Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009

2009 Ex Libro, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA

2007

Lisa Kokin: Fruit of the Broom, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY

2004

Attachments, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Secondhand Memories: Sewn Found Photographs, Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, NB, Canada

2002

Domestic Intelligence, Books by Lisa Kokin, San Francisco Public Library, James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco, CA

2001

Relative Obscurity, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000

Salvaged Histories, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR

Sew to Speak, Kennedy Art Center, Holy Names College, Oakland, CA

1999

Lost and Found, Island Mountain Arts, Wells, BC, Canada

Bookmaking Is Not a Crime, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

Flea Market Economy, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997

Art Book Art, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Circumstances Beyond Our Control, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

My Trip to Buchenwald, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA

1996

Remembrance, Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar-Buchewald, Germany

1995

Fond Objects, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994

Tome is Where the Art Is, Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, NB, Canada

1992

Tales of a Nice Jewish Girl and Unearthing, Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada and Artcite, Windsor, Ont., Canada

Remembrance, Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA

Unearthing, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

1991

Persistent Memory, The Lab, San Francisco, CA

1989

Award of Excellence Show, Surface Design National Conference, Gatlinburg, TN

1988

Vestiges: Work in Fiber by Lisa Kokin, Pitt International Galleries, Vancouver, BC, Canada

1986

Batiks and Drawings of Lisa Kokin, The Women’s Building, San Francisco, CA

1985

The Batiks of Lisa Kokin, Centro Cultural Vergeiro, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Lisa Kokin: Batiks, Espaco Universitario, Vitoria, Brazil

Daybreak: Nicaragua/El Salvador, Kunsterverein Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany and Kulturtreff, Erlangen, Germany

1984

Daybreak: Nicaragua/El Salvador, Galerie Franz Mehring, Berlin, Germany

The Past Will Not Return, Exploratorium, California State University, Los Angeles, CA

Lisa Kokin’s Studio at Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

1983

Fabric of the Peoples of the Americas, Casa Fernando Gordillo, Managua, Nicaragua

1982

Latin America in Batik, Museum voor Land-en Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, Holland, Sheffield Town Hall, Sheffield, England, and Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Holland

1980

Lisa Kokin: Batiks, Laney College, Oakland, CA

1979

Batiks of Lisa Kokin, Santa Fe Armory for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1976

Batik Banners, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009

New Works/Old Story: 80 Artists at the Passover Table Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

2008

Banned and Recovered, African American Museum and Library at Oakland, Oakland, CA

The Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA

(Un)common: Art of Altered Objects, Department of Art and Art History,Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Artists as Collectors, Oakland Museum Exhibits at the Oakland Airport, Oakland, CA

2007

Women’s Work, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA

California College of the Arts Faculty Exhibition Oakland, CA

Other People’s Memories Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA

Gathering Oakland Museum off-site exhibition, Oakland, CA

Childish Things, 301 Bocana, San Francisco, CA

Singularity in the Communal Tide: Culture and Identity in the Moment, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ

New Works/Old Story: 80 Artists at the Passover Table, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

Legacies, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA

2006

The First Illusion: The Transitional Object, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

Nostalgia, Aftermodern, San Francisco, CA

Menagerie: Artists Look at Animals, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA

Eighth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY

Spring Selections, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY

The 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI

See Jane Run, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

Image as Object, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

The Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA

2005

Inaugural Group Exhibition, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY Lisa Kokin/K.C. Rosenberg, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA

Justice Matters: Artists Consider Palestine, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

Scents of Purpose: Artists Interpret the Spice Box, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

Faculty Exhibition 2005, John F. Kennedy University Arts and Consciousness Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Needle Art: a Postmodern Sewing Circle, Gallery 210, St. Louis, MO and Texarkana Regional Center For Visual Art,
Texarkana, TX

Needle Art: a Postmodern Sewing Circle, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA, Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL, and Milton Hershey School Art Museum, Hershey, PA

Hidden Treasures, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA

Inner Workings, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

2003

Is Money Money? Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA

Needle Art: a Postmodern Sewing Circle, Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX and J.Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, College Station, TX

Show Me the Money: the Dollar as Art, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA and Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA

2002

Ex Libris, Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Renegade Portraits, Public Resource Center for Activism and the Arts, Washington, DC

Refuse/Reuse/Redux, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2001

Books as Art, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

10¹⁰, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Eureka Fellowship Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

2000

Eureka, Too! Fellowship Awards 1999-2001, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Eureka Fellowship Exhibition, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Piecing It Together: A Visual Journal, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

1999

The Right to Assemble, Halsey Gallery, Charleston, SC

Piecing it Together: a Visual Journal, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Spinal Epidural, Please! Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998

Alternativity: the Other Side of Christmas, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

On the Money, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Hello Again! A New Wave of Recycled Art and Design, McAllen International Museum, McAllen, TX and Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, BC, Canada

1997

Talent 1997, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY

Hello Again! A New Wave of Recycled Art and Design, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Codified Desires, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996

CCAC: Past, Present, and Future, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA

Codified Desires, In Khan Gallery, New York, NY

Family Matters, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

1995

Representations of Auschwitz, Gauforum Weimar, Weimar, Germany

The Medicine Show, Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL

A Foot in the Door, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

1994

Redefining the Book, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Rooms for the Dead, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Book as Art VII, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

1993

Hybridization: Contemporary Northern California Craft, 1975-Present, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA

Beyond the Written Word, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Fiber=Linear Element, San Jose City College, San Jose, CA

1992

History: Truth or Consequences, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

Domestic Ontogeny, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA

Form and Object, juried by John Perreault, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY

1991

Site: Western Union, Haines Annex, San Francisco, CA

Fiberarts International ’91, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

New Ends, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY

1990

Fiber Progressions, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY

On Fiber: Human Conditions, UNL Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Batik: The Dyeing Art Today, Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, OH

1989

Works on Paper, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinston Beach, CA

Paper/Fiber XII, Johnson City Arts Council, Iowa City, IA

Pro Arts Juried Annual, juried by Mary Jane Jacob, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA

1988

Art of the Refugee Experience, Euphrat Gallery, Cupertino, CA

Personal Mythologies, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

1987

Punto Comun/On Common Ground, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA

Women’s Foundation Awards Exhibition, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

Viva La Vida: An Homage to Frida Kahlo, The Women’s Building, Los Angeles, CA

1986

South Africa: State of Emergency, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

1985

Art Against Apartheid, Heller Gallery, Berkeley, CA

The Other America, traveling show, Stockholm, Hamburg, Rome

1982

In Progress, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

1978

Homage to Frida Kahlo, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

Bibliography

2008

Lisa Kokin: Deconstruction and Preservation, Fiberarts, Artweek, Apr./May

2007

Lindsey Westbrook. ”Nostalgia” at Aftermodern, Artweek, San Jose, CA, Dec./Jan.

2006

Barbara Morris. ”Image as Object” at Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Artweek, San Jose, CA, May

2005

2005 Cameron Woo. ”Found,” Bark, Berkeley, CA, Fall

Rhonda Sonnenberg. ”Layer Upon Layer,” Fiberarts, Asheville, NC, Summer Scents of Purpose: Artists Interpret the Spice Box, exhibition catalogue, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

Jane Bennett Clark. “ART smarts,” Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Washington, DC., March

2002

American Letters and Commentary, featured artist, New York, NY

Show Me the Money: the Dollar as Art, exhibition catalogue, Washington, DC

2001

Alisa Golden. Unique Handmade Books, Sterling Publishing Company: New York

Relative Obscurity, exhibition catalogue, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

W.S. di Piero. “Saved by Wit and Melancholy,” San Diego Reader, San Diego, CA, 5/10

Women of the Book: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes, exhibition catalogue, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

2000

The Eureka Fellowship Awards, catalogue, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

California Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship Recipients 1998-1999, catalogue, Sacramento, CA

Virginia Davis. “As Ye Sew, So Shall Ye Reap,” Fiberarts, Ashville, NC, Sept./Oct.

Mary Hull Webster. “Lisa Kokin at Holy Names College.” Artweek, San Jose, CA, April

Lisa Kokin: Sew to Speak, exhibition catalogue, Kennedy Art Center, Holy Names College, Oakland, CA

1999

Making Change, exhibition catalogue, The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

The Right to Assemble, exhibition catalogue, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

Harry Roche. “’On the Money’ at the SFMOMA Rental Gallery,” Artweek, San Jose, CA, June

1998

Leah Ollman. “Seven Artists Creatively Follow the Money at Bergamot Station,” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, 12/25

Terri Cohn. “Fractured Fairy Tales,” Artweek, San Jose, CA, July/Aug.

1997

Terri Cohn. “New Directions in Book Arts,” Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, Nov./Dec.

Parallaxis: Fifty-Five Points to View, WESTAF Awards catalogue, Denver, CO

Florence Duhl. “Lisa Kokin: Themes and Variations,” Surface Design Journal, Oakland, CA, Spring

Barbara Kyne. “A Fortunate Artist,” Artweek, San Jose, CA, June

Maria Porges. “San Francisco Fax,” Art Issues, Los Angeles, CA, March/April

1996

Cherry Smyth. Damn Fine Art by New Lesbian Artists, Cassell: London and New York

1995

Leslie Katz. “Berkeley Artist to Display Installation at Buchenwald,” Jewish Bulletin, San Francisco, CA, 12/15

“Artist Statements,” Artweek, San Jose, CA, January

1994

Terri Cohn. “Lisa Kokin: Memorable Constructions,” Fiberarts, Asheville, NC, Summer

Anne Wilson. “A Plea for Broader Dialogue,” Fiberarts, Asheville, NC, Summer

Christina Sabat. “Tome is Where the Art is for Artist Lisa Kokin,” The Daily Gleaner, Fredericton, NB, Canada, 5/28

1993

Randal Davis. “Between the Covers: Beyond the Written Word at San Jose ICA,” Artweek, San Jose, CA, 12/16

Ann Elliott Sherman. “A Spine Madness,” Metro, San Jose, CA, Dec. 9-15

Mark Nisenholt. “Tales of a Nice Jewish Girl,” Parallelogramme, Toronto, Ont., Canada, Winter

1992

Sheila Braufman. “Transforming the Past and the Personal: Books by Lisa Kokin,” catalogue essay, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA

Charles Talley. “Social Fiber: Domestic Ontogeny at CCAC,” Artweek, San Jose, CA, 8/20

Margaret MacKenzie. Lisa Kokin, catalogue essay, Or Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Jan Janeiro. “Textiles About Textiles,” Fiberarts, Asheville, NC, Mar./Apr.

1991

Edie Meidav. “Rediscoveries,” Artweek, San Jose, CA, 12/26

Lisa Kokin. “A Master’s Thesis,” Surface Design Journal, Oakland, CA, Fall

Betty Freudenheim. “Illusions and Allusions Fill a Show of Fiber Art,” The New York Times, New York, NY, 5/19

1990

Charles Talley. “The State of Fiber Art,” Artweek, San Jose, CA, 12/6

Sean Green. “Personal Concerns Unfold in Artists’ Works,” Daily Nebraskan, Lincoln, NE, 10/10

1989

“Lisa Kokin: SDA Award of Excellence,” Surface Design Journal, Oakland, CA, Fall

Mary Jane Jacob. Pro Arts Annual catalogue, Oakland, CA

1988

Jan Rindfleisch. Art of the Refugee Experience, catalogue, Cupertino, CA

1987

Charles Shere. “Gallery Mixes Art and Politics in Daring New Exhibit,” Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, 8/11

Shifra Goldman. “On Common Ground: Juan Edgar Aparicio and Lisa Kokin,” La Opinion, Los Angeles, CA, 3/8

1985

Lincoln Cushing. “Lisa Kokin – Batik Artist,” Community Murals, San Francisco, CA, Winter ’85

Thomas Albright. “Artists Challenges the Limits of Batik,” San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, 4/3

Iris Billaudelle. “U.S. Artists Calls for Solidarity with Nicaragua,” Die Warheit, Berlin, Germany, 11/24

1983

David Helvarg. “A Batik Blend of Art, Politics,” San Diego Union, San Diego, CA, 12/12

Michele Najlis. “The Batiks of Lisa Kokin,” El Nuevo Diario, Managua, Nicaragua, 9/30

1982

Margareet Anceaux, et al. Latin America in Batik, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, Holland, Nov.

Aletta Oosten. “Lisa Kokin Makes Beautiful Things Out of Great Sorrow,” Die Waarheid, Amsterdam, Holland, 10/5

1981

“Batik: The Special Art of Lisa Kokin,” Casa e Jardim, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May

Awards

2008

Purchase Award, Richmond Civic Center Public Art Interior Acquisitions Project, Richmond, CA

2007

Commission, Castro Valley Library Small Scale Works Commission Program, Alameda County Arts Commission, Oakland, CA

2006

Purchase Award, Alameda County Art Commission, Oakland, CA

2005

Alameda County Art Commission Juvenile Justice Center Rotational Works Award, Oakland, CA

1998

Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA

California Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship, Sacramento, CA

California College of Arts and Crafts Recent Graduate of Distinction Award, Oakland, CA

1996

Puffin Foundation Grant for Remembrance, Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar-Buchenwald, Germany

1995

WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship

1991

Jeanne Brenholts Award, Most Innovative Use of Materials, Fiberarts ’91, Pittsburgh, PA

1989

Surface Design Award of Excellence, Surface Design Association, Marina del Rey, CA

1987

Women’s Hearts and Hands Award, The Women’s Foundation, San Francisco, CA

Collections

Alameda County Art Commission, Oakland, CA
Ruth Miska, Oakland, CA
Darrel and Marsha Anderson, Newport Beach, CA
Carol Bennett, Seattle, WA
Cathy Branham, Saratoga, CA
Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar-Buchenwald, Germany
Shawn Byers, Woodside, CA
di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Carl Djerassi and Diane Middlebrook, San Francisco, CA
Drew and Katie Gibson, Palo Alto, CA
Janet Greenblatt, Pacific Palisades, CA
Sheldon and Jude Greene, Berkeley, CA
Robert Johnson, San Francisco, CA
Greg Kucera, Seattle, WA
Nathan Larramendy, Ojai, CA
Jack Leissring, M.D., Santa Rosa, CA
Catherine S. Muther, San Francisco, CA
Gaylord Neely, Washington, DC
Richard and Lenore Niles, San Francisco, CA
Ralph and Sheila Pickett, Saratoga, CA
Joan Roebuck, San Francisco, CA
Chara Schreyer, Tiburon, CA
Jane Scott, Sausalito, CA
Tony Shou, Oakland, CA
Allan Stone, New York, NY
Driek Zirinsky, Boise, ID

Education

1991

Master of Fine Arts with High Distinction, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1989

Bachelor of Fine Arts with High Distinction, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Gallery Representation

Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY, CA
Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA