Sara Sisun: Curriculum Vitae

San Francisco Art Institute

MFA, painting

Stanford University

BA: Studio Art, Minor Creative Writing

The Slade School of Art, London

Summer Course

"Apocalypse Nude," Treehouse Gallery San Francisco

"Potential for Growth and Decay," Paintings and Installation, Stanford SubGallery

"New Work From London," Stanford Coffeehouse

"Help I'm Stuck in the Photocopier," Cummings Gallery, Stanford University

"Movements," Snarf's, Boulder, CO

"Deux Veux: Paintings from Provence," The French Alliance, Denver, CO

ASLD Summer art Market

"Flesh was the Reason," Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"Provisional," Treehouse Gallery San Francisco, CA

"Pain, Fear, Guilt," Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"Over, Under, Between," Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"Senior Show," Stanford University

"Please Remove Me From Your Mailing List," Stanford SubGallery

"New York Art Exchange Gallery Opening," Palo Alto, CA

"Gala for Cystic Fibrosis," Denver, CO

Art on the River Juried competition

Corporate Collections at Republic Plaza 2005

Kaiser Permanente Corporate Collection 2005

2011 Full Tuition Fellowship in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute

The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant

Myartspace.com 1st prize Undergraduate Scholarship

Rita B. Giese Award in Creative Painting, Stanford University

JE Wallace Sterling Award for Academic Achievement (top 5% graduating class), Stanford University

The Angel Grant, Stanford University

Best of Show (300 artists), Art Students League of Denver Summer Art market

People’s Choice Award, An Art Affair, Stanford University

Creative Arts Grant, presented by ASSU, Stanford University

Fall Quarterly Grant, presented by UAR, Stanford University

Allied Arts Award (best artist under 30), presented by Allied Arts, Inc. Denver, CO

The Jenniifer Wu Fellowship, Denver, CO (summer study in Oxford, Paris, Rome)

House of Tate

Pizarro: Fairmont San Jose On the Hunt for Pajamas, San Jose Mercury News

Leland Quarterly, Stanford Literary Magazine (cover), Winter

Watson, Gwen, Your Passion is Practical, The Stanford Daily

Sewell, Cindy, Best of Show, The Rocky Mountain News, Denver

Leland Quarterly, Stanford Literary Magazine, work in fall (cover), Winter

Profile for SICA (Stanford Institute to Creativity and the Arts),

The Stanford Daily

Shake Girl, collaborative graphic novel project, to be published by

Vertigo of DC Comics

Brody, Liz, Questions for Sara Sisun, The Unofficial Stanford Blog

Gangelhoff, Bonnie “21 Under 30”, Southwest Art Magazine

Mixed Media Painting Instructor

Young Artists Program, San Francisco Art Institute

Teaching Assistant

Narrative Painting, San Francisco Art Institute

Writing Tutor

San Francisco Art Institue

Aerial Frabic/ Circus Arts Instructor

Stanford Climbing Wall

The Graphic Novel, Teaching Assistant

Stanford University

Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree, Installation Assistant

Stanford University

Stanford Organizing Committee for the Arts, Exhibition Curator

Peer Advisor, Stanford Department of Art and Art History

“Week in the Knees” newsletter illustrations, freelance for Bethany Coates

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Film Workshop Instructor

Administrative Assistant

Saiber, Saiber Architecture, Inc, Denver, CO

Museum of Outdoor Arts Summer Internship, Denver, CO