Bienvenidos

 Mar Abella C.V.

Education

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 

Master of Arts.  Art History-Museum Studies, August 1995MA thesis: Landscape in the Making: Barbizon Paintings from the Fisher Collection at USC: A Technical Analysis.

UNIVERSITY COMPLUTENSE OF MADRID, SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS, SPAIN

Qualifying Exam for PhD, Art Techniques and Conservation of the Barbizon Painters, October 2002 (ABD). Thirty-two units of graduate school courses in Conservation and Museum Studies, June 1991. Diploma "Specialist in Conservation of Wood Panels," February 1991. Bachelor of Fine Arts - Art Conservation, June 1989

Experience

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MUSEUM WORK (Curatorial and Educational)

California African American Museum (CAAM). Los Angeles.

Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager, July 2008 to August 2021. Created original, in-house exhibitions about African American art and culture. Managed traveling exhibitions. Created educational programs for the public. Designed exhibition space. Researched, actively sought, and accessioned pieces to the permanent collection.  Wrote didactic labels and catalogs. Trained and supervised interns and temporary help. Supervised vendors such as artists, designers, framers, installers. Introduced new technology into exhibits. Promoted new partnerships with other Los Angeles organizations, including museums, galleries, art/creative venues and non-profits.

Interim Program Manager for Visual Arts, November 2007 to June 2008.

Curator II, Visual Arts and Conservation, August 2006 to October 2007. Worked  as Project Manager for exhibitions and curator in the Visual Arts Department. Assessed collection, recommended treatments, conducted treatments on artworks and artifacts.

Curator I, Education, January 1998 - December 1998. Assisted the Director of Education. Created K-12 curriculum, educational spaces and games, touring aids, family guides, didactic labels, workshops. Assisted Director of Education in Teachers-in-Training workshops. Trained and supervised Gallery Educators, work-study students, and docents.  Created and coordinated programming with other museums and institutions in the Los Angeles area. Worked with Development Officer and Curator of Education in grant proposals to secure education funds. Wrote grant reports. Developed outreach programming in Oakland and San Diego for Artists in the School and Artists in the Community Programs. Curated exhibitions in-house and in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum, the Chinese American Museum, and Self-Help Graphics and Art. January 1999 to July 2006.The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). 

Partnership Assistant. January 1998 - December 1998. Coordinated, developed and assisted in the creation of educational curriculum, programs, and activities for the Arts Education Initiative in conjunction with the California African American Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum. Served as liaison with additional partnership members, including the Pacific Asia Museum, the UCLA Fowler Museum, and Plaza de la Raza.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles. August 1997 - March 1998.  

Outreach Educator.  Taught sequential art programs to families with hands-on workshops in off-site locations, including libraries and housing projects, created art workshops, led tours at the museum.  Received educational training on latest educational trends. Followed Contemporary Art Start Educational program and curriculum guide developed by MOCA.

The Paul Getty Research Institute for the Arts and the Humanities, Los Angeles. August 1996 - June 1997. 

Research Assistant in the Collection Development Department.  Conducted historical research on Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Art. Assessed rare books and manuscripts for accession into the collection.

UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles. April 1996 - September 1996.

Acoustic Guide Director. Coordinated and directed personnel for rental of acoustic gear.  Increased sales, maintained books, monitored maintenance of equipment, served patrons.

Bookstore Clerk. Organized books and other merchandise. Served patrons.

USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles. 

Intern.  Assisted in creating educational programming and curating art exhibitions.  Assisted in registration, fund raising, inventorying, marketing, exhibition installation.  Translated catalogues and educational aids. Taught art conservation to students. August 1994 - May 1995Curator and Art Registrar, MA class’ exhibition, Isaac Cruikshanks and the Politics of Parody. August 1993 - April 1994

CURATED EXHIBITIONS (all at CAAM)

• Body + Text: Selections from the Permanent Collection (2/25/22-8/7/22)
• Matthew Thomas: Enlightenment (2/5/22-8/7/22)
• April Bey: Atlantica, The Gilda Region (5/26/21-1/16/22)
• Sanctuary: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection (3/27/21-7/11/21)
• Sula Bermúdez-Silverman: Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl (2/28/20-5/2/21)
• Timothy Washington: Citizen/Ship (9/25/19-3/1/20)
• Dust My Broom: Southern Vernacular from the Permanent Collection (9/10/19-2/19/20)
• Adia Millett: Breaking Patterns (2/5/19 – 8/25/19)
• Adah Glenn: Boho Highs & Visual Drive-bys, in collaboration with James Panozzo, LaunchLA, Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, January 2019
• Robert Pruitt: Devotion (9/12/18 – 2/17/19)
• Eyes Forward, in collaboration with James Panozzo, LaunchLA, Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, January 2018
• Lezley Saar: Salon des Refusés (10/25/17- 2/25/18) 
• Circles and Circuits I: History and Art of the Chinese Caribbean Diaspora (9/15/17- 2/25/18), coordinating curator and contributor.
• Network: Derrick Adams (3/2 /17- 6/11/17)
• Taking Place: Selections from the Permanent Collection (10/18/16 – 2/26/17)
• Reflections on the Self: Selections from the Permanent Collection (6/11/16 - 8/18/16)
• Evolution of the Revolution (1/18/16 – 6/26/16)

• The African Legacy in Central America: Tony Gleaton’s Photographs from CAAM’s Collection (December 2015 – June 2016). Co-curated with Tiffini Bowers
• Residency with Dominique Moody, NOMAD (December 1 – 5, 2015) 
• Hard Edged: Geometrical Abstraction and Beyond (8/15/15 – 4/24/16) 
• Light Catchers (3/20/15 – 6/7/15).  Co-curated with photographer Irene Fertik
• CAAM Courtyard Series: From Women’s Hands (11/7/14 – 5/3/15).  Castillo, Bre Gipson, Kristina Mays, Raksha Parekh, Michelle Robinson.  Co-curated with Vida Brown
• Lookin’ Back in Front of Me: Selected Works of Mark Steven Greenfield, 1974-2014 (9/25/14 – 7/5/15)
• Visibly Invisible (8/29/14- 3/1/15)
• Recent Acquisitions-Curatorial Selections (6/26/14 – 9/7/14), co-curated with Tiffani Bowers and Vida Brown
• Hands on Design (2/1/14– 8/10/14), co-curated with Vida Brown and Sherin Guirguis
• Diverted Destruction 6 (6/29/13 – 9/17/13), co-curated with Liz Gordon at the Loft at Liz’s and curated individually at CAAM
• Things that Cannot Be Seen Any Other Way: The Art of Manuel Mendive (4/26/13 – 10/20/13), assistant curator to Dr. Bárbaro Martinez-Ruiz
• Go Tell It on the Mountain (10/4/12 – 6/15/13), co-curated with Nery Gabriel Lemus
• Shared Thread, CAAM (6/28/12 – 12/30/12)
• Visual Rhythms: Selections from the Permanent Collection, CAAM (4/26/12 – 7/1/12)
• The African Diaspora in the Art of Miguel Covarrubias: Driven by Color, Shaped by Cultures, CAAM (9/1/11-2/26/12)
• Stalwart: The Art of Christopher Carter (03/17/11 – 05/15/11)
• Allensworth: A Place, A People, A Story, CAAM (8/26/10 – 2/27/11)
• Our Love of John T. Scott, CAAM (3/25/10 – 12/12/10)

• The Member Artists of the California Artist Coalition of Los Angeles, CAAM’s 7 + FIG Showcase, 735 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017 (3/22/10 – 7/30/10)
• Feminine Mystique, Mark & Brian’s Building, LLC, Los Angeles, California, 90017 (1/11/10 – 2/12/10)
• Inside My Head: Intuitive Artists of African Descent, CAAM (5/7/09 – 10/25/09)
• A Moment in Time: Bingham’s Black Panthers, CAAM (10/2/08 – 6/7/09)
• Of Tulips and Shadows: The Visual Metaphors of Dewey Crumpler, CAAM (10/9/08 – 5/30/09)
• Common Ground, CAAM (1/31/08 – 6/1/08) This exhibition received a special award from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
• A Woman’s Journey: The Life and Work of Artis Lane, CAAM (9/27/07 – 3/9/08), co-curated with Jill Moniz
• Milton Bowens’ Writings on the Walls, CAAM (12/8/05 – 3/5/06) 
• Finding Family Stories, CAAM (4/5/03 – 7/20/03) 
• A Tribute to John T. Riddle Jr., CAAM (3/22/02 –12/17/04) 

