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SELECTED RESUME

 

BORN: Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

EDUCATION

 

á      Massachusetts College of Art;

á      B.A. New York University;

á      M.A. University of California, Berkeley

 

 

SELECTED ART and TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITIONS

 

á      BIOS 4,Centro Andaluz de Arte Contempor‡neo, Seville, Spain, 2007

á      Center for Jewish Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, 2007

á      4th International Symposium of Interactive Media Design, Istanbul, Turkey, 2006

á      Whitney Biennial 2006, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York , NY, 2006

á      Museum of Contemporary Art, For Everyone and No One, North Miami, Fla, 2005

á      San Francisco Museum of Art Gallery, KALA 30 Something, San Francisco, 2005

á      Pixel Pops, City Gallery, New Haven Connecticut, 2005

á      Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof’a,"violence without bodies, Madrid, Spain, 2005

á      le-musee di-visioniste in Cologne, Germany, 2004

á      SETI Workshop, Encoding Altruism: Interstellar Messaging, Paris, France, 2003

á      Bienal de Arte, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2002

á      University of California Alumni Exhibition, Berkeley, California, 2002

á      Universities Art Assoc. Conference, Univ.of Quebec, Montreal, Canada, 2001

á      HIGH TOUCH/HIGH TECH, Oakland Museum of Art , CA, 2000

á      Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2000

á      Axis Reader on Gender and New Media, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2000

á      Invencao, Instituto Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 1999

á      Graphic Electronic, Puebla, Mexico, 1999

á      DIGITAL SALON, 1999: ITALY: Triennale di Milano

á      SPAIN: Sala de Exposiciones CAM, Alicante;

o     Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid;

o     Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona;

á      Touchware, SIGGRAPH 98, Orlando, Florida

á      The Best of 2 Worlds, net.art -Aleph, Arco Electronico 98, SPAIN

á      Art + Bio - Univ. Art Gallery, Central Michigan U., Mt. Pleasant, 1998

á      Finding the Fulcrum, LEONARDO's 30th Anniversary, Minna Street Gallery,

á      San Francisco, California, 1997

á      Mill Valley Film Festival, California, 1997

á      Modesto Junior College Art Gallery, California,1997

á      Fotofeis 97, Scottish Bienale Festival

á      DIGITAL SALON 95, 96, 97, 98, New York, NY

á      Mill Valley Film Festival 1997

á      Euphrat Museum, De Anza College, Cupertino, California, 1997

á      Maid in Cyberspace-le festival XX d'Art WWW, Montreal, Canada

á      ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) 1993, 95, 96,99         Copenhagen Film Festival, Denmark, 1996

á      Siggraph95, Los Angeles, CA, 1995

á      The World's Women OnÐLine, Beijing, China, 1995      

á      Artists Shedding Light on Science, San Francisco State Univ., CA, 1994 

á      CADRE (Computers, Art, Design, Research, Educ.) San Jose, CA, 1989-84     

á      Digital Concepts and Expressions, Tish Art Gallery, New York Univ., 1988

á      Pacific Film Archive, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA 1984    

á      Baxter Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 1976

á      Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria,1989-1992   

á      Documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany, 1987

 

 

SELECTED LECTURES

 

á      The Art, Techology and Culture Colloquium, Univ.of California, Berkeley, 2004

á      San Francisco Art Institute, Digital Studies Program, San Francisco, Calif. 2004

á      The OaklandMuseum of Art, KALA Institute:High Touch, High Tech, Calif. 2000

 

 

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS

 

á      Generations: Lineage of InfluenceÐBay Area Art, Richmond Art Ctr, CA, 1996

á      Capp Street Project, 1996

á      Artist Resident Arts Wire, 1995

á      Vuorovaekutus, Kuopio Museum, Kuopio, Finland, 1992

á      The Animated Soul, Takada Arts 1992; Ghia Gallery 1991, San Francisco, CA

á      Digital Mudra, KALA Institute, Berkeley, CA, 1987      

á      Shoe-Field, MEDIA, San Francisco, CA, 1986

á      Coping with Sexual Jealousy, Pauley Ballroom Univ. of Calif. Berkeley, 1984

á      Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1984

á      Biorhythm: How do you feel? WORKS/San Jose, CA, 1983

á      Back to Nature (Retrospective) Humboldt State Univ. Arcada, CA, 1983

á      Shared Dynamics, Artists Space, New York, New York, 1981

á      Shared Dynamics, New School for Social Research, New York, New York, 1981

 

SELECTED SOLO INSTALLATIONS/EXHIBITIONS

 

á      Psycho-Aesthetic Dynamics, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA, 1980 

á      Pictorial Linguistics, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, 1979  

á      Bonito-Rapoport Shoes, Donnell Center, New York Public Library, 1979 

á      Interaction Art and Science, Truman Gallery, New York, NY, 1979  

á      Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA ,1978 

á      California (Crocker) Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 1974

á      San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 1974

á      John Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1972, 70, 67, 64

á      California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, 1963

 

 

SELECTED BOOK ART EXHIBITIONS

 

á      Center for Book Arts, 30 Years of Innovation, New York, NY 2005

á      Northern Calif. Book Artists, Ctr For Book Arts, New York City, 1998-99 (cat)

á      Boundless: Liberating the Book Form, San Francisco Ctr for the Book, CA, 1998

á      1st Columbia Biennal Exhibition of the Book, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

á      WOMEN OF THE BOOK: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes (traveling), 1997-2000

á      Photographic Book Art in the U. S.(traveling USA), 1992-95

á      Off the Shelf/On Line, Minn.Ctr (traveling NEA) (cat. pub.), 1992-1993

á      Book Arts, USA; U.S. Information Agency (traveling) (cat. pub.), 1992-90

á      Anchorage Museum of Art, Anchorage, Alaska (cat. pub.), 1991-1990 

á      National Museum of Women, Washington DC, 1990

á      National Library, Madrid, Spain (cat. pub.), 1982

 

 

PAINTING AND DRAWING EXHIBITIONS

 

á      Museum of Contemporary Art, Northern Miami, Florida, 2005

á      San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , Artist's Gallerry, 2005

á      Women Artists of the USA, Sao Paulo, Brasil (cat. pub.), 1980

á      Painting & Sculpture Now, Indianapolis Museum of Art ,Indiana, 1980

á      Art Scene, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, 1973

á      100 American Drawings, University of Michigan (cat.pub.) Ann Arbor, MI 1965

á      Annual Exhibitions, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA 1964-50

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

á      Fron Technological to Virtual Art by Frank Popper, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massashusetts, 2006

á      ART et BIOTECHNOLOGIES by Louise Poussant and Ernestine Daubner, Presses de l'Universitie du Quebec, 2005

á      Edition Shimizu website, Shimizu Japan, 2005

á      CARCAL DE ARMOR, Remedios Zafra, Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia 2005

á      SAN FRANCISCO AND THE SECOND WAVE, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California 2005

á      WOMEN ART TECHNOLOGY Judy Malloy, MIT Press Cambridge, MA, 2003

á      INFORMATION ART, Stephen Wilson, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002

á      PARACHUTE 105, autofictions Manipulating Genetic Identities, Canada 01 02 03

á      Axis Reader- New Media, Amsterdam Foundation for Art and Gender, March 2000 SWITCH, CADRE Institute, April, 1999

á      n.paradoxa, international feminist art journal. vol.2, 1998

á      LEONARDO, Digital Salon Edition, vol.31, #5, 1998

á      LEONARDO Art Gallery, vol.31, #4, 1998

á      Arts Wire CURRENT, Judy Malloy, April 7, 1998

á      artnetweb, November 3, 1997

á      LEONARDO, front and back covers, vol.30, #4, 1997; vol. 39, #2, 2006

á      RHIZOME, July 1997, January 1998

á      Cyberfemale by Anne de Haan, LOVER Magazine, the Netherlands, May, 1997

á      NATURE/BIOTECHNOLOGY vol.15 #1 January, 1997

á      INTELLIGENT AGENT, vol.1,#4, July/August 1996; fall, 1997

á      Microsoft Review of Art on the Web by Dominic Gates 24 February, 1997

á      ArtsWire CURRENT, Judy Malloy, December 10, 1996

á      LEONARDO, Digital Salon Editions, vol.30, #4, 1997,vol.29, Number 5, 1997; vol.28, Number 5, 1996; vol.28, Number 5, 1995

á      MICROTIMES, April 4, 1994; February 8, 1993

á      VISIONS Art Quarterly, 1992

á      Electronic Network: LEONARDO, 1995, 94, 93; FINE ART FORUM 1991, 89

á      ART COM 1989, 88, 87

á      LEONARDO Journal Vol.39#2,2006 vol.37 #3, 2004; vol 28 #5, 1995; vol. #25, 1992; vol. 24 #1 & #3, 1991;

á      HERESIES, #24, 1990; #18/19, 1986

á      HIGH PERFORMANCE, #22, 1983

á      BOX CAR #1, 1983

á      LAICA #31, 1981

á      EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING, Robert Kaupelis, Watson-Guptil, NY, NY 1980

 

 

GRANTS/COMMISSIONS/AWARDS

 

á      Festival of Independent Audio/Visual Arts on Line, 1995

á      Finalist, Voyager Competition 1995

á      California Art Council grant for ACEN Telecommunication Project, 1988 

á      Eyes and Ears Foundation(1985); San Jose State Univ. Foundation, 1979 

á      City of Hayward Hall of Justice, 1976

á      San Francisco Art Commission Purchase Award, 1967

á      Richmond Art Center 1966, 1959

á      San Francisco Women Artist Awards 1965, 1963, 1961, 1958

 

 

WEB TITLES published by LanMinds at http://www.sonyarapoport.net

 

á      Kabbalah/Kabul: Sending Emanations to the Aliens, 2004-5

á      Redeeming the Gene, Molding the Golem, Folding the Protein, 2001

á      Make Me A Jewish Man: An Alternative Masculinity, 1999

á      Digital Mudra, 1998

á      Arbor Erecta, 1998

á      Make Me A Man, 1997

á      Objective Connections, 1996

á      Brutal Myths, 1996

á      Smell Your Destiny, 1995

á      The Transgenic Bagel, 1994-95