PATRICIA SONNINO
Artist
Patricia Sonnino takes a contemporary approach to abstraction. Various spaces with individual artistic languages inhabit her colorful layered works on wood panel. Hard edges meet and transform into soft ones, shallow spaces swerve into deep, and opaque colors collide with the luminous. The juxtapositions of these arrangements of diverse, self-contained spaces resemble a “still life” in flight.
Sonnino is living and working in San Francisco. She holds a MA and BA in Architecture from Washington University in Saint Louis. Sonnino has taught design at the Boston Architectural Center and been a visiting artist at Fort Lewis College in Colorado and the University of Birmingham in the U.K. She has been awarded residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Clearmont Wyoming, the Willapa Bay AIR, Oysterville Washington, Playa, Summer Lake, Oregon, the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson Vermont, and Penland in the Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina.​
Exhibitions
Solo & Two-Person
2023
brush & shutter, GearBox Gallery, Oakland CA
2022
All You is Brimming, GearBox Gallery, Oakland CA
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2020
Walking in the Dark, GearBox Gallery, Oakland CA
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2019
Resonance, GearBox Galley Oakland CA
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2017
Flight Maps curated by Michele Foyer, MAX Occupancy at the Mystic Hotel by Charlie Palmer, San Francisco CA
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2015​
Of Ephemeral Structures, Fort Lewis College Gallery, Durango CO
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2011
Watermarks, Garage Gallery, Berkeley CA
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2001
G. Park Gallery, St. Louis MO
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1995
Small Paintings , Herman Miller, San Francisco CA
Group
2022
Crocker Kingsley, Blue Line Arts, Roseville CA
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2021
Crocker Kingsley, Blue Line Arts, Roseville CA
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2021
Crocker Kingsley, Blue Line Arts, Roseville CA
Bryant Street Gallery: Freeform, Palo Alto, CA
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2020
Pence Gallery: Slice, curated by Hearnee Pardee, Davis CA
Slate Art: Better Together, Oakland CA
The Midway SF: Metronome City, curated by Jeff Bostic, San Francisco CA
2019
Crocker Kingsley, Blue Line Arts, Roseville CA
2018
Slate Art in Lake Tahoe: Summer Collection Exibition at the Ritz-Carlton
Walking the Line, GearBox Gallery, Oakland CA
2017
Studio 110 Projects: 28 Day Cycle: Investigation the Daily Practice of Making Art
2016
Art for Aids 2016, San Francisco CA
Art XV Auction and Exhibit, Root Division, San Francisco CA
Communicative, San Francisco Art Institute
2015
Drawing Discourse UNC Asheville, Asheville NC
Art XIV Auction and Exhibit, Root Division, San Francisco CA
Art for Huemanity Auction and Exhibit, Fused Space, San Francisco CA
2014
Here, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley CA
Art XIII Auction and Exhibit, Root Division, San Francisco CA
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato CA
Made in California, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea CA
Catalyst, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes CA
Inspire Artists Who Inspire You, Pro Arts, Oakland CA
2013
Array, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley CA
Four Artists on Paper, City of Berkeley Health, Housing, & Community Services, Berkeley CA
curated by Mel Prest & John Wilson White
Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA
Art for Aids 2013, San Francisco CA
Out of the Blue, Gallery Route One , Point Reyes CA
2012
50-50 IV, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA
Rock, Paper, Scissors, LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln NE
2011
Mixed Media Miniatures, CK Gallery, Berkeley CA
50-50 III, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA
2010
SOMA Open Studios San Francisco, CA
Journeys, Art at the Cheese Factory Gallery , Petaluma, CA
2009
SOMA Open Studios San Francisco, CA
Legacy, The Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis MO
Big Pagoda Art Gallery, San Francisco CA
2008
Studio 1313, San Francisco CA
Paperworks, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco CA
Big Pagoda Art Gallery, San Francisco CA
2006
noir et blanc, The 8 Gallery, San Francisco CA
10th Annual Art for Aids Exhibit, San Francisco CA
2003
Kodner Gallery, St. Louis MO
2002
neworangeland atelier, San Francisco CA
2000
SAWS Exhibit at CCA San Francisco
SF Hidden Talents, AIGA, San Francisco CA
Representation
Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto CA
GearBox Gallery, Oakland CA
Academic Positions
University of Birmingham, School of Education, Visiting Artist, 2016
Fort Lewis College, Visiting Artist, 2015
San Francisco City College, Visiting Instructor, 2013
California College of Arts, Design Critic, 2004
Boston Architectural Center, Design Instructor, 1981
Mentor for San Francisco Art and Film, 1996 -2000
Collections
Richard Ballentine Collection
McFadden Thompson Collection
Parman Collection
Pieprz Collection
Stanford University Medical Center
Residencies
Willapa Bay AIR, Oysterville WA, August 2022
UCross Foundation WY, September 2020
Penland School of Crafts NC, January 2018
Playa, Summer Lake OR, May 2015
Willapa Bay AIR, Oysterville WA, April 2014
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT, February 2013
Publications
Patricia Sonnino: Selected Abstractions, 2017 - 2022
curated by DeWitt Cheng
Stanford Faculty Club/ March - August 2023
Publications
Crocker Kingsley Exhibition, catalogue 2022
Crocker Kingsley Exhibition, catalogue 2020
Crocker Kingsley Exhibition, catalogue 2019
Drawing Discourse, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC, catalogue 2015
of ephemeral structures, Fort Lewis College Durango Colorado, catalogue February 2015
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