b. 1959, San Francisco, California
lives and works in Germantown, New York
selected exhibitions
2024
Wanderlust, curated by Kostas Prapoglou, Schliemann-Melas mansion, Panepistimiou 46, Athens, Greece
2023
the butterfly effect, curated by Kostas Prapoglou, Athens, Greece
2022
[is]land of dreams, curated by Kostas Prapoglou, Cycladic Arts, Paros, Greece
2016
Digital Nature, curated by Shirley Alexandra Watts, Los Angeles County Arboretum, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Dead Letter, FIELD Contemporary, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (solo)
Paint It Black, Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito, CA
Reconnaissance, curated by Brian Karl, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2013
As Here Is To There, Savernack Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Field Project, I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, CT
2012
The History of the Sea, Hatch Gallery, Oakland, CA (solo)
7th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA (juror: Apsara DiQuinzio)
Summer National Juried Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA (juror: Lucinda Barnes)
San Francisco Art Institute MFA Thesis Exhibition, the Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Matter! de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Marginalia, Rebound Books, San Rafael, CA
Do Not Look, Do Not Think, Do Not Read, Do Not See, Do Not Relate, Do Not Love, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (installation + performance)
2011
The Presence of Absence, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Proof, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (juror: Denise Markonish)
What Remains, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Midpoint, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mondo Tondo, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
(un)set, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
selected awards/grants/residencies
2014
Headlands Center for the Arts, Affiliate Artist 2014-2015
Vermont Studio Center, Residency, Johnson, VT
2013
I-Park Foundation, Artist in Residence, East Haddam, CT
2012
Dennis Patrick Gallagher Award for Excellence in Ceramic Sculpture
selected publications/press
Prapoglou, Kostas. Wanderlust / all passports, Exhibition Catalog, Athens, Greece (November 2024) catalog link
Geraioudakis, Angelos. “Wanderlust/All Passports.” Ethnos (19 Ocrober 2024) (in Greek) article link
“‘Wanderlust/All Passports’ at Schliemann-Mela Mansion” Cosmopoliti (19 October 2024) (in Greek) article link
Prapoglou, Kostas. The Butterfly Effect, Exhibition Catalog, Athens, Greece (September 2023) catalog link
Papaioannou, George and Golegos, Dimitris. “Euphoric Weekends: The Butterfly Effect.” Ready2board: The Culture Enthusiast (September-November 2023) article link
Karagianni, Mina. “The Butterfly Effect: The Artistic Nature of Thread.” Beaute Magazine (October 10, 2023) (in Greek) article link
Watts, Shirley Alexandra. Digital Nature: Techno-Botanical Art in the Garden, Exhibition Catalog, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden (October 2016) catalog link
“Sandra Osborne: Dead Letter” Vancouver Sun (December 1, 2014) “The San Francisco artist’s work evokes epistolary mystery: So many undelivered, unopenable letters.” article link
Metcalfe, John. "This Art Gallery Is Only Visible Through a Peephole." Bloomberg: CityLab (August 16, 2013) Lead image from the opening: From Here as to There, with Dimitra Skandali at Savernack Street Gallery, San Francisco. Image “as if” from "The Sea" 2013, video. article link
San Francisco Art Institute catalog, cover (Summer 2013) link
Bigman, Alex. “Domains of the Sea: Ceramic sculptor Sandra Osborne imbricates seemingly disparate realms at Hatch Gallery.” East Bay Express (December 12, 2012) Review of The History of the Sea. article link
MFA/MA: Art + Ideas, Graduate Exhibition Catalog, San Francisco Art Institute (May 2012) catalog link
education
2012 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1985 JD, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, WA
1982 BA, Art History, University of Washington, Seattle, WA