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BIO
Sandra Koponen (b. 1961) is a visual artist with a background in music (sax, composition), photography/film/videography and writing.
She first exhibited in 2013, and in 2015 her painting "We Can't Breathe" was one of the few to receive mention in The New York Times' cover story about Smack Mellon's Respond show, which showcased over 700 artists' work around the police murder of Eric Garner. She later received mention in Vice News and other publications for other political artwork. In 2017, she had her first solo show of abstract landscapes, Transmogrified Weather, at SLA Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. (SLA founders now run Undercurrent in DUMBO NYC.)
Since then, she has worked on some private commissions, ventured into and multi-media installations and sculpture and has been in several shows, including two solo shows.
While a portion of SK's artwork has been politically themed and addressed topical issues, her primary objective is to explore abstraction and imagery from dreams and memory.
EXHIBITS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Transmogrified Weather, Sla307 Art Space, New York, NY, 11/10-12/9
Nail-a-thon; Participatory Sculpture/Performance, Streets of the East Village, New York, NY, 4/28
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
NEEDS UPDATING!
2024
VISUAL AIDS: POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE
2023
THE FEMINIST AGENDA AT W63RD STREET, NYC
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY, CHATHAM, NY
PHILMONT STUDIO, PHILMONT, NY
KINDERHOOK MEMORIAL LIBRARY ARTISTS STUDIO TOUR
2022
FEATURED ARTIST IN THE HUDSON EYE, SOLO DHOW AT HUDSON MILLINER
SCULPTURE AT THE FRANK INSTITUTE/CR10 ARTS, LIVINGSTON, NY
2021
Time and Space Gallery, Hudson, NY
Officials of Torture, Portraits in Oil August — ongoing
Art Omi, Ghent, NY
Staff Show
February 2021
Puffin Cultural Forum, online show, The Election
https://www.puffinculturalforum.org/the-election-2020/
2020
ARTE4A
Protest Art Show, online exhibit at https://www.arte4a.com/sandra-koponen
2019
Time and Space Gallery, Hudson, NY
Protest Art Show,
September 1—29th
2018
Worked on private commissions as well as a sonic sculpture/performance /installation for a private fund-rising event at an art institution in upstate NY.
2017
Nasty Women, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
2016
Hands: Art Craft Alive, Calibar Gallery, New York, NY
Smart Dust, Sla307 Art Space, New York, NY
Made in Ridgewood, Outpost Gallery, Queens, NY
Fun House, Art of the Surreal, Fantastic & Bizarre, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, Juried. Juror Eve Biddle,
The Greatest Art Never Seen, 188 Stanton St., New York, NY
Hyper Group Show, Superchief Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Berning Up Brooklyn! The Paper Box, Brooklyn, NY
Seeking Space. Be Electric, Brooklyn, NY, Juried.
Bushwick Open Studios, Queens, NY
Benefit Auction, Sla307 Art Space, New York, NY, Juried.
Making History, Bushwick Open Studio Auction. Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Respond, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Juried.
2014
Bushwick Open Studios. Queens, NY
2013
Curate NYC; Top 150, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, Juried.
CURRICULUM VITAE available upon request.