EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS
2022
- Lo Sagrado, Nuestros Cuentos, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
- ¡Viva La Comunidad!, M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Chicano Art Not Yet at the Cheech, Nepantla Cultural Arts, Seattle WA
- Pachanga!, Tukwila Arts-in-the-Parks Mural Program, Tukwila, WA
- 2020 Visions: Gage Academy of Art at 30, an art exhibition on view at the Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
- Loteria Exhibition, Nepantla Cultural Arts, Seattle WA
- Art and Activism Show, Nepantla Cultural Arts, Seattle WA
- Muses and Vices Anthology, Contributor, Seattle, WA
- 15th Annual Día de los Muertos Ofrenda Exhibit, Collaborative ofrenda painting created with the youth of Urban Artworks, El Centro De La Raza, Seattle, WA
- Gage Faculty Exhibition, Rosen Gallery, Seattle, WA
- The Allery, Solo Exhibition, Bellingham, WA
- Memorial Exhibition for Holger Sippach, Rosen Gallery Seattle, WA
- Gage Gala, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
- Gage 25/25, AXIS Gallery at Pioneer Square- Seattle, WA
- Solo exhibition, Maple Valley Arts Gallery, Black Diamond, WA
- Best of Gage Annual Show; First Place, Figure Category, Juror Beth Sellers,
- Burien Arts Vision 20/20; Invited Artist, Burien WA
- Burien Arts Vision 20/20; group show, Burien WA
- “Spitting Image self portrait contest” Exhibition, Rosen Gallery, Seattle. Honorable Mention, Juror Patti Warishina
- New Beginnings; Solo Exhibition, Somerville Museum of Art, Somerville, MA
- 20th Annual Best of Gage, Rosen Gallery, Seattle, Runner up Still life, Juror Cable Griffith
- Neo-Aesthetic: Group show, OK Hotel, Seattle, WA
- The Aristides Atelier Group Show, Rosen Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Studio 103 Gallery, group show, Seattle, WA
- Burien Arts Vision 20/20; group show, Burien WA
- Finding Form, Rosen Gallery, Seattle, WA.
- 19th Annual Best of Gage, Steele Gallery, Seattle, WA Honorable Mention, Still Life for Prometheus Frieze, Juror Stefano Catalani, Director of Curatorial Affairs/Artistic Affairs, Bellevue Art Museum.
- From Shadow to Color, Rosen Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Solo exhibition, Kitanda/Gay City, Seattle, WA
- 18th Annual Best of Gage, Rosen Gallery, Seattle, WA
- New Classical Group Exhibition, Rosen Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Gage Academy of Art Atelier Exhibition, Phinney Ridge Neighborhood Association, Seattle WA
- Solo Show, Georgetown Arts and Cultural Center, Seattle, WA
COMMISSIONS/PUBLIC ART:
2022
- International Struggle; Architectural Artwork, Interim CDA, Seattle, WA
- International Struggle; Architectural Artwork, Interim CDA, Seattle, WA
- Que vas A Dar A Luz- What will you give light?, Downtown Seattle Association, Shine A Light Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Japanese Solidarity Mural Collaboration with Erin Shigaki, Edmonds Community College, Edmonds Wa
- Offering to the Ancestors, Friends of the Seattle Waterfront, Seattle, WA
- Heron Mural, Private Commission, Ballard neighborhood Seattle, WA
- Japanese Solidarity Mural Collaboration with Erin Shigaki, Private Commission, Japantown C-ID neighborhood, Seattle, WA
- Welcome Mural Collaboration with Erin Shigaki, ICHS C-ID neighborhood Seattle, WA
- Seattle Polka Party, and Summertime Lake Washington Murals, Shultzy’s Bar & Grill, U-District neighborhood, Seattle, WA •
- George Washington Master Copy, Capitol Cider, Seattle, WA
EDUCATION
- 2022 MFA Social and Environmental Arts Practice, Prescott College, Prescott Arizona
recipient of the Diversity through the Arts Scholarship, Pride Foundation Scholarship - 2003 BFA Visual Communications, Majors in Fine Art & Graphic Design, Northwest College of Art and Design, Tacoma, WA.
- 2010-2013 Aristides Classical Painting and Drawing Atelier, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle WA.
- 2009 Aristides Drawing Workshop, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle WA.
- 2010-2015 Workshops with Michael Grimaldi, Gary Faigin, Jeff Flack, Jordan Sokol, Teresa Oaxaca. Yuqi Wang,
- 2000-2013 Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA. Studied with Matt Buckner, Geoff Flack, Suzanne Brooker
- 2019 Artist Trust Workshop: As a Creative with Paul Rucker
- 2019 Partners for Youth Empowerment, Creative Facilitation 1 and 2
TEACHING/FACILITATION:
- Adjunct Professor, South Seattle College, Seattle WA 2022
- Program Lead Teaching Artist, Urban Artworks, Seattle WA 2019–2021
- Instructor Gage Academy of Art Teen Portfolio Intensive, Seattle, WA 2017–2018
- Instructor Coyote Central, Classes: Art and Activism, Drawing, Street Art, 2020-Present,
- Program Manager, Gage Academy of Art Teen Art Studios, Seattle, WA 2011—Present
- Instructor, Bainbridge Island Museum Of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA 2018
- Video Instructor, Bainbridge Island Museum Of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA 2020-21
- Instructor, Pratt Fine Arts Teen Programs, Seattle WA 2018–Present
- Video Instructor, Pratt Fine Arts for Amazon, Seattle WA 2020
- Co-Trainer for Healing Circle facilitation, Tsuru for Solidarity, Virtual 2020
2022
- Speaker, Decolonizing Art History; Contextualizing Colonialisms Effect on Western Art History, the Creation of the Museum, and Abolitionist Aesthetics, Artist of Color Expo and Symposium, Seattle, WA
- Interviewer, Juan Alonso-Rodríguez with Scott Méxcal Stories from an Accidental Artist, Town Hall Seattle
- Interviewer, Grace Flott--Exposure Therapy, Figure | Ground Art Gallery
- Co-Moderator, Panel Discussion. Untold Stories in Art; Figurative Art Today with Grace Flott, Dovey Martinez, and Lila Thomas, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
- Presenter/Panelist, Community Museums: Wellness and Healing across Generations with Cassie Chinn, Dr. Jerry Garcia, & Erin Shigaki, 9th Annual North Puget Sound Conference on Race, Online,
- Moderator MFA Speaker Series – Guest Speaker César García-Alvarez, Prescott College, Online,
- Moderator MFA Speaker Series – Guest Artist Lauren Halsey, Prescott College, Online,
- Speaker, Edmonds College Winter 2021 Art Gallery Exhibit online discussion,
PRESS:
- Q 13 Fox, Youth in Burien paint 'no more violence' mural amid countywide uptick in crime
- The Seattle Times, After tragedy, these Burien teens confronted violence in their community through art
- B • Town Blog, In wake of violence, Burien teens reclaim narrative with mural, poetry
- Fox News, Seattle's $700M 'woke' waterfront may backfire, critics warn
- Seattle Met, Murals for Days… Weeks… Months...
- The Seattle Times Police Chief says policing must change radically, as protests and discussion around BLM movement continue
- Seattle Refined, Seattle Artists Scatter International District with Murals
- International Examiner, From outrage to apology: Japanese Americans’ passion and push for understanding BLM on display
- The Rafu Shimpo, The Road Back: Part 1 — Public Art Paves the Way to Understanding
- The Seattle Collegian, ¡Viva La Comunidad! Latin art in the digital era