CURRICULUM VITAE

San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco, CA

MFA Filmmaking

Individual study with Gunvor Nelson, Larry Jordon, Malcolm LeGrice

San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco, CA

BFA Filmmaking

University of California - Berkeley: Graduate Film Program | Paris, France

Filmmaking

Studies at Vincennes and Ecole Practique with Michel Marie and Christian Metz, and research in Prague, Czechoslovakia

Summer AIFS Student | Leningrad + Moscow, USSR

University of California - Berkeley | Berkeley, CA

Philosophy + Art

Studies are inclusive of film art

California State University - Sacramento | Sacramento, CA

Independent Study Faculty: 16mm film + digital video production/editing

San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco, CA

Visiting Faculty: S-8 + 16mm Production | Advanced Film | Graduate Seminar | Motion Graphics | Poetic Documentary | Analog + Digital Video

University of South Florida - Art Department | Tampa, FL

Associate Professor: 16mm film production (all levels) | Video | Optical Printing | Tutorials | History of Film | Film and the Avant-Garde (1996 – Resigned tenured position to facilitate rehabilitation from auto accident)

Director: Paris Summer Film Program

Curator: Fine Arts Film Series

San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco, CA

Visiting Faculty: Film Seminar: Women and the Avant-Garde

California College of Arts and Crafts | Oakland, CA

Visiting Artist: 4-D Curriculum

University of South Florida - Art Department | Tampa, FL

Assistant Professor: 16mm film production (all levels) | Tutorials | History of Film | Film and the Avant-Garde

Director: Fine Arts Film Series + Paris Summer Film Program

Co-director: Chinsegut Festival

School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Film Department | Chicago, IL

Chair + Visiting Assistant Professor: 16mm Production | Tutorials | Avant-Garde Cinema + 20th Century Art | Women and Filmmaking

School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Film Department | Chicago, IL

Visiting Artist: 16mm Production | Tutorials | Film History and Theory

John F. Kennedy University | Orinda, CA

Adjunct Professor of Art and Humanities: 16mm Production | S-8 + 16mm Production | Film History | Film and Consciousness | Color Theory Workshop | Myth and Archetype in the Arts | Women and Filmmaking

Curator: Campus Film Series

Sonoma State University - Art Department

Instructor: S-8 + 16mm Production | Intermediate Film-making

THAT WOMAN and works by women in the Canyon Collection

Presentation

Canyon Salon | San Francisco CA

WOMEN OF CANYON: Premier THAT WOMAN + Works by women from Canyon Cinema Collection

Presentation

Braquage | Paris, France

FROM THE EDGES: Works from Canyon Cinema Collection

Presentation

Braquage | Paris, France

From the Margins – The Origins

San Francisco Experimental Filmmakers

Museum of Modern Art, Pompidou Center Musee du Film | Paris, France

From the Margins – Then and Now

San Francisco Experimental Filmmakers

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art | Strasbourg, France

From the Margins – Varieties of Political Response

San Francisco Experimental Film 1960's

Confluence | Paris, France

Perspectives in Contemporary Art: Re-Framing & Re-Presentation

the films of Sandra Davis

CSUS Festival of the Arts | Sacramento, CA

Contemporary Women in American Experimental Film

Museum of Fine Arts | Strasbourg, France

Radical Re-Presentation: Women, Surrealism and Film

Cinemateque | San Francisco, CA

Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation

Co-organizer of film series and curator 3rd program

MOMA exhibition by Whitney Chadwick | San Francisco, CA

Women and Filmmaking: The Avant-garde and Symbolic Imagery

Museum of Modern Art, Pompidou Center Musee du Film | Paris, France

Women and Filmmaking: The Avant-Garde and Symbolic Imagery

Austrian Filmmaker’s Coopertive | Vienna, Austria

Women and Filmmaking: The Avant-Garde and Symbolic Imagery

Pleasure Dome | Toronto, Canada

The Body and Film

International Experimental Film Festival | Toronto, Canada

Vision and Language: Experimental and Textural Strategies in Film

Panel participant

International Experimental Film Festival | Toronto, Canada

Women and Film: The Symbolic Image

Filmmaker’s Cooperative | London, England

Filmmaking: The Avant-Garde & Symbolic Imagery

Scratch Cinema | France

Symbolic Imagery & Film

Film Alliance | Miami, FL

Symbolism & Female Imagery

Film Forum | Los Angeles, CA

Symbolism & Female Imagery

Collective for Living Cinema | New York, NY

Symbolic Imagery and the Female Vision

Cinemateque | San Francisco, CA

San Francisco International Film Festival-New Visions: Official Festival Selection - That Woman

LIght Press Grant - Scans to digital video of 3 early 16mm films

Quick Grant - Technical enhancement-website template course

San Francisco Arts Commision IAC Grant, Media - That Woman

San Francisco International Film Festival - New Visions: Official Festival Selection - Ignorance Before Malice

San Francisco International Film Festival - New Visions: Certificate of Merit - A Preponderance of Evidence

Phelan Award for Filmmaking

Florida Arts Council, Individual Artist Grant

University of South Florida Research Council Grant (for Filmmaking)

University of South Florida Fine Arts Council Research Award (for Travel)

San Francisco Art Institute International Film Festival, First Prize

NEA Regional Media Fellowship

NEA Regional Media Fellowship

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Committee Selection

San Francisco Art Institute International Film Festival, First Prize

Jerome Hill Foundation Grant (for Independent Filmmakers)

Louis B. Mayer Foundation Grant (for film graduate students)

Career retrospective. Two programs presented.

Festival: Etats Generaux du Film Documentaire | Lussas, France

Premier of THAT WOMAN and presentation of works by women from Canyon Cinema

CANYON SALON 16 Sherman | San Francisco CA

Expanded photography. Prints including BLINK and LION WOMAN

16 Sherman Gallery | San Francisco,CA

Expanded photography and films

16 Sherman Gallery | San Francisco, CA

Two-programs / career retrospective

Anthology Film Archive | New York, NY

Canyon Salon – the work of Sandra Davis

Cinemateque | San Francisco, CA

Millenium | New York, NY

Pacific Film Archives - Berkeley Art Museum | Berkeley, CA

Scratch Cinema | Paris, France

Cinemateque | San Francisco, CA

Museum of Film | Brussels, Belgium

Scratch Cinema | Paris, France

London Filmmaker’s Cooperative | London, UK

Austrian Filmmaker’s Cooperative | Vienna, Austria

Innis College and Art Gallery of Ontario | Toronto, Canada

Cinemateque | San Francisco, CA

Guest Artist

Center for the Fine Arts | Denver, CO

Guest Artist

Rocky Mountain Film Center | Boulder, CO

Guest Artist Presentation

School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL

That Woman | (International Women's Month)

Other Cinema ATA Gallery | San Francisco CA

For a Young Filmmaker | Light Field Festival

Light Field Festival, The Lab | San Francisco,CA

Au Sud | Camera Obscura 4th Annual Report Festival

Camera Obscura Festival | Petaluma CA

Maternal Filigree | Romance and Rage

Pacific Film Archives - Berkeley Art Museum | Berkeley, CA

That Woman | Curated/presented by Sandra Davis and Sebastien Ronceray | FROM THE EDGES

Carte Blanche Canyon Cinema, BRAQUAGE | Paris, France

Maternal Filigree | Sense and Sensuality: Bay Area Feminist Filmmaking of the 1980’s | Eye on a Director Series

Museum of Arts and Design | New York, NY

Curated/presented by Sandra Davis and Sebastien Ronceray | FROM THE EDGES

Carte Blanche Canyon Cinema, BRAQUAGE | Paris, France

Metamorphosis program: FROM VAULT TO SCREEN

National Portrait Gallery | Washington DC

For a Young Filmmaker + A la Campagne respective | Curated/presented by Sandra Davis and Sebastien Ronceray | FROM THE EDGES

Carte Blanche Canyon Cinema, BRAQUAGE | Paris, France

An Architecture of Desire

Desire: Fantasy Version of Reality | Rome, Italy

SD PRINTS AND FILMS presents | Body Stories: Sandra Davis and Koo Kyung Sook

Center for Contemporary Art | Sacramento, CA

Ignorance Before Malice | New Visions: Official Festival Selection

San Francisco International Film Festival | San Francisco, CA

Ignorance Before Malice

Starting From Scratch Festival | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ignorance Before Malice

TIE Festival | Denver, CO

Ignorance Before Malice

FLEX Festival | Gainesville, FL

Au Sud | Ici Comme Ailleurs

Museum of Frontignan | Frontignan, France

Crepescule Pond & Chair | Presence au Quotidien

UTOPIA Cinema | Avignon, France

Crepescule Pond & Chair | Curated program of experimental work

San Francisco International Film Festival | San Francisco, CA

Maternal Filigree | Women of the 70’s

Cinemateque | San Francisco, CA

Une Fois Habitee

Cinemateque | San Francisco, CA

A Preponderance of Evidence

San Francisco International Film Festival | San Francisco, CA

A Preponderance of Evidence | Contemporary Women in American Experimental Film

Museum of Fine Arts | Strasbourg, France

An Architecture of Desire | Radical Re-Presentation: Women, Surrealism and Film

Cinemateque | San Francisco, CA

Archives du Film Experimental D’Avignon | Avignon, France

Evident/Evidence | Invited Participant | The Florida Landscape: Revisited

Polk Museum | Lakeland, FL

Maternal Fligree | Manifest – 30 Years of Creation in Retrospective

Museum of Modern Art -Pompidou Center | Paris, France

An Architecture of Desire | Millenium – A 25 Year Retrospective

Museum of Modern Art | New York, NY

Film Forum | Los Angeles, CA

Archives Du Film Experimentales D’Avignon | Avignon, France

The American Avant Garde (Retrospective) | Amsterdam, Netherlands

The American Experimental Film | Leuven, Belgium

International Audio-Visual Festival | Paris, France

University of South Florida Faculty Show | Tampa, Florida

International Experimental Film Festival | Toronto, Canada

Film Arts Festival | San Francisco, CA

Filmmaker’s Cooperative | London, England

Scratch Cinema | Paris, France

Film Alliance | Miami, FL

Film Forum | Los Angeles, CA

Collective for Living Cinema | New York, NY

Cinemateque | San Francisco, CA

Miami Waves Experimental Media Festival | Miami, FL

Experimental Film Festival | Chicago, IL

Women and Filmmaking

California Institute of the Arts

Film Center

School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL

Denver Center Cinema | Denver, CO

Invited Participant

Festival of New Experimental Cinema

Monitor Source | San Francisco, CA

Women Choose Women

SFAI International Film Festival Benefit | San Francisco, CA

Pacific Film Archives - Berkeley Art Museum | Berkeley, CA

The Exchange Show: San Francisco | Berlin, West Germany

Tour representing Berlin Festival | London, Paris, Amsterdam

London Filmmaker’s Cooperative | London, England

Ann Arbor Film Festival | Ann Arbor, MI

SFAI International Film Festival | San Francisco, CA

Anthology Film Archives | New York, NY

Cinemateque | San Francisco, CA

Rocky Mountain Film Center | Boulder, CO

Pasadena Film Forum | Pasadena, CA

Southwest Alternative Media Project | El Paso, TX

Oasis | Los Angeles, CA

Cinemateque | San Francisco, CA

New Filmmakers

San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco, CA

Film Center | Cardiff, Wales

Cinemateque | Paris, France

Oval House | London, England

London Filmmaker’s Cooperative | London, England

Chicago Filmmakers | Chicago, IL

London Filmmaker’s Cooperative | London, England

Arts Council of Britain | London, England

Museum of Modern Art -Georges Pompidou Center | Paris, France

Archives du Film Experimentales | Avignon, France

Vassar College | Poughkeepsie, NY

San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco, CA

University of South Florida | Tampa, Florida

Miami-Dade Library Film Collection | Miami, Florida

Canyon Cinema | San Francisco, CA

The Film-makers's Cooperative | New York, NY

Light Cone | Paris, France