BORN 1978 Berkeley, CA

EDUCATION

2006 Master of Fine Arts Candidate, Stanford University, CA

2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

SOLO SHOWS

2006

“Emergence: Elements,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

“Emergence,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

2004

“Elemental,” Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2008

“Bay Area Now 5,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted 1907-2007, Nordic Watercolor Museum (Nordiska Akvarellmuseet), Skärhamn, Sweden

2006

“California Calligraphy Summit: Cali/Graffi,” San Francisco State University College of Creative Arts, San Francisco, CA

2006

California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

“One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now,” Asia Society and Museum, New York, NY

2005

“Do’Ka,” La Condition Publique, Roubaix, France

“Paper Cuts (again),” Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA

“The Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts Exhibition,” SF Art Commission Gallery, SF, CA

“rePresent,” Oliver Art Center, CCA, Oakland, CA

“Ala Ebtekar & Jeong-Im Yi,” Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“CrossConnections: of Past and Present,” Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2004

“A Look Forward and Back: Gallery 16’s Ten Year Anniversary,” Gallery 16, San Francisco CA

“The Wild Bunch 2,” THE ANNEX, New York, NY

“State of the Nation,” Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

“REBUS,” Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003

“Global Elegies: Art and Ofrendas for the Dead,” Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

“Pachanga!,” Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

“War of the Worlds,” in collaboration with Tim Rollins + K.O.S., White Box, New York, NY

“Purple with Love’s Wound,” in collaboration with Tim Rollins + K.O.S., University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA

“The Wild Bunch,” THE ANNEX, New York, NY

“Mark: Contemporary Drawings,” Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

“No War,” The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002

“Emerging Bay Area Artists,” San Francisco Design Center, San Francisco, CA

“In The Name of God: Works on Paper,” Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA

2001

Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA.

“War: What is it Good For?” Asian Resource Center Gallery, Oakland, CA

2000

In collaboration with Tim Rollins + K.O.S. The De Young Memorial Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

“Four Artists,” Blake Street Studio, Berkeley, CA

“Artists’ Books,” Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998

In collaboration with Tim Rollins + K.O.S., ZEUM, San Francisco, CA

In collaboration with Tim Rollins + K.O.S., Berkeley Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley

In collaboration with Tim Rollins + K.O.S., Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA

AWARDS

2005 Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship

2001 Presidential Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

2000 Presidential Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

1999 Presidential Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

Esso, Jordan, “Paper Cuts (again) at Fetterly Gallery” Artweek Vol.36, Issue 9, 2005, pg 13-14

Whiteside, Amber, “Ala Ebtekar” Sculpture Vol.24, No.3, 2005, pg 68-69

Lidgus, Sarah, “Ala Ebtekar” Contemporary Issue 66, 2004, pg 67.

Bing, Alison, “Elemental” Bidoun Fall 2004

Buckner, Clark, “Critic’s Choice: Art” The SF Bay Guardian June 30 2004, pg 75

Bing, Alison, “Elemental” SF Gate 6/2003.

Avila, Robert, “Eight Days a Week” The SF Bay Guardian June 16 2004, pg 71

Snyder, Jason, Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review Summer/Fall 2004, pg 154-161

Chlala, Youmna, “A Breath of Air” Eleven Eleven: CCA Literary Arts Journal Spring 2004, pg 60-61.

Bing, Alison, “'REBUS' and Barry McGee at Gallery Paule Anglim” Artweek March 2004, pg 14.

Bing, Alison, “The Bigger Picture: Painting and Politics” Kitchen Sink Summer 2003, pg 64.

Buuck, David, “Mark: Contemporary Drawings” Artweek July/August 2003, pg 12.

Bing, Alison, “Mark: Contemporary Drawings” SF Gate 5/2003.

Lewallen, Constance, “Rollins + K.O.S., A Survey of Works on Paper” Berkeley Art Museum Newsletter 1/1999, pg 5.

Ganahl, Jane, "Opening Young Minds to Art" San Francisco Examiner 1/13/98, pg C-1.