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 SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 A Handful of Dust, Solo Exhibition, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 Sonoma Charcoal, Solo Exhibition, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2019 Wanderer, solo exhibition, The Upstairs, San Francisco, CA
2017 WEST, solo exhibition, K.Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2015 Hard in the Paint, Solo Exhibition, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2014 Portal, Solo Exhibition, The Texas Theater, Dallas, TX
2013 Parameters, Solo Exhibition, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2009 Hybrids of Tutela, Atrium Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean VA
The Protectors, G-spot Audio Visual Playground, Baltimore, MD
2008 New Paintings, Blue Sky Factory, Baltimore, MD
Fauna, Greenbelt Art Gallery, Greenbelt, MD
Imaginary Oceans, Shine Collective, Baltimore, MD
2007 Exploration, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
Flora +Fauna, Gallery Imperato, Baltimore, MD
2006 Menagerie, NASA Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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
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
2016 Context Art Miami, K. Imperial Fine Art, Miami, FL
The New Innovators, Mixx Projects + Atelier, Telluride, CO
Geode, 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
2014 Access Institute Spectrum Auction, Mezzanine, 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 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, 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
2006 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 Art 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
2025 Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, CA
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 Paper making Factory, Tokushima, Japan
PROFESSIONAL
2024 PechaKucha Speaker, Vol. 66 'What on Earth', San Francisco, CA
2024 Hyperallergic Article: Behind the Easel
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