EDUCATION
1981 - 1983 Otis Art Institute of Parson’s School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
1984 - 1985 American College in Paris/Parson’s School of Design, Paris, France
1985 Bath Academy of Art, Bath, England
1988 BFA (Painting), Otis Art Institute of Parson’s School of Design, L.A., CA
AWARDS
2001 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
2000 "In Smog and Thunder", nominated for Hugo Award for Best New Science Fiction Book 2000
1999 J. Paul Getty Fellowship for the Visual Arts
1998 The Basil H. Alkazzi Award (U.S.A.)
1997 Fulbright Scholarship to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1995 Guggenheim Fellowship
1995 NEA U.S./Mexico International Exchange Scholarship to Mexico City
1994 Western States Art Federation/NEA Grant
PUBLIC PROJECTS
2002 "The Discovery of the City of Long Beach", 2 ceramic tile murals, 600 sq.ft., City Place Shopping Center, Long Beach, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
“The Depravities of War”, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The History of Los Angeles (Condensed)”, ceramic tile mural, 1000 sq. ft. Hollenbeck Station, Los Angeles Police Department, East Los Angeles, CA
2006
“Sandow Birk’s Divine Comedy”, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
“Sandow Birk - Lithographs”, Art Center of San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA
“Leading Causes of Death in America”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The Graphic Works of Sandow Birk,” Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center, Makawao, HW
“Sandow Birk’s Divine Comedy”, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX
2005
“Sandow Birk’s Divine Comedy”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
“Contemporary Links: Sandow Birk”, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
“Dante’s Paradiso”, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
“Dante’s Paradiso”, Hearst Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
2004
“Dante’s Purgatorio”, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003
“Dante’s Inferno”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"To Hell and Back: Dante’s Inferno", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Incarcerated: Visions of New York”, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY, New Paltz, NY
2002
"Maximum Security: Visions of NY in the 21st Century", Debs & Co. Gallery, New York, NY
"In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works from the Great War of the Californias" Sonoma Valley Art Museum, CA (catalog)
"Homefront: Posters from the Great War of California", 111 Minna St. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Home Front II", Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Velvet Cruise", group show, Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
"Stonewall and Beyond", Advocate Gallery, L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, Hollywood, CA
2001
"Incarcerated: California Landscapes at the Millenium" Santa Barbara Contemp. Arts Forum, CA (catalog)
"Incarcerated: Visions of California in the 21st Century", Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000
"Historical Works from the Great War of the Californias" Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
"Prisonation: California Landscapes at the Millenium" Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Historical Works from the Stonewall Riots and Beyond" Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999
"Carioca: A Year Among the Natives of Rio de Janeiro" San Jose Museum of Art, CA
"Historical Works from the Stonewall Riots and Beyond" Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
"Sandow Birk: New Work", Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
"Smog and Thunder - Historical Works from The War of the Californias" (Part I), Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Smog and Thunder - Historical Works from The War of the Californias" (Part II), Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997
"Carioca: A Year Among the Natives of Rio de Janeiro" Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
"Skatistas, Moleques, Mendigos (Skaters, Punks, Street Kids) -New Drawings from Rio de Janeiro by Sandow Birk", Spruce Street Forum Gallery, San Diego, CA
1996
"Historical Paintings of The Great Battle of San Francisco" Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Sandow Birk - Recent Work", Michael Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1995
"The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles" - New Work by Sandow Birk, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Chilangos - Drawings by Sandow Birk", Nacional de Artes Plásticas "La Esmeralda", Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, D.F.
