STEVEN RASKIN is a photographer and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been an active exhibiting photographer since 1977 and earned an MFA degree in photography from California College of the Arts in 1991. He began teaching photography in 1983 and has taught at California College of the Arts, College of Marin, City College of San Francisco, Foothill College, The Academy of Art University, and U.C. Berkeley. He began teaching at City College of San Francisco in 1992 and was a full-time tenured member of the Photography Department faculty at CCSF from 2000 until he retired in 2019. He served as Department Chair during 2007 and again 2009 through 2011. His work includes black and white landscape, pinhole, underwater, alternative processes, and digital photography. He is currently working on a project of aerial landscapes titled Hover, in which abstract patterns and tracks left by vehicles and natural patterns from evaporation on dry and drying lake beds in Western states. A selection of his work can be viewed at www.stevenraskinphotography.com
EDUCATION
MFA with High Distinction, Photography, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, 1991
Academy of Art College
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Merit Awards:
Jack K. & Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship, 1990
Jake Gimbel Scholarship Award, 1989
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
City College of San Francisco: Professor, Full-time, 2000 – 2004
City College of San Francisco: Tenured Professor, 2004-2019
City College of San Francisco Department Chair, 2008 - 2011
City College of San Francisco: Adjunct Professor, 1992 – 2000
College of Marin, Kentfield, CA: Adjunct Professor, 1992 – 2000
Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA: Adjunct Professor, 1996 – 2000
Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA: Adjunct Professor, 1993 – 1995
University of California at Berkeley Extension: Instructor, 1992 – 2000
ASUC Art Studio, UC Berkeley: Instructor, 1983 – 1997
California College of Arts and Crafts: Lecturer, 1991
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Invitational and Juried Exhibitions:
2021 Magnetic Pull; Arc Gallery, SF, CA
2020 Bay Area Current(ly); Camerawork Gallery, SF, CA
2020 Verde; Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
2020 Members Exhibition; Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2020 The Best Medicine; Dickerman Prints, SF, CA
2019 Members Exhibition; East Bay Photography Collective, Oakland, CA
2018 The Tipping Point; Corden|Potts Gallery, SF, CA
2017 Beyond Landscapes; Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
2017 Into the Light; Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 Nature (re)Defined; Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014 CCSF Photography 75th Anniversary Exhibition; Camerawork Gallery, SF, CA
2005 Rayko Photo Center CCSF Faculty Exhibition, SF, CA
2000 Faculty Exhibition, City College of San Francisco, SF, CA
1999 College of Marin Faculty Exhibition, Kentfield, CA
1999 University of California Extension, San Francisco, CA
1998 University of California Extension, San Francisco, CA
1996 “SEA ’96,” International Underwater Photographic Society, San Francisco, CA
1996 University of California Extension, San Francisco, CA
1993 University of California Extension, San Francisco, CA
1992 “1992 Juried Photography Exhibition,” Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
1992 “Photograph As: Urban Scape/Rural Scape,” Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
1991 “National Graduate Seminar Fellows Exhibition,” American Photography Institute,
New York University, NY
1991 Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
1991 Faculty Exhibit, University of California at Berkeley, ASUC Art Studio, Berkeley, CA
1990 Isabelle Percy West Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1989 California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA
1989 “New Work,” Modesto Lanzone, San Francisco, CA
1989 “Bay Area MFA Exhibition,” San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1989 Isabelle Percy West Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1986 “Nine Photographers,” Galerie Chacun à Son Goût, San Francisco, CA
1984 “Camerawork 10th Anniversary Exhibition,” Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 “Second Annual Northern California Juried Photographic Exhibition,” Monterey Peninsula
Museum of Art, Monterey, CA, Third Place Award
1983 Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
1983 “Photo Flow,” University of Texas at Arlington, Texas
1982 “Progress In Works II,” 20 X 20 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 Cirrus Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1980 “Currents,” Heller Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1979 “26th Annual: Photography,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
One and Two Person Exhibitions":
1992 Hatfield Gallery, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO
1991 The Galleria, University of California Extension, San Francisco, CA
1991 Downtown Oakland Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1989 Martinez Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1983 Elmwood Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1982 Iris II Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1981 Step Gallery, Oakland, CA
1980 University of California at Berkeley, ASUC Art Studio, Berkeley, CA
1979 Gallery 25, Winston/Salem N.C.
1978 University of California at Berkeley, ASUC Art Studio, Berkeley, CA
1978 Iris Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Publications and Catalogues:
2021 Arc Gallery “Magnetic Pull” catalog
2020 Bay Area Photographer’s Collective Portfolio 2020
2020 East Bay Photography Collective Members Book
2020 Photo.com; Issue #13, “Shapes”
2019 Photo.com; Issue #4, “Shapes”
2019 Your Daily Photograph
2018 Etc. Magazine
1992 Pinhole Journal Vol. 8 #2
1989 “In This Hour” with poetry by Charles Entrekin
1988 Berkeley Poet's Collective #30