Saskia Krafft

ABOUT

Please contact saskia.krafft(at)columbia.edu

EDUCATION

2019 Visual Arts MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY

2016 Drawing BA, University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany (GER)

SOLO / DUO EXHIBITIONS

2017 Cartography of Becoming Immaterial, Kleppart Cultural Sciences Gallery, Paderborn, GER

2016 Dumbo w/ Silke Weißbach, UFO Gallery, Hamburg, GER

GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SELECTED

2021 Zoom Zone (permanent installation), Mineta San Jose International Airport, San Jose, CA

2020 Making A Way, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN

Making A Way, Winfisky Gallery at Salem State University, Salem, MA

Let's Face It, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA

2019 The Waste Land, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY

A Crack In Everything, In Response, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

Peace Is Power, Water Event, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Leipzig, GER

Visual Arts Thesis Exhibition, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY

UNnatural, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, GER

2018 Museum of Values, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, GER

Eco-Connectivity, Thaer Institute at Humboldt University, Berlin, GER

feel that other day running underneath this one, Times Square Space, New York, NY

Home, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

MFA 1st Year Show, Wallach Art Gallery, Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY

Et Tu, Art Brute, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY

2017 Gross Stadt Dschungel, Bunkerhill Gallery, Hamburg, GER

The Tyranny of Common Sense Has Reached Its Final Stage, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY

Draw/Boston, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Boston, MA

2016 How To Communicate Through Light, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

Glaubensfragen? Zur Ästhetik von Geschichte(n), University of Hamburg, Hamburg, GER

Utopien für Stadtmenschen von Heute, Faktor, Hamburg, GER

2015 Parts To Whole - Interdisciplinary Printmaking, MICA Main Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Holzschnitt im Künstlerhaus, Frise Gallery, Hamburg, GER

2014 Zur Hälfte Schwarz, Gallery Speckstrasse, Hamburg, GER

Leipzig Book Fair, Leipzig, GER

AWARDS / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

2020 Goldbek-Scholarship, Nominee, Hamburg, GER

2019 Morty Frank Fellowship through Columbia University, NYC

Summer Residency Fund through Columbia University, NYC

Dedalus MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture, Nominee

2018 Quadrille Ball Scholarship, Germanistic Society of America

18-19 Andrew Fisher Fellowship, Columbia University, NYC

Glasier Scholarship through Columbia University, NYC

17-18 Fulbright Scholarship, German-American Fulbright Commission

LeRoy and Janet Neiman Scholarship, Columbia University NYC

17-19 Visual Arts Scholarship, Columbia University NYC

2018 Dean's Travel Grant, Columbia University, NYC

Workshop Scholarship, Urbanglass, Brooklyn, NY

2015 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), USA PROMOS-Scholarship

Karl H. Ditze Foundation, International Mobility Support Fund

2014 Karl H. Ditze Foundation, 'The Best Project' HAW Hamburg, 1st Prize

COLLECTIONS

Permanent History Collection, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA

RESIDENCIES / SELECTED

The Knight Foundation Art + Research Center, ICA Miami, FL

A-Z West - Institute of Investigative Living, Joshua Tree, CA

Museum of Lithographic Art, Tidaholm, Sweden

Goethe Institute Paris, France

Arts, Letters & Numbers, Averill Park, NY

Artist House Lauenburg, Lauenburg at the Elbe, GER

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2021 Adjunct Professor for Curatorial Studies, Museum Langes-Tannen, Uetersen, GER

20-21 Adjunct Professor for Woodcut, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, GER

Global Classroom Educator, One To World, New York, NY

2020 Visiting Artist, Critical Theory, Prof. Leeza Meksin, Columbia University, New York, NY

2018 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Relief Printing, Columbia University, New York, NY

2017 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Animation and Mono Printing, Columbia University, New York, NY

2016 Class Assistant for Screen Printing, Columbia University, New York, NY

2014 Adjunct Teacher for Installation Art, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, GER