ABOUT

Informed by the ghost stories of her childhood and a culture steeped in tales of the supernatural, Renetta Sitoy’s practice is a continuation of this art of storytelling. Her work explores the search for self and identity, influenced by media, technology, and the human psyche. Renetta is a first generation Filipino American who was born in Staten Island, New York. She studied English at Boston University and holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, where she was the recipient of the MFA Fellowship from 2005 to 2007. Her work has been shown internationally, and she received City of Oakland Individual Artist Grants for the years 2012-2013 and 2015-2016. She lives and works in Oakland, California.

selected exhibitions and performances (*indicates solo show)

2023
Mapping • 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Pyramid Scheme • Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA
3 Animated Shorts + The 10th Anniversary Screening of the ear goes to the sound* • Pearson Theater at Meyer Sound, Berkeley, CA
2022
Under the Subway Video Art Night • St. Nicholas Park, New York, NY
Tip of the Tongue • Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
​​2021
City Arcade Redux / The Snack Thief* • Roll Up Project Gallery, Oakland, CA

2018
GRID • Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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2016
Storefront History* • Warehouse 416, Oakland, CA 
All Oakland Mini Film Festival • Warehouse 416, Oakland, CA 
Artists Live Here • Oakland City Hall / ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015
Graven Images • E.M. Wolfman, Oakland, CA (two-person show)
the ear goes to the sound: Screening* • OPENSIGNAL Spring Festival, Brown University, Providence, RI
the ear goes to the sound: Screening* • The New Parkway Theater, Oakland, CA
2014
the ear goes to the sound: Screening* • Pearson Theater, Berkeley, CA
2013 
5ENSES: CODAME Art and Technology Festival • Geekdom SF, San Francisco, CA
the ear goes to the sound: Screening* • College Avenue Presbyterian Church, Oakland, CA
Language • Stanford University, Stanford, CA • curator: Piero Scaruffi
2012 
War Texts • Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ 
KNOW/HOW • Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011 
Time • Stanford University, Stanford, CA • curator: Piero Scaruffi 
Technolopolis • Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
Wasteland • Soap Gallery, San Francisco, CA 
2010 
Second Skin • Harlan Knoll Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 
MAP (Mobile Arts Platform) • Left Coast Live, San Jose, CA 
Lapse • LoBot Gallery, Oakland, CA 
Inner:Cities • SOMArts, San Francisco, CA 
Losing Yourself in the 21st Century • Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD • curators: Cathy Byrd, Jillian Hernandez, and Susan Richmond 
The Names Project* • Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009 
Losing Yourself in the 21st Century • Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA • curators: Cathy Byrd, Jillian Hernandez, and Susan Richmond
Home is something I carry with me • Mission District, San Francisco, CA 
Crosstalk Video Art Festival • Gödör Club, Budapest, Hungary 
Z-axis • LoBot Gallery, Oakland, CA
Cut-n-Paste • LoBot Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008 
Site and Situation • Clara Street Projects, San Francisco, CA 
Videoholica 2008 Biennial of Visual Arts • City Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria 
Teenage Bedroom • Slip Gallery, New York, NY 
Produce • Soap Gallery, San Francisco, CA 
We Interrupt Your Program • Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA • curator: Marcia Tanner
BLACKOUT • Gallery 3175, San Francisco, CA 
Shape • LoBot Gallery, Oakland, CA 
Gen Art Emerge • The Warfield Building, San Francisco, CA
2007 
Outvideo '07: 4th International Videoart Festival in Public Spaces • Yekaterinburg, Russia
The American Heresy Collective • Roxie Film Center, San Francisco, CA 
Vernissage, MFA Thesis Exhibition • Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA 
SFAI NOW • Red Ink Studios, San Francisco, CA 
Noise Pop 2007 Festival • Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA 
dreams and landscapes* • Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2006 
Digital Bastards • San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 
Projections • Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA 
Continuing MFA Show • Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 
New Genres Orchestra with Matmos • San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 
M.C. Schmidt and New Genres Orchestra Live Performance • Shirley & Spinoza Internet Radio, Oakland, CA 
Interactive Media • San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2005 
First-Year MFA Show • Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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awards and honors 
2015-2016
City of Oakland Individual Artist Grant • Oakland, CA
2012-2013
City of Oakland Individual Artist Grant • Oakland, CA
2009 
Philadelphia Art Hotel Artist Residency • Philadelphia, PA 
2005-2007 
San Francisco Art Institute MFA Fellowship: Awarded full tuition scholarship to attend the San Francisco Art Institute 2005 to 2007 
2007 
Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Studio Residency Finalist • Marin County, CA 
Teaching Assistant Scholarship: Sounds of All Kinds, a studio class led by composer Charles Boone • San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA


selected bibliography 
2023
Roll Up Project: The Early Years. Catalog. Reproduction.

2013
Lechner, Marie. "Les premières mains électroniques," Libération, Culture, October 3, 2013. Reproduction.

2012 
Root Division 10 Year Anniversary Catalogue. Catalog. Reproduction.
2010 
Byrd, Cathy, Hernandez, Jillian, Richmond, Susan. Losing Yourself in the 21st Century. Catalog.
2009 
Otterbein, Holly. “Get a Room,” Philadelphia City Paper, Arts, August 26, 2009.
Roberts, Adrienne Skye. Home is something I carry with me. Catalog. 
2008 
Tanner, Marsha. We Interrupt Your Program. Catalog. Mills College Art Museum. Reproduction.


reviews of exhibitions 
2013 
Phaneu, Whitney. “The Film Goes to the Sound,” East Bay Express, Music, August 14-16, 2013, p.38. Reproduction.
2008 
Van Proyen, Mark. “We Interrupt Your Program at Mills College Art Museum,” Artweek, May 2008, p.29. 
Myers, Julian. “We Interrupt Your Program,” Frieze, May 2008, p.174. 
Harmanci, Reyhan. “Four Shows Challenge Classic Idea of Feminism,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 2008, p.F-1. 
Redell, Bob. “Blackout,” NBC Channel 11 News, February 22, 2008. Reproduction. 
“Glowing: Light in the Darkness,” KTVU Channel 2 News, February 12, 2008. Reproduction. 
Harmanci, Reyhan. “Fade to Black,” San Francisco Chronicle, 96 Hours, February 7, 2008, p.19. Reproduction.
2007
Leaverton, Michael. “You Bright, Risen Angels,” SF Weekly, February 6, 2008, p.26. Reproduction. 2007
“dreams and landscapes,” Experimental Channel, January 7, 2007, interview. Reproduction.


teaching experience
2008
Instructor • Root Division Adult Education Program • San Francisco, CA 
2007 
Teaching Assistant: Sounds of All Kinds with Charles Boone • San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 
Art Instructor • Fairmount Elementary School • San Francisco, CA


selected lectures
University of California Berkeley • Berkeley, CA • 2014
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
with Jim Crutchfield, UC Davis Professor and Chaos Scientist; Lucia Jacobs, UC Berkeley Psychology Professor; artist Shan Shan Sheng

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • San Francisco, CA • 2013
Dissident Futures Art and Ideas Festival

Stanford University • Stanford, CA • 2012
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
with artist Javier Ideami; Abigail De Kosnik, Berkeley Center for New Media Cultural Historian; composer Luciano Chessa

SETI Institute • Mountain View, CA • 2010
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
with Henrik Bennetsen, CEO, Katalabs; artist Chris Palmer

University of San Francisco • San Francisco, CA • 2009
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
with Warren Sack, Director of Graduate Studies, Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz; artist Jim Campbell; artist Phil Ross

Free Library of Philadelphia • Philadelphia, PA • 2009
Philadelphia Art Hotel Artist Lecture Series, Visiting Artist

Headlands Center for the Arts • Sausalito, CA • 2008
Action at a Distance: Relocating Reality
with artist Luther Thie; Tanya Zimbardo, SFMOMA Assistant Curator of Media Arts; Ken Goldberg, Director of Berkeley Center for New Media; moderated by Headlands Director Gary Sangster

University of San Francisco • San Francisco, CA • 2008
Worlds In Collision, Guest Lecturer

San Francisco Art Institute • San Francisco, CA • 2007
Musique Concréte: A Brief History in Listening

Diego Rivera Gallery • San Francisco, CA • 2007
Artist’s Talk


related experience 
2007-2008 
Resident Artist • Root Division, San Francisco, CA 
2006 
Legion of Graduate Students: MFA Student Government • Design + Technology Representative • San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 
Gallery Monitor • Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA


education 
2005-2007 
MFA Design + Technology • San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
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