Koak (b. 1981) lives and works in San Francisco. Recent solo exhibitions include: Return to Feeling, Altman Siegel, San Francisco; Holding Breath, Union Pacific, London; Breaking the Prairie, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; Seed for Planting, Walden, Buenos Aires and Bathers, Alter Space, San Francisco. Recent and forthcoming group shows include New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (forthcoming); 100 Drawings, Drawing Center, NY (forthcoming); Palo Santo, Ratio 3, San Francisco; Liquid Dreams, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; American Fine Arts, BBQLA at Cloaca, San Francisco; Condo, Et al. at Celaya Brothers, Mexico City; You Are Who I Think You Are, American Medium, New York City; and Female Gaze, Museum of Sex, New York City. Koak holds an MFA in Comics and an individualized BFA from the California College of the Arts.