Seth Koen

Born 1971 in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire
Lives and works in Sacramento, California

EDUCATION

2002 Master of Fine Arts, Mills College, Oakland, CA

1995 Bachelor of Arts, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008 Ellipsis, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

  Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2007 Hyper-ordinary, Y2Y Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006 Von Jedem Etwas, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany

  Nancy Boy, University Art Gallery, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO

  ZusammenKunst, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany

  Microcosm, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

  Sketch, Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA

  Art LA, Project Booth, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA

2005 around the corner, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

  Take Shape, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  Material Matters, curated by Michael Schoolnik, The LAB, San Francisco, CA

  Nancy Boy, L.H. Horton Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA

  Nancy Boy, curated by Nancy Mizuno Elliot, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

  Microcosm, curated by Victoria Wagner, Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA

2004 and now they aren’t. but they are., Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  Intersections, curated Talia Greene, Chela Gallery, Baltimore, MD

  Spring Fever, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2003 Closer Than You Think, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  Threads, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

  The Red Thread, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

  Sewn Together: Graphic Uses of Thread, curated by Laura Richard Janku, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002 The Tiny Show, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA

  of, relating to, or derived from: new work by Mary Button Durrell, Seth Koen, Francis Baker, 66 Balmy, San Francisco, CA

  Knot Quite: Twisted Works by Seth Koen, Susan Lyman, Janice Redman and Richard Baker, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Mills College, Oakland, CA

  The Milhaud Chair in collaboration with Alvin Curran, Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland, CA

  34th Annual Textile Exhibit, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA

  The Art of Collecting, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA

2001 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship Recipients, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997 Invitational Show, Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA

  National Juried Show of Small Work, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, Juror: William Zimmer, Art Critic, New York Times

  Annual Christmas Stocking Show, Nancy Margolis Gallery, Portland, ME

  Holiday Show, Pinch Pottery, Northampton, MA

1995 Thesis Show, Johnson Library Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

American Craft, Portfolio Section. August/September 2006, p. 56

Cash, Stephanie. "Report From San Francisco II: New and Now," Art In America, January 2006, p.62

Olson, Marisa. "Take Shape at Rena Bransten Gallery", Artweek, October 2005, p. 12

Bing, Alsion. "Around the Corner, crocheted sculpture," sfgate.com, September 2005

Berry, Colin. "Material Matters at The LAB," Artweek, September 2005, Vol. 36, Issue 7, p. 14

Bing, Alsion. "Take Shape," ePick-Art, sfgate.com, August 12-18, 2005

Morris, Barbara. "Nancy Boy at Richmond Art Center," Artweek, May 2005, Vol. 36, Issue 4, p. 15

Wennermark, Erik. "Intersections," Radar, Baltimore Arts & Culture 11, June 2004

Janku, Laura. Review, Sculpture Magazine, May 2004

Allen, Steven Robert. "High Brow Seamstresses Threads at Richard Levy Gallery," Alibi, December 25-31, 2003, Vol. 12, no. 52, p. 20

Nataraj, Nirmala. "Closer Than You Think," sfstation.com, December 2003

Rufus, Anneli. "City Focus: San Francisco," ARTnews, June 2003

Bing, Alison. "The Art of Abbreviation," ePick-Art, sfgate.com, June 2003

Bing, Alison. "Sewn Together," ePick-Art, sfgate.com, April 10-16, 2003

Westbrook, Lindsey. "Sewn Together: Graphic Uses of Thread," Critic’s Choice: Art, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 2, 2003, p.77

Koppman, Debra. "Sewn Together: Graphic Uses of Thread," Previews, Artweek, March 2003, Vol. 34, Issue 2, p.25

Laura Richard Janku. "Sewn Together," Catalogue essay, Gregory Lind Gallery, 2003

Crump, Anne. "For Art’s Sake," Ex Files, San Francisco Examiner, August 21, 2001

AWARDS and HONORS

Juror, Annual Art Exhibition, St. Francis Catholic High School, Sacramento, CA 2006

Visiting Artist, Sonoma State University 2006

Visiting Artist, Mills College 2006

Nominated for the SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2006

Visiting Artist, University of California, Davis 2005

Visiting Artist, California College of the Arts, 2005

Visiting Artist, Mills College, 2005

Nominated for the SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2004

Visiting Artist, University of California, Berkeley, 2003

Jay DeFeo Prize, Mills College, 2002

Graduate Research Grant, Mills College, 2002

Visiting Artist, California College of Arts and Crafts, 2002

Visiting Artist, California College of Arts and Crafts, 2001

Trefethen Fellowship for Merit, Mills College, 2001

San Francisco Foundation's Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship, 2001

Nominated to the Dedalus Foundation Masters of Fine Arts Fellowship, 2001