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BORN

1979              Jakarta, Indonesia

EDUCATION

2002-2004    M.F.A., Studio Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1997-2002    B.A., Architecture & Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley 
 

REPRESENTATION
                  Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco   
                    
ONE/ TWO/ THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2009             New Works, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA   (solo / scheduled)
2008             Pattern reDefined:     Freddy Chandra/Lisa Solomon/Jil Weinstock.
                     
Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA    (three-person)
                      Artists from the Headlands:  Freddy Chandra, Gretchen Jane Mentzer, Jen Shifflet.

                     
Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA [three-person]
2007             Fugitive Horizons, Project Space, Headlands Center for the Arts (solo)
                     Three Minutes from Now, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA [solo project]
2004            Introductions 2004, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA  [three-person]
2001            Three-Part Installation, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley  (solo)
                     Annie Hui, Freddy Chandra, Jacob Wong, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley [three-person]

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008           The Space Between, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2007           Miami Flow Art Fair with Donna Seager Gallery, Miami, FL
                    Chain Reaction, Garage Biennale, The Garage, San Francisco
                    Chain Reaction II, Art Engine Gallery, San Francisco
                    WorkADay, Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA
                    Root Division’s 6th Annual Art Auction, Root Division, San Francisco
                    Close Calls: 2007, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
                    RIPPLE,
Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006           Fresh, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
                    Community Virology, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA  
                    Sketch, Memorial Union Art Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA 
2005           Emerge, 8th Annual GenArt Exhibition, San Francisco
2004           Cream: From the Top,
ArtsBenicia, Benicia, CA
                    M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition: Counterpoise,
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2003           Art Bowl III,
 b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA
2002           Honors Studio Show,
Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
2001           Honors Studio Show,
Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2007            Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2006            Kala Art Institute Fellowship Award & Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
                     Semi-finalist, Visions from the New California Award, the James Irvine Foundation
2004            Herringer Prize for Excellence in Studio Art
2003            Catherine Morgan Trefethen Fellowship, Mills College
                     Graduate Research Grant, Mills College
2002            Graduate Research Grant, Mills College
                     Eisner Prize in Art, University of California, Berkeley
                     Regents’ Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2004-present    Mills College, Oakland, CA.  Department of Art.
                        
Visiting Artist Faculty, 3-D Concepts & Basic Composition
2004-2005       University of California, Berkeley.  Department of Art Practice
                         
Summer Session Lecturer,  The Language of Drawing

PANEL, LECTURES & PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

2007            Artist’s Talk:  Expressive Textures, Headlands Center for the Arts, with experimental composer                      Hubert Ho
                     Artists’ Lecture: Freddy Chandra & Su-Chen Hung, Kala Art Institute 
2004            Artists’ Forum for “Cream-From the Top” at ArtsBenicia with art critic Glen Helfand 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cebulski, Frank      
                     "The Space Between," Artweek, June 2008, vol.39, Issue 5.
Selz, Peter 
    “Compositions of Space and Light”, Berkeley Daily Planet, June 22, 2007.
Van Proyen, Mark

                     “Close Calls: 2007 at the Headlands Center for the Arts”, Artweek, March 2007.
_________     “Kala Fellowships”, Artweek, December 2006/ January 2007.
Saltzman, Aaron

                     "Memorial Union Art Gallery Exhibits: Sketch", The California Agee, February 2, 2006.
Baker,  Kenneth

                     "2005 In Review: Art", San Francisco Chronicle, December 25, 2005.
Baker, Kenneth
                    "Nice surprises at this year's 'Emerge' show of new talents", San Francisco Chronicle,                       November 15, 2005.
Garcia, Andrea
 
                     “Eighteen artists selected for ‘Cream’ exhibit”, The Daily Republic, November 12, 2004.
Dalkey, Victoria
       
                     “Critic’s Pick: b. sakata garo”, The Sacramento Bee, July 4, 2004.
White, Tim
     “Urban Images”, The Sacramento News & Review, July 22, 2004.
Helfand, Glen  “Introduction to the Master of Fine Arts Exhibition at Mills College”, May 2004. 

COLLECTIONS

TSG Corporation, New York, NY
Capital Group Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Neiman Marcus, Los Angeles, CA
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Menlo Park, CA
Holland Group, San Francisco, CA
Heller Ehrman LLP, San Francisco, CA
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Washington D.C.

Michael & Jamie Shaw, Mill Valley, CA
Donna Seager, San Rafael, CA
Greg Sullivan & Joe Diaz, San Francisco, CA
Robin McDonnell & Susan Church, Berkeley, CA
Elizabeth Potter, Oakland, CA
Steve Strain, San Francisco, CA
Hung Liu & Jeff Kelley, Oakland, CA
Peter Pelavin, San Francisco, CA
Samantha Tighe, San Francisco, CA
Marshall & Kathryn Miller, Santa Cruz, CA