Upcoming Featured Solo Exhibition:
William Rhodes
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William Rhodes, Damballa, carved wood, photo on fabric, paint, needle and thread, 24in x 18in x 5in
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More about William Rhodes
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EDUCATION
1994 University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth MFA, Furniture Design 1989 University of the Arts – Philadelphia, PA BA, Furniture Design SELECTED COLLECTIONS Smithsonian Institute National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC Eric Collins and Michael Prokopow Collection, London, England Temi Stalling Design Collection, Cape Town, South Africa Apperson Art Collective, Baltimore, MD The McCoy Collection, Chicago, IL Meredith Gallery, Baltimore, MD Bosco Dei Cervi Collection, Bologna, Italy. Melvin Holmes Collection, San Francisco, CA New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford, MA Pehl Collection, Eldersburg, MD Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, Baltimore, MD Nathan Wolfe and Lauren Gunderson Collection, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Arts Commission Civic Art Collection and Public Art Bayview Senior services, San Francisco, CA Southeast Health Center, San Francisco, CA Studios at Key West, Key West, FL Casa de Africa Museum, Havana, Cuba SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2025 Throughlines, looking back, reaching forward; Sanchez Art Center Pacifica, CA, 1 Month 2024 William Rhodes: Tribute; Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2 Months 2024 Modernism; Greg Roberts Gallery-Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, CA. 2023 Threads of Consciousness; Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2 Months 2022 Where Generations Come Home; the Art of William Rhodes, Studios of Key West, Key West, FL,, 2 Months 2021 Making Visible the Connections, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, 3 Months 2019 Threaded Memories, African American Art and Culture Complex, San Francisco, CA, 3 Months 2018 Scenes of Italy, Bosco Dei Cervi, Bologna, Italy. 2018 Past, Present and Future San Francisco Open Studio, San Francisco, CA 2017 Out Migration Artspan, San Francisco, CA 2015 The Nelson Mandela International Quilt Cape Town, South Africa, 2 months 2013 Souls of Water San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA, 1 month 2012 What is your Spiritual Evolution? African American Art and Culture Complex, San Francisco, CA, 3 months 2011 Recycled Art Outside Lands, San Francisco, CA, 3 days Life in Circles Kohler Jones Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1 month 2010 Feng Shui Open Studio, San Francisco, CA, 1 month 2009 William Rhodes Women of Vision Foundation (Sponsored by Mercedes-Benz), San Francisco, CA, 1 day 2008 Presenting William Rhodes Provident Bank, Baltimore, MD, 1 month Reflections of the Spirit Gallery at 6 East, Baltimore, MD, 1 month 2007 Unexpected Beauty in Baltimore An Die Musik, Baltimore, MD, 2 months Jazz Series International World Trade Center, Baltimore, MD, 1 month 2005 Presenting William Rhodes The Pentagon, Washington, DC, 1 month SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2024 Threads of Change, San Joaquin Delta Collage, Stockton, CA, 2 months 2024 15th Havana Biennial, Casa de Africa Museum, Havana, CU 2024 Vitality Art Exhibition, The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 2023 Now Ain’t Some Day Yet, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2022 Black Artist on Art, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA 2022 We Are Bruce Lee, Chinese Historical Society of America Museum, San Francisco, CA 2021 Black Breastfeeding, University of California, San Francisco Medical School, San Francisco, CA, 3 months. 2021 Identity and Response, Lauren Rodgers Museum of Art, Laurel, Miss, 6 months 2020 The de Young Open, The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 2020 Unnatural Causes, The Carroll Mansion, Baltimore, MD 2018 Silence Out Loud, The Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA, 3 months The Circuity of Joyce J. Scott, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2 months 2017 Birdland and the Anthropocene, Peal Museum, Baltimore, MD, 1 month Divine Revolution: Night Light, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA, 3 days 2016 Dear Summer, ZuCot Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 3 months Take this Hammer, Yeba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 1 month The Raw and Cooked, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 1 month 2015 Power, Protest & Resistance, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 1 month A Kind of Confession, The Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, 2 months Hiraeth, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 1 month 2013 3.9 Collective, ArtPad, San Francisco, CA Ashe to Amen, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN Innovation Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL 2012 Masquerade, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Bombay Sapphire Award Exhibition 5, Claude Lane Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011 Sacred Reflections, David Driskell Center Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park 3 Point 9 Sirron, Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA Urban Green, San Francisco Environment’s EcoCenter Gallery, San Francisco, CA Unmentionables, City Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010 Gazing at the Red Sun, Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA The Art of Jazz and Music, 57th Street Fine Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Transformative Visions, Studio One Art Center, Oakland, CA 2009 re/Purpose, The African American Art and Culture Complex, San Francisco, CA NuVoodoo, Westnorth Studio Gallery, Baltimore, MD Bayview Opera House San Francisco, CA San Francisco Open Studio,s San Francisco, CA 2008 Avant Yard: Ancient Futures: The DNA of Cultures and Civilizations, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY Jazz Works, Gallery at 6 East, Baltimore, MD The Funk Aesthetic, H & F Fine Arts Gallery, Mount Rainier, MD Found Objects: New Beginnings, Baltimore Public Works Museum, Baltimore, MD 2007 Body and Soul IV, Baltimore, MD Celebrating Forty Years, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD 3Dc2: Discover, Define and Discuss Craft, Danny Simmons Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2006 Body and Soul III, Baltimore, MD Altscape, North West Galleries, Baltimore, MD 2005 Sub Basement Art Studio, Baltimore, MD 2004 Sub Basement Art Studio, Baltimore, MD 2003 Body and Soul II, Baltimore, MD 2002 Presenting Rhodes and Ortiz, The Watergate, Washington, DC 2000 Power, Politics, and People, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD 1999 Contemporary Furniture Artists, New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford, MA Stop Asking, American Crafts Museum, New York, NY 1998 Stop Asking, Society of Arts and Crafts, Pittsburg, PA 1997 Contemporary Furniture Artists, Meredith Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1995 Mixed Media Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA 1994 International Mens’ Art Exhibit, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA International Contemporary Furniture Show, Jacob Javitts Convention Center, New York, NY PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS 2023 49 South Van Ness, San Francisco, CA. 2023 Booker T. Washington Community Service Center, San Francisco, CA. 2022 Southeast Community Center, San Francisco, CA. 2022 Lucky Bayview Supermarket, San Francisco, CA. 2022 We Are Bruce Lee, Chinese Historical Society of America Museum, San Francisco, CA. 2021 San Francisco Arts Commission, South East Health Center, San Francisco, CA 2020 Bayview Senior services, San Francisco, CA SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS 2024 Living Cultures Award, Alliance for California Traditional Arts, San Francisco, CA 2023 Creative Corps Initiative Award, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2023 Organizational Support Grant, California Arts Council, San Francisco, CA 2021 Public Art Commission - South East Health Center, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA 2021 Individual Artist Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA 2021 Individual Artist Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA 2020 Individual Grant, Awesome Foundation, San Francisco, CA 2020 Equity Grant, ArtSpan, San Francisco, CA 2020 Artist in Community Grant, California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA 2019 Individual Artist Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA 2019 Artist in Community Grant, California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA 2018 Artist in Community Grant, California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA 2015 Alternative Exposure Grant, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA 2013 Creative Capacity Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco, CA 2011 Fine Craft Award, Artspan, San Francisco, CA SELECTED RESIDENCIES 2023 Bayview Shipyard Artist and Residence, San Francisco, CA 1994 University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA SELECTED LECTURES 2023 Community Knotted Quilt, The Booker T. Washington Community Service Center, San Francisco, CA 2022 Where Generations Come Home; the Art of William Rhodes, Studios of Key West, Key West, FL 2021 Making Visible the Connections, Mills College, Oakland, CA. 2021 Finding Self-worth in a World of Suppression and Injustice, University of California, Berkeley, Berkley, CA. 2021 Black Breastfeeding, University of California, San Francisco Medical School, San Francisco, CA. 2019 Threaded Memories, African American Art and Culture Complex, San Francisco, CA. 2019 San Francisco Arts Commission, Indivisible Artist Grant, San Francisco, CA 2019 California Arts Council, Artist in Community Grant, Sacramento, CA 2018 Mission on Tenth California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA 2015 Portraits and Other Likenesses San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA The Association of African American Museum Conference Metal Museum, Memphis, TN Portraits of the Creative Class, OakStop Gallery, Oakland, CA 2014 Souls of Water San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA 2013 What is Your Spiritual Evolution? African American Art and Cultural Complex, San Francisco, CA Astrology African American Art and Cultural Complex, San Francisco, CA 2007 3Dc2: Discover, Define and Discuss Craft Danny Simmons Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 1999 Stop Asking American Crafts Museum, New York, NY 1994 International Mens’ Art Exhibit Harvard University, Cambridge, MA SELECTED VIDEO DOCUMENTATION 2016 I am San Francisco, Black Past and Presence City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 2016 Woodworker by Trade, Artist by Choice, Baltimore Sun Newspaper, Baltimore, MD 2015 The Nelson Mandela International Quilt Project, Michael Cotton, San Francisco, CA 2014 Cross Burning by William Rhode,s Melonie Green, San Francisco, CA Quilt Project Teaches About Nelson Mandela, CCTV News, San Francisco, CA 2012 What is your Spiritual Evolution? William Rhodes Art Michael Cotton, San Francisco, CA 2011 New Orleans Revisited, Art Reflects, San Francisco, CA 2008 Avant Yard: Ancient Futures: The DNA of Cultures and Civilizations, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY 2007 Unexpected Beauty in Baltimore, An Die Musik, Baltimore, MD 3Dc2: Discover, Define and Discuss Craft, Danny Simmons Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 1999 Contemporary Furniture Artists, Newbedford Museum of Art, Newbedford, MA 1993 Art Furniture, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA SELECTED BOOKS Yale University Press, Joyce J. Scott, Walk a Mile in My Dreams, New Haven and London, CT, 2024, pp.242-243, 270. Colossus Press, Colossus Freedom: An Anthology of Voices Across The Carceral Wasteland, Oakland, CA, 2022, pp.42-43. Lopez Publishing, Ben F. Jones and William Rhodes, Greenvale, NY, 2021. Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Black Exodus, San Francisco, CA, 2019, pp. 23, 72, 93, 94, 109, 112, 118. California Institute of Integral Studies, The Best of Mission at Tenth (2009 - 2019), California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, 2020, pp. 57. California Institute of Integral Studies, Mission At Tenth, Volume 7, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, 2018, pp. 6-7. Call For Beauty, Curated by 3.9 Art Collective, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, 2017. Crawford-Levis, Lyla, StoryCorps Comics: From the Bayview Opera House, Justin Hall Comics, San Francisco, CA, 2013. King-Hammond, Leslie (Ed.), Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Imagery, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY, 2013, pp. 41-42. Sankofa, Kinara, Humanity: Deep Between the Lines of Spoken Word, San