon on South Second, Brooklyn, New York; Impromptu, DAC (Dumbo Art Center), Brooklyn, New York; Remnants, Lemmons Contemporary, New York, New York; Three Person Show (with Tatiana Parcero & osCAr Munoz), Gaviria-Lorduy Fine Arts, Brooklyn, New York; Winter Auction, DAC, Brooklyn, New York; 2005; Winter Auction, DAC, Brooklyn, New York; 2004; Winter Auction, DAC, Brooklyn, New York; 2000; Metamorphosis, Fifth Season Gallery, Tracy, California; Time CApsule, Refusalon, San Francisco, California; 1999; Recent Works by Alumni, California College of Art and Crafts, Oakland; Faculty Show, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado; Meaning and Message: Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection, The Oakland Museum, California; San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tel Aviv, Refusalon, San Francisco, California; Raymond Lawrence Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia; Requiem: Living Artists Eulogize a Dying Century, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia; The Living Legend of Fluxus, Spokane Falls Community Center, Spokane, Washington; 1998; Secrets of Nature, Paradise Wood Sculpturegrove, Santa Rosa, California; 1997; The Art Orchestra (A Sculptor’s Ensemble), performed at Florence Gould Theater. Written and directed by Tom Marioni.; 1996; Sculpture Walk, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California; Trace, The Dead Space Gallery, Portland, Maine; CCAC: Past, Present, and Future, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, California; Re-In-CAR-Nation, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; Samplings, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1995; Roots in Asia (two person show with Joe Sugayam), Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California; Public Art/Public Space/Public Process, South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco, California; Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California; Pulling the Weight, Works, San Jose, California; 1994; Wunderkammer, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1993; Filler, Terrain, San Francisco, California; Trash, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1992; The Ecology Show, The Gap, Corporate Headquarters, San Francisco, California; 1991; Woman Image Now Honor Exhibition Series, Hayden Library, Arizona State University, Tempe; 11 at 1111: New California Sculpture, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; 1990; Wall Sculpture: The Art Found Objects, Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California; Oakland Artists, Oakland Museum, California; Chain Reaction, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, California; 1989; Fresh Views, San Joe Museum of Art, San Jose, California; Eye Sores, curated by Nayland Blake, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California; 1988; From Ashes to Veiled Beatitudes, Terrain, San Francisco, California; 1987; Elementary My Dear, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California; Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1986; Master’s Exhibition, CCAC, Oakland, California; 1985; New Art in the West, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, California; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California; 1983; Another Exhibition of Paintings, The Lyceum, Arizona State University, Tempe, curator and participant; 1982; An Exhibition of Paintings, The Lyceum, Arizona State University, Tempe, curator and participant
Public Collections: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Awards: 2008; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; 2000; Change, Inc. Grant; 1999; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; 1997; Djerassi Foundation Artist in Residency, Smip Ranch, Woodside, California; 1995; Contemporary Art Center of Herblay, Artist in Residence, Pontoise, France; 1994; Art Matters Inc. Grant; 1989; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; 1988; Djerassi Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts, Ridge Vineyard; Loci, Award Exhibition, “Best of Show,” 1988 Pro Arts Annual; Djerassi Foundation Artist in Residency, Smip Ranch, Woodside, California
