Samuel Yates

Critic - Painting
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BA, University of California Berkeley
MFA, Columbia University

Samuel Yates earned a Joan Sovern Sculpture Award, M Roche Scholarship and Department Fellowship at Columbia University, and he was a SECA Award Finalist at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). In addition to private art collections, his artwork is included in public collections such as SFMOMA, Berkeley Art Museum, di Rosa Foundation (Napa, CA) and Ballett Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany). He has exhibited in America and Europe and his work has been written about in publications such as Art in America, Artforum, Artweek, Zingmagazine, New Art Examiner, Art Papers, World Sculpture News, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The New York Times.

Yates has presented to audiences at institutions ranging from the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, CA to the Land Foundation & University of Chiang Mai in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He has taught and lectured at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA and San Francisco, CA; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; Stanford University, Stanford, CA; University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Oxbow School, Napa, CA; Columbia University, New York, NY; and University of California, Berkeley, CA, among others.

He has also shown work in such venues as the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; University of Texas, San Antonio, TX; Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA; Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies, New York, NY; Kultursentrum Weberhaus, Vienna, Austria; University of Nevada, Reno, NV; Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; City of Palo Alto Civic Center Plaza, Palo Alto, CA; Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Eleven Rivington, New York, NY and Situations Gallery, New York, NY.

Courses

Fall 2024 Courses

PAINT 4521-01 - DIGITAL TOOLS FOR ARTISTS
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4521-01

DIGITAL TOOLS FOR ARTISTS

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: MW | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Instructor(s): Samuel Yates Location(s): Washington Place, Room 024 Enrolled / Capacity: 15 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This is a hands-on, project-based introduction to computers and digital multimedia for artists. The course is designed to be an ongoing discussion on art, design and personal work informed by digital images, sound, video, animation, interactive multimedia, and the Internet.

Elective

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BA, University of California Berkeley
MFA, Columbia University