Resume

Solo Exhibitions

• 2018 Moon Face, Thorton Tomasetti, San Francisco, CA
• 2016 Order and Disorder, McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2010 I FEl lIk uh GOlden Star explOding, b.sakatagaro, Sacramento, CA
• 2008 Relm uv StrAnj, Bucheon Contemporary Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
• 2007 The Great Separation, Marjorie Wood Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
• 2007 Ikon, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
• 2004 Rapchr, Marjorie Wood Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
• 2002 The Paintings of Sarah Ratchye, Transcending the Commonplace, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, Stanford CA.
• 1998 Space for the Next Millennium, Seipp Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.
• 1995 The Quick and the Dead, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

Juried Exhibitions

• 2017 Pink, Castilleja School Gallery, Palo Alto CA. Juror: Deborah Trilling
• 2016 Pulling Threads, Root Division, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Victoria Heilwell
• 2016 Salon at the Triton, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA. Juror: Charlotte Eyerman
• 2016 Spectrum Gestalt, bG Gallery, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA
• 2013 SPACE, Studio Quercus, Oakland, CA
• 2012 Collage, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2011 The Bowerbird Treasury, Zughaus Gallery, Berkeley, CA
• 2011 Reclamation, new trends in Bay Area Collage and Assemblage, Studio Quercus, Oakland, CA Juror: Jamie Brunson
• 2011 Macro Micon, LoBot, Oakland, CA Curator: Sarah Drasner
• 2011 Ephrastic 3, Krowswork, Oakland, CA Presented by Lectric Collective
• 2011 Perfect Place/No Place, Million Fishes Arts Collective, San Francisco, CA Curated by Microclimate Collective
• 2010 Tales from the New Lot, The Cottage Industry Painting Salon, San Francisco, CA Curator: Kristen van Diggelen
• 2010 The Cottage Industry Painting Salon IV, San Francisco, CA Curator: Kristen van Diggelen
• 2010 Eidolon, Climate Theater, San Francisco, CA Juror: Glenna Allee
• 2010 Compelled, Root Division, San Francisco, CA Juror: Sarah Drasner
• 2009 Radius 2009, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, Curator: Karen Kienzle
• 2009 Taste 2009, Root Division, San Francisco CA. Curator: Sarah Klein.
• 2008 National Juried Exhibition, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley CA. Jurors: Suzane Baizerman and Kate Eilertsen.
• 2008 Annual Juried@BAC, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA. Jurors: Catharine Clark and JoAnne Northrup
• 2007 Four Artists, Seippe Gallery, Palo Alto, CA. Juror: Deborah Trilling, gallery director.
• 2007 New Faces, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Juror: DJ Harmon, gallery director.
• 2005 Cambridge Art Association 8th Annual National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA. Juror: Joseph Thompson, Director MASS MOCA.
• 2005 San Diego Art Institute 48th International Award Exhibition, San Diego, CA. Juror: Derrick R. Cartwright.
• 2003 A Woman’s Place, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA. Juror: Cathy Kimball, Director, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.
• 1998 Works on Paper, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA. Juror: John Berggruen, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
• 1998 The Female Gaze, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA. Jurors: JoAnne Northrup, DeSaisset Museum and Susan Hillhouse, Triton Museum.
• 1997 Bay Arts 1997, San Mateo Co. Arts Council, Belmont, CA. Jurors Esther Pava, Leon Moriarity, B.J. Stevenson, and Paul Nepote.
• 1995 Bay Arts 1995, San Mateo Co. Arts Council, Belmont, CA. Juror: Renny Pritikin.
• 1995 About Drawing, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Juror: Peter Selz.
• 1994 Small Works at the Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA. Jurors: Archana Horsting, KALA Institute, Rena Bransten, Rena Bransten Gallery, and Sara Bates, American Indian Contemporary Arts.
• 1993 Bay Arts 1993, San Mateo Co. Arts Council, Belmont, CA. Juror: Rupert Garcia.

