RESUME

Miguel Arzabe (b. 1975 St. Louis, MO)
Lives and works in Oakland, CA
Education
MFA, University of California, Berkeley, CA
MS, Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
 

Residencies and Awards
2022

San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award
New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Edition
Millay Arts Residency

2021

Public Art Commission: California Natural Resource Agency,
Sacramento, CA
Public Art Commission: Children’s Medical Center, Omaha, NE
2019

Public Art Commission: SF COUNTS 2020 Census
Public Art Commission: CBRE Oakland Headquarters
Public Art Commission: San Francisco International Airport Hyatt Hotel
Public Art Commission: Making Waves Academy, Richmond, CA

2018

Public Art Commission: San Francisco Arts Commission Poster Series
Lucid Art Foundation Artist in Residence

2017

Facebook Artist in Residence

2016

deYoung Museum Studio Artist
Recology San Francisco

2015

Kala Art Institute Residency
Project 387 Artist Residency
Bayview Artist Residency

2014

University of Georgia Athens - Foundations Visiting Artist

2013

Montalvo Art Center Irvine Fellowship

2012

Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship
Signal Fire Residency, Oregon
Santa Fe Art Institute Residency

2011

Don Blanche Residency, Ontario, Canada

2010

Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship
Harry Ford Lord Fine Arts Award
UC Berkeley CRG Arts Grant

2009

Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts

2008

UC Berkeley Graduate Fellowship

2006

Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, WY

Solo Exhibitions
2021

Tejido Cultural, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
Cóndor de Cuatro Cabezas / Four-Headed Condor,
Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA

2017

Weavings, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Videos, Oakland Museum of California

2016

Cultural Fabric, deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
I Can’t Make It by Myself, Recology, San Francisco, CA

2015

Las Cosas que Pintan / Painting in an Expansive Field, Verge Gallery,
Sacramento, CA

2014

/*Reject Algorithms*/, Cult Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
Sightlines, StoreFrontLab, San Francisco, CA

2013

El otoño mío es tu primavera, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2011

falling in, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022

Tikkun, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Resonance of Place, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA

2021

Festival Sillon / Itinéraire Art Drôme, Annecy, France
Community Garden, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
After the Fire, Round Weather, Berkeley, CA
Once Removed, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2020

Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Gongju, South Korea
Works on Water Triennial, Governor’s Island, NY
In This Light, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Visual Artist Exhibition Production Relief Grant,
Ever Gold[Projects], San Francisco, CA

2019

Resonance: Lyon Biennal, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, France
de.Payser, L’arteppes/Mikado, Annecy, France
Teatro dei Fauni, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland
Nocturnes, Images Passages, Annecy, France
BelVedere, MARS, Milan, Italy
Deviate/Landscape, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA

2018

Recontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin
Billboard Creative, Los Angeles, CA

2017

Mystery Theater Sports Bar, Philbrook Museum,Tulsa, OK
VIGOROUS, Minimicro Cinema, Cincinnati,OH

2016

Perhaps We Could Chat Trough a Few Specifics, FIFI Projects, Mexico
City, Mexico
Open Studio of Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Mexico City, Mexico
I Never Learned the Title of the Song I Always Sing, Minnesota Street
Projects, San Francisco, CA
Photography and Video Retrospective of the Recology Program, SF
Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

2015

Artist-Run, The Satellite Show, North Beach, Miami, FL
Carry On, The Red Tree House, Mexico City, Mexico
Caprichos Anatomicos, Works, San Jose, CA
Indigo Mind, StoreFront Lab, San Francisco, CA
The Possibilities of Paper, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

2014

Above/Below, Wright State University, Dayton,OH
Art Market Art Fair, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Fun and Games, Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA

2013

Unseen, Cult Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA

Sea Stories Between the Tides, Highlight Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Featured Alumna, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Thinking Like the Universe, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
and Hatch Gallery, Oakland, CA
Out the Window Project, LA Freewaves, Los Angeles, CA
Wood Anniversary, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR
Conversation Continuum, Martina }{ Johnston, Berkeley, CA

2012

Hors Pistes 2012, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
I am Crime, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Random Acts, OCCCA, Orange County, CA
Traps, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
Where the Western Wind Blows, Rock Bar, San Francisco, CA
Pods, Contraptions, and Relics, Headlands Center for the Arts,
Sausalito, CA
Open Studios, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM

2011

Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal, Canada
Summer Drift, Rm Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Hors Pistes 2011, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Darkness and Light, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Leyendas, 35mm Ciné Café, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Walking on Thin Ice, Ampersand International, San Francisco, CA

2010

The More Things Change: Shadow Shop, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The farther away the better I see you, Painting Salon, San Francisco, CA
Fall Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
No Right Angles, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

2009

Passive/Aggressive, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Soccer in the Gallery, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Immediate Future, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San
Francisco, CA
LAND/ART, The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, courtesy of
Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
John Muir Text Messages, The Great Wall, Oakland, CA
Free Time, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Collections
Facebook, Inc.
YouTube, Inc.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
State of California
University of California San Francisco Hospital
CBRE, Inc.
Anne and Paul Wattis
Robert and Elaine Stein Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Children’s Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Albuquerque Museum of Art and History
Oakland Museum of California
San Francisco Arts Commission
Making Waves Academy, Richmond, CA
County of Alameda
kW Engineering, Inc.
Stranger & Stranger, Inc.
Various private collections