PROJECT-MANAGED EXHIBITIONS (all at the California African American Museum)

• The Ease of Fiction (October 19, 2016 – February 19, 2017)
• Löis Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color (07/12/12 – 09/16/12)
• Promises of Freedom: Selections from the Arthur Primas Collection (04/19/12 – 09/02/12)
• Betye Saar: Cage (6/16/11 – 8/7/11)
• Camera and Community: Photographs from the Collection of the Institute for Arts & Media, California State University, Northridge(01/06/11 - 06/05/11)
• Daufuskie Island: Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Works from the Bank of America Collection (01/06/11 - 06/05/11)
• After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy (11/16/09 – 3/7/10) 
• The African Presence in Mexico (1/31/08 – 6/1/08)
• Lasting Foundations: The Art of Architecture in Africa (5/17/07 – 8/19/07)
• Something to Look Forward To (5/7/06 – 7/16/06)
• Latin Jazz: La Combinación Perfecta (7/14/05 – 10/8/05)
• Brown v. Board of Education (2/05/04 – 7/31/04) (Guest curators MULE for art and Rick Moss for history)
• Whispers from the Walls: The Art of Whitfield Lovell (9/18/03 – 11/22/03)
• Urban Aesthetics, California Artists 2003 (3/22/03-12/13/03) (Guest curator Sandra Rowe)

CONTRIBUTOR/ASSISTANT TO THE FOLLOWING EXHIBITIONS AT CAAM (Activities included the following: educational programming, curriculum writing, pre-visiting materials, interpretative label writing, educational brochure, design of educational spaces/activities within exhibition, script for touring, after-tour and week-end workshops)

• Blacks In and Out of the Box (8/23/07 – 11/18/07) (Curated In-house)
• Between Two Worlds: The Alitash Kebede Collection (6/14/07 – 9/2/07) (Curated In-house)
• In The Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey (9/28/06 – 3/11/07) (Curated In-house)
• Orphans of the Rwanda Genocide (8/10/06 – 9/04/07) 
• The Whole World’s Watching (10/20/05 – 2/11/06)
• Deconstructing Apartheid: The Photography of Peter Magubane (10/7/04 – 5/28/05) (Curated In-house)
• Kickin’ It with Joyce J. Scott (6/24/04 – 10/20/04)
• Grafton Tyler Brown: Visualizing California and the Pacific North West (3/22/03 – 6/8/03) (Curated In-house)
• Close Up in Black: African American Film Posters (8/7/03 – 10/11/03)
• The African American Journey West: Permanent Collection (3/22/03 – 8/16/09) (Curated In-house)
• Echoes of Our Past: The Narrative Artistry of Palmer C. Hayden (7/29/00 – 3/4/01)
• Hair in African Art and Culture (6/26/01 – 8/19/01)
• Celebration and Vision: The Hewitt Collection of African American Art (2/8/01 – 4/15/01)
• Rhythms of the Soul: African Instruments in the Diaspora (10/16/99 – 8/20/00) (Curated In-house, in partnership with the UCLA Fowler Museum and LACMA)
• Half-Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks (11/1/00 – 12/30/00)
• William Pajaud: The Sights and Sounds of My New Orleans (8/5/99 – 2/27/00) (Curated In-house)
• Elizabeth Catlett’s Sculpture: A 50 Year Retrospective (6/8/99 – 8/15/99)
• Africa and Its Tributaries (1/28/99 – 6/18/00) (Curated In-house)
• Historical Themes, Tales and Legends: The Art of Jerry Pinkney (1/27/99 – 6/30/99) (Curated In-house)
• Inkwell: An Installation by Artist-in-Residence Lavialle Campbell (10/15/98 – 3/15/99) (Curated In-house).
• The Jazz Age in Paris (7/26/98 – 10/4/98)
• Engineering Change: The World of African American Inventors (2/8/98 – 4/19/98) (Curated In-house)
• Ritual and Remembrance/Personal Icons: The Art of Betye Saar (12/13/97 – 6/31/98)

CONSERVATION

Conserved and restored pieces from:

