CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
1992-1993 Completed all coursework for MFA in Painting except thesis at the National
Academy of San Carlos, Mexico City
1986-1990 BFA in Film, Communications Department, Universidad Iberoamericana,
Mexico City
LANGUAGES Fluent in Spanish, English, German and French
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 * Essential Workers: A Visual Narrative, Self Help Graphics, LA, CA
* Reflections on a Warming Planet, LA Artcore, LA, CA
* Pressing Matters, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, OC, CA
2022 * LA Random, LATate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
* Reflections on Our Warming Planet, Lois Lambert Gallery, Sta Monica, CA
* Imaginary Dwellings, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
* Dis-placed, Museo Eduardo Carrillo, Santa Cruz, CA
* Let me Talk, Brand Library Art Center, Glendale, CA
* LA TATE Summer Show, LA Tate Gallery, LA , CA
2021 * World on Fire, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, CA
* Brand 49: Works on Paper, Brand Library Art Center, Glendale, CA
2020 * The Dream Deferred, Sanford University Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL,
Jacksonville State University, Al, Blanc Gallery, Chicago, IL, Gadsde Museum of Art, AL
* Black Lives Matter, El Camino College, CA
* The very very very long day, Self Help Graphics and Art, LA, CA
* The Patchwork Healing Blanket, SPARC, LA, CA
* Immigration II and Paper Boats, Self Help Graphics and Art, LA, CA
* Habitat California, Juried Exhibition, Palos Verdes Art Center, CA
2019 * Solo exhibition Rhizomatic Variations, LAX, Terminal 1, 07/2019- 09/2020
* ImMigration, Scuola Internazionale di la Grafica, Venice, Italy
* ImMigration Project, UNT Union Gallery, Denton, Texas
* Dos Colectivos: Estampas de la Curtiduría y Art Division, Museo Nacional de la Estampa,
Mexico City
* La Frontera nos cruzó, (The Border crossed us) traveling exhibition, Bridgeport Art Center,
Chicago, UNAM, Jiquilpan, Michoacan, Mexico,
* La Huella Magistral Portfolio, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin Texas
* Utopia/Dystopia, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
2018 * Bajo la bóveda azul celeste, MACO (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca),
Oaxaca, México
* 4 artists, Plan D Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
* Here Now: Four Los Angeles Artists, José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St Mary’s Univ,
Los Angeles, CA
* The Art of Protest: Epiphany and the Power of Empowerment, Church of Epiphany, LA,CA
* Dos Colectivos: Prints form La Curtadoría & Art Division, USC Fisher Museum of Art, LA
and Taller de la Gráfica, Oaxaca, Mexico
2017 * LA-Color, Blue Line Gallery, Sacramento, CA
* Im-Press, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, CA
* Faculty, Mutmuz Gallery, LA, CA
* A Room of One’s Own, Left of Center Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
* Pop-up, Manhattan Beach Art Center, CA
2016 * Codex Oaxaca: 2.0, New Americans Museum, San Diego, CA
* On the Map, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
* Division: Reflections and Shadows, SPARC, Venice, CA
* California’s Future, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, California
2015 * Los de Abajo Printmaking Collective, Left Of Center Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
* Life Cycle, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, California
* Troubled Water, Ave 50 Studio, Los Angeles, California
* Body of Water, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, California
2014 * Transformations, Galería Armando Durón, SPARC, Venice, California
* Behind Bars, Los de Abajo Printmaking Collective, Taller Boricua, NY
* Sam Coronado Homenaje, La Peña, Austin, Texas
* Translations: Prints by Consejo Gráfico, Indiana University of South Bend, Indiana
2013 * Behind Bars, Galería Armando Duron, SPARC, Venice, California
* Paso del Norte- Following Traces, Traveling exhibit , Galería municipal ,Tecate, Mexico; Casa de Cultura Playas, Tijuana, Mexico
* La Xilografía. Mexican woodcut prints,Fullerton College Art Gallery,CA
* Liashkov with friends, Artcore Union Center for the Arts, LA, CA
2012 * Adelante- Mexican American artists: 1960 and beyond, Forest Lawn Museum, LA, CA
* Body language, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California
* From Equinox to Solstice, Galeria Gitana, San Fernando, California
* Under Pressure, Taller Boricua Gallery, NY
* Guadalupe Malintzin, Ave 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, California
* Rostros de la Migración, traveling exhibition, Casa Michoacan, IL,
* Santitos, Traveling exhibition, Loyola University Museum of Art, IL, Benedictine University, IL,
* Consejo Gráfico Prints, Moreau Gallery, IL
2011 * 4, Tropico de Nopal Gallery, Los Angeles, California
* Luna Moods, Avenue 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, California
* Recuerdos vividos, El Camino College, California
* Mujeres del Consejo, La Peña, Austin, Texas
* Consejo Prints, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, California
2010 * Words of Paz, Ave 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
* Print Portfolio; Consejo Gráfico, El Nopal Press, Los Angeles, CA
* Cross-Pollination; the art of collaboration, El Camino College, LA, CA
* Hybrid 2, Ave 50 Studio, LA, CA
* Revolución, Tía Chuchas Cultural Center, LA, CA
* The Writing on the Wall, Ave 50 Studio, LA,CA
2009 * Emergency Landing, Trópico de Nopal, LA, CA
