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Wo Schiffman

  • 480 Gate 5 Rd, Sausalito, CA 94965, USA

About The Artist

Artist Statement

 

My art practice is inspired by stories. Over many years of exploring diverse cultures and landscapes across the planet, I have collected numerous stories and images of people and places. Using oil, wax and ink I paint these stories on wood, paper, canvas and stone. Hovering between abstraction and postmodern sensitivities, my work invites viewers to merge their own memories into the vast continent of cultural collective consciousness.

“Art is the language of memory, derived from the past, shared in the present, informing the future.”                                  — Wo Schiffman

Biography

Trained in oil, ink, wax painting, and monotype printing, Wo works primarily on  wood, washi paper, and stone. As the daughter of NASA Scientists, her education explored not only art but questions in Physics and Philosophy. Wo holds a  BA in Philosophy (summa cum laude) with honors from John Carroll University. Her art education includes concentrated atelier art study in Scandinavia, Japan, and the US  including the Art Students League of NY and the Cleveland Institute of Art. Since the end of the pandemic, Wo has continued study through the Rhode Island School of Design Illustration program.  Wo’s work is in the permanent collections of: the New York Hall of Science Museum, the Hosby Konsthall Print Museum(Sweden), and the Museum of Encaustic Art (Santa Fe, NM) and numerous private collections. Her work has been exhibited at Context:Art Miami for the past 4 years with the Alessandro Berni Gallery. At the invitation of the European Cultural Centre, her work will be on  exhibit during the Venice Biennale 2024  (April -November 2024, Venice, Italy) at the Palazzo Mora pavilion for the ECC: Personal Structures Exhibition.

Studio Information

Building Name

ICB Building

Special Location Or Visiting Instructions

First Floor, West Side of Building, Outside Door "STUDIO 124"

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Contact Information

Artist Full Name
Contact Email Address
Phone

603.770.6982

Artist Website

Exhibitions & Press

Group Exhibitions

Recent Exhibitions

Les Billets-Doux, Solo Show, SF Women Artists Gallery, 2024

Connections 8, Invitational Curated groups show, Atlantic Gallery (NYC),2024

Personal Structures, European Cultural Center Pavilion, Venice Bienalle, 2024

A Gathering of Color, Juried show, Falkirk Cultural Center, 2024

Söft, Solo Show, O’Hanlon Art Center, 2024

Refusès of the Bay, Group show, Voss Gallery 2023

CONTEXT– Art Miami, Alessandro Berni Gallery , 2019 –  2023

Artistic Vision, Juried exhibition, SF Women’s Artist Gallery, 2023

Portals, NCWCA Juried show, Arc Gallery, SF 2023

Publications

Les Billets-Doux, 2024

Söft, 2024

Being Human, 2023

Water Poems, 2022

Aardvarks in Reykjavik, 2021

Conversations in Color, 2019

Encaustic Entanglements, 2018

 

Awards
  • Finalist/Short List, PenCraft Awards, Best New Poetry Book, 2022
  • Juror’s Choice, SFWA, Artists Choice, October, 2021,
  • Juror’s Choice, SFWA, Abstract World, September, 2021
  • Juror’s Choice, SFWA, Scapes City, Sea & Land, April, 2021
  • Ink & Wax, Linea (James Little curator), Art Students League of NY, 2020
  • Best in Show, Journey Exhibition, Seacoast Artists Association, 2019
  • Best in Show, Floral Exhibition, Seacoast Artists Association, 2018
  • 2nd Place: Fine Art,  Annual Art Exhibition,  Exeter, NH, 2017

Education

Description

BA, Philosophy,  summa cum laude, with honors , John Carroll University

MA/PhD graduate study, University of Colorado Boulder

Creative Writing, Stanford University (2 year CE/MLA program)

Painting  & Critique,  Art Student’s League of NY, James Little

Painting Intern, Cleveland Institute of Art

Textile Design, SF State University, Candace Crockett

Indigo & Shibori Independent Study, Kyoto, Japan 

Painting & Design Atelier Program (5 years), Copenhagen, DK

CE Painting certificate program, RISD (ongoing)

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