STUDIO ARTS

Dana Chodzko, IAIA Faculty

Biography:

Dana Chodzko was born in Long Beach California. She has been teaching for 20 years, and has taught sculpture at John F. Kennedy University, Stanford University, San Francisco School of Art, New Mexico State University, and the College of Santa Fe. She is currently Head of the Sculpture Department at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Education:

MFA, Stanford University, Sculpture/Installation, Stanford, California
BFA, Otis Art Institute, Sculpture/Intermedia, Los Angeles, California

Major Professional Activities:

Many solo and group exhibitions, installations, site sculptures, public and private commissions including:
“Spacial Relations Alphabet,” installation Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California
“SoQ”, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“In Retrospect”, Evo Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“New work” Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Circle of Evolution” installation at Graham Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
“Artists at the Rock Project, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, California

“The Mechanical Alphabet” a 47 ft. Mosaic and Steel Mural for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit
“The Coming and Going of Grace”, a 26 ft. Site Sculpture for Hotel Chango, Capitan, New Mexico
A 36 ft. long Tile and Steel Mural for Aceta Travel Inc., Alamogordo, New Mexico
60 Sculptures for the Palau Resort Hotel in Micronesia
“Beyond the Z Gates,” an 800 ft. long steel Site Specific Environmental Sculpture for The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Palo Alto, California

Awards include a Stanford University Fellowship, Zellerbach Grant, Ford Foundation Grant, NEA Grant.
The College of Santa Fe “Roots and Wings Award”, The New Mexico Capital Arts Foundation Award,

Bibliography includes Architectural Digest, ARTnews, Artweek, Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, THE Magazine of the Arts, The Santa Fe Reporter, the Albuquerque Journal, The San Jose Mercury News, The Peninsula Times Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Bay Guardian

Images of her work:

Teaching Statement:

"I hope to inspire the students and help them develop the courage to be who they are so they can take this center of power and creativity into the world to share with others. Along the way they learn new sculptural materials and processes to support their ideas and individual talents, which will become their art and their voice in the world as professionals."