2008 * Ménage a trois, Self Help Graphics and Art, LA, CA
* A Declaration of Immigration, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago
* Drawing the Line, Ave 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
* Ancestral Memory, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
2007 * H2O, INC. On the issue of water, Self Help Graphics and Art, CA
2004 * The Virgin of Guadalupe: Interpreting Devotion, Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton , CA
2003 * Mas o Mejor: Printmakers from LA to SA, Stone Metal Press, San Antonio, TX
* Memorias, A night of the Arts, Angeles Bohemios, LA, CA
* Ayer y Hoy, The Boathouse Gallery, LA CA
2002 * Cuarteto de Luna, Tropico de Nopal, LA, CA
2001 * Oda a la Mujer; Transformaciones Cíclicas, Self Help Graphics, LA, CA
* Mestizo Visions, Channel Islands University Art Center, CA
Exhibitions from 1994-2000 upon request
PRINT PORTFOLIOS
2023 Essential Workers: A Visual Narrative, Self Help Graphics, LA CA
2022 Los Americans, Consejo Gráfico Nacional, USA
2020 Perro Mundo, Coordinator of Print portfolio, Consejo Gráfico Nacional, USA
2020 The Good Fight, Collaborative portfolio project, USA
2020 The Dream Deferred, Print Portfolio, Samford University, Birmingham, AL
2019 Utopia/Dystopia, Print portfolio, Self Help Graphics, LA, CA
2018 Water/Agua , Arceo Press, Chicago, Illinois
2017 La Huella, Consejo Gráfico Nacional, USA
Pipelines and Borderlines
2014 Sam Coronado- Homenaje, The Serie Project, Austin, TX
2013 Posada Legacy, Arceo Press, Chicago, Illinois
2012 Rostros de la Migración, Arceo Press, Chicago, Illinois
2011 Santitos, Arceo Press, Chicago, Illinois
Borrando la Raya, Consejo Gráfico Nacional, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
2007 Puros Huesos, Los de Abajo Collective, Los Angeles
2003 Bestiary, La Mano Press and Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles
15 Dragons, La Mano Press and Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles
SPECIAL PROJECTS and SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART (Self-conceived and executed, except when noted as collaborations)
2020 The Utility of What is Not- Reflections from Quarantine, for LACMA,
Create+Collaborate Program funded by Aroha Philanthropies. Working with a group of
creative aging adults on the creation of an artist book with prints and stories of their
experience during Covid-19 quarantine.
2020 Woven Stories: A Community Weaving, in partnership with Community Arts
Resources (CARS), Japanese American National Museum and the Terasaki Foundation.
Creation of a weaving house that held the stories of passers-by.
2018 Entre flores, nubes y gotas, Collaborative work with candle makers of Casa Viviana,
Oaxaca, for MACO (Museum of Contempoarry Art Oaxaca).One year collaboration
culminating in an installation art piece at the Museum.
2018 The 100 Foot Table, a collaboration with Leyna Lightman and Clare Fox, in partnership
with CARS and the City of Santa Monica. Community building in a 100 foot table in the
streets of Santa Monica where people were invited to create, eat and converse.
2017 Das Dialoghaus (House of Dialogue) Building bridges through art between cultures
with Syrian refugees and German families, Waldeck, Germany
2016 Tu voz es tu voto, community voting project and performance at Plaza de la Raza. Part of the binational project “Official/Unofficial Voting Station: voting for all that legally
can’t” by Aram Han Sifuentes.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Obracadobra- Oaxaca, Mexico, June 2022
Art Print Residence- Arenys de Munt, Catalonia, Spain, September 2021
KuBa- Kulturbahnhof- Klein Warnow, Brandenburg, Germany, October 2021 and
September 2022
SPARC- Venice, CA, 2012-2016
Self Help Graphics- Resident artist with Los de Abajo Printmaking Collective, 2006-2010
AFFILIATIONS
Self Help Graphics- Board member of the Artist Advisory Board 2019-2022
Mono Gráfico Colectivo- Printmaking collective, active member 2018-20224
Los de Abajo Printmaking Collective- active member 2004-2018
Consejo Gráfico Nacional- Coalition of Latino Printmaking Studios, board member since 2009
Los Angeles Printmaking Society- Membership Chair since 2022, member since 2014
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022 Art workshops for the Skirball Cultual Center
2022 Art workshops for the Fowler Museum
2020 Teaching consultant for Lifetime Arts, Non-profit arts service organization dedicated to Creative Aging Program development
1997-2022 Teaching Artist at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art),
Programs include: Create+Collaborate, Personal Connections, Adult Art Classes, Evenings for Educators, Family and Youth Programs, among others
2015-present Printmaking faculty at LACHSA (Los Angeles High School for the Arts)
2003-present Leading workshops for Self Help Graphics
2000-present Art Workshops for CARS (Community Arts Resources) at the Getty,
Getty Villa, The Broad, City of Santa Monica, Japanese American National Museum and in diverse communities around the city of LA.
2004-2014 Art workshops for the LA Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl, LA, CA
2014 Art workshops for Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
2014 Art workshop in Regional school, Ayotzinapa, Puebla, Mexico
2007-2009 Art Workshops for ArtworxLA, at Continuation High Schools, LA, CA
1996-2001 Art Teacher at Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles
1995-1997 Assistant at the Frank Romero Studio, Los Angeles