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Annette Goodfriend
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Annette Goodfriend
Annette Goodfriend was born and raised in Northern California. She completed her undergraduate degree at U.C. Berkeley, where she studied Genetics and Art, and she received her M.F.A. at the California College of the Arts. Goodfriend is a winner of the International Art Competition Premio O.R.A. Italia, the Malamegi Lab International Art Prize, and is one of 18 artists from 15 countries whose work was chosen for the YICCA International Art Prize. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Discovered Award, a grant and exhibition funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and Creative Sonoma, and was honored with residencies at the Morris Graves Foundation and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her sculpture has been exhibited in solo and group shows locally, nationally, and internationally, including the Museum of Sonoma County, Monterey Museum of Art, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Kellogg University Art Gallery, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, HDLU Pavilion in Zagreb, Croatia, and 3)5 Arte Contemporanea, a contemporary art gallery in Viterbo, Italy. Her work has been published in the books Artists of the Bay Area, Embodied Forest, and Entanglements (2). Goodfriend lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, son, and menagerie.
Artist Statement
I create sculptures that explore the intricacies of human anatomy, from the cellular level to the limb. By casting a critical, scientific, and humorous eye on the mutagenesis of corporeal form, I am telling a surreal story of biology. It is a visceral investigation of the perversity of nature, the role of science, and how our bodies both effect and are affected by the world around us.
With my most recent series, I am focusing my thoughts on the ocean. Warming waters are threatening this ecosystem, and this body of work explores human interconnectedness with our oceans and seas, our reliance upon them and their reliance upon us. The kelp has become ambulatory to escape the overpopulation of its predators, starfish are growing fingers to claw their way out of the warming waters, coral reefs are bleaching, and lab clamps with human fingers firmly grasp sea life, threatened by microplastics, examining them, dissecting their secrets. Humans are intricately involved in all of these changes.
Working primarily with epoxy, resin, rubber, wax, and plaster, I let the concept and piece dictate the media. Combining traditional materials in unique ways, I cast, build, and assemble parts resulting in forms that are unexpected and occasionally disturbing.
The complex beauty of human form and function, the impact of life sciences on all living things, the processes of aging, how our bodies physically interpret the environment, and the interplay between art and science are themes that continue to weave their way through my work.
These are surreal science projects of the imagination.
EDUCATION
California College of the Arts, M.F.A
University of California, Berkeley, B.A.
Massachusetts College of Art, Harvard University, general coursework
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Monterey Museum of Art, Sea Change, Monterey, CA
2024 Vargas Gallery, Mission College, Hybrid Ocean, Santa Clara, CA
2021 Neon Raspberry Art House, Pathogenic Bonbons and the Ravenous Vax Attack, Occidental, CA
2019 3)5 Arte Contemporanea, With My Own Hands, Premio ORA 7th Edition, Viterbo, Italy
2017 Bump Art Gallery, Corporal Alchemy , Sonoma, CA
1995 Gallery Route One, Goad, A Kinetic Installation, Pt. Reyes, CA
1994 Falkirk Cultural center, I Think I Can Absorb t he World, An Interactive Installation Exploring Sensory Perception, San Rafael, CA
1993 Door Three Gallery, Alchemical Dreams, MFA Exhibition, Oakland, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, di Rosa Downtown, Second Nature, Napa, CA
Mercury 20 Gallery, Beyond Boundaries, Oakland, CA
2024
Olive Hyde Gallery, Women Create Space, Juried Exhibition, Fremont, CA
The Studio Gallery, Human—Nature: Biomorphic Musings, 3 Person Exhibition, Marin Art & Garden Center, Ross, CA
Associazione Culturale Imagoars, Lab Malamegi 24, Venice, Italy
Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Visions of Nature, New York, NY
Sonoma County Museum of Art, A Question of Balance, Juried by Jeff Nathanson & Kate Eilertsen, Santa Rosa, CA
2022
Works San Jose, Biophilia, San Jose, CA
Sausalito Center for the Arts, Finding the Form: Bay Area Sculpture, Sausalito, CA
Gallery Route One, Blessed Unrest, Point Reyes, CA
2021
Bedford Gallery, If a Tree Falls: Art of the Boundary Oak Walnut Creek, CA
EcoArtSpace, Embodied Forest, Online Exhibition with Book, Juried by Lilian Fraiji
Artist Alliance, Strange Nature, Online, Juried by Malia Landis
D’Art Center, Persistence III National Juried Exhibition, Norfolk, VA
Marin Society of Artists, Artist's Vision 2021 National Juried Exhibition, San Rafael, CA
Art Works Downtown, Beauty or Truth, Juried by Chandra Cerrito, San Rafael, CA
Artist Alliance, Terrain, Juried by Carol Dalton, Santa Fe, NM
Biafarin, Diversia: Woman, Juried Online Exhibition
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Favorite Things: Trees, Sebastopol, CA
2020
CollexArt, TwentyTwenty (2020), Juried Exhibition, Online
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Justice, Juried by Karen Jenkins-Johnson, Novato, CA
