ANGELA SANDERS
Interdisciplinary Artist | San Francisco Bay Area, California | angelasanders.art | instagram.com@angelasandersart
EDUCATION
MFA, University of Nevada, Reno, 2023
BFA, Painting and Printmaking, San Francisco Art Institute, 1992
Certificate in Chinese Painting, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, 1993
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Artist residency, County Kerry, Ireland, 2025
Artist residency, Argentina, 2018
Artist residency, Sardinia, Italy, 2016
GoCM Gallery residency, Chicago, Illinois, 2015 and 2016
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
CALeidoscope: Evolving Reflections of California, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
VAST, Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
Green, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, California
12:1, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada
held in Common, participatory public art activation presented through ArtLift, Plaza Ramona POPOS, Palo Alto, California, Clothesline, McNamara Gallery, Reno, Nevada; forthcoming, September 2026
Deep Cuts, Depot Gallery, Reno, Nevada
Pain Points: Bearing Witness in the Present Tense, Women's Caucus for Art
2025
Fractured Forms, Woodward Contemporary, San Diego, California
Women of the Elements, The LIC-A Art Space, New York
Toward 2050, Tucson, Arizona
How Is the Weather? Art and Climate Change, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
Clothesline, McNamara Gallery, Reno, Nevada
2024
Artful Narratives, Ron and Maureen Community Gallery, Incline Village, Nevada
Clothesline, McNamara Gallery, Reno, Nevada
Family Portraits, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada
Chromascapes, Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
InterConnected, Meyer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2023
Chromascapes, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Elegies of Loss, Resilience, and Regeneration, University of Nevada, Reno
Clothesline, University of Nevada, Reno
Found & Lost, University of Nevada, Reno, and Garage Gallery, Lake Tahoe, California
2022
American Mosaics, GoCM Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2021
MAANZ Exhibition, Australia; Best in Show
Breaking Ground, GoCM Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
OCCCA@40, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
Mi Familia, GoCM Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2020
Class Act, GoCM Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2019
KME, Kyoto, Japan
Craft Revolution, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
Mosaic Arts International, The Parthenon Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
2018
Class Act, Chicago, Illinois
The Text, SOFA Chicago and GoCM Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
The Marks We Make, GoCM Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
National Academy of Medicine, Washington, DC
Sotheby's International, Lake Tahoe, California
Musiv.AR 18, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mosaic Arts International, Boston, Massachusetts
2017
Tessere, Udine, Italy
Variations, SOFA Chicago and GoCM Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Sotheby's International, Lake Tahoe, California
Mosaic Arts International, San Diego, California
Stories We Tell, GoCM Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Prix Picassiette, Chartres, France
2016
Sardinia Contemporary Mosaic, Sardinia, Italy
Mosaic Arts International, San Diego, California
A Passover Story, Dallas, Texas
Opus Pleiades, GoCM Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
International Gaziantep Mosaic, Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey
Biennale Mosaïques en Nord, Musée des Augustins de Hazebrouck, Hazebrouck, France
Festival International de Mosaïque Contemporaine, La Chapelle-Saint-André, France
SELECTED PUBLIC ART AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
held in Common, participatory public art activation presented through ArtLift, Plaza Ramona POPOS, Palo Alto, CA, 2026
AWARDS AND HONORS
Juror Award, CALeidoscope: Evolving Reflections of California, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, 2026
Jurors: Amanda Sroka, Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Juan Omar Rodriguez, Assistant Curator, San José Museum of Art
Best in Show, Mosaic Association of Australia and New Zealand, Australia, 2021
Distinction, Mosaic Arts International, Society of American Mosaic Artists, San Diego, California, 2017
Second Place Award, Prix Picassiette, Chartres, France, 2017
Second Place Award, International Gaziantep Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey, 2015
SELECTED COLLECTION
Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey, Roiling, permanent collection
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Independent interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, textiles, mosaic, natural latex, sound, video, and participatory installation