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2018 If So What, The McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2018 Taste, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
• 2017 Group Show, The McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2016 Tight Ass: Labor Intensive Drawing and Realism, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Brett Reichman.
• 2016 H20, The McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2016 Abstractions, The McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2014 IPO - New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
• 2009 Assemblage+Collage+Construction, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. Curator: Susan Hillhouse.
• 2008 Intimate Cartography, Museum of Pocket Art, curated by Hannah Piper Burns and Alexandra Chouaniec, traveling show: USA, Europe, and the Middle East.
• 2006 For Your Love, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
• 2005 Ornamentation: The Art of Desire, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.
• 2005 Mona Lisa Project, WORKS Gallery, San Jose, CA.
• 2004 Paintings and Prints, Sarah Ratchye and Linda Montalvo, Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
• 2004 A Theater of Heroic Memory, Phantom Galleries, 17 San Fernando St., San Jose, CA.
• 2003 Relish, WORKS Gallery, San Jose, CA.
• 2001 Making Her Mark, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA.
• 2000 Connected, Gensler Architecture, Santa Monica, CA.
• 2000 Collecting With Passion, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.

Fellowships and Awards

• 2005-07 MFA Fellowship in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
• 2003 Award Of Honor, Juror: Cathy Kimball, A Woman’s Place, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA.
• 1993 Painting Award, Bay Arts 1993, Juror: Rupert Garcia, Belmont, CA.

Bibliography

• 2018 Studio Visit Magazine, Winter Edition, Open Studio Press, Boston MA
• 2017 Studio Visit Magazine, Winter Edition, Open Studio Press, Boston MA
• 2016 Studio Visit Magazine, Winter Edition, Open Studio Press, Boston MA
• 2007 Naomi Frank, “Saints and Sensibility”, review for The Great Separation, Marjorie Wood Gallery, Sept. 2007.
• 2007 Alfred Jan, “A Studio of Their Own: The Art of Kathryn Dunlevie, Sarah Ratchye, Marta Thoma, and Deborah Trilling”, review of Four Artists at Seippe Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.
• 2006 David Buuck, “‘Ornamentation’ at the SJICA”, Artweek, March, 2006.
• 2006 Jack Fischer, “In the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art’s Current Show, It’s the Flourish That Matters”, San Jose Mercury News, January, 2006.
• 2005 Michael J. Vaughn, “Deck The Walls”, The Wave Magazine, December, 2005
• 2005 Cathy Kimball, “Ornamentation, the Art of Desire”, Inform, November, 2005.
• 2004 Amy Berk, “Geologist, Decorator, and Painter of Roses”, Review for Rapchr, Marjorie Wood Gallery.
• 2002 Demetra Paras, “The Oil Paintings of Sarah Ratchye, Transcending the Commonplace”, Newsletter for the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Vol. 27, No. 1.

Publications

• 2013 Ex Libris. Exhbition Catalog for Show at Root Division, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Gelnna Atlee, Victoria Heilwell, and Sarah Ratchye
• 2009 Article on Todd Schorr exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art, Artshift, San Jose September issue, www.artshift.com
• 2007 Relm uv StrAnj. Book by Sarah Ratchye.
• 2002-05 Curator for Art at the Institute, Reviews of Quarterly Exhibitions at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Published in the IRWG Newsletter.

Professional Activities

• 2014-now Member, Board of Directors, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
• 2006 Panelist for Talking Art, To go or not to go, MFA Programs Exposed, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.
• 1998-05 Curator, Art Exhibits, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, Stanford, CA,
• 1998 Panelist, The Female Gaze, Women Looking at Men, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
• 1997-02 Artist at Cubberley Studios, Palo Alto, CA.
• 1997-02 Theater Set Designer and Painter, Palo Alto Children’s Theater, Palo Alto, CA.

Education

• 2007 MFA (Painting), San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
• 1995 Painting Study with Frank Lobdell, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
• 1982 BFA (Printmaking) with honors, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
• 1978 BS (Geology), Stanford University, Stanford, CA.