Education

2007 MFA - Painting, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

2003 BS - Studio Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Solo Exhibitions

2022

I May Bury a Things in Sand and Snow, Pamela Walsh Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

2020

Safety in the Shade, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA

2017

Polarities of Banality, Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York City

2016

Vacancy, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX

2015

East of Middle, H.J. Miossi Art Gallery, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

The Pleasure Seekers, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX

Between Borderlands, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX (catalogue)

2012

Focus at the Houston Fine Art Fair, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX

2011

New Landscapes, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2009

Quit the Neighborhood, Cactus Bra Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021

ART@CSU, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University; CA

2020

You are not wonderful… (virtual), Artist/Mother Podcast; artistmotherpodcast.com

2018

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles /Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Desire Lines, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art; Salt Lake City, UT

Seven Deadly Sins, Gala and Auction, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art; Salt Lake City, UT

What’s Too Silly to be Spoken, Must Be Sung, Eastside International Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Locals Only, Leftfield, San Luis Obispo, CA

2016

3rd Annual DRAWN, MANIFEST, Cincinnati, OH

FiEGGsta!, Artist Foundation of San Antonio; San Antonio, TX

Cal Poly Connection, Studios on the Park, Paso Robles, CA

2015

The 47th Collectors Show, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

One More Week of Summer, Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York City, NY

Faculty Research Triennial, Cal Poly University Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA

New Views on Landscapes, Main Gallery, UTSA, San Antonio, TX

Ignite, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX

Cal Poly Connection, Studios on the Park, Paso Robles, CA

2014

Nurtured Nature, Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York City, NY

Paris Art Fair, Muriel Guépin Gallery, Paris, France

Flight, San Antonio, TX

Texas Draws III, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX

5 x 7, The Texas Contemporary, Austin, TX

Star BASH, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX

2013

Miami Project, David Shelton Gallery, Miami FL

Drawing Annual, Tiny Park Gallery, Austin, TX

Rooted in Art, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX

Laissez Le Bon Temps Roulez, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX

Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

XVI Faculty Exhibition, Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

MAP, San Antonio Artists Foundation, San Antonio, TX

5 x 7, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX

Layered (Reverie), Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2012

Miami Project, David Shelton Gallery, Miami, FL

New Works on Paper, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX

5 x 7, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX

2011

Miami, David Shelton Gallery, Marlin Hotel, Miami Beach, FL

XV Faculty Exhibition, Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Texas Contemporary Art Fair, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX

Next, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX

Suite Art Fair, via David Shelton Gallery, Dallas, TX

Works on Paper, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX

BlackBall 2011, Glasstire: Texas Visual Art, Houston, TX

5 x 7, Arthouse at the Jones Center; Austin, TX

Bold about Art, Women and their Work; Austin, TX

2010

Road Show: Houston, David Shelton Gallery at Inman Annex, Houston, TX

ONE: Part 2, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Here and NOW and Then, Art Lofts Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

One: A Group Exhibition, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX

5 x 7, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX

Foretopia, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Chill, D Berman Gallery, Austin, TX

2009

One on One on One, Art Palace, Austin, TX

The Dog and Pony Show, Curator: Nina Rizzo, Assistant Professor of Painting, NIU, Bad Dog Gallery, DeKalb, IL

60 WRD/MIN Art Critic, participant in Lori Waxman’s performance critic at Arthouse, Austin, TX

Twisted Spurs 2009, Juror: Angel Quesada of the Mexic-Arte Museum, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX (Award Recipient)

Paperworks 2009 International Juried Competition, Juror: Maura Heffner, Exhibition Mgr. Whitney Museum of American Art, B.J. Spokes Gallery, Huntington, NY

27th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror: Nat Trotman, Assistant Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art, Inc, New York, NY

Works of Art on Paper, Juror: Shelley Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints and

Drawings of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, New Jersey

10th anniversary of 5 x 7, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX

The XIV Biennial UTSA Art Faculty Exhibition, UTSA Art Gallery, The University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Art and Art History, San Antonio, TX

Texas National 2009, Juror: Mel Chin, The Cole Center @ The Opera House, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX

Over and Out, Elizabeth Laurence Contemporary Art Space, San Francisco, CA

EXPO 2009, Juror: Gavin Morrison, curator of the Fort Worth Contemporary Art Gallery, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX

2008 -Housewarming Homecoming, FAB Gallery, Austin, TX

Faculty Exhibition, Creative Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art and Art History, Austin, TX

5 x 7 Art Splurge and Exhibition, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX

Shine! Black and White, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX

2007

Massive, Curator: Jeff Litchfield, Under the Sun Gallery, associated with Gallery 705, El Paso, TX

Faculty Exhibition, Creative Research Lab; University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art & Art History, Austin, TX

5 x 7 Art Splurge and Exhibition, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas

Coda, MFA Thesis Show Part 1, Creative Research Lab; University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art & Art History, Austin, TX

Selected Bibliography

2021

Shane, Robert. “You Are Not Wonderful Just Because You Are a Mother.” Brooklyn Rail, April 21.

2020

Tan, Brenda. “Fragments of the Ineffable: Sara Frantz,” LumArt Zin, July 9, 2020.

Wiseblood, Caleb. “Left Field Gallery's June exhibition showcases works by Cal Poly Associate Professor Sara J. Frantz,” New Times SLO, May 28, 2020.

Interview by Shaw, Michael. “Epis.#260: painter and professor Sara Frantz on challenging long-standing perceptions of women artists and myths about choosing motherhood,” The Conversation Art Podcast

2019

“Interview: Check Out Sara Frantz’s Artwork,” Voyage LA, November 21, 2019.

2018

New American Paintings, No. 133, Pacific Coast Edition, Juror: Rita Gonzalez, Curator and Acting Department Head, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

2017

11th International Drawing Annual, Manifest Publications, Cincinnati, OH.

Annie Vainshtein, Interview, Issues and Ideas, KCBX Central Coast Public Radio (local NPR affiliate), March, 29, 2017.

2016

Bryan Rindfuss, “Sala Diaz Rebounds With ‘Vacancy’,” San Antonio Current, July 22, 2016.

“Interview: Sara Frantz,” Creative Room 4 Talk, March 21,2016

2015

Sarah Linn, “Layered Landscapes: Sara Frantz Goes on an Architectural Road Trip," KCET Artbound, November 9, 2015.

Ryah Cooley, “East of Middle art exhibit at Cuesta zeros in on spatial relationships,”New Times SLO, November 18, 2015.

Steve Bennett, “Artists navigate our place in the landscape,” San Antonio Express-News, June 9, 2015.

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson, “4. Sara Frantz: The Pleasure Seekers, Top 5: June 11, 2015,” www.glasstire.com.

Anjali Gupta, Sara Frantz: Between Borderlands, exhibition catalogue, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX, February 2015.

Rachel Adams, “The Painted Void,” Arts+Culture Texas, February 5, 2015.

Wayne Alan Brenner, “Sara Frantz: Between Borderlands,” The Austin Chronicle, February 6, 2015.