"Tales of the Cities" - New Paintings by Sandow Birk, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994
"Skaters" - New Drawings by Sandow Birk, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Asphalt Landscape - Recent Paintings by Sandow Birk", Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993
"Truce: Sandow Birk", Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992
"The Gates of Hell: L.A. Landscapes of the ‘90’s", Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
"Sandow Birk", Bess Cutler Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990
"New Velvet - New Paintings by Sandow Birk", Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989
"Velvet - Sandow Birk", Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003
"Surf Culture: The Art and History of Surfing", Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HW
2002
"Surf Culture: The Art and History of Surfing", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
"Collection Highlights (Work from the Permanent Collection)", San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
"Unreal:Sandow Birk, Kim Keevers, Kathleen Gilje",Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
"Contemporary Collectors Exhibition", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
"Terciopelo Negro", Instituto Cultural de Baja California, Tijuana, BC, Mexico
"Bay Area Printmakers", SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"The Story Is In The Telling", Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
"The Multiple Road", Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Contemporary Collectors Exhibition", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2001
"Reconstructing Reality-Artists’ Response to Sept. 11", Oakland Art Gallery, CA
"Travel Smart" and "Filing Cabinet", DIRT Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
"Of Dreams and Dreamers", Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Capital Art - On the Culture of Punishment", Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (catalog)
"Representing L.A.", Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX (catalog)
"Post-Landscape: Between Nature and Culture" Cal State Pomona Art Gallery, CA (catalog)
2000
"Representing L.A.", Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
"Surf Trip" Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Velvet Painting", Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Made in California, 1900-2000" Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A., CA
"Fact or Fiction: Contemporary Art that Walks the Line", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1999
"Drawing the Line", Scripps Gallery, Claremont College, Claremont, CA
"Surfin' Art" South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX (catalog)
"When Borders Migrate-Reflections on the 150th Anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo", The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
"Courting the Muse - Contemporary Paintings, Historical Influences", (catalog with essay by Nadia Novikoff), Main Gallery, CSUFullerton, Fullerton, CA
"Story Tellers", Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
1998
"Contingent Reality", Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
"Skate Lore: California Skate(board)ing Index to Concepts, Forms, Life", Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Center, CA
"When Borders Migrate-Reflections on the 150th Anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo", San Francisco Arts Commission, CA
1997
"Lineas de Correspondencia", Galeria Jose Maria Velasco, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico (catalog)
1996
"New Faces", Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA
"Drawn Conclusions", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
"RE: Masters - New Images from Old Sources" (catalog), Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, CA
"Melody Makers", Gallerie Torta di Miele, Bologna, Italia
"Drawn from L.A. - Drawings by Contemporary Artists", Armoury Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
"Mind-Eye-Hand-Heart" New Drawings, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
1995
"It’s Only Rock’n’Roll" (Traveling museum show with catalog), Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH; and others
"Quotations from the Source", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
"Social Engagement" -(catalog) Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, L.A., CA
1994
"California - The Cutting Edge", Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
"The Night of the Masque", Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
"Crossing the Line: Civil Disobedience in the ‘90’s", Delta Axis Contemporary Arts Center, Memphis, TN
1993
"Custom Grafix", The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
"Kustom Kulture", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1992
"East Meets West", Speedway Gallery, Boston, MA
"I Thought California Would Be Different", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1991
"Contemporary Visions of the Virgin of Guadalupe", Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
"The Edge of Night", Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
1990
"‘Heal the Bay’ Surfboard Invitational", James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Guest Lecturer – Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, March 3, 2003
"In Smog and Thunder" Morning News feature interview, Park City TV Ch.8, Utah, Jan.22, 2003
"Life and Times Tonight" Feature/Interview by Val Zavala on PBS Television, Ch. 28 KCET Los Angeles, Dec.4, 2002, 7pm
"All Things Considered", feature by Ina Jaffe, NPR Radio, nationwide, Sept. 27, 2002
"Perspectives", feature, on ABC Radio news, nationwide, Oct. 25, 2002
"Black Velvet" feature on "The Osgood File", CBS News, national, July 31, 2002
"Which Way L.A." KCRW radio program with Warren Olney, National Public Radio, April 30, 2002
"Incarcerated: California Landscapes" Feature/Interview on National Public Radio’s
"The California Report", by Steven Cuevas, KQED San Francisco and statewide, Nov. 30, 2001
"Life and Times Tonight" Feature/Interview by Val Zavala on PBS Television, Ch. 28 KCET Los Angeles, July 22, 2001, 7pm
"Life and Times with Warren Olney" Feature/Interview on PBS Television, Ch. 28 KCET Los Angeles, May 16, 2000, 7:00pm
"Sandow Birk's 'Great War of the Californias' at Laguna Art Museum, CA", Feature/Interview on National Public Radio, KCRW Los Angeles and nationwide, May 23, 2000, 5:00am - 9:00am, repeated nationally on various dates
"John David Wells Show" Feature/Interview on radio, News Radio 970am, Las Vegas, NV, 3:30-4:00pm, July 13, 2000
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Art and Celebrity, by John Walker,Pluto Press, London, 2003
"Murals Captivate" feature by S.Gottlieb, L.B.Press-Telegram, Jan. 24, 2003
"The Real Thing", by Ann Landi, ARTnews, cover story, June 2002
City by the Bay – San Francisco in Art and Literature, Edited by A. Chappell, SFMOMA, 2002
"Southland Shall Rise Again", feature by J.Fischer, San Jose Mercury News, Nov.12, 2002
"Sandow Birk", review by K.Johnson, New York Times, Oct 18, 2002
"This War Never Happened" –Interviw byP.Maliszewski,McSweeney’s Quarterly #8, Summer 2002
"The Rampart Verdict" by C.Rappleye, LA Weekly, Sept. 6, 2002
"Double Take"-by Kerman, Riverfront Times, St.Louis, MO, Aug. 21, 2002
"The North and the South", feature by L.Hom, SF Weekly, June 19, 2002
"It Was War!", review byP.Henley, Sonoma Index-Tribune newspaper, June 25, 2002
"California Dreamscapes with Prisons", book review by D.Kipen, SF Chronicle, Dec. 12, 2001
"No Warning Shots Fired" by M.Housley, JUXTAPOZ Magazine, Sept-Oct. 2001
"Art Comes of Age in L.A." review by R.Chang, O.C.Register, Show sec., Nov. 4, 2001
"On Prisons and Painting – A Convesation with Sandow Birk", by L.Gipe, Santa Barbara Indepent, Aug. 16, 2001
"City, Too, Benefits From Grants", review by Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times, Calendar, June 7, 2001
"Portrait of the Artist: Stars of LA’s Burgeoning Art Scene", photos by NJ Roy, GQ, (April 2001
"Prisonation", review by J.Rosenberg d’art international magazine, Vol.4,No.2 Toronto, Spring 2001
"Capital Art", review by C.Roth, Artweek, April 2001
"Innerspace," by Mark Housley, Comet Magazine, Vol. 2, No.1, Berkely, CA, Spring 01
"Reinventing the Landscape", by H.M. Sheets, ARTnews, March 2001
"The Drawing Center Wants You", by C. Noonan, American Artist, Vol. 65, Issue 706, May 2001
Capital Art on the Culture of Punishment, Ed. By M Botey and P.Perez, Smart Art Press, 2001
New American Paintings, No.31, Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA, Dec. 2000
Representing L.A. Gordon L. Fuglie, Frye Art Museum, Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle, WA
"A Brush with the Past", feature, The Guardian newspaper, London, England, Sunday Dec. 2, 2000
"Art of War" Cover Story, by Scott Timberg, New Times Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2000
"Sandow Birk-Pick of the Week", by Peter Frank, L.A. Weekly Magazine, Vol.23-No.1,Nov23-30, 2000
"The Great War" by Josh Kun, SF Bay Guardian, Oct 4, 2000
"In Smog and Thunder" Book Review, by Jennifer Joseph, SF Bay Guardian, May 31, 2000
"SF and LA Decide to Have an Extremely Uncivil War", by A. Gumbel, London Independent June 16, 2000
'"A Portrait of Sandow Birk", by Tyler Stallings, JUXTAPOZ Magazine, No. 28, Sept. 2000
'"The Unbearable Burden of Lightness", Review by R. Schoenkopf, OC Weekly, Aug. 18, 2000
'War of the Californias", by Mallard Fillmore, Orange County Register, Opinion Section, Pg. 9, June 9, 2000
"Smog vs. Fog", Review by Robert L. Pincus, San Diego Union-Tribune, Arts Section, Page 1, June 11, 2000
Understanding Art,, Harcourt College Publishers, Fort Worth, TX, 2001
"Laying Bare the Uncertain Underside of the Truth", Tessa De Carlo, New York Times, Arts & Leisure, April 9, 2000
"History and Art Merged", review by Sara Wolf, Show Section, OC Register, Sunday April 23, 2000, Pg. 27
"Portfolio: Sandow Birk", Rubén Ortiz-Torres Poliester Magazine Summer 1999, Vol.7,No.25, Mexico City, D.F.
Leeteg of Tahiti - Paintings from the Villa Velour, by John Turner, Last Gasp Press , San Francisco, CA, 1999
"What's Up Manhattan", B. Fasching-Gray Shout Magazine, Sept. 1999, New York, NY
Painting As Language , by Jean Robertson & Craig McDaniel, Harcourt Brace College Pub., Fort Worth, TX, 2000
"Pop Against Art" Essay-Review by Greil Marcus, Speak Magazine, Summer 1999, San Francisco, CA
"Artworld: Awards", Art in America, New York, March 1999,
"It's Relative", Review by Rebecca Schoenkopf, OC Weekly Magazine, March 12, 1999, Vol. 4, No.27
"The Art Academy", by Michal Reed, ARTWEEK Magazine, Vol. 30, #3, March 1999.
"Velvet Underground - The Roots of Velvet Painting", by Andrew Asch, OC Register newspaper, CA, Feb. 15, 1999
"Architect of War -Sandow Birk Paints a Future Past", by R.Schoenkopf, OC Weekly, Vol.4, No. 21, Jan 29,1999
"Works on Paper: Sandow Birk", Zyzzyva Magazine, San Francisco, Vol.XIV, No.3, Winter 1998
"L.A. to Z: Artist Sandow Birk", by Erika Lenkert, Los Angeles Magazine, December 1998
Most Art Sucks - Five Years of Coagula by Matt Gleason, Smart Art Press November 1998
"War of the Californias", Review by Ross Anderson, Panik Magazine, Nov. 1998, Issue 6, No.1
"The LAM with The Surprise Inside", Review by Rebecca Schoenkopf, OC Weekly Magazine, Nov. 6, 1998
"Sandow Birk at Koplin Gallery", Review by Holly Myers, Art Issues Magazine, Nov.-Dec., 1998
"Sly Scenes Picture a California Engulfed in Civil War.", Review by Claudine Isé, Los Angeles Times, Oct 16, 1998
"Sandow Birk at Koplin.", Review by O. Clark Jr., ArtScene Magazine, Los Angeles,Vol.18, No. 11, Sept. 1998
"The Landscape of Disturbance", by Fredrick Turner, The Wilson Quarterly, Washington, D.C., Spring 1998
"Flotsam and Jetsam of the Calif. State of Mind", Review by Greil Marcus, New York Times, March 30, 1998
"When Borders Migrate", Review by Glen Helfand, San Francisco Bay Guardian , Feb. 4, 1998
"When Borders Migrate", Review by Colin Berry The Herald , San Francisco, CA, Jan. 29, 1998
"A Couple of Views" Review by Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, Nov. 4, 1997
"Sandow Birk - Connected to the Canvas", cover story by Andrew Asch, Orange County Register, Nov. 9, 1997
"Laguna Museum Bounces Back" Review by Rebecca Schoenkopf, OC Weekly Magazine, Nov. 7, 1997
"God is Brazilian", feature by Jamie Brisick Surfing Magazine, Nov. 1997
"Salada - Carioquês" anonymous, Trip Magazine, São Paulo, Brazil, Vol. 10, #57, 1997
"A Perigosa Verdade (The Dangerous Truth)", by Vavá Ribeiro, Trip Magazine, São Paulo, Brazil,Vo.10,#56, 1997
"Sandow Birk at Spruce Street Forum", Review by Eric Matthies, Giant Robot Magazine, Issue #9, Winter 1997
"Rock Once Removed", Review by Tony Madejczyk, Charlotte Herald newspaper, Charlotte, NC, July 18, 1997
"Deadpan Humor Enlivens Rock Exhibit", Review by D. Menconi, The News & Observer, Raleigh, NC, July 25, '97
"Líneas de Correspondencia", Review by Josué Ramírez, El Laberinto Magazine, Mexico City, D.F., July 1997
("Correspondence Lines, an Artistic Bridge between Mexico and the U.S.")
Review by Héctor León Diez, La Cronica de Hoy newspaper, Mexico City, July 1, 1997
"Airborne - Sandow Birk at Spruce Gallery", Review by Robert Pincus, San Diego Union Tribune, June 19, 1997
"Sandow Birk at Catherine Clark" (cover story), Review by M. Tanner, ARTWEEK Magazine, March 1997,
"Sandow Birk - Drawings" feature of artwork, Zyzzyva Magazine, San Francisco, Vol XIII, No.1, Spring 1997
"Sandow Birk at Catherine Clark", Review by Harry Roach, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dec. 18, 1996
"Postmodern Unbound - Appropriationism for the Way Too Serious", OC Weekly review,,Nov. 8-14, 1996.
