Kristen van Diggelen
EDUCATION
The San Francisco Art Institute —Master of Fine Art, Painting 2009
University of California, Los Angeles — Bachelor of Arts, Visual Art 2006
Lorenzo de Medici School, Florence, Italy— Painting Restoration 2004
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“The Beat Playground,” Google Corporate Office, San Francisco, CA 2011
“Salon I,” The Cottage Industry Painting Salon, San Francisco, CA 2010
“Paintings,” Hope and Grace, Napa Valley, CA 2009
“The Confinement Series,” New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“Translocura: Art at the Brink of Madness,” Headlands Center for the Arts 2013
“Overturn the Artifice,” SOMArts Cultural Center 2013
“MarinMOCA 2012 Fall National Juried Exhibition,” MarinMoca, Juror: Renny Pritikin 2012
“Call and Response,” Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2011
“Anniversary Show,” Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011
“Tales from the New Lot,” Cottage Industry Painting Salon, San Francisco, CA 2010
“The Garden Show,” Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010
“Drawings,” SOMArts, Ramp Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010
“Taste - A Garden of Earthly Delights,” Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2010
“Salons II-XVI,” Cottage Industry Painting Salon, San Francisco, CA 2010-2011
“New Insight,” Next, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL 2009
“Liberating Landscapes,”Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009
“Vernissage,” San Francisco Art Institute MFA Exhibition, San Francisco, CA 2009
“The Best I’ve Ever Had,” Art Engine Gallery, San Francisco , CA (two person show) 2008
“Site and Situation,” Clara Street Projects, San Francisco, CA 2008
“The Butcher, the Baker and the Candlestick Maker,” Diego Rivera Gallery, 2008 S.F., CA
“Drawing Show,” Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008
“Kinross High,” UCLA Senior Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006
UCLA Juried Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2003
Kristen van Diggelen "The Eleventh Virgin" 2010
AWARDS
Nomination for the San Francisco Artist Award , Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco 2011
The San Francisco Art Institute MFA Fellowship 2007-2009
Nomination for the Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship 2009
Nomination for the Ella King Torrey Award 2009
Nomination for participation in “New Insight” Art Chicago 2008 2008
Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity , Scholarship Awards ( 4.0 GPA, 8 academic quarters) 2002-2006
2002 Emerging Artist Scholarship Danville Area Cultural Alliance 2002
ART-RELATED EMPLOYMENT
Founder/Director – The Cottage Industry Painting Salon, Alternative Art Exhibition Space, San Francisco 2009 – 2011
Intern –Catherine Clark Gallery , San Francisco 2008
Curator – ArtEngine Gallery , San Francisco 2008
Intern –The Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles 2005-2006
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Pre-College Program Painting Faculty – The San Francisco Art Institute 2011 - Present
Drawing Instructor –Cornerstone Academy High School, San Francisco, CA 2009 - Present
Ceramics Instructor –Cornerstone Academy High School Level, San Francisco, CA 2010 - Present
Summer School Drawing Workshop –Cornerstone Academy Middle School, S.F., CA 2010
Graduate Assistant –Art History:1960 to Present, The San Francisco Art Institute 2008
Teacher’s Assistant –Painting II & III, The San Francisco Art Institute 2008
Teaching Practicum –The San Francisco Art Institute 2008
PUBLICATIONS
Studio Visit Magazine , Volume 15 /16, Fall 2011
“Her Initials Are Carved Here, Too: A painter returns to a storied building,” Jerome Tarshis, TheNew Fillmore , May 2011
“Corporeal Existence,” Gloria Balderas, Synchronized Chaos (online edition at http://synchchaos.com), February 7, 2011
“An Artist Finds a Muse and a Legend,” Kristen van Diggelen, TheNew Fillmore, February 2010
“SF Art Institute: 2009 MFA Graduate Exhibition,” Drew Altizer, 7x7 Magazine (online edition on 7x7.com), June 3, 2009
“Freshly Varnished And Ready for Their Close Up,” JD Beltran, San Francisco Chronicle (online edition at sfgate.com), May 20, 2009
“New Art from Fresh Minds,” JD Beltran, San Francisco Chronicle (online edition at sfgate.com), April 23, 2009
|
