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Sasha Fishman lives and works in New York


EDUCATION

2022-24 MFA Sculpture, Columbia University, New York, NY
2014-18 BFA Studio Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES

2026
Powerhouse Arts Artist-in-Residence, Brooklyn, NY
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Recipient in Craft/Sculpture
Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fishers Island, NY
Shoals Marine Laboratory Artist in Residence, Appledore Island, ME
EKWC Residency, Oisterwijk, Netherlands
Folly Tree Dancing Tree Award Recipient


2025
Pratt Foundatinos Lab Art + Sci Visiting Artist, Brooklyn, NY
ILY2 Residency, Portland, OR
Visiting Research Fellow, Campos Lab, Columbia University, New York, NY


2024
Smack Mellon Artist In Residence, New York, NY
The Puffins Foundation, Grantee
ACRE Residency, Artist in Residence, Steuben Wisconsin
Art Ichol Ceramics Residency, Maihar, Madhya Pradesh, India

2023
Nature Art Habitat Residency Alt Fellow, Taleggio Valley, Italy
Deans Project Grant, Columbia University School of the Arts
Mycelium Innovation Grant Recipient, Experiment

2022          

Scholastic Art + Writing Awards 2022 Alumni Microgrant
High Desert Observatory Residency, Joshua Tree, CA
Celsius: Ocean Synthetic Biology Entrepreneur in Residence, San Pedro, CA

2021

Baltimore Jewelry Center, Self-Directed Residency, Baltimore, MD

2020

California Institute of Technology, Thomas Lauritsen Summer Research Fellow, Pasadena, California
Baltimore Jewelry Center, Scholarship Recipient, Baltimore, MD

2019
Rema Hort Mann, Emerging Artist Grant 2020 Nominee, Los Angeles, CA
Oxbow School of Art, Workshop Scholarship Recipient, Saugatuck, MI
Spira, Artist in Residence, Los Angeles, CA

2018

Urban Glass, Workshop Scholarship Recipient, New York, NY
New York Arts Practicum, New York, NY
Dallas Museum of Art, Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Grant Recipient, Dallas, TX
Anderson Ranch, Workshop Scholarship Recipient, Aspen, CO
The University of Texas at Austin, Irving & Jeannette Goodfriend Presidential Scholarship in Art
The University of Texas at Austin, Jack Risley Endowed Scholarship
The University of Texas at Austin, Steve Grosskopf Endowed Scholarship in Studio Art
The University of Texas at Austin, Undergraduate Research Fellowship


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026
       Crafting Variance, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC
       260 Madison Ave, 260 Madison Ave, New York, NY
       Whatever happened to Gary Cooper? CC Jasper, New York, NY
       Test Case XXXVII, EKWC, Oisterwijk, NL
       I wish we had more time, curated by teh Institute of Queer Ecology, KunstHausWien - Museum Hundertwasser,  Klima Biennale Wien, Vienna, Austria
       Regeneration: Long Island’s History of Ecological Art and Care, Parrish Museum, Watermill, NY
       Fossil Variations, Below Grand, New York, NY


2025
       Living Matter, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
       Dig a Hole...A Nest, ACE x Field Meridians, New York, NY      
       Napkin Show, Umarell, New York, NY
       The Living Room, Fugue Gallery, New York, NY
       How to Become A Body, Red Giant Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Meet Me In The Trees, THe Good Naked x The Clearing, Cragsmoor, NY
       Cupped, The Wolford House, Los Angeles, CA  
       Trembling Grounds, Push Pull Practice, curated by Rui, Area 405, Baltimore, MD
       Pairidaēza, Westbeth Galllery, curated by Celeste del Valle, New York, NY  
       Even In Arcadia There I Am, Hesse Flatow, curated by Andrew Gardner, New York, NY


