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MAYUMI HAMANAKA

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b. Japan

Living in Oakland, CA

 

EDUCATION

2004  MFA, Photography, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

1999  BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1996  BA, Art History, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan

1994-1995  Exchange Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2012   Group Show, Curated by Jen Blazina, Middlesex County College, NJ

2011   ArtPad Art Fair, San Francisco, CA, Swarm Gallery

           Kalafornia: State of the Art , Exhibition/Auction, Kala Art Institute, CA

           aboveground, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA*

2010   Things are Expanding, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

           Annual Fundraising Art Auction, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2009    All Good Things, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA           

            Front + Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2008   The Sum of Its Parts, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

2007   The Little Show, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

          Fabric of Identity, group show, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

          Never-Seen, group show, CCA Photo Collective, Oliver Art Center, California College of the

          Arts, Oakland, CA

          APAture 2007, Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA

          ultra deepfield, three person show, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

          Cultivating Creativity: In Residence at Kala, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2006   Somewhere In Space, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

          On Making: Faculty Group Show, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

          Artists’ Diary: the Chapter of Spring Light, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

2005  Bubble Trouble in Doubles, RPS Gallery, Oakland, CA

          30 Something, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

          Diorama, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA

2004   Emerge, 7th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Old Mint, San Francisco, CA

          Happy Pack, collaborative solo show of Studio Islander, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA

          Fiber Scene, MFA 2004 Graduate Show, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

          CCA Graduate Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

          The Big Picture, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

          New California Masters, curated by Kuniko Vorman Works / San José, San Jose CA

2003  Missing / Persons, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA

          Murphy Fellowship Award Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

          2X4 2002 Kala Fellowship Exhibition (Collaborated with Taro Hattori), Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

          more than code, traveling photography exhibition, Big Orbit Gallery, University of Buffalo,

          Buffalo, NY

          Forum Gallery, Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, MI

          Union Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

          Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

2002  Oh You Beautiful Doll, Anatomically Correct at Apollo Theatre, Chicago, IL

2001  The 11th Annual Exhibition, Mitochondria Emancipation, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY

          The Loss of the Individual,, Westside Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

          Islands, Collaboration piece with Taro Hattori, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

1999  Selected Group Exhibition, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL

1998   Nippon Steel/SAIC Annual Exhibition

           Nippon Steel USA office, Chicago, IL

1997   Nippon Steel/SAIC Annual Exhibition

           Nippon Steel USA office, Chicago, IL

 

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2005    Artist in Residency, Taiwan Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

2003     Murphy Fellowship Award

1998     Nippon Steel/SAIC Presidential Award

1997     Nippon Steel/SAIC Presidential Award

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Eisenhart, Mary. "Aboveground." 96 Hours Mar. 2011.

Cheng, Dewitt. "Double Dare at Swarm Gallery." East Bay Express Jan. 2011.

Sciortino-Rinehart, Natalie. "White Space." Artforum (online) 2008.

Bookhardt, Eric D. "The Great White." Gambit Weekly July 2008.

Westbrook, Lindsay. "ultra deepfield." Artweek June 2007.

Interviewed for Kitchen Sink, issue 14 (Summer 2006)

"View Point/Art, collaboration work with Taro Hattori." Egg Mar. 2006.

Downs, David. "On The Wall: What's Happening in East Bay Art.Ó Bubble Trouble in Doubles, East Bay Express Nov. 2005.

Vance, Kelly. "Scenes." Bubble Trouble in Doubles, East Bay Express Nov. 2005.

Buckner, Clark. "Thirty Something." The San Francisco Bay Guardian July 2005.

Bing, Alice. "Happy Pack." San Francisco Chronicle (online), Sept. 2004.

Cheng, Dewitt. "'New California Masters' at Works/San Jose." Artweek June 2004.

Vance, Kelly. "This WeekÕs Day-by-Day Picks." East Bay Express April 2001.

"Paperdoll Project," e-zine Bitch*lorette, http://www.bitch-lorette.com

Saito, Hiroko. "Islands." Chicago Shinpo Mar. 2001.

"Paperdoll Project,v Photobetty, (http://www.photobetty.com), 1999

Saito, Hiroko. "Selected Exhibition at Gallery 2." Chicago Shinpo Oct. 1999.

Saito, Hiroko. "Exhibition at Nippon Steel USA office." Chicago Shinpo May 1998.