Zoya Scholis
exhibitions
2014 Adobe art Center, Castro Valley, CA
2014 Saratoga Library, Saratoga, CA
2013 Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA Artspan SFOS
2013 San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, Sacramento Ave, San Francisco, CA
2013 Firehouse Art Center, Pleasanton CA State- wide Watercolor Competition,
2013 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA State-wide Photo Competition,
2013 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA State-wide Watercolor competition,
2012 Kaleid Gallery, San Jose, CA Featured Artist
2012 Solo Show Pacific Grove Art Center, CA
2012 Fibre Arts Gallery Palo Alto, CA Watercolors,
2011 NFWS UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2011 Saratoga Community Center, Saratoga, CA
2010 Rengstorff House, Mountain View, CA
2010 Norton Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2010 Sunnyvale Art gallery, 251 W. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA
2009 SVWCS Juried Show, Rose Shenson Gallery, Santa Clara, CA
2009 ISAP, International Juried Show, Center, Tampa, FL
2009 AAOS National juried show, Ocean Shores, WA
2009&10 LGAA Statewide Juried show, Los Gatos Art Museum, CA
2003 Avery Gallery, S. Stanly Curator, Seaside, CA
1993 CSUEB Gallery, Hayward, CA
1993 Muralist, in the Harlen St., San Leandro, CA
1992 Pro-Arts Gallery, Tailed Creatures, Co-op curators Oakland, CA
award
2013 Ceramics, Los Gatos Art Association annual juried show, Los Gatos CA
2013 San Francisco Women’s Gallery Award, Watercolor show, San Francisco, CA
2013 Honorable Mention, Harrington Gallery, Pleasanton, CA
2011 NFWS UB Anderson Gallery, interational watermedia competition Buffalo, NY
2009 Sponsor’s Award, Rose Shenson Gallery, Santa Clara, CA
Illustrations/Publications
2013 Oct 15th edition of the Tri-City Voice, page 38
2013 Interview for San Jose Museum of Art’s LLAA docents by Karen Lantz
2011 Interview by Shannon Amidon http://sanjosecreatives.blogspot.com/
2009 Tape & Spray book publication
2010 Cover illustration for Notes from a Desert poetry by M. Loaterman
2008 Cover illustration for Psihodermatologija, text book
1994 Cover illustration for Occam’s Razor, Literary magazine, issue 11
1993 Illustration P.46, Escape magazine
Lectures/ Demonstrations
2013 Olive Hyde Art Guild Tape & Spray Watercolor Demonstration
2013 East Hills artists Association Tape & Spray Watercolor Demonstration
2010 Introduction to Grid series, Stone Griffin, Campbell, CA
2009 Talk Art with Susan Kraft, TV Interview, Palo Alto, CA
2008 Art Instructor ACE, FHUSD Sunnyvale, CA
2007 Dreaming: Art and Insights, Friends of CG Jung, Monterey, CA
2001 Letting Art Affect Us Deeply, Sunset Center, Carmel, CA
education
2012 Advanced Painting, with Prof. Hawkinson, Stanford University
2007 Advanced Painting, with Prof. Feasel, San Jose State University
1996 CA Teaching Credential, Chapman University
1993 BA, Studio Arts, CSU, East Bay
Zoya Scholis is an abstractionist. Her work reflects years of experimentation with various mixed media processes that are now integral to her style. With spontaneous philosophical inquiry as her underlying motivation, she manipulates the surface to introduce elements of randomness. As with most contemporary painters the influence of great 20th and 21st century abstractionists from Kandinsky to Klee is evident.
Scholis, best known for her work in Watercolor, has shown paintings throughout the U.S. and won numerous awards. In her work is always evidence of an exploration of the psyche and an experiment with the divine.
