Zoe Brester-Pennings
EDUCATION
2023 MFA Studio Art - Printmaking, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN
2018 BFA Studio Art - Printmaking, Cum Laude, Department Distinction, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park CA
2015 AA Humanities, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa CA
SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Horseplay: A Buck Wilde Sideshow, Foundation Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha WI
2023 Paper View, Sztuka Na Miejscu Gallery; Wrocław, Poland (with Haley Takahashi)
The Buck Wilde Attraction, Thesis Exhibition, Knoxville TN
2022 Peepshow Rodeo, Gallery 1010, Knoxville TN
2021 Milk Run, Gallery 1010, Knoxville TN
EXHIBITIONS
2024 (upcoming) From the Ashes, on loss, Kansas State University, Kansas, Manhattan, KS
Community Art Show, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison WI
PINKMAKING: A Pink Print Exchange, University of Wisconsin Parkside, Kenosha WI
2023 Winter Juried Show, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha WI
Atlanta Print Biennial, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta GA
Love Hurts, Girls Who Paint Gallery, Kensington, MD
76th Annual Student Art Competition, Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN
2022 Frogman’s Print Workshop: Assistant Exhibition, UNO, Omaha NE
As/Is, 75th Annual Student Art Competition, Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN
Well Fed, print exchange curated by Becci Spruill for SGCI 2022, Madison WI
Reflected Narratives, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville TN
Fabric Print & Quilt, Pellissippi State Community College, Knoxville TN
2021 Printwork, Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh PA
Max’s Garage Press, East Bay Print Sale, Berkeley CA
Megalo Lithography Exhibition, online, Megalo Print Studio, Canberra Australia
Field of Squares, a quilt exchange curated by Muriel Condon, Gallery 1010, Knoxville TN
Two Second Rule, Second Year Graduate Exhibition, Knoxville TN
Recollections, Print exchange and exhibition, Bend Gallery, Chicago IL
27th Parkside National Print Exhibition, Kenosha WI
Get that Bread, 74th Annual Student Art Competition, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville TN
Alias, a 2020 print exchange curated by Haley Takahashi, Gallery 1010, Knoxville TN
Group Show, Digital Exhibition, Shrine NYC
Paper & Clay, Utah State University National Juried Exhibition, Logan UT
2020 First the Wurst, First Year Graduate Exhibition, Knoxville TN
2019 13th Annual California Centered: Printmaking Exhibition, Merced CA
2018 Emerging Artists Show, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg CA
Max’s Garage Press, East Bay Print Sale, Berkeley CA
Acrylics, The Phoenix Theater, Petaluma CA
Roe V Wade Birthday Exhibition, Arlene Francis Center, Santa Rosa CA
BFA Exhibition, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park CA
2017 Acrylics, The Phoenix Theater, Petaluma CA
Creative Sonoma Fire Relief Benefit Art Sale, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park CA
Juried Student Show, Sonoma State University Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
Pop Up Installation, Rage Gallery Sonoma State University , Rohnert Park CA
2014 Student Art Show Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
PRINTMAKING PORTFOLIO EXHIBITIONS & EXCHANGES
2024. Pinkmaking, (curator/participant), Kenosha WI
Lucky Number 13, curated by Samira Gdsis, Racine WI
on loss, curated by Thương Hoài Trần and Maddie May, Chicago IL
2023 Frogman’s Print Workshop Portfolio Exchange, Iowa City IA
What’s Your Favorite Dinosaur?, curated by Jacob Gallagher, Knoxville TN
2022 Seven Deadly Sins: Envy, print exchange for Frogman’s 40th Anniversary Print Workshop, Omaha NE
Well Fed, print exchange curated by Becci Spruill for SGCI 2022, Madison WI
2021 Recollections, curated by Thuong Hoai Tran and Madison Nicole May, Chicago IL
Field of Squares, curated by Muriel Condon, Knoxville TN
9inhandpressprintexchange, curated by Dave Dimarchi, New Hope PA
The Spaces Between, curated by Haley Takahashi, Knoxville TN
Itty Bitty Print Exchange, curated by Fiona Avocado, Portland OR
RESIDENCIES
2023-24 University of Wisconsin-Parkside Printmaking Artist in Residence, Kenosha WI
Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wrocław, Poland (May-June)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2024. Visiting Assistant Professor - Printmaking/Foundation, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH
Drawing Beyond Basics, Community Enrichment Course, Kenosha WI
Screenprint, Community Enrichment Course, Kenosha WI
2023 Monoprint Painting, Community Enrichment Course, Kenosha WI
Graduate Instructor of Record, Art 101: Introduction to 2D Art/Surface, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN
2022 Graduate Teaching Associate- Secondary Instructor of Record, Art 102: Introduction to Time Based Arts, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN
2021 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Assistant to Professors Althea Murphy-Price, and Koichi Yamamoto, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN
Summer Arts Instructor, Summer Art Academy, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN
Online Arts Instructor, North Valley School, Santa Rosa CA
2020 Arts Enrichment Instructor, Healdsburg Unified School District, Healdsburg CA
2018 Teaching Assistant-Printmaking, with Professor Kurt Kemp and Professor Nathan Haenlein, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022 Print Assistantship, Frogman’s Print Workshop, Assistant to Matthew Hopson-Walker, Water-based Screenprinting, Omaha NE
2021 Printing Assistant, visiting artist Melanie Yazzie, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN
2020 Printing Assistant, visiting artist Steve Prince University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN
AWARDS/GRANTS
2023 2023 Betsy Worden Residency Award, University of Tennessee Knoxville
2022 School of Art Residency/Internship Scholarship Award, University of Tennessee Knoxville
School of Art Materials Award, University of Tennessee Knoxville
2021 Terry Burnette Memorial Scholarship
Dorothy Dille Materials Award
3rd Place for the piece Cracher Barnel, USU Paper & Clay National Juried Exhibition, Logan UT
2015 Riley Street Art Award
2013 Watercolor Artists of Sonoma County Scholarship
2013 Petaluma Art Association Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS/CITATIONS
2023 The Hand Magazine, Issue 39
2020 Phoenix Literary Magazine, Issue 63 University of Tennessee Knoxville
2018 Zaum, Issue 22, Sonoma State University,
2016 Sonoma State Star, Sonoma State University
ARTIST TALKS
2024 Bedford Concert Hall, Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for Arts & Humanities,University of Wisconsin Parkside, Kenosha WI (link)
2023 University of Wisconsin Parkside, Kenosha WI
2022 4th Semester Presentations, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN
CONFERENCE & SYMPOSIUM PANELS PRESENTED
2022 Inkubator: Print Clubs & Community Development, SGCI 2022, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison WI
2021 Remote Contact, a virtual printmaking symposium hosted by The University of Tennessee Knoxville, “Buy this Now: Prints and Consumerism”
SELECTED INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Elastic Editions, 2024
Mid America Print Council (MAPC), 2024
Kansas State University, 2024
Racine Art Museum, Racine WI
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha WI
University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN
School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago IL
Sonoma State University Printmaking Archive, Rohnert Park CA