SOPHIA J. ALLISON
                                                                                                    sophia.allison@gmail.com
EDUCATION
1998-2001  MFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1992-1995  BFA, Painting, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
1990-1992  AFA, Painting, Brevard College, Brevard, NC

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008   Germination Station,  Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2005    Whoa, Nellie! Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2002
    Garden Variety, DeRicci Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison, WI
2001
    Babyface, Art Gallery, Hastings College, Hastings, NE
             
House Show, 7th Floor Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008   
Automatic Enigmatic, Sophia Allison & York Chang, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 
Membrane, Sophia Allison & Autumn Harrison, MORYORK Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009   Retrospect, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
           
Lucha Libre! Las Leyendas del Ring, Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), El Corazon Gallery
            
Incognito, Art Benefit and Exhibition, Santa Monica Museum of Art
            
GEM,  LAAA/Gallery 825
2008   Open Show 2008, LAAA/Gallery 825.  Juried by David Pagel, LA Times art critic
            
The Horror of Tradition, AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
            
Torrance Juried Art Exhibition, Torance Art Museum.  Juried by Gosia Wojas, Susanne Vielmetter Gallery.        
           
Novella, LAAA/Gallery 825.  Juried by Meg Linton, Director of Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design
           
Accessorize, LAAA/Gallery 825.  Juried by Peggy Fogelman, Director of Education and Interpretation, Peabody Essex Museum
            
Kitsch Catch, Sete and  Lille France. (Traveling through 2010)
2007   
Southern California Open Show 2007, Gallery 825.  Juried by Howard Fox, LACMA
    
        Winter Biannual, LAAA South, Gallery 825.  Juried by Susan Cross, Curator, MASS MoCA
             
Incognito, Art Benefit and Exhibition, Santa Monica Museum of Art
2006
  Southern California Open Show 2006, Gallery 825.  Juried by Ann Philbin, Director, Hammer Museum
            
Sweater, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA.  A group installation directed by Tim Hawkinson.
             
Scale, Gallery 825.  Juried by Caryn Coleman, Director of sixspace gallery
             
GEM,  Gallery 825.  Juried by Joni Gordon, Director of NewSpace gallery
             
Saturation and Surface, Gallery 825.  Juried by Nancy Silverman-Miles, Exec. Director of Gallery C
             
Venice Art Walk and Auction, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica and Venice, CA
             
Dialog, Group Exhibition, Mor York Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
             
Amercan Artists and their Tour of Korea, Group Exhibition, Insa Art Center and Gallery Ann, Seoul, Korea
2005    
Southern California Open Show 2005, Gallery 825.  Juried by Wesley Jessup, Exec. Director, Pasadena Museum of CA Art
              
Incognito, Art Benefit and Exhibition, Santa Monica Museum of Art
           
fresh stART, Group Exhibition, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004    
*Southern California Open Show 2004, Gallery 825.  Juried by James Elaine, Curator, Hammer Museum Projects
              (*Prize Winner)   
             
Visual Vernacular, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
            
White Planes, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
             
Art Masks, Group Exhibition, Art Gallery, Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA
             
47th Annual International Juried Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
              
Open Call L.A. 2004, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
2003    
*Southern California Open Show 2003, Gallery 825. Juried by Karen Higa, Curator, Japanese American National Museum
              (*Prize Winner)
             
Things d'Art, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA.
             
 And Now a Word from Our Sponsor, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
             
Beefcake/Cheesecake II: Tastes of a Nation, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
            
Brevard College Invitational Alumni Exhibition, Sims Art Center, Brevard, NC
              
Chautauqua 45th National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY
2002     
New American Paintings, Western Edition #42, juried-exhibition-in-print.
              
Fish, Fruit and Vegetables, Hastings College Faculty Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Kearney
2001    
Small Work Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Eric Schindler Gallery, Richmond, VA
             
Hastings College Art Faculty Exhibition, University Place Art Center, Lincoln, NE
             
Full Rotation, Patterson Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, Bellefonte, PA
             
 Catapult, Whatcom Museum, Western Washington University,Bellingham, WA
             
 CitiARTS Group Exhibition, Madison CitiARTS space, Madison, WI
              
33, Group Exhibition, 734 Gallery, Madison, WI
2001    
Young Painters Competition, Hiestand Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH.  Juried by James Dimitrion.
             
Home Turf, Group Exhibition, Madison CitiARTS Space, Madison, WI
             
Ties that Bind, Lionel Rombach Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1999     
Northern National Juried Art Competition, Nicolet College LRC Gallery, Rhinelander, WI
              
Family, Group Exhibition, Eric Schindler Gallery, Richmond, VA
1998    
Still Life with Interiors, Group Exhibition, Eric Schindler Gallery, Richmond, VA
1997      Holiday Small Works Exhibition, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA.
               
Recent Work, Medical College of Virginia, Arts in the Hospitals Program, Richmond, VA
               
Faculty Exhibition, HealthSouth Visual Arts Center, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
              
 Eric Schindler Group Exhibition, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA 
               
Second Annual Drawing Exhibition, Eric Schindler Gallery, Richmond, VA
1996      Greater Reston Arts Center Juried Exhibition (Award), Reston, VA
             
Greater Reston Arts Center Annual Juried Winners Exhibition, Reston, VA
           
  Painting In General, National Juried Exhibition, Associate Artists of Winston-Salem, NC

RESIDENCIE
S
1997        Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT


PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS

"Luchadora Libre!" Make magazine, Vol. 18, 2009, article by Annie Buckley.

Fine Arts Dealers Association, Annual Los Anegels Art Shoq, artwork illustrated in catalogue, Janurary 2009.

Group show at Andrew Shire Gallery, Artillery Magazine, December 2008, review by Anne Martens.

Continuing and Recommended, The Horror of Tradition, Artscene, September 2008, review by Annie Buckley.

"Reaping what they sew," Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2008, review by Leah Ollman.

"Artists Bound Together by the Common Thread of Tradition," tmitf.blogspot.com, August 22, 2008, blog review by Taras Matla.

Slop Art Supermarket Catalog, work illustrated in catalog, Winter 2003.

"Getting a Different Perspective," Kearney Hub Newspaper, Oct 17, 2002, artwork illustrated in article.


New American Paintin
gs, Western Edition, 42nd edition, juried-exhibition-in-print, work illustrated on front cover and inside.

How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself without Selling Your So
ul, by Caroll Michels. Professional Practices in the Arts website mentioned as a resource within the book, 2002.

Spotlight Interview, KHAS radio, Hastings, NE, November 2001, interviewed for art exhibition at Hastings College.

Hastings College Gallery Schedule, 2000-2001, work illustrated on front and inside cover.

Wisconsin Woman, July 2000, "Women Steal the Show in Madison's Art Scene,"  quoted in article.


So to Speak: a feminist journal of art and literatu
re, Fall/Winter 1999, work illustrated on front and back cover.

Creative Agenda Pro
gram, WORT radio, Madison, WI, September 1999, interviewed for "Professional Practices in the Arts" web site

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

2003-Present       Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
2000 - 2003          College Art Assoc
iation
1996-1997  
          Associate Artists Council, 1708 Gallery, Richmond VA  
1995-1996            Artspace Gallery, Richmon
d VA
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