Bean Gilsdorf Abridged CV email: bean (at) beangilsdorf.com
Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MFA, California College of the Arts, 2011.
Selected One-person Exhibitions:
2012 Americana: Puerto Rico, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
2011 The Last Charge, Mission Comics & Art, San Francisco, CA
2009 Assembly, line, image, system, Miller Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
Like Magic, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2007 Bean Gilsdorf, The Art Gallery, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR
2006 Bean Gilsdorf & Dan Gilsdorf, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
A Change of Scenery (with Dan Gilsdorf), Portland Modern, Portland, OR
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2012 Art Scan Fair Meditation (performance), ArtPadSF art fair, San Francisco, CA
Tell the Truth and Run, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Past Future Now, Oddball Film + Video, San Francisco, CA
Shifter, Alter Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sphere of Influence, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2011 22nd Annual Exhibition, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Tarnów: 1000 years of modernity, BWA-Galeria Miejska, Tarnow, Poland
(Odds Are) 13:1, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Hammarby!, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Materiality, LaVerne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2010 To Live and Draw In L.A., Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Dreams That Money Can Buy, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco,
CA
Soft, Future Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Fiber Art From East and West, Wuhan Textile University Library Gallery, Wuhan, China
2009 …At last, Ken Jones Jr. Fine Art, Easton, PA
Quilt National ’09, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
2008 Transformations ‘08, National Exhibition Center, Birmingham, England
Transformations ’08, Alberton City Hall, Gauteng, South Africa
2007 Character, Tilt Gallery, Portland, OR
Craft Biennial, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
2006 Transformations ‘06, National Exhibition Center, Birmingham, England
Quilt National ’05, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA
Needle Culture, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
2005 Extra/ordinary, The Cube Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Quilt National '03, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA
Visions, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
2004 ANA 33, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
Le Arti Tessili Valcellina Award, Arti Tessili Centro Attivita Culturali, Maniago, Italy
Selected Bibliography:
2012 Jacquelyn Gleisner, "HELP!," Art21.org, April 12, 2012
2011 Danielle Sommer, "The Last Charge: Bean Gilsdorf at Mission Comics and Art,"
KQED.org, February 15, 2011
2009 Chas Bowie, "Donal Mosher at Disjecta and Bean Gilsdorf at Linfield College," The
Oregonian, October 2, 2009
Steve Brisendine, "Cool Quilts for a Warm Day: Bean Gilsdorf at Sherry Leedy
Contemporary Art,” Review (online), May 31, 2009
Chris Packham, "From Portland to Huehuetenango," Kansas City Pitch (online), May 20, 2009
2008 Lisa Radon "Bean Gilsdorf: Critiquing Cultural Icons," Surface Design Journal, Fall 2008
Drusilla Cole, Textiles Now, Laurence King Publishers, London, UK
2007 Leesa Hubbell, “Intimate Apparel (What’s a Merkin?),”Fiberarts Magazine, Vol. 34, no.
3, November/December 2007
Garrison Frost, review “Bean Gilsdorf & Dan Gilsdorf at Angel’s Gate,” The Aesthetic (online),
January 18, 2007
Michael Burnett, “Interview with Bean Gilsdorf,” ANP Quarterly, no. 6, January 2007
2006 Janine Jablonsky, “Around/About,” Point.flux.broadcast (online), August 31, 2006
“Crazy Quilts,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 5, 2006
2005 Richard Speer, “The Best of 2005,” Willamette Week, Vol. 32, no. 8, December 28,
2005
TJ Norris, “Pull Up to the Bumper,” Oregonlive.com, October 29, 2005
Ricard Speer, “Fresh Affairs,” Willamette Week, Vol. 31, no. 48, October 5, 2005
Julie Bernard, “Art Focus Interview with Bean Gilsdorf,” KBOO Radio 90.7FM (Portland,
OR) February 17, 2005
Residencies:
2012 Artist in Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2011-2012 Graduate Fellowship Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Selected Visiting Artist Lectures:
2012 Lecture to Art and Politics Undergraduates, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2011 Craft Forward Symposium, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010 Lecture to Textiles Undergraduates, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008 Lecture to Multimedia Undergraduates, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2007 Exhibiting Artist Lecture, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR
2005 Lecture for ArtBeat, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
2004 Lecture to Textiles Undergraduates, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2003 Exhibiting Artist Lecture, Lane Community College Gallery, Lane Community College,
Eugene, OR
Selected Grants & Awards:
2011 Dennis Leon and Christin Nelson Award, California College of the Arts, San Francisco,
CA
2009 Graduate Full Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006 Equipment Access Grant, NW Film Center of the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2004 Puffin Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, Puffin Foundation, Ltd., Teaneck, NJ
2003 Cathy Rasmussen Emerging Artist Memorial Award, Quilt National '03, Athens, OH
Writing by the Artist:
Regular Contributor to Fiberarts Magazine (2007-2011), Daily Serving (ongoing), Art Practical (ongoing), and Textile: the Journal of Cloth and Culture (ongoing).