Exhibitions (select)
Solo Exhibition
2009
Hollowed - exhibition by Shada/Jahn at MIT Museum (Cambridge, MA)
2004
Imprint (a Shada/Jahn collaborative) - Backroom Gallery, Adobe Books (San Francisco, CA)
Group Exhibitions (select)
2011
With Food In Mind - Center for Book Arts (New York City) –- curated by Nicole Caruth
Shadowshop - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco) –- curated by Stephanie Syjuco
Museum Night - Contemporary Art Center (Kaliningrad, Russia) –- curated by Susie Katz (CEC Artslink)
2010
Recipes for an Encounter - Dorsky Gallery (Long Island City, NY) –- curated by Berin Golonu and Candice Hopkins
2007
Medium As Message - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) – organized by Joseph Del Pesco/Collective Foundation,
curated by Berin Golonu
101 Dresses - Artspace (New Haven, CT) – curated by Deinse Markonish & Linda Lindroth
2007
Medium As Message - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) – organized by Joseph Del Pesco/Collective Foundation,
curated by Berin Golonu
101 Dresses - Artspace (New Haven, CT) – curated by Deinse Markonish & Linda Lindroth
2006
Interactive City - ISEA / Zero One Symposium – curator: Steve Dietz, Cynthia Taylor, Beau Takahara
Hybrid Fields - Sonoma County Museum of Art – curator: Patricia Watts
Metro Pictures - The Moore Space (Miami, FL) – curator: Silvia Karman Cubina
Metro Pictures Part 2 - Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (FL) – curator: Silvia Karman Cubina
Seamless 2 - Museum of Science (Boston, MA) – curator: Christine Liu, Nick Knouf
Food + Art – Greenmuseum.org – curator: Greenmuseum
2005
Istanbul Fragmented - Istanbul Fragmented/Biennale(Istanbul, Turkey) – curator: Otto von Busch, Evren Uzer
Bay Area Now 4: SF Bay Area Biennial - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – curator: Rene Guzman, Berin Golonu
2004
Connect the Dots - LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University (NYC) – curator: Basekamp
The Bay Area Show - Tangent Gallery (Detroit, MI)
gAMe - 21 Grand (Oakland, CA)
2003
War & Silence - Kearny St. Workshop (San Francisco, CA) – curator: Claire Light
Making Ends Meet - Lucky Tackle (Oakland, CA) – curator: Adam Driggs-Rompel
Element of Temporary - New Langton Arts (San Francisco, CA) – curator: Evelyn Funes
2002
Shit Hot - Lucky Tackle (Oakland, CA)
One Night Stand - Ego Park (Oakland, CA) – curator: Adam Driggs-Rompel
2001
Monster Drawing Rally - Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA)
Curatorial Projects
selected from 25 exhibitions curated for Pond, a nonprofit organization I co-founded in 2000
Unfurled: A Public Exhibition of Flags. Locations: Pond, San Francisco (2004); Galerii Y, Tartu (2005), Estonia; Katlamaja/Kulturitehaas, Talinn, Estonia (2006)
Shopdropping: Experiments in the Aisle. Locations: Pond, San Francisco (2005), The New Gallery, Calgary (2006), Canada; Western Front, Vancouver (2006)
Invisible 5: an experimental audio tour of the I-5. Location: Southern Exposure, San Francisco (2006)
This Way Please. Location: Pond, San Francisco (2004), The San Francisco Asian Art Museum (2004)
Natalie Jeremijenko: Plant: the Propagation Phase. Location: Pond (2003) ; Sanchez Art Center (2004), presentation at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2003)
Air Portugual 2. Location: Pond, San Francisco with support from Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2001)
Additional exhibitions at Pond, San Francisco from 2001-5 include: Free Mattress, Sculptures (Sean Bluechel), Face 2 Face II Face, Seeing is Believing, Out of the Ground Into the Sky, Out of the Sky Into the Ground, etc.
