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Sasha Fishman lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
2022-24 MFA Sculpture, Columbia University, New York, NY
2014-18 BFA Studio Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2024
Smack Mellon Artist In Residence, New York, NY
The Puffins Foundation, Grantee
ACRE Residency, Artist in Residence, Steuben Wisconsin
Art Ichol Ceramics Residency, Maihar, Madhya Pradesh, India
2023
Nature Art Habitat Residency Alt Fellow, Taleggio Valley, Italy
Deans Project Grant, Columbia University School of the Arts
Mycelium Innovation Grant Recipient, Experiment
2022
Scholastic Art + Writing Awards 2022 Alumni Microgrant
High Desert Observatory Residency, Joshua Tree, CA
Celsius: Ocean Synthetic Biology Entrepreneur in Residence, San Pedro, CA
2021
Baltimore Jewelry Center, Self-Directed Residency, Baltimore, MD
2020
California Institute of Technology, Thomas Lauritsen Summer Research Fellow, Pasadena, California
Baltimore Jewelry Center, Scholarship Recipient, Baltimore, MD
2019
Rema Hort Mann, Emerging Artist Grant 2020 Nominee, Los Angeles, CA
Oxbow School of Art, Workshop Scholarship Recipient, Saugatuck, MI
Spira, Artist in Residence, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Urban Glass, Workshop Scholarship Recipient, New York, NY
New York Arts Practicum, New York, NY
Dallas Museum of Art, Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Grant Recipient, Dallas, TX
Anderson Ranch, Workshop Scholarship Recipient, Aspen, CO
The University of Texas at Austin, Irving & Jeannette Goodfriend Presidential Scholarship in Art
The University of Texas at Austin, Jack Risley Endowed Scholarship
The University of Texas at Austin, Steve Grosskopf Endowed Scholarship in Studio Art
The University of Texas at Austin, Undergraduate Research Fellowship
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
(forthcoming) Pairidaēza, Westbeth Galllery, curated by Celeste del Valle, New York, NY
(forthcoming) Even In Arcadia There I Am, Hesse Flatow, curated by Andrew Gardner, New York, NY
2024
Comfort Zones, New Uncanny, New York, NY
Resurrectura, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA
Meridian, Below Grand, New York, NY
St. Moritz Art Film Festival, Switzerland
Garden Magic, Curated by Kendall DeBoer + Maya Rubio, OVERLAP, Newport, Rhode Island
Gone Fishin’, ILY2, Portland, OR
Currents, Columbia MFA Summer Show, SK Gallery, New York NY
Entanglements, Putty’s Coronation, New York, NY
There She Lay, curated by Claire Felonis, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition 2024, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY
Leaps of Conciousness, ZAZ Times Square, New York, NY
Common Ground, Indian Ceramics Triennale, Artshilla, New Delhi, India
Skeleton Pants, Soloway, New York, NY
2023
2022
SELECTED TALKS, PRESENTATIONS + WORKSHOPS
2024
Bug Materials, Carnegie Mellon University, November 21, 2024
Seaweed Bioplastics Workshop, Reti Barge, organized by Embodied Earth, October 12, 2024
2023
2021
TEXT
New Uncanny’s Haunting Reveries, Impulse Magazine, Xeuzhu Jenny Wang
Sasha Fishman ‘24 Debuts ‘Resurrectura’ at Murmurs, Columbia University School of the Arts
Student Sasha Fishman Bridges Arts and Science with Bioplastics, Columbia University School of the Arts, Madalina Teles Bortes
2022-24 MFA Sculpture, Columbia University, New York, NY
2014-18 BFA Studio Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
2024
Smack Mellon Artist In Residence, New York, NY
The Puffins Foundation, Grantee
ACRE Residency, Artist in Residence, Steuben Wisconsin
Art Ichol Ceramics Residency, Maihar, Madhya Pradesh, India
2023
Nature Art Habitat Residency Alt Fellow, Taleggio Valley, Italy
Deans Project Grant, Columbia University School of the Arts
Mycelium Innovation Grant Recipient, Experiment
2022
Scholastic Art + Writing Awards 2022 Alumni Microgrant
High Desert Observatory Residency, Joshua Tree, CA
Celsius: Ocean Synthetic Biology Entrepreneur in Residence, San Pedro, CA
2021
Baltimore Jewelry Center, Self-Directed Residency, Baltimore, MD
2020
California Institute of Technology, Thomas Lauritsen Summer Research Fellow, Pasadena, California
Baltimore Jewelry Center, Scholarship Recipient, Baltimore, MD
2019
Rema Hort Mann, Emerging Artist Grant 2020 Nominee, Los Angeles, CA
