Ricki Dwyer

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Ricki Dwyer
A First Witness Draws Into Being (constellation of 4)
2022
Cotton, linen, wool, madder root, wood, polyurethane, nails, steel, concrete, nuts, bolts
Ricki Dwyer
Roots and Webs and Nets and Branches and Bulletin Boards and Banners and Newsletters and Mutual Aid Text Threads and Kin and Caretakers and Porches and Poems of Today and Spaces of Survival (with Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo)
2022
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Education 


2019 

University of California, Berkeley, MFA Art Practice. Berkeley, CA 


2011 

Savannah College of Art and Design, BFA Fibers. Savannah, GA 



Selected Solo Exhibitions


2022 

Brass Tacks. Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA 


2020 

Roll Up Project, Oakland, CA 

The Way Nets Cannot Hold Water. Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA 


2019 

Soft/Wet. Recology, San Francisco, CA


2018 

Lifespan of an Edge. Oros Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

(collaborative work with Leena Joshi, Jessica Robbins, and Nicki Green) 


2017 

Bodies in the Kitchen. Nook Gallery, Oakland, CA 

Printed Ghosts. Open Windows Cooperative, San Francisco, CA 


2015 

Work. Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY


2014 

Woven Constructs. The White Page Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 



Selected Group Exhibitions 


2022 

Queer Threads. San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA 

Midas. Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 


2021 

Spirit & Flesh. / (SLASH), San Francisco, CA 

Reclaimed. Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 


2020 

Surfacing. Mono Practice, Baltimore, MD 

Typos + Spills. Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 


2019 

The Lands Beyond. Anglim Gilbert. San Francisco, CA
What Is Left Behind. Eleanor Harwood Gallery. San Francisco, CA
49th Annual MFA Exhibition. Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Out of Line. Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Laughter and Tears. Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA 


2018 

Endless Biennial. EFA Project Space, New York, NY
Reading Room: The Feminist Art of Self Help. Root Division, San Francisco, CA 

Highly Personal Deeply Social. Spaceworks, Brooklyn, NY
Thresh. Worth Ryder Arts Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Sustainability and Public Good. Cal State LA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 


2017 

Our Archive, a site of making for 27 artists, past & present. Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA

Double Dip. CTRL+SHFT Collective, Oakland, CA 


2016
Ghostship. Good Mother Gallery, Oakland, CA
Swale. Biome Arts, New York, NY
Cross-Pollination. Gustein Gallery, Savannah, GA
Present Ground. Hayes Valley Artworks, San Francisco, CA 

Corte Madera Centennial Exhibition. Corte Madera, CA 

Three Freaks. Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA 

Tim Kerr Made Me Do It. Hume Gallery, Chicago, IL 

Rail/Sail. Front Space Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Closing. Ladybug Gallery, San Francisco, CA 


2015 

Infrastructure. Jupiter Woods, London, UK 

Ikat. Pacific Textile Center, Fort Bragg, CA 

Scythia Textile Symposium. Ukraine 



Curatorial Projects 


2021 

MONOLITH. Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA 



Honors 


2021 

NEA Grant, for MONOLITH with Southern Exposure 


2019 

Eisner Prize 

Berkeley Graduate Student Instructor Award of Excellence 


2018 

Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award 

College Art Association select MFA representative 


2017 

Queer Cultural Center, Emerging Scholar Award 



Residencies 


2022 

Rupert, Lithuania (upcoming)
John Michael Kohler Art Center Artist in Residence

2021 

Facebook Artist In Residence


2020 

Art Practice Fellowship, UC Berkeley, CA

Curatorial Council, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

Cecilia Vicuna: Reading Room, The Wattis, San Francisco, CA


2019 

MFA Fellowship UC Berkeley, CA
ACRE, Steuben, WI

Recology Student Artist in Residence, San Francisco, CA


2017 

The Cabbage School, Sandy Mush, NC


 2016 

Andrea Zittel’s AZ West, Joshua Tree, CA
Standard Projects, Hortonville, WI
Front Space, Kansas City, MO
Black Mountain School, faculty. Black Mountain, NC


2015 

Jupiter Woods, London, UK
‘Sewing Seeds’. Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

2014 

White Page Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 


2013 

R&D, Beximco Industrial Textile Manufacturer. Dhaka, Bangladesh.



Teaching 


2021 

CUNY, York College, Art History: Caves to Cathedrals

2020 

California College of the Arts, Engineered Prints

2018 

UC Berkeley graduate student instructor, Intro to Visual Thinking 

2016-18 

Summer Printmaking Faculty, The Oxbow School, Napa, CA 

2016 

Weaving Faculty, Black Mountain School, Asheville, NC

2015 

Textile Arts Center: Weaving faculty. Brooklyn, NY 

Workshop instructor, Richmond Arts Center, Richmond, CA 

Weaving faculty, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY 



Publications and Press 


2021 

Cecilia Vicuna Is On Our Mind, The Wattis (upcoming) 2021 Maake Magazine: Issue 12, Curated by Elena Gross 2019 New Life Quarterly #5, EM Wolfman Books

2018 

Berkeley Poetry Review: Issue 48 (cover) 


2017 

Strangeways Magazine No. 6
Talking About 100 Days Action, pt 2. Art Practical’s Daily Serving. April
Text Means Tissue. Interview with Francesca Capone through Printed Matter SCAM Magazine: Issue #10, 25th Anniversary Edition. Interview with Erica Lyle 


2016 

Tim Kerr Made Me Do It. SFACC interview. Giant Loom. Young Space interview. September