Awards

2025 Lightning Fund Grant - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions - with the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation

2022 (finalist) Focus on Los Angeles Grant - Prospect Art

2020 David Antin Prize - University of California, San Diego

(finalist) Fulbright Fellowship - Fulbright Scholars Program - U.S. Department of State

2019    Visiting Critic’s Prize - Critic: Malik Gaines - University of California, San Diego

Russell Foundation Grant - The Russell Foundation

2017    Strategic Enhancement of Excellence Through Diversity Fellowship - Graduate Division

            - University of California, San Diego

2016    Graduate Equity Fellowship - Office of Graduate Studies

            - California State University, Northridge

Select Solo Exhibitions

2024 Sandbox - Monte Vista Projects - Los Angeles, CA

2019 To Be a Vision - University of California, San Diego - La Jolla, CA

2018 Temporal Imaginings - University of California, San Diego - La Jolla, CA

Select Exhibitions

2026 (forthcoming) Brain Surgery - Doyle Arts Pavilion - Curated by High Beams - Costa Mesa, CA

2025 A Really Good Sculpture Show - Other Places Art Fair - San Pedro, CA

Chronoform - SOIL - Seattle, WA

Tryst Art Fair - Torrance Art Museum - Torrance, CA

2024 End as Beginning - Irvine Fine Art Center - Irvine, CA

NOMAD III - Torrance Art Museum - Torrance, CA

MOAH:CEDAR - Lancaster Museum of Art and History - Lancaster, CA

Needle in the Hay - Curated by Kristopher Raos - as-is Gallery - Los Angeles, CA

Mosaic - Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall - ArtCenter College of Design - Pasadena, CA

2023 TNBT 2023 - Studio Channel Islands Art Center - Camarillo, CA

In Focus - Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall - ArtCenter College of Design - Pasadena, CA

Aries Rising - Irvine Fine Arts Center - Irvine, CA

Insistent - Office Hours at CSU Dominguez Hills - Carson, CA

Architecture in Contemporary Art - Orange County Center for Contemporary Art

- juried by Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena of Escher GuneWardena Architecture - Santa Ana, CA

Landscape: Constructed and Wild - Site:Brooklyn - virtual show

2021 Landscapes of the Mind - City of Santa Clarita - Santa Clarita, CA

2020 Single Sentence Publishing - Coquit Gallery - Los Angeles, CA

Sofa Series - PROJECT [BLANK] - virtual show

History of the Present - Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego - San Diego, CA

Working Title - PROJECT [BLANK] - St. James by the Sea Episcopal Church - La Jolla, CA

GLAMFA: Double Play- California State University, Long Beach - Long Beach, CA

2019 Candied Stones - Coquit Gallery - Los Angeles, CA

C-Note - San Diego Art Instiute - San Diego, CA

Ciclónica -Organized by Antonio Nieto Cuevas - Mexico City, Mexico

The Last Resort - University of California, San Diego - La Jolla, CA

2018  a grammar built with rocks - Curated by Shoghig Halajian and Suzy Halajian

- Human Resources LA - Los Angeles, CA 

Now Trending: Third Annual Alpay Scholarship University Juried Exhibition

                     - Juried by Darrel Couturier - Palos Verdes Art Center - Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

            Triple-UC Graduate Student Critique Group - University of California, San Diego - La Jolla, CA

            Sustainability and Public Good, 2018 CAA MFA Exhibition - Juried by Corrina Peipon, Eden Phair, HK Zamani

                     - Mary Leigh Cherry, and Peter Mendenhall - California State University, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA

2017     MA/MFA Graduate Exhibition - California State University, Northridge - Northridge, CA

              Vacation - University of California, San Diego - La Jolla, CA

              Metamorphosis: The Human Stories - Stockton University -  (travelling) Atlantic City, NJ;

                       - Dresden, Germany; Gyumri, Armenia; Columbus, OH; Edmond, OK; Beaumont, TX

              Annual Juried Art Student Exhibition - California State University, Northridge - Northridge, CA

              Annual Shop Show - California State University, Northridge - Northridge, CA

              Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian 3rd Annual Art Walk - Van Nuys State Building - Van Nuys, CA

2016     Leaving and Having - Shed Gallery - California State University, Northridge -

                       - Northridge, CA

              PUC PUC PUC - California State University, Northridge - Northridge, CA

              Annual Juried Show - California State University, Northridge - Juried by Paul Cherwick - Northridge, CA

              Meet the Guild - California State University, Northridge - Northridge, CA

              Heat Wave - California State University, Northridge - Northridge, CA

              CSU Summer Arts Showcase - California State University, Monterey Bay - Monterey Bay, CA

2015      Student Showcase - California State University, Northridge - Northridge, CA

              Meet the Guild - California State University, Northridge - Northridge, CA

              Spectrum-Gestalt 2 - BLEICHER/GORMAN Gallery - Curated by Airom - Santa Monica, CA

              Roots - On The Ground Floor - Juried by Malika Ali - Los Angeles, CA

              At Home - California State University, Northridge West Gallery - Curated by Cliff Benjamin - Northridge, CA

Education

2020  Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture, Object, and Installation)

            University of California, San Diego

2017    Master of Art (concentration in Drawing and Painting)

            California State University, Northridge 

2015     Bachelor of Arts Degree in Visual Art

             California State University, Northridge

Residencies

2016    California State University Summer Arts - Monterey Bay, CA

Directories and Communities

TOTAL LANDSCAPING - Organized by Nora Khan and Anna Cho-Sun - https://totallandscaping.persona.co/

  Dyke Practice - dykepractice.com/

Women Eco Artist’s Dialogue - weadartists.org/

Lectures and Talks

2024 Artist’s Panel - Irvine Fine Art Center - Irvine, CA

2023 Artist’s Panel - Irvine Fine Art Center - Irvine, CA

2020 Sofa Series - Interview with Leslie Lytham at Project Blank - San Diego, CA

2019    Escuela Superior de Arquitectura (ESARQ) - Guadalajara, Mexico

Escuela de Artes Visuales - Instituto Cultural Cabañas - Guadalajara, Mexico

     PAOS GLD - El Museo Taller José Clemente Orozco - Guadalajara, Mexico

2017    California State University, Northridge - CSUN Symposium - Northridge, CA

Workshops

2019    Tunnels and Bridges, Strategies for Resilience and Recovery - Guadalajara Panorama Workshop

- Escuela de Artes, Arquitectura, y Diseño - Universidad de Guadalajara - Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Publications

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/story/2024-11-21/artists-explore-changing-environments-at-the-irvine-fine-arts-center