SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
- American Association of the Advancement of Science solo exhibition. April-September 2024
- KH Messen Residency Norway July 2024
2023
- 2023 Art Bank Grant Recipient and exhibition.
- DC art now 2023 Finalist Exhibition.
-The Kennedy Art Center, Washington DC, Juxtapositions: Art and Science, Invited talk Curator Shanthi Chadrasekar
- The Korean Society of Art and Media-Council for Advanced Media & Moving Seoul South Korea Video Animation
-Neuro Land Solo Show Hood College Maryland January 17- February 24
2022
- 2022 Changwon Sculpture Biennale; South Korea, 10/7- 11/20
- Art on Paper New York Art Fair represented by LAMINA Project, 09/ 8-11
- VOLTA New York Art Fair represented by LAMINA Project, 05 / 18-22
- Ruth Table Galley San Francisco , Plastics, Curated by Hanna Regev, 06 - 09
- NFT Online Exhibition https://agora.agoravr.world/event?roomCode=cqilagjv April
2021
-The Delaware Contemporary; Ballad of Spread - Solo show; September 3 -January 7
- Plain Sight in partnership with the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), solo show, Curators Allison Nance and Teddy Rodger October 2021
- Chashama Gallery, Homeroom, New York City, November-December 2021
- WPA Benefit Group Exhibition September 2021
-University of Edinburgh, Scotland; New Normal? Group show curated by Sophie Fulton, August 2021
-Lamina Project Solo Exhibition at Artsy, Viruses, June 4- September 15, 2021
2020
-Radiator Lab, Curated by Audra Lambert, Homeroom, New York.
- DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities; DC Art NOW 2020;
- Represented by Lamina Project at Artsy
-Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Heaven, Ct; USPS Art Project, group show, Connecticut , November
- Invited to join Lamina Project, NY based online platform, Lamina Project for Art Inspired by Science
- National Academy of Science ISSUES feature https://issues.org/byline/michal-gavish/
- Cardiovascular Disease and Therapy Magazine cover page and feature http://cdt.amegroups.com/article/view/36625/30170 April - August 2020 issue
- Pelham New York, USPS Art Project, group show, August 2020
2019
-BioBat Brooklyn, NYC; 5 Artists show curators: Etty Yaniv and Christina Massey
-Strictly Painting, Group Show, McLean Project for the Arts, Curated by Adah Rose Bitterbaum VA
-Hillyer Art Center, Washington DC, Solo show
-BlackRock Center for the Arts, Maryland; Solo Show; Nano Portraiture
2018
- Stanford University; Cantor Museum; Grid Event; Invitational Video Animation
- Humanities Gallery, LIU; Brooklyn, NY; Solo show; Crystalline City; April-June 2018
- Garrison Art Center, NY; Solo Show; Crystalline Architecture; January-February 2018
2017
- Hillyer Center, Washington DC; Create/Change; Group show;
- Salena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Co-Curator with Etty Yaniv; Reconstruct, group show
- National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC; Nano-Portraiture; invited, DASER
2016
- JCU Gallery,Jersey City, NJ; Co-Curator with Etty Yaniv ; Reclaimed;; November 2016
-Arc Gallery ,Between Worlds, Invitational ; San Francisco, CA
-Gerald Peters , Spectrum, Invitational Art and Science Exhibition; Santa Fe, New Mexico
-Ben Gurion Airport; Science Exhibition
2015
-LASER Leonardo talks; Visualizing DNA; UC Davis, and U San Francisco
- Zadik Gallery, Tel Aviv; Solo show:; Nano Portraiture
- Cabrillo Gallery, Santa Cruz, California, Solo show; Presented Past
- Stanford University, L.A.S.T, Life Art Science and Technology exhibition.
Arc Gallery, San Francisco; Spotlight Figure
2014
Jewish Museum of Hungary, Budapest; Solo Show; Presented Past
Drawing Center, NYC, Viewing Program
Yerba Buena Center for the Art, San Francisco; Show with Zeina Barakeh Chasm Arena
2013
Meridian Gallery; San Francisco; By Mainly Unexpected Means
- Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco; Selected Gallery Artists group show
2012
- Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco; Solo Show ; My Objectivity
- Zadik Gallery, Tel Aviv ; Solos Show; Objectivity
- Ictus Gallery, San Francisco ; Two Person Show with Zeina Barakeh; Jaffa Mangoes
- New American Paintings 2012
- Zero One Biannual ; Invitational Video Installation; Future Imagines
2011
- LIA at the Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany; Solo Show; Meine Sachlichkeit
- Solo Featured Artist, National WCA
- Sonoma Valley Art Museum ; Re Bound - Contemporary artist's books from the Bay Area;
- BBVA, Colombia ; Nuevos Nombres 2011 - Conversations II(Bogotá)
2010
- Drawing Center, New York ; Viewing Program
- Union Square, San Francisco ; Outdoor sculpture: SFGHF Commission ; Auctioned 02.10.2010
Off-Space; Proliferation;
2009
- SOMARTS, San Francisco ; Invisible Homes
- ARTBO - Centro Colombo Americano Bogotá, Colombia; International Art Fair Conversations (I), Video Project;
- Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco ; Echo
- Kunsthaus Tacheles Berlin, Germany ; Personally Political
- Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco ; Group Exhibition
2008
- Cooper Union, New York City ; Cooper Union Summer Show
- R. B Stevenson Gallery ; La Jolla ; Five from San Francisco
- Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason ; San Francisco Art Institute Vernissage - MFA Show
- Triton Museum; Santa Clara ; California painters
On Line Exhibit; San Francisco Art Institute; Another Country 2007
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA Artists Gallery;Solo Show; Book of Hours
2005
- Arion Press ; San Francisco ; Original Artists Books - Ecclesiastics
2004
- New Langton ; San Francisco ; Synchin
- Global Factory ; Santa Clara ; CA. Women
- Elizabeth Norton Studio; Palo Alto, CA ;Solo Show; Still Women
EDUCATION
2008, MFA in Painting; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1993, Ph.D. in Physical Polymer Chemistry; Graduate Center CUNY, NY
RESIDENCIES AND PROJECTS
- KH Messen Residency, Norway; 2024
-Changwon S.Korea, Sculpture residency; 2022
- CASP Residency Award; 2010-2016
- Residency, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany ; LIA - Leipzig International Art Programme, 2011
- Artists Residency, Budapest ; Multi Cultural Residency Program, 2011
- Cooper Union New York City ; International Artists Residency, 2008
Theater set design:
The Pear Avenue Theater Mountain View, CA. 2012
- Bach in Leipzig by Itamar Moses, 2012
- Familiar Strangers by Margie Kahn, 2012
- The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain, 2011
PRESS and PUBLICATIONS
- The Korean Society for Art and Media 2023 Exhibition
Changwon Biennale Catalogue
Featured on Woven Tale Magazine Volume 10 pg. 45
Microscopic Inspiration, the woven tale magazine
Art Spiel Magazine Feature Fall 2021
Lilith Magazine Feature I Spring 2021
Lilith Magazine Feature II Spring 2021
Artspiel Magazine Interview on Coping 2020
ISSUES National Academy of Science Quarterly Feature 2020
Cardio Vascualr Magazine Feature 2020
Washington Post Review by Mark Jenkins 2019
The Seeds of creation Interviews with 18 Women Artists by Cosima Ene 2019
Art spiel Review LIU show 2018
Washington Post review Hillyer show 2017
NPR Review KQED San Francisco 2016
SF Weekly Review Between Worlds
Stanford Anderson Collection News Hot Art Blingthe New Thing on the Peninsula
JWeekly Yerba Buena Show Review
SF Chronicle, Top Picks 01/22/14
- New American Painting; volume 103, December 2012
Time Out Tel Aviv pick 09/06/2012
Exhibition Catalog, published by Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, 2012
SF Chronicle; Top Picks, March 2012
Man as Object, Exhibition Catalog, Women Caucus for Art 2011
- Tacheles Berlin, Personally Political, Published 2009
- Artweek magazine Cover Image and review; Greener Grass, July- August Issue 2008
- Five from San Francisco Review Artweek 2008
- Another Country, Produced McLinthock and Swanson, Publishers One Studios, 2008
SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES
-Kennedy Center, Washington DC - Juxtaposition, Art and science Presentation, 2023
-Hood college Maryland: Artist talk on Art and Science, 2023
-York Art Center: Artist Talk on Art and Science; 2023
-Venture Cafe Philadelphia; Artist Talk ,2020
Biobat, Brooklyn, NYC; Artist Talk, 2019
-Leonardo DASER at the National Academy of Science Washington, DC, 2017
-Leonardo LASERS series; Berkeley University, Nano Portraiture, 2016
-Old and New, Art and science in the Middle East, Palo Alto JCC, 2016
-Leonardo LASERS series; University of California, Davis, Visualizing DNA, 2015
-Leonardo LASERS series; University of San Francisco, Visualizing DNA, 2015
COLLECTIONS
University of California San Francisco, Washington DC WAH, The Jewish Museum of Hungary, Budapest; The City of San Francisco; Palo Alto Art Center;
Private collections in Munich, New York, North Carolina, London, and California.