On Saturday, November 15 , 2025, Austin based artist Sono Osato gave an artist talk about the works featured in her exhibition Evolution of an Idea: Diluvia to Midden at Paul Thiebaud Gallery.
Artist Information
Sono Osato was born in Baden-Baden, Germany, in 1960. She received her BFA from Arizona State University, Tempe, in 1983 and her MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts), in 1986. She has had residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Contemporary Art Center for Herbaly, Pontoise, France, and been an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She has received grants from CHANGE INC. and ART MATTERS INC., and is a three-time recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1989, 1999, and 2008.
Osato’s works have been featured in exhibitions throughout the Bay Area, New York, and Austin, TX, including at the San Jose Museum of Art; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; ISE Foundation, New York, NY; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA; Shore Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ; and the Dumbo Arts Center (DAC), Brooklyn, NY, among others. Her work can be found in the collections of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Oakland Museum of California; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA; Stanford University Law School; and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.