AIRYKA ROCKEFELLER
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E D U C A T I O N
2005 MFA, New Media, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2001 BA, Photography, Film & Cultural Studies, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
2000 Year Abroad, Asian Cultural Studies, Friends World College, Bangalore, India
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
2008 Crooked Meadow, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 I Know The Pieces Fit, Tartine, San Francisco, CA
2005 At The Edge of Nowhere, Everything, Thesis Exhibition, CCA, San Francisco, CA
2003 Devi/Detour, Dana's Show-house Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA
2002 Eyes to Hold, Hands to Slice. The Little Theatre Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 The Quilted Wall, A*Space Gallery, Bronxville, NY
The Luscious Unsubtle, The Wild Rose, Seattle, WA
2000 It Flutters, It Wings, Four Angels, Seattle, WA
1997 Scholarship Award Show, B.I. Arts and Humanities Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA
G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2010 Transplanted, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bread Art, Tartine, San Francisco, CA
2009 Benefit Auction of Photographic Prints, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Re:Focus, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
Adobe Books 20th Anniversary Art Auction, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
The Sketchbook Show, Orange Alley Project, San Francisco, CA
2008 New Langton Annual Art Auction, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Lithuanian Art ’08: Photography, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Other Than History, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summer Reading, Capricious Space, Brooklyn, NY
i Book It: Artists Book Fair, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Mini Market, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Annnual Silent Art Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Annual Auction, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2007 "And, Who Are You?" Work from Saatchi Online, Sara Tecchia Roma, New York, NY
Annual Art Auction, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Grounded, Intersection For The Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Notebook Show: A Selection from Artist’s Notebooks, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Other Dance, Warehouse 1310, San Francisco, CA
GROUPSHOW, September 2006/No.7, www.group-show.com
10th Annual Art Sale, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2005 Post-Postcard, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Forest for the Trees, Counterpulse, San Francisco, CA
Shelter, Million Fishes, San Francisco, CA
The Postcard Show, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2004 Pin-Up Show, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
We Are Not Alone, Secluded Alley Works, SAW Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 New Photography, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Celluloid Film and Video Festival, (Screening) Lynwood Theatre, Bainbridge Island, WA
2002 Distinguishing Features (Screening), The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Streak Her Stark (Screening), Berlin Lesben Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Erin in the Bright (Screening), The Bellevue Art Museum Film and Video Festival,
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Fairy Tales and Fables (Screening), Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
Four Eyes, Four Countries, Sideshow Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 Community Works, Kingston Community Artworks, Kingston, WA
Homegrown: Local Shorts (Screening), The Egyptian Theater, Seattle, WA
1999 Wind, Memory (Screening), The Little Theatre, Seattle, WA
R E S I D E N C I E S
2007 Photographic Center Northwest, Artist in Residence, Seattle, WA
2006 Milkwood International, Artist in Residence, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
2001 The Barli Institute for Rural Women, Artist in Residence, Indore, India
G R A N T S / A W A R D S
2007 Print Sponsorship Grant, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
2004 Graduate Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1997 Senior Scholarship, Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council, B.I. WA
C O L L E C T I O N S
2007 Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
2007 It’s All For You: Artist-Book Library, Portland, OR
2004 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
B I B I L I O G R A P H Y
2010 Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait In Contemporary Photography, by Susan Bright. Thames & Hudson
2008 Castles, Copies & Caves (Self-published) San Francisco, CA
Crooked Meadow (Self-Published) San Francisco, CA
WPS1 Contemporary Art Center Radio Show by Frank Prattle, www.WPS1.org
2007 Crooked Meadow, Crooked Love (Self-published) San Franciso, CA
The Borderland Boys: 2005-2006 (Self-published) San Franicsco, CA
2006 Excerpt from "The Borderland Boys" Satellite Magazine, Independent School of Art, San Francisco, CA
I Know The Pieces Fit (Self-published) San Francisco, CA
2005 "The Headache," Shots Magazine, Issue 87, Minneapolis, MN
I had so much to dream last night. (Self-published) San Francisco, CA
Wreck-Creations (Self-published) San Francisco, CA
Suggestion Territories (Self-published) San Francisco, CA
Samuel & Violette (Self-published) San Francisco, CA
The Borderland Boys (Self-published) San Francisco, CA
The Gravity of Flesh Undoes Us/The Sediment of Sentiment (Self-published Fiction) San Francisco, CA
2004 Finding Flotsam (Self-published) San Francisco, CA
Secret/Solitude (Self-published) San Francisco, CA
Drift, Inhabit (Self-published) San Francisco, CA
The Many-Limbed (Self-published) San Francisco, CA
2001 "The History of a Girl's Memory in Kisses" (Fiction) Global City Review, New York, NY
2000 Anything Can Happen, Global City Review, New York, NY
1998 "On the Photographs of Airyka Rockefeller" (Review) Bainbridge Voice, Bainbridge Island, WA
1997 Daughters of the Sun, Sisters of the Moon: Young Women and Their Mentors
On The Transition to Womanhood. New Society Publishers, CT
F I L M O G R A P H Y
2001 Streak Her Stark, 4 minutes, Super 8, Soundtrack by Can
2001 Untitled, (India, Love) 12 minutes, Super 8, Soundrack Original
2000 Wind, Memory, 2.2 minutes, Super 8, Soundtrack by Nina Simone
1999 Erin in the Bright, 3 minutes, Super 8, Soundrack Original
V I S I T I N G A R T I S T L E C T U R E S
2011 Guest Lecture/Teacher: Self Portraiture Workshop, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2009 Guest Lecturer: Language of Lineage, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Guest Lecturer: Chronology of Influences, California College of the Arts, CA
2008 Guest Lecturer: Centaurs and Hybrids, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Guest Lecturer: Chromophilia, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Guest Lecturer: Earlier Or Later, The European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
2007 Graduate Reviewer, invited by Kieth Boadwee, Calfornia College of The Arts, San Franisco, CA
Guest Lecturer: Beautiful Maverick, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Guest Lecturer: Currents and Undercurrents-The River Where I Found You, UC Berkeley, CA
2006 Guest Lecturer: Borderland Boys & Crooked Meadows, Gymnasium, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
2005 Guest Lecturer: Making Photographic Books, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2004 Guest Lecturer: Super 8 Filmmaking, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
2000 Guest-Teacher: Art, Women, & Revolution, The Barli Institute for Rural Women, Indore, India
B I O :
Airyka Rockefeller was born in 1979 and grew up on an island near Seattle, Washington. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2001 with a Bachelor's degree in cultural studies and photography and received her MFA in 2005 from California College of the Arts.
Rockefeller is a previous recipient of a Photographic Center Northwest grant, a prior artist in residence at Milkwood International in the Czech Republic and at The Barli Institute For Rural Women in India. Her work has shown nationally at Silverman Gallery, Jack Fisher Gallery, Sara Tecchia Roma Gallery, Laguna Art Museum and The Outpost For Contemporary Art.
Rockefeller's photographs explore paradigms between the symbolic and factual value of found objects, archives and places. Recent projects turn attention to repurposed landscapes, worldly metamorphosis and presence in one's environment, whether through the lens of gesture, architecture, play or ceremony. Her ongoing series of self-portraits, Between Or Before, was recently included in Auto-Focus: The Self-Portrait In Contemporary Art, a publication by British curator and author Susan Bright. She currently lives and works in San Francisco.
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