CV
Born: 1980 Cuba, New Mexico
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA
EDUCATION
2012 California College of the Art, San Francisco, CA, MFA
2002 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, BFA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Solo Show To be Announced, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2023
Art Market San Francisco, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2022
Root Artists, Group Exhibition, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Natural Curiosities, Group Exhibition, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2021
Nature Refract, Melissa Dickenson and Nicole Markoff, Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA
2020
Sonoma Charcoal, Solo Exhibition, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2019
Pulse Art Fair, K. Imperial Fine Art, Miami Beach, FL
Houston Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, Texas
Wanderer, solo exhibition, The Upstairs, San Francisco, CA
Art Market, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2018
Now You See It, Now You Don't, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2017
Takeover, Alterspace, San Francisco, Curated by Serena Cole
Dog and Pony Show, Area 405, Baltimore, MD Curated by Cara Ober
WEST, solo exhibition, K.Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2016
Context Art Miami, K. Imperial Fine Art, Miami, FL
The New Innovators, Mixx Projects + Atelier, Telluride, CO
Geoed, Domain Gallery, Curated by Oakland, CA
All in the Family, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2015
Voice of the Artist, Scope Art Fair, See Me Gallery, Miami, FL
Miami Project, Group Exhibition, K. Imperial Fine Art, Miami, FL
Hard in the Paint, Solo Exhibition, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2014
Access Institute Spectrum Auction, Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA
Portal, Solo Exhibition, The Texas Theater, Dallas, TX
2013
Parameters, Solo Exhibition, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2012
Point of No Return, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA curated by Hesse McGraw
Limbo WAAS Gallery, Dallas, TX curated by Aja Martin
CCA MFA Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Barclay Simpson Award Exhibition, Oliver Arts Center, Oakland, CA
Drawing Realness, Will Brown Gallery, San Francisco, CA
John Baldessari: Class Assignments curated by Claire Fitzsimmons, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2011
Dissemination, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
Tarnów: 1000 years of modernity, Moscickcie Centrum Kultury, Tarnow, Poland
Odds Are (13:1), Curated by Kris Martin, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Hammarby!, Curated by Kris Martin, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2010
Sesum fo Llab, Curated by Paulina Olowska, The Potrero Hill House, San Francisco, CA
7th Transformer Annual, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC
Baltimore Counts Exhibition, Joseph Myerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD
ATHICA Emerges IV:Uncertainty, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
Sondheim Prize Honoree Exhibition, Casewerks Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Fresh Start, Lendrum Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Marquee, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
2009
Hybrids of Tutela, Atrium Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean VA
The Protectors, G-spot Audio Visual Playground, Baltimore, MD
Hickok Cole, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
6th Transformer Annual, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC
Year’s End, Gallery Plan B, Washington, DC
No Soul for Sale, X-initiative, New York, NY
Landscape Biology, Hemphill Fine Art, Washington, DC
Trawick Prize and Bethesda Painting Award Honoree Exhibition, Myerhoff Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Je’ ne Sais Quoi, Sub Basement Art Studios, Baltimore, MD
Washington Project for the Arts, Katzen Center, American University, Washington, DC
2008
The Flat Files Exhibition, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC
Seven Deadly Sins, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Bestiarum Vocabulum, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College Baltimore, MD
Personal Vocabulary, James Backas Gallery, MD State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD
New Artists, Gallery Plan B, Washington D.C.
Sondheim Exhibition, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Papercut, NANA Project, Baltimore, MD
Fauna, Greenbelt Art Gallery, Greenbelt, MD
Imaginary Oceans, Shine Collective, Baltimore, MD
New Paintings, Blue Sky Factory, Baltimore, MD
2007
Exploration, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
Flora +Fauna, Gallery Imperato, Baltimore, MD
2006
Menagerie, NASA Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
Small Works, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
Fresh Produce, Anno Domini Gallery, Los Angelos, CA
Beaux Arts Fair, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Baltimore, MD
Here and Now, The Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Janus, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Femme Effect: Part Deux, Gallery Imperato, Baltimore, MD
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2019
Ne Timeas Restaurant Group Art Grant, San Francisco, CA
Ne Timeas Restaurant Group Education Grant, San Francisco, CA
2017
Awesome Foundation Grant, San Francisco Chapter
NTRG Education Grant, San Francisco, CA
2016
NTRG Education Grant, San Francisco, CA
2012
Jurors Prize, Limbo, WAAS Gallery, Dallas, TX
Toby Lewis Award Finalist, San Francisco, CA
Barclay Simpson Award, San Francisco, CA
2011
Travel Grant, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2009
Artist Grant Masia Can Serrat, Barcelona, Spain,
2008
Walter and Janet Sondheim Prize, Finalist,
Artist Grant Vermont Studio Center
Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award, Works on Paper
2006
Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award, Visual Arts, Painting
RESIDENCIES
2013
Jail Cell Residency, Alter Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011
Moscickcie Centrum Kultury, Tarnow, Poland
2009
Masia Can Serrat, Barcelona Spain
2008
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2007
Youkobo Arts Space, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Awagami Papermaking Factory, Tokushima, Japan
PROFESSIONAL
2020 Guest Lecturer, The New School, San Mateo, CA
2019 Guest Lecturer, Botanist Wilder Forager, San Francisco, CA
2010 Embassy of Sudan, Khartoum Sudan, commission for permanent collection
2010 Guest Lecturer, Piedmont College, Athens, GA
2009 Guest Lecturer, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD,
2007 Guest Lecturer, Awagami Hall of Handmade Paper, Tokushima, Japan,