Bio:

Phillip Hofstetter is an
Associate Professor of Art &
Chair of his department.
California State University, East Bay
Hayward, California
He is also involved with the
Multimedia Graduate Program.

Phil has led an episodic career in the arts with various work in the theater, documentary television, and major stints at San Francisco Bay Area art museums. As a multimedia and video producer for archaeological excavations in Yucatán, his television & multimedia work has appeared on National Geographic television and the Discovery Channel.

His 17 year photographic journal of Maya ruins began from work with Merle Green Robertson at Palenque and field work at the Yaxuná Project and at Chunchucmil, both in the Yucatán. He is currently designing new media documentation at the Kiuic Project in the Puuc Hills and for the El Perú Project in the Petén, Guatemala.

In the past two years (2006 & 2007) he has expanded his photographic work to cityscapes and ancient archaeological sites in the Mediterranean basin. His most recent museum exhibition shows panoramas of both Maya and Greek ruins from Turkey to Sicily, from Guatemala to Yucatán.

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SELECT EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

• Museum Exhibition, Archaeologishes Institut der Universitaet Zuerich
   PANORAMA - Ruinenbilder aus der Welt der Griechen und Maya
   Zuerich, Switzerland, October 2007 - February 2008
• Group Show, RE:Show - 2 Decades of SOMA Artists
   SOMA Arts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA August-October 2006
• Museum Exhibition, Museo Contemporaneo de Arte Ateneo de Yucatán
  (MACAY), Mérida,Yucatán, July-October 2003
• Solo Show, Poxila Conference on Maya Northern Lowlands
  Archaeology, Hacienda Poxilá, Yucatán , January 2003
• Faculty   Show, University Gallery, CSU Hayward, March 2003
• Orinda Library Gallery, Orinda California, April 2002
• Solo Show, Tulane Maya Symposium, Tulane University,
  New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2002
• Faculty Group Show, University Art Gallery, CSU Hayward, 2002
• Solo Show, Edgewalker Conference, Trinity University
  San Antonio, Texas, November 2001
• Solo Show, Poxila Conference on Maya Northern Lowlands
  Archaeology, Hacienda Poxilá, Yucatán , October 2001
• Faculty Group Show, University Art Gallery, CSU Hayward, 2001
• Bay Area Quicktime Virtual Reality Association, Apple Computer,
  Cupertino,  Presentation of the Yaxuná Archaeology and
  Maya Cosmos Websites, March 2000,
• Faculty Group Show, University Art Gallery, CSU Hayward, 2000
• Macromedia Art Gallery, Group Media Show, San Francisco, CA, 1999
• Faculty Group Show, University Art Gallery, CSU Hayward, 1999
• Faculty Group Show, University Art Gallery, CSU Hayward, 1998
• Faculty Group Show, University Art Gallery, CSU Hayward, 1997
• Co-creator & producer: 30 Annual PEARL HARBOR DAY COMMEMORATIONS,
   art & media performances, 63 Bluxome St.Gallery, SF 1972-2001
• ProArts Photography Group Show, Oakland , 1995
• “THE AZTECS BELIEVED....”, performance painting,
  Hotel Utah, San Francisco, 1987
• "EAST ASIA JOURNAL", one man show, Videra Gallery, Oakland, 1985
• “SWIMSUIT”, one man show, Videra Gallery, Oakland, 1983
• Co-creator & producer: MUDMEN OF MAKEHUKU, Santa Cruz, Swanton,
   San Francisco, CA & Jessonia, Peru, art & media performances
   presented on four occasions, 1973-80
• “WRECK AND ROLL”, art & performance, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, 1977
• “LIFE IS DULL”, one man show, Kresge College Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, 1975
• “SECOND BODY”, one man show, Stevenson College Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, 1974