Founding Team
Ileana Tejada
CEO
Ileana Tejada holds an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute as well as BA in Fine Art and a BS in Kinesiology with an emphasis in pedagogy from Cal Poly Pomona. She is the recipient of the Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Art Award in 2014, the Amir Esfahani Graduate Studio Fellowship Award in 2015, and is featured in New American Paintings MFA Now Issue #126 in 2016. Her work centers around the exploration of the masculine female body, gender conformity, and the normative rules of power.
Ileana managed the Public Education department at San Francisco Art Institute, where she also taught classes in drawing and painting. In addition, she holds a California State Teaching Credential and is the recipient of the Partners in Education Teaching Fellowship Award from Cal Poly Pomona.
Katherine Vetne
COO
Katherine Vetne’s still life-based practice merges themes of high craft, art history, consumerism, and gender. She received a BFA from Boston University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the recipient of SFAI’s Graduate Fellowship in Painting, the Allan B. Stone Award, and an Individual Artist Commission grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Vetne has exhibited her work at CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles; Samson Projects and 808 Gallery, in Boston, MA; and CCA Hubbell Street Galleries and 2nd floor projects, in San Francisco, CA. where she currently lives and works.
In June 2018, Vetne’s work was featured in Heavy Metal – Women to Watch 2018 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Vetne's debut solo exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery opened in September 2019, opening the gallery’s fall season of programming.
Marketing Team
Jordan Holms
is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in painting, sculpture, and textiles. She has exhibited internationally in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada and her work is held in multiple private collections. Her work has been included in two solo exhibitions at Marrow Gallery, a group exhibition at the de Young Museum as well as with SFMOMA Artists Gallery, featured at BAMPFA, and in Adidas’s San Francisco Market Street storefront. Most recently, Holms was a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, where she was an artist-in-residence in February 2020. She is also a 2016-2019 recipient of the San Francisco Art Institute’s Graduate Fellowship Award. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Critical and Cultural Practices from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2015 and a Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2019, where she graduated with honors. Holms lives and works in between San Francisco, California and Vancouver, Canada.
Bojana Rankovic
is an interdisciplinary young creative professional with a career in Fine Art, Graphic Design, Art Direction, and Art Nonprofit Marketing. Working on various personal and commissioned projects, her work primarily consists of printmaking and bookmaking, while she regularly applies her skills to digital design projects. Bojana had her work projected on the ZAZ10 Gallery billboard screen in Times Square, NY, has exhibited in American Bookbinders Museum, Root Division, 1890 Bryant Street Studios, Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI Print Gallery, Art Gallery at the Orinda Library, and various alternative spaces in San Francisco Bay Area; as well as The Russian House, Glasnik Gallery, and Museum of History of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, Serbia. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking and Art + Technology from San Francisco Art Institute where she graduated with honors and received the 2019 Bronze Roller Award, the highest honor bestowed on a candidate from the Printmaking Department. She is also the recipient of the 2018/2019 Clyde & Community Art Awards, and 2015 Lamorinda Arts Council Awards for Photography, 2D art, and Digital Design. Her art books and prints are held in Anne Bremer Memorial Library in San Francisco Art Institute, as well as multiple private collections. Bojana lives and works between New York City and San Francisco.
PHOTO LECTURE SERIES MANAGER
Cecilia Borgenstam
Cecilia Borgenstam is a Swedish artist and educator based in San Francisco. Her work deconstructs the concepts of “home” and “belonging” as feelings associated with protection and safety rooted in geographical spaces. She has exhibited her work in shows nationwide and internationally and is a SF Bay International Photography Silver Medalist and a Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist. Her project “Here/Not Here” received honorable mentions for documentary photography at the Julia Margaret Cameron Award in 2019 and at the Pollux Awards in 2018.
She has worked as a studio manager for Richard Misrach and a book builder for Michael Light. She received a BA in Literature from the University of Lund (1996) and an MFA in Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute (2015).