BORN: Boston, Massachusett
EDUCATION:
· Massachusetts College of Art
· B.A. New York University
· M.A. University of California, Berkeley
Presentations
SELECTED ART and TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITIONS/PRESENTATIONS
· Invencao, Instituto Itau Cultural, ISEA, CAiiA-STAR, Sao
Paulo, Brasil 1999
· DIGITAL SALON in Europe, Madrid, Milan, Barcelona, Alicante
1999
· Touchware, SIGGRAPH 98, Orlando, Florida
· DIGITAL SALON 95,96,97, 99New York, NY
· The Best of 2 Worlds, net.art -Aleph, Arco Electronico 98
SPAIN
· Art + Bio - Univ. Art Gallery, Central Michigan U., Mt. Pleasant,
1998
· Women of the Book, Finegood Art Gallery, 1997-1998
· Finding the Fulcrum, LEONARDO's 30th Anniversary, Minna Street
Gallery,
· San Francisco, CA 1997
· Mill Valley Film Festival, California, 1997
· Modesto Junior College Art Gallery, California,1997
· Fotofeis 97, Scottish Bienale Festival
· Mill Valley Film Festival 1997
· Euphrat Museum, De Anza College, Cupertino, California 1997
· Maid in Cyberspace-le festival XX d'Art WWW
· ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) 1993,95,96,99
· Copenhagen Film Festival 1996
· Siggraph95, Los Angeles, CA 1995
· The World's Women OnLine, Beijing, China 1995
· Artists Shedding Light on Science, San Francisco State Univ.,
CA 1994
· CADRE (Computers, Art, Design, Research, Educ.) San Jose,
CA 1989-84
· Digital Concepts and Expressions, Tish Art Gallery, New York
Univ 1988
· Pacific Film Archive, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1984
· Baxter Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
CA 1976
· Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 1989-1992
· Documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany 1987
INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS
· Generations: Lineage of Influence in Bay Area Art, Richmond
Art Ctr CA '96
· Capp Street Project 1996
· Artist Resident Arts Wire 1995
· Vuorovaekutus, Kuopio Museum, Kuopio, Finland 1992
· The Animated Soul, Takada Arts 1992; Ghia Gallery 1991,San
Francisco, CA
· Digital Mudra, KALA Institute, Berkeley, CA 1987
· Shoe-Field, MEDIA, San Francisco, CA 1986
· Coping with Sexual Jealousy, Pauley Ballroom Univ. of Calif.
Berkeley 1984
· Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY 1984
· Biorhythm: How do you feel? WORKS/San Jose 1983
· Back to Nature (Retrospective) Humboldt State Univ. Arcada,
CA 1983
· Shared Dynamics, Artists Space, New York, NY 1981
· Shared Dynamics, New School for Social Research, New York,
NY 1981
SELECTED SOLO INSTALLATIONS/EXHIBITIONS
· Psycho-Aesthetic Dynamics, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco,
CA 1980
· Pictorial Linguistics, Franklin Furnace, NYC 1979
· Bonito-Rapoport Shoes, Donnell Center, New York Public Library
1979
· Interaction Art and Science, Truman Gallery, NYC 1979
· Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1978
· California (Crocker) Art Museum, Sacramento, CA 1974
· San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 1974
· John Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1972,'70,'67,'64
· California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco,
CA 1963
SELECTED BOOK ART EXHIBITIONS
· The Artist's Book in California, Center for Book Arts, New
York City, 1998-99
· Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA 1999
· The Artist's Book in California, Center for Book Arts, New
York City, 1998-99
· Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA 1999
· BOUNDLESS: Liberating the book form, San Francisco Ctr for
the Book 1998
· WOMEN OF THE BOOK:Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes 1997-2000(traveling)
· Photographic Book Art in the U. S.(traveling USA) 1992-95
· Off the Shelf/On Line, Minn.Ctr (traveling NEA) (cat. pub.)
1992-1993
· Book Arts, USA; U.S. Information Agency (traveling) (cat.
pub.) 1992-90
· Anchorage Museum of Art, Anchorage, Alaska (cat. pub.) 1991-1990
· National Museum of Women, Washington DC 1990
· National Library, Madrid, Spain (cat. pub.) 1982
WEB TITLES
published by LanMinds at http://www.SonyaRapoport.net
· Redeeming the Gene,
2001
· Make Me A Jewish
Man: An Alternative Masculinity, 1999
· Digital Mudra,
1998
· Arbor Erecta,
1998
· Make Me A Man,
1997
· Objective Connections,
1996
· Brutal Myths,
1996
· Smell Your
Destiny, 1995
· The Transgenic
Bagel, 1994-95
Sonya Rapoport is a member of the Board of Directors of LEONARDO/ISAST
She writes reviews for LEONARDO Publications