EXHIBITIONS:
Solo
1997 "Recent Prints and Sculpture" D. King Gallery, Berkeley, CA and
Middle East Cultural Center Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1995 "Mural Preview, New Prints and Carvings" Aileen Street Studios, Oakland,
CA
1994 Mal Warwick and Associates, Peter Babcock Award Exhibit, Berkeley, CA
1992 Alternative Museum, N.Y.C. ( catalog )
"Neo-Didactic," Berkeley Store Gallery (Review: Oakland Tribune)
1991 "Republican Years," 10 year Retrospective , La Pena Cultural Center,
Berkeley ,CA (catalog)
1990 Spirit Square Center For the Arts, Charlotte, NC (Review: Charlotte Observer,
Mother Jones)
Selected group Shows
1996 "Art Objects" Santa Rosa Jr. College Art Gallery
"Art Against the Death Penalty" New College, San Francisco, CA
"Art of Northern California" Oakland Coliseum/organized by Oakland Museum
1995 "No More Scapegoats" Town Center Corte Madera, CA
1994 "Voices of Protest," Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design,
Pasadena, CA
"Stand Up, "Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
"Courageous Voices," California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1993 "Mission Grafica," Retrospective Exhibit, Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts, San Francisco, CA
"San Francisco, Kusnst der Minder," Neue Gesellscaft (NGBK) Berlin, Germany
"One of a Kind," Intersection Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 "Beyond 1992," Berkeley Art Center (Review: Art Week , Oakland Tribune)
"Directions in Bay Area Printmaking," Three Decades, Palo Alto Cultural
Center (catalog)
1991 "War, Peace, Art," Mexican Museum,S.F. CA (Bay Guardian)
"Urgent Response," ProArts ,Oakland, CA (Review: Art Week)
"Responsive Witness," Palo Alto, Cultural Center , Palo Alto ,CA (Review:
S.J. Mercury News)
"Facing Off," Camera Works, S.F. CA (Review: S.F. Examiner)
"Racizm," School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, (Review: Baltimore Sun)
"Occupation & Resistance: American Impressions of the Intifada," Alternative
Museum, N.Y.C.
"Rooms for the Dead," Mission Cultural Center S.F. (Review: Art Week)
"Kunst-Krieg 1939- 1989," West Germany (catalog)
1989 "Artists Respond to Censorship," S.F. Art Commission Gallery (catalog;
Review: S.F. Chronicle)
"Art & Politics," Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
"Art Against AIDS," Butterfield & Butterfield, S.F. (catalog)
"Funny Show," S.F. Art Commission Gallery (Review; S.F. Chronicle)
1988 "Committed To Print," Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C. (catalog)
"Freiden Und Umwelt," European Parliament, Luxembourg (catalog)
"El Dia De Los Muertos," Alternative Museum, N.Y.C./ Galeria de la Raza,
S.F. CA. (catalog)
"Artistsí Books," organized at S.F. State University, traveled CA &
West Germany (catalog)
1987 "Politics, the Poster and Art," Mendocino Arts Center, Mendocino,
CA
"Speak: You Have the Tools," De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University,
CA (catalog)
1986 "Saludo al Pueblo de Nicaragua," Casa Gallery, S.F/Escuela de Artes
Plasticas, Managua
"El Dia de los Muertos," Galeria de la Raza, S. F., CA
1985 "Disinformation," Alternative Museum, NYC (catalog).
"Art Against Apartheid," San Francisco Art Institute, S.F. CA
"Three Rounds on Short Notice," Galeria de la Raza, S.F., CA
"Just Boxes," Alternative Museum, NYC
1984 "Human Condition," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA (catalog)
"Artistsí Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America," S F A I;
Stephen Wirtz Gallery;
Mission Cultural Center, S.F., CA (catalog).
"38th San Francisco Art Festival," Civic Center, S.F., CA
MURAL COMMISSIONS:
1996 Oakland Coliseum (9 Murals)
1995 "Malcom X", Audubon Ballroom, NYC (with Daniel Galvez)
1991-1994 Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA (4 Murals with Daniel Galvez)
Street Tatoo, Oakland, CA (with Daniel Galvez)
1990 San Francisco County Jail, San Bruno, CA
1989 Art Against Aids, Downtown, S.F.
St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York
PORTFOLIOS:
1996 "Working Men's Riot" for California Federation of Teachers' Documentary
by Fred
Glass, "Golden Lands, Working Hands: A History of California Labor" ( 6
original prints
by Jos Sances)
"The People's Choice," designed by Komar and Melamid, printed by Jos Sances.
1995 "10x 10: Ten Women Ten Prints" project designed and executed by Jos
Sances, art
contributed by Juana Alicia, Kim Anno, Claudia Bernardi, Mildred Howard, Yolanda
Lopez, Hung Liu, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Ruth Mor
gan, Faith Ringgold and Carrie
Mae Weems for the Berkeley Art Center.
1994 "10: Artist as Catalyst," project designed and executed by Jos Sances,
art contributed
by: Lorna Simpson, Leon Golub, Komar and Melamid, Jerry Kearns, Luis Cruz
Azaceta, Ben Sakoguchi, Ida Applebroog, Luis Jimenez, Adrian Piper and Andres
Serrano for the Alternative Museum NYC.
1992 "Beyond 1992," project designed and executed by Jos Sances, art contributed
by:
David Bradford, Enrique Chagoya, Kate Delos, Daniel Galvez, Rupert Garcia, Mildred
Howard, Betty Kano, Jean LaMarr, Doug Minkler and Jos Sances for the Berkeley Art
Center.
AWARDS:
1995 Creative Work Fund Award, San Francisco, CA
1994 Peter Babcock, Graphics Award, Berkeley, CA
1987 Si Se Puede Award, San Francisco, CA
1985 Silver Medal, Chicago Film Festival (poster) Chicago, IL
1984 Community Service Award, 24th Street Merchants Association, San Francisco, CA
1984ñ87 California Arts Council, Artist-in-Residence, Mission Cultural Center
COLLECTIONS (Selected):
Public Collections
Individual prints and portfolios are in numerous public collections including:
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Permanent Collection
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Achenbach Collection
Neue Gesellscaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin Germany
Alternative Museum, NYC
Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles
Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Guadalupe Cultural Center, San Antonio, TX
Private Collections
Numerous private collections including:
Eduardo Galeano, Carlos Santana, Jackson Browne, Bono (not Sonny, the one
from U-2), Pete Seeger, Anna Devere Smith, Isabel Letelier, Rep. Bernie
Sanders, Dr. Tim Drescher, Michael Rossman, Dr. Alan Barnett, Geno
Rodriguez, Larry Cortinas.
WORKSHOPS:
1990-1994 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA
1992-1997 New College of California, San Fancisco, CA (annually)
1992 San Francisco State, CA
1991 Guadalupe Cultural Art Center, San Antonio, TX
Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC
F.E.C.E.S. San Salvador, El Salvador
1990-1986 Escuela de Artes Plasticas, Managua, Nicaragua
Palestinian Art Association, West Jerusalem
St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA