Exhibits and Awards

2022

14th Annual International Color Awards
International Color Awards™ | Winners Gallery
Nominee – Photojournalism
Why We Wear Red

2020

15^th Annual Black & White Spider Awards
15th Winners Gallery | Spider Awards (thespiderawards.com)
Nominee – Photojournalism
Why We Wear Red

2018

13th Annual Black & White Spider Awards 
13th Winners Gallery | Spider Awards (thespiderawards.com)
Honorable Mention in Still Life
Title: Plaster, Porcelain and Pipes –Alcatraz Still Life

Cultural Center of Cape Cod
Apertures Inaugural Online Gallery 
Mission District
Apertures 2018 | Cultural Center of Cape Cod Online (culturalcenteronline.org)

FotoSaga Women Photographer's Exhibit  
The Press Club, Seaside, California

2017

10TH Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers 
Gallery 2 - 10th JMCA — The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (thegalaawards.com)
Runner Up - Landscapes Single Image Category
Title: Facing my Fears

10th Annual International Color Awards
http://www.colorawards.com/gallery/index.php?searchtxt=sojka&search=Search

• Honorable Mention - Still Life 
  Title: Porcelain and Pipes
• Nominee - Children of the World 
  Title: Summertime
• Nominee - Children of the World
  Title: Freedom Fighters
• Nominee - Children of the World 
  Title: Rural Tanzania Farm Boy

Elsewhere Juried Exhibit
http://asmithgallery.com/exhibitions/elsewhere/ 
ASmith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas 
March 17 to April 30, 2017

Wish You Were Here Juried Exhibit
February 10 - April 9, 2017
Minneapolis Photo Center

Earth Juried Exhibit
http://asmithgallery.com/upcoming-exhibitions/
ASmith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
February 3 - March 12, 2017 

2016

Eleventh Annual Black & White Spider Awards 
https://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/11th/search-result.php?t=sojka&o=a&Submit=Search

• 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction
  Photojournalism - Amateur
  Mission District
  San Francisco, California
• Nominee
  Abstract - Amateur
  "Vanishing Oak" 
  Fort Ord - Vanishing Oaks Series
• Nominee
  Children of the World - Amateur
  For two images including "Looking Out" and "First Portrait" 
  School Children in Rural Zambia

Polished: Mirrored Photography
Marjorie Evans Gallery in the Sunset Center
November 1 – 30
I exhibited two images in the FotoSága Women's Photography Group show of 32 fine art photographs exploring mirrors in the medium.
 

Abstracted Juried Exhibit
http://www.mplsphotocenter.com/exhibits/current-exhibits.php
September 23 – November 20, 2016
Minneapolis Photo Center

This Land is Our Land Juried Exhibit
http://ourlandpg.weebly.com/art-exhibit.html

Two “Yosemite Healing Waters” photographs selected for exhibit celebrating John Muir and the centennial of the National Park Service. Yosemite Healing Waters #5 received an Honorable Mention award. 

October 2016 – January 2017
Pacific Grove Public Library

Meet Me Downtown Juried Exhibit
http://365project.org/barrowlane/365/2016-06-10
June 10 - August 26, 2016
Minneapolis Photo Center

2015

FotoSága Solstice Exhibition
June 21 - July 1, 2015
Carmel Visual Arts

FotoSága Saving Fort Ord Oaks
Women photographers created a photo exposé on the plight of thousands of California Coastal Oaks at the old Fort Ord military base. 

2014

Black & White Call for Entry Exhibit 
September 12 – November 4, 2014 
 
Carmel Valley Art Association
Member 2016-2017