Sandra Yagi

4 Paintings by Sandra Yagi for sale

Dancing with the Stars #7
Paintings, Oil on panel, 12x12, 2019
Sandra Yagi
$1200 USD
Flogging 1
Paintings, Oil on panel, 16 x 12, 2009
Sandra Yagi
$1700 USD
Anatomical Chimp with Skull
Paintings, Oil on panel, 16 x 12, 2011
Sandra Yagi
$1800 USD
Pegasus 2
Paintings, Oil on panel, 9.1 x 12, 2005
Sandra Yagi
$1100 USD

Sandra Yagi Biography

United States

Sandra Yagi was raised in suburban Denver Colorado, the oldest of a typical suburban middle class family. From an early age, she loved science, especially biology, and drawing.

Yagi’s parents instilled in her an ethics of getting a “useful” education because of their concern for monetary and domestic stability, a result of their internment with other Japanese Americans during WWII. Their definition of a “useful” education included fields such as business, engineering or science. Art and liberal arts were out of the question.

Yagi therefore put art aside, obtained a Masters in Business Administration and stepped into the corporate world, putting in 27 years at major financial institutions. However, due to the pent up need to create, she took up drawing and painting again at age 32 while still working in finance.

She relocated for her employer and moved to Los Angeles, and then San Francisco. The creative and eclectic climate in San Francisco is a catalyst for bringing about the current direction of her work. She left the corporate life behind for good in 2008 and became a full time artist. She now works out of her studio in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, where she painted his fantastic macabre works of art.

Sandra Yagi

Sandra Yagi exhibitions, studies, awards...

Education

  • Otis Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, California 1987-1988
  • M.B.A., University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, Colorado, 1985
  • B.S., cum laude, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, Colorado, 1979

Gallery Representation and Affiliations

  • Represented by Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL
  • Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Macabre Gallery London, UK
  • Bash Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2018 Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL May 2018
  • 2015 Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago IL May 2015
  • 2012 Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago IL
  • 2012 Bone Room, Berkeley, CA - Feb 2012
  • 2011 Primal Renderings, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2011 Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2009 Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2006 Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2004 "Opposing Forces", Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ.
  • 2003 "Saints and Sinners." Circle Elephant Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2003 Sanchez Art Center. Pacifica, CA
  • 2002 American River College Kaneko Gallery, Sacramento, CA
  • 2001 College of the Sequoias Art Gallery. Visalia, CA.
  • 1999 Chico Art Center
  • 1999 University Center Concourse Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  • 1999 Merced College Art Gallery, Merced, CA
  • 1998 Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada
  • 1998 Matrix Gallery and Workshop of Women Artists, Sacramento, CA
  • 1998 Ventura College Art Galleries, Ventura, CA

