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
