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What does it mean to be female or male? Can you be both (or neither)? Is it a stance, a potion, or pill? If I eat more meat will I be more masculine? Is it a look, facial hair, muscles? How much weight should I lift? How big should my muscles be? How much should I gain? Lose? These are questions I am trying to answer with the process of drawing and video — add subtract repeat, add subtract repeat. My interest is in how food, objects, and the human form relate.Toying with the boundaries between art, bodybuilding and sex fetish play, my intention is to disrupt the space between male and female by activating the atmosphere with a series of large self portraits, video, objects,and performance. As a woman, I attempt to exaggerate and animate my portrayal of masculine behavior.My video works are short narratives. My goal is to create and build visual ideas inspired from my environment and my community. I use stories and objects from “logo della memoria” the “place of memories” in my various works. I do this with methods of collage, treating the projected images like a drawing or a painting by mixing colors, old film, images and sounds.
“Linda Trunzo, for example, pits herself against cultural expectations of female strength and behavior in her droll video, “Homoboy.” She plays her mustached male alter ego, Sonni, who proceeds to gear up, stretch out and bench press men strapped to a board.” Artists get into the game at Paragraph Gallery’s |
ARTIST CV
Born: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
trunzzo@gmail.com
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
ArtAuction23 the coalition on homelessness 23rd annual
2121 Artspace Inaugural Exhibition 12”x12” group show
Windows 226 family portraits
2022
ArtAuction22 the coalition on homelessness 22nd annual
Artists for Amnesty John Natsoulas Gallery Davis California
Women Rising II 780 Valencia Street
Deck watercolors Lola’s Art Gallery San Francisco
2021
Monster Drawing Rally Southern Exposure
Tides of Change 780 Valencia sky installation
12th annual Drawing Discourse at University of North Carolina
Windows 226 self portraits
The Fayes 3614 sky installation and portraits
2020
Women Rising San Francisco
Monster Drawing Rally Southern Exposure
Windows 226 Self Portraits
2019
ECHOES: From There to Here, SFAI
Black Serum Crowned,The little fish are now the big fish, Butchers Cut
Window 226, selfies, Size Queen
Get High on Mountains Portraits big and small San Francisco
2018
Window 226 Sometimes we need flowers
Infinite Sketch Brooklyn Art Library NYC
Southern Exposure Monster Rally at Minnesota St Project
Altered at OFFSpace Minnesota St Project San Francisco
2017
Windows 226 Identities, San Francisco
Investigate Off Street ManyLabs San Francisco CA
Le Salon de Diego Diego Rivera Gallery San Francisco CA
Monster Drawing Rally Minnesota Street Project Southern Exposure
Annual Dia de los Muertos Remembrance and Resistance SOMArts San Francisco CA
Portraits with Good Hair Lola’s Art Gallery SF CA
2016
Crowned Windows 226 Sheet Metal Workers Hall SF CA
Drawing Discourse 7th annual exhibition of Contemporary University Of North Carolina,
Tucker Cooke Gallery Owen Hall
Avedano’s butcher shop Paintings meat and fish
2015
Butchers Cut Windows 226 Sheet Metal Workers Hall SF CA
Here, The Mud Room at Ocean Beach SF CA
Second MFA Tenderloin Institute of Art with Jeremiah Jenkins at Evergold Gallery SF CA
2014
Ellis Island Immigration Project with JR Video project Guerrero Street
Projected Personae SoMarts San Francisco Ca
Two Billboards Windows 226 SheetmetalWorkers Hall SFCA
100 Performance’s for the Hole SoMarts San Francisco, CA
2013
Almost Together The David Brower Juried Show at the Hazel Wolf Gallery
Joey Windows 226 Sheet Metal Workers Hall San Francisco CA
OneMama 111 Minna Street San Francisco
Windows Storied Sites Architecture Politics & People Phoenix Hotel San Francisco
2012
9 Flights, Mid Market Art Project, San Francisco, CA
Storied Sites, Diego Rivera Gallery , SFAI San Francisco CA
2011
Ever-After, Chapel of the Chimes/Julia Morgan, Oakland, CA
Bay Area Currents ,Pro Arts Oakland CA
Alameda Gallery El Paso TX
Double Takes, 3 Minute Picture Show, Victoria Theater San Francisco, CA
Cries of San Francisco Southern Exposure, San Francisco
Monster Drawing Rally Southern Exposure San Francisco
2010
You’re a Good Sport, Paragraph Gallery
Charlotte Street Foundation ,
Kansas City MO
Second Annual Paint by Number Group Show, WE Artspace, Oakland, CA
Terror of the Red Chairs, 3 Minute Picture Show, Victoria Theater San Francisco
Big Deal Visual Aids SOMArts, San Francisco
2009
Passive/Aggressive, Public Art/Urban Intervention Day Southern Exposure, San Francisco,CA
Big Blue, Visual Aid’s SOMArts , San Francisco, CA
Inside/Outside, Sonni’s Mustache Adobe Bookshop, San Francisco, CA
Alter Ego, Sonni Trunzo, Queens Nails Gallery, San Francisco, CA
3 minute Film Festival, Root Division, “Central” San Francisco
Tenderloin Forest, “Dante’s Inferno” San Francisco
2008
Homefront, Marin Foundation, Marin, CA
Big Deal 15, Visual Aids, San Francisco, CA
2007
Secrets and Confessions, Brand 36, Brand Gallery, Glendale, CA
3 minute Film Festival, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Hospitality House, Andrea Swartz Gallery, San Francisco
Get out of Jail Free, GLBT Center, San Francisco
2006
Spectacle, Vernissage, SFAI, MFA Graduate Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion
Words into Stone, Queen’s Nail Gallery, San Francisco
100% Centennial, Regina Miller Gallery Carnegie-Mellon Pittsburgh, PA
Pied Piper of Palestine, San Francisco Art Institute
2005
Sonni, One Person Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
Third Sex, Space 743, San Francisco, CA
Steal This Video, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
2004
Preview, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Ephemeral Feminism, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco
Face Paint, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco
2003
Auction, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
17+, Space 743, San Francisco
2002
Salzbrand Keramik, Exhibition and Catalogue, Koblenz, Germany
Quatrain: Four Visions, Herger Gallery, Solano College, CA
2001
Mostra 2001 Six Italian-American Artists, Museo ItaloAmericano, SF
1998
Two Person Show, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco
1994
1st Generation, Clay Studio Gallery, San Francisco
Feats of Clay VII, Gladding McBean Historical Terra Cotta plant, Lincoln, CA
California Clay competition, The Artery, Davis, CA
1992
CSU Traveling show, Humboldt, Eureka, and Long Beach
1990
The Fourth Annual Monarch Tile Ceramic competition, San Angelo Museum, TX
Group Show, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco
Fire and Ice, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
Feats of Clay, Gladding McBean Historical Terra Cotta plant, Lincoln
National Clay Cup, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Ill
California Clay competition, The Artery, Davis, CA
EDUCATION
MFA 2006, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
BFA 1979, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA