Jessica Cadkin was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and grew up in Napa, California. She received a BA in Sculpture and Painting from San Francisco State University. Her work has appeared in group shows internationally and throughout Northern California including the de Young Museum, Headlands Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, di Rosa Preserve, Bateman Foundation Gallery of Nature, Bedford Gallery, Root Division, and the Berkeley Art Center. Cadkin joined Mercury Twenty Gallery in 2020, an artist-run gallery space in Oakland, California.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2024
a small body, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California
2023
de Young Open 2023 (the Process collaboration), The de Young Museum, San Francisco, California
Things with Wings, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, California
Postal Collage Pittsburgh, Shaler North Hills Library, Pittsburgh, Pennslvania
Postal Collage Project No.12, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
Aviary, Cedar Street Gallery, Berkeley, California
Stopped in Motion: Pandemic Art Quilts, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California
Art for the Winter Solstice, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California
2022
Postal Collage Project No.11, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
Plume, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California
Postal Collage Project No.11, Berkeley Commonplace, Berkeley, California
10200262004 (with Ruth Tabancay and Charlie Milgrim), Back Room Gallery, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California
XX@XV: 15th Anniversary Group Show, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California
2021
Rupture & Rapture, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California
Collage Variations (with Kathleen King and Raymond L. Haywood), Back Room Gallery, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California
2020
Re:Vision 2020 Holiday Group Show, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California
Castaways: Art from the Material World, Bateman Foundation Gallery of Nature, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Art from the Heart Auction, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
2019
Small Works, Contemporary Art Projects at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri
Autumn Lights Festival (Installation), Gardens at Lake Merritt, Oakland, California
Member Show, Richmond Arts Center, Richmond, California
Art from the Heart Auction, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
2018
Here Part I, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
Thread Count: New Directions in Fiber Art, Arts Benicia, Benicia, California (juror: Susan Taber Avila)
Melting Point, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California
2017
Here Part I, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
Misfit Maker Factory, Root Division, San Francisco, California
50|50, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California (juror: Jack Fischer, Jack Fischer Gallery)
Wild, Root Division, San Francisco, California (juror: Marisa Aragona)
2016
Here, Part 1: 2016 BAC Artists Annual Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
Autumn Lights Festival (Installation), Gardens at Lake Merritt, Oakland, California
Whale Watching (Installation), A Stark Project, Berkeley, California
Annual Triton Gala Fundraiser, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
2016 Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California (juror: Lucía Sanromán, Director of Visual Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts)
Art from the Heart Auction, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
2015
Autumn Lights Festival (Installation), Gardens at Lake Merritt, Oakland, California
Botanica: All Things Plant Life, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California (jurors: Ken Harman, Director of Hashimoto Contemporary and Spoke Art and MacKenzie Stevens, Assistant Curator of the Hammer Museum)
Art from the Heart Auction, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
2013
This Will Never Work, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California (juror: Corrina Peipon, Assistant Curator, Hammer Museum)
45th Annual Textile Exhibit, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, California
Art from the Heart Auction, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
2012
De-Mobbing, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California (curated by Brian Karl)
Art from the Heart Auction, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
2011
California! Annual Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California (jurors: Chandra Cerrito, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary and Svea Lin Sol, Swarm Gallery)
Outlandish: Contemporary Depictions of Nature, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California (juror: Alison Gass, Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
Stuffed, The Hive Gallery, Oakland, California
43rd Annual Textile Exhibit, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, California
Annual Art Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, California
Juried Annual 2011, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California (selections by Paola Santoscoy, Lead Curator, 2010 Biennial of the Americas)
2010
Borders, Root Division, San Francisco, California (jurors: Julio Cesar Morales, Adjunct Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Visiting Faculty, SFAI, Artist; Lucy Kalyani Lin, Artist, Independent Curator & Program Associate, SF Arts Commission; and Michelle Mansour, Executive Director, Root Division)
Little Pieces, The Hive Gallery, Oakland, California
Annual Art Sale and Live Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, California
25th January Juried Show, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, California (juror: Kenneth Baker, Art Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle)
Studio O Window Installation,The Hive, Oakland, California
2009
4th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California (juror: Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
Hare and the Hounds 2, 18 Reasons, San Francisco, California
(un)Natural, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California (curated by Michael Schwager)
2008
We Are California History,Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California
2008 National Juried Exhibition, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, California (jurors: Suzanne Baizerman, Former Curator, Crafts and Decorative Arts, Oakland Museum of California; and Kate Eilertsen, Interim Director of Visual Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF)
Separation, Alignment, Cohesion, Cricket Engine Gallery, Oakland, California
Artfully Yours, Annual Triton Gala Fundraiser, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
12th Annual Art Sale and Live Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, California
Hare and the Hounds, Blue Space Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007
Icon, The Hive, Oakland, California
6th Annual Box Art Benefit Auction, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California
7th Annual Art & Soul Festival (installation), Oakland, California
New Visions 2007, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California (jurors: Eduardo Pineda, Director of Education at the Museum of the African Diaspora; and Karen Kienzle, Assistant Director of Exhibitions, Education and Community Outreach at the de Saisset Museum)
Mischief, STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco, California
Linda Braz, Jessica Cadkin, and Jessica Serran (installation), West Oakland Train Station, Oakland, California
2007 Indoor Sculpture Exhibition, Santa Clara City Hall, Santa Clara, California
39th Annual Textile Exhibit, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, California
11th Annual Art Sale and Live Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, California
Multiple Choice, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California (juror: Marian Parmenter)
2007 January Juried Show, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, California (juror: Patricia Watts, Chief Curator at the Sonoma County Museum)
1992 – 2006
Annual Members Showcase, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
5th Annual Box Art Benefit Auction, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California
March Featured Artist, Art Explosion, San Francisco, California
Well, All Right: Paul Urich, Jessica Cadkin, Don Roller and Nancy Chan, Hallway Bathroom Gallery, San Francisco, California
Post-Postcard, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Winter Open House, The Crucible, Emeryville, California
Post-Postcard 8, The Lab, San Francisco, California
Art & Craft Holiday Event, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Post-Postcard 7, The Lab, San Francisco, California
The Night Show, The Fuse Gallery, San Francisco, California
Open Studios, San Francisco, California
Jessica Cadkin, Kevin Diminyatz, & Don Ross, The Fuse at Build Gallery, San Francisco, California
Melt, Art Explosion Studio, San Francisco, California
Waremental – ArtSF Benefit, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, California
Jessica Cadkin & Suzanne Stackle, Epicenter Gallery, San Francisco, California
Locus in Quo, Group Show, Dog Eared Books, San Francisco, California
SFSU Sculptural Installations, Bldg 960, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
Erotica: Subject to Disposal, Citadel Gallery, San Jose, California
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023
Stopped in Motion: Pandemic Art Quilts, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California
2021
Picnic, Window Exhibition, Niad Art Center, Richmond, California
2020
The Awful Truth, San Francisco State University, Associated Students Art Gallery, San Francisco, California (cancelled due to Covid-19)
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE / AWARDS
2012 Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Artist Residency (waitlisted)
2011 Ragdale, Artist in Residence
2011 Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Artist in Residence (awarded not taken)
2010 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow (artist-in-residence)
2008 Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Artist-in-Residence Alternate Artist
2007, Coordinator’s Award recipient for “31 Birds”, Multiple Choice, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California
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