Studio Information
ICB Building
128
Ground Floor near Heath Ceramics
About The Artist
Beth Davila Waldman is a cross-disciplinary artist using photography, painting, assemblage and installation. Her work explores the impact of socio-political trends on cultural landscapes, often through imagery laden with indicators of economic and social status, presented in a manner that emulates the sheer stress of imposed change. Waldman’s constructed vistas re-conceive the notion of sanctuary amidst the realities of colonization, and invite meditations on civil access.
Born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1975, Beth Davila Waldman pursued her career in the arts initially at Wellesley College (1997) where she earned a BA with a double degree in art history and studio art, graduating with honors in studio arts with a focus on sculpture. She continued her commitment to exploring site and material as her conceptual focus at the San Francisco Art Institute (2005) with a BFA in sculpture where she was awarded the 2004 Harold E. Weiner Memorial Sculpture Award.
Since, Waldman has been awarded residencies by 18th Street Art Center, Kala Art Institute, Playa Institute, and Edition/Basel and participated in projects at Djerassi Art Residency. In 2019, she was invited to be the introductory Annual PhotoAlliance speaker in conjunction with David Maisel at San Francisco Art Institute’s Osher Lecture Hall. Over the past three years she expanded her studio practice with additional studios in Los Angeles and New York’s Hudson Valley. Waldman’s work has been featured in art fairs in Hong Kong (2019), Mexico City (2023), San Francisco’s ArtMarket (2023) with Kim Eagles Smith Gallery and Berlin (2024) with BLAM presented by IdolWild and Monte Vista Projects Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in the De Young Museum’s OPEN Exhibition in 2020 & 2023 in addition to the Museum of Northern California in 2024. Today, Waldman proudly is a part of the Los Angeles based Monte Vista Projects Curatorial Collective and serves on the San Francisco based PhotoAlliance board. Waldman’s studio is currently at Keystone Art Space in Los Angeles and The ICB Building in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Acrylic Paint, Photography, Prints and Printmaking, Mixed Media
Contact Information
415-317-3103
Exhibitions & Press
2024 NAVIGATION II: Solitude, Organized by Alex H Nichols, Djerassi, Woodside, CA
2024 LANDSCAPES OF ILLUSIONS AND POSSIBILITIES | MAPS, MATERIALS & THE LENS: Alicia Pillar | Beth Davila Waldman | Naomi White, Keystone Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 THE SUMMER DISASTER SHOW 2, Private Public Gallery, Hudson, NY
2024 TROUBLED KINSHIPS | Monte Vista/Espacio Union/Scotty’s Space, Berlin, Germany
2024 FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA | IdolWild/Glue Space, Berlin, Germany
2024 IN FLUX, Museum of Northern California, Chico, CA
2023 THE DE YOUNG OPEN, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2023 DEVOLUTION | MUTATION | EXCAVATION, Studio C6, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2023 ALTER EGO, California College of the Arts Exhibitions Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023 DEVOLUTION/MUTATION/EXCAVATION, Keystone Art Space | C6 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2023 NAVIGATION, Organized by Alex H Nichols, Djerassi, Woodside, CA
2023 HOW SWIFT, HOW FAR, Curated by Lawrence Gipe, Wonzinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 THE 36th PARALLEL, Track 16, Los Angeles, CA
2023 THE SUMMER DISASTER SHOW, Private Public Gallery, Hudson, NY
2023 MATERNAL WATERS: EMBRACING MEMORY, MATERIAL, & POLITICS, IDOLWILD Los Angeles, CA
2023 BY DEGREES: ART AND OUR CHANGING ECOLOGY, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
2023 IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN, Triangle Loft, New York, NY
2022 THE TIME RETURNS, Curated by Caroline Yarnell, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2022 MINE: IN THE WAKE OF EXTRACTION, Curated by Patsy Craig and Organized by SFAA, Midway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 KARPA de NEPANTLA | A Two Person Exhibition Featuring Georgina Reskala and Beth Davila Waldman, Upstart Modern, Sausalito, CA
