Laura Boles Faw
EDUCATION
2010 San Francisco Art Institute, MFA
1997 The University of the South, Sewanee, BA (Magna Cum Laude, Honors in Art History)
1996 British Studies at Oxford, Oxford, England
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 Autotomy, Project Space, Boston, MA.**
á Dieu, Consul General de France with re.riddle, San Francisco, CA.**
2017 Laura Boles Faw and Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, [ 2ndfloor projects ], San Francisco.
Correspondence, Ross Alley, San Francisco. Organized by the Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco.**
2016 Gum Heads, Ms. Barbers, Los Angeles, CA. Organized by Cathy Fairbanks.
2015 Resonant Forms, MAX Occupancy, San Francisco, CA.
Mount Farallon, Scrawl Center for Drawing, San Francisco, CA.*
2013 We are the field, Scrawl Center for Drawing, San Francisco, CA.*
2012 Far Along, Part 1, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.*
2011 About the Thing and the Thing Itself, Pop Up Art House, Las Vegas, NV.*
2010 Propped Up: A Tale of No (Non)Sense, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
A Love Story, THE ONE, www.paperwasterpress.com/THE_ONE
2008 Perceptions, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 re:home, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA. Curated by AKArt, re:riddle, and and Collect for Change.
Altered, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA. Curated by OFFSpace.*
2017 The Second LongLi International New Media Art Season, LongLi China. (Permanent Public Artwork)
Dorothy Saxe Invitational Exhibition, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.
New Urban Legend: Resistance of Space, 41 Ross (Chinese Culture Center), San Francisco. Curated by Ziying Duan and Abby
Chen.
28 Day Cycle, Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito, CA. Curated by Pamela Belknap and Ingrid Wells.
2016 Pulling Threads, Root Division, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Victoria Heilweil.
Palette, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Kelly Inouye, Lisa Solomon, and Theodora Mauro.
2015 The Pleasure Principle, Heavy Breathing #3 with Bonanza and DJ8ulentina, Real Time and Space, Oakland, CA.
Kala Artists Annual Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.
2014 Everybody’s Ocean, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA.*
Kala Annual Artists Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.
On View, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.
Wabi Sabi, Alterspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by MicroClimate Collective.
2013 Concentrate, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Hesse McGraw.*
Found: White Paper, Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito, CA.
Collaboration: Dress for this, published by Bonanza and n/a Gallery.*
Some Fine Women, VAST Space Projects, Las Vegas, NV.
2012 Shifting Margins, Aggregate Space, Oakland, CA. Curated by OFF Space.*
Source/Re:Source, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Salon Show, Pop Up Art House, Las Vegas, NV.
2011 Strength in Numbers, SCOPE Miami, Miami, FL.*
2010 I-Object, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA, curated by Clark Buckner.
Vernissage, SFAI MFA Thesis Show, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA.
Performology and Actionalization, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
ap-art-ment: The Domestic-Garde, San Franisco, CA.*
An Impromptu Salon, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2009 Between the Sheets, Adobe Books Parlor, San Francisco, CA.
Day of the Thread, Pueblo Nuevo Gallery, Berkeley, CA, curated by Patricia Augsburger.
Inside/Out, Adobe Books Parlor, San Francisco, CA, curated by Mimi Moncier.
A Matter of Course, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.*
Continuing MFA Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Locality, Mission Arts Center, San Francisco, CA.
To Here Knows When, Untitled Gallery, Sausalito, CA, curated by Kara Q. Smith.
Collide, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008 Geography of Conflict, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Transformations, Clara Street Projects, San Francisco, CA.
Shelters: Part I and II, Cohen Alley and Luggage Store Annex, San Francisco, CA, curated by Mildred Howard.
2007 I.O.U., Mission 17, San Francisco, CA, curated by Clark Buckner, Jeannene Pryzblyski, Elaine Santos, and Meg Shiffler.
Generation Complacent, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Another Country, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA, curated by Allan deSouza, Paul Klein, Tammy Ko Robinson, Laura
Swanson, and Benjamin Miller-Rios.
Terra Cognita, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Artists in Residence, The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA.
SFAI Now, Red Ink Studios, San Francisco, CA.
Museum Intervention, The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA.
Get Out of Jail Free, Visual Aid (LGBT Center), San Francisco, CA.
2006 Big Deal 13, Visual Aid, San Francisco, CA.
Finding the Spot, G Spot Studios, San Francisco, CA.
The 100 Show, ARTsf, San Francisco, CA.
Spring Show, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
2005 Artist Books, Arion Press, San Francisco, CA.
The Postcard Show, The Lab, San Francisco, CA.
19th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Cultural Arts Center of Douglasville, Douglasville, GA. Juried by Marianne Lambert.
Mona Lisa Postcard Project, Works, San Jose, CA.
CURATORIAL AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2009-Present Collaboration with Cathy Fairbanks (all exhibitions marked with *)
2016-Present Collaboration with Summer Lee (all exhibitions marked with **)
2011 Over My Dead Body. Co-curated with Hava Liberman, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
2009 A Matter of Course. Co-curated with Cathy Fairbanks, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Titanic Piano. Co-curated with Nancy de Y. Elkus, MoPA.
The Pistils, Adobe Books Parlor, San Francisco, CA.
SELECTED WRITING/PUBLICATIONS
2019 Why Do We Dream of California?, Practice Space Design Studio, Cambridge, MA.
2016 Critical essay for Fragile, Italian Cultural Institute and Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco.
http://www.mappingthecity.org/critical-essay.html
2014 Catalogue essay for Summer Lee: Into the Nearness of Distance, Chinese Culture Center, San
Francisco.
2013 Review of H.A.P.P.I.N.E.S.S. at Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito. http://studio110projects.com/happiness
Some Type of Way, Published by Bonanza and n/a gallery.
2011 Collaboration as Social Praxis, Over My Dead Body, Root Division, San Francisco:
http://o-m-d-b.blogspot.com/2011/08/collaboration-as-social-praxis.html
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 Hoi Leung. “An Atlas of the Invisible, inre:homeat Minnesota Street Project.” Art Practical,
Shotgun Review, 22 January 2019.
2017 Anita Katz. “New Urban Legend: Exhibit Tackles Social Issues.” S.F. Examiner, 8 June 2017.
Sarah Hotchkiss. “Something for Everyone in a Summer of Bay Area Visual Art.” KQED Arts, 7 June 2017.
2011 Danielle Kelly. “Sensuous Now,” Las Vegas Weekly, November.
“Year in Review,” Las Vegas Weekly, December.
2010 Jarrett Earnest. “The Domestic Garde: ap-art-ment,” Talking Cure Quarterly, Summer.
2009 “Titanic Piano,” MoPA, November.
“I.O.U,” Mission 17 Publications, February.
“Mission 17: 2004-2009” Mission 17 Publications, July.
2008 “Another Country,” catalogue.
“Shelters: Part I and II,” Lulu Press, June.
2007 Artweek. “Spring Open Studios Preview,” April.
2006 Charles Mackay, “The Tulipomania.” The Arion Press.
1999 The GSU Review. Georgia State University.
VISITING ARTIST/LECTURE
2016 Artist Selection Committee, Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial Project.
Pulling Threads Panel Discussion, Moderated by Anastasia James, Root Division.
2015 Graduate Review Committee, San Francisco Art Institute, Summer and Fall.
2013 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Conceptual Cartography in Print, San Francisco Art Institute.
Panel Member, SFAI Concentrate, San Francisco Art Institute
Lecturer, Collaboration and Collage, San Francisco Art Institute.
Visiting Artist, Structural Drawing/Design Visualization, San Francisco Art Institute.
Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Conceptual Cartography. California College of the Arts Graduate Design Program.
Panel Member, Art Worlds: History, Theory and Practice. San Francisco Art Institute, Graduate Program.
2012 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.
2010 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, San Francisco Art Institute, Contemporary Practice.
AWARDS/ HONORS/ RESIDENCIES
2019 SBC-VCCA Teaching Fellowship, Sweet Briar College and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,
Sweet Briar, VA. Teaching Fellowship and Artist Residency.
2017 California Arts Council Artists Activating Communities Grant Recipient with the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco.
Artist in Residence, Second LongLi International New Media Arts Season, LongLi, China.
2014 Artist in Residence, Kala Art Institute, Oakland
2013 LOOP Arts Residency Recipient, Oakland*
2012 SFMoMA SECA Art Award Nominee, San Francisco
2011 2011-2012 Prequalified Artist Pool, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco.
Finalist for Commons Curatorial Residency, SOMArts, San Francisco.*
2010 Sculpture Fellowship. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco.
2010 Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute.
1997 Art Department Award. The University of the South, Sewanee, TN.
Honors in Art History. The University of the South, Sewanee, TN.
TEACHING
SBC-VCCA Teaching Fellowship, Sweet Briar College and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
(August-September 2019)
Art Futures, Philadelphia Museum of Art
(January 2019-May 2019)
Lecturer, Sculpture Department, San Francisco Art Institute
(January 2012- May 2018)