Selected Exhibitions:
2006
• "Graphic Content" | Space Gallery
• "Urban Terrariums prints" | 16th Mission BART Station
• "Heroes and Mythos" | Intersection for the Arts
• "Art on the Avenue" | Emeryville Temporary art project
2005
• "Eco" | Urban Terrariums Project, Stillwell Gallery SFSU
• "Living City Lab" | Lead Artist, Southern Exposure Gallery
• “Justice Matters” | Portfolio Project/ Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance
2004
• “Borders Inside Out” | Public Interventions, Mission District
• “This is the Line” | Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
• “Paradigms Lost” | Digital Mural. Galleria De La Raza
• “Unfurled” flag exhibition | Pond Gallery
• “Blood on our Hands” Solo performance | Illusions 2 | Mission Cultural
• “Butcherme” Solo performance | SFSU
• “Mass Production Cycle”, MAP project | Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2003
• Stillwell Student Exhibition | SFSU
• “Marking Time” Contemporary Art and Technology Show | Works Gallery San Jose
• “US Imperialism and the Odious Debt Economies” solo show | ATA
• Robotics Exhibition | SFSU
• Department of Space and Land Reclamation SF Exhibition | Balazo Gallery
• Art of Resistance: Political Art Show | Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2001- 2002
• Project 061602 "Plant Torture" performance | Balazo Gallery
• Circo De Mayo | Balazo Gallery
• No love Valentines Day Show | Balazo Gallery
• Calavera: Day of the Dead Show | Balazo Gallery
• El Holo Seco, Prison Art Show | Balazo Gallery
Teaching Residencies:
• “Animate It” CellSpace: 2006
One week animation intensive for middle school kids. Students were taught techniques in flipbook making, Stop motion flat animation, “Ghetto Armature Building” and animation.
• Columbia Park Boys and Girls Club / SOEX, Power Park Publications: Lead Artist 2006
Six week experimental publications class co-taught with Mabel Negrete, introduced students to journaling, design, publication, and distribution of two publications based on personal experiences with Kids Power Park.
• SOEX, Living Walls Mural Project: Lead Artist 2006
Co-direst and Design the 5th Living Walls Mural Project with Mabel Negrete in collaboration with the SOEX Youth Advisory Board.
• Out of Site, The Living City: Lead Artist 2005
Facilitated after school program for urban youth. Program focused on the urban environment as a space that influences the personal ecology as well as the natural ecology. All artwork was created from recycled material, ordinary objects, organic objects found in the city.
• SOEX, Living City Lab/Mission Voices Summer Program: Lead Artist 2005
Facilitated eight-week curriculum for urban youth. Workshops focused on ecology and the urban environment. All artwork was created from recycled material, ordinary objects, organic objects found in the city. Students were asked to reflect on their experience with the city as a natural environment.
• Southern Exposure, Youth Advisory Board: Artist/ Mentor, 2004, 2005, 2006
• GGNPC, Fort Funston: Land Restoration Artist, project founder 2003-2004
Working with youth and adults on incorporating art making into the restoration process, designing curriculum based around restoration as a human endeavor and our relationship to public space.
• Culture on the Corner community center: Youth Worker 1999-2000
Art teacher and adviser for drop in youth
• Americas Best Karate: Karate Teacher 1993-1998
Taught all demographics of youth through adult martial arts. Designed curriculum for new teachers and student teachers. Ran the day to day operations of various schools throughout the Bay Area.
Related Work:
Hypersea | Co-founder, Co-director
Galleria De La Raza | Gallery Assistant
GGNPC | Native Plant Nursery Intern
Balazo Mission Badlands Gallery | Curator and Exhibition Designer
Alliance Graphics | Silk Screen Printer
Critical Resistance | Graphic Designer
Building Bloc Art Collective | Graphic Designer, Illustrator
PARC: Prison Activist Resource Center | Graphic Designer
San Francisco Print Collective | Core Member, Multidisciplinary Project Coordinator
Borderland Film Festival Collective | Project development, curator, artist
Education:
2004 Bachelors of Fine Art, San Francisco State University, CA, Conceptual Information Arts
2002 Associate of Art, City College of San Francisco, CA, Graphic Design
2002 Award of Achievement, City College, San Francisco, CA. Graphic Design
Awards:
Illick Award | Best In Show Stillwell Gallery Annual Student Exhibition 2003
ADPSR (Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsibility) Postcard Competition winner |