• California African American Museum.  Untitled (Woman with a Madra Dress), oil on canvas by Geoffrey Holder, December 2013
• California African American Museum. Three pieces included in Places of Validation, Art and Progression: Watts Riots by Noah Purifoy, Melanesia by Ron Griffin, and Untitled (Flowers) by Walt Walker, September 2011
• USC Fisher Gallery. Oil painting by Michael Mazur, July 2006
• USC Fisher Gallery. Oil painting of Margaret Carpenter, May 2002
• USC Fisher Gallery. Encaustic painting by Carmen Calvo, September 1999
• Second Baptist Church, Los Angeles.  Conservation and removal of mural paintings, March - May 1999
• USC Alumni House.  Portrait of the Judge Witney, September 1996 - May 1997
• USC Fisher Gallery. XVIth c. Portrait of a British Gentleman, and marble sculpture by Ernst Wench, January - May 1996
• USC Leavy Library. Terrestrial Globe, 18.85 feet in circumference, July - September 1995
• USC Fisher Gallery. Selected pieces from the permanent collection.  Canvases by Van Dyck, Brower, Diaz, Jacque, Daubigny, Cazin, Panini, Harlow, Smith, Kosa, Coddy, October 1993 - May 1995
• Dealers and individuals.  Canvases, mural paintings and photographs by H. Kumble, Joseph Bail, XIXth c. anonymous Japanese, Duncan Gleason, Peñalba, Antonio Menéndez, Monza, Yannice Yallowroskis, Charlton T. Chapman, Alphonse Max, Butterwords, March 1994 - December 1995
• Museums, dealers and individuals in Spain.  Six projects restored in situ: altarpieces in churches (wood panels, canvases, sculpture), wall paintings and an archeological digging in Alboraya, Vigo (1988 - 1992)
• Museum-Boat "Captain Meyer," Wilhelmshaven, Germany, August 1989

FINE ARTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY

• Juror for COLA Awards, Department of Cultural Affairs, 2017-2018
• Juror for Los Angeles Arts Commission Institutional grants, 2017-2018
• City of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. Art Judge and/or screener for Affair in the Gardens art show (painting, ceramics, jewelry, and glass categories).  June 1999, September 1999, September 2003, August 2004, August 2005, August 2006, March 2008, May 2009, August 2010, March 2010, May 2010
• Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA). Visual Arts Portfolio Reviewer. Fall 2012, 2009, 2008, 2007
• Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Designed seven silhouette figures for the Freedom Center, March 2007
• California African American Museum, Los Angeles.  Designed and painted educational murals and interactive components for the exhibition In The Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of Bernard & Shirley Kinsey.  September 2006
• California African American Museum, Los Angeles.  Painted murals for the walls for the exhibition The National Pastime in Black and White: The Negro Baseball Leagues. April 2006
• California African American Museum, Los Angeles.  Designed and painted mural painting for educational installation Rhythms of the Soul.  September 1999
• Artist of Life Theatrical Productions, Los Angeles.  Designed and created theater backdrops and furniture. July - September 1999
• Accentrix Studio, Los Angeles.  Ceramic design and production.  July 1996 - March 1999
• UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art.  Photographer for Education Department’s weekend festivals. April 1996 - December 1997
• USC Fisher Gallery. Photographer for catalogue of exhibition The Art of Exaggeration: Piranesi's Perspectives on Rome.  February - April 1995
• Mural painter for exhibition Isaac Cruikshank and the Politics of Parody. February - April 1994
• Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain. Interior design decoration for Carnival Festival.  March 1987

GRANTS/AWARDS

• USC - School of Fine Arts Fellowship (tuition remission, fees and stipend) during MA internship.  August 1994 - May 1995
• Grant "Pedro Barrie de la Maza" (Spanish Foundation). Funding of the MA first and second years at USC (tuition, fees, stipend, traveling expenses).  July 1992 - May 1994
• Grant "Xunta de Galicia" (Spain). Funding for research on Contemporary Art. August - October 1990
• Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain).  Grant to attend the "VIII Symposium for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage." Valencia, September 1990
• University Complutense of Madrid. Third place in the "I Photographic Contest." Madrid, March 1988

