Recent Press
Arion Press. "Arion Artist Talk: Sandow Birk & Robet Mailer Anderson" SF Station. May 25, 2022 WEB PDF
Zeller, Heidi. "Artists Selected For Purple (D-Line) Extention Transit Project". Metro TheSource. May 4 2022. WEB PDF
Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Sandow Birk at Track 16". Art and Cake. April 27, 2022. WEB PDF
FineBooks Staff. "Fine Art and Photography Results at BPA Galleries". Fine Books Magazine. Februrary 7, 2022. WEB PDF
Acker, Emma. "Bierstadt to Birk: California Landscape Ideals Versus Realities." De Young Museum. September 17, 2021. WEB PDF
Varat, Deborah. "A Dreadful Attack of Presidential Fever." The McIninch Art Gallery Southern New Hampshire University, September 1, 2020. WEB PDF
Osberg, Annabel. "Los Angeles Area Scene Paintings." Artillery, April 8, 2020. WEB PDF
AGO Insider. "Seriously Funny." October 22, 2019. WEB PDF
Hodgins, Paul. "Exhibit by new Begovich Gallery director highlights CSUF’s impressive collection." The Orange County Register, September 11, 2019. WEB PDF
Alkofer, Bill. "LBMA Downtown: Yes, it's open." Long Beach Post, September 8, 2019. WEB PDF
Gurewitsch, Matthew. "New Maui exhibit showcases artists at their barricades." Star Advertiser, September 8, 2019. WEB PDF
Brown, Betty. "Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica." Art and Cake. August 12, 2019. WEB PDF
Desmarais, Charles. "Sandow Birk's idealist monuments at Catharine Clark Gllery." DATEBOOK San Francisco Chronicle, October 25, 2018. WEB PDF
Stromberg, Matt. "The Power of Artists' Books to Bind Together Radical Ideas." HYPERALLERGIC, August 27, 2018. PDF
Desmarais, Charles. "What's up in SF museums and galleries this fall." SFGATE, August 22,2018. WEB PDF
"American Qur'an." ARTEMESIA, July 23, 2018. PDF
Upchurch, Michael. "February Gallery Shows Ponder Architectural Possibilities." The Seattle Times, February 9, 2018. WEB PDF
Musiker, Cy. "An American Procession Marching Toward Confrontation." KQED Arts, December 13, 2017. WEB PDF
Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Santa Monica Auctions: Remember the Time..." HuffPost, November 10, 2017. WEB PDF
Fornasiere, Gail. "Kid Ventures in BIG DRAW Event." The Catalina Islander, November 4, 2017. WEB PDF
Gillis, Casey. "Between the bars: Maier exhibit focuses on mass incarceration in the U.S." Burg, September 20, 2017. WEB PDF
Adno, Michael. "Sandow Birk - On Surfing." Indoek, August 30, 2017. WEB PDF
Levy, Benjamin. "Sandow Birk: The American Qu'ran and The Depravities of War." Art in Print, September-October 2017, Volume 7 Number 3. PDF
Keefer, Bob. “American Qur’an. The holy book of Islam, interpreted by an American artist.” Eugeneweekly.com, January 19, 2017. WEB PDF
McDonald Bennet, Sophia. “The Art of World Peace: The JSMA’s Art Collection Strengthens Cultural Connections.” Eugene Magazine, January 2017. PDF
“Museum programs to mark ‘American Qur’an’ exhibition.” Around the O, University of Oregon, January 11, 2017. PDF
Hicks, Bob. "Art: New images for a new year." Oregon Artswatch, January 1, 2017. PDF
Turner, Kim. "Sandow Birk and Paul Mullowney: The Depravities of War and the Relevance of Social Critique." USF Blog, December 5, 2016. WEB PDF
Whiting, Sam. "Mammoth woodblock war prints at USF gallery." SF Gate, November 16, 2016. WEB PDF
Gialdini, Dominic. “Sandow Birk at SDSU Downtown Gallery.” SDSU NewsCenter, November, 14, 2016. WEB PDF
Morettini, Anna. “Rinascimenti: A Contemporary Tribute to Florence.” LienArt, Fall 2016. PDF
King, Alex. “The artist who spent nine years illustrating a Qu’ran set in modern America.” Huck Magazine, July 4, 2016. WEB PDF
Nazaryan, Alexander. “Sandow Birk’s Fearlessly Political Art Takes On Islam’s Holy Book.” Newsweek, May 30, 2016. PDF
“Sagres Surf Culture 2016 Presents: Rusty Miller and Sandow Birk," Surf Portugal, May 23, 2016. WEB
Seed, John, “Painted Words,” Poets and Artists, Issue #74, 2016. WEB
Seed, John, “Painted Words: The Marriage of Words and Images,” The Huffington Post, May 21, 2016. WEB
Claris, Hans. “Vertrauter Koran.” Neues Deutschland, April 15, 2016. PDF
Köhler, Fabian. “Ein Ein Künstler hat einen "amerikanischen Koran" entworfen, mit Bildern von Nascar-Rennen bis zu 9/11.” Bento.De (online), April 13, 2016. WEB PDF
