exhibition history

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, poemstore 0- ∞, Kansas City, Missouri

2010

NEXT art fair,  poemstore, Chicago, Illinois

You will have many miles of my illegible hand to decipher, I fear, before we have brought this valley into the civilized world, Basement Gallery, Oakland, CA

2009

Europeans take me with you, Golden Parachutes, Berlin, Germany

sad, little, quiet psychotopography, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012

Let us keep our own noon, West, The Hague, The Netherlands

2011

Sigma, 16 beaver, NYC, NY

As yet untitled: artists and writers in collaboration, SFcameraworks, San Francisco, CA

2010

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, ASDF makes, Los Angeles, CA

San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Swarm Gallery, San Francisco, CA

We between the lines, Morgan Lehman, New York, New York

2009

826 Valencia window display (collaboration with Erik Grof), San Francisco, CA

Wanderlust Yoga/Music Festival, Squaw Valley, CA

Art of Language, Zimmer Childrens Museum at the Jewish Federation, Los Angeles, CA

Regime Change, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

UC Hastings ART:LAW:MEDIA lecture series, San Francisco CA

Scope Art Fair, Okay Mountain, New York, NY

Allmost every poem I haven’t sold since 2005-2009, White Columns, New York, NY

Ongoing exhibition (2009-2010), Glenn Horowitz Booksellers, East Hampton, NY

2008

Collapsitalism, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA

Artists like the holidays too, MAC, San Francisco, CA

Aqua Art Hotel, Johansson Projects, Miami, Florida

Treasure Island Music Festival, San Francisco, CA

Communication Breakdown, Galerie DÊ Impaire, Paris, France

Location Location Location, Creative Growth Arts Center, Oakland CA

Communication Breakdown, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York NY

There: New art from Oakland, Di Rosa Art and Nature Preserve, Napa CA

Showpaper featured artist issue 29, New York NY

01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge, Subzero, San Jose CA

The rising water will lift all boats or the spiritual proletariat, San Francisco CA

2007

LA Fashion Week: VIP Lounge  poem store performance, Los Angeles CA

Versionfest, Plaines Project, Chicago, Il

Is that all there is too fire: a show about boredom, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles CA

New drawings, Buzz Gallery, Oakland CA

The Notary, Oakland CA

2006

Oakland: an East Side Story, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA

Habitat: we live here (collaboration with Erik Grof), Oakland Museum of California at the Oakland International Airport, Oakland CA

New Cartography, Lobot Gallery Oakland CA

2005

Lobot One Year Anniversary, Lobot Gallery, Oakland CA

Conceptual Craft, Rock Paper Scissor Collective, Oakland, CA

Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA (Juried by Catherine Clark and Ray Beldner)

PRESS

2011

Oakland Tribune, Feb 14th, Oakland resident crafts custom poetry on the fly, while you wait, by Angela Hill

2009

San Francisco Chronicle, 2/21, Artist Zach Houston Writes Poetry on Demand, by Kenneth Baker

New York Times, 1/1, Dress Worldly, Spend Locally, by Cintra Wilson

2008

New York Times 9/14 In Downtown Brooklyn, a Sort of Circus in Celebration of Everything Literary,by Andy Newman

San Francisco Chronicle, 10/14 Leah Garchiks Column

2007

CBS News Sunday Morning Show 5/9 Paper, Plastic Or Poetry? Feature about Poem Store

The Osgood Files 5/10 “Supermarket Poet”

CBS Evening News with Katie Couric 6/17 Paper, Plastic, or Poetry?

Los Angeles Times 11/26 Custom poetry, while you wait by Jennifer Peltz

San Francisco Chronicle 5/27 Oaklands Emerging Art Scene, by Reyhan Harmanci

San Francisco Chronicle 1/18 Spatial Relations – spaces in conflict, by Reyhan Harmanci

San Francisco Chronicle review of Samespace Gallery’s show “Spaces in Conflict” (photo)

EDUCATION

Linguistics, Psychology, Communications, Art

Sonoma State University 2000 -2005

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