Speaking: 2000; Guest Speaker, University of California, Berkeley; 1999; Interview on Video, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; Guest Speaker, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado; Guest Speaker, University of California, Berkeley; 1998; Guest Speaker, San Jose State University, San Jose, California; 1996; Interview, Women in the Arts, KALX, Berkeley, California; Panelist, All Else…Being Equal?, CCAC, San Francisco, California; 1995; Guest Speaker, Graduate Seminar with Bette Borgoine, San Francisco Art Institute; 1994; Guest Speaker, Sonoma State University, California; Guest Speaker, University of California, Berkeley; 1992; Excerpts from Stone Soup, broadcast on Word and Image, KPFA 94FM Public Radio, Berkeley, California; Stone Soup, producer and hostess of private reading and performance series; Panelist, Asian American Arts Conference, University of California, Berkeley; 1991; Guest Speaker, Pro Arts Open Studios: Collecting Art in the Bay Area, Pro Arts; Guest Speaker, San Jose State University, San Jose, California; Guest Speaker, University of California, Davis; Guest Speaker, Davis Arts Center, Davis, California; 1990; Guest Speaker, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri; Panelist, Culture Under Fire, Greater Kansas City Coalition Against Censorship, KCAI; Guest Speaker, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; Guest Speaker, Graduate Seminar with John Roloff, Mills College, Oakland, California; 1989; Panelist, N. California Sculpture Symposia, The Art of Place, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, California; Guest Speaker, Arizona State University, Tempe; Guest Speaker, Graduate Seminar with Raymond Saunders, California College of Arts and Crafts; Interview, State of the Arts, KUSP 89 FM Public Radio, Santa Cruz, California; 1987; Guest Speaker, Art Talks, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
Teaching: 2001; Intermediate Painting & Foundation 2-D, University of Georgia, Athens; 2000; Intermediate Painting & Foundation 2-D, University of Georgia, Athens; Independent Graduate Studies, California College of Arts, Oakland, California; 1999; Open Seminar, Graduate Studies, California College of Arts, Oakland, California; Through the Body; Paint as Substance, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado; 1996; The Circle as Paradigm, Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar, California College of Arts; 1995; Interdisciplinary Critique, Film, Video, Performance, team taught with William Farley, California College of Arts, Oakland; 1994; Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar, California College of Arts, Oakland, California; 1993; Graduate Seminar-New Genre, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California; 1992; Interdisciplinary Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California; Beginning Drawing, Mills College, Oakland, California; 1990; Beginning Drawing and Advanced Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri
Bibliography: 2005; Baker, Kenneth. “Sono Osato-‘Angels in Dust.’” San Francisco Chronicle, April 2.; 2003; Baker, Kenneth. “Objects Speak a Private Code in ‘Silent Language.’” San Francisco Chronicle, April 9.; 2002; Baker, Kenneth. “Critic’s Picks.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 7.; 2000; Porges, Maria. ArtForum, March.; Bonetti, David. “Charting 35 Years of California Art.” San Francisco Examiner, January 6.; 1999; Baker, Kenneth. “Bearable Weightlessness of Being.” San Francisco Chronicle, December 18.; Bonetti, David. “Gallery Watch.” San Francisco Examiner, December 10.; Sherman, Ann Elliot. “Second Impressions, Meaning and Message in Contemporary Art.” The Museum of California, Fall.; Cullum, Jerry. “What’s on the Surface isn’t the Whole Story.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 16.; Fox, Catherine. “Apocalypse Wow.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 29.; 1998; Miller, Alicia. “The Secrets of Nature at Paradise Wood Sculpturegrove.” Artweek, July/August.; 1997; Meeker, Cheryl. “Beer Drinking Sonata is the Highest Form of Art.” Art Papers, November/December.; 1996; Baker, Kenneth. “A Stroll in the Garden.