CV

EDUCATION
2014   MFA, Laguna College of Art and Design: Concentration in Painting
2010   BA, UCLA

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITS
2026 The Light Changes when it Snows: Billis Williams Gallery: Los Angeles, CA 2023 The Metamorphosis of the Ascending Female: Billis Williams Gallery 2022 Luna: BLVE Gallery: Riverside, CA 
2021 Royal Disillusion: Museum of Art and History: Lancaster, CA 
2021 Defining Beauty: California Museum of Thousand Oaks 
2019 Smoke and Mirrors: Carnegie Museum: Oxnard, CA 
2019 Suspension of Disbelief: LA Artcore Gallery: Los Angeles, CA 
2019 Thoughts of Phthalo Blue: Brea Art Gallery: Brea, CA 
2019 Pause: Moorpark College Art Gallery: Moorpark, CA 
2019 Atrium: CAP Gallery: Laguna Beach, CA 
2018 Incandescent: Eastern Projects Gallery Annex: Los Angeles, CA 
2018 Reductive Overture: Madison Public Library: Madison, WI 
2018 Prelude: B-Minus Studios: Santa Ana, CA 
2017 Mezzanine: Dab Art: NAMBA Gallery: Ventura, CA 
2017 Rehearsal: Arttrek Gallery: Thousand Oaks, CA 
2016 Culmination: Vault Gallery: Hortonville, WI 
2015 Cue: Sleeth Gallery: West Virginia Wesleyan College: Buckhannon, WV 2014 Staged: CES Contemporary Arts Foundation Gallery: Laguna, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Perceiving the Divine: John Wayne Airport, Orange County, CA 
2024 Ampersand: Complex Con: Las Vegas, CA 
2024 Pink Tide: Dama Gallery: Ventura, CA 
2023 Centennial Hollywood: Designer Con: Anaheim, CA 
2022 Human Natures: Museum of Art and History: Lancaster, CA 
2022 The Female in Rapture: Launch LA Gallery: Hollywood, CA 
2022   Incorporated Territory: Golden West College Gallery: Torrance, CA 2021 Even Sparkles Have Shadows: Torrance Art Museum: Torrance, CA 2020 Figurative Perception: CMAY Gallery: Los Angeles, CA 
2020 Existimos: Proyectos de Residencia MX: Mexico City
2020 A Go Go: Mash Gallery: Los Angeles, CA 
2020 I of LA: Mash Gallery: Los Angeles, CA 
2020 Women by Women 2020: South Bay Contemporary Gallery: Los Angeles, CA 2019 Lumen: Mash Gallery: Los Angeles, CA 
2019 Perspectives LGBTQ: We Choose Art: Montalban Gallery: Hollywood, CA 2019 Joy of Sin: Lisa Derrick Fine Arts Gallery: Los Angeles, CA 
2019 A Feminist Perspective 5.0: Montalban Gallery: Hollywood, CA 
2019 LGBTQ Exhibition: Dab Art: H Gallery: Ventura, CA 
2018 Indulge Me: Dab Art: H Gallery: Ventura, CA 
2018 Juried Exhibition: LA Art Core Gallery: The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA 2018 World of Co: Residency: Sofia, Bulgaria 
2018 Valentine: Eastern Projects Gallery: Los Angeles, CA 
2018 A Feminist Perspective 4.0: Montalban Gallery: Hollywood, CA 
2018 Featured Figures: Laguna Art Museum: Laguna Beach, CA 
2017 Tribute to the Audubon: 101 Exhibit Gallery: Hollywood, CA 
2017 Rainbow Shift Exhibit: LGBTQIA Artists: Montalban Gallery: Hollywood, CA 2017 We Choose Art: Feminist Exhibit: Montalban Gallery: Hollywood, CA 2017 Refractured: Ventura College Faculty Exhibition: VC Gallery, Ventura, CA 2017 Works in Abstraction: Atrium Gallery: Ventura, CA 
2017 Defying Doyen: Dab Art: Atrium Gallery: Ventura, CA 
2017 Bold and Beautiful: The Hillcrest Center for the Arts: Thousand Oaks, CA 2017 Material Interests: Ventura College Faculty Exhibition: VC Gallery, Ventura, CA 2016 Miniatures: Q Art Salon Gallery: Santa Ana, CA 
2016 Please to Meet Me: EMES and House of Wren Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Summer: The Fifth Column Gallery: Los Angeles, CA 
2014 MFA Exhibition: Laguna Art Museum: Laguna Beach, CA 
2014 Manifest: Fresh Paint: Creative Research Gallery: Cincinnati, Ohio 2013 Future Tense: CES Contemporary Gallery: Los Angeles, CA 
2013 International Painting Annual: Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2013 MFA Exhibition: Laguna City Hall: Laguna Beach, CA 
2010 From the Window to the Wall: UCLA Charlie White Gallery: Los Angeles, CA 2010 UCLA Juried Exhibition: UCLA Charlie White Gallery: Los Angeles, CA 2009 Women Constructivism: UCLA Charlie White Gallery: Los Angeles, CA

