Sonya Rapoport - Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Solo Exhibitions

• Sonya Rapoport. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California. 2012 (Future).
• Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport. Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California, 18 January - 11 March 2012 (Future).
• Sonya Rapoport: Pairings of Polarities. Kala Gallery, Berkeley, California, 4 March—9 April 2011.
• Vuorovaekutus (Interaction). Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio, Finlande, 1992. The Animated Soul.
• Exhibition at Takada Fine Art. San Francisco, California, 1992. The Animated Soul—Gateway to Your Ka (1992).
• “The Animated Soul” Exhibition at the Ghia Gallery. San Francisco, California, 22 March—30 April 1991. The Animated Soul—Gateway to Your Ka (Computer: Kathryn Woods; Sound: Andrew Smolle).
• Interactive Shoe-Field. Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, California, April 1990.
• Exhibition at Hearst Art Gallery. Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, California, 8 January—21 February 1988. Digital Mudra.
• Exhibition at MEDIA Gallery. San Francisco, California, 7 October—4 November 1986. Kiva-Studio, A Shoe-In Shoe-Field I, Shoe-Field II.
• Shared Dynamics. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1984.
• “Coping with Sexual Jealousy” with the Heller Gallery in the Pauley Ballroom. Berkeley, California, 30 October 1984. Performance of Coping with Sexual Jealousy.
• Back to Nature/ Recycling the Objects: A Retrospective. Humboldt State University, Arcadia, California, 1983.
• Biorhythm: How Do You Feel? WORKS, San Jose, California, 1983.
• Biorhythm. Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University, New York City, New York. 1982.
• A Shoe-In / Objects On My Dresser. Installation at Berkeley Computer Systems. Berkeley, California, 31 March—7 April 1982. Objects On My Dresser and A Shoe-In.
• Shared Dynamics. Artist Space, New School for Social Research, New York, 1981.
• Psycho-Aesthetic Dynamics. 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, California, 3–14 June 1980. Objects on My Dresser—Psycho-Aesthetic Dynamics, Phase 2.
• Bonito-Rapoport Shoes. Donnell Library Center: New York Public Library. New York, New York, 10 October 1979. Bonito-Rapoport Shoes.
• Pictorial Linguistics. Franklin Furnace, New York City, New York, 9—27 October 1979.
• Interaction: Art and Science: Jack Bergamini / Sonya Rapoport at Truman Gallery. New York, New York, 12 January—3 February 1979. Kiva-Studio.
• Sonya Rapoport: An Overview (An Exhibition of Drawings). Union Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, 9 October—3 November 1978. Drawings. Hovenweep (1977), color pencil on computer print-out; Anasazi (1977) color pencil on computer print-out; Kiva-Studio Series (1978) color pencil on computer print-out; Upper Gila (1977) color pencil on computer print-out.
• An Aesthetic Response. Tozzer Library of the Peabody Museum. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1–31 May 1978. Works in collaboration with Dorothy Washburn.
• Exhibition at E.B. Crocker Gallery in Sacramento. Sacramento, California, 19 November—15 December 1974. Sylvan, Basta, Budding, Untitled, all acrylic on canvas.
• Exhibition at San Jose Museum of Art. San Jose, California, 3—15 November 1974. Sylvan, Basta, Budding, Untitled, all acrylic on canvas.
• Sonya Rapoport. Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California, 1973.
• Sonya Rapoport at John Bolles Gallery. San Francisco, __—20 May 1972. Survey Charts, Medley, No. 15, acrylic and pencil on old geological survey sheet.
• Sonya Rapoport at John Bolles Gallery. San Francisco, January—February 1970. Dusk, Blue Jay Wing, paintings.
• Drawings and Paintings by Sonya Rapoport. Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, 6—31 October 1969.
• Sonya Rapoport: A Selection of Paintings and Drawings. Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California, 13 April—5 May 1968. Rapoport’s seventh one-man show. Reflections, commercial flower-printed linen.
• Sonya Rapoport at John Bolles Gallery. San Francisco, California, 1–30 August 1967. Winged Double Image, acrylic on commercial flower-printed linen, Enlightenment, acrylic on fabric, and other “pattern paintings” with floral / genital themes.
• Exhibition at the College of the Holy Names’ James D. Kennedy Memorial Art Center. Oakland, California, April 1965. Paincil Series (“contrast painting”).
• Sonya Rapoport at John Bolles Gallery. San Francisco, California, 3 November—4 December 1964. Rf, Circle 2, Auror, I Love You (all “contrast paintings”); Plazmazoid, Spallation, Sonata in Orange, Auro, Psyche Trio (all “conglomerate canvases”); Red Graze, Flora Bat, Enlightenment (all fabric / pattern paintings).
• Sonya Rapoport: Paintings and Drawings at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, California, 23 March—21 April 1963.
• Exhibition at East West Gallery. San Francisco, California, January 1958. Watercolors and oil paintings. .

