- RESIDENCY DATES : Dec 1st 2010 to Feb 27th 2011
- FROM : USA
Los Angeles artist Sandow Birk is a graduate of the Otis/Parson's Art Institute. His artistry deals with contemporary life including inner-city violence, graffiti, social and political issues, travel, prisons, surfing, and skateboarding. In 1995, he was a recipient of an NEA International Travel Grant to Mexico City. Birk has participated in the following artist residencies: Guggenheim Fellowship (1996); Fulbright Fellowship to Rio de Janeiro (1997); Getty Fellowship for painting (1999); City of Los Angeles Fellowship (2001); Artist Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. (2007); and Artist in Residence at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris (2008). Recently, he completed a project involving the rewriting and illustrating of the entire “Divine Comedy” into contemporary American English, in which a feature film of the project, “Dante’s Inferno," was released in 2007. His most recent project involves a consideration of the Qur’an as relevant to contemporary life in America.
Birk is represented by the Koplin del Rio Gallery in Los Angeles, Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, and P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York City.