PUBLICATIONS
2023 Artillery: Los Angeles, CA 
2022 LA Weekly: Shana Nys Dambrot 
2021 Los Angeles 36: Lancaster, CA 
2020 Shoebox PR Periodical: Los Angeles, CA 
2020 Art and Cake Periodical: Los Angeles, CA 
2019 Beautiful BAZAAR Periodical: Los Angeles, CA 
2018 Art in Sofia, Literary Review: World of Co Residency, Sofia, Bulgaria 2017 Huffington Post: Mat Gleason Review: 101 Exhibit Gallery, Hollywood, CA 2017 Circle Quarterly Arts Magazine: CFA Press, Los Angeles, CA 
2017 Show Review: Peter Frank: 101 Exhibit Gallery, Hollywood, CA 
2017 Art Bite Periodical: Feminist Exhibit: Los Angeles, CA 
2017 Contemporary Painters: Tribute to the Audubon: Hollywood, CA 2016 Young Space Periodical: Appleton, WI 
2015 Art in America Periodical: Los Angeles, CA 
2014 Juxtapoz Periodical: San Francisco, CA 
2013 Manifest International Painting Annual 4: Cincinnati, OH

PROFESSOR APPOINTMENTS 

Professor of Drawing and Painting: Mission College: Santa Clara, CA - 01. 2024 – current 
Professor of Drawing and Painting: College of the Canyons: Valencia, CA - 01. 2024 – current 
Professor of Drawing and Painting: Moorpark College: Ventura, CA - 08. 2017 – current 
Professor of Drawing and Painting: Orange Coast College: Costa Mesa, California - 08. 2015 – 06. 2021 
Professor of Drawing and Painting: Cypress College: Anaheim, California - 08. 2015 – 06. 2021 
Professor of Drawing and Painting: California State University, Northridge (on call) - 01. 2019 – 06. 2019 
Professor of Drawing and Painting: Ventura College: Ventura, CA - 08. 2017 – 12. 2017 
Visiting Professor of Art: (Full Time) West Virginia Wesleyan College: Buckhannon, WV - 08. 2014 – 05. 2015 
Head of Department of Visual Arts: Governor’s School of the Arts: West Virginia Wesleyan College: Buckhannon, West Virginia - 02. 2015 – 08. 2015 
Director of Art and Creative Studies: E1 Education Program: Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai: Zhuhai, China - 01. 2016 – 02. 2016

ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Curator in Residence: Carnegie Art Museum: Oxnard, CA - 09. 2019 – 06. 2020 
Artist in Residence: Carnegie Art Museum: Oxnard, CA - 02. 2019 – 07. 2019 
Artist in Residence: World of Co: Sofia, Bulgaria - 05. 2018 – 07. 2018 
Artist in Residence: Arttrek: Thousand Oaks, CA - 11. 2016 – 12. 2017 
Artist in Residence: Standard Projects: Hortonville, WI - 09. 2016 – 11.2016 
Artist in Residence: Laguna College of Art and Design: Laguna Beach, CA - 06. 2015 – 09. 2015 
Artist in Residence: West Virginia Wesleyan College: Buckhannon, WV - 08. 2014 – 05. 2015 

ARTIST TALKS 

2021 LA Weekly, Shana Nys Dambrot 
2021 Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA 
2021 California Museum of Art, Thousand Oaks, CA 
2020 Proyectos de Residencia MX: Mexico City 
2019 Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA 
2019 Los Angeles Art Core Gallery, CA 
2019 Moorpark College, CA 
2019 Speaker Series: Burbank Art Association, CA 
2018 World of Co, Residency, Sofia, Bulgaria 
2017 H Gallery: Ventura, CA 
2017 University of Buffalo: Buffalo, NY 
2017 Westlake Village Art Center: Westlake, CA 
2017 B Minus Studios: Santa Ana, CA 
2016 Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai: Zhuhai, China 
2015 Governor's School of Arts, West Virginia Wesleyan College, WV 

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE 

2020- 2023 Co- Curator at Dab Art, Ventura, CA 
2020 Retrograde: Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA