born 1975, Volcano Village, Hawai'i
lives and works Mahiki, Hawai'i
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015
Pure Surface, Valentines, movement -Dawn Stoppiello, text- Endi Bogue Hartigan, film- Ajna Lichau, Portland Oregon.
White Noise 2.0, Worksound International/Natural History, Portland Oregon.
2014
Whats Funny?, Procvetaj Festival, Paviljon Cvijeta Zuzonic, Belgrade, Serbia
2012
XXX, MDW Fair, Chicago, Illinois.
EFF Portland, GalleryHOMELAND, Portland, Oregon.
2011
Third Strike: 100 Performances for the Hole, SOMarts, San Francisco, California.
2010
Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party, SOMarts, San Francisco, California.
Dominion, Tribute Gallery, Portland Oregon.
East West Project, Espace 72, Dison/Verviers, Belgium.
2009
Girls on film, Espace apART - Free art-base - F518, Guangzhou, China.
East West Project, Espace 72, Dison/Verviers, Belgium.
It’s the way that you move, Million Fishes Gallery, SF California.
2008
East West Project, Espace 72, Dison/Verviers, Belgium.
Water, The Garage, San Francisco.
Accoutre, Worksound, Portland Oregon.
2007
Collectif 2007, Espace 72, Dison/Verviers, Belgium.
Ajna Lichau & Jessica Pezalla, Mark Wolfe Contemporary, SF California.
East West Project, Espace 72, Dison/Verviers, Belgium.
Onde, Les Contemporains, Bruxelles, Belgium.
2006
Ajna Lichau, Spur Projects, Portola Valley, California
Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, SFAI, Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason, SF California.
Body functions, screening at the 9th Havana Biennial, Cuba.
Heavenly Bodies, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California.
2005
Emerge, GenArt; The Warfield building, San Francisco, California.
Participate, MonkeyFresh Studios, San Francisco, California.
2004
The Chicken Show, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Nurturing the New 2004, NurtureArt Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.Figurative Photographs, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York.
2002
Moments of Clarity: A midsummer night interlude, Sotheby’s, New York.
Donnata Estetica, Art Point Black, Florence, Italy.
2001
New Work, Ajna and El Nino, Apogee Gallery; Stevenson Fine Art, New York.
2000
Parsons Senior Exhibition, The Gallery on 13th Street, New York.
Parsons Benefit Auction, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York.
1999
New Visions, MaxMara Boutique, New York.
Parsons Benefit Auction, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York.
1997
Hermony, Catch 22 Gallery, New York.
EDUCATION
2006
MFA, New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California.
2000
BFA, Photography, (awarded honors), Parsons School of Design, New York.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Michelle Weidman, “Review: Dominion.” Ultrapdx, August
2007
Koppman, Debra, “Ajna Lichau and Jessica Pezalla,” Artweek, March.
2006
Morris, Barbara. “Ajna Lichau at Spur Projects,” Artweek, December.
Fischer, Jack. “Technology & Identity, S. J. exhibition explores how the digitallandscape is shaping perceptions of the human mind,” Mercury News, March 19.