Inga Bard
Born in Odessa, Ukraine
Lives and works in San Francisco
Education:
2015 - MFA: Central Saint Martin’s School of the Arts, London, England
2011 - BFA: New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida
2010 - Angel Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
Professional Experience:
2024: co-founder of
Bay Art Agenda, a contemporary arts calendar and critical discourse platform, alongside Andrew Berardini and Lucas Foglia
2021 - 2022: director of MobileCoin.Art, a carbon negative crypto currency with a deep commitment to digital privacy, sustainability and creators. Head of the
Private Practice Art Residency alongside LA based writer and curator Andrew Berardini.
2020 - 2022: co-founder of
Paint the Void, a Bay Area initiative to fund artists to beautify boarded up storefronts during the Covid quarantine.
2020: co-founder of
Safety Net Fund, a Bay Area grant program to support visual and performance artists in time of Covid.
2019: founder and host of Bay Area Womxn's Art Crit Salon.
2018 - present: founder and executive director of
Art For Civil Discourse, a non-profit initiative
2014 - 2015: critical discussion facilitator at Central St Martins School of the Arts, London, UK
2014 - 2025: visiting drawing and painting instructor and full time reader of artistic anatomy at London Atelier of Representational Art, London, Uk;
2011 - 2013: Principal Drawing Instructor and Head of the Anatomy Department at Angel Academy of Art, Florence, Italy.
2011 teacher assistant for Painting and Figure Drawing courses at New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida
2011 co- organized Japan Now, art auction fundraiser for earthquake relief with Diego Singh, Miami, Florida
Exhibitions:
2021
- The Big Show, group show at Good Mother Gallery, Oakland, CA
- Life is Hard but it's Better with Art, a group show co-curated by Inga Bard and Irene Feiks at 111 Minna Gallery, San Fransisco, CA
2020
- Created 2 murals in boarded up storefronts in San Fransisco and curated 130 murals by other artists via the Paint the Void initiative
2019
- Drawing Now: Dynamic New Visions Through Drawing in the Bay Area, B4bel4b Gallery, Oakland, CA
- Solo: The Future is Female, Atlas Cafe, San Francisco, CA
- Fight Like a Girl, group show curated by Inga Bard @ Code & Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018
- Solo: Ashs of Our Zeitgeist, The Laundry, San Francisco, CA
- Liberty, ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA#FreedomFighterscc, Oslo Freedom Forum, Oslo, Norway
- Bitcoin on the Moon, Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
- Solo: A Rock and a Hard Place, Mule Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017
- Finding My Freedom, 3rd St Village Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- #LoveTrumpsHate / Star Crossed Lovers, Young Republican Benefit for Planned Parenthood, Oakland, CA
- Solo: Manifest Mania of a Generation, Tupperware, Richmond, CA
2015
- Festival of Disobedience, Victoria & Albert Museum, London UK
- Solo: Love Me Tender, Orgy Dome, Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV
- Soho Fluorescent Festival, London UK
- Aestivation, Elthorne Rd Studios, London UKMA Degree Show, Central St Martin's, London UK
- Capsule, Embassy Tea Gallery, curated by MiAL, London UK
- Five Floors, Eighteen Artists, The Century Club, London UK
2014
- My Other Show is at the TATE, Elthorne Rd Studios, London UK
- CSM Art Auction, Lethaby Gallery, London UKCSM
- Interim Show, Bargehouse, London, UK2013
- Solo: Riot in Progress, Studio della Stufa, Florence, Italy
- Winter Show, Galerie L'oeil du Prince, Paris, France
2012
- 'Embarrassed by Loneliness' with Diego Singh, at art futures, HK art fair, at Mendes Wood Gallery, Sao Paulo, Hong Kong
- Post_____, NWSA BFA 2011, CIFO, Miami, Fl2010
- Solo: Art Project Caravaggio, Gardens of Victory Art Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
- Annigoni’s Legacy, Villa Bardini, Florence, Italy
Awards and Scholarships:
2021 - served as a judge for the inaugural MobileCoin Art Prize in collaboration with NADA Art Fair
2015 - NOVA Award Shortlist
2013 - Vice Chancellors Full Tuition Scholarship at Chelsea School of Art
2009 - Angel Academy Full Tuition Scholarship
2009 - First Place: Art Renewal International Scholarship
2008 - First Place: Naomi Winston Arts Scholarship through National Society of Arts and Letters
2008 - Fourth Place: Art Renewal International Scholarship
2005 - 2007 - New World School of the Arts Stipend Scholarship
2004 - 2011 - Florida Bright Futures Scholarship
Public Murals:
2020 - Together Again Soon, a mural on the boarded up storefront of Frances restaurant in the Castro, San Fransisco, CA.
2020 - Untitled mural on the boarded up storefront of Axiom Hotel near Union Square in San Fransisco, CA.
2018 - Pillars of Democracy, commissioned by The Freedom Rights Foundation for the Oslo Freedom Forum, Oslo, Norway
2017 - A Shared Well, crowd funded by Murals Across America Kickstarter campaign, Flint, MI
2017 - Ancestors, curated by Flint Public Art Projects and Gallery on the Go, Flint, MISeeds of Change, commissioned by the Elated Flute Foundation, Flint, MI
2016 - Heritage Mural Project commissioned by Autocom Nissan Dealership, Oakland, CA
2015 - Pursuit of Happiness commissioned by Interchange Counselling Institute, Treasure Island, SF, CA
2013 - Don Quixote and Other Childhood Heroes commissioned by Back in the Day Bookshop for City of Dunedin, FL
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