Selected Group Shows

• Maid in Cyberspace-le festival XX d'Art WWW, Montreal, Canada, 1997
• ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) 1993, 95, 96, 99, Copenhagen Film Festival, Denmark, 1996
• Siggraph95, Los Angeles, California, 1995
• The World's Women On-Line, Beijing, China, 1995
• Artists Shedding Light on Science, San Francisco State University, California, 1994
• CADRE (Computers, Art, Design, Research, Education) San Jose, California, 1989-1984
• Digital Concepts and Expressions, Tish Art Gallery, New York University, 1988
• Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1984
• Baxter Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 1976
• Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 1989–1992
• Documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany, 1987

Selected Lectures

• The Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
• San Francisco Art Institute, Digital Studies Program, San Francisco, California, 2004
• The Oakland Museum of Art, KALA Institute: High Touch, High Tech, California 2000

Interactive Installations

• Generations: Lineage of Influence-Bay Area Art, Richmond Art Center, California, 1996
• Capp Street Project, 1996
• Artist Resident Arts Wire, 1995
• Vuorovaekutus, Kuopio Museum, Kuopio, Finland, 1992
• The Animated Soul, Takada Arts 1992; Ghia Gallery 1991, San Francisco, California
• Digital Mudra, KALA Institute, Berkeley, California, 1987
• Shoe-Field, MEDIA, San Francisco, California, 1986
• Coping with Sexual Jealousy, Pauley Ballroom Univ. of Calif. Berkeley, 1984
• Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1984
• Biorhythm: How do you feel? WORKS/San Jose, California, 1983
• Back to Nature (Retrospective) Humboldt State Univ. Arcada, California, 1983
• Shared Dynamics, Artists Space, New York, New York, 1981
• Shared Dynamics, New School for Social Research, New York, New York, 1981

Selected Solo Installations / Exhibitions

• Psycho-Aesthetic Dynamics, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, California, 1980
• Pictorial Linguistics, Franklin Furnace, New York City, New York, 1979
• Bonito-Rapoport Shoes, Donnell Center, New York Public Library, 1979
• Interaction Art and Science, Truman Gallery, New York City, New York, 1979
• Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978
• California (Crocker) Art Museum, Sacramento, California, 1974
• San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, 1974
• John Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1964, 1967, 1970, 1972
• California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, 1963

Selected Book-Arts Exhibitions

• Center for Book Arts, 30 Years of Innovation, New York City, New York 2005
• Northern Calif. Book Artists, Ctr For Book Arts, New York City, 1998-99 (cat)
• BOUNDLESS: Liberating the Book Form, San Francisco Ctr for the Book, CA, 1998
• 1st Columbia Biennal Exhibition of the Book, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
• WOMEN OF THE BOOK: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes (traveling), 1997–2000
• Photographic Book Art in the U. S.(traveling USA), 1992–95
• Off the Shelf/On Line, Minn.Ctr (traveling NEA) (cat. pub.), 1992–1993
• Book Arts, USA; U.S. Information Agency (traveling) (cat. pub.), 1992-90
• Anchorage Museum of Art, Anchorage, Alaska (cat. pub.), 1991-1990
• National Museum of Women, Washington DC, 1990
• National Library, Madrid, Spain (cat. pub.), 1982

Painting and Drawing Exhibitions

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Northern Miami, Florida, 2005
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Artist's Gallerry, 2005
• Women Artists of the USA, São Paulo, Brasil (cat. pub.), 1980
• Painting & Sculpture Now, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, 1980
• Art Scene, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, 1973
• 100 American Drawings, University of Michigan (cat.pub.) Ann Arbor, Michigan 1965
• Annual Exhibitions, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California 1964-1950, 2005