Vita

solo exhibitions

2023 Outrageous Acts, Catalyst Ashland. Wiith poet Louise Paré.

2016 Selected works on long-term loan, Hannon Library, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR.

2016 Water, Department of Parks and Recreation, Ashland, OR.

2012 Celebrating a Life of Science: In Memory of Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA. 

2012 Matter Gone Wild, Thorndike Gallery, Center for the Visual Arts, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR.

2007 Dancing Clay, Illahe Studios and Gallery, Ashland, OR.

2006 Dancing Brush, and Imaginary Dancers, Pangea, Ashland, OR.

2006 Joy of Movement, Pangea, Ashland, OR.

2006 Dancing Scissors, Pangea, Ashland, OR.

2005 Miracle of Connecting, Gallery DeForest, Ashland, OR.

2004 Awe to Action, Council on Spiritual Practices, San Francisco, CA.

2003 Infinite Worlds Within, solo exhibition, Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

group exhibitions

2022 Science Friction, Azkuna Zentroa Bilbao.

2022 Pollinator Anthology, Catalyst Gallery, Ashland, OR.

2021 Science Friction, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona.

2017 On the Chthulucene and its companion species, Jeu de Paume, Paris.

2017 Bio Perceptos, ArtBio Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2016 Science Inspires Art: Food, Art & Science Collaborations, Inc., Brooklyn, NY.

2016 California Lichen Society, Santa Barbara, CA.

2015 December Invitational, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR.

2015 Miolo, ArtBio Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2011 Artists’ Books, Illahe Studio & Gallery, Ashland, OR.

2010 Artists’ Books, Illahe Studio & Gallery, Ashland, OR.

2010 Water Precious Water, Hilltop Art Gallery, Ashland, OR.

2010 Inspired by Science, Schneider Museum of Art in collaboration with the AAAS, Pacific Division, Ashland, OR. 

2010 Mythical State of Jefferson, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR.

2009 Shifting Patterns: Preparing for Unsettled Days, Jefferson Nature Center, Medford, OR.

1997 Macrocosmos, Microcosmos, Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1995 Women Artists, Calaveras County Arts Council, San Andreas, CA.

1981 CETA Artists Retrospective, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1976 The Great American Foot Show, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Downtown Center, San Francisco, CA.

1974 Contemporary Bay Area Drawings, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA.

commissions and collections

2016 Pollinators, Pollen & Plants, commissioned for The Farm at SOU. Created through grant from the Haines Family & Friends Fund, Ashland, OR. Reproduced on large fade-resistant panels near the apiary at The Farm. Original art on loan at the Hannon Library of Southern Oregon University.

2015 Energy, a series of paintings. Private collection, Ashland, OR.

2012 Endosymbiosis: Homage to Lynn Margulis, painting, reproduced for the Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

1999 San Francisco City Hall at Night, Private collection, Berkeley, CA.

1986 Batman and Friends, mural commissioned for Oakes Children’s Center, San Francisco, CA.

lectures

2010 Does Art Matter? Certainly You're Joking, Ms. Dubiner, Annual conference of the AAAS-Pacific Division, Ashland, OR.

2008 Art and Science: A Happy Symbiosis, Annual conference of the AAAS-Pacific Division, Hawaii.

2007 Improv Painting for Self-Discovery and Joy, Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library, Ashland, OR.

video interviews

2012 Patterns in Nature, an interview with host Craig K. Comstock on Like, Wow! RVTV Community access television. Shoshanah describes and illustrates the inspiration she gets by closely examining natural patterns at many scales. Based on a course she gave at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Ashland, Oregon, in 2011 and 2012.

2011 Matter Gone Wild, an interview with host Craig K. Comstock on Like, Wow!, RVTV Community access television. Shoshanah talks about her art inspired by biology,  with lavish illustration of her visionary paintings, based on talks she was invited to give at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific Division in 2008.

publications/reviews

2018 Published in Panoamas do Sul: Leituras (Southern Panoramas: Readings, ed. João Laia, Edições Sesc São Paulo and Associação Cultural Videobrasil.

2017 Featured in Importing That Shimmer by Craig K. Comstock, The Huffington Post.

2017 Published in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, Chapter 2, Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms for Staying with the Trouble, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, page M24. 

2017 Published in Art and Science at the 20th Century, Dr Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard and Prof. Schrevel.

2016 Published in Staying with the Troubles, Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Donna Haraway, Duke University Press, 2016, page 59.

2015 Published in mcd, magazine des cultures digitales, #79, septembre/octobre/novembre 2015, accompanying the article titled Le manifeste Chthulucene de Santa Cruz, page 81. 

2013 Published in International Microbiology, Volume 16, Number 3, Septembre 2013. Accompanying article titled Symbiogenesis: the holobiont as a unit of evolution, by Ricardo Guerrro, Lynn Margulis and Mercedes Berlanga, page 134.

2010 When Science Dances by Craig K. Comstock, The Huffington Post, online slideshow.