Biography


Education

2005   M.F.A. Painting/Drawing, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1999   B.F.A. Painting/Drawing, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1997   B.A. Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2008   Ruth Laskey , Song Song, Vienna, Austria
2008   7 Weavings , Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2004   Disarticulate , Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999   Familiars , California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1999   Recent Paintings , California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Group Exhibitions

2008   here's why patterns, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
2007   Artists of Invention : A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2007   Blank Canvas presented by Condé Nast & 7 For All Mankind, NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
2007   Alpha, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2007   By Our Hands, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
2007   Four Generations of Women at CCA, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006   Material World, Alliance Francaise, San Francisco, CA
2005   The Sleight of Hand, the Artist's Touch, Linc Art, San Francisco, CA
2005   Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
2005   M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, California College of the Arts, CA
2005   New American Paintings: M.F.A. Annual, Open Studios Press, Wellesly, MA
2004   Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts , S.F. Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004   All College Honors and Scholarship Awards Exhibition, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2003   Taqueria Cancun, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA

Awards

2005   Richard K. Price Scholar, California College of the Arts
2004   Murphy/Cadogan Fellowship Award, San Francisco Foundation
2004   All College Honors, First Honorable Mention, California College of the Arts
2000   Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
1999   Richard K. Price Scholar, California College of Arts and Crafts

Bibliography

Huston, Johnny Ray. "Neo Geo Trio." San Francisco Bay Guardian, v.42 no.28 (April 9-15, 2008), p. 48.
Churner, Rachel. "Openings: Ruth Laskey." Artforum, v.46 no.6 (February 2008), p. 274-275.
Artists of Invention: a Century of CCA. San Francisco, Calif. : California College of the Arts, c2007.
McQuaid, Cate. "Artist's metaphors..." The Boston Globe, January 17, 2003, p. C19.
Parcellin, Paul. "The Out of Towners." RETRO-ROCKET ( http://www.retro- rocket.com/archive/taqueria_cancun.html)