"Not-So-Fresh Take on the Old Masters", Review by Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, , Nov. 12, 1996
"Sandow Birk - The Color of Urban Decay" by Dina Dominguez, Axcess Magazine, Aug/Sept., 1996
"Sandow Birk", feature by Jamie Brisick, Juxtapoz Art Quarterly, San Francisco, July 1996
"Sandow Birk - L'Artiste Anti-Hollywood", feature , Trip Surf Magazine, Paris, France, May 1996
"A Little Slow on the Draw" - Review by Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, April 16, 1996
"Sandow Birk - Traversing the Spectrum", Profile, Tracks Surfing Magazine, Sydney, Australia, Jan. 1996
"The Golden Land - In the Name of Progress", Review by Doree Dunlap, OC Weekly Magazine, March 8-14, 96.
"Sandow Birk - Drawings" feature of artwork, Zyzzyva Magazine, San Francisco, Vol. XII, No.1, Spring 1996
"Paint By Fate- Sandow Birk", Profile by Jamie Brisick, Surfing Magazine, April 1996.
"It's Only Rock'n'Roll-Rock'n'Roll Currents in Contemporary Art", Museum Catalog,
Essay by David S. Rubin. Prestel Publications, 1995.
"Framed in Controversy", Review by Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, Oct. 17, 1995
"Sandow Birk's Art Span", Review by Alfred Jan, Artist Writer Magazine, San Francisco, June 1995
"Successful Artists and Dealers", by Alan Bamberger, Art Calendar Magazine, San Francisco, May 1995
"Men of Irony - Sandow Birk at Morphos", San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, April 9, 1995
<"Social Engagements", Pick of the Week, Review by Peter Frank, L.A. Weekly Magazine
"Birk’s Best", Review by Susan Kandel, Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, Sept. 29, 1994
"Surfin’ the ‘Hood, The Art of Sandow Birk", by John Gunnin, Art? Alternatives Magazine, NY, Spring 1994
"Historical Violence", Review by Susan Kandel, Los Angeles Times, April 2, 1993
"Los Angeles, Prophet and Loss", by James Scarborough, Art Press 184 International Magazine, Paris, Oct. 1993
"L.A. Aftermath - The Graphic Response to the L.A. Riots", by Eric La Brecque, Print Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1993
"Art ‘n’ the Hood - Paintings Of and By the Street Youth of LA", Hope Urban, VISIONS Art Quarterly Winter, 1993
"Birk and Ocampo: City Beat", Penny Miller, COAGULA Art Journal, Summer, 1993
"Kar Kulture: ‘Kustom Kulture’ at Laguna Art Museum", James Scarborough, Artweek Magazine, Aug. 15, 1993
"High and Low Culture in La-La Land", Karl Taro Greenfeld, Wingspan Magazine, Tokyo, Japan, August, 1993
"Ten to Watch in 1993", staff writer, Details Magazine, January 1993
"The More Things Change... Sandow Birk Looks Back to the Present", C. Curtis, Los Angeles Times,, Sept. 17, 92
"Bad Boys/Good Boys - Sandow Birk and the Killing of Los Angeles", J.M.S. Willett, cover story, VISIONS Art Quarterly Magazine, Fall 1992
"Peering Through the Gates of Hell - Artist Chronicles Urban Landscapes with Historical Twist", by Zan Dubin, Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, Sept. 4, 1992
"Dream Deferred - The Mean Streets as Seen by Sandow Birk", Frances Lam, URB Magazine, July 1992
"In the Heroic Tradition - Sandow Birk", Bolton Colburn, Surfer’s Journal Magazine, Fall 1992
"Sandow Birk at Bess Cutler Gallery", staff writer, L.A. Style Magazine, April 1992
"New Velvet - Sandow Birk at McGrath Gallery", Lesa Sawahata, EXPOSURE Magazine, December 1990
"Sandow Birk’s Velvets", Review by Suvan Geer, Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, Sept. 1, 1989
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
DeYoung Museum – Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Rene di Rosa Museum – Napa, CA
Judy and Stuart Spence, Sun Valley, CA
Caetano Veloso, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Anthony Keidis, Los Angeles, CA
Nicolas Cage, Los Angeles, CA
Don Henley, Aspen CO
