JIM CAMPBELL (San Francisco)
is a video/installation artist whose works have been exhibited in galleries,
museums, and alternative art spaces since 1990, and whose film and video
work was screened from 1980 to 1990 in festivals, media arts centers,
and movie houses. Among Mr. Campbell’s recent installations is
Memory Works (1994-1998), a series in which each piece is based on a
digitally recorded –memory” of an event from a personal
or collective memory (for example, the Bible or the text of Martin Luther
King, Jr.’s –I Have a Dream” speech). In each piece,
electronic memories are manipulated to transform associated objects
to explore the –hiddenness” common to both human and computer
memory. Mr. Campbell holds a BS (1978) in both Electrical Engineering
and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
GEOFFREY CHADSEY (San Francisco)
has had his drawings exhibited locally in group shows at New Langton
Arts (Bay Area Awards Show), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Pins and
Noodles), and Southern Exposure (Limbo and Re: drawing). Site-specific
work in 1994 included an installation at the Federal Building of 85
1-inch-square photographs on elevator doors, and Wanderings and Ramblings,
a MUNI kiosk comic. His freelance illustrations have appeared in coloring
books, trade magazines and a museum docent manual. Recent work includes
a series of blue watercolor pencil drawings on notebook paper. Mr. Chadsey
holds an MFA in Photography and Drawing (1996) from the California College
of Arts and Crafts, and a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies (1989)
from Harvard University.
DE LA TORRE.MORALES+NUNO (San Francisco)
are the first artists in the program’s history to receive a Eureka
Fellowship as a collaborative team. SERGIO DE LA TORRE holds a BFA in
Photography (1996) from the California College of Arts and Crafts. JULIO
MORALES, born in Tijuana, has had artist residencies with youth programs
through Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Oakland Museum, Southern Exposure,
New Traditions Elementary School, and French-American School. DOMINGO
NUNO, also born in Tijuana, holds an MFA (1994) from San Francisco State
University and a BA (1990) in Art from California State University,
Fullerton, both degrees with an emphasis in Photography.
As De La Torre.Morales+Nuno, the three artists (who
have also produced installations and performed as –Los Tricksters”)
created The Eighth Wonder (1998), a video installation about the elusiveness
of representation, presented at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery;
Disappearing (1998), a video installation based on a story about the
disappearance of a little girl due to drug trafficking in a border town;
Correr (1997), a digital image exploring ideas of immigration, mobility
and the accident, displayed on San Francisco MUNI bus shelters (1997);
Mexiclone (1997), a public installation at Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts exploring the roles of museums in society; and The Indecision of
El Rio Bravo (1996), a video installation at the San Francisco Art Commission
Gallery with a narrative about border crossing.
LEWIS DESOTO (San Francisco), whose
video, sound and mixed-media installations have been exhibited and reviewed
internationally, has been an artist in residence at List Visual Arts
Center at MIT, ArtPace in San Antonio, and Headlands Center for the
Arts. Among Mr. deSoto’s public projects are the Civic Center
Historic District Improvement and Court House Design projects, both
funded by the San Francisco Art Commission, and two projects —
–On the Air” and a 12,000-square-foot terrazzo floor —
at the San Francisco International Airport. Recent installations include
Recital (1998) at MIT, Dervish (1997) at the Metronom in Barcelona,
and Tahquitz (1996) at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
A Professor of Art at San Francisco State University, Mr. deSoto received
an MFA (1981) from Clarement Graduate School, and a BA (1978) from the
University of California, Riverside.
FREDERICK HAYES (San Francisco),
whose work was first selected in the 1982 Ethnic Art Collective exhibition
at the Diego Rivera Gallery in San Francisco, has been included in group
shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts (Bay Area Now), Luggage Story Gallery and
Triton Museum in Santa Clara, and in solo shows at the Western Addition
Cultural Center and Diego Rivera Gallery. Among his recent works is
a series of charcoal and pastel portraits of African Americans. Mr.
Hayes was an artist in residence with Headlands Center for the Arts
in 1998, and is a member of the Artist Committee of the San Francisco
Art Institute, where he received both a BFA and an MFA.
TODD HIDO (San Francisco), a photographer
whose solo exhibition House Hunting was presented in 1998 by San Francisco’s
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, has also had one-person exhibitions at San Francisco
Camerawork, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, and Art
Institute of Pittsburgh, and local group shows at the Berkeley Art Museum,
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Four Walls, Southern Exposure, and
Intersection for the Arts. Mr. Hido received an MFA from the California
College of Arts and Crafts (1996), and a BFA (1991) from Tufts University/School
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He also studied at the Rhode Island
School of Design.
