Curriculum Vitae

Below is a list of the Artist’s work and accomplishments:

 

2017

Featured Artist at LatinX Conference, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

Incarceration, Orange County Center for Contemporary, Santa Ana, CA


2016

Southern California/Baja Biennial, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA


2015

Publication, featured artist in Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy (2015)

Inside/Outside: Prison Narratives, Wignall Museum/Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA.

MANIFEST: JUSTICE, Pop-up Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA.

Portraits of Purpose: Photographs of Human Survival inside Jail, Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail, Los Angeles, CA.

L.A. Pix – Still, Document Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Place & Practice, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA.


2014

Grand Rounds (public art collaboration w/Elana Mann), Los Angeles Music Center and Machine Project in Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA.


2013

Emerging Artist Fellow, Fellowship for Visual Artists, California Community Foundation

Signature Works: 25th Anniversary Gifts, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL.


2012

Recipient, Investing in Artists, Artistic Innovation Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation

Random Acts of Time, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA.

Print Imprint, Actual Size LA, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA.

Judicial Insights, Spare Change Artist Space.  San Francisco, CA.


2011

Inside White Space: Portraits of Black and Brown Power in the Institution, Hiram W. Johnson State Office State Building, Art Gallery. San Francisco, CA.


2010

Border Art Biennial/Bienal Fronteriza de Arte 2010, El Paso Museum of Art. El Paso, TX.  Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juarez. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.


2009

Inside White Space: Portraits of Black and Brown Power in the Institution, Museum of African American Art.  Los Angeles, CA.

Award for Distinction in Creativity, College of the Arts, California State University, Long Beach


2008

Theater of Souls, Angels Gate Cultural Center. San Pedro, CA.

Master in Fine Arts (Photography), California State University, Long Beach, CA

First Place, College Art Association Annual Conference, MFA Exhibition, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

2007

Art of Photography Show, Lyceum Theater Gallery, San Diego, CA.


2006

Bronze Award, Digital Conceptualization Category, Black & White Magazine, Single Image Contest

First Place, All Media Juried Exhibition, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

ArtSeen 3/Emerging Artist Show, Spring Arts Collective Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

A Bureaucracy Artist, The Constant Gallery, Culver City, CA.


1998

Master of Arts (Public Policy/Criminal Justice), Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA


1996

Bachelor of Arts, American History (Honors Program), San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA