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BORN

1979        Jakarta, Indonesia

EDUCATION

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

2010       New Work, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA   [upcoming]
2009       Listening Sequence, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2007       Fugitive Horizons, Project Space, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2007       Three Minutes from Now, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2001       Three-Part Installation, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009       Abstract Re-Generation, Fabbri C.A, Milan, Italy   [upcoming]
2009       Metaphysical Abstraction, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA  
                Curated by Jamie Brunson and Michelle Mansour
2008       Pattern reDefined, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  
2008       Freddy Chandra, Gretchen Mentzer, Jen Shifflet, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2008       The Space Between, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2007       Chain Reaction, Garage Biennale, The Garage, San Francisco
2007       WorkADay, Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007       Close Calls: 2007, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA     
2005       Emerge, 8th Annual GenArt Exhibition, San Francisco
2004       Thesis Exhibition: Counterpoise, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA

HONORS

2009      Recipient, Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant
2009      Artist in Residence, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
2007      Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2006      Kala Art Institute Fellowship Award & Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2006      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
2002      Eisner Prize in Art, University of California, Berkeley
1997      Regents’ Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2004-present    Mills College, Oakland, CA.  Department of Art.
                        
Visiting Artist Faculty
2004-2005       University of California, Berkeley.  Department of Art Practice
                         
Summer Session Lecturer

PANEL, LECTURES & PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

2007     Lecture:  Expressive Textures, Headlands Center for the Arts, with composer Hubert Ho
2007     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. 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Gund Collection, Boston, MA
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
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Washington D.C.