FRANCESCA SUNDSTEN

 

BIOGRAPHY
Born Hemet , California , 1960

EDUCATION

1990               MFA, Stanford University
1987               BFA, San Francisco Art Institute

SOLO EXIBITIONS
2003               Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2002               Diane Nelson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
                        Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA, Impediments and Perils
2000               Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
1999               Olga Dollar Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998               Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
1997               Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996               Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
1995               Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993               Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
                        Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992               Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
1991               Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990               Parker/Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                        Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
1989               San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, SF, CA
                        Dice Gallery, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, NV,

Temporal Experiments

1988               Show 'n Tell Gallery, SF, CA, Songs of Land and Skin
                        Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004               Linda Warren Gallery , Chicago , IL , Aberration/Pollination

2001               Art Institute of Southern California, About Paint
                        Diane Nelson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA, Special Exhibition
1999               Diane Nelson Fine Art, The Figure, Philosophy, Facades, CA
                        Whatcom Museum of Art, Bellingham, WA, From Here to the

Horizon: Artists of the Rural Landscape
1998               Nador Galeria, Budapest, Romania, Anti-Pesszimizmus
1996               Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995               Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, Washington: 100 Years,

100 Paintings

                        Cornish College of the Arts, Fisher Gallery, Seattle , WA
1994               Port Angeles Fine Arts Center , Port Angeles , WA , Figure/Ground                             

Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA,

 New Old Masters

                        Center on Contemporary Art, curated by Joel Peter Witkin,

Seattle , WA . Award: Best of Show.

1993               Olga Dollar Gallery San Francisco, CA, Miniatures
                        Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
1992               Olga Dollar Gallery San Francisco, CA, Seven Dreams
                        Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, Carnival Culture
                        Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, Northwest Annual
                        International Federation of Artists, Central Exhibition Hall,

St. Petersburg , Russia
1991               Galleria Potatohead, Seattle , WA
1990               Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco , CA , Introductions
                        Parker/Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles , CA
1989               Dice Gallery, Reno , NV , Contained
1988               SF Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco , CA , Alternative

Galleries Select (by Artspace)

                        Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Art ala Carte

AWARDS
1994               Artists Trust GAP Grant
1993               Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship
1989               San Francisco Foundation, Adalain Cadogan Award
1988               Ellie and John Stern Fellowship Fund in Art
1987               Spring Show Award (drawing), San Francisco Art Institute
1985               Printmaking Purchase Award, San Francisco Art Institute

TEACHING
1998 – 2003  Academy of Fine Art, Seattle, WA
1994 – 97      Visiting Artist Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA

(drawing/painting)

1990               Stanford University, Stanford, CA (drawing)
1988 – 90      Stanford University, Stanford, CA (TA painting)

PUBLICATIONS
Artists of the West Coast, Publication November 2003
ZYZZYVA, Fall 2002
Coast Magazine, cover, December 2000
Catalog: New Old Masters, by Wendy Hawley-Ruppel
New Art Examiner, Dec 1992, pg. 34, by Bruce Barcott
Catalog: Olga Dollar Gallery
ZYZZYVA, Spring 1991
Visions, Fall 1990, pg. 50, by Nathan Oliveira
Shift, vol. 2, no. 4, pg. 46, “Picturing Landscape” by M.F. Porges
SOMA, July 1988, pgs. 16 & 30, “Exposures” by David Isreal
Artweek, May 21st, 1988, pg. 11, “Fever Dreams and Fragile Monuments” by Mark Durant

OTHER
2001               Cover artwork for Rieflin, Fripp,Gunn, FWD Records
1998               Cover artwork for Ulloi Uti Fuch, Cross Roads Records
1995               Cover artwork for KMFDM (Nihil) TVT Records
1994               Seattle Metro 'Poetry on the Buses' Project
                        Artist in Residence, The Children's Museum, Seattle, WA
1991               Cover artwork for Pigface (GUB) Invisible Records
1988               Commissioned postcard, San Francisco Art Institute
1987               Summer Apprenticeship with Odd Nerdrum, Oslo, Norway
1985 – 87      Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
 

Assistant to Artists-in-Residence:
James Lee Byers, Mary Lucier, Paul Kos, and others.

COLLECTIONS
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Microsoft, Redmond, WA
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA