EDUCATION
California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
MFA with emphasis on Printmaking
Graduate Achievement Award
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
MA in American Studies and Ethnicity
Graduate Certificate in Visual Studies
Brown University, Providence, RI
BA in Modern American History
Graduated with Honors
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Terrestrial, Flux Art Space, Long Beach, CA.
2020 The Past is a Copy of a Copy, CSULB School of Art, Long Beach, CA.
2019 L.A.: A History of (dis)Place(ment), Avenue 50 Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
2017 Al Norte y P’atras/North and Back. Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2015 Where Am I?/Donde Estoy? Galeria Beso Maya, Oakland, CA.
GROUP EXHIBITS
2022 Let me Talk, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA.
2021 From Tomols to Trains: Transportation in Ventura County, Museum of Ventura Count, Ventura, CA.
2021 Sightings of Lupita, La Peña Gallery, Austin, TX.
2020 Inter-sections, Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2020 Experience 47: FREESTATE. El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA), El Segundo, CA.
2020 Chicano/a/x Printmaking: Making Prints and Making History – 50 Years of Art Activism. San Diego State University School of Art + Design, San Diego, CA.
2019 Migrating Heritage, Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen, Germany.
2019 Legend and Legacy: José Guadalupe Posada and Contemporary Latinx Art, CSUDH University Gallery, Carson, CA.
2019 Cuentista, SUR Biennial, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA.
2019 Utopia/Dystopia, Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2019 Experience 39: EAT. El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA), El Segundo, CA.
2019 Westcoast Woodcut: Contemporary Relief Prints by Regional Artists. Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA.
2018 Raced and Othered. CSULB School of Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA.
2018 6th Dia de Los Muertos Exhibition. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA.
2018 Insights 2016. Annual juried School of Art student exhibition. CSULB, Long Beach, CA.
2018 Grand Salon: A Student Printmaking Show. Juried exhibition. ANDLAB, Los Angeles, CA.
2018 Testimonios Gráficos, Mexico City Metro Public Art Installation, Mexico City, Mexico.
2017 Dream, Miracles and Illusions: From North and South. University Art Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.
2017 Tilaca y flaca es la calaca: Day of the Dead. National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL.
2016 Self Help Graphics: Aztlán, the Permanent Collection, and Beyond. Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.
2016 Truth to Power. Arch Enemy Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2016 The Art of Politics. 2nd Annual Politicon Convention, Pasadena, CA.
2016 South of the Grapevine. Arte Américas – Casa de la Cultura, Fresno, CA.
2016 From Ayotzinapa to Ferguson: Artistic Responses to Ayotzinapa and The Current Police State in the U.S. Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2016 Natural Witness: Human History Revealed Through Plants. Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2015 2015 Printmaking Survey of the Los Angeles River. Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2014 Dichos y Diretes. Instituto Grafico de Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2013 Raiz y Rama: On the Crossroads to Mictlan. Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2013 Puro Muerto. Lobo Azul Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
PUBLIC ART
2021 Pieces of Tovangaar, California Department of Transportation (Cal Trans), Los Angeles, CA.
LECTURES, PANELS & WORKSHOPS
2021 Facing Immigration, Visiting-artist instructor for the Humanities Lab at Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ.
2021 Panelist and Facilitator, Biennial Print Summit, Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2021 Representations of Place, Home, Security, California Center for Ethics and Policy Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA.
2021 Visiting Artist Talk, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA.
2021 Virtual Intaglio Workshop, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2021 Identidad, Historia y Arte, Virtual field-trip, El Segundo High School, El Segundo, CA.
2020 Mining the Map, Visiting-artist instructor at the Taipei American School, Taipei, Taiwan.
2020 Textures of the Past: Workshop for Educators, El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA), El Segundo, CA.
2020 Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship - Graduate School Panel, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA.
2020 Guest Critic, Advanced Printmaking Course, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.
2019 Artist Panel, Utopia/Dystopia Portfolio, Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2019 Advanced Relief Workshop, Self Help Graphics and Art, Printmaking Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
2019 Panelist, Social Practice and Printmaking Collectives: Then and Now, Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) Annual Printmaking Conference, Dallas, TX.
2019 Printing On Mole, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA.
2018 Panelist, post-show talk on Bordertown, Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, CA.
2017 Art and Cultural Work. Guest speaker for the Delloro Scholars Program, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, CA.
2017 Artist Talk, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.
2014 Printmaking and Political Action, Community Coalition, South Los Angeles, CA.
2013 Art, History, and Memory. Public Presentation for the South El Monte Arts Posse (SEMAP), El Monte High School, El Monte, CA.
2010 Theorizing Culture: Reflections on Latin American Cultural Studies. Guest speaker, Enhancing Diversity Through Graduate Education (EDGE) Summer Symposium, USC.
2009 Drawing Resistance: Visual Culture and Ideology in the Americas. Guest lecture, USC.
2009 La Virgen Bajó del Tepeyac: Belonging, Exclusion, and Mestizaje. Speaker, Graduate Student Ethnic Studies Conference, USC.
AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2021 ESMoA Artist in Residence, El Segundo Museum of Art
2020 ESMoA Scholar/Experience Award Recipient, El Segundo Museum of Art
2020 TAM FORUM Residency, Torrance Art Museum
2020 CSULB School of Art Graduate Achievement Award
2019 CSULB Marilyn Werby Endowed Graduate Scholarship
2019 CSULB HOGAR Graduate Travel Award
2016 CSULB HOGAR Graduate Scholarship
2016 ACTIVATE Cultural Policy Fellowship, Arts for L.A.
2012 USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture (CRCC) Research Grant
2011-2012 USC Del Amo Doctoral Fellowship
2011 USC Visual Studies Summer Research Grant
2010 USC Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellow
2009 USC Del Amo Research Grant
2007 Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) Summer Fellow
2003 Research at Brown (RAB) Undergraduate Research Scholarship, Brown University.
2002 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellowship
PERMANENT ART COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
US Library of Congress, Washington DC.
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
UC Santa Cruz Library Collections, Santa Cruz, CA.
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA.
Maryhill Museum of Art. Goldendale, WA.
Cerritos College, Permanent Public Exhibit, Cerritos, CA.
UC Santa Barbara California Ethnic Multicultural Archives (CEMA), Santa Barbara, CA.