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 4.; 1994; Bonetti, David. “Gallery Watch: Revview of Show at Terrain.” San Francisco Chronicle, October 31.; 1993; Bonetti, David. “Lazy Gazing at Some Worthy Shows.” San Francisco Examiner, September 2.; Litfin, Katy. “Profile: Sono Osato.” City Life Magazine, July/August.; Carey, Lynn. “Exhibit Invites You to Browse Through Oakland’s Drawers.” Contra Costa Times, June 18.; Thym, Jolene. “Sculpture Offers Visitors to Peek Inside Oakland’s ‘Drawers,’” Oakland Tribune, June 7.; Hull-Webster, Mary. “A Conversation with Sono Osato,” Artweek, May 20.; Bonetti, David. “Down in the Dumps: Uplifting Art.” San Francisco Examiner, January 27.; Baker, Kenneth. “Harlequin Fantasies.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 2.; 1992; Jan, Alfred. “Sono Osato at Terrain.” New Art Examiner, December 3.; Cohn, Terri. “The Forgotten and the Familiar.” Artweek, October 22.; Baker, Kenneth. Scavenged Material Becomes Sculpture.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 15.; Fowler, Carol. “Something New Times Three at Recent Art Exhibit Openings.” Contra Costa County Times, September 12.; Van Siclen, Bill. “Terrain at Newport ShowCAses Young Artists.” The Providence Journal, August 21.; 1991; Sherman, Ann Elliott. “Detritus and True.” The Metro, San Jose, November 7.; Burkhart, Dorothy. “Poetry from Piles of Stuff.” San Jose Mercury News, November 1.; Bonetti, David. “Sono Osato at Terrain Gallery.” ArtNews, October.; Littlefield, Kinney. “Oakland Artist Explores a Deeper Shade of Black.” The Orange County Register, August 30.; Curtis, Cathy. “There’s More than Meets the Eye at Offbeat Laguna Museum Exhibit.” Los Angeles Times, August 25.; Doubin, Dan. “Come Out, Come Out, Where Ever you Art.” Los Angeles Times, August 15.; Pantalone, John. “Terrain at Newport.” Newport This Week, August 15.; Van Siclen, Bill. “Some New Terrain in Newport.” The Providence Journal, August 9.; Floss, Michael. “Sono Osato at Terrain.” Artweek, April 11.; Baker, Kenneth. “Osato’s Salvage Show at Terrain.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 4.; Bonetti, David. “Artist with a Cinderalla Touch.” San Francisco Examiner, March 29.; 1990; Bonetti, David. “Art Show with Democratic Spirit.” San Francisco Examiner, May 25.; Baker, Kenneth. “Vigor and Diversity in Oakland.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 13.; Van Proyen, Mark. “Rampant Diversity.” Artweek, May 10.; Santiago, Chiori. “Talk of the Town.” The Museum of California, Vol. 13, #5, March-April.; Baker, Kenneth. “Chain Reaction at the Arts Commission.” San Francisco Chronicle, December 16.; Ross, Jeanette. “Frosting on a Plain Cake.” Artweek, November 16.; Baker, Kenneth. “Shapeless Smorgasbord of Bay Area Artist.” San Francisco Chronicle, November 12.; Burkhart, Dorothy. “Summing Up the Eighties, ‘Fresh Views’ Looks at Ten Years of Bay Area Art, San Jose Mercury News, November 3.; Baker, Kenneth. “Review of Fuller-Gross Exhibition.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 13.; Baker, Kenneth. “Installation Explores ‘Art/Non Art’ Question.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 2.; Van Proyen, Mark. “A Fashionable Pluralism.” Artweek, February 15.; 1989; Baker, Kenneth. Judging the Art and the Jury.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 2.; 1988; Paul, Jim. “Saying Everything and/or Nothing.” Artweek, October 2.; Van Proyen, Mark. “Monumental Ideas.” Artweek, October 10.; Baker, Kenneth. “Artists in Command- and Others.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 1.; Van Proyen, Mark. “Diversity and Excellence.” Artweek, April 19.; Cognati, Martina. “Vivere l’Arte A San Francisco.” La Dimensione Dell’a Vanguardia Globale.; Baker, Kenneth. “Big Reach by Oakland Gallery, San Francisco Chronicle, March 10.; 1987; Solnit, Rebecca. “A Sense of Presence.” Artwork, July 25.; Baker, Kenneth. “San Francisco Arts Commission Installs Installations.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 2.; Baker, Kenneth. “Pro Arts Shows a Narrow View.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 20.; Baker, Kenneth. “Different Kinds of Raw Art.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 17.; 1986; Shere, Charles. “New Art: a Refreshing Gallery Alternative.” The Oakland Tribune, September 2.; Baker, Kenneth. “Sono Osato at New Art.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 4.; 1983; Coe, Kathleen. “Review of W.I.N. Show.” Scottsdale Daily Progress, February 11.; 1982; Trethewy. “ASU Undergraduate Students Find Location to ShowCAse Art.” Tempe Daily News, November 5.