TERRY HOFF (Pacifica) is an installation
artist who has had solo shows at Four Walls, Luggage Store Gallery,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, and RARE Gallery
in New York (scheduled 1999). Since 1993, his work has been included
in group shows in New York and Texas, as well as in San Francisco at
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Bay Area Now), Southern Exposure (Round
and Round and Confess), Four Walls (Glean), and Intersection for the
Arts (Object), in Walnut Creek at the Regional Center for the Arts,
and in San Jose at Works. Recent mixed-media installations include Tilt
(1998) and Cornered (1997). Mr. Hoff studied at the Academy of Art in
San Francisco, where he taught for 10 years.
JOYCE HSU (San Francisco) makes
toy/sculptures, among them –The Flying Machine,” –TV
Pet Dog,” the car-like –P•U•C•H”
and the airplane-like –Bobby.” Her kinetic sculptures, displayed
with their owner’s manual, have been exhibited locally at the
Haines Gallery, Contract Design Center, Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason,
Diego Rivera Gallery, Walter McBean Gallery, and Southern Exposure,
which has organized a 1999 solo exhibition. Her work is included in
New Langton Arts’ 14th annual art auction. Ms. Hsu holds an MFA
(1998) from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a BFA (1996) from Mount
Allison University in New Brunswick.
JASON JAGEL (San Francisco) received
a BFA (1995) from California College of Arts and Crafts. His works on
paper in oil, ink and watercolor were included in two 1997 Bay Area
survey shows at New Langton Arts and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
and have been exhibited locally in group shows at Southern Exposure
(A Spoon Full of Sugar and Limbo), Four Walls (Glean), and Acme Gallery
(Thrift Store Art), as well as Susan Cummins Gallery in San Francisco
and Mill Valley, and Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco. His works
have also been included in the fundraising auctions of Headlands Center
for the Arts and New Langton Arts.
YOUNG KIM (San Francisco) is a photographer/installation
artist whose work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the
Bay Area at the Friends of Photography (Dispersion, Points of Entry:
Tracing Cultures), San Francisco Art Commission Gallery (Interval),
and California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC: Past, Present, Future
and Cultural Identities and Immigration), as well as the CEPA Gallery
in Buffalo (Uncommon Traits), Houston Center for Photography (When Two
or More: New Typologies), and Newport Harbor Art Museum (Who’s
Afraid of Freedom?). Among her works is Interval, an ongoing project
since 1989 of daily photographic self-portrait. Ms. Kim holds an MFA
(1992) from the California College of Arts and Crafts and a BA in Art
(1986) from San Francisco State University.
LISA KOKIN (Richmond), a book and
installation artist, holds both a BFA (1989) and an MFA (1991) from
the California College of Arts and Crafts. Recent solo exhibitions include
Bookmaking is Not a Crime (College of Charleston, South Carolina), Art
Book Art and Circumstances Beyond Our Control (Catharine Clark Gallery,
San Francisco), My Trip to Buchenwald (1078 Gallery, Chico), and Remembrance
(Buchenwald Memorial). Among Ms. Kokin’s works are Book of Scraps
and What Remains (1997), a mixed-media book (hog gut, found objects,
stitching, fabric, paper) and installation composed of 563 small personal
items that serve as a memorial to a deceased elderly friend; and Jewish
Science (1998), a mixed-media book/sculpture composed of altered Christian
Science pamphlets, bubble wrap, and found book and magazine images.
STEPHANIE SYJUCO (San
Francisco), who was born in the Philippines, holds a BFA from
the San Francisco Art Institute (1995) and studied at the Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture and New York Studio Program. Her mixed-media
works and installations have been exhibited locally in group shows at
the Asian Art Museum (At Home and Abroad: Twenty Contemporary Filipino
Artists), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Bay Area Now), Chinese Culture
Center (Dare to Be Different), Refusalon (Nothing Matters), Acme Gallery
(Snacks), and Southern Exposure (Cozy: Notions of Domesticity and Safety),
as well as The Drawing Center and 451 Greenwich St. in New York, Hollywood
Motel in Los Angeles, and Museo Ng Maynila in Manila. Ms. Syjuco works
at The Exploratorium.