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EUREKA FELLOWSHIP
PROGRAM
2011-2013 Grantees & Bios
2002-2004 Grantees & Bios
EUREKA FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Press Release
2011-2013 Grantees & Bios
Tamara Albaitis (San Francisco) is a sculptural installation artist whose work posits a holistic understanding of our relationship to nature. Currently she is using audio wire, raw speaker cones and sound, both for the sonic and sculptural properties -- examining the physical and intellectual level of these relationships -- as well as the complex socio-political stances that permeate the psychosis of who we are. Tamara’s work has been shown at the 9th International Istanbul Biennial, The European Sound Delta in Paris, (in collaboration with the Collectiv MU), Project Creo in St. Petersburg, Florida, The Digital Media Centre in Bracknell, England, artTransponder in Berlin, V2 Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam, ParaSite in Hong Kong, the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco and G2 Gallery in Chicago. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2002). In 2003 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago invited her to start their Experimental Sound Department; she received her MFA in sound art in 2005, the first granted in the United States.
Mauricio Ancalmo (San Francisco) is an installation artist who works with discarded objects such as sewing machines, word processors, 16mm film projectors and turntables as the principal characters in his theatre-sized installations. His solo exhibitions include Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions (2009, 2010) in San Francisco, and the Toronto Images Festival. In San Francisco he has staged video performances at the Treasure Island Music Festival (2007-2010) and at Noise Pop (2007 and 2009). His work was part of group shows at the Exploratorium, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco Cinematheque, Cell Space and Steven Wolf Gallery, all located in San Francisco. The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Weekly, Shotgun Review and Rhizome have reviewed his work. He received his BFA in Computer Animation and Sculpture form Southern Oregon University (2002), and his MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute (2006). He is the recipient of a 2010 SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern and was selected for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ Bay Area Now Show 6. Mauricio works at the San Francisco Art Institute as the Film and New Genres Studio Coordinator and Instructor in Digital Video.
Monica Canilao (Oakland) creates new forms from salvaged objects and weathered images. Her large fabric structures, installations and sculptures revitalize broken-down forms and celebrate the spirit of mutual aid and resourcefulness of marginalized communities. Her colors of parchment, wood, ore, rot and smoke mimic signs of decay and the stains of age and use. Using intricately layered organic and constructed materials, Monica’s pieces pay homage to traditional handicraft as well as fine art. Her recent installations in abandoned houses are collaborations between groups of artists and city residents struggling to adapt to dramatically shifting urban landscapes. A new series with scavenged 19th century parlor portraits rebuilds narratives of forgotten lives using latex paint, copper, feathers, cloth and other found materials. Her work has been shown at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, Deitch Projects in New York, Black Rat Press in London, Di Rosa Preserve in Sonoma, CA, the Oakland Airport, Miami's Scope Art Fair and many other spaces in the U.S. and internationally. She received her BFA from California College of the Arts (2005). Monica is a regular Visiting Artist and Instructor at the San Francisco Day School, and welcomes opportunities to share skills with persons of all ages.
Linda Gass (Los Altos) combines environmental activism and the aesthetics of art making to explore land use and water issues in California and the American West. She blends painting and textile techniques to create highly textured aerial landscapes showing the human marks on the land that affect our water resources. Recent solo and group exhibitions include the Bellevue Arts Museum, Triton Museum in Santa Clara, Visions Art Gallery in San Diego, Dalton Gallery in Atlanta, Herndon Gallery in Yellow Springs and The Main Gallery in Redwood City, CA. In 2011 her work will show at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC and the Katherine Nash Gallery in Minneapolis. Selected book and magazine publications include The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, 500 Art Quilts, Contemporary Color, Art Papers, American Style, ArtWeek and Fiberarts. Her work is in the permanent collection of the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. She received an Artists Fellowship Award from the Arts Council of Silicon Valley in 2010. She received her BS in Mathematical Sciences (1981) and MS in Computer Engineering (1983) from Stanford University.
David Gurman (San Francisco) is an installation artist who makes memorials that are digitally connected to conflict zones. Using real-time data feeds he brings those of us who live in “safe zones” into closer contact with events in “conflict zones” that we hear about in mass media but never witness. His work has shown in San Francisco at St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco Art Institute’s Walter and McBean Galleries, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Swarm Gallery and Headlands Center for the Arts. In 2008 he was selected to join a small cadre of artists representing the United States in Artisterium, Tblisi, Georgia. Reviews of his work have appeared in the Salt Lake City Weekly, San Francisco Weekly, Make Magazine and Wired. He is the recipient of a Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in Artists Grant (2010), the Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship (2007) the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship (2007) and is currently a TED Global 2010 Fellow. He received his BFA in Intermedia Sculpture from the University of Utah (2003), and his MFA in Media Arts from California College of the Arts (2007). David is currently developing a project that will be shown in the fall of 2011 at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco.
Ema Harris-Sintamarian (San Jose) is an artist originally from Romania whose work is informed by the relationship of her identity to her sense of displacement, and the ways she has devised to reconcile these incongruous elements. Her intricate yet expansive drawings tackle the dichotomy between containment and liberation by infusing a static diagram with a charge that propels it into motion. Ema is represented by Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, and her work has been shown in solo and group shows at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia, Niklas Belenius Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden, Triton Museum in Santa Clara, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and Southern Exposure in San Francisco. She was the recipient of the ArtShift Award (2008) and the Silicon Valley Arts Council Award (2010), and has participated in residency programs at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Vermont Studio Center and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. She received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Delaware (2002), and her MFA in Painting from San Jose Sate University (2005). Ema is an Adjunct Instructor at San Jose State University and San Jose City College.
