Lives and works in Oakland, California

Est. 2012

sfbonanza@gmail.com

www.bonanzaart.com


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2022

Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA. (forthcoming)

Untitled Solo Show, Lane Meyers Projects, Denver, CO (forthcoming, solo) 

 

2021

Mode Brut (in collaboration with Creativity Explored), Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA. 

Little Ritual, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA.

 

2020

Art/Community/Sustainability: The Recology Artist in Residence Programs’ 30th Anniversary and the Legacy of Jo Hanson, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2019

RAD Craft + Design, Dream Farm Commons, Oakland, CA

L👀K B👀K 4 endless teenagers: (Bonanza Fashun Angst), Interwoven, SFMoMA Open Space Magazine, San Francisco, CA

The Young & the Restless, UNTITLED ART FAIR, San Francisco, CA

Charmed: A Bonanza Retrospective, Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY

ThunderCoat, Telematic Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018

The Young & the Restless, Recology, San Francisco, CA

Arrangements, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

UNTITLED ART FAIR, Interface Gallery, San Francisco, CA


2017

Virgin’s Virgining, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA

Dyke, Ginger, Mexican, Interface Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Sooner or Later, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA


2016

After Pop Life, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA

No Holds Bar, Parking Lot Art Fair, San Francisco, CA

Soft Remove, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

2015

they know better, Body Talk, di Rosa Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA

New Normal 3, Guerrero Gallery (Off Site), Oakland, CA

WEEKEND WARRIORS, Parking Lot Art Fair, San Francisco, CA

Tech-orcism, 100% Gallery, San Francisco, CA

What's going on (Feat. 4 non-blondes), Tmoro Projects, Santa Clara, CA


2014

eighteencharacters, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA

Something Completely Different, City Limits Gallery Oakland, CA

Glue & Screw, S.H.E.D. Projects, Oakland, CA


2013

dress for this, n/a, Oakland, CA

Windows Stay Gold, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA

Bonanza II Thin Mints, The Old Mint, San Francisco, CA


2012

Bonanza, The Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

PRODUCTION, SCREENINGS AND RESIDENCIES

2021

Sewn by Spiders. Fashion Show. Museum of Craft and Design. San Francisco, CA.

Artist Talk. Mills College. Oakland, CA. 

Curated Window Display. Saks Fifth Avenue. San Francisco, CA.

 

2020

Creative Work Fund Grant. In collaboration with Creativity Explored.


2019

KQED Represent, Video Feature

Living & Working, Bonanza at El Rio, Artist Interview, Art Practical Magazine

Artist Talk, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Artist Talk, Mills College, Oakland, CA

CIVIC TV (Volume 5), screening and edition, Colpa Press, SF Art Book Fair, San Francisco, CA

Artist Talk and Screening, Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY


2018

Artists-in-Residence, Recology, San Francisco, CA. (June-September 2018)

Artist Talk, Living Room Light Exchange, Oakland, CA


2017

More Things in Film Presentation, San Francisco International Film Festival, CA

SFAC Passport Event, San Francisco, CA

Planet Bonanza: SFAI’s Gala, Performance with bar, stage, and lighting installation, SFAI, CA

Future 4Ever Beta, a short film, Southern Exposure. San Francisco, CA


2016

Royal Nonesuch Gallery Film Residency, Oakland, CA

The Drought, The Roxie, San Francisco, CA

Momentum: di Rosa’s Gala, painting installation and lighting design, di Rosa, Napa, CA.

BNNZA ‘17 select runway presentation: Main Cabin Select, The Thing Quarterly, San Francisco, CA

BNNZA ‘17 runway presentation: Cabin Pressure, Alterspace, San Francisco, CA


2015

Bonanza No Walls Gallery: Home for the Holidaze, Washington D.C., Little Rock, AR, Charleston, SC

LPP+ Residency, San Francisco, CA

BNNZA ‘16 runway presentation, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SCRNS screening event, El Rio, San Francisco CA

Heavy Breathing: Session Three - The Pleasure Principle, Real Time and Space, Oakland, CA

Artist Talk, Painting Salon, San Francisco, CA

Artist Talk, Collaborative Practices, San Francisco Art Institute. CA


2014

SOEX XL: 40th Birthday Dance Party, lighting design, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

Singing/Signing Book Release Party, lighting design, THE THING QUARTERLY, San Francisco, CA

Artist Talk, Painting Salon, San Francisco, CA

Artist Talk, Collaborative Practices, San Francisco Art Institute, CA


2013

Windows Stay Gold, screening event, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA

Bonanza 5: i’m just being honest, screening event, n/a, Oakland, CA

Bonanza 4: some type of way, publication in collaboration with n/a gallery, Oakland, CA

MADEA, Poster design commissioned by Colpa Press, Pasolini Film Festival, San Francisco, CA


PRESS

Hi-Fructose Magazine, November 2021

Hyperallergic, September 2021

San Francisco Chronicle, September 2021

KQED Video Feature, 2019

Art Practical Video Feature, 2019

KQED, August 2019

KQED, April 2019

San Francisco Chronicle, January, 2019

SF GATE, October 2018

KunstCapades, September 2018

KQED, August 2018

Elephant Art, January 2018

KQED, January 2017

KunstCapades, December 2017

East Bay Express, December 2016

KQED, November 2016

KQED, October 2016

VICE, October 2016

KQED, September 2016

ARTSY, August, 2016

San Francisco Art Institute, August 2016

East Bay Express August, 2016

KQED, June 2016

Congratulations Pine Tree, May 2016

KQED, May 2016

Congratulations Pine Tree, December 2015

SciArt Magazine, October 2015

Curiously Direct, September 2015

KQED, August 2015

SFAQ, July 2015

East Bay Express, June 2015

Curiously Direct, April 2015

Heavy Breathing 2015

Curiously Direct, December 2014

East Bay Express, October 2014

Art Practical, October 2014

SFAQ, October 2014

Daily Serving, December 2013

Art Practical, December 2013

Colpa Press, July-August 2013

KQED, May 2013