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Cheyenne Concepcion is a Filipino-American artist and designer whose work explores how architecture, politics, history and aesthetics shape place across a wide range of media including sculpture, design, social practice and public art. She creates craft-inspired sculptures, large-scale public installations and functional objects that confront hidden histories within the American landscape. By shining a light on the stories of the people and places that have been overlooked, Concepcion uses her work to engage ideas of cultural memory, migration and the built environment. She works between San Francisco and New York City.
Concepcion has received fellowships and residencies from Socrates Sculpture Park, Monument Lab, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Haystack School of Craft, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Goethe Institut . She has exhibited at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2024); MarinMOCA, Novato, CA (2024); Highline Nine Galleries, New York, NY (2023); Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA (2018); Code & Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2019); and Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York, NY (2019). A self-taught artist, Cheyenne completed a BA in Urban Studies and Planning from UC San Diego and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley where she was awarded a fullride GOP fellowship and the prestigious Excellence in Design Award.
FORTHCOMING
Haystack Mountain School of Craft: Open Studio Residency | Artist Residency
Open Studio Residency | June 2024
Deer Isle, Maine
MarinMOCA: ART FWD | Group Exhibition
Inagural Northern California Open Exhibition & Auction | July 13, 2024 - September 26, 2024
Novato, CA
Shaping Legacy: Monuments and Memorials San Francisco | Arts Consulting
Cultural Arts Consultant with team led by HR&A and in partnership with San Francisco Arts Commission. Funded by a grant through Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project | Fall 2024
San Francisco, California
Art in Makerpark | Group Exhibition
Public Art Residency & Group Exhibition | july 2024 - July 2025
Staten Island, NY
FORWARD7: Monuments & Memorials | Public Art Journal Guest Editor & Thought Leader
New Monuments Taskforce with FORECAST PUBLIC ART | Summer 2024
St Paul, Minnesota
To be Announced Creative Residency Spring/Summer 2025 | Artist Residency & Solo Exhibition
TBA in October 2024
Buffalo, New York
RECENTLY
CONSIDERING JANUARY | Group Exhibition
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY
Los Angeles, California
Exhibition Dates: January 20 – February 17, 2024
Reception: Saturday, January 20th from 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
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This ensemble exhibition is a jubilant celebration of the rich language of textile art. The twelve artists in this show maneuver fabric, fibers, and thread into objects and structures that rollick, swaddle, sag, and by any means necessary, call attention to the actuality of the material world. Whether woven, twisted, stitched, wrapped, or appliqued the works engender speculations on time, myth, and sensuality. They reframe, cancel, and blur historical implications of cloth with lavish physicality. The works’ audacious generosity of touch and gesture invite creative liberation as critical grist for the new year.
Considering January, with Cheyenne Concepcion, Michael F. Rohde, Emily Silver, Uma Rani Iyli, Richard-Jonathan Nelson, Julia Couzens, Lia Porto, Joy Ray, Svetlana Shigroff, Aubrey Longley-Cook, Jonathan Parker, Carmen Mardonez, Helen O’Leary, Liv Aanrud +
Select Awards & Fellowships & Residencies
• Open Studio Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, 2024
• Public Artist in Residence, MakerPark Staten Island, 2024
• Meantime AIR, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, 2023
• Artist in Residence, Quinn Emanuel New York, 2023
• Socrates Sculpture Park Annual Fellow, 2022
• Shaping the Past Fellow, Monument Lab + Goethe Institut , 2021
• Public Partiticipation Fellow, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2020
• Excellence in Design Award, UC Berkeley, 2019
• Inaugural Monument Lab National Fellow, 2019
• GOP Fellow, UC Berkeley, Full Ride Scholarship, 2016-19
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