Publications: 2012; Featured Artist, Armchair/Shotgun, Volume 2; 2006; Review of “DUMBO: a photographic exhibition of David Krepfle.” Mimosa Extra.; 2000; “Home is Inside Me”. Stretcher.org, an online arts magazine.; 1999; Southern Exposure 25 Year Silver Anniversary Box Set.; di-Rosa Preserve/Art & Nature, LoCAl Coloring Book, First Edition.; 1996; Facing Eden—100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, edited by Stephen Nash.; 1995; The Circle as Paradigm Web Page, link; 1991; “Spirituality and the Avante-Garde”, Five Fingers Review.; 1988; “A Lot of People Just Don’t Get It”, Crack 3.; 1982; “Shifting Perspectives”, Win Journal, Arizona Women in Art, Vol. II.


		Born 1960 Baden Baden, Germany Education 1986 MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland 1983 BFA, Arizona State University, Tempe Solo Exhibitions 2023 Diluvia, Brian Gross Fine Art 2017 Submergence, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California 2009 Babylon: The Buried Language Series, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California 2007 Silent Language, Gallery Twenty-Four, Brooklyn, New York 2006 Destinations, Outdoor Projection of Revenant, Art in Odd Places, Lower East Side, New York, New York, curated by Jeremy Helton 2005 Angels in Dust, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California 2004 Revenant, Simultaneous Projections, DUMBO Arts Center, “Art under the Bridges Festival,” Brooklyn, New York 2003 Echo: Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California 2002 Paintings/ Assemblages, Brian Gross Fine Art at One Post Plaza, San Francisco, California 2000 Robert Lowery Gallery, Athens, Georgia 1999 New Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California Permanent floor installation, Natalie & James Thompson Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, California 1998 S(o)UND, Natalie & James Thompson Gallery, San Jose University, San Jose, California 1994 S(P)OO(o)R, Terrain, San Francisco, California It’s Kinda Like a Ratatouille, A La Carte Restaurant, Berkeley, California 1993 Performance and reading for Beyond the Written Word, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California Oakland Drawers, Oakland Museum Sculpture Court, California 1992 New Sculpture, Terrain, San Francisco, California 1991 Turn of the Century Fine Art, Berkeley, California Utland, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California Laguna Art Museum Satellite at South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, California Monoprints, Terrain, San Francisco, California Davis Art Center, Davis, California 1989 Innojo Eard Onacna, Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, California New Work, Terrain, San Francisco, California 1986 New Art Gallery, San Francisco, California Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California 1985 California College of Art and Craft Graduate Gallery, Oakland 1982 Harry Wood Art Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe Selected Group Exhibitions 2020 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog 2014 The Right Amount of Wrong, Curated by Lovina Purple, ISE Foundation, New York, New York Traces, Presented by Armchair/Shotgun, 7 Dunham, Brooklyn, New York 2013 A Cage Went in Search of a Bird, Radiator Arts, New York, New York 2011 Piece of Mind, Elga Wimmer, New York, New York 2010 Summer Collage Show, ACA Galleries, New York, New York 2008 33 Washington: A Retrospective, Rabbithole Studios, Brooklyn, New York Art Auction for Louisiana ArtWorks, Louisana Artworks, New Orleans Beauty’s Burden, The Ernest Rubinstein Gallery at the Educational Alliance, New York, New York 2007 CCA(C) at di Rosa Preserve: Celebration of CCA’s Centennial with Prominent Alumni in the Collection, Napa, Cailfornia Honoring CCA at 100: Works by Arneson, De Forest, Fleming, Osato and Solomon, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California Tuttavia Povera, Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, New Jersey 2006 2006 International Assemblage Artists Exhibition, GALLERY twenty-four, Berlin Egg Drop Soup, Salon on South Second, Brooklyn, New York Impromptu, DAC (Dumbo Art Center), Brooklyn, New York Remnants, Lemmons Contemporary, New York, New York Three Person Show (with Tatiana Parcero & osCAr Munoz), Gaviria-Lorduy Fine Arts, Brooklyn, New York Winter Auction, DAC, Brooklyn, New York 2005 