LITTERATURE SOMMER ROMAN
Born 1981 California;
Currently lives and works in San Luis Obispo, California
EDUCATION
2014 MFA, University of California, Santa Barbara
2011 School of Art & Design at Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD
2003 BA, Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
EXHIBITIONS
2025 (forthcoming), 2-person Exhibition, Edna Contemporary Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
2025 (forthcoming) Tisser le Futur, Musées d'Angers, Angers, France
2023 Faculty Exhibition, HJ Miossi Gallery at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo CA
2023 Portals, solo exhibition, The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara, CA
2022/23 Dirty Laundry, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA
2022 Conceptual Stitch, Concord Center for the Arts, Massachusetts
2022 2022 Uncanny, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2022 Nobles Among Us, Solo Exhibition, HJ Miossi Gallery, Cuesta College, CA
2021 Living Matter, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 Organic, group exhibition, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2021 BioMass, The Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA
2018/19 Mentors & Makers; The Artists of Westmont College, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2018 JuxtaPOSE, group exhibition, Santa Barbara Arts Funds Gallery, CA
2018 solo exhibition @ Ventura College New Media Gallery
2016 Sinking Sinking Sinking, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2015 Passage, solo exhibit, Project Space, UC Santa Barbara, CA
2015 Logical Elsewhere, 2-person exhibit, Cal State Channel Islands, Napa Gallery, CA
2015 Out of the Great Wide Open, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 Insert Salutations, Gallery 1328, UC Santa Barbara, CA
2014 Greater Los Angeles MFA (GLAMFA), Cal State Long Beach, CA
2014 What Would Barry Do?, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 Left Coast; Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
2014 Alter, MFA Thesis Exhibition, AD&A Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 Drift & Fixation, Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 The Land Has Many Parts, Jane Deering Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 Discarted, Porch Gallery, Ojai Art Festival, Ojai, CA *First place Juror's award
2013 208: First Year Review, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 Unholy Mess, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Ridley Tree House, CA
2013 Remnants, Gallery 479, Santa Barbara, CA (Duo show with Maria Rendon)
2012 The New Oceanscapes, Art from Scrap, Santa Barbara, CA *2nd Place Juror's Award
2012 Fiber Options: Material Explorations, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD *Honorable Mention Award
2012 MFA National Competition, First Sreet Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Materialize, Maze Gallery, solo exhibit, Cafritz Art Center, Takoma Park, MD
2011 Student Show, Cafritz Art Center, Takoma Park, MD
GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2017 Artist-in-Residence, The Squire Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA
2014/15 Artist-in-Residence, University of California at Santa Barbara
2014 Nominee, Dedalus Foundation, New York, Master of Fine Arts Fellowship
2014 Nominee, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, Academic Senate,
University of California at Santa Barbara
2013 First Place Juror’s Award, Ojai Discarted Art Festival, juried by Deborah Munk
2013 Levitan Arts Fellowship, University of California at Santa Barbara
2013 Block Grant Fellowship, University of California at Santa Barbara
2012 Block Grant Fellowship, University of California at Santa Barbara
2012 Second Place Juror’s Award, The New Oceanscapes, juried by Kip Fulbeck
2012 Honorable Mention Juror’s Award, Fiber Options, juried by J. Susan Isaacs
COLLECTIONS
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Various private collections
PRESS
Create! Magazine, Issue #49 (Feb 2025)
Hyperallergic, “View from the Easel” (Feb 2024)
Canvas Rebel, interview (Oct 2023)
VoiceSB, Article “The Evocative, Playful Mind of Sommer Roman” (Sept 2023)
Arte Morbida, interview (Dec 2022)
SLO Times, “Wild Wonder” (Feb 2022)
SLO Living, local artist spotlight (2022)
805 Living, local artist spotlight (2021)
SB Independent, "Review: Out of the Great Wide Open at MCASB," January 2015
VC Star, "Edging Upward," January 2015
Scene Magazine, "States of the Art," January 2015
The Creative Community t.v. Episode, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, interview by David Starkey; minute 23:00- 30:00, December 2014
Scene Magazine, "Afterlife of a Collection," June 2014
Scene Magazine, “Five for the Future” (May 2014)
Scene Magazine, “Naturally Unnaturalized” (April 2014)
Fiber Art Now, “On View Readers Showcase” (Spring 2014)
Scene Magazine, “Landscape, Revisited and Rethought,” January 2013
The Bottom Line, “MFA Open Studios Event Showcases Imagination, Innovation,” November 2012.