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AWARDS 2023/2024
2023-2024 National Art Club Fellow
15 Gramercy Park, New York, NY
AWARDS 2022/2023
Pollack-Krasner Foundation Award Grantee 2022-23
Two Trees Cultural Space awardee 2023-25
MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS 2023
Institute and Museum of California Art at UC Irvine: Eye Witness
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Santa Clara University Dowd Art Gallery (2/10-4/19/24) "When We Move, A View of Technology Through a Black Lens"
EXHIBITIONS 2023
SpaceProgramSF, Minnesota St Project, SF (1/10-20/24) "We Are Stardust"
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (12/2/23 - 2/10/24) “Hidden Stories”
Saint Joseph's Arts Society, San Francisco, CA (10/6 - 12/15/23) "Tracking Im[mortality] // landscapes on safety"
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Surviving the Long Wars: Unlikely Entanglements
The Newberry, Chicago, IL Surviving the Long Wars: Residues and Rebellion
MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS 2022
De Young Museum, SF CA: Past Tense
Fairfield, CT Museum of Art: My Country Needs Me
Tufts University, Tisch Library: Disappearing Acts
EXHIBITIONS 2022
Jack Shianman Gallery, The School at Kinderhook NY (Dec 2021- April 2022) This Tender Fragile Thing
Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA (April - June 2022) Mapping the Sublime: Reframing Landscape in the 21st Century
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (July - September 2022) Solo Exhibition: The Devil Finds Work
SELECT PRESS/MEDIA 2022
BEST OF 2022 SQUARE CYLINDER
Exposing "The Devil's Work", by Maria Porges, SquareCylinder
RESIDENCIES 2022
Fountainhead Miami, FL
EXHIBITIONS 2021
NARS Season IV International Residency Exhibition, Brooklyn NY Utterances
Three Point Nine Art Collective SF Art Commission Main Gallery, San Francisco, CA Black Magic
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA When Nobody's Watching
Museum of Modern Art, Toronto, Canada Shift-Key: Black Magic
AWARDS 2021
San Francisco Arts Commission 2021 Grantee
Demil Art Fund 2021 Grantee
SELECT PRESS/MEDIA 2021
Stories That Don't Get Told: Rodney Ewing Interview with Cindy Shih
San Francisco Public Library Dialogue: Artist Spotlight/ Rodney Ewing.
SFCamera Works Rodney Ewing, Brooks Fletcher, and Adrian White in Conversation. Moderated by Elena Gross.
MFA-IA Sierra Nevada University Visiting Artist Lecture: Rodney Ewing.
RESIDENCIES 2021
NARS Foundation AIR: NY Art Residency and Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Veterans Residency Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
EXHIBITIONS 2020
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA Justice
Nancy Toomey Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA What Kind of Cool (Will They Think of Next) Tahiti Pehrson and Rodney Ewing
Villa SF, Re:Riddle Gallery, San Francisco, CA Hatch
Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco, CA Four Artists
Cathedral Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Rodney Ewing: Solo Exhibition Death+Legacy+The Census: Systemic+Visual
St. Joseph's Art Society, San Francisco Representations of our Shared Humanity
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Monster Draw Rally
Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV Rodney Ewing: Longitude and Latitude
SELECT PRESS/MEDIA 2020
Immersive Arts Alliance Art & Activism: An Online Discussion.
Museum of African Diaspora In the Artist's Studio: Rodney Ewing
Critical Resistance Imagine Freedom 2020-Artworks for Abolition, Artist Talks-Rodney Ewing with Demetri Broxton
SF Museum of the African Diaspora: In the Artist's Studio In The Artist’s Studio | Rodney Ewing
YBCA Exposing and Empowering Personal Agency
Headlands Sean Uyehara Interview with Rodney Ewing
YBCA 9 Questions with Rodney Ewing on the Census
RESIDENCIES 2020
The Space Program San Francisco, CA
EXHIBITIONS 2019
(solo show) Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA Longitude and Latitude
National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago IL Triennial
Greenlining Institute, Oakland, CA Trap, Trauma, Transformation
Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA Ancestral Journeys
Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, UT Visiting Artist Lecture Series
California College of Art, San Francisco, CA Grief and Haunting in America
SELECT PRESS/MEDIA 2019
Interview: Veterans Art Movement
Broke-Ass Stuart: Rodney Ewing: Artists You Should Know
SEE(D) Artist Series: Rodney Ewing
RESIDENCIES 2019
Project Space Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA
Museum of the African Diaspora San Francisco, CA
Bemis Omaha, Nebraska
EXHIBITIONS 2018
Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA re:home,
The Growlery, San Francisco, CA Space is a Place: A San Francisco Funk Lesson
California College of Art Hubbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA For Freedoms
Root Division, San Francisco, CA 140 Characters
Children's Museum of Arts, NY Art & Activism: Drawing the Line
Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA Silence Outloud: Contemporary African American Portraits
Jackson Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA Hom
(solo exhibit) Throckmorton Main Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Telling Stories
PASS7, Lisbon, Portugal One Less Too Many
PASS7, Lisbon, Portugal Build it_Here
Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art on Market Street/Sanctuary City: Unveiling
Private Commission, San Francisco, CA Days and Occasions: Moving Pictures
San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA Art on Market Street/Sanctuary City
Recology, San Francisco, CA Between Walls and Ceilings
Southern Exposure Featured Artist, San Francisco, CA UNTITLED, ART Art Fair
Root Division, San Francisco, CA Let Me Be A Witness
National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL Artifacts
MUSEUM ACQUISITION 2018: Harvard Art Museum My Country Needs Me
SELECT PRESS/MEDIA 2018
7x7 Bay Area, Art of Living: The Haight-Ashbury Home of Die-Hard Collectors
The Art Newspaper Sanctuary City
Recology News, SF Artist in Residence Exhibitions: Work by Rodney Ewing, Beth Krebs and Ciaran Freeman
Pre-Game Featured Artist: Rodney Ewing
RESIDENCIES 2018
Djerassi Resident Artists Program Woodside, CA
EXHIBITIONS 2017
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Days and Occasions: The Unexpected Griot
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA With Liberty and Justice for Some?
Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA 4Squared
San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Detritus
Katz Snyder Gallery, San Francisco Francisco, CA Vanishing Point: The 3.9 Art Collective Reflects on Black Communities in San Francisco
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA Veteran's Views: Art By Those Who Served
McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA 30th ANNUAL McNEESE NATIONAL WORKS ON PAPER EXHIBITION
Long Island University, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY Reconstruct
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Beyond Printmaking 5
SF Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA Sanctuary City: For Liberty and Justice for Some?
SF Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA Never Alone: Exploring the Bonds Between and With Members of the Armed Forces
Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza Community College, Cupertino, CA Justice for All?
Root Division, San Francisco, CA Call for Beauty
Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA/Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA With Liberty and Justice for Some?
RESIDENCIES 2017
Recology San Francisco, CA
Hangar Lisbon, Portugal
EXHIBITIONS 2016
SF Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA Never Alone
Nancy Toomey Gallery, San Francisco, CA Untethered - A History of Displacement
NJCU Visual Arts Center, Jersey City, NJ Reclaimed
Google 1 Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA Commission
SRO Galley, Brooklyn, NY Overlord,
Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Rodney Ewing: Selected Works
Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Between Worlds
Art Escapist Group, Montalvo Art Center 5 Hour Sculpture, A Pop Up Arts Festival,
stArtupFairs: Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA
ArtSlant Award Recipient: Under the Radar
YBCA, San Francisco, CA Take This Hammer: Art+Media Activism From the Bay Area
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA “Fact & Fiction” The Agility Projects
Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Between Worlds
SF Art Commission Award Recipient 2015-2016
Diablo Valley College Gallery, Pleasanton, CA Then & Now (Again)
SELECT PRESS/MEDIA 2016
NBC Bay Area, San Francisco Art Show Highlights Veterans, by Joe Rosato Jr.
Huffington Post 10/13/16. Expanding a Difficult Dialogue: San Francisco Artist Focuses on Issues Affecting the African American Community, by Amy Pleasant
Square Cylinder, Monica Lundy & Rodney Ewing @ Nancy Toomey, by Maria Porges
KQED Arts, Berkeley Art Center's Agility Projects Support Daring Reflections on Identity, by Sarah Hotchkiss
KQED Arts, Uprooted: Artists Respond to San Francisco’s Black Exodus, by Abhi Singh
Congratulations Pine Tree, 75 - Spider! (with Rodney Ewing) interview, by Kate Rhoades and Maysoun Wazwaz
SF State University, Visiting Artist Lectures Series: Rodney Ewing
EXHIBITIONS 2015
SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Community Voices: A Public Dialogue with Rodney Ewing
de Young Museum, San Francisco, California Artist in Residence
Yeelen Gallery, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL What's Inside Her Never Dies
Passport 2015, SF Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Voices, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
The Hazel Wolf Gallery at the David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA The Security Question
Thatcher Gallery, University of San Francisco, CA Hireath: the 3.9 Collective Examines Home
Alter Space, San Francisco, CA Obsidere
stArtupFair San Francisco, CA
Alternative Exposure Grantee, Southern Exposure gallery, San Francisco, CA
ArtSlant Prize 2015
RESIDENCIES 2015
de Young Museum San Francisco, CA
EXHIBITIONS 2014
The Drawing Center, New York, NY The Intuitionist Show
ProArts, Oakland, CA Ebb/Flow
SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA Place/Displaced
San Francisco, CA N/Q/C, ASC Projects
Root Division, San Francisco, CA Introductions 2014
Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Kalamazoo, MI Trace + Gestures
MicroClimate Collective, Alter Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA WabiSabi
Scope Art Fair: A Simple Collective, New York, NY
Artist In Residence, ASC Projects, San Francisco, CA
EXHIBITIONS 2013
Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, Al Pulp 3 (ire straits)
ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA Bay Area Currents: Navigating the New
ArtPadSF 2013, San Francisco, CA Collective Works: 3.9 Collective
ArtPadSF 2013, San Francisco, CA ArtSpan Selections
Greymatter Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Trace+Gestures
IcTus Gallery, San Francisco, CA Rituals of Water
Val Vorres Gallery, San Francisco, CA Fall Review
EXHIBITIONS 2012
Prints from the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA Full Spectrum
Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA Courage
SF Public Library Main Branch, San Francisco, CA AfroSolo RACE: Art Before Answers
African American Art and Cultural Complex, San Francisco, CA The Exodus, The Migration, The Stand
EXHIBITIONS 2011
3.9 Collective, San Francisco, CA Still Here
Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Keeping An Eye on Surveillance
EXHIBITIONS 2010
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Banned and Recovered,
EXHIBITIONS 2009
De Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA Tech Tools of the Trade: Contemporary New Media Art
Echo: Eight San Francisco Artists Respond to Surrealist Masterworks, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Frey Norris Gallery, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai Art Dubai, Dubai Art Fair,
College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA Doing the Work, Panel Discussion
EXHIBITIONS 2008
Mechanical Hall, University of Delaware, MD Discursive Acts: African American Art at UD and Beyond
African American Museum and Library, Oakland, CA Banned and Recovered: Artist Response to Censorship
LIMN Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Quorum SF group exhibition
(solo show) Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA Public Safety
EXHIBITIONS 2007
Frey Norris Gallery, Los Angles, CA Los Angeles Art Show
Project Space, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA Days and Occasions
Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA Code-Switching
Frey Norris Gallery, Washington DC Art DC
California College of Art, Oakland, CA Activating Communication and Community
EXHIBITIONS 2006
Art News, December Who's Afraid of San Francisco, by Lea Feinstein
Black Arts Quarterly, Spring/Summer Art Gallery, Stanford University
EDUCATION
1992 Master of Fine Art: Printmaking, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
1989 Bachelor of Fine Art: Printmaking, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA