Sonja Schenk
Sonja Schenk is an internationally-exhibiting artist from Los Angeles. She began with video installation work and has since turned to painting and sculpture. She was an artist-in- residence at Cerritos College and recently created a site-specific installation for the Joshua Treenial, a biennial in the Southern California desert. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster, California and at Prescott College Art Gallery in Arizona, and she created a commissioned outdoor sculpture for Porch Gallery in Ojai, California. She was artist-in- residence at Shasta-Whiskeytown National Park and visiting artist at the Thomas McKeon Center for Creativity in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has shown work at the Yokohama Triennial in Japan, the Musée du Papier-Peint in Switzerland, the Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles, the Brand Library Art Center in Glendale, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Berkeley Art Center in Northern California. Her work has been featured in Palm Springs Life, the L.A. Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Eastbay Express (Oakland, CA), La Liberté (Fribourg, Switzerland), and the arts journal AEQAI. This year, she has an upcoming exhibitions at Elephant Art Space in Los Angeles and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art in Japan
