b. Albuquerque, NM, 1980

 

EDUCATION

  • 2009
  • MFA, California College of the Arts
  • 2002
  • BA, honors, Yale University Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, 2000-2001

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2010
  • Folly, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2 x 2 Solos: Elisheva Biernoff, curated by Cicely Sweed, ProArts, Oakland, CA

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2011
  • Better A Live Ass Than A Dead Lion, Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2010
  • Route 2: Undisclosed Destination, curated by Sharon Lerner, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • Stacked / Multiplied, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, curated by Devon Bella and Katie Hood Morgan, San Francisco, CA
  • Almost Outlines: Math Bass and Elisheva Biernoff, 2nd floor projects, San Francisco, CA
  • SC13, curated by Chris Fitzpatrick and Post Brothers, The San Francisco Antique & Design Mall, San Francisco, CA
  • Front and Center: Weather Stream, curated by Vanessa Blaikie, Joey Piziali and Jessica Brier, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
  • 2009
  • Art in Storefronts, run by San Francisco Arts Commission and Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Punctuation..., curated by Chris Fitzpatrick and Kevin Killian, Right Window, San Francisco, CA
  • Introductions 2009, curated by Glen Helfand, Eleanor Harwood and Meg Shiffler, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
  • Children of the Revolution, curated by Keith Boadwee, Federal Art Project, Los Angeles, CA
  • MFA Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • 2008
  • Immediate Future, curated by Lisa Dent, Charles Mobley, Denise Ruiz and Meg Shiffler. SFAC Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Ready to Pop!, curated by Keith Boadwee, Blankspace, Oakland, CA
  • Subversive Complicity, curated by Heather M. Mikolaj and Clare Haggarty, The LAB, San Francisco, CA2006
  • OUTsideIN, curated by Douglas Fogle, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
  • Tantallion Gardens, Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY

 

PUBLIC PROJECTS and COMMISSIONS

  • 2011
  • Art on Market Street Program, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
  • 2006
  • Reading Room Mural, Richmond Hill Library, Queens, NY Reading Room Mural, Forest Hills Library, Queens, NY Reading Room Mural, Briarwood Library, Queens, NY

 

AWARDS

 

  • 2010
  • Kala Art Institute Fellowship, juried by Jens Hoffmann, Berkeley, CA Finalist, Tournesol Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
  • 2009
  • Kala Art Institute Honorable Mention Fellowship, juried by Lawrence Rinder, Berkeley, CA
  • Finalist, Tournesol Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2008
  • Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship Award, San Francisco, CA 2007-8
  • Merit Scholarship, CCA, San Francisco, CA

 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS and EVENTS

  • 2009
  • Sweet and Matchless, PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • For Lovers and Fighters, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
  • 2008
  • Collage at College, PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

RESIDENCIES

  • 2009 - 2010
  • Root Division, San Francisco, CA

 

BENEFITS

  • 2009
  • Root Division Annual Auction, San Francisco, CA Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

 

PRESS

  • 2010
  • “Elisheva Biernoff” Artforum Critic’s Pick, Glen Helfand “Folly”, Shotgun Review, Art Practical, Leigh Markopoulos
  • 2006
  • “Lessons in Trompe L’oeil,” ReadyMade, p. 52-54, April, Katherine Sharpe

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

  • Artnow International, San Francisco, CA