Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2022
Grid Operator, San Francisco Arts Education Project Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2017
Explore Moiré, Bay Area Discovery Museum, exhibition and residency
2016
Alexis Arnold and Esther Traugot, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA
Material Limit, state, San Francisco, CA
2015
Light/Weight, En Em Art Space, Sacramento, CA
2014
Alexis Arnold: Crystal Objects, Workshop Residence, San Francisco, CA
Alexis Arnold and Grey Area at Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY
2011
Geologues, Salon DeHon, San Francisco, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2024
California Jewish Open, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA (June 6 - Oct 20)
The Spring Invitational, 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA (May 2024)
In Flux: Recalibrating the Unknown, Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA (thru 5/12)
Artists to Watch: California Auction, Clars Auction Gallery, Oakland, CA
Dialogues, SFArtsEd Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2023
Prêt à Placer, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Art Center Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition, Berkeley, CA
Pyramid Scheme, Bass and Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022
Living Things: Artists and their Objects of Affections, San Francisco Arts Education Project Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Certain Matter, H.J. Miossi Gallery, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
2021
Spell of the Senses, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2020
See / Change, SFArtsEd Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
A Go-Go, Mash Gallery and W Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Memento Mons, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Mons, Belgium
Sphere: 50th Anniversary of Women at Kenyon Alumnae, Horvitz Hall Gallery, Gambier, OH
GLOW, Alexis Arnold, Chad Hasegawa, and Terry Hoff, The Space by the Bay, Alameda, CA
2018
The Book as Art, Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA
Reading Between the Lines, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
PaperWorks Refolded, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
Altered, OFFspace at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2017
UNICEF LA Paddle8 Auction, Venice, CA
Napa Valley Museum Auction, Yountville, CA
Dialogues, SFArtsEd Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
SF Shines Storefront Installation, El Corazon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SF Shines Storefront Installation, Geneva Eye Care, San Francisco, CA
2016
di Party di Rosa: 15th Annual Benefit Art Auction, di Rosa, Napa, CA (October 22)
Reclaimed: Elevating the Art of Reuse, SCRAP at SFArtsEd Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA (October 1 -23)
Common Ground: A Celebrations of our National Parks, Hazel Wolf Gallery, David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
The Alchemist, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Art on Paper, with OPEN-EDITIONS, New York, NY
Berkeley Public Library Foundation Authors Dinner, Featured Artist, Berkeley, CA
Crystallized Books, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2015
Crystallized Books and Concretions, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Open Show, curator Leslie Jones (LACMA), Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Something For Everyone, Lost and Foundry, Oakland, CA
Crank, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
SFAI Alumni Exhibition, curator Griff Williams, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Unhinged: Book Art on the Cutting Edge, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
Young Sculptors Competition, Miami University, Hiestand Gallery, Oxford, OH
ArtCrush 2015, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Bound and Unbound III, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
Library Thoughts 5, MAMU Gallery and Jokai Klub, Budapest, Hungary
Crystal Beings, Esther Klein Gallery, University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA
2014
Alexis Arnold Crystallized Books, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CA
More Than One Way, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Grey Area East, East Hampton, NY
Scrap Art: Creative Reuse in the Bayview, San Francisco, CA
Sight Unseen OFFSITE, New York, NY
Kitsch-in, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
The Cradle Project, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
Architectural Digest Home Design Show, New York, NY
Art Matters!, Grey Area at Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY
Wabi Sabi, curated by MicroClimate Collective, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
The Temporary Show, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI
Bazaar, Grey Area, Brooklyn, NY
2013
SFAI Juried Alumni Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Superstitions, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
Post Natural, Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame, IN
The Book as Art, The Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur, GA
Axis Gallery 8th National Juried Exhibition, Sacramento, CA
Radius, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
2012
Infinite Possibilities, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
X Libris, Root Division, San Francisco
Vital Signs, The New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
Visions of Yore, Gallery Hijinks, San Francisco, CA
What’s Left Behind, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
Matter, Brooklyn Artists Space, Brooklyn, NY
Minutia Militia, Field Projects, Manhattan, NY
2012 Curatorial Show - Through That Which is Seen, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2011
Proof, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
Taste, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
The Crystal Bike Blanket, Art In Storefronts through the San Francisco Arts Commission, CA
Manufactured Organic, Root Division, San Francisco
2010
The Gaming Commission, Adobe Books Parlor, San Francisco, CA
SPARE + AUSTERE, City Hall, San Francisco, CA
Vernissage, MFA Group Show, Herbst Pavillion, Fort Mason, San Francisco
Cast, The Crucible, Oakland, CA
Proliferations, OFFspace, San Francisco, CA
Awards, Residencies, and Talks
2021 Meta Open Arts Artist in Residence, Meta HQ, Menlo Park, CA
2019 Artist Talk and Workshop, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
2017 Residency, Bay Area Discovery Museum
2014 Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
2014 Residency, The Workshop Residence, San Francisco, CA
Collections
SFMOMA, Special Collections, San Francisco, CA
Meta/Facebook, Meta HQ, Menlo Park, CA
Virginia Commonwealth University, Book Art Collection, Richmond, VA
University of Pittsburgh Library, Pittsburgh, PA
Katara Towers, Doha, Qatar
Costa Smeralda, Costa Cruises, Italy
Nantun Tower, Taichung, Taiwan
Galila’s P.O.C., Brussels, Belgium
Labs Victoria House, London, England
Cumulus, Los Angeles, CA
MediaMath, Boston, MA
George and Cynthia Miller Wellness Center, Martinez, CA
Antioch Health Center, Antioch, CA
Education
2010 MFA, Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2005 BA, Studio Art, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, Graduated with Distinction
Select Bibliography
2020
Eric Diaz, Nerdist, “Artist Transforms Old Books into Crystallized Objects,” June 18, 2020
2019
Marcella Hackbardt and Grant Johnson, A Celebration of 50 Years of Women Artists at Kenyon College, In the Moment Press, Gambier, OH, 2019, cover image and pg 5-6
Marcella Hackbardt, Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin Vol 41.3, The Power of Art, pg 38-41
Iddo Dickman, The Little Crystalline Seed, SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 2019, cover image
2017
2016
Ariadna Zierold, Upper Playground, "Crystal Books by Alexis Arnold," May 29, 2016
2015
Giulia Bortoluzzi, L’Officiel Italia, “Riflessioni crystalline sul fascino del libro” December Print Edition, pages 98 - 105
Caitlin Schneider, mental_floss, “Crystal Visions,” July/August 2015 Print Edition
Dan Piepenbring, The Paris Review Blog, “The Suffering of Books,” February 25, 2015
Xeni Jardin, boingboing, “Crystallized Books,” February 25, 2015
Rebecca Escamilla, Laughing Squid, “A Series of Beautifully Crystallized Books,” February 24, 2015
2014
A. Kameshwari, One World News, “Embellishing the Extinct: Alexis Arnold,” August 12, 2014
Art Matters! Two Artists to Know, Bergdorf Goodman Blog, February 2014
2013
Richard Ashmore, The Daily Mail, “The books you will want to treasure!,” August 17, 2013
iGNANT.de, “Crystallized Books,” January, 7, 2013
2012
Vivian Hua, “Alexis Arnold: Crystallizing the Present,” Redefine Magazine, July 18, 2012
Diandra Mintz, Beautful/Decay, “Alexis Arnold’s Crystallized Literature”
2011
Cathy Bowman, “Storefront Art Spiffs Up Market Street” The SF Examiner, May 11, 2011