Winter Auction, DAC, Brooklyn, New York 2004 Winter Auction, DAC, Brooklyn, New York 2000 Metamorphosis, Fifth Season Gallery, Tracy, California Time CApsule, Refusalon, San Francisco, California 1999 Recent Works by Alumni, California College of Art and Crafts, Oakland Faculty Show, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado Meaning and Message: Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection, The Oakland Museum, California San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tel Aviv, Refusalon, San Francisco, California Raymond Lawrence Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Requiem: Living Artists Eulogize a Dying Century, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia The Living Legend of Fluxus, Spokane Falls Community Center, Spokane, Washington 1998 Secrets of Nature, Paradise Wood Sculpturegrove, Santa Rosa, California 1997 The Art Orchestra (A Sculptor’s Ensemble), performed at Florence Gould Theater. Written and directed by Tom Marioni. 1996 Sculpture Walk, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California Trace, The Dead Space Gallery, Portland, Maine CCAC: Past, Present, and Future, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, California Re-In-CAR-Nation, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California Samplings, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California 1995 Roots in Asia (two person show with Joe Sugayam), Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California Public Art/Public Space/Public Process, South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco, California Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California Pulling the Weight, Works, San Jose, California 1994 Wunderkammer, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California 1993 Filler, Terrain, San Francisco, California Trash, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California 1992 The Ecology Show, The Gap, Corporate Headquarters, San Francisco, California 1991 Woman Image Now Honor Exhibition Series, Hayden Library, Arizona State University, Tempe 11 at 1111: New California Sculpture, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California 1990 Wall Sculpture: The Art Found Objects, Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California Oakland Artists, Oakland Museum, California Chain Reaction, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, California 1989 Fresh Views, San Joe Museum of Art, San Jose, California Eye Sores, curated by Nayland Blake, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California 1988 From Ashes to Veiled Beatitudes, Terrain, San Francisco, California 1987 Elementary My Dear, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California 1986 Master’s Exhibition, CCAC, Oakland, California 1985 New Art in the West, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, California Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California 1983 Another Exhibition of Paintings, The Lyceum, Arizona State University, Tempe, curator and participant 1982 An Exhibition of Paintings, The Lyceum, Arizona State University, Tempe, curator and participant Public Collections Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California Awards 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2000 Change, Inc. Grant 1999 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 1997 Djerassi Foundation Artist in Residency, Smip Ranch, Woodside, California 1995 Contemporary Art Center of Herblay, Artist in Residence, Pontoise, France 1994 Art Matters Inc. Grant 1989 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 1988 Djerassi Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts, Ridge Vineyard Loci, Award Exhibition, “Best of Show,” 1988 Pro Arts Annual Djerassi Foundation Artist in Residency, Smip Ranch, Woodside, California Speaking 2000 Guest Speaker, University of California, Berkeley 1999 Interview on Video, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California Guest Speaker, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado Guest Speaker, University of California, Berkeley 1998 Guest Speaker, San Jose State University, San Jose, California 1996 Interview, Women in the Arts, KALX, Berkeley, California Panelist, All Else…Being Equal?, CCAC, San Francisco, California 1995 Guest Speaker, Graduate Seminar with Bette Borgoine, San Francisco Art Institute 1994 Guest Speaker, Sonoma State University, California Guest Speaker, University of California, Berkeley 1992 Excerpts from Stone Soup, broadcast on Word and Image, KPFA 94FM Public Radio, Berkeley, California Stone Soup, producer and hostess of private reading and performance series Panelist, Asian American Arts Conference, University of California, Berkeley 1991 Guest Speaker, Pro Arts Open Studios: Collecting Art in the Bay Area, Pro Arts Guest Speaker, San Jose State University, San Jose, California Guest Speaker, University of California, Davis Guest Speaker, Davis Arts Center, Davis, California 1990 Guest Speaker, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri Panelist, Culture Under Fire, Greater Kansas City Coalition Against Censorship, KCAI Guest Speaker, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California Guest Speaker, Graduate Seminar with John Roloff, Mills College, Oakland, California 1989 Panelist, N. California Sculpture Symposia, The Art of Place, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, California Guest Speaker, Arizona State University, Tempe Guest Speaker, Graduate Seminar with Raymond Saunders, California College of Arts and Crafts Interview, State of the Arts, KUSP 89 FM Public Radio, Santa Cruz, California 1987 Guest Speaker, Art Talks, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California Teaching 2001 Intermediate Painting & Foundation 2-D, University of Georgia, Athens 2000 Intermediate Painting & Foundation 2-D, University of Georgia, Athens Independent Graduate Studies, California College of Arts, Oakland, California 1999 Open Seminar, Graduate Studies, California College of Arts, Oakland, California Through the Body; Paint as Substance, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado 1996 The Circle as Paradigm, Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar, California College of Arts 1995 Interdisciplinary Critique, Film, Video, Performance, team taught with William Farley, California College of Arts, Oakland 1994 Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar, California College of Arts, Oakland, California 1993 Graduate Seminar-New Genre, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 1992 Interdisciplinary Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California Beginning Drawing, Mills College, Oakland, California 1990 Beginning Drawing and Advanced Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri Bibliography 2005 Baker, Kenneth. “Sono Osato-‘Angels in Dust.’” San Francisco Chronicle, April 2. 2003 Baker, Kenneth. “Objects Speak a Private Code in ‘Silent Language.’” San Francisco Chronicle, April 9. 2002 Baker, Kenneth. “Critic’s Picks.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 7. 2000 Porges, Maria. ArtForum, March. Bonetti, David. “Charting 35 Years of California Art.” San Francisco Examiner, January 6. 1999 Baker, Kenneth. “Bearable Weightlessness of Being.” San Francisco Chronicle, December 18. Bonetti, David. “Gallery Watch.” San Francisco Examiner, December 10. Sherman, Ann Elliot. “Second Impressions, Meaning and Message in Contemporary Art.” The Museum of California, Fall. Cullum, Jerry. “What’s on the Surface isn’t the Whole Story.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 16. Fox, Catherine. “Apocalypse Wow.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 29. 1998 Miller, Alicia. “The Secrets of Nature at Paradise Wood Sculpturegrove.” Artweek, July/August. 1997 Meeker, Cheryl. “Beer Drinking Sonata is the Highest Form of Art.” Art Papers, November/December. 1996 Baker, Kenneth. “A Stroll in the Garden.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 4. 1994 Bonetti, David. “Gallery Watch: Revview of Show at Terrain.” San Francisco Chronicle, October 31. 1993 Bonetti, David. “Lazy Gazing at Some Worthy Shows.” San Francisco Examiner, September 2. Litfin, Katy. “Profile: Sono Osato.” City Life Magazine, July/August. Carey, Lynn. “Exhibit Invites You to Browse Through Oakland’s Drawers.” Contra Costa Times, June 18. Thym, Jolene. “Sculpture Offers Visitors to Peek Inside Oakland’s ‘Drawers,’” Oakland Tribune, June 7. Hull-Webster, Mary. “A Conversation with Sono Osato,” Artweek, May 20. Bonetti, David. “Down in the Dumps: Uplifting Art.” San Francisco Examiner, January 27. Baker, Kenneth. “Harlequin Fantasies.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 2. 