I am an artist based in San Francisco exploring the intersections of paper, print, and cloth. Much of my artist inquiry arises from upbringing in Hawai’i, where I was raised among farming communities.
Living in an increasingly industrialized and temporal age, I value the preservation of craft methodologies as acts that demand deliberate movements and sensitive consideration towards the ways in which we transform the world around us. I often work with foraged, recycled, & naturally-dyed fibers, and explore the ways in which a material’s origin and treatment shape its spirit and significance. Somatic expression, automatic drawing, and collage also significantly inform my art practice.
Through art-making, I seek to unravel existing binaries between what we conceive as ‘human’ and ‘non-human,’ while investigating our responsibility as stewards of Earth through observing (with both reverence and disdain) what obscures our divine interconnection and interdependence.
I hold a BFA in Print Media from the California College of Arts, and currently work as an editorial associate for ArtBae.
zoespikerman@gmail.com
San Francisco, CACV
EDUCATION
Garden for the Environment / San Francisco, CA
Certification in Garden & Compost Education, Class of 2025
California College of the Arts / San Francisco, CA
BFA in Print Media, Class of 2025
EXHIBITIONS
2026 The Eden Gallery, Multimedia Art Exhibit, KOHO Creative Club, Hosted by Decentered Arts, San Francisco CA
2026 Visualizing Impact, Permanent Multimedia Art Exhibit, The ARTEFFECT Gallery at the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, Washington DC
2026 Amble Along, Hamaguchi x KALA Artists-in-Residence Showcase, CCA, San Francisco CA
2025 Introductions, Emerging Artist Showcase, Root Division, San Francisco CA
2025 Home, Multimedia Art Exhibit, The Faight, San Francisco CA
2025 Hō’ailona, Multimedia Art Exhibit, Novack Gallery, San Francisco CA
2024 Bone Deep, Multimedia Art Exhibit, Ushi Gallery, Emeryville CA
2024 Yozo Hamaguchi Print Media Award Exhibition, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco CA
2024 Tactile Bliss, Materiality of Resistance Symposium, San Francisco CA
2023 Zoe Spikerman & Isobel Ramos: Duo Art Exhibition & Performance, The Convent, San Francisco CA
2023 Collection of Artwork Displayed at Mercury Cafe, San Francisco CA
ACCOLADES
2025 Hamaguchi x KALA Artists-in-Residence Award
2024 Yozo Hamaguchi Print Media Award
2023 Yozo Hamaguchi Print Media Award
2021 Hawai’i State Congressional Art Competition Finalist
2021 Certificate of Excellence, Art Effect Competition for Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes
RESCIDENCIES & INTERNSHIPS
2025—2026 KALA Art Institute
Artist in Residence | San Francisco, CA
2025 Archival Intern
Bread & Puppet Press| Glover, VT
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
2025 Printmaking Volunteer
Bread & Puppet Press| Glover, VT
2024 Printmaking Volunteer
Bread & Puppet Press| Glover, VT