SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Listening Chamber, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2022 The violet June of autumn, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019 Covered in Sky, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Waiting for the Barbarians, Right Window, San Francisco, CA
2014 From Here to Timbuktu, 555 California Street Plaza Gallery, SF, CA
2013 From India to the Planet Mars, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2012 Vacilando, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2007 Recent Work, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2006 Ricochet, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Weatherhead Series, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2003 Suspended Passage, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
1992 Paramour, Turn of the Century Fine Arts, Berkeley, CA
1991 Amy Trachtenberg, Show and Tell, San Francisco, CA



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

California Jewish Open, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

Exquisite Mummies, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Isabelle Sorrell

2023

Taboo, ICA SF LABA BAY AREA , San Francisco, CA

Paule Anglim Archive Room, 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA

Sobremesa, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2021

Break and Bleed, San José Museum of Art, San José, CA, curated by Rory Padeken

Open Field: Nine Artists Respond to the Ideals of Black Mountain College, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019
Fundamental Complications, Root Division, San Francisco CA, curated by Mel Prest

2018
Artists’ Annual, KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

2016
Acoustic Habitats/Graphic Scores, Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA
Dumbball: David Ireland and His Circle, Anglim Gilbert Gallery
The Sound of Blue, 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA Curated by Rebecca Goldfarb
Welcome to the Left Coast, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA Curated by Andres Guerrero and Matt Gonzalez

2015
Found/Made, San José Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San José, CA Curated by Roderick Kiracofe
Possibilities of Paper: Select Work by Lucas Artists Fellows (2005-2015), Project Space Gallery at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

2014
The Possible/ Minimum Dwelling: Making and Unmaking the Body, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA, curated by Lawrence Rinder and David Wilson.

2012-13
Local Color, San José Museum of Art, San José, CA, curated by Rory Padeken
Making Place Public, Sculpture on the Grounds,Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
Unruly, BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA curated by Lucinda Barnes

2011
Factor XX, Los Gatos Museum of Art, Los Gatos, CA Curated by Jenny Balisle

2010
Tomorrow’s Legacies, Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
Gesture, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2009
Art on Market Street, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2008
Group Show, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2007
In the Fullness of Time,Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Artists,Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2006
Black & White,Holland Tunnel Art, Brooklyn, NY

2004
Poetry and its Arts: Bay Area Interactions 1954-2004,California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA

2002
No War Show,Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Adriane Colburn, Laurie Lazer and Darrel Smith

1999
Bodies Changed; The Natural History of Market Street,San Francisco Art Commission Art in Transit at the Millennium, San Francisco, CA

1998
Towards the Millennium, New Painting from Northern California, Monterey Museum
Three person show Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Laurie Lazer and Darrel Smith
Body of Memory,Downtown Artists Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1997
Anti-Pesszimizmus,Gallery Jozsef Nador, Budapest, Hungary

1993
Group Show,Show N Tell, San Francisco, CA

1992
Telling Stories/Artists Books,Mills College, Oakland, CA
New Work, Show N Tell, San Francisco, CA

1983
Tendances de la Peinture Abstraite,Paris, Grenoble,Montpellier, Toulouse, France; curated by Gerard Xurigeura


PUBLIC WORK: PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS & COMMISSIONS

2021 Verdigris Façade Jung Institute of San Francisco with Trachtenberg Architects

2019 Ecstatic Voyaging BART Station, Milpitas, CA Commissioned by VTA and BART opening in Dec. 2019

2016 Sun Sea Counterpoint2016 Commissioned by Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

2013 Clearing Ashland Youth Center, San Leandro, CA Alameda County Arts Commission with architect Mallory Cusenbery

2012 Counterpoint : Creekside Studio Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA with landscape architect Jeffrey Miller
Sleeping BeautyII Neiman Marcus, Walnut Creek, CA

2010 4 Songs of Motion UCLA Olive View Mental Health Center, Los Angeles County Civic Art
2006 Groundwork Hillview Library San José Public Art Program, San José, CA

2002 The Atrium Project Children's Hospital Oakland Outpatient Clinic, Oakland, CA

1999 Bodies Changed; The Natural History of Market Street, San Francisco Art Commission Art in Transit at the Millennium, San Francisco, CA


SELECTED PUBLIC and PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Achenbach Collection, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, CA
Addis Group, Berkeley, CA
Alameda County Public Art Collection
Allergan Corp. Irvine, CA
BART / Bay Area Rapid Transit
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Children's Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA
Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Crowell & Moring LLP San Francisco, CA
De Menil Collection, New York, NY and Paris, France
Goods Inc., Heidelberg, Germany
Haitian Embassy, Paris, France
Howe-Lewis International, Palo Alto, CA
Long Meadow Ranch and Winery, Saint Helena, CA
Los Angeles County Civic Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA
​Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
Neiman Marcus Group, Dallas, TX
Philip Glass, New York, NY

Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, CA
City of San Francisco Civic Art Collection, San Francisco, CA
San José Museum of Art, San José, CA
City of San José, San José, CA
Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Valley Transit Authority, Santa Clara, CA

GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

LABA Fellowship/Laboratory for Jewish Culture

Cultural Equity Individual Artists Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission, SF, CA
Montalvo Arts Center, Lucas Arts Residency, Saratoga, CA

InCahoots Printmaking Residency, Petaluma, CA

Third Intl. Symposium of Contemporary Art, Angouleme, France
2008 Year in Review Award, Public Art Network, Americans for the Arts, New York, NY
Opera America, New York
AiA Award of Honor, Santa Clara Valley, CA
AiA East Bay Design Award. REACH Ashland Youth Center, Alameda County, CA
California Arts Council, CA
KALA Arts Center, Berkeley, CA
Marin County Arts Guild, Marin, CA
Mesa Refuge Residency, Point Reyes, CA
The Nichols Foundation, New York
Opera America, New York
Peter S. Reed Foundation, New York
Prix Albert Rocheron, Paris, France
Salon des Jeunes Artistes Francais, Paris, France


LITERARY PUBLICATIONS / POET COLLABORATIONS

Civil Bound  Myung Mi Kim Omnidawn Press

Dear Reader Robin Tremblay McGaw
Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prized Inside Norma Cole Omnidawn Press
The Encyclopedia Vol. 2 F-K edited by Tisa Bryant, Miranda Mellis, and Kate Schatz, Image and text
New Goose, Poems by Lorine Niedecker
Harvard Review 33 Harvard University edited by Christina Thompson, Image and text
Viz. Inter-Arts: Event, A Trans- Genre Anthology edited by Roxanne Power Hamilton, Image and text
Zzyzzyva 10th anniversary We Address with poet, Norma Cole , Image and text
Mirage edited by Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy
Aerial 8 / on Barrett Watten, Cover
Five Fingers Review, SKIN edited by Patricia Dienstfrey, Natural History of Market Street, Image and text
VOLT edited by Gillian Conoley, Image and text
Markzine Deb Marks image text The Games with poet, Carla Harryman , Image and text
Chain image text The Games with poet, Carla Harryman , Images
avec edited by Norma Cole, image text with poet, Carla Harryman
River of Fire, Crisis in the Commons, Chapter with image and text The Pumping Station

SELECTED DESIGN: THEATER / OPERA / DANCE

2018
ECHO/riding the rapids Sara Shelton Mann, choreographer Dock’11, Berlin, Germany and ODC, San Francisco

2007
Sub Rosa Artifact, Graphic score commission performed by Rovaté ODC , San Francisco, CA

2004
Very Rainy Night & Lexington Avenue, two plays by Frank O'Hara, directed by Mac McGinnes Poet’s Theater, Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, CA Pamela Z Voci ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA

2003
Performing Objects Stationed in the SubWorld, by Carla Harryman, directed by Jim Cave The LAB, San Francisco, CA

2000
A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil, opera by Erling Wold/Max Ernst, directed by Jim Cave, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA, produced by Opera America and Paul Dresher Ensemble

1997
The Butterfly by Bijan Mofid, directed and translated from Farsi by Zara Houshmand with Darvag Iranian Theater Company, San Francisco, CA

1995
Goya's L.A., by Leslie Scalapino, directed by Carla Harryman, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil, opera premiere by Erling Wold/Max Ernst,directed by Jim Cave, The Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA,
ODC Dance Company, choreography by KT Nelson, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

1992
Thicket, by Susan Griffin, directed by Mary Forcade, Life on the Water and Climate Theater, SF, CA

1991
Hunger, by Peter Mattei, directed by Mary Forcade, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA
The Magic Flute, by Mozart, Spreckels Performing Arts Theater, Rohnert Park, CA

1990
Gianni Schicchi, Puccini, directed by Marvin Klebe, Cinnabar Theatre, Petaluma, CA
Bluebeard's Castle, Bartok, directed by Marvin Klebe, Cinnabar Theatre, Petaluma, CA
Emperor of Atlantis, opera by Victor Ullman, originated in Terezin Concentration Camp, directed by Ann Woodhead, Cinnabar Opera Theatre, Petaluma, CA

1978
Summer Festival of Opera & Contemporary Music, Chartres, Dijon, Vezelay, France

SELECTED TEACHING / EVENTS/ TALKS

2019

Youth Artist Mentorship Program at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

Interdisciplinary Symposium at California Institute of Integral Studies San Francisco, CA with Pireeni Sundaralingam

2016

Sound of Blue at 500 Capp St, San Francisco, CA

2015

SFAI : In Conversation with Connie Lewallen and Gay Outlaw on David Ireland’s 500 Capp Street, SF “Groundwork: By Any Means Necessary” : Crocker Art Museum/ Kingsley Crocker Lecture

