M.F.A., University of California, San Diego
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
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TEACHING
2023/24
Nathaniel Cano, MFA Candidate Committee Member
2022
Mentoring
Karol Hernandez, Graduate MFA candidate
Ricky Sullivan, Graduate MFA candidate
Carolina Guzman, Undergraduate Art major UTRGV
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2019-2021
UT Rio Grande Valley Gallery Director
All University galleries on two campus including Clark Gallery, EVABL Art Gallery, UTRGV Brownsville Campus; Rusteburg Gallery. Duties include scheduling exhibitions, assigning and monitory gallery assistants. Oversee gallery maintenance, exhibition coordination with faculty and graduate students; and installation, budget allocation for visiting scholars and artists, and additional curating.
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2018-Present
UTRGV Full-Time Lecturer, 2-D and 3-D design, Art Appreciation, Art Appreciation (online), Graduate Studio (3-D), Contemporary Art Practice
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2016-2018
Lecturer, Penn State, State College, PA
Courses: Beginning Drawing (online), Beginning Drawing (for visual arts majors)
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2017-2018: Edwin C. Zoller Gallery Director (an academic position) at Penn State campus.
Coordinate day-to-day gallery operations, oversee student staff, curate and install juried student shows, assist visiting artists. Lecturer, Foundations.
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2006- 2016
Instructor, Southwestern College, San Diego, CA
Courses: Studio courses in Drawing, Painting and Design, Art Appreciation, Ancient to Medieval Art History
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2007-2016
Instructor, Mesa College, San Diego, CA
Courses: Beginning Drawing, Art History Modern Art 19th-20th century, Contemporary Art History, 1945- Present, Beginning and intermediate Sculpture, Performance (Sabbatical replacement)
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2005-2013
Instructor, Woodbury University School Architecture, San Diego, CA
Courses: Contemporary Art History (1945-present), Great Masters: Allan Kaprow (designed course)
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2001-2005/ 2011
Lecturer, University of California, San Diego
Courses: VIS 2. Intro to Art Making: Motion and Time based Art (Large Lecture/Studio); Sound Art; Drawing
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2011
Instructor, California State University, Northridge
Course: Foundation 3-D Design
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2003-2006
Teacher, San Diego Unified School District. K-12 30 Day Emergency Credential
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PROJECTS/ SOLO EXHIBITIONS
​2023
2022
Imaginary Friends,
San Diego Mesa College Student Gallery, San Diego, CA
2018-2021
No Rules Except (with
Allan Kaprow and Bram Kaprow) 10th Anniversary Edition
The New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA
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2016
Los Angeles Poverty Department: Walk the Talk, Skid Row, Los Angeles, CA
LAPD: Mike Kelley’s Mobil Homestead, Geffen MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Do You Want the Cosmetic Version or do you want theReal Deal? LAPD 1985-2014
Queens Museum, Queens, New York, NY
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2014
Do You Want the Cosmetic Version or do you want
the Real Deal? LAPD 1985-2016 The Armory, Pasadena CA
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2014
Nationwide Museum Mascot Project: Coast to Coast
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
ARC, Pasadena, CA
Museum of the Living Artist, San Diego, CA
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport
Beach, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
The Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
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​2012
NATIONWIDE MUSEUM MASCOT PROJECT
LA-LA Tour: From Los Angeles to Latin America
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, CA
Museo de Arte, Contemporáneo de Bogotá (MAMBO), Colombia
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Memorial Site of Jeffrey Vallance’s Blinky the Friendly Hen, Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA), Argentina
MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, Chile
MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, Peru
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Museo Soumaya, Mexico City
Casa Vecina, Mexico City
Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City
UnDisclosed Location Gallery, San Diego, CA
Mesa Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2009
San Diego Art Prize (w Kim McConnell) L Street Gallery, San Diego, CA
2008