Schou, Nick. “Sandow Birk’s Koran Project Continues His Ambitious, Controversy-Courting Art Career.” OC Weekly (online), March 16, 2016. WEB PDF
Ahn, Abe. “A Qu’ran Transcribed by Hand Presents Parables of Contemporary American Life.” Hyperallergic (online). February 23, 2016. WEB PDF
Shafaieh, Charles. “11 Artworks Depicting Love Gone Very, Very Wrong.” Blouin Artinfo (online). February 11, 2016. WEB PDF
Moodian, Michael A. “Sandow Birk’s Fresh Take on the Qur’an.” The Huffington Post. February 12, 2016. PDF
“Book review: “American Qur’an,” artwork by Sandow Birk,” The Denver Post, January 28, 2016 WEB
Wilson, Willow. “’American Qur’an’ is an old/new masterpiece.” The Washington Post. January 22, 2016. WEB PDF
Hafthorsdottir, Bryndis. “Shotgun Review: Sandow Birk Imaginart Monuments.” Art Practical. December 20, 2015. WEB PDF
Linebaugh, Wine. “American Muhammad: An Interview with Artist Sandow Birk.” Merica Magazine. December 19, 2015. WEB PDF
Grewal, Zareena. “Provoking discussion, not riots: Sandow Birk’s “American Qur’an” is quietly transgressive, eschewing the satirical depictions of the Prophet Muhammad that grab headlines.” Salon. December 13, 2015. WEB PDF
Walsh, Daniella. "Interpreting the Qur'an Challenges and Artist and His Audience." The Indy. November 27, 2015. WEB
Cotter, Holland. "New York Times Gift Guide." The New York Times. November 2015. WEB PDF
D'Arcy, David. "American Qur'an by Sandow Birk." San Francisco Chronicle. November 25, 2015. WEB
Boessenkool, Antonie. “Artist in Newport Beach exhibit seeks to connect Islam to contemporary America.” The Orange County Register. November 14, 2015. WEB PDF
Curiel, Jonathan. “Know Your Street Art: Monumental Edition.” SF Weekly. November 18, 2015. WEB PDF
Woolsey, Brittany. “Curiosity and war led artist to the Koran.” Los Angeles Times (online). November 8, 2015. WEB PDF
Schwab, Katharine. “American Qur’an Makes a Sacred Text Familiar.” The Atlantic. November 6, 2015. WEB PDF
Chitwood, Ken. Bringing the Qur’an to Life in America: Sandow Birk. Publishers Weekly. November 5, 2015. WEB PDF
Goldner, Liz. “Sandow Birk’s ‘American Qur’an’” Orange Coast Magazine. November 4, 2015. WEB PDF
Goldner, Liz. “Islam Through the Eyes of Sandow Birk.” Artillery Magazine (online). November 3, 2015. WEB PDF
Reid, Calvin. “The Qur'an in 114 Paintings.” Publishers Weekly, October 30, 2015. WEB PDF
“American Qur’an: Best Books of 2015,” Publishers Weekly. November 2015. WEB PDF
Chun, Kimberly. “Sandow Birk’s imaginary monuments at Catharine Clark,” SF Gate. October 20, 2015. WEB PDF
Cotter, Holland. "Exhibitions Where Moral Force Trumps Market Forces." The New York Times. September 7, 2015. WEB PDF
Herwees, Tasbeeh. “The All American Qur’an.” Good Magazine. August 17, 2015. WEB PDF
Trimble, Lynn. "Artillery at Mesa Contemporary Arts Doesn't Go Far Enough With Its Message." The Phoenix New Times. July 16, 2015. WEB PDF
"An Artist's Qur'an for Contemporary America." Artsy. October 6, 2014. PDF
Miranda, Carolina A. "Weekend Gallery Report: Cut-ups, abstraction, and the Qur'an illuminated." Los Angeles Times. September 29, 2014. PDF
Lee, Felicia R. "$50,000 for Meshell Ndegeocello and 33 Other U.S.A. Fellows." The New York Times. October 13, 2014. PDF
Blumenfeld, Larry. "Seeing Jazz: Q&A with SF Jazz Center Mural Artists Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet." BLOUIN ARTINFO. Feburary 8, 2013. PDF
Rohr, Nicolette. "Geographies of Detention, Inside and from Afar." UCR ARTSblock. June 7, 2013. PDF
Coe, Alexis: "Recent Acquisitions: Monument to the Constitution Includes Security Cameras." SF Weekly. August 3, 2012. PDF
Cohn, Susan. "Musuem gotta see 'um." The Daily Journal. April 15, 2011. PDF
Mead, Rebecca. "Alice's Wonderlad: A Walmart heiress builds a museum in the Ozarks." The New Yorker. June 27, 2011. PDF
"The Word of God: Sandow Birk's American Qur'An." The Warhol. February 14, 2011. PDF
Flaccus, Gillian. "'American Qur'an' blends US life, Qur'anic verses." The Examiner. October 7, 2009. PDF
Basu, Moni. "'American Qur'an: California artist contemplrates Islam's holy book." CNN. October 9, 2009. PDF