Oxbow School of Art, Workshop Scholarship Recipient, Saugatuck, MI
Spira, Artist in Residence, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Urban Glass, Workshop Scholarship Recipient, New York, NY
New York Arts Practicum, New York, NY
Dallas Museum of Art, Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Grant Recipient, Dallas, TX
Anderson Ranch, Workshop Scholarship Recipient, Aspen, CO
The University of Texas at Austin, Irving & Jeannette Goodfriend Presidential Scholarship in Art
The University of Texas at Austin, Jack Risley Endowed Scholarship
The University of Texas at Austin, Steve Grosskopf Endowed Scholarship in Studio Art
The University of Texas at Austin, Undergraduate Research Fellowship
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
(forthcoming) Pairidaēza, Westbeth Galllery, curated by Celeste del Valle, New York, NY
(forthcoming) Even In Arcadia There I Am, Hesse Flatow, curated by Andrew Gardner, New York, NY
2024
Comfort Zones, New Uncanny, New York, NY
Resurrectura, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA
Meridian, Below Grand, New York, NY
St. Moritz Art Film Festival, Switzerland
Garden Magic, Curated by Kendall DeBoer + Maya Rubio, OVERLAP, Newport, Rhode Island
Gone Fishin’, ILY2, Portland, OR
Currents, Columbia MFA Summer Show, SK Gallery, New York NY
Entanglements, Putty’s Coronation, New York, NY
There She Lay, curated by Claire Felonis, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition 2024, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY
Leaps of Conciousness, ZAZ Times Square, New York, NY
Common Ground, Indian Ceramics Triennale, Artshilla, New Delhi, India
Skeleton Pants, Soloway, New York, NY
2023
Implosion Paradigm Incoming, Below Grand, New York, NY
in media res, Le Blanc, New York, NY
Kayfabe, curated by BBQLA at Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
IN RESPONSE: The Sassoons, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Press Release (Cycle III), Storage Gallery, New York, NY
Class of 2024 First-Year MFA Exhibition, Wallach Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
2022
Hypersaline, Bozomag, Los Angeles, CA
Rough Cuts, curated by Material Girls, Mass Gallery, Austin, TX
The Atavistic Homeschooling of Espalier, Below Grand, New York, NY
A Body is a Home, Hark LA, Los Angeles, CA
Augurhythms, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
Symbiosis: Sculpting the Art of Living Together, Organized by Culture Hub LA, Navel, Los Angeles, CA
Cotyledon, Cotyledon Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Plantasia, Petty Cash, New York, NY
Live, Laugh, Love, Below Grand, New York, NY
Nature vs Nurture, Brea Gallery, Orange County, CA2021
A Memory Which Acts, House Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Never Finished, collaboration with Emily Blythe Jones, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
The Space Between Your Nostrils, RESORT, Baltimore, MD2020
Unearthed, Ars Electronica ft SUPERCOLLIDER, Los Angeles, CA
Vitrines, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD
Ghost Art Projects, online
Technosphere, Spring/Break Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
Tailgate, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
A Message to Space, SUPERCOLLIDER, Los Angeles, CA2019
Hygiene & Other Surplus, Gallery Also, Los Angeles, CA
Velvet Ropes, Martha’s Contemporary, Austin, TX
Hop Scotch, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Big Ringer, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Oozy Rat In A Sanitary Zoo, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX2018
Holiday Open House, Resort Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Artstartart, East Austin Studio Tour, Austin, TX
Red Dot, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
Sketches, Shoes Off, Brooklyn, NY
Through The Closet, Tracy’s Room, Brooklyn, NY
Beast Manner Collective, West Austin Studio Tour, Austin, TX
Stickermom: Soft Scramble, UT Research Week, Austin, TX
Quickie, Dude Ranch, Austin, TX
The End, Fab Gallery, Austin, TX
It's Not What You Think, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Untitled, Visual Art Center, Austin, TX2017
Art Bash, Native Hostel, Austin, TX
Through Friction, Art & Vinyl, Austin, TX
Hello Girls! No Vacancy 3,New York, NY