PUBLICATIONS

• “Lookin’ Back in Front of Me: Selected works of Mark Steven Greenfield, 1974-2014.” Catalog of the exhibition, California African American Museum, 2015
• “Visibly Invisible.” Catalog of the exhibition, California African American Museum, 2015
• “Things that Cannot Be Seen Any Other Way: The Art of Manuel Mendive.” Catalog published by the Frost Art Museum. Contributed essay “Meditaciones” on Mendive’s performance at CAAM at the opening in 2013.
• “Allensworth: A Place, A People, A Story.” Catalog of the exhibition.  California African American Museum, 2011
• “Our Love of John T. Scott.” Catalog of the exhibition.  California African American Museum, 2010
• “Howard L. Bingham’s Black Panthers 1968.” In A Moment in Time: Bingham’s Black Panthers, (Ammo Books, 2009)
• “Inside My Head: Intuitive Artists of African Descent.” Catalog of the exhibition, California African American Museum, 2009
• “Of Tulips and Shadows: The Visual Metaphors of Dewey Crumpler.” Catalog of the exhibition. California African American Museum, 2008
• “A Woman’s Journey: The Life and Work of Artis Lane.”  California African American Museum, 2007.  Contributed essay “Continuing a Tradition: Portraiture and Agency in the Work of Artis Lane.” 
• “Milton Bowens’ Writings on The Walls.” Catalog of exhibition.  California African American Museum, 2006
• “Howard Bingham: Photographer, Friend, and Entrepreneur.” Valentine New York Magazine. 2005
• “Engineering Change: African American Inventors in Light and Motion 1840/1940” (contributor). Educational resource from the Education Department of the California African American Museum, 2002 
• “African Roots, American Branches: An Educational Resource” (contributor). California African American Museum, 1999 
• “Freedom On Our Minds: An Educational Resource” (contributor).  California African American Museum, 1999 
• “Al Cruzar la Calle.” Spanish translation of catalog “Across the Street.”  Laguna Art Museum, 1995
• “Isaac Cruikshanks and the Politics of Parody.”  Catalog of exhibition.  Fisher Gallery, USC, 1994
• “La Plástica de los Nuevos Materiales.” Arte en Galicia. La Coruña, Spain, 1991 
• “Narváez Patiño, Pintor Contemporáneo: Técnica pictórica y Análisis de las Posibilidades de Restauración.”  Instituto de Restauración, Annual Meeting Report. Madrid, Spain, 1990 

Training, Computer, and Language Skills

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• Hammer Museum, Strengthening 21st Century Skills through Art: A Teacher Institute, 2019, July 8-10 
• College of Design- Introduction to Apparel Construction and Patternmaking, Fall 2018; Acrylic Painting, Fall 2015; Introduction to Digital Design, Fall 2013.
• Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Los Angeles, California, Professional Designation in Arts Education. Los Angeles County Arts Education Training Program. Thirty hours of training in the Content Standards for California Public Schools. June 15, 2004
• Diploma "Specialist in Broadcasting: Video and TV," Alboraya Productions, Vigo, Spain, January 1992.
• Studio Art (drawing, painting, printing, sculpture, design, photography, and additional classes in ceramics, jewelry-making, metalsmithing, at USC, Santa Monica College, and Otis College of Design).
• Fluent in English and Spanish, reading of Italian and Portuguese, Gallego

 Memberships and Affiliations

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• Collage Artists of America, member from March 2019 to March 2020
• California Art League, member from August 2017 to mid 2020
• Women Painters West, member and Vice President for Programming from June 2015 to June 2020.
• Art Table (Individual Membership) September 2013- August 2016
• MESC (Museum Educators of Southern California), individual membership, 1998-2008
• Fisher Museum of Art, USC (University of Southern California), Advisory Board Member 2013-2014, 2014-2015 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (as an artist)

• 2020

La Galería Gitana, San Fernando, California, Hollywood Comes to San Fernando, 9/12/20 – 10/16/20. Award: Best of show. 

The Art of the Square, bG Gallery, Bergamot Station, WPW, Juror and curator Kate Stern, 1/18/2020-1/28/2020

• 2019

Avenue 50 Studio, Dia de Guadalupe, 12/14/19 – 1/18/2020

Avenue 50 Studio, 2019 Year-End 8 x 8 Silent Art Auction. 12/14/19 – 1/18/2020

Sacred Memories: Cross Cultural Expressions of Day of the Dead, El Tranquilo Gallery, 10/19/19-11/24/19.

Falling into Place, SFVACC, WPW, Juror Holly Tempo, 10/29/19 – 10/23/19

Two paintings, Nueva Vida, Vidas Nuevas, and Coatlicue, appeared in the 2019 Latino Heritage Month calendar, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, November 2018  

Selection of six works for the Day of the Dead’s Basilica Art Exhibition at Hollywood Forever Cemetery exhibition, curator Luis Villanueva, October 2019

Reality is Highly Overrated, Betsy Lueke Creative Arts Center, Collage Artists of America, Juror Peter Frank, 5/3/2019-5/23/2019

Above & Beyond, Tag Gallery, WPW, Juror Paige Wary, 4/16/2019 – 5/11/2019

Renewal, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Juror Anette Power, 4/2/2019 – 2/27, 2019

New Beginnings, Topanga Canyon Gallery, WPW, Juror and curator Edith Baumann, 1/9/2019 – 1/27/2019.

• 2018

Annual Fundraiser, Avenue 50 Studio, December 2017- January 2018

Through the Looking Glass, Encino Terrace Center, WPW, Juror and Curator John Paul Thornton, 10/2/2018 – 3/29/2019

One painting, Carmen, appeared in the 2018 Latino Heritage Month calendar, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, November 2018  

Selection of 20 works for the Day of the Dead’s Basilica Art Exhibition at Hollywood Forever Cemetery exhibition, curator Luis Villanueva, October 2018

Fantasy 2018, Gold Medal Show, at the San Fernando Valley Art and Cultural Center, juror Dino Mehaffie, 10/2/2018 – 10/28/2018

Hot and Cold, Betsy Lueke Creative Arts Center, juror and curator Marie Thibeault, June 8 – June 28, 2018

Back to the Ebell, The Ebell Los Angeles, WPW Winter Exhibit, juror J Michael Walker, January-February 2018

• 2017

Snap to Grid, LACDA, December 2017

Annual Fundraiser, Avenue 50 Studio, December 2017

Sacred Testimonies, Biscailuz Gallery, October-November 2017

Honoring the Ancestors, Ave. 50 Studio, October-November 2017

Glow (Gold Medal exhibition, California Art League, curated by Donna Geist Buch), October, 2017

Three paintings included in the 2017 Latino Heritage Month calendar, published by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, September 2017

Unintended Consequences, Women Painters West, Chaffey Community Museum of Art, Ontario, California, curated by Steven Thomas, September-November 2017 

From Her, Biscailuz Gallery, March – April, 2017

Silent Testimonies, Ave. 50 Studio, December 2016 - January 2017, curated by Raoul de La Sota

• 2016

Snap to Grid, LACDA, December 2016

Silent Testimonies, Gallery 50 Studio, December 2016 - January 2017, curated by Raoul de La Sota

Holiday Show, ArtShareLA, December 2016 – January 2017

Four paintings included in the 2016 Latino Heritage Month calendar, published by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, November 2016

Que Ves? Angel City Brewery, September 22 – October 7, 2016

Open Call: Play, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, August-September 2016

Endless Summer Group Show, Buena Park Cultural Center, June-August, 2016

Your Art Here, ArtShareLA, June - July 2016

El Encino Gallery Juried Group Show Women Painters West, April-June 2016

Juried Group Show Women Painters West during the Brewery Art Walk, Lamperouge Gallery, April 2016

From Her, El Tranquilo Gallery, March - April 2016

Hearts and Flowers, The Folk Tree, Pasadena, January - February 2016

• 2015

Snap to Grid, at LACDA (Los Angeles Digital Center for Digital Art, December 2015

One painting, Rosa Cósmica, appeared in the 2015 Latino Heritage Month calendar, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, November 2015  

Brewery Art Walk at Surreal Box Cinema Gallery, October 2015

Selection of 10 works for the Day of the Dead’s Basilica Art Exhibition at Hollywood Forever Cemetery exhibition curated by Luis Villanueva, October 2015

Sacred Memories, El Pueblo Historical Monument, October – November 2015

From Her, An Exhibition by Women about Women, El Pueblo Historical Monument, Pico House, March 2015

Virtual exhibition for MOLAA’s Women’s Day Festival, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, March 2015