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ArtSlant Profile
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Sandow Birk
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 Sandow Birk,
"The Liberation of Baghdad",
2007, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 92" x 120"
© Sandow Birk Sandow Birk,
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Presenting his Plan for the Invasion of Iraq,
2007, acrylic and oil on canvas
© Courtesy of the Artist and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego-Downtown Sandow Birk, Homecoming GI,
2008, oil on canvas
© Sandow Birk Sandow Birk, American Qur´an/Sura 97-98-99,
2008, Gouache and ink on paper, 19 x 27 inches
© Catharine Clark Gallery Sandow Birk, American Qur´an/Sura 44 ,
2003, Ink, acrylic, and gouache on paper, 16 x 49 inches
© Catharine Clark Gallery Sandow Birk, American Qur'an: Sura 92/93,
2009, ink, acrylic and gouache on paper, 16" x 24"
© Courtesy of the Artist and Koplin Del Rio Gallery
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> QUICK FACTS
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BIRTHPLACE:
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Detroit, Michigan
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SCHOOLS:
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Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, 1989, BFA
Bath Academy of Art, England, 1985
American College in Paris, France, 1984
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REPRESENTING GALLERIES:
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Los Angeles; Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; PPOW Gallery, New York, Koplin Del Rio Gallery
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TAGS:
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mixed-media, landscape, video-art, painting, drawing, graffiti/street-art, conceptual, sculpture
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> EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Current Exhibitions and Events
Past Exhibitions and Events
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Sep, 2009
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Sandow Birk: American Qur’an
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Koplin Del Rio Gallery
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Sep, 2009
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American Qur'an
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Catharine Clark Gallery
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May, 2009
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Memory of the L.A. Billboard: Telepolis in the Archetype
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Koplin Del Rio Gallery
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Apr, 2009
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SANDOW BIRK
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Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego-Downtown
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Mar, 2009
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Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present
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California Historical Society
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Mar, 2009
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ISLANDS + GHETTOS
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Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien
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Feb, 2009
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Grand Central Art Center 10th Anniversary Exhibition
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Cal State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center
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Jan, 2009
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Art and Activism in the Twentieth Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection
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Pomona College Museum of Art
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Sep, 2008
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Art of Democracy: War and Empire
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Meridian Gallery
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Aug, 2008
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sk8tology
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ISM: gallery at the Koos Art Center, 540 East Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90802
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Aug, 2008
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Banned & Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship
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San Francisco Center for the Book
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Jul, 2008
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Looky See
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Ben Maltz Gallery
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Jul, 2008
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Cummings, Birk, Diaz Hope, HalfLifers at Catherine Clark Gallery
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Catharine Clark Gallery
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May, 2008
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SPRING FORWARD Art Auction
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InterContinental San Francisco
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Apr, 2007
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THE S-WORD: The State of ‘Spirituality’ In Contemporary Art
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Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Art Chapel
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> EXHIBITED WITH THESE ARTISTS
> EXHIBITED AT THESE VENUES
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