SARAH HOTCHKISS
Lives and works in San Francisco
EDUCATION
2011 M.F.A. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2007 B.A. Brown University, Providence, RI
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Cheymore Gallery, Tuxedo Park, NY (forthcoming)
2024 Rotator, Romer Young, San Francisco, CA
2024 Dingbats (with Jonathan Runcio), Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Knot Garden (with Gianna Commito), Marrow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 Sleuth, Friends Indeed, San Francisco, CA
2019 Sites Seldom Scene (with Neal Bashor), Cheymore Gallery, Tuxedo Park, NY
2018 You’re weird for building this (with Stephanie Rohlfs), Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018 Celestial Sodapop, Best Practice, San Diego, CA
2015 Free Alterations, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 All Ears, Goodnight Projects, San Francisco, CA
2010 Covered in moondust and glory (with Carey Lin), Zughaus, Berkeley, CA
PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
2022 The Great Game of Who? mural at Meta offices, San Francisco, CA
2017 In Circulation, Art on Market Street Poster Series, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
2017 Holiday Window Display, Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Daniel’s Pharmacy, San
Francisco, CA
2014 Same but Different, West Coast Craft, San Francisco, CA
2012 Look Up More Often, ATA Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Rare Knowledge Unlimited (Mobile), Sight School, Oakland, CA
2011 Sarsaparilla’s Shapes, a collaborative project with Maysha Mohamedi, Community Thrift, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 California Gold, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2024 NEOGEONEOGEO, Romer Young, San Francisco, CA
2023 Infinite Games, OCHI, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Thick Pile, Best Practice, San Diego, CA
2023 Altered Perception, ICA San José, San José, CA
2023 Pyramid Scheme, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA
2022 Neuva Tierra, Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Summer Group Show, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 ARK Exhibition, Svane Family Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2021 wake me up before eight (sorry I’m late), Guerrero Gallery, 4 x 8-bridges
2020 How to Read the World, Friends Indeed, 8-bridges
2019 The Game Show, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Oversharing, Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Political Birthdays, Dream Farm Commons, Oakland, CA
2018 Division of Labor, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2017 Sculpture as a Verb, Underline Projects, Berkeley, CA
2017 Resistance Training, Slide Space 123, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2016 Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Children of the Playhouse, presented by Shoot the Lobster at Present, Chicago, IL
2015 Kunsthaul, Colpa Press, San Francisco, CA
2014 Folding the Blanket of Time, Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Not of This World, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
2013 One Hundred and Forty Characters, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
2013 SPACE TIME!, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2013 2012 Somewhere in the Fold, The Popular Workshop, San Francisco, CA
2011 Expanded Field, MacArthur B Arthur, Oakland, CA
2011 Hail Traveler!, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
2011 The 770 Show, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 The Wrong Miracle, NoMÍNIMO Espacio Cultural, Guayaquil, Ecuador
2010 SK10, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Cream, no sugar, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024 Jentel, Banner, WY
2022 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
2020 Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Excellence in Journalism Award for Arts & Culture
2019 Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation art journalism grant
2018 This Will Take Time, Point Arena, CA
2016 Fir Acres, Lewis & Clark, Portland, OR
2015 Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY (as Stairwell’s)
2015 Art Space is Your Space Residency, Wave Pool, Cincinnati, OH (as Stairwell’s)
2014 ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI
2014 Lunar Artists’ Residency
2012 Esalen Pacifica Prize, Big Sur, CA
2011 Alternative Exposure grant for Stairwell’s (with Carey Lin)
2011 “Most Liberal Interpretation of Science,” Hypothesis: An Art / Science Fair, The Lab
2010 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2010 Grant recipient, The Centre for Investigation, Research and Discovery
2009 Graduate Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2008 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2007 William Weston ’43 Award, Brown University
TALKS
2019 “Space Travel, Sci-Fi Style,” part of MAX 2019: A Space Festival, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2019 “The performativity of things,” part of Lauren Simpson’s Dance Exhibit, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2018 “The Feminist Mythology of Alien,” part of Ad Minoliti’s The Feminist School of Painting, KADIST, San Francisco, CA
2018 “An Evening of Design: Creating Dimensions 3,” California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
2017 “Tristram Shandy’s Squiggle,” San Francisco Art Book Fair, THINGS in Books, San Francisco, CA
2017 “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” San Francisco Arts Commission, California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
2016 “Billboard City, USA,” PLACE TALKS at Prelinger Library, San Francisco, CA
2015 Pop-Up Talk at Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2012 “A Lecture on the History of the Future,” Carville Annex, San Francisco, CA
TEACHING
Fall 2017 “Dialogues in Contemporary Art,” Adjunct Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute
PUBLICATIONS
2023 High Contrast: Paintings by Sarah Hotchkiss, published by Colpa Press
2019 Sci-Fi Sundays Vol. 7
2018 Sci-Fi Sundays Vol. 6 (Alien edition)
2018 Dimensions 3, co-published by Colpa Press, The Aesthetic Union and the California Historical Society
2017 What’s Love Got To Do With It?, San Francisco Arts Commission
2016 Sci-Fi Sundays Volumes 1–5
2016 Sci-Fi Sundays Vol. 4
2015 2×2 Solo Series Catalog, Pro Arts
2015 Sci-Fi Sundays Vol. 3
2015 New World UNLTD Issue #2
2014 Sci-Fi Sundays Vol. 2
2015 Same But Different
2013 Sci-Fi Sundays Vol. 1
SELECTED PRESS
2023 Elliott Sky Case, “Optical Allusion: Three Bay Area Artists Pay Tribute to a Legend in ‘Altered Perception’,” Metro Silicon Valley
2023 Christopher Alam, “Cliff Notes: Northern California Pick,” Variable West
2023 David M. Roth, “Op and its Offshoots,” Squarecylinder
2022 Max Blue, “December gallery guide,” San Francisco Examiner
2019 Leslie Katz, “Movies and more in Max 2019: A Space Festival,” San Francisco Examiner
2018 Camile Messerley, “An hour of play reveals more than a year of conversation: Careful Mirroring in You’re weird for building this,” Journal
2016 Brianna Wellen, “‘Children of the Playhouse,’ where Pee-Wee Herman meets the Chicago Imagists,” Chicago Reader
2015 Curiously Direct, “Sarah Hotchkiss: Free Alterations”
2014 Monique Delaunay, “West Coast Craft Commissions Project,” SF Art Enthusiast
2014 Curiously Direct, “Pro Arts: Not of This World”
2013 A. Will Brown, “A Future Fascination,” CCA alumni profile
2011 William Meyers, “The Self and Others,” The Wall Street Journal
2011 JD Beltran, “Sensorial,” SF Gate
2011 Carmen Winant, “A Measurement of the Distance,” KQED Arts
2011 Brady Welch, “Picture Books,” ArtSlant
2010 Doug Harlow, “Skowhegan gets artsy,” Morning Sentinel
2009 Invisible City, Issue 05: MAPS.