2022 MAPPING THE SUBLIME: REFRAMING LANDSCAPE IN THE 21st CENTURY, Co-curated by Lawrence Gipe and Beth Davila Waldman, The Brand Library & Arts Center, Glendale, CA
2022 TERRAIN Two-Person Show with Alkaid Ramirez, Irvine Center for the Arts, Irvine, CA
2021 THREE TURNS MIAMI, Special Project Organized by SF Artists Alumni, Untitled Art Miami Beach, Curated by Tony Labat, Miami Beach, FL
2021 ALL MEDIA, Irvine Center for the Arts, Irvine, CA
2021-2020 FACING DARKNESS, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
2020 The de Young OPEN, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2020 NYC Times Square | Partnership with SFAI Alumni Association & ZAZ10TS, New York, NY
2020 INTO THE IMMENSE DESIGN OF THINGS, George Lawson Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2019-20 ANNUAL ARTIST EXHIBITION, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2019 ECHOES: From There to Here | A Group Exhibition of 43 SFAI Alum curated by SFAI faculty Jeremy Morgan and Tim Berry, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Curated Group Exhibition of Kala Artists by ArcSource Inc., The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
2019 COLLATION, Descendants Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 New Currencies, JPG@the Bank, Lafayette, CA
2019 ANNUAL ARTIST EXHIBITION, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2018 BAY AREA CURRENTS, Smith Andersen North, San Anselmo, CA
2018 NEXO, Group Exhibition resulting from Edition Basel Printmaking Residency, Exhibition, Kaskadenkondensator Basel Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2018 Group Exhibition curated by StARTup Art Fair, Jeff King & Company, San Francisco, CA
2018 ANNUAL ARTIST EXHIBITION, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2017 MACRO|MICRO – Site to Psyche, Avenue 12 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 NATURAL SELECTION, Galerié Protégé, New York, NY
2017 48 PILLARS, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 MANUAL DIGITAL, Curated by WaldmanArts, Space151, San Francisco, CA
2016 URBANSCAPES, Harrington Gallery, Pleasanton, CA
2016 20th ANNUAL NO DEAD ARTISTS, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 AMERICAN LANDSCAPES, Maryland Federation of Art: Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD
2016 OUR TOWN, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2016 SELECTIONS, Midway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 NO DEAD ARTISTS, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2013 STRUCTURE, Arc Studios & Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009-2012 SpaceCraft, CELLspace Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 SENIOR SHOW, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 BOOK ART SHOW, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA ?2005 UC Davis: Ceramic Symposium, Davis, CA
2004 Playshop Artech Occupation, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2002 CHILL, 111 Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 SOLO MUJUERES, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2000 LATINA WOMEN, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
1997 RESONANT HIVE Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, MA
1997 SHIFTING GROUND: A DIALOGUE IN PRINT, Boston University Fuller Building Gallery, Boston, MA
2025 Beth Davila Waldman | A Mid-Career Retrospective, Snap Collective Publishing
2024 IN FLUX Catalog, SF Artists Alumni, Museum of Northern California, Chico, CA
2022 “Mapping the Sublime at the Brand”, ArtNOWLA, Los Angeles, CA https://artnowla.com/2022/04/13/mapping-the-sublime-at-the-brand/
2022 MAPPING THE SUBLIME: REFRAMING ARTWORK IN THE 21st CENTURY Catalog, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA
2021 “Meet Beth Davila Waldman, Visual Artist & Arts Educator”, ShoutOut LA, Los Angeles, CA
2021 HOME EXHIBITION Catalog, Arc Studios & Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 EXTRACTION Catalog, Codex Foundation, Berkeley, CA
2018 Playa Anthology, Dec 2018
2018 BAY AREA CURRENTS, PDF Catalog
2013 Structure Exhibitions Catalog, Arc Studios & Gallery?2010 SF Chronicle: Artists Suffer For Their Work?
2024-2025, Site Specific Sculpture Art Residency & Installation, Art in Residence, Antelope Valley, CA
2023 Award Recipient for OPEN CALL, Salon Acme, Curatorial Council: Bruno Alves de Almeida (Curator, Jan van Eyck Academie) / Tania Candiani (Artist) / Marielsa Castro (Associate curator, Museo Jumex) / Dorothée Dupuis (Curator and founder of Terremoto) / Gabriel Rico (Artist) / Doreen Ríos (Independent curator), Mexico City, Mexico
2020 Award Recipient for Bay Area Current(ly), PhotoAlliance, San Francisco, CA
2020 Visiting Artist In Residence, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Woman Artist Grant, New York, NY
2018 Semi-Finalist in Photography for Headlands AIR 2019 Residency, Sausalito, CA
2018 Artist in Residence, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
2018 Artist in Residence at Edition Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2018 Artist in Residence in the Electronic Media Center, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
2018 Artist Residency Award, PLAYA, Summer Lake, OR
2017 Parent Artist Residency Award, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
2017 Juror Award, “Intersections No. 4”, Art Tasting SOMArts Gallery, Vince Meyer & Rachel Murray Meyer, Avenue 12 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Honorable Mention, “City of Sillar No. 7”, AMERICAN LANDSCAPES, Circle Gallery, Annapolis Maryland, Juror Liz Key Strelka, Manager of Exhibitions, The Phillips Collection
2014 “Top Ten SF Open Studios Artists”, ArtSpan, Ethan Appleby of Vango
2011 ArtSlant, Showcase Winner in Round #2 of the 2011 Showcase competition cycle
2006 Accepted as Associate Artist at The Atlantic Center for the Arts with Resident Master Steve Badanes
2005 Individual Art Grant for ALTERNATIVE VISITORS CENTER OF SONOMA, Public Art Project, Sonoma, CA: Puffin Foundation Ltd., Teaneck, NJ
2004 Harold E. Weiner Memorial Sculpture Award from the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1997 Studio Art Honors recipient for successful completion of Studio Art Thesis: Transposing Time and Cultures: Personal and Abstract Interpretations of Inca and Pre-Inca Art, Wellesley College Art Department
1997 Art History Italy Scholarship Award, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2024 II-Redaktion, June 12, 2024, “Troubled Kinships”, Deeds, Berlin, Germany https://deeds.news/2024/06/b-la-m-festivals-in-berlin-troubled-kinships-scotty-27-06-14-07-2024/?lang=en
2017 Martin, Alison, “Natural Selection Comes Together at Galerie Protégé”, New York City: ArtNerdNewYork, September 21, 2017, http://art-nerd.com/newyork/natural-selection-comes-together-at-galerie-protege/
2017 Laluyan, Oscar, “Only The Naturally Selected Survive”, New York City: ARTEFUSE, September 14th, 2017, https://artefuse.com/2017/09/14/natural-selection-at-galerie-protege-125169/
2017 48 PILLARS Catalog, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Curiel, Jonathan, “Manual Digital”, San Francisco: SF Weekly, March 23rd, 2017, http://www.sfweekly.com/culture/art/ghosts-and-goldfish-at-matisse-diebenkorn/
2017 Lambert, Audra & Zimmer, Lori, “MANUAL DIGITAL Curated by Beth Waldman at Space151”, New York City: ArtNerdNewYork, March 15, 2017, http://art-nerd.com/newyork/manual-digital-curated-by-beth-waldman-at-space-151/
2017 Martin, Alison. “Interview with Artist/Curator Beth Waldman”, New York City: ARTEFUSE, February 23rd, 2017, https://artefuse.com/2017/02/22/interview-with-artistcurator-beth-waldman-124955/
2017 Katz, Leslie. Feb. 23-24: Manual Digital, Robert C. Merton, Tara Velarde, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Tennyson, Hank Lazer, Andrew Maxwell, BadBadNotGood, Laugh for Lives Comedy Show”, SF Examiner, February 23rd, 2017, Page 2, http://pages.cdn.pagesuite.com/f/0/f0fcdfd3-5b78-4aa2-8b1f-0b5e859c60dc/page.pdf
2016 Bookhardt, Eric D., “20th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS Essay”, INSIDE NOLA, August 11, 2016 https://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/review-no-dead-artists-at-jonathan-ferrara-gallery/Content?oid=3021260
2015 MFA Never, RootDivision, San Francisco, CA
2015 Bookhardt, Eric D., “19th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS Essay”, Sept 3, 2015
2014 ArtforAIDS, ArtBusiness.com, Alan Bamberger
2007 Sonoma Tribune: Putting art in public places?2007 The Column: Temporary Public Art Projects?2004 Eleven Eleven: Featuring sculpture DJ Draw
2003 Viv and A Movie: Artist Interview?2002 US Airways Attache Magazine, September Issue
Education
2005 B.F.A. in Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute
1997 B.A. in Art History and Studio Art, Wellesley College
1997 Senior Sculpture Thesis: Transposing Time and Cultures: Personal and Abstract Interpretations of Inca and Pre-Inca Art.