Taraneh Hemami (San Francisco) engages in diverse strategies (installation, object and media productions, collective and participatory projects) to explore themes of displacement, preservation and representation. Examining the careful crafting of images as propagated for power and political gain, Taraneh's recent work comments on tools of manipulation and persuasion used across nations and histories. Grants have been awarded by the Creative Work Fund (2002), San Francisco Arts Commission (2002 and 2007), California Council for the Humanities (2003), James Irvine Foundation (2004), Kala Art Institute (2007) and Christensen Fund (2005-2006). She has exhibited in San Francisco at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Intersection for the Arts, The Lab and the San Francisco Arts Commission, and at the Sharjah Biennial. Her works are in the collections of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She has been reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Arts Monthly, San Francisco Weekly, Radical History Review and the New York Times. She received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Oregon (1982), and her MFA in Painting from California College for the Arts (1991). Taraneh is an Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts.
Lynn Hershman Leeson (San Francisco) is an internationally recognized artist and filmmaker known for her pioneering use of new technologies and investigations of issues key to the workings of our society: identity in a time of consumerism; privacy in an era of surveillance; interfacing of humans and machines; and the relationship between real and virtual worlds. Her feature films, Strange Culture, Teknolust and Conceiving Ada, have been shown at the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival, among others, and have won numerous awards. Teknolust received the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for writing and directing. Her lates film, !Women Art Revolution, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival (2010), and will screen at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals before being distributed nationally by Zeitgeist Films. Lynn’s work is featured in the collections of the Tate Modern in London, ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. She is the recipient of the d.velop digital art and 2009 SIGGRAPH Lifetime Achievement Awards (2010-2011) as well as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2009). Stanford University Libraries acquired her working archive in 2004. Lynn is Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis.
Colter Jacobsen (San Francisco) makes art about seeing and blindness, memory and forgetting. From collections of found source material, both physical and digital, he creates drawings and assemblages. His most recent work explores the notion of searching both in the philosophical and mundane senses: with Facelessbook, a meditation on lust and longing, he utilized images from men-seeking-men ads on Craigslist. He has had solo shows at Corvi-Mora in London, California College of the Arts’ Wattis Institute in San Francisco, LA><ART in Los Angeles and Jack Hanley Gallery in New York City. His work has been included in group shows at White Columns in New York City and the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, Lithuania. Publications include A Stick of Green Candy, Four Corners Books and a collaboration with Bill Berkson called BILL. His work has been reviewed in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Last Magazine, Paris Review and the New York Times. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2001). Colter recently started a new enterprise, Publication Studio Bay Area, a print-on-demand press for fiction, poetry, artists’ books and non-fiction writing. He received the 2010 San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts SECA Award.
Yoon Lee (San Francisco) is a painter who makes large scale paintings that employ a painstaking process that erects a facade of ease. She has had solo exhibitions at Pierogi gallery in New York and the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco. Recent group exhibitions include Boiler Grand Opening: Yoon Lee, Jonathan Shipper, Tavares Strachan at Pierogi's new Boiler space, Artisterium at ARCI gallery in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Vital Signs at Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University, Pierogi et al at Daniel Weinberg Gallery in Los Angeles, Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape at Neuberger Museum and Red Hot at Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Her work has been reviewed in L Magazine, New York Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, Paper Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. She received her BA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego (1999), and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2005). Yoon is a Visiting Lecturer at the San Francisco Art Institute.Jennifer Locke (San Francisco) composes physically intense actions in relation to the camera and specific architecture in order to explore unstable hierarchies between artist, model, camera and audience. Working in video and installation-based performance, her actions focus on cycles of physicality, duration and visibility. Locke has exhibited in venues such as the 2010 California Biennial, 48th Venice Biennale, Air de Paris in Paris, the 9th Havana Biennial, the Basel Art Fair at La Panaderia, Mexico City, Palais de Beaux-Arts in Brussels; Canada, New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Berkeley Art Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has curated for Artists’ Television Access and Queens Nails Annex, co-produced a cable access show, sung in punk bands, and given a variety of workshops. She received her BFA (1991) and MFA (2006) from the San Francisco Art Institute. Jennifer received the Chauncey McKeever Award (2006) and a San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie (2010). She teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute and St. Mary’s College of California.
Sean McFarland (San Francisco) is a photographer whose work explores the relationships between the process of image making, artifice, photographic truth and the representation of landscape. Sean’s solo exhibitions include White Columns in New York City, and in San Francisco, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery and San Francisco Camerawork. His work has been included in shows at the San Jose Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA, Art/Miami/Basel and Baer Ridgway Exhibitions. Among his awards are a fellowship to the National Photography Institute at Columbia University (2004), Phelan Award in Photography (2004), fellowship and residency at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA (2009), Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers (2009) and the John Gutmann Award (2009). His work has been reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle, Artweek, San Francisco Magazine, San Francisco Weekly and Artforum. His work is in the collections of the Oakland Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art Library. He received his BS in Computer Information Systems and Studio Art from Humboldt State University (2002), and his MFA in Photography from California College of the Arts (2004).
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