ABOUT

Born into a Korean family in Tokyo, raised in the United States, and having lived in Germany for many years, Bernadette Jiyong Frank is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works across painting, photography, and public art, exploring perception, light, and the shifting space between presence and absence.

Frank has had solo exhibitions at Dolby Chadwick Gallery and Triangle Gallery in San Francisco, Galerie Beate Berndt in Augsburg, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and the Bait Al Salmaniya Cultural Center in Manama, Bahrain.

Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, and Southern Exposure, among others.

She is the recipient of the Fire Station #5 Public Art Commission by the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Bus Station commission through the Waterfront Public Art Project in Whangārei, New Zealand. She received a Silver Medal in the New Images Photography Awards 2012 and has been nominated for the Minnesota Street Project’s Tosa Studio Award (2019) and the 2 x 2 Solos Exhibition at Pro Arts Gallery (2013).

Her paintings and photographs are held in public and private collections, including the Crocker Art Museum, Triton Museum of Art, and the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. Her work has been reviewed in SF Weekly, SF Examiner, and Augsburger Allgemeine, and featured in issues #103 and #121 of New American Paintings.

Frank is represented by Dolby Chadwick Gallery (San Francisco), IdeelArt (London/Paris), and Folly & Muse (Munich).