Kira Dominguez Hultgren
b. 1980, Oakland, California
Represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA, http://eleanorharwood.com/artists/kira-dominguez-hultgren/
2019/2020 San Francisco Arts Commission Prequalified Artist Pool
Education
2019 MFA Fine Arts and MA Visual and Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2012 Mapuche Textile Arts Apprenticeship, Ruca Mallín, Río Negro Province, Argentina
2003 BA, Comparative Literature, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2021 (anticipated) A Beautiful Mess: Weavers and Knotters of the Vanguard, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2020 Invincible Summer, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2020 I was India: Embroidering Exoticism (Solo Exhibition), San Jose Museum of Quilt and Textile, San Jose, CA
2020 Cosmic Fluff (Solo Exhibition/Facebook Booth Installation), UNTITLED, ART, San Francisco, CA
2020 Intrusions (Solo Exhibition), Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Fiberful, curated by Cynthia Ona Innis, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2019 Stitching and Weaving in the Digital Age, curated by Christine Duval, Currents 826, Santa Fe, NM
2019 My Mother’s Maiden Name, curated by Tanya Gayer, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2019 Trap, Trauma, Transformation, curated by Rohan DaCosta, Greenlining Institute, Oakland, CA
2019 O! ‘darkly, deeply, beautifully blue…’, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Bridge (Solo Exhibition), Gensler, San Francisco, CA
2018 Stitching and Weaving in the Digital Age, Résidence de France, San Francisco, CA
2018 All College Honors Award Exhibition, Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2018 Wingspan (Solo Exhibition), Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 MFA Exhibition I, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2018 This Message Has No Content, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Caught in the Fray, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA
2017 The Annual Murphy and Cadogan Awards Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2017 TEXT TALES: Narrativity in Cloth & Thread, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA
2016 The Immediate Archive, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA
2015 Roots of the Maypole (Solo Exhibition), Codornices Park, Berkeley, CA, USA
2013 Iconography of Loss, 24-hour outdoor installation (Solo Exhibition), Victoria, MN, USA
2012 Duendes y Hadas de Fieltro, Antu Werken, Paraje Entre Ríos, RN, Argentina
2011 La Teoria del Color, Escuela Micael, Paraje Entre Ríos, RN, Argentina
2011 Lado Derecho, Centro Cultural, El Bolsón, RN, Argentina
Residencies/Fellowships
2020 Facebook AIR, San Francisco, CA
2019-2020 Graduate Fellowship, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2019 Lia Cook Jacquard Weaving Residency, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2019 Gensler AIR, San Francisco, CA
Honors and Awards
2020 Hopper Prize, Spring 2020, hopperprize.org
2020 Brandford/Elliott Award Nomination for Excellence in Fiber Arts, Textile Society of America, Baltimore, MD
2019 MFA Professional Development Fellowship Honorable Mention, College Art Association, New York, NY
2019 SECA Award Nomination, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2018 All College Honors Scholarship in Graduate Fine Arts Award, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018 Commencement Exhibition Curator Award, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018 Dennis Leon and Christin Nelson Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2017 Edwin Anthony and Adalaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarship, San Francisco, CA
2017 Toni A. Lowenthal Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Textiles, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016 Toni A. Lowenthal Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Textiles, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016 Lenore Tawney Fiber and Material Studies Scholarship (declined), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Media Coverage
2020 Rus, Mayer. “Step Inside a Family’s Sophisticated Santa Cruz Getaway,” (review). Architectural Digest, July/August
2020.
2020 Bravo, Tony. “Minnesota Street Project Opens First Group Gallery Show in Atrium, Launches Virtual Portal,” (review).
San Francisco Chronicle. July 8, 2020.
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2020 Huguenor, Mike. “I was India at San Jose Museum of Quilt and Textile,” March 4, 2020.
2020 Donoghue, Katy. “Tina Vaz on Facebook’s Artist-in-Residence Program,” (interview). Whitewall. January 15, 2020.
2020 Hotchkiss, Sarah. “Six Bay Area Art Shows to See in 2020,” (review). KQED. January 2020.
2020 UNTITLED, ART, Conversations, “Strange Combinations: Analog meets Virtual,” moderated by James Voorhies, January
2020. Podcast.
2019 CAA News Today, “Meet the 2018 Professional Development Fellows,” January 2019.
/news/2019/01/28/meet-the-2018-professional-development-fellows/
2018 Lutz, Leora. “Coded, Recent Weavings by Kira Dominguez Hultgren.” Essay published in conjunction with Wingspan
Exhibition, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, June 2018.
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2018 Cheng, Dewitt. “Kira Dominguez Hultgren,” (review). Visual Art Source. June 2018.
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2017 Kost, Ryan. “Identity and History on Display at SOMArts Show,” (review). SF Gate. September 20, 2017.
2017 Venkat, Uji. “2017 Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition,” (review). Emergent Art Space. November
10, 2017.
Teaching/Visiting Artist Lectures
2020 Artist Lecture, “Cosmic Fluff: Materializing Countable Identity,” Living Room Light Exchange, San Francisco, CA
2020 Artist Lecture, “I was India: Materializing Imagined Identities in Contemporary Fiber Art,” Visiting Artist Lecture Series,
Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
2019 Artist Lecture, “Textiles as Appropriative Practice,” Fine Art Lecture Series, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2019 Artist Lecture, “Beyond Women’s Work: Embodied and Material Rhetoric,” Craft Theory I, California College of the
Arts, San Francisco, CA
2019 Artist Lecture, Visiting Artist Program, Gensler, San Francisco, CA
2019 TA, California College of the Arts, Jacquard Weaving: Zeros and Ones, Oakland, CA
2018 Artist Lecture, “Material Rhetoric,” Craft Theory I, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018 TA, California College of the Arts, Jacquard Weaving: Zeros and Ones, San Francisco, CA
2017 TA, California College of the Arts, Contemporary Art History and Theory (Graduate Survey), San Francisco, CA
Conference Papers and Panels
2019 “Here, and No Further: Material Rhetoric in Loom with Textile.” Paper presented at VCS Symposium, California College
of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2019 Artists. Panel speaker, My Mother’s Maiden Name, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2019 “Here, and No Further: Material Rhetoric in Loom with Textile.” Paper presented at Timepieces, the Centre for
Comparative Literatures 29th Annual Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
2019 Artist/Parents. Panel speaker, Making (it) Work curated by Karla Wozniak and Georgia Elrod. Oliver Art Center,
Oakland, CA
2017 “Hawaii with an L: How Black and White Became Hawaiian in John Ford’s The Hurricane.” Paper presented at the
Identities, Difference, and Power Symposium, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2017 Artists/Students of Color Experience in Higher Arts Education panel speaker, Murphy & Cadogan Equity in Arts
Education Summit, SOMArts Cultrual Center, San Francisco, CA