1992 Jan, Alfred. “Sono Osato at Terrain.” New Art Examiner, December 3. Cohn, Terri. “The Forgotten and the Familiar.” Artweek, October 22. Baker, Kenneth. Scavenged Material Becomes Sculpture.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 15. Fowler, Carol. “Something New Times Three at Recent Art Exhibit Openings.” Contra Costa County Times, September 12. Van Siclen, Bill. “Terrain at Newport ShowCAses Young Artists.” The Providence Journal, August 21. 1991 Sherman, Ann Elliott. “Detritus and True.” The Metro, San Jose, November 7. Burkhart, Dorothy. “Poetry from Piles of Stuff.” San Jose Mercury News, November 1. Bonetti, David. “Sono Osato at Terrain Gallery.” ArtNews, October. Littlefield, Kinney. “Oakland Artist Explores a Deeper Shade of Black.” The Orange County Register, August 30. Curtis, Cathy. “There’s More than Meets the Eye at Offbeat Laguna Museum Exhibit.” Los Angeles Times, August 25. Doubin, Dan. “Come Out, Come Out, Where Ever you Art.” Los Angeles Times, August 15. Pantalone, John. “Terrain at Newport.” Newport This Week, August 15. Van Siclen, Bill. “Some New Terrain in Newport.” The Providence Journal, August 9. Floss, Michael. “Sono Osato at Terrain.” Artweek, April 11. Baker, Kenneth. “Osato’s Salvage Show at Terrain.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 4. Bonetti, David. “Artist with a Cinderalla Touch.” San Francisco Examiner, March 29. 1990 Bonetti, David. “Art Show with Democratic Spirit.” San Francisco Examiner, May 25. Baker, Kenneth. “Vigor and Diversity in Oakland.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 13. Van Proyen, Mark. “Rampant Diversity.” Artweek, May 10. Santiago, Chiori. “Talk of the Town.” The Museum of California, Vol. 13, #5, March-April. Baker, Kenneth. “Chain Reaction at the Arts Commission.” San Francisco Chronicle, December 16. Ross, Jeanette. “Frosting on a Plain Cake.” Artweek, November 16. Baker, Kenneth. “Shapeless Smorgasbord of Bay Area Artist.” San Francisco Chronicle, November 12. Burkhart, Dorothy. “Summing Up the Eighties, ‘Fresh Views’ Looks at Ten Years of Bay Area Art, San Jose Mercury News, November 3. Baker, Kenneth. “Review of Fuller-Gross Exhibition.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 13. Baker, Kenneth. “Installation Explores ‘Art/Non Art’ Question.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 2. Van Proyen, Mark. “A Fashionable Pluralism.” Artweek, February 15. 1989 Baker, Kenneth. Judging the Art and the Jury.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 2. 1988 Paul, Jim. “Saying Everything and/or Nothing.” Artweek, October 2. Van Proyen, Mark. “Monumental Ideas.” Artweek, October 10. Baker, Kenneth. “Artists in Command- and Others.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 1. Van Proyen, Mark. “Diversity and Excellence.” Artweek, April 19. Cognati, Martina. “Vivere l’Arte A San Francisco.” La Dimensione Dell’a Vanguardia Globale. Baker, Kenneth. “Big Reach by Oakland Gallery, San Francisco Chronicle, March 10. 1987 Solnit, Rebecca. “A Sense of Presence.” Artwork, July 25. Baker, Kenneth. “San Francisco Arts Commission Installs Installations.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 2. Baker, Kenneth. “Pro Arts Shows a Narrow View.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 20. Baker, Kenneth. “Different Kinds of Raw Art.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 17. 1986 Shere, Charles. “New Art: a Refreshing Gallery Alternative.” The Oakland Tribune, September 2. Baker, Kenneth. “Sono Osato at New Art.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 4. 1983 Coe, Kathleen. “Review of W.I.N. Show.” Scottsdale Daily Progress, February 11. 1982 Trethewy. “ASU Undergraduate Students Find Location to ShowCAse Art.” Tempe Daily News, November 5. Publications 2012 Featured Artist, Armchair/Shotgun, Volume 2 2006 Review of “DUMBO: a photographic exhibition of David Krepfle.” Mimosa Extra. 2000 “Home is Inside Me”. Stretcher.org, an online arts magazine. 1999 Southern Exposure 25 Year Silver Anniversary Box Set. di-Rosa Preserve/Art & Nature, LoCAl Coloring Book, First Edition. 1996 Facing Eden—100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, edited by Stephen Nash. 1995 The Circle as Paradigm Web Page, link 1991 “Spirituality and the Avante-Garde”, Five Fingers Review. 1988 “A Lot of People Just Don’t Get It”, Crack 3. 1982 “Shifting Perspectives”, Win Journal, Arizona Women in Art, Vol. II.