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Professional Associations

  • Artist Member of the One Hundred Vibrant Artists of Los Angeles. 2017- Current

  • Artist Member of the Los Angeles Art Association. 2016- Current

  • Council Member of Emerging Art Leaders: LA. 2017- Current 

  • Artist Member of the Santa Clarita Artist Association. 2017- Current

  • Artist Member of Studio Channel Islands Art Center. 2010- Current

  • Artist-In-Residence at Studio Channel Islands Art Center. 2016- 2018

  • Member of Focus on the Master. 2016- Current 

  • Artist Member of Studio Channel Islands Art Center. 2010- Current

 

Juror Experience​

  • Santa Clarita Artists Association, Arts Classic Annual Juried Competition. 2019

  • Santa Clarita Artists Association, Arts Classic Annual Juried Competition.2018

  • 25th Congressional District Annual Congressional Art Competition. 2018

  • Santa Clarita Artists Association, Arts Classic Annual Juried Competition. 2017

  • Channel Islands Maritime, Museum 26th Annual High School Exhibit Opening Reception. 2017

  • Westlake Village Art Guild, Juried Member Exhibit. 2017

  • Camarillo Council of PTAs Reflections Showcase, La Mariposa Elementary School. 2016

  • Congressional Art Competition. 2016 

  • Camarillo Council of PTAs Reflections Showcase, Dos Caminos Elementary School. 2016

  • Fine Arts & Photograph Professional Section, Antelope Valley Fair. 2011

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Speaking Engagements 

  • Artist Panel: Performance as a Way of Engaging Directly with Social Reality and Politics Identity, The LA Art Show, LA. CA. 2020-2

  • Artist Panel: Art History Babes Podcast, The LA Art Show, LA. CA. 2020-1

  • Guest Speaker: Public Art in the Suburbs, National Americans for the Arts Conference. 2019

  • Artist Talk: Feminist Conversations, Shoebox Projects. LA. CA. 2019-1

  • Panel Moderator: How to price your artwork, New Heights Symposium, City of Santa Clarita, CA. 2018-10

  • Guest Speaker: Understanding Modern Art, Lancaster Rotary Club, CA 2018-9

  • Panel Moderator: How to be a successful artist, New Heights, City of Santa Clarita, CA. 2018-3

  • Panel Moderator: Exhibiting Artist Mary McGill, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, CA 2017-9

  • Panel Moderator: Exhibiting Artist "Making Amends", Studio Channel Islands Art Center, CA 2017-6 

  • Guest Speaker: Share your Professional Story, Spark Voice, Camarillo. CA. 2017-5

  • Guest Speaker: MFA Program, Art & New York Experience. Blackboard Gallery. Camarillo. CA. 2017-4

  • Guest Speaker: Rancho Campana  High School Career Day. Camarillo. CA 2016-11

  • Guest Lecture: Part l: Understanding conceptual art Part ll: My artwork. California State University Channel Islands' Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Camarillo. CA. 2017-8

  • Guest Speaker: Graduate Symbolism. Pratt Institute. NY. 2016-7

  • Guest Speaker: Keeping the Arts in School. Antelope Valley School District. 2014-6

Exhibits History 

2020

  • gROUP eXHIBIT, "Rebel Talent" Pop-up, artHYPE. la. ca

  • Group Exhibit, "Ready gO" Gallery 825. LA. CA

2020

  • Group Exhibit, "Home/Front" Shoebox Projects. Curator Kristine Schomaker. LA. CA

  • Group Exhibit. "Art + Video", TAG Gallery. LA. CA

  • Performance, "Hollyweird" We Choose Art. LA. CA

  • Performance, "Diversity Walks & Talks". LA Art Show. Curator Marisa Caichiolo. 

2019

  • Solo Show, "Sentenced to Death" Blackboard Gallery. LA. CA

  • Performance, "Secret Language" Gallery 825. LA. CA

  • Performance, "Frosting Take Two" We Choose Art. LA. CA

  • Performance, "Frosting" Let Me Eat Cake, Blue Roof Studio Art Festival. LA. CA

  • Solo Show, "Second Skins" Gallery 825. LA. CA

  • Performance, "Alterations", ShoeBox Projects, LA. CA

2018

  • Group Show, "FL3TCH3R Exhibit", Reece Museum. Johnson City. TN

  • Group Show, "Adornment", All Media, Pen + Brush. NY. NY

  • Performance, "Patches", All Media, Nude Art LA. CA

  • Performance, "Personal Vacation", All Media, Irvine Fine Arts Center. Irvine. CA

  • Performance, "Cemented", Superposition Gallery. LA. CA

  • Performance, "Nails", DA Center for the Arts. Pomona. CA

  • Group Exhibit. "California Open", TAG Gallery. LA. CA

  • Performance, "The Mob", Welcome Home Master, DemoBlank Gallery. LA. CA

  • Group Show, "Seeing Red", One One Six Two Gallery. LA. CA

  • Group Show, "33rd Annual Exhibition", MOAH. Lancaster. CA

  • Group Show, "Multiple Feeds" Video Art, Gallery 825. LA. CA

2017

  • Performance, "Couch", Art Basel Conversation, 21c Museum Hotels. Miami. FL

  • Performance, "Personal Vacation", Gallery 825. LA. CA

  • Group Show, "Exhibit for Niños de Guatemala", Primary. NY. NY

  • Group Show, "Multiple Feeds", Gallery 825. LA. CA

2016

  • Solo Show, “Body Gloss”, Dekalb Gallery. Brooklyn. NY

  • Group Show, "Babylone-USA" Curated by Daniel S. Palmer, Boiler Room, Brooklyn. NY

  • Group Show, “Inside the Open Window”, Dekalb Gallery. Brooklyn. NY

  • Group Show, “On Repeat”, Steuben Gallery. Brooklyn. NY

2015

  • Performance, Beautiful in minutes, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn. NY

  • Performance, Drag & Pageantry, Flushing Open Studios, Brooklyn. NY

  • Group Show, “Who's Afraid Of Feminism", A.I.R. Gallery. Brooklyn. NY

  • Group Show, “The Artist as Provocateur”, Schaffler Gallery. Brooklyn. NY

2014

  • Solo Show, “Eve Design" Blackboard Gallery. Camarillo. CA

2013

  • Group Show, “Political Statement” Linus Galleries. Pasadena. CA

  • Group Show, "LA vs NY segment" Artist Portfolio Magazine com

  • Group Show, “A View from Within” Blackboard Gallery. Camarillo. CA

  • Group Show, “Pop Goes the Art” Blue Line Gallery. Roseville. CA

  

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