Interview, September 2021, by Starr Sutherland: https://vimeo.com/596295997
Resume
Michael Acker
P.O. Box 1959, Boyes Hot Springs, CA 95416
541 357 2532
Biography
Born in New York City, raised in California and Oregon. Resides Sonoma County California.
Interview: https://vimeo.com/596295997 password: panoramic
Grants/Awards:
2022 Sheridan Prize, Honorable Mention, juror Edi Hsu
2022 Marin Society of Artists, Fresh Art 2022, Honorable Mention
2021 Working Artist Purchase Award
2019 Bay Area Masters, Peninsula Museum of Art, Third Place 2d
2019 Gallery Route One Annual Juried Show, M. Louise Stanley juror
Award of Merit
2014 Palo Alto Art Center Residency, finalist
2013 Creative Capital-On Our Radar
2012 Left Coast Annual Juror’s Exhibition Award, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA.
Michael Schwager, Juror
2011 Creative Capital, advanced to second round
2010 Pollok-Krasner Foundation grant
1992 California Works, Award of Merit
1994 SECA award semifinalist
1990 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant
Commissions/Competitions:.
2022-for Simon and Kimberly Blattner, Sonoma
2021-Sonoma Plaza History Project, 9 panel commission
2013 Aptos Blue public art, finalist, Watsonville, CA.
2010 “Water(ing) Logic(ally), Site-specific Garden Installation, Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA.
2001 Fountain, Creekside Court, Berkeley, CA.
2000 Fountain, Bayer Corp, Berkeley, CA.
Solo Shows:
January 2020 Sonoma Library
October 2019 FOG Gallery, San Francisco
2018 Resident Artist Show, Sonoma Community Center
2016Alley Gallery, Sonoma, CA.
2013 Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA.
2012 Sonoma community Center offices
Group Shows (selected)
2022 Marin Society of Artists, “Lush,” juried by Jen Tough Honorable Mention Award
2022 Two artist show Petaluma Arts Center, Carin Jacobs, curator
2021 Equinox, Three artists at Far Out Gallery, San Francisco
2021 Gallery Route One Annual Juried Show, curated by Donna Seager
2020 Fragments, Arch Gallery, San Francisco, curated by Jen Tough
2020 Rough Around the Edges, online, curated by Jen Tough
2019 Bay Area Masters, Peninsula Museum of Art, Award
2019 Gallery Route One Annual Juried Show, M. Louise Stanley juror
Award of Merit
2018 Ingenuity, sculpture/craft Marin Society of Artists
2017 Celebrate, Sonoma Arts Guild
2016 Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA.
2015 Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA.
2013IMBY Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa
2012 Petaluma Arts Center, Digital Mixed Media
Joe Doyle, curator
2012 Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA. Michael Shwager juror. Juror’s Award
2012 Made In California, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA.
Rebecca Morse, juror
2011 Arts On Fire XV, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA.
2011 Works on/of Paper, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto
2011 Gallery Route One Juried Show
2010 Mapworks, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA.
2009 Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Biennale
Frances McCormack, Juror
Publications
Sonoma’s Fading Images of Highway 12, Boom- A Journal of California. August, 2017
Collections:
King County Washington Portable Collection 2018
Simon Blattner 2016, 2022
Kaiser Permanente, 2009
Special Projects:
2022-Curated a photo history of the Sonoma Sommunity Center
2022-curated Picturing the Springs, a photo history, Depot Park Museum, Sonoma
2019 Juror, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art “Re-photography”
2018 Artist in Residence, Sonoma Community Center Fiber Arts Program
2017 Publication of Photo History of the Resorts of Sonoma Valley. Arcadia Publishing
2015 The Springs Museum of History, Art and Community-in progress
2010 Mural for the Sonoma Valley Grange
Education:
MFA, Sculpture, San Francisco State University
Online:
Instagram: @ackermichael6