2024
       Comfort Zones, New Uncanny, New York, NY
       Resurrectura, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA
       Meridian, Below Grand, New York, NY
        St. Moritz Art Film Festival, Switzerland
       Garden Magic, Curated by Kendall DeBoer + Maya Rubio, OVERLAP, Newport, Rhode Island
       Gone Fishin’, ILY2, Portland, OR
       Currents, Columbia MFA Summer Show, SK Gallery, New York NY    
       Entanglements, Putty’s Coronation, New York, NY
       There She Lay, curated by Claire Felonis, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
       MFA Thesis Exhibition 2024, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY
       Leaps of Conciousness, ZAZ Times Square, New York, NY
       Common Ground, Indian Ceramics Triennale, Artshilla, New Delhi, India
       Skeleton Pants, Soloway, New York, NY


2023
Implosion Paradigm Incoming, Below Grand, New York, NY
in media res, Le Blanc, New York, NY
Kayfabe, curated by BBQLA at Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
IN RESPONSE: The Sassoons, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Press Release (Cycle III), Storage Gallery, New York, NY
Class of 2024 First-Year MFA Exhibition,
Wallach Gallery at Columbia
University, New York, NY

2022
Hypersaline, Bozomag, Los Angeles, CA
Rough Cuts, curated by Material Girls, Mass Gallery, Austin, TX
The Atavistic Homeschooling of Espalier
, Below Grand, New York, NY
A Body is a Home, Hark LA, Los Angeles, CA
Augurhythms, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
Symbiosis: Sculpting the Art of Living Together, Organized by Culture Hub LA, Navel, Los Angeles, CA
Cotyledon, Cotyledon Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Plantasia, Petty Cash, New York, NY
Live, Laugh, Love, Below Grand, New York, NY
Nature vs Nurture, Brea Gallery, Orange County, CA

2021
A Memory Which Acts, House Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Never Finished, collaboration with Emily Blythe Jones, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
The Space Between Your Nostrils, RESORT, Baltimore, MD

2020
Unearthed, Ars Electronica ft SUPERCOLLIDER, Los Angeles, CA
Vitrines, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD
Ghost Art Projects, online
Technosphere, Spring/Break Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
Tailgate, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
A Message to Space, SUPERCOLLIDER, Los Angeles, CA

2019
Hygiene & Other Surplus, Gallery Also, Los Angeles, CA
Velvet Ropes, Martha’s Contemporary, Austin, TX
Hop Scotch, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Big Ringer, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Oozy Rat In A Sanitary Zoo, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

2018
Holiday Open House, Resort Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Artstartart, East Austin Studio Tour, Austin, TX
Red Dot, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
Sketches, Shoes Off, Brooklyn, NY
Through The Closet, Tracy’s Room, Brooklyn, NY
Beast Manner Collective, West Austin Studio Tour, Austin, TX
Stickermom: Soft Scramble, UT Research Week, Austin, TX
Quickie, Dude Ranch, Austin, TX
The End, Fab Gallery, Austin, TX
It's Not What You Think, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Untitled, Visual Art Center, Austin, TX

2017
Art Bash, Native Hostel, Austin, TX
Through Friction, Art & Vinyl, Austin, TX
Hello Girls! No Vacancy 3,New York, NY
Meta_"Real"_World, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX



SELECTED TALKS, PRESENTATIONS + WORKSHOPS

2026    
       
 Earth Day Panel & Reception with artists and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Parrish Art Museum
          Ways of Making: Plastic (Bioplastics), educational video, Columbia University School of the Arts. Featuring Sasha Fishman in conversation with Andrew Brehm. YouTube.
          Bioplastics workshop intensive, Scripps College, October 13+15, 2026
          Fish skin tanning workshop, Shoals Marine Lab, June 12, 2026
          Artist Talk, Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY, July 5, 2026
          Artist Talk, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, October 13, 2026
          Artist Talk, University of Virginia, Charllotesville, VA, August 28, 2026

2025
         
Shad Mode exhibition walk through + Bonneville Tour, Portland, OR, December 13, 2025
          Reclaiming Artistic Research: Q+A with Lucy Cotter, Stello Arts, Portland, OR, December 14, 2025
          Soho House Portland, OR, August 12, 2025
          The Art Lover’s Guide to the Environment: Art and Climate, Patagonia Brooklyn, January 30, 2025
         