2010

Americans for the Arts: Curriculum Talks

2008

SOTA School of the Arts, San Francisco, CA visiting artist
Provoking the Ripple Effect: with artists Susan Schwartzenberg American Evolution: Arts in the New Civic Life, Americans for the Arts ,Philadelphia, PA
Coexistence Through Art with Youssef Ismail PanelIslamic Networks Group and Jewish Community Relations Council of Silicon Valley at Jewish Community Center of Silicon Valley, Los Gatos, CA
Found in Translation on Paros non-site collective with artist Elliot Anderson, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Public Histories: Susan Schwartzenberg, Barbara Goldstein, Amy Trachtenberg City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA
The Right to the City: Public Space as Commons Panel with Chris Carlsson, Christopher Ratcliff, Carmen Rojas Crisis of the California Commons Conference, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA

2005

Hellenic International Studies in the Arts: Mass College of Art, Paros, Greece Drawing, Painting and Art Theory teaching semester

1998-2005

VALA /Visual Arts Literary Arts: Teaching and arts curriculum development Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond Public Schools:

1993

I.O.U. Poet's Theater with Carla Harryman, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024

Tracy, Marc The New York Times June 6 San Francisco Jewish Museum Has a Blank Space for Dissenting Artists

Robinson, Megan D. Art and Object June 26 Artists Manifest Connection at the Contemporary Jewish Museum

Hotchkiss, Sarah, KQED June 7 At CJM, Jewish Artists Explore 'Connection' During a Time of Division

LoRocco, Claudia Small Press Traffic, The Back Room Leading and Following, Amy Trachtenberg and Jeffrey Miller in Conversation

Angel, Arielle On the Nose: Jewish Currents Podcast May 2 Controversy at Contemporary Jewish Museum

2023

Wilson, Emily 48hills In 'Sobremesa,' a Chain of Artists Serves up China Dumplings, Doughy Ducks, Plum Branches

2021

Roth, David Square Cylinder Listening to Threads

2020

King, John San Francisco Chronicle BART's New Stations Have Grand Ambitions

2019

Porges, Maria Square Cylinder Amy Trachtenberg @ Luggage Store
Paull, Laura J Weekly Summer Has Landed in the Bay Area, Bringing New Art With It

2016

Roth, David Square Cylinder Dumbball at Anglim Gilbert Gallery
Roth, David Square Cylinder David Ireland Remembered at SFAI and Anglim Gilbert

2013

Roth, David Square Cylinder February 6 "Amy Trachtenberg at Brian Gross"
Curiel, Jonathan SF WEEKLY January 23 "Photo Negative: Two Exhibits Reconsider Historic Images"
Tremblay-McGaw, Robin X Poetics February 24 "From India to Planet Mars: Amy Trachtenberg"

2011

O'Malley, Susan, Factor XX catalogue, Los Gatos Museum of Art

2009

Solnit, Rebecca and Burger, Mary Groundwork, ORO Editions
Baker, Kenneth San Francisco Chronicle, September 15, “Amy Trachtenberg at Brian Gross”
Cheng, Dewitt Art Ltd. West Coast Art and Design, October “Amy Trachtenberg at Brian Gross”
Hamilton, Roxanne Power, ed., Viz. Inter-Arts: Event, Trans- Genre Anthology

2004

Baker, Kenneth San Francisco Chronicle, July 17 “Amy Trachtenberg at Brian Gross”

2000

Kosman, Joshua San Francisco Chronicle, March 14, “Fevered Dreams”

1998

Cseko, Kristina Budapest News, February, “Art From S.F. to Budapest”

1995

Chang, Ching San Francisco Bay Times, January 9, “Ernst Opera”
Harvey, Dennis San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 15, ”A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil”
Sizenski, Liz San Francisco Weekly, January 18, “Ecstasy's Revolution”
Kosman, Joshua San Francisco Chronicle, January 28, “Surrealist Ernst Novel Inspires Dreamy Opera”
Boone, Charles P – Form, Spring,“Max Ernst Opera,”

1991

Brady, Lee San Francisco Bay Guardian, October, “A Grim Fairy Tale”
Winn, Steven San Francisco Chronicle, October 31, “Playwright Puts It All Out on the Table”

1990

Bammer, Richard Courrier, January 19, ”Perrault, Ravel, Bartok”
Schiller, Karla Argus Courrier, February 2, “With Bartok Season Begins on Sublime Note” Bammer, Richard

1989

Reveaux, Tony Artweek, November 29, “Amy Trachtenberg at Show N Tell,”
Butterfields,“Art Against AIDS” catalogue
“Line and Form,” Hatley Martin Gallery, catalogue by Robert F. Johnson catalogue

1988

“National Invitational Collage Show,” Santa Rosa Jr. College Gallery, catalogue

1982

“Tendances de la Peinture Abstraite, European Invitational”; Paris, Grenoble,Sens, Montpellier, Toulouse, France; catalogue by Gerard Xuriguera catalogue