Solo and 2 Person Exhibitions

2006

Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

2004

“Opposing Forces”, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ. 

2003

“Saints and Sinners.” Circle Elephant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA   

2003

Sanchez Art Center.  Two person exhibition,  Pacifica, CA

2002

American River College Kaneko Gallery,  Sacramento, CA 

2001

College of the Sequoias Art Gallery.  Visalia, CA. 

1999

Chico Art Center

1999

University  Center Concourse Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

1999

Merced College Art Gallery,  Merced, CA

1998

Truckee Meadows Community College,  Reno, Nevada

1998

Matrix Gallery and Workshop of Women Artists,  Sacramento, CA

1998

Ventura College Art Galleries,  Ventura, CA

Selected GROUP Exhibitions

2005

Brad Cooper Gallery, “New Talent”,  Tampa, FL

2005

Group Exhibit, Bert Green Fine Art,  Los Angeles

2004

Bert Green Fine Art, Gallery Artists”,  Los Angeles, CA

2002

Circle Elephant Art, “Gallery Artists”  Los Angeles, CA   

2002

Circle Elephant Art,  “Introductions”,   Los Angeles, CA 

2002

Center for Contemporary Art,  “Digital Visions”,  Sacramento, CA 

2002

Sanchez Art Center,  Pacifica, CA,  Arts on Fire. 

2001

Circle Elephant Art,  Six California Painters,  Los Angeles, CA 

2001

Vorpal Gallery,  Beaux & Eros,  San Francisco, CA

2001

Vorpal Gallery,  2001:  An Art Odyssey.  San Francisco, CA

2001

Circle Elephant Art.  Displaced Passion,  Los Angeles, CA

2000

10^th Annual Statewide Exhibit, Santa Cruz Art League,  Santa Cruz, CA 

2000

Bay Area Art III,  Juried exhibition,  Napa, CA

1999

Catherine Clark Gallery,  “Collector - Curator.”,   San Francisco, CA

1999

30th Annual All 2- Dimensional Competition for California Artists, San Jose Art League,
San Jose Center for the Visual Arts, San Jose, CA,   Juried exhibition.

1998

San Francisco State University, The Student Center Art Gallery,  “Zeitgeist”,  San Francisco, CA

1998

“Face - Queer Expression through Self Portraits,” Juried Exhibition, Somar/ QCC,  San Francisco, CA

1998

Chemeketa Community College,  Salem, Oregon

1997

“Toys in Contemporary Art,” Juried exhibition, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA

1997

67th Annual Statewide Exhibit, Juried Exhibition, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA

1997

Napa Valley College,  “Every Picture Tells a Story”,  Napa, CA

1997

Bay Arts 1997, Juried Exhibition, San Mateo County Arts Council, Belmont, CA

1997

“Bay Area Art,” Napa Valley College Art Gallery, Napa, CA   Juried exhibition

1997

“Selections” - Artspan, Academy of Art College Gallery, San Francisco, CA   Juried exhibition.

1997

24th Annual All 2- Dimensional Competition for California Artists, San Jose Art League,
San Jose Center for the Visual Arts, San Jose, CA.   Juried exhibition.

1996

Bay Arts 1996 Juried Exhibition, San Mateo County Arts Council, Belmont, CA  Juried exhibition.

1996

The Artists’ Guild of San Francisco Group Show, Mayor’s Corridor, San Francisco City Hall,
San Francisco, CA

1991
1994
1996

Watercolor West National Juried Exhibition, Brea, CA

1992

Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, Golden, CO.  Juried exhibition

1991

“Protect Our Living Environment,” Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, CA

1990

Northwest Pastel Society Juried Exhibition, Seattle, WA

1989

Oxnard Museum of Art, Oxnard Art Association Juried Exhibition, Oxnard, CA

Reviews and Articles

2001

Fresno Bee; “Artist Finds Joy Outside the Mainstream,”  by Mary Lou Aguirre

2001

Artweek; “Displaced Passion:  The Melodrama of Love, Loss & Transformation at
Circle Elephant Art,” by Shana Nys Dambrot

2000

Artweek; “Collector-Curator at Catherine Clark Gallery”, by Gustavus Kundahl

1999

Chico Enterprise-Record. “Artists offer fine show of contemporary art”, by Stephanie Bird

1999

Chico Enterprise-Record.  “Summer Show at the Chico Art Center”, by Heather Hacking

1999

Chico Synthesis.  "Believe in Art”

1999

Divine Endurance.  Review by Michele French

1999

Q San Francisco.  “Sandra Yagi; Artist Untied,” by Robert Adams, March 1999.

1998

Los Angeles Times, Ventura edition,  “Illusion by Intent - The appeal of Sandra Yagi’s paintings
is their resistance to easy interpretation,”  by Josef Woodard, March 12.

1998

Bay Times. “The Queer Cultural Center’s “Face’s” at SOMAR Gallery,” by Jeffrey Wilson, June 25

1998

Chemeketa Courier, “Gallery show illustrates changes”  by Tad Savage, February 13.

1997

San Jose Mercury News,  “Exhibition plays with toys’ simple appeal, deeper meanings.” 
by Mike Antonucci, December 7.

Awards

·         Artistic Merit Award.  Sanchez Art Center.  2002

·         Saunders Waterford and Bokingford Paper Award;  Watercolor West National Juried Exhibition

·         Third Award, Bay Arts 1997 Juried Exhibition, San Mateo County Arts Council

Professional Affiliations

1996-present

Signature member, Watercolor West