Summary of Artists Featured:
United Victorian Workers, Shannon Spanhake, Amy Franceschini, Natalie Jeremijenko, Institute for Advanced Architecture, Conrad Bakker, Anti-Advertising Agency, Packard Jennings, Zoe Sheehan Saldana, Trina Robbins, Zeljko Blace, Sue Costabile, Amy Balkin with Tim Halbur, Kim Stringfellow, Rigo, Terri Cohn, Kevin Radley, Veronica de Jesus, Randall Sinner, Deric Carner, Twin Heart Collective, Jackie Sumell, David Rudolph, Tim Martinez, Cheryl Coon, Nathan Burazer, Kevin Greisch, Marijke Jorritsma, Will Yackulic & Dave Larsen, Amy Lockhart, Marc Bell, Erase Errata, Troll, the Numbers, Scott Pagano, Chris Musgrave, Seed, Joao Simoes, Joao dos Santos, Shirley Tze, Kate Grinnan, Alice Konitz, Violet hopkins, Nicolau Vergueiro, Christopher Russell, Mark Flores, Desiree Holman, Geof Oppenheimer, Ricardo Rivera, SchetherShmizu, Kent Manske, Larnie Fox, San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets, Matt Volla, Basekamp, Kate Pocrass, Ricardo Rivera, Isis Rodriguez & Nicole Repack, It Can Change, Sutekh, Chris Musgrave, Phoenix Perry, Permi Gill, Sean Bluechel, Robert Ortbal, Dame Darcy.
Performances & Workshops
'Original Reproductions' (with Marisa Jahn), Monster Drawing Rally (curator: Courtney Fink), 2004
'Handshake Drawing' (with Marisa Jahn), Oakland City Art Gallery (curator: Kerry Johnson), 2004
'Drawing in the West' (with Marisa Jahn), Curformers, (curator: Margaret Tedesco), New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2004
'A La Carte', San Francisco Asian Art Museum (curator: Pauline Yao), 2004
'Handshake Drawing' (with Marisa Jahn), Monster Drawing Rally, (curator: Courtney Fink), San Francisco, CA 2003
Lectures & Presentations
Artists Talk, Center for Contemporary Art (Kaliningrad, Russia), 05/2011
'Natural Systems', Hybrid Fields, Sonoma County Museum, (curator: Patricia Watts), 10/16/2006
'Interventions and Art in Daily Life', Western Front Gallery (Vancouver, BC), (curator: Joanne Bristol) 10/21/2006
Visiting Artist and Curator, San Francisco Art Institute, (for Terri Cohn), 2004
Visiting Artist, University of California Berkeley, (curator: Kevin Radley), 2003
Visiting Artist and Curator, Mama (Croatia Zagreb) (curator: Zeljko Blace) 2003
'Writing Art History', Visiting Artist and Curator, San Francisco Art Institute (for Bill Berkson), 2003
'Writing Art History 2', Visiting Artist and Curator, San Francisco Art Institute (for Bill Berkson), 2002
Visiting Curator, Gen Arts Panel Discussion, 2002
Interviews (radio, print, tv)
Channel 6 News, Kaliningrad TV, 5/11
Smith, Caroline. 'Shopdropping.' BBC 1 Radio (Canada), 06/01/06
Brydie McGuire (producer), 'Wearable Technology', Beyond Tomorrow, Discovery Channel (6/2006)
Kettenjian, Tania. (radio interview) KALW 91.7 FM (2005)
Wilson, Josh. 'Air Portugal.' KUSF Radio Segue (San Francisco) (11/2001)
Berry, Colin. KPFA. (6/2004)
Cumbria, Melissa. Clamor. (June/July, 2005)
Zassenhaus, Erik. 'Art Pics: Pond.' Punk Planet (2001)
Residencies
CEC Artslink (Kaliningrad, Russia), 5/2011
Headlands Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Summer/2008
CAMAC (France), 3/2008
Awards, Distinctions, Grants (select)
Tenoit Bursaire (Grant Awarded for residency at CAMAC (2008)
Best Art Space of the Year, Punk Planet (2001)
Nominee, *surface magazine’s ‘Avant-Garde Picks of the Year
Published Essays & Books
Jahn, Marisa & Steve Shada. Burn, Another Publication, (Fall 2007)
Jahn, Marisa & Steve Shada. Shopdropping: Experiments in the Aisle , published by The Collective Foundation, reception: Yerba Buena Center for the Art, San Francisco (4/2007)
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