Fish skin tanning workshop, PICA, December 14, 2025
          Myco-Doh workshop, Genspace, November 8, 2025
          Myco-Doh workshop, Pratt, November 4, 2025
          Earthfishing with Field Meridians and Oko Farms, Swan Marina, NY, October 26, 2025
          Fish skin tanning workshop, Pratt, October 22, 2025
          Bioplastics Workshop, Columbia University, October 15, 2025
          Bioplastics workshop, Pratt Foundations Lab, October 8, 2025
          Earthfishing with MOLD Magazine + Sasha Fishman + Embodied Earth, Rockaway Beach, April 20, 2025
          Bioplastics Workshop, SUNY Purchase, April 1, 2025
          Mycelium Dough Workshop, Area 405, Baltimore, MD, March 14, 2025
          Experimental Bioplastics, LA Tactile Lab, Los Angeles, CA, March 1, 2025
          Mycelium Dough Workshop, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA, February 22, 2025
          Studio visit, University of Texas at Austin, November 5, 2025
          Preserving Marine Bodies, Pratt, October 29, 2025
          Artist Talk, University of Texas at Austin, October 23, 2025
          Shad Mode Walk Through, PNCA, September 17, 2025
          Artist Talk, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien), April 11,                       Studio Visit: CUNY Staten Island, March 7, 2025
          Sculpting Sustainable Materials, SUNY Purchase, April 2, 2025
          Sculpting Sustainable Materials, University of Texas at Austin, March 11, 2025
          Artist Talk, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA, February 18, 2025

2024
        Bug Materials, Carnegie Mellon University, November 21, 2024
        Seaweed Bioplastics Workshop, Reti Barge, organized by Embodied Earth, October 12, 2024
          Reflections on Transcorporeal Femenism, Columbia Global Center Mumbai, India January 7, 2024

2023

Sasha Fishman’s Biomaterials, Ecopoetics NYC, October 27, 2023
Sasha Fishman: Book Launch  + Material Stretch Archive, Printed Matter, October 13, 2023
Liquid Eel, Columbia GSAPP Material Variance Conference, September 19, 2023
Mushroom Clay Workshop, Collaboration with Lera Niemackl, Columbia University, New York, NY, April 2, 2023

2022
Timekeepers: Shrimpkeepers Bioplastic Extraction, Navel, Los Angeles, CA, July 9, 2022
Artist Talk: Sculpting Sustainable Futures, University of Colorado Boulder, January 24, 2022

2021        
Artist Talk: Sculpting Sustainable Futures (collaboration with Emily Blythe Jones), Kenyon College, November 4, 2021
Artist Talk: Bio-Plastics: Sculptural Experimentation, Natural History Society of Maryland, July 22, 2021
Workshop:
Timekeepers Community Cicada Collection + Bioplastic Extraction, The Shed Space, Baltimore, MD, July 9, 2021
Visiting Artist: Cycad Fossil Sculpture Workshop, Goucher College, June 21 + 23, 2021
Artist Talk (collaboration with Emily Blythe Jones), University of Denver, Denver, CO, March 5, 2021 Artist Talk, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, February 18, 2021
Artist Talk, CSULB, Long Beach, CA, February 2, 2021
Workshop: How to Grow Your Own Dye Using Algae (collaboration with Spira) Genspace, New York, NY, January 9 + 21, 2021

2020
Artist Talk (collaboration with Emily Blythe Jones),Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, November 2020
Presentation: Sculpting Marine Waste: Methods for Biomaterial Characterization for Home + Studio Labs, Fall Seminar Day, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, October 20, 2020
Presentation: Sculpting Sustainable Resin: Castable and Optically Clear Biocomposite from Chitosan and Hagfish Slime Fibers, Summer Seminar Day, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, July 7, 2020

2018    
Artist Talk, Dallas Museum of Art, Dalls, Texas, May 5, 2018

TEXT
        Sasha Fishman’s ‘Lemniscata’ puts water into motion at Ruffin Gallery, UVA
       Lemniscata, Ruffin Gallery at UVA. Exhibition publication for Lemniscata.
        I Wish We Had More Time, edited by Stephan Kuss & Veronika Hackl, KunstHausWien GmbH, Vienna, 2026. Exhibition publication, Klima Biennale Wien. Printed by Gugler GmbH.
        Launching Lamprey: Sasha Fishman at ILY2
        Shad Mode, ILY2, Portland, Oregon, 2025. Exhibition broadside with essay by Annabel Keenan, edition of 250.
        Dezeen: New York exhibition “reimagines the home” using furniture made of biomaterials
        Sasha Fishman Fixates on Fish in Solo Exhibition at ILY2 Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, Emily Hollander
        Earthfishing Cooking with Fire Clay and Fish, MOLD Magazine
        Sasha Fishman at Murmurs, Quinyuan Deng, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles
        The Daniel Docs Interview: Sasha Fishman, Daniel Docs, Daniel Spielberger
        Resurrectura – On Sasha Fishman’s Material Alchemy And Corporeal Landscapes, Mold Magazine, Orla Keating-Beer
       
New Uncanny’s Haunting Reveries, Impulse Magazine, Xeuzhu Jenny Wang
         Sasha Fishman ‘24 Debuts ‘Resurrectura’ at Murmurs, Columbia University School of the Arts
         Student Sasha Fishman Bridges Arts and Science with Bioplastics, Columbia University School of the Arts, Madalina Teles Bortes
Sasha Fishman’s Implosion Paradigm Incoming, Qingyuan Deng, Brooklyn Rail
Sculpting Forms Through Biogenic Material Research, Slow + Sustain, Iss. 04
Spira’s Partner Feature: Sasha Fishman,
Spira Inc
Announcing the 2022 Alumni Microgrant Recipients, Scholasatic Art + Writing Awards
Yanelab Podcast: Sasha Fishman – Biomaterials in Sculpture, February 16, 2022
Rupture and Regeneration: Sophia Belkin and Sasha Fishman in Resort’s Final Shows, Bmore Art, Rebekah Kirkman, July 6, 2021
Kirschner, Noelani, Sasha Fishman,The American Scholar, September 21, 2020
Mccain, Peter, “My Date with A Hagfish” Batshit Times, April 2020.
“Check out Sasha Fishman” Voyage LA, 3 Oct. 2019.
Max, Amy. “STUDIO VISIT – SASHA FISHMAN.” INERTIA, 7 Sept. 2019.
Belblidia, Nora. “Blurring the Boundary Between Art and Science – BmoreArt - Baltimore ContemporaryArt.” Bmoreart, 5 Sept. 2019.
Johnson, Brooke; Fishman, Sasha; Murchison, Seth; Wilson, Rachel; Rodriguez, Tin. “Oozy Rat In A Sanitary Zoo.” Limited edition risograph handbound books. Austin, Texas March, 2019.
Rachid, Jen. “Artist Spotlight :: Sasha Fishman.” Raw Paw, Jan. 2019.
Rees, Christina & Zech, Brandon, “Top Five: January 24, 2019”, Glasstire, Glasstire, 24 January 2019
“Artist Spotlight: Sasha Fishman.” ArtStartArt, 2018.
Jones, Ashley. “Awarded Anticipation: DMA 2018 Awards To Artists” Arts & Culture Texas, 18 June 2018.
“Dallas Museum of Art Announces 2018 Awards.” Glasstire, Glasstire, 4 May 2018.
“Sasha Fishman: Local Artist.” Venus, 14 Feb. 2017.
“Through Friction: Opening Reception.” Bbatx, 7 Dec. 2017.
“Sasha Fishman: Squiggle Garden.” Venus, 22 Dec. 2016.
“Photograms.” Venus, 22 Dec. 2016.
“How I Spent My Summer: Sasha Fishman.” The University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts, 2016.


  
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