
Alexis Arnold
Sculpture & Prints
Lives and works in the Bay Area, California
Alexis Arnold's sculptures, installations, and mixed-media 2D artworks explore the subjective perception and experience of light, space and color, geology, and the visualization of time. She has exhibited at Crystal Bridges Museum, Aspen Art Museum, Art on Paper, and the Bay Area Discovery Museum and is in the SFMOMA permanent collection. Arnold has also been featured in WSJ, designboom, Apartment Therapy, Colossal and Hi-Fructose.
CV
2010 MFA, Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
EDUCATION
2010, MFA, Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2005, BA, Studio Art, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, Graduated with Distinction
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016, Alexis Arnold and Esther Traugot, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA
2016, Material Limit: Alexis Arnold and Mary Button Durell, state, San Francisco, CA
2015, Light/Weight, En Em Art Space, Sacramento, CA
2011, Geologues, Salon DeHon, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016, Dialogues, SFArtsEd Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA (Nov-Jan)
2016, di Party di Rosa: 15th Annual Benefit Art Auction, di Rosa, Napa, CA (October 22)
2016, Reclaimed: Elevating the Art of Reuse, SCRAP at SFArtsEd Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA (October 1 -23)
2016, Common Ground: A Celebrations of our National Parks, Hazel Wolf Gallery, David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
2016, The Alchemist, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2016, Art on Paper, with OPEN-EDITIONS, New York, NY
2016, Berkeley Public Library Foundation Authors Dinner, Featured Artist, Berkeley, CA
2016, Crystallized Books, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2015, Crystallized Books and Concretions, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2015, Open Show, curated by Leslie Jones (LACMA), Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2015, Something For Everyone, Lost and Foundry, Oakland, CA
2015, Crank, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2015, SFAI Alumni Exhibition, curated by Griff Williams (owner, Gallery 16), Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015, Unhinged: Book Art on the Cutting Edge, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
2015, Fire + Water, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
2015, Young Sculptors Competition, Miami University, Hiestand Gallery, Oxford, OH
2014, Alexis Arnold Crystallized Books, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CA
2014, More Than One Way, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2014, Alexis Arnold at The Workshop Residence, San Francisco, CA - ongoing
2014, Science, Technology, and the Future of Art, Pacific Art League, CA
2014, Paint it Black, Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito, CA,
2014, Grey Area East, East Hampton, NY
2014, Scrap Art: Creative Reuse in the Bayview, San Francisco, CA
2014, Sight Unseen OFFSITE, New York, NY
2014, Kitsch-in, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2014, The Cradle Project, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2014, Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2014, Bazaar, Grey Area, Brooklyn, NY
2013, SFAI Juried Alumni Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2013, Mental Notes, Glass Door Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013, Superstitions, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
2013, ost Natural, Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame, IN
2013, The Book as Art, The Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur, GA
2013, Axis Gallery 8th National Juried Exhibition, Sacramento, CA
2012, Infinite Possibilities, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
2012, X Libris, Root Division, San Francisco
2012, Vital Signs, The New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
2012, Delirious Language, Salon DeHon, San Francisco, CA
2012, Visions of Yore, Gallery Hijinks, San Francisco, CA
2012, What’s Left Behind, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2012, Matter, Brooklyn Artists Space, Brooklyn, NY
2012, Minutia Militia, Field Projects, Manhattan, NY
2012, Edicola Newsstand, San Francisco, CA
2011, Proof, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
2011, The Crystal Bike Blanket, Art In Storefronts through the San Francisco Arts
2011, Commission, San Francisco, CA
2011, aste, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2011, roArts Box Benefit Auction, Oakland, CA
2011, We Want the World to Know Who We Are, fundraiser, Nieto Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2011, Manufactured Organic, Root Division, San Francisco
2010, The Gaming Commission, Adobe Books Parlor, San Francisco, CA - SPARE + AUSTERE, City Hall, San Francisco, CA
2010, Vernissage, MFA Group Show, Herbst Pavillion, Fort Mason, San Francisco
2010, Cast, The Crucible, Oakland, CA
2010, Proliferations, OFFspace, San Francisco, CA
2010, Domestic-Garde, ap-art-ment, San Francisco, CA
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