Francisco, CA, 2015, cover. Scott, Joyce J. and The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Stop Asking We Exist: 25 African-American Craft Artists, The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA, 2000, pp. 49-50. Yap-Wong, Christine, 100 Stories of Belonging in the S.F. Bay Area, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 2019, pp. 28-29. SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS Provenzano, Jim, “Going Out, April 25- May 3, 2024”, The Bay Area Reporter, April 25, 2024. Blue, Max, “Black Magic at San Francisco Arts Commission”, The Potrero View, April, 2022. Gugala, Jon, “Celebrating 200 Years, Key West’s Arts Community Is Just Getting Started”, Art in America, January, 2022, p. 24, 25. Cheney Anlan, “Never mind the statistics: “Black people want to breastfeed”,” Mission Local, September 3, 2021 O’ Hare Timothy, “Community Quilt,” The Key West Citizen, October 27, 2021, p 1, 8C. Rose, Steve, “Dennis Billups: he Helped lead a long, fiery sit in,” The Guardian News & Media September16, 2021, G2 p. 25. Owens, Donna, “Woodworker by Trade, Artist by Choice,” The Baltimore Sun, December 4, 2016, p. 1,4. “Museum News,” Journeys: Newsletter of Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Winter 2008, p. 3. “Nomad Stories Jazz with William Rhodes,” The New York Times, October 5, 2007, p. B21. D’Addario, John, “Queen Selma at Scott Edwards: The Raw and the Cooked (New Carnivalesque Visionary Art) at Barrister’s,” The New Orleans Advocate, January 24, 2016. Fisher, Harold, “Tooting Baltimore’s Horn,” The Baltimore Sun – Unisun, October 10, 2007, p. 22-3T. Harris, Joanne, “Stop Asking,” American Visions, April/May 1999, p. 13. Herring, Nakia, “William Rhodes Shows the ‘Unexpected Beauty in Baltimore’,” The Baltimore Times, October 19-25,2007, p. 15. Hunt, Stephen, “Unexpected Beauty in Baltimore,” Calgary Herald, December 17, 2007. Johnson-Sterrett, J.D., “Art and Furniture Combine at Tobechi,” Metropolitan Business News, December 15, 1997, p. 6. Large, Elizabeth, “Artful Furniture,” The Baltimore Sun, September 29, 1996, p. B3. McNatt, Glen, “An Artistic Renovation,” The Baltimore Sun – Unisun, April 3, 2005, p. 8T. McNatt, Glen, “Art Draws on Flavor of Past,” The Baltimore Sun – Unisun, December 25, 2001, p. 1F, 10F. McQuillan Weeks, Joanna, “Art Week,” The Standard Times, May 29, 1997, p. B1, B3. Moore, Kate, “William Rhodes,” Armatora Catena, December 10, 2011. Owens, Donna, “Woodworker by Trade, Artist by Choice,” The Baltimore Sun, December 4, 2016, p. 1, 4. Patrell, Dan, “Postcard,” Maryland Life, November/December 2007, p. 10, 21. Reader, Ruth, “Unexpected Beauty in Baltimore,” City Paper, October 24-31, 2007, p. 35. White, Patreka L., “Making a Path in the World of Photography,” The Baltimore Times, April 12-18, 2002, p. 10, 20. SELECTED PODCAST, RADIO AND TELEVISION INTERVIEWS Whettstone David, “We Are Bruce Lee,” WPFW, May 25, 2022 Turner Walter, “Art of Ben F. Jones and William Rhodes,” KPFA, November 22, 2021 Nelson Sophia, “Making Visible the Connections,” Visit Black History, December 13, 2021 Hunt Jeff, “William Rhodes on Being a Black Artist in San Francisco,” Storied: San Francisco, June 9, 2020 Green, Melorra and Melonie, “Ibeji Lounge”, KPOO 89.5 FM, September 18, 2018 Mallicoat, Frank, “Bay Sunday”, KPIX, March 16, 2013 “Deep Roots 08: William Rhodes”, San Francisco Community Arts and Education, October 5, 2012 Hughes, Angela, “Fresh Perspective”, KPOO 89.5 FM, April 21, 2010 Smith, Nick, “How to pick art work for your home”, The View from the Bay, October 6, 2009 Gibala, Sharon, “Eyewitness News Weekend Morning,” Ch. 13 WJZ-TV, July 20, 2008 Harris, Patrice, “Fox 45 Morning News,” Fox Ch. 45 WBFF Baltimore, April 8, 2008 Ramos, Russell, “People Make the World Go Round,” blogtalkradio.com, April 7, 2008 Manning, George, “In the Tradition,” WEAA 88.9 FM, October 1 and 29, 2007 Mallory, Sandi, “Morning Wake-up,” WEAA 88.9 FM, October 5, 2007 SELECTED COMMUNITY SERVICE 2011 Co-founder of 3.9 Art Collective, San Francisco, CA |
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TRANSMISSION GALLERY
OAKLAND 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA 94612 Open Thurs-Sat, 12 to 5 pm till 8 pm on the first Friday of the month and by appointment Accessibility: This a 2nd floor art gallery, accessible by stairs. |
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