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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011 – Abstraction, Seaver Gallery, Marlborough School, Los Angeles, California

2011 – “4″, Tropico De Nopal Gallery Art Space, Los Angeles, California

2010 – COLA, City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, California

2010- The Power of Then, Museo De Las Americas, Denver, Colorado

2009 – Marked Intensity, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s College, Bel Air, California

2009 – Like Water on Rock, JWAN Exhibition, Gotthelf Gallery, La Jolla, California

2009 – Chicano Biennial, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, CA

2009 – Locals Only, LOOK Gallery, Curated by Mat Gleason, Los Angeles, California

2009 – Like Water on Rock, JWAN National Juried Exhibition, Platt-Borstein Gallery, Bel Air, California

2008 – East of Eden: Multi Gallery Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, L.A. California

2008 – Rebel Legacy:The Abstract in Latino Art, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2008 – Vaguely Chicana, Solo Exhibition, Tropico De Nopal Gallery Art Space, Los Angeles, California

2007- Colectiva De Navidad, Murnau Art Gallery, Sevilla, Spain

2007 – 12 Artists / 24 Ideas, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, California

2006 – Chicano: Pronouncing Diversity, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, L.A. California

2006 – La Diosa:Rapture of the Goddess, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, California

2006 – Five L.A. Chicano Artists, Galerie Par-Ci-Par-La, Lyon, France

2005 – TransFOURmations, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, California

2005 – Mirando Sur/Mirando Norte, California State University Northridge, Northridge, California

2005 – Nempantla Dreams, Alumni Juried Exhibit, California State University L.A., California

2005 – Altaring Course, Political Altars for our Time, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, California

2004 – Voyages & Explorations, So.Cal Women?s Caucus for the Arts, Brewery Gallery, L.A., CA

2003 – Shelter: Coming Home, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, California

2003 – SitZip, Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, California

2003 – Espejo de la Mujer/Mirror of a New Woman, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, California

2002 – Quarteto de Luna, Four Woman Painters, Tropico De Nopal Gallery, L.A., California

2002 – Color Outside the Lines, Juried by Joan Hugo, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach , California

2002 – Juried Show, 57 Underground Gallery, Juried by Roland Reiss, Pomona, CA., California

2001 – Urban, Suburban & the Boondocks, Juried by Martin Betz, Long Beach, California

2001 – La Union Del Pueblo, Juried Exhibit of Mexican American Artists, Boise State University, Idaho

2000 – Stuff We Like, SCA Gallery, Group Invitational, Pomona Arts Colony, California

2000 – A Matter of Life and Death, A Tran-Atlantic Millennium Exchange, Self- Help Graphics, Los Angeles and A.C.A.V.A. Studios, London

AWARDS
C.O.L.A. 2010 – Individual Artist Fellowship, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department

Durfee Foundation ARC Grant 2008 – For solo exhibition sculptural installation at Tropico de Nopal Gallery Art Space

PUBLICATIONS/ARTICLES
The Journal of Mujeres Activas En Letras Y Cambio Social, Chicana/Latinas Sudies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Image of artwork on cover and within journal and artist statement page 6-7, Volume 8 Issues 1/2 Spring 2009.

Los Angeles Times, “A Beautiful New Heart for East L.A.”, Article on Pubic Artwork at the East Los Angeles Civic Center, April 26, 2008.

Contemporary Chicana/Chicano Art, Book Vol. I p. 60, Vol. II p. 2, Bilingual Press, Fall 2002.

COLLECTIONS
Colorado University at Boulder Art Museum – 2010

California State University, Los Angeles – L.A. Art Project, University Student Union Permanent Collection, 1998

Private Collections throughout Southern California

COMMISSIONS
East Los Angeles Civic Center Project, Sculptural seats in main plaza, Los Angeles County Department of Pubic Works, completed -May 2008

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Southern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts (SCWCA)

EDUCATION
Master of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Design Studio

Master of Arts, California State University, Los Angeles, CA. Sculpture

Bachelor of Arts, California State University, Los Angeles, CA. Fine Arts