Sasha Dela

EDUCATION

MFA; California College of the Arts; San Francisco, CA; 2005

BFA; Minneapolis College of Art and Design; 2000

Accademia Di Belle Arte, Florence, Italy, Cy DeCosse Fellowship / Florence Honors Program; 2000

 

EXHIBITIONS

The Emotional Life of a Spy; Solo Exhibition; Art League; Houston

May 2012

Ballad of the Non-Specific Object, Curated by Anjali Gupta; David Shelton Gallery; San Antonio, TX

October 2010

LETS TALK ABOUT LOVE BABY Joan Flasch Book Collection; School of the Art Institute; Chicago, IL

October 2010-2012

The Buffet; First Edition of artist-generated DVD periodical; hosting a collected and curated group of videos by selected artists; Sasha Dela, Kara Hearn, and Kelly Pike, DiverseWorks, Houston

July-September 2009

No-Zoning: Artists Engage Houston, Skydive and the Saturday Free School for the Arts Contemporary Art MuseumHouston

August-September 2009

Variegated Continuum, Large Scale Outdoor Public Art Commission installed on the grounds of the

Mexican American Cultural Center

February 2009

Insurance is Not Always Assured, Henry Street Settlement/Abroms Art Center, New York, NY

Jan-March 2009

Let Love Flow, Solo Exhibition, Women and their Work, Austin, TX

November 2008

New Blood, Vertex List, Brooklyn, NY

September 2008

Natural Commodity, Solo Exhibition, MAC, Dallas, TX

September 2008

Houston Area Artists, Quadrennial Show, Blaffer Museum, University of Houston, TX

May-August 2008

Outpost, CTRL Gallery, Houston TX

June 2008

Annual Juried Print Show, Houston Center for Photography

October 2007

World View  Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX

June-August 2007

Core Exhibition  Glassell School of Art/ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

March 2007

Blackout collaboration Sasha Dela + Charles Beronio, Diverse Works, Houston, TX

September- October, 2006

New American Talent  Arthouse, Austin, TX

June 2006-2008 Traveling Exhibition

Material World  Alliance Francais, San Francisco, CA

April- May 2006

Bay Area Bazaar Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery Portland, Oregon

April- May 2006

Core Exhibition  Glassell School of Art/ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

March 2006

Juried Group Exhibition Sense of Place Gertrud Herbert Art Center Augusta, Georgia

October – November 2004

Juried Group Exhibition of Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship Recipients, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, CA

September – November 2004

Special Delivery, Performative Collaboration with Fritz Haeg California College of the Arts Hooper Courtyard

November 19 2004

Full Moon Walk, walk with artist Hamish Fulton and others, Santa Fe Art Institute, NM

June 2003

Open Studio Show, Santa Fe Art Institute, Exhibition of new work completed in the 4 mo. residency

August 2003

The Sensual Interior: Sasha Dela and Melanie Pankau , Black Dog Gallery, Saint Paul, MN

November – December 2002

Juried Group Exhibition: Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

August 2001

Awards / Recognitions / Grants:

Idea Fund, Warhol Foundation Grant for Artist Initiatives, SKYDIVE Art Space and Saturday Free School for the Arts, 2009

Idea Fund, Warhol Foundation Grant for Artist Initiatives, Buffet Video Collective, Sasha Dela, Kara Hearn and Kelly Pike, 2009

Eliza Prize, Houston, TX 2005 and 2007

Arthouse Emergency Grant Austin, TX 2006

Teaching Fellowship, Rice University, Houston, TX 2005

California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Teaching Assistantship Award 2003 and 2004

San Francisco Foundation, Murphy and Cadogan Fine Arts Fellowship 2004

Change, Inc Grant 2003

Cy DeCosse Fellowship / Florence Honors Program, Italy 2000

Reviews:

Art Forum, Review of An Exhibition of Proposals for a Socialist Colony by Kurt Muller

Art Lies, Review of An Exhibition of Proposals for a Socialist Colony by Cynthia Coffield

Review by Lee Webster of LET LOVE FLOW, Solo exhibition by Sasha Dela, Fluent Collaborative

Proximity Magazine, by Nancy Zastudil, Report from Houston, Interview with SKYDIVE Founders Sasha Dela and Ariane Roesch, Chicago, IL, November 2008

Houston Area Exhibition Catalogue, essay by Claudia Schmuckli, June 2008

Skydive Offers an Artistic View of the Nontraditional, by Douglas Britt Houston Chronicle, 2008

Core Program Catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts March 2007, Essay by Michelle White

Art Papers January / February 2006, Review of “Blackout” at Diverse Works by Michelle White

Art Lies December 2006,  Review of “Blackout” at Diverse Works by Margo Handwerker

Austin Chronicle July 2006, Amanda Douberly, Review of “New American Talent”

Core Program Catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts March 2006, Essay by Charles Eladio Beronio

Writing:

Houston Forward, Essay, Temporary Art Review 2012

RoadsignUSA, Site/Project Profile, Temporary Art Review 2012

Interview; Elizabeth Dunbar, New Director of DiverseWorks, Temporary Art Review 2012

Home is Ourselves, is Our Project: Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand, Temporary Art Review 2012

Red Space Gallery, Site/Project Profile, Temporary Art Review 2012

Lawndale Artist Studio Program, Temporary Art Review 2012

Low Lives, Performance Art Live on Your Home Computer, Temporary Art Review 2011

Earthbound Moon: New Take on Public Art in the West, Temporary Art Review 2011

Review: Main Street Galleries, Temporary Art Review

Interview: Linda Shearer of Project Row Houses, Fluent Collaborative/Might Be Good… 2011

Interview: PLAND, Fluent Collaborative/Might Be Good… 2011

Oh and One More Thing… Interview with Judy Nyquist, Glasstire 2010

Interview with Terrell James by Sasha Dela, Glasstire, December 2008

DiverseWorks 25th Anniversary Publication, Curatorial Statement/Essay by Sasha Dela 2007

Sundown Salon / Fritz Haeg November 2004, Essay by Sasha Dela and Charles Beronio

Artist Residencies:

Noheagan Artist Residency

June 2011

Core Program Fellowship: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

September 2005 – June 2007

Central Track, Dallas, TX

August- September 2008

Lucid Art Foundation of Northern California: Collaboration with writer Solidad DeCosta

January 2005

Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico

May – August 2003

Artist Talks / Visiting Artist:

March 2010 Collective Activity, Panel Discussion, Cue Art Foundation, NY

September 2009 All About Free Schools, Contemporary Art Museum Houston

March 2009 Systems of Sustainability Symposium, Mitchell Center for the Arts, University of Houston, Panelist

May 2008 Blaffer Museum, University of Houston, Texas

March 2008, December 2007 Graduate Fine Arts, University of Texas, Austin

October 2007 University of Houston, Art Department, studio visits

March 2007 Slide Jam, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston

July 2007, October 2006 Glassell School of Art / University of Saint Thomas, Political Activism in Art class

March 2006 Glassell School of Art / University of Saint Thomas, Guest speaker in “Women in the Arts” class

November 2005 Rice University, Art Department

Curatorial Projects:

PROLOGUE SKYDIVE ART SPACE, Houston, TX

Febuary 2012

Kim Anno: Water Cities SKYDIVE Art Space, Houston, TX

June 2011

CHUNKS Sculpture in Painting SKYDIVE Art Space, Houston, TX

February 2011

An Exhibition of Proposals for a Socialist Colony, co-curated with Elysa Lozano, Benison Kilby and Nancy Zastudil SKYDIVE Art Space, Houston, TX

March – June 2010

Jon Brumit + Sarah Wagner OPEN HOUSE, SKYDIVE Art Space, Houston, TX

February 2009

Saturday Free School for the Arts, Houston, TX

January 2009- curent

Susan Chen, Solo Exhibition Butterflies Shift North, SKYDIVE Art Space, Houston, TX

January 2009

Co-founder and Co-director for SKYDIVE Art Space, Houston TX

July 2008- curent

25 Years of DiverseWorks History  DiverseWorks, Houston, TX

September 2007