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EDUCATION
2005 MFA, New Media, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2001 BA, Photography, Film & Cultural Studies, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
2000 Year Abroad, Asian Cultural Studies, Friends World College, Bangalore, India
TEACHING & LECTURES
2013: Guest Teacher: Teen Art Connect, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2011: Teacher: Self-Portraiture Workshop, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2009: Lecture: Language of Lineage, University of Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Lecture: Chronology of Influences, California College of the Arts, CA
2008: Lecture: Centaurs and Hybrids, California College of the Arts, CA
Lecture: Chromophilia, California College of the Arts, CA
Lecture: Earlier Or Later, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
2007: Graduate Reviewer: California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Lecture: Sentimental Maverick, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Lecture: Currents and Undercurrents, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2006: Lecture: Borderland Boys & Crooked Meadows, Gymnasium School, Krumlov, Czech Republic
2005: Lecture: Making Photographic Books, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2004: Lecture: Super 8 Filmmaking, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
2000: Teacher & Resident Artist: Art, Women and Revolution, The Barli Institute for Rural Women, Indore, India
COLLECTIONS
Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Capricious Library Space, Brooklyn, NY
SHORT FILMS
2001 Streak Her Stark, 4 min., Super 8
Untitled (India, My Love), 12 min., Super 8
2000 Wind, Memory, 2.5 min., Super 8
1999 Erin In The Bright, 3 min., Super 8
RESIDENCIES
2016 Lucas Artist Residency, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2007 Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
2006 Milkwood International, Cesky Krumlov, The Czech Republic
2001 The Barli Institute For Rural Women, Indore, India
GRANTS/AWARDS
2007 Print Sponsorship Grant, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
2004 Graduate Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1997 Senior Scholarship in Photography, B.I. Arts and Humanities Council, Bainbridge Is., WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2014: Where With All, Goodnight Projects, San Francisco, CA
2008: Crooked Meadow, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006: I know the pieces fit, Tartine, San Francisco, CA
2005: At the Edge of Nowhere, Everything, Thesis Exhibition, CCA, San Francisco, CA
2003: Devi/Detour, Dana’s Show House Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA
2002: Eyes to Hold, Hands to Slice, The Little Theatre Gallery, Seattle WA
2001: The Quilted Wall, A*Space Gallery, Bronxville, NY
1999: It Flutters, It Wings, Four Angels, Seattle, WA
1998: Scholarship Award Show, B.I. Arts and Humanities Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014: Carte Blanch, Central Features, Albuquerque, NM The New Westward Expansion, Tartine, San Francisco, CA
2009: Benefit Auction of Photographic Prints, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Re: Focus, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
Adobe Books 20th Anniversary Auction, San Francisco, CA
The Sketchbook Show, Orange Alley Projects, San Francisco, CA
2008: New Langton Arts Auction, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Other Than History, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lithuania Art '08: Photography, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Summer Reading, Capricious Space, Brooklyn, NY
Book It!, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Annual Silent Art Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Annual Art Auction, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2007: And Who Are You? Work from Saatchi Online, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, NY
New Langton Arts Auction, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Grounded, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Notebook Show: A Selection from Artist's Books, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Other Dance, Warehouse 1310, San Francisco, CA
GROUPSHOW No.7, 10th Annual Art Sale, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2005: Post-Postcard, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Forest for the Trees, Counterpulse, San Francisco, CA
Shelter, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Postcard Show, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2004: We Are Not Alone, Secluded Alley Works (SAW), Seattle, WA
2003: New Photography, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Celluloid Film & Video Festival, Lynwood Theatre, Bainbridge Island, WA
2002: Distinguishing Features (Screening), The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
In the Mirror of Maya Derren (Screening), Berlin Lesbian Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Bellevue Art Museum Film & Video Festival, (Screening), Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Fairy Tales And Fables (Screening), Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
2001: Community Works, Kingston Community Artworks, Kingston, WA
Homegrown: Local Shorts (Screening), The Egyptian Theater, Seattle, WA
1999: Wind, Memory (Screening), The Little Theatre, Seattle, WA
BIBILIOGRAPHY
Rad Dad Magaine, Issue 2, Summer 2014
Hot N Gold Magazine Interview: Issue 1, April 2014
Photo World Magazine Cover and Interview, March 2014
The Self Portrait In Contemporary Art, by Susan Bright. Thames & Hudson, 2010
Crooked Meadow: Airyka Rockefeller at Jack Fischer Gallery, Artweek, July/August, 2008
Modernism As Muse And Source Of Amusement, San Francisco Chronicle, April 12, 2008
Reading Between The Lines, Style.com, April 14, 2008
Lithuanian Art ’08: Photography, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Airyka Rockefeller in Conversation With Ana Finel Honigman, Saatchi Gallery Online, Dec.10, 2007
The Borderland Boys (Excerpt), Satellite Magazine, vol.1, 2006
Headache, Shots Magazine, Issue 87, 2005
Anything Can Happen, Global City Review, New York, 2002
The History Of A Girl’s Memory In Kisses (Story), Global City Review, New York 2001
On The Photographs of Airyka Rockefeller, Bainbridge Voice, Summer 1998
Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood, by Linda Wolf and Wind K. Hughes. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada and Stony Creek, CT: New Society Publishers, 1997.
LIMITED EDITION PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
Bones, Spring 2009
Castles, Copies and Caves, Winter 2008
Crooked Meadow, Spring 2008
The Borderland Boys, Autumn 2007
I Know The Pieces Fit, Spring 2006
I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night, Autumn 2005
Wreck-Creations, Spring 2005
Suggestion Territories, Spring 2005
Samuel & Violette, Spring 2005
The Gravity of Flesh Undoes Us, Spring 2005
Finding Flotsam, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2004
Secret/Solitude, Autumn 2004
Drift/Inhabit, Autumn 2004
The Many-Limbed, Winter 2004