Meta_"Real"_World, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
SELECTED TALKS, PRESENTATIONS + WORKSHOPS
2024
Bug Materials, Carnegie Mellon University, November 21, 2024
Seaweed Bioplastics Workshop, Reti Barge, organized by Embodied Earth, October 12, 2024
2023
Sasha Fishman’s Biomaterials, Ecopoetics NYC, October 27, 20232022
Sasha Fishman: Book Launch + Material Stretch Archive, Printed Matter, October 13, 2023
Liquid Eel, Columbia GSAPP Material Variance Conference, September 19, 2023
Mushroom Clay Workshop, Collaboration with Lera Niemackl, Columbia University, New York, NY, April 2, 2023
Timekeepers: Shrimpkeepers Bioplastic Extraction, Navel, Los Angeles, CA, July 9, 2022
Artist Talk: Sculpting Sustainable Futures, University of Colorado Boulder, January 24, 2022
2021
Artist Talk: Sculpting Sustainable Futures (collaboration with Emily Blythe Jones), Kenyon College, November 4, 2021
Artist Talk: Bio-Plastics: Sculptural Experimentation, Natural History Society of Maryland, July 22, 2021
Workshop: Timekeepers Community Cicada Collection + Bioplastic Extraction, The Shed Space, Baltimore, MD, July 9, 2021
Visiting Artist: Cycad Fossil Sculpture Workshop, Goucher College, June 21 + 23, 2021
Artist Talk (collaboration with Emily Blythe Jones), University of Denver, Denver, CO, March 5, 2021 Artist Talk, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, February 18, 20212020
Artist Talk, CSULB, Long Beach, CA, February 2, 2021
Workshop: How to Grow Your Own Dye Using Algae (collaboration with Spira) Genspace, New York, NY, January 9 + 21, 2021
Artist Talk (collaboration with Emily Blythe Jones),Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, November 2020
Presentation: Sculpting Marine Waste: Methods for Biomaterial Characterization for Home + Studio Labs, Fall Seminar Day, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, October 20, 2020
Presentation: Sculpting Sustainable Resin: Castable and Optically Clear Biocomposite from Chitosan and Hagfish Slime Fibers, Summer Seminar Day, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, July 7, 20202018
Artist Talk, Dallas Museum of Art, Dalls, Texas, May 5, 2018
TEXT
New Uncanny’s Haunting Reveries, Impulse Magazine, Xeuzhu Jenny Wang
Sasha Fishman ‘24 Debuts ‘Resurrectura’ at Murmurs, Columbia University School of the Arts
Student Sasha Fishman Bridges Arts and Science with Bioplastics, Columbia University School of the Arts, Madalina Teles Bortes
Sasha Fishman’s Implosion Paradigm Incoming, Qingyuan Deng, Brooklyn Rail
Sculpting Forms Through Biogenic Material Research, Slow + Sustain, Iss. 04
Spira’s Partner Feature: Sasha Fishman, Spira Inc
Announcing the 2022 Alumni Microgrant Recipients, Scholasatic Art + Writing Awards
Yanelab Podcast: Sasha Fishman – Biomaterials in Sculpture, February 16, 2022
Rupture and Regeneration: Sophia Belkin and Sasha Fishman in Resort’s Final Shows, Bmore Art, Rebekah Kirkman, July 6, 2021
Kirschner, Noelani, Sasha Fishman,The American Scholar, September 21, 2020
Mccain, Peter, “My Date with A Hagfish” Batshit Times, April 2020.
“Check out Sasha Fishman” Voyage LA, 3 Oct. 2019.
Max, Amy. “STUDIO VISIT – SASHA FISHMAN.” INERTIA, 7 Sept. 2019.
Belblidia, Nora. “Blurring the Boundary Between Art and Science – BmoreArt - Baltimore ContemporaryArt.” Bmoreart, 5 Sept. 2019.
Johnson, Brooke; Fishman, Sasha; Murchison, Seth; Wilson, Rachel; Rodriguez, Tin. “Oozy Rat In A Sanitary Zoo.” Limited edition risograph handbound books. Austin, Texas March, 2019.
Rachid, Jen. “Artist Spotlight :: Sasha Fishman.” Raw Paw, Jan. 2019.
Rees, Christina & Zech, Brandon, “Top Five: January 24, 2019”, Glasstire, Glasstire, 24 January 2019
“Artist Spotlight: Sasha Fishman.” ArtStartArt, 2018.
Jones, Ashley. “Awarded Anticipation: DMA 2018 Awards To Artists” Arts & Culture Texas, 18 June 2018.
“Dallas Museum of Art Announces 2018 Awards.” Glasstire, Glasstire, 4 May 2018.
“Sasha Fishman: Local Artist.” Venus, 14 Feb. 2017.
“Through Friction: Opening Reception.” Bbatx, 7 Dec. 2017.
“Sasha Fishman: Squiggle Garden.” Venus, 22 Dec. 2016.
“Photograms.” Venus, 22 Dec. 2016.
“How I Spent My Summer: Sasha Fishman.” The University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts, 2016.
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