Richmond Art Center, Over and Under, Juried by Kevin B. Chen, Richmond, CA
Malamegi LAB 15 International Art Contest Final Exhibition, Milan, Italy (Online due to Covid-19)
2019
Sonoma County Museum of Art, Creative Sonoma Discovered Awards Exhibition, Santa Rosa, CA
HDLU Pavilion, Prsten Gallery, YICCA International Juried Art Competition, 18 Artists from 15 Countries,
Zagreb, Croatia
Piedmont Center for the Arts, 6th Annual Juried Exhibition, Carin Adams & Nancy Lim,
Jurors, Piedmont, CA
Conroe Art League, 4th National Invitational Show, Conroe, Texas
Sanchez Art Center, 2019 Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition, Scott A. Shields, juror
Pacifica, CA
SHOH Gallery, Matter of Form, Juried by Christine Koppes, Berkeley, CA
2018
Museum of Contemporary Art, Marin, Make Your Mark Juried Exhibition, Novato, CA
Brea Art Gallery, 33rd Annual Made in California Exhibition, Brea, CA
Falkirk Cultural Center, 2018 Spring Open Juried Art Exhibition, San Rafael, CA
Arc Gallery, Liberty, San Francisco, CA
Space 151, Levy Art & Architecture, Room for Thought, Juried by Jack Fischer,
San Francisco, CA
Marin Society of Artists, Fresh Art, San Rafael, CA, Honorable Mention
Worth Ryder Gallery, U.C. Berkeley, Generation: 2018 Juried Exhibition, Berkeley, CA
Bump Art Gallery, Rising from the Ashes, Sonoma, CA
Pence Gallery, Consilience of Art & Science, Davis, CA, Honorable Mention
2017
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Connect and Collect, San Jose, CA
Bump Art Gallery, Local Artists, Sonoma, CA
Petaluma Arts Center, The Neuw Politic: Artists Explore, Petaluma, CA
2009
Experiment in Genetics: Isadore Sputnik Olyer, in collaboration with Seth Olyer, Oakland, CA
2008
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Invitational Auction, San Jose, CA
2004
EDAW/CCA, Fall Alumni Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Sunbrothers Art Studio, Valentine’s Day Exhibition, Richmond, CA
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Auction ’04, San Jose, CA
2001
Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly University, Ephemera, Pomona, CA
Sunbrothers Art Studio, A Rose by Any Other Name, Oakland, CA
Sanchez Art Center, Arts on Fire V, Pacifica, CA
2000
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Salon de ICA, San Jose, CA
1999
Gallery Route One, Lead Into Gold, Pt. Reyes, CA
Viridian Gallery, 7th National Juried Exhibition, New York, NY
1998
Artisans, Six Artists, Mill Valley, CA
1996
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Bug Collection, Palo Alto, CA
Arternatives, Annual National Art Exhibition ’96, San Luis Obispo, CA
1995
WORKS, Beyond Wearable, Sonoma, CA
1994
Gallery Route One, With the Earth III, Pt. Reyes, CA
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Global Issues, Global Concerns, Santa Ana, CA
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Between the Covers, Palo Alto, CA
Oliver Art Center, MFA Graduate Exhibition, Oakland, CA
Palo Alto Cultural Center, One Hand Clapping, Palo Alto, CA
WORKS, Two Women, Sonoma, CA1993 Southern Exposure, Science Fair, Juried by Jon Winet, San Francisco, CA
1993
Pro Arts, Pro Arts Annual Juried Exhibition, Oakland, CA
Gallery Route One, June Juried Exhibition, Point Reyes, CA
Gallery Here, Moments of Perception, Oakland, CA
New Ground Gallery, Five: Five artists’ New Work, Oakland, CA
1992
1992 Mills College, Exhibition of Innovative Book Forms, Oakland, CA
San Mateo Arts Council, Bay Arts ’92 Juried, Belmont, CA
Califia Books, One of a Kind Artists’ Books, San Francisco
Wilder Gallery, Assemblage Art and Artists’ Books, Los Gatos, CA
Saratoga Community Library, Artists Book Exhibition, Saratoga, CA
HONORS, AWARDS, & RESIDENCIES
Monograph Prize, Malamegi Intl. Art Competition, Venezia
Center for Cultural Innovation Grant Kipaipai Fellow
Malamegi LAB 15 International Competition
Creative Sonoma Discovered Award & Exhibition
Winner YICCA International Art Competition
Winner Italian Premio ORA, 7th Edition
Pence Gallery, Honorable Mention 2018
Marin Society of Contemporary Artists, Honorable Mention
Morris Graves Foundation Artist Residency
Headlands Center for the Arts, Affiliate Residency
Gallery Route One, First Prize
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, 2nd Prize
Pro Arts, Oakland, Honored Artist
PUBLICATIONS
Second Nature, Catalogue accompanying diRosa Center for Contemporary Art Exhibition, ISBN: 979-8-
9909805-1-8, 2025
Human--Nature: Biomorphic Musings, ISBN:979-8-9909805-0-1
Malamegi Lab-Venice 2024, Art Prize Catalogue, Udine, Italy
The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa Sculpture Exhibit weighs “Question of Balance”, January 2024
Entanglements 2, A Curated Collection of Contemporary Culture, Nanette Wylde, 2023,
ISBN: 978-1-936083-21-3
Artists of the Bay Area, Artist Alliance/Jen Tough Gallery, 2021
Embodied Forest, EcoArtSpace, 2021, ISBN:978-0-578-97453-8
The Press Democrat, Museum of Sonoma County Showcases Local Artists at New Exhibit
November 23, 2019
Sonoma Index Tribute, Her Art is a Little Disturbing, November 2019
Bohemian, Next Big Thing: Visual Artists are "Discovered"... November 20, 2019
Sonoma Index Tribune, Her Art is a Little Disturbing, November 2019
San Jose Mercury News, Everyday Art Gallery, October 18, 2014
San Francisco Chronicle, Doing the Sonoma Stroll, May 1993
INVITATIONAL AUCTIONS
Museum of Sonoma County 2020
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art 2007-2024
Richmond Art Center 1994-2001
Palo Alto Cultural Center 1995-1997
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