Selected GROUP Exhibitions

  • 2019 Hive Gallery, "Hive Tarot", Los Angeles, CA
  • 2018 Modern Eden, "Night Garden, San Francisco, CA
  • 2018 La Bodega Gallery, Tales from the Darkside, curated by David Van Gough, San Diego, CA
  • 2018 Nucleus Portland, Infinite Well, curated by WOWxWOW, Portland OR
  • 2018, Annual Portrait show, Modern Eden, San Francisco CA
  • 2017 Modern Eden, Familiar, San Francisco CA
  • 2017 Distinction Gallery, "And If Our Days Won't Last", Escondido, CA
  • 2017 Squared Alumni, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2017 beinArt Gallery, Melbourne, AU
  • 2017 Lovers Eye, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco CA
  • 2017 48 Pillars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2017 WowXWow, on line exhibit
  • 2016 Bash Fine Art, Dark Matters, Las Vegas, NV
  • 2016 Modern Eden, Hindsight, San Francisco, CA
  • 2016 Antler Gallery, Unnatural Histories V, Portland OR
  • 2016 FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2016 Destinesia, Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn NY
  • 2016 Dreams and Divinities, Atelier Gustave, Paris, France
  • 2016 The Known Universe, Root Division, San Francisco
  • 2016 beinart Gallery Inaugural Exhibit, Brunswick, AU
  • 2016 beinArt International Surreal Art Collective Group exhibition Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2015 Bash Contemporary, "Garden of Fernal Delights", San Francisco, CA
  • 2015 Modern Eden Gallery, "Storybook", San Francisco, CA
  • 2015, Luminarte Gallery, "Dreams and Divinities," Dallas, TX
  • 2015, Macabre Gallery, The Macabre Gallery Show, GalleryX, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2015, Bash Contemporary, Myth, Magic and Lore
  • 2014 Bash Contemporary, four person show
  • 2014 Endangered Visions, Manila Art 2014 Manila, Philippines
  • 2014 MEDinART at the Vesalius Continuum, Zakynthos, Greece, video presentation of art
  • 2014 "On Beauty", Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2014 Bash Contemporary at Silicon Valley Contemporary Art Fair
  • 2013 Bash Contemporary, 3 person group show, San Francisco, CA
  • 2013 beinArt International Surreal Art Collective Group exhibition, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2013 Bash Contemporary, Opening exhibition, San Francisco, CA
  • 2013 ArtPadSF Art Fair•
  • 2013 "Fiction," Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2013 Laluzapalooza - Annual Group Show, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2013 "The Art of Tarot," Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2013 "Venice," Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2012 "Anomalies", beinArt International Surreal Art Collective,Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2012 "Taboo" - beinArt International Surreal Art Collective, Last Rites Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2012 ArtPadSF Art Fair
  • 2012 Laluzapalooza - 26th Annual Group Show, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2012 Inaugural Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL
  • 2012 Life Live, ARC Gallery and Studios, San Francisco, CA
  • 2011 The New Surrealism, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2011 Genesis to Revelation, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2011 Spectacular Beasts, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2011 beinArt International Surreal Art Collective Group exhibition 'Dystopia,’ Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2010 Rapture of the Tiny - Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2010 FourSquared, ARC Studios and Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2010 Polyester Gallery, "The X Show," Omaha NE
  • 2009 Columbia College, "Dis/Believer: Intersections of Science and Religion in Contemporary Art" Chicago, IL
  • 2009 Hayward Gallery, London – "15 Seconds of Fame" video competition. 2nd runner up
  • 2007 JHS Gallery, "Who Do You Say that I am? " Taos, New Mexico
  • 2006 Dia de los Muertos, Oakland Museum of California
  • 2005 Brad Cooper Gallery, "New Talent", Tampa, FL
  • 2005 Group Exhibit, Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles
  • 2004 Bert Green Fine Art, Gallery Artists", Los Angeles, CA
  • 2002 Circle Elephant Art, "Gallery Artists" Los Angeles, CA
  • 2002 Circle Elephant Art, "Introductions", Los Angeles, CA
  • 2002 Center for Contemporary Art, "Digital Visions", Sacramento, CA
  • 2002 Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, Arts on Fire.
  • 2001 Circle Elephant Art, Six California Painters, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2001 Vorpal Gallery, Beaux & Eros, San Francisco, CA
  • 2001 Vorpal Gallery, 2001: An Art Odyssey. San Francisco, CA
  • 2001 Circle Elephant Art. Displaced Passion, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2000 10th Annual Statewide Exhibit, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
  • 2000 Bay Area Art III, Juried exhibition, Napa, CA
  • 1999 Catherine Clark Gallery, "Collector - Curator.", San Francisco, CA
  • 1998 "Face - Queer Expression through Self Portraits," Somar/ QCC, San Francisco, CA
  • 1998 Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon
  • 1998 "Toys in Contemporary Art," Juried exhibition, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
  • 1998 67th Annual Statewide Exhibit, Juried Exhibition, Santa Cruz Art League CA
  • Napa Valley College, "Every Picture Tells a Story", Napa, CA

Selected Reviews, Articles and PublicationsEl Cultural, Interview with Sandra Yagi

  • 2017 Sandra Yagi’s Strange Creatures, Skeletons Explore Our Nature by Andy Smith, Hi-Fructose
  • 2016 Bicycle Review #32, by the Pedestrian Press.
  • 2015 The Octopus Game, Nicky Beer, published by Carnegie Mellon. Cover Art
  • 2015 The Encyclopaediaof Fernal Affairs, Designed and Produced by Liba Waring Stambollion, Published by Dreams &Devinities
  • WOW x WOW - interview and artist profile
  • Dark Corner Books - "Sandra Yagi’s Beautiful and Macabre Illustrations"
  • SciArt in America blog: "Beauty in the Macabre: Science and Art in the works of Sandra Yagi"
  • 2013 Verdad literary magazine
  • 2013 Taringa, Sandra Yagi - Más allá de la zona de confort (Arte) LINK
  • 2013 Yay LA, Modern Eden Brings Fiction Alive, June 2013 LINK
  • 2012 Taringa on line art magazine (Argentina): LINK
  • 2012 Interview by Eclectix on-line art journal/gallery - Sandra Yagi, Eclectix Interview 36, 10/30/12
  • 2012 Bartleby Snopes "Post-Experimentalism" - cover illustraiton
  • 2012 Oakland Art Enthusiast, "Voyage Through a Hidden World at the Bone Room"
  • 2012 KQED Quest, "The Fact and Fiction of Fantastic Hybrids" by Danna Staaf
  • 2012 Sweet Station, Sandra Yagi, Feb. 2 2012
  • Jan. 24, 2012, "Pinturas sobre los peligros de la modificación genética" by Helena Celdran, 20 Minutos.es
  • Jan. 27, 2012, "Sandra Yagi : El lado salvaje del hombre", El Confidencial, diario de información en español El diario de los lectores influyentes
  • 2011 Creep Machine, ReviewL "Primal Renderings" by Sandra Yagi @ Modern Eden
  • 2011 Eclectix Arts, Sandra Yagi’s Opening at Modern Eden, November 2011
  • 2011 The 22 Magazine, October, 2011
  • 2011 San Francisco Chronicle, "The Watch-May 5", by Kimberly Chun
  • 2011 San Francisco Art Enthusiast, Interview with "Spectacular Beasts" artist, Sandra Yagi
  • 2011 ArtScene, "Clive Barker and Sandra Yagi," January
  • 2011 Mental Shoes, Issue 018, "Sandra Yagi: Paintings"
  • 2010 San Francisco Art News – Artist Profile – "Curiosity Dissected the Cat."
  • 2008 Democracy in China – Limited artists’ edition – Guns N’ Roses (pending release)
  • 2009 Mobius, the Journal of Social Change, http://mobiusmagazine.com/archives/20.4.html Winter 2009
  • 2006 Paul Rushca’s Full Moon, the Collection of Paul Ruscha, by Paul Ruscha
  • Art That Dares, Gay Jesus, Woman Christ and More. By Kittredge Cherry
  • 2009 Los Angeles City Beat; "Barbie and Other Montrosities – the Mattel Mythology of Sandra Yagi" by Ron Garmon
    Fresno Bee; "Artist Finds Joy Outside the Mainstream," by Mary Lou Aguirre
  • Artweek; "Displaced Passion: The Melodrama of Love, Loss & Transformation at Circle Elephant Art," by Shana Nys Dambrot
  • Artweek; "Collector-Curator at Catherine Clark Gallery", by Gustavus Kundahl
  • Los Angeles Times, Ventura edition, "Illusion by Intent - The appeal of Sandra Yagi’s painting is their resistance to easy interpretation," by Josef Woodard, March 12.
  • 1997 San Jose Mercury News, "Exhibition plays with toys’ simple appeal, deeper meanings." by Mike Antonucci, December 7.

Other Events, Awards and Recognition:

  • 2012 Darkside Books, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Images of my dancing conjoined twin paintings were used for large banners by Darkside Books at its booth presentation at the youPIX Festival in Rio de Janeiro, December 2012.
  • Who's Who in American Art

Private Collections:

  • Axl Rose
  • Chris Vroom
  • Cesar Chavez
  • Paul Ruscha
  • Keryn Redstone
  • Collection of Robert and Joan Williams
  • Collection of Robert Smith and Gary Noguera
  • Lee Unkrich
  • Ben Stiller & Christine Taylor
  • Miley Cyrus
  • Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch
  • Christie La Russell and Anne Zeller
  • Leslie Morgan
  • Greg Priest and Marta Cervantes
  • Michael Yochum and Priscilla Otani
  • Susan Schen
  • Renee Muzic
  • Susan Bolles
  • Josh Jaffe
  • Bert Green
  • Chris Oyer
  • Laura and Sam Craven
  • Donna Regan
  • Sherry Mattson
  • Andrew Briggs
  • Ramon Morales
  • Tanya Wilkinson
  • Kevin Rettig
  • Orly Ravid
  • Peter Lucas
  • Paul Zaloom
  • Ragen Wilfert
  • Skot Armstrong & James Tallon
  • Joan Sivalon
  • Michael Pearce
  • Laurie Hassold

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