Sassy Corp Design Collective



	Saskia Wilson-Brown was raised in San Francisco and Paris. She received her MA in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London, and currently resides in Los Angeles in the shadow of the Hollywood sign, hatching nefarious creative plans. Saskia is the founder and director of SassyCorp. email saskia: saskia@sassycorp.com
"Saskia Wilson Brown shares the scattershot interest in media that the X Generation has learned to make their own through the internet, cellular communications and participatory technology. Her personal conceptual art performances-for-the-camera- only and installations are identity based and partly reflects the search of the second generation of immigrant Cuban families. Wilson-Brown represents the Diaspora that will serve Cuba well in the future. But don’t look for this multi-national identity just in Havana, its also in London, Paris, New York, and Hollywood." - Adolfo V. Nodal, 2006
Education • 2001-2002, Central Saint Martins, London, U.K., MA Fine Art • 1996-2000, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, U.S.A., BA Fine Art Honors Study in Printmaking under Randy Hussong Independent Honors Study under Craig Nagasawa • 1993-1994, Lycée Français Lapérouse, San Francisco, U.S.A., French Bac./ H.S. Degree • 1992-1993, Lycée Buffon, Paris, France, BEPC Degree Selected Exhibitions 2006 • WPA/Corcoran Auction, WPAC, Corcoran, Washington DC, USA Curated by Adolfo V. Nodal • Another Product, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK Curated by Another Product 2005 • Nexus 3, Borusana Gallery, Istambul, Turkey Curated by Beral Madra • A Warlike People, Monorchid Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona Curated by Lara Taubman • Art L.A., Raid Projects Booth, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Max Presneill 2004 • Electric Bugaloo, Walled City Gallery, San Pedro CA., USA Curated by Marshall Astor • Nexus2, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Max Presneill • L.A. drive-by #2- The Glazed Gaze, MOP Gallery, Sydney, Australia Curated by Max Presneill & Ron Adams • Transit xLon-BA (cat.), Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina Curated by Gabriel Glaimán • Why Not Sneeze (cat.), Arch Gallery, London, UK Curated by Isha Bøhling • Primera Edición, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA., USA Curated by Luis Ituarte and COFAC 2003 • Gang Bang, Walled City Gallery, San Pedro CA., USA Curated by Marshall Astor • Reduced, Century Gallery, London, UK Curated by Isha Bøhling • Souvenir, Transition Gallery, London, UK Curated by Cathy Lomax, in coordination with London Photography Month • Fake Your Face L.A. (cat.), New Exodus Gallery, San Pedro, CA., USA By invitation, The Los Angeles Internationale, curated by Adolfo Nodal • Presencia Cubana, Los Angeles, CA., USA Produced Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department Curated by Carlos Aguilar • Rebuttal, solo, The Window Gallery, London, U.K. Curated by John O’Hora • Spring Salon, Limner Gallery, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. Curated by Slowart Productions • IslingtonPeople.com Digital Arts Exhibition, Islington Museum, London, U.K. Curated by Paul Callaghan • Fake Your Face, Neon Gallery, London, U.K. Curated by Nili Feferberg • Direction, The Lethaby Gallery, London, U.K. By invitation, The London Institute, Curated by Chris Wainwright • High Gloss, Transition Gallery, London, U.K. Curated by Viviana Durán 2002 • Arty, Transition Gallery, London, U.K. Curated by Cathy Lomax • The A6 Show, Lewisham Arthouse Gallery, London, UK • Unscene, online exhibition, www.unsceneart.com Curated by Unscene • The Modern Art Department, online exhibition, The Modern Art Department, London, U.K. www.themodernartdepartment.com, Curated by Sean Towers • Idolise, Notting Hill Arts Club, London, U.K. Curated by Cathy Lomax • M.A. Fine Art: Final Exhibition, (cat.), Central Saint Martins College, London, U.K. Curated by Joanna Greenhill and Alex Landrum • The Cyber Kitchen, collaborative online project, www.the-cyber-kitchen.com In conjunction with the 2002 Liverpool Biennale, Curated by Jess Loseby • Auction, Ashley Gardens Gallery, London, U.K. Curated by Isha Bøhling • Gestalt, The Gestalt Centre, London, U.K. Curated by Sarana Mehra • Painters in Pixels #2, online exhibition, www.whitesquare.org.uk Curated by Tom Locker • Ford, (cat.), Oxford House, London, U.K., Ashley Gardens Gallery, London, U.K. Curated by Shaheen Merali 2001 & Before • Art From the Heart, Four Seasons Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA., U.S.A Curated by Jeff Phillips • Screen Idle, CellSpace Gallery, San Francisco, CA., U.S.A Curated by Marcos Lutyens, Heather Poon and self • Mural 2000, Pabellón Cuba, Havana, Cuba invited, in conjunction with the 7th Havana Bienal, Organized by OMNIO • EX, Abstrakt Zone Gallery, Oakland, CA., USA Curated by Steve Gauthier • Untitled, Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA., USA Curated by Craig Nagasawa • Print!, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA., USA Curated by Randy Hussong • Euphemisms, solo exhibition, White Room Gallery, Berkeley, CA., USA Curated by Randy Hussong. • art8, Worth Ryder gallery, Berkeley, CA. Curated by John McNamara Curatorial/Production/Misc. • March 2006- Open Architecture and MP4-Fest, Fringe Fest, Silverlake Film Festival, curating (along with Dave Burns and Joan Valencia) • September 2004- alt/sil/, Curator, Arclight Cinema, in conjunction with the Silverlake Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA. • June 2004- Starfkers, Curator, Overtones Gallery, in conjunction with Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA. • October 2003- January 2005- Internship, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA. - Responsible for upkeeping/redesigning website, assisting curatorial endeavors, web marketing. • June 2003-February 2004- Assistant to Director Mr James V Burks, Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA • March-July 2003- Assistant Curator, Mustafa Hulusi, various projects, The Neon Gallery, London, UK • January 2003- High Gloss, Curator, Transition Gallery, London, UK • December 2002-February 2003, Assistant Curator, Transition Gallery, London, UK • November 2002- March 2003, Assistant Curator, Hoxton Distillery Gallery, London, UK • January 2002- Ford, Assistant Curator, Oxford House, London, UK • June 2001- Artist’s Assistant , Los Carpinteros, Los Angeles, CA. USA • February 2001- Screen Idle, Curator, CellSpace and Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. USA • October 2000- Artist’s Assistant, Dan May, Oakland CA. USA Publications and Reviews • ‘Interview with Jess Loseby: Cyber-Kitchen’, review, Artsnet, UK, July 2002 • ‘Cyber-Kitchen’, review, Neural Online, www.neural.it, Italy, 24 July 2002 • ‘Cyber Kitchen’, review, Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, www.ciac.ca/actu-commente.html, Canada, August 2002 • ‘Arty Students Put On Masterly Show’, review and interview, West End Extra, U.K., 6 September 2002 • ‘The Cyber Kitchen’, review, A-N For Artists, U.K., November 2002 • Arty Magazine, London, UK - Guest reviewer, ‘Ugo Rondinone’, “Review London”, November 2002 - Guest writer, ‘David Byrne’, “Our Idols Issue”, January 2003 - Guest writer, ‘Five Uneasy Pieces’, “Scandal”, March 2003 - Guest writer, ‘Nurture’, “Nature Issue”, June 2003 • Front cover, Dart International, vol. 6 num.1, Los Angeles, CA., Summer 2003 • ‘Transit (X-Lon-BA)’, review and interview, Shift Magazine, www.shift.jp.org, Japan, March 2004 • ‘Transit (X-Lon-BA)’, review and interview, Ramona Semanal Magazine, www.ramona.org.ar, Argentina, March 2004 • ‘Visuales: Transit’, review, La Mujer de Mi Vida, issue #10, Argentina, March 2004 • ‘Transit (X-Lon-BA)’, review and interview, La Nación Newspaper, ‘Via Libre’ supplement, 16 March 2004 • ‘Transit’, review and interview, Arte al Dia, www.artealdia.com, Argentina and Latin America, March 2004 • ‘Centro Cultural Recoleta’, review, Noticias, Argentina, March 2004 • NewArch Magazine, London, UK, assistant editor Sentimetre issue. • Shift Magazine, Tokyo, Japan, Bi-weekly arts columnist. • The Raw Story, US, Arts columnist • MuchoMasProductions, US, review “Starfkers”