Ali True (née Naschke-Messing)

Education

California College of Art – San Francisco, CA – MFA - 2007

Sarah Lawrence College – Bronxville, NY – BA, Liberal Arts – 2001

Columbia University – New York, NY – year of exchange – 1999 – 2000

University of Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain – 1996 – 1997

Solo Exhibitions

2017

The Song in Us

Radius Gallery, Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CA

2013

2x2 Solos

ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA

2010

Open (This is not a poem about a dream, though it could be)

Project Space Gallery, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

From Within, So Without

Sculpture on the Grounds, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

2007

A Treatise on We

Centennial Graduate Exhibition -  CCA, San Francisco, CA

2001

Cervanka

A*Space Gallery, Bronxville, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016

Lines that Tie – Curated by Deborah Valoma

Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA

Gold Rush – Curated by Christopher Sicat

De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA

2015

Voices

Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

Indigo Mind – Curated by Cara Levine and Arianne Gelardin

Storefront Lab, San Francisco, CA

Print Public

Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

Unexpected Projects

Artemis Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2014

PERFORMANCE  - Collaborative performance with Rashaun Mitchell and Stephen Merritt

RedCat Theatre, Los Angeles, CA (December 2014)

Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (January 2014)

Well, Being – A collaboration with Helena Meryman as Swell for“Print Public”

Kala Art Institute and UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design

2013

Thresholds of Faith: Four Entries into the Beyond – Curated by Tamara Lowenstein & Joyce Grimm

Manresa Gallery, St. Ignatious Cathedral, San Francisco, CA (four person show)

Ourobouros - Curated by Jenny Salomon & Katherine Krause

Root Division, San Francisco, CA

What happens when we start looking – Curated by Melissa Bent

Artadia, Brooklyn, NY (Three person show)

2012

Gravity – Curated by Mark Carter

Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica CA

Indexical Makers: 2012 Emerging Artists – Curated by Heather Murray & Federica Ewing.

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (Three person show).

2011

People are a Light to Love – Curated by Veronica De Jesus

Alley Cat, San Francisco CA

Sculpture on the Grounds:Traces, Trails, Twigs and Time

Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

The Elegance of Refusal – Curated by Jessica Silverman

Gensler, San Francisco, CA

2010

Shadowshop: An alternative vending project by Stephanie Syjuco

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Everyday Mystics – Curated by Kim Anno

Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Entanglements

College of Marin Fine Arts Gallery, Kentfield, CA

Depth of Surface

San Francisco State Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

By A Thread – Curated by Cathy Kimball

San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2009

This & That (Involved,Socially)

Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Shiny, Sparkley, Reflective Something-or-Others: Seeing Exhibit

The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA

Threads: National Queer Arts Festival

      Curated by Tirza Latimer, Rudy Lemcke, Matt McKinley, Pamela Peniston,

      Allison Smith, and Tina Takemoto.

SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Auction100

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

2008

New Langton Annual Art Auction

New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

Transparencies – Curated by Myra Block

      Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

The Prison Project

Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Small Things End, Great Things Endure

      New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

2007

By Way of Our Hands – Curated by Lauren Anderson

      Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA

Stretching the Threads

      Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL     

Media Arts Now – Juried by Irena Leimbacher, Anthony Discenza, and Sarah Robayo Sheridan

      Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA

2006

Gift: Artworks for Giving

301 Bocana Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Remnants

Cellspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA

What’s the Story

PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Made In: Juried CCA Textile Department Exhibition

North & South Galleries, Oakland, CA

Place.Space.Location

PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Works Around Process

PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005

Con.Text - Juried CCA Textile Department Exhibition:

North & South Galleries, Oakland, CA

Poem as Image: Poetry in Contemporary Visual Art

The Studio, Armonk, NY

Rapture: 23rd Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Show: curated by BWAC (Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition) in conjunction with the Parks and Recreation Department and City parks of New York City. Empire Ferry Fulton State Park & Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY

Publications

21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves, Darin Klein & Friends. Los Angeles, 2010

Colors and Colors #1. Curreri, Amanda & Scollon, Erik, eds. San Francisco, 2010.

Famous #11. Capricious Publishing. New York, 2009.

Which one of your hands. Self Published. San Francisco, 2007.

What’s The Story. Papson, Katina, ed. PLAySPACE Gallery. San Francisco, 2006

Curatorial Projects

2007 – Media Arts Now. Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA

2006 – Place. Space. Location.  PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Lectures and Classes

2013 – Guest Lecturer – “Craft Lab,” California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2013 – Guest Lecturer – “Fiber Sculpture/Advanced Fiber Sculpture,” College of Marin, CA

2011 – Guest Lecturer – “Fiber Sculpture/Advanced Fiber Sculpture,” College of Marin, CA

2011 – Co-instructor -  “Reappropriate this Space” – San Francisco Block Course, Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg, Sweden

2010 – Guest Lecturer – “Chromophobia” – California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

2010 – 2009 – Instructor – “Farm School” – Synergy School, Farm School, Healdsburg, CA

2009 – 2007 – Instructor - “Screenprinting for Textiles and Paper,” Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco

2009 – Guest Lecturer – “Thinking Textiles,” California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

2008 – Guest Lecturer – “Interdisciplinary Critique,” California College of the Arts, Oakland CA.

2007 – Guest Lecturer – “Fiber Sculpture,” College of Marin, Kentfield, CA

Residencies and Honors

2013 – 2 x 2 Solos Award Awardee – Pro Arts, Oakland, CA

2013 – Fleishacker Award Nominee, San Francisco, CA

2013 - 2011 – Headlands Center for the Arts, Affiliate Artist, Sausalito, CA

2011 – SECA Award Nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA

2010 – Irvine Fellow at Lucas Artist Residency, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

2009 – Belle Foundation for Cultural Development, San Jose, CA. Individual Grant.

2007 – (Current) Drawing Center Viewing Program Accepted Artist, NYC, NY

2006 – California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.  Graduate Teaching Assistantship.

2005 – Resident Artist at Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA.

2004 – Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA.  One month Work Scholarship.

2003 – John C. Cambell Folk School, Brasstown, NC.  Three month Work Scholarship.