Philippa Renshaw is a interdisciplinary Artist, Designer, Maker, based in San Francisco. She creates surface patterns by employing an array of techniques including printmaking, textiles, ceramics, drawing, painting, and digital art.
Living in a neoliberal capitalist society, she mourns the loss of quality. In her work she illuminates the relevance of handcraft in a technological world through in-depth exploration of materials and techniques. She operates between risk and certainty.
Renshaw holds an MFA from San Francisco State University, USA, along with an MA in Design Futures and a BA (Hons) in Textile Design both from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK.
Get in touch with me at studiorenshaw@gmail.com
Exhibitions:
2026 – The Living Archive Exhibition Booth at Start Up Art Fair, Hotel Del Sol, San Francisco, CA, April
2026 – High Fiber Exhibition by Coyote Town, Baukunst, San Francisco, CA, Jan – April 2026
2025 – INTERWOVEN exhibition at Start Up Art Fair, Hotel Del Sol, San Francisco, CA, April 2o25
2025 – REVIVED SURROUNDINGS at Start Up Art Fair, Hotel Del Sol, San Francisco, CA, April 2o25
2024 – Remake Fashion Show Decor at San Francisco Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, November 2024
2024 – Hardly Softer Group show at Wave Collective Gallery, San Francisco, CA, June – August 2024
2024 – Hospitality House’s 39th Annual Juried Art Auction at Saint Joseph’s Art Society, San Francisco, CA, June 2024
2024 – Indefinite Hiatus at House on Haight, San Francisco, CA, May – June 2024
2024 – Surroundings Solo Show as part of AiR 2024 Program at Jettison Creative, San Francisco, CA, April – May 2024
2023 – Rebirth Group Show at Wave Collective Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May – June 2023
2023 – Pyramid Scheme at Bass & Rainer Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May 2023
2023 – Other Structures, SFSU 2023 MFA Thesis Show, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
2023 – Hospitality House’s 38th Annual Juried Art Auction at Saint Joseph’s Art Society, San Francisco, CA.
2023 – San Francisco State University 2023 Ceramics Exhibition, CCACA 2023, Davis, CA.
2023 – FUTURE TENSE: Textiles & Fiber Art Juried Exhibition, The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE.
2022 – Artist Group Show, Wave Collective, 440 Haight St, San Francisco, CA.
2022 – Annual Juried Murphy and Cadogan Awards Show for Bay Area MFA Students, SOMArts San Francisco, CA.
2022 – San Francisco State University 2022 Ceramics Exhibition, CCACA 2022, Davis, CA.
2021 – San Francisco State University 2021 Ceramics Exhibition, CCACA 2021, Davis, CA.
2018 – Graduate Masters Degree show at Cardiff School of Art & Design , Cardiff UK.
2017 – New Designers Graduate Design Show, London Business Centre, London, UK.
2017 – Undergraduate Summer Degree Show at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff, UK.
Residences:
2024 – Jettison Creative Artist Residency program awardee for the month of April 2024, San Francisco, CA.
Curatorial:
2026 – Assistant Curator for the The Living Archive Exhibition Booth at Start Up Art Fair, Hotel Del Sol, San Francisco, CA, April
Publications:
The Living Archive Look Book, Start Up Art Fair, April 2026
INTERWOVEN Unraveling The Textile Waste Effect Catalogue, Start Up Art Fair, April 2025
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