Resume / Exhibition History

Education
  • Otis Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, California 1987-1988
  • M.B.A., University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, Colorado, 1985
  • B.S., cum laude, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, Colorado, 1979
Gallery Representation and Affiliations

Solo Exhibitions
  • 2012 Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago IL November 2012
  • 2012 Bone Room, Berkeley, CA - Feb 2012
  • 2011 Primal Renderings, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2011 Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2009 Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2006 Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2004 “Opposing Forces”, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ.
  • 2003 “Saints and Sinners.” Circle Elephant Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2003 Sanchez Art Center. Pacifica, CA
  • 2002 American River College Kaneko Gallery, Sacramento, CA
  • 2001 College of the Sequoias Art Gallery. Visalia, CA.
  • 1999 Chico Art Center
  • 1999 University Center Concourse Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  • 1999 Merced College Art Gallery, Merced, CA
  • 1998 Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada
  • 1998 Matrix Gallery and Workshop of Women Artists, Sacramento, CA
  • 1998 Ventura College Art Galleries, Ventura, CA
Selected GROUP Exhibitions
  • 2012, Inaugural Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL
  • 2012, Life Live, ARC Gallery and Studios, San Francisco, CA
  • 2011 The New Surrealism, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2011 Genesis to Revelation, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2011 Spectacular Beasts, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2011 beinArt International Surreal Art Collective Group exhibition 'Dystopia,’ Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2010 Rapture of the Tiny - Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2010 FourSquared, ARC Studios and Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2010 Polyester Gallery, “The X Show,” Omaha NE
  • 2009 Columbia College, “Dis/Believer: Intersections of Science and Religion in Contemporary Art” Chicago, IL
  • 2009 Hayward Gallery, London – “15 Seconds of Fame” video competition. 2nd runner up
  • 2007 JHS Gallery, “Who Do You Say that I am? “ Taos, New Mexico
  • 2006 Dia de los Muertos, Oakland Museum of California
  • 2005 Brad Cooper Gallery, “New Talent”, Tampa, FL
  • 2005 Group Exhibit, Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles
  • 2004 Bert Green Fine Art, Gallery Artists”, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2002 Circle Elephant Art, “Gallery Artists” Los Angeles, CA
  • 2002 Circle Elephant Art, “Introductions”, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2002 Center for Contemporary Art, “Digital Visions”, Sacramento, CA
  • 2002 Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, Arts on Fire.
  • 2001 Circle Elephant Art, Six California Painters, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2001 Vorpal Gallery, Beaux & Eros, San Francisco, CA
  • 2001 Vorpal Gallery, 2001: An Art Odyssey. San Francisco, CA
  • 2001 Circle Elephant Art. Displaced Passion, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2000 10th Annual Statewide Exhibit, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
  • 2000 Bay Area Art III, Juried exhibition, Napa, CA
  • 1999 Catherine Clark Gallery, “Collector - Curator.”, San Francisco, CA
  • 1999 30th Annual All 2- Dimensional Competition for California Artists, San Jose Art League,
  • 1999 San Jose Center for the Visual Arts, San Jose, CA, Juried exhibition.
  • 1998 San Francisco State University, The Student Center Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 1998“Face - Queer Expression through Self Portraits,” Somar/ QCC, San Francisco, CA
  • 1998 Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon
  • 1998 “Toys in Contemporary Art,” Juried exhibition, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
  • 1998 67th Annual Statewide Exhibit, Juried Exhibition, Santa Cruz Art League CA
  • Napa Valley College, “Every Picture Tells a Story”, Napa, CA
Selected Reviews, Articles and Publications
  • Jan. 24, 2012, “Pinturas sobre los peligros de la modificación genética” by Helena Celdran, 20 Minutos.es
  • Jan. 27, 2012, “Sandra Yagi : El lado salvaje del hombre”, El Confidencial, diario de información en español El diario de los lectores influyentes
  • 2011, Creep Machine, ReviewL “Primal Renderings” by Sandra Yagi @ Modern Eden
  • 2011, Eclectix Arts, Sandra Yagi’s Opening at Modern Eden, November 2011
  • 2011, The 22 Magazine, October, 2011
  • 2011. San Francisco Chronicle, “The Watch-May 5”, by Kimberly Chun
  • 2011, ArtScene, “Clive Barker and Sandra Yagi,” January
  • 2011 Mental Shoes, Issue 018, “Sandra Yagi: Paintings”
  • 2010 San Francisco Art News – Artist Profile – “Curiosity Dissected the Cat.”
  • 2008 Democracy in China – Limited artists’ edition – Guns N’ Roses (pending release)
  • 2010 San Francisco Examiner online, “Spring Open Studios in San Francisco,” by Nancy Ewart. 4/19/2010
  • 2010 San Francisco Examiner, “See Artists in their Natural Habitats” by Kris Vagner. 3/18/2010
  • 2009 Mobius, the Journal of Social Change, http://mobiusmagazine.com/archives/20.4.html Winter 2009
  • 2006 Paul Rushca’s Full Moon, the Collection of Paul Ruscha, by Paul Ruscha
  • Art That Dares, Gay Jesus, Woman Christ and More. By Kittredge Cherry
  • 2009 Los Angeles City Beat; “Barbie and Other Montrosities – the Mattel Mythology of Sandra Yagi” by Ron Garmon
  • Fresno Bee; “Artist Finds Joy Outside the Mainstream,” by Mary Lou Aguirre
  • Artweek; “Displaced Passion: The Melodrama of Love, Loss & Transformation at Circle Elephant Art,” by Shana Nys Dambrot
  • Artweek; “Collector-Curator at Catherine Clark Gallery”, by Gustavus Kundahl
  • Chico Enterprise-Record. “Artists offer fine show of contemporary art”, by Stephanie Bird
  • Chico Enterprise-Record. “Summer Show at the Chico Art Center”, by Heather Hacking
  • Q San Francisco. “Sandra Yagi; Artist Untied,” by Robert Adams, March 1999.
  • Los Angeles Times, Ventura edition, “Illusion by Intent - The appeal of Sandra Yagi’s painting is their resistance to easy interpretation,” by Josef Woodard, March 12.
  • 1997 San Jose Mercury News, “Exhibition plays with toys’ simple appeal, deeper meanings.” by Mike Antonucci, December 7.
Other Awards and Recognition:
Who's Who in American Art
Private Collections:
  • Cesar Chavez
  • Axl Rose
  • Ben Stiller & Christine Taylor
  • Paul Ruscha
  • Collection of Robert and Joan Williams
  • Collection of Robert Smith and Gary Noguera
  • Michael Yochum
  • Susan Bolles
  • Lee Unkrich
  • Josh Jaffe
  • Bert Green
  • Laura and Sam Craven
  • Donna Regan
  • Sherry Mattson
  • Andrew Briggs
  • Ramon Morales
  • Tanya Wilkinson
  • Kevin Rettig
  • Orly Ravid
  • Peter Lucas
  • Ethan Malasky and Jill Manthei
  • Paul Zaloom
  • Ragen Wilfert
  • Skot Armstrong & James Tallon
  • Renee Muzic
  • Joan Sivalon
  • Michael Pearce
  • Mary Jane Duffy
  • Salvatore J. Giambanco
  • Jane Cantillion