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Robin Birdd David

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CURATED EXHIBITIONS / SOLO SHOWS:

2024:

  • Reworlding the Unimaginable, Oakland, CA - W/ Macro Waves - Aug - Sep

2022:

  • Breath.io, Swim Gallery, SF, CA - W/ Macro Waves - Jun

2021:

  • Altar-n8 Realm, Chinatown, San Francisco, CA - w/ Macro Waves - May - Aug

2020:

  • Habitual Rituals, Á Space, Vietnam - Jan

2019:

  • Sub Helix, Cafe Sama, Oakland, CA - Dec / Curatorial

2018:

  • Reorienting The Imaginaries, SOMArts Cultural Center, SF, CA - Nov - Jan / Curatorial

2017:

  • NVM (Never Mind), The Associate Student Art Gallery, SF, CA - w/ Macro Waves Collective - Oct / Curatorial

  • ArtSpans Art-In-Neighborhoods Exhibition Program, CounterPulse - Oct - Dec

2016:

  • Escape to Yesteryear, Layer Studios, Oakland CA - w/ Macro Waves Collective - Sept / Curatorial

  • The Boob Room, Less Space, Oakland CA - Aug          

  • SPF30, Layer Studios, Oakland CA - w/ Macro Waves Collective - July / Curatorial                    

  • Submerse, Suru Clothing Boutique, Oakland CA - w/ Macro Waves Collective - Jan / Curatorial

 2015:

  • Excerpts from Mythological Bird, Yakini Q Cafe, SF, CA - Jun

  •  Terra Incognita, Tenderloin National Forest, Luggage Store Gallery, SF CA - w/ Macro Waves Collective - May

2014:

  • Mythological Bird, Incline Gallery, SF CA - w/ Jeffrey Yip - Aug

2010:

  • World-Wide Hustle[rs], Luggage Store Gallery Annex, SF, CA - w/ Angela Angel - Jun

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024:

  • Ex:Fields V1, San Francisco, CA, Oct

2023:

  • Collective Futures, Edge on The Square, San Francisco, CA - W/ Macro Waves - 2023 - 2024

2022:

  • Bernice Bing Open Call, Asian Art Museum, SF, CA - Jun 2022 - Dec 2023

  • Feed Back, Cone Shape Top, Oakland, CA - May

  • CAAM Representing Chinatown, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA - w/ Macro Waves - Mar - Jun

  • The 2022 Soapbox Derby, SFMOMA, McLaren Park, San Francisco, CA - w/ Macro Waves - Apr

2021:

  • Echo Location, YBCA, San Francisco, CA - W/ Macro Waves - Oct

2020:

  • Proxy for Place, YBCA, Virtual, San Francisco, CA - Feb

2019:

  • Rebooting the Future, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

  • No Bars No Binaries, Cafe Sama, Oakland, CA

2018:

  • Thank You For Nothing, Adobe Books, SF, CA - June

  • Cultural Catalyst, SFAC Gallery, SF, CA - w/ MACRO WAVES - Apr

2017:

  • Night Light: Cortextual Voyager 3000,  SOMArts, SF, CA - Aug

  • Remnants of The Diaspora, The Associate Student Art Gallery, SF, CA - Aug

  • Part 1 Testimony: Mortality, Gods, Humans, Ghosts, Aliens, Red Poppy Art House, SF, CA - July

  • Wonder, A conversation with Wimmin, Root Division, SF, CA - June

  • Lil Swim, The Luggage Store Gallery, SF, CA - May

  • Shambleezy, Shambhala Medical Cannabis Collective, SF, CA -  March

  • Materialism, Layer Studio, Oakland, CA - Jan

2016:

  • Within, Merchants of Reality Gallery, SF, CA - Aug

  • Gentrifried, The Luggage Store Gallery, SF, CA - Feb

2015: 

  • Contexture, The Midway Gallery, SF, CA - Nov

  • Danger Room - Cloud Experience, Figment Festival, Oakland, CA  w/ Jeffrey Yip - Oct

  • Danger Room - Phase 1, Oakland Music Festival, CA - w/ Jeffrey Yip - Sept

2013:

  • APAture, comic book and Zine Exp, Cartoon Art Museum, SF, CA - Oct  

  • Celebrate Your Body Runway Fashion Show, SOMArts Gallery, SF, CA - May

  •   Force of Nature, Lower Branch Gallery, SF, CA - May

  2012: 

  • Leo Stillwell Student Exhibition, SF State University Fine Arts Gallery, CA - May

2011:

  •  Eco-Fashion Meets Eco Justice, Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, CA - April  

2010:

  • Dia De Los Muertos Altar Exhibition, Mission Cultural Center, SF, CA - Nov

  • Art Walk, Bayanihan Center, SF, CA - Oct

  • Celebrate San Francisco, Mission Cultural Center, SF, CA - Sept

  • For Colored Girls Only, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA - March

2009:

  • Boxed In, Individual Collective Gallery, Vallejo, CA - March

2008:

  • Sights and Sounds, Beatrock Flagship Store, Long Beach, CA - Dec

  • Summer Solstice, Modify Gallery, Cathedral City, CA - June

  • Indie Artists Bizarre, The Fillmore Center, SF, CA -Sept

  • Advancing The Peoples Struggle!, Balazo 18 Art Gallery, SF, CA - May

  • The Movement, BYOA, 440 Fillmore Street, SF, CA - May

  • Sights and Sounds, Dream Jungle Tattoo Shop, Long Beach, CA -March

 2007:

  • Heavy Hitterz, Agesong Gallery, SF, CA- Nov

  • Art of the City- 4 Elements, City 242 Gallery, Fairfield, CA - Jan

pRESS COVERAGE

  • 2022 Gabe Meline, “The Soapbox Derby’s Wild Downhill Action in San Francisco” - Apr 11

  • 2020 Hunter, Katie, The Bold Italic, “A New Wave of Art is Taking Over” - Jan 15

  • 2019 Kirkland, Kelly, Art Practical, Art Practical: New Take, “Sofía Córdova vs. The Machine” - Jan 22

  • 2018 Kost, Ryan, SF Chronicle: Art and Exhibitions, “New SOMArts exhibition subverts cultural misrepresentations”, - Dec 12

  • 2018 Seikaly, Roula, KQED, "Through Subversion and Joyful Skewering, Artists ‘Reorient’ Stereotypes”, - Dec 12

  • 2018 Seikaly, Roula, KQED, "How an Grassroots Arts Program Shaped the SF Art Scene, 50 Years On”, - Jun 5

  • 2017 Yu, Eda, KQED, "An Expanded Vision of Healing and Divine Black Femininity" - Aug 24

  • 2017 Juxtapoz, "Lil Swim: A 68 Artist Group Show at Luggage Store Gallery" - May 12

  • 2017 Davis, Rachel, Art Enthusiast, "Lil Swim", - June 4

  • 2017 Gregory, Adelia, Figment Project, "Celebrating Creativity & Imagination with Aritst Robin Birdd" - March 24

  • 2016 Burke, Sara, East Bay Express: Arts & Culture, Event Pick: "Escape to yesteryear at Layer Studios" - Sept 20

  • 2016 Burke, Sarah, East Bay Express: Arts & Culture, "SPF 30: The Summer All-in-One Art Party Goes Down Saturday at Layer Studios in Oakland" - July 26

  • 2015 Kim, Sarah, “Recycle, Critique, And Pray To A Digital God; ROBIN BIRDD” - Feb 24

  • 2015 Blaine, Adrienne, "KQED The Do List" - May 7

  • 2014 Wright Hesson, Stephanie,  "Bay Area Visual Arts Picks Aug 7-10" - Aug 6

  • 2014 Bamberger, Alan, "San Francisco Art Gallery Openings First Thursday 08.09.2014" - Aug 7

  • 2013 Coffman, Courtney, “LOL’s, OMG’s, and GMO’s: Mansanto and The NextGeneration”, May 22

  • 2012 Suzarra, Aileen, Hyphen Magazine, Interview: “Seeds of Inspiration: California Prop 37” - Oct 25

  • 2012 Loncke, Katie, Maize Buddhist Peace Fellowship: Turning WheelsMedia, “Maize” - July 17

  • 2010 Adobo Nation, "Sari-Sari:Eco Art Girls Video Interview" - May 13

  • 2010 Silke Tudor, SF Weekly, “Street Work”, - April 7

  • 2010 SF Bay Guardian: Calendar, “World-Wide Hustle[rs] Art Exhibition” - April

  • 2010 Vobis, Anneliese , “Luggage Store Annex: World Wide-Hustle(rs)” - April 16

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

  • 2024: VR Art Camp, virtual

  • 2023: Recology AIR, W/ Macro Waves, San Francisco, CA

  • 2020 Youkobo Air Art Residency, Tokyo, Japan

  • 2019 Zellerbach Family Foundation, Community Arts Grant, San Francisco, CA

  • 2019 SOMArts Curatorial Residency, San Francisco, CA

  • 2012 Martin Wong Scholarship in Fine Arts, San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA

  • 2010 Best Contemporary Altar, Dia De Los Muertos Altar Exhibition  Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

  • 2010 New Emerging Artist in Residency,Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

WORKSHOPS AND aRTIST TALKS

  • 2019 Artist Talk, University of San Francisco Digital Media Design course, San Francisco, CA

  • 2019 Creative Mean, Community Conversations Series Artist Talk, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  • 2012 API Student Alliance, UC Santa Cruz, Art a Tool For Social Change Workshop, Santa Cruz, CA

  • 2011 Glide Family Youth and Childcare, Stop Motion Clay Animation Workshop, San Francisco, CA

  • 2011 Glide Family Youth and Childcare, Girls creative art summer workshops, San Francisco, CA

 EDUCATION

  • 2013 B.A - San Francisco State University: Studio Art

  • 2013 Internship program - San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery

  • 2013 Internship program - Chinese Cultural Center Art Gallery 

COLLECTIVES/ORGANIZATIONS

  • 2015 - present: Macro Waves Collective, Oakland, CA

  • 2009 - 2012: Bulan Adi Kollective, two women crew, Bay Area, CA

  • 2009 - 2011: Active Leadership To Advance The Youth, San Francisco, CA