Vanessa Koch is a painter based in Woodside, California. She lives and works in a redwood forest where she devotes her attention to the web of nature in which she is woven. She paints to awaken inside her a sense of connection that curiously seems to slip from human grasp.
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Vanessa Koch
b. 1987 Sandusky, Ohio
lives and works in San Francisco Bay Area, California
EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2018 Startup Art Fair at Hotel Del Sol, San Francisco, CA
2018 Startup Art Fair at The Kinney, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Connected, Public Works, San Francisco, CA
2017 Love Is, The Galallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Loving Golden Gate, SF Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Abstractions, SF Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Popup Paintings, Flipp, San Francisco, CA
2015 ‘How Can We’ Mural, Proxy @ Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA
2014 Mural Music & Arts Project workshop, Designer Fund, San Francisco, CA
2012 Art & Writing Workshop, 826LA, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Creative Process Series, III, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 'Claim Change: women's equality' city-wide installation, Pittsburgh, PA
2010 Equal Pay Day Rally, Pittsburgh, PA
2009 Women’s Symposium installation and talk , Chatham University, PA
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2013 Designer-in-Residence, Designer Fund, San Francisco, CA
2010 Grant recipient, Women and Girls Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA
2010 Landesberg Design Studio award for excellence in design
2009 Marilyn Meltzer prize for outstanding use of color
EDUCATION
2010 BFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Semester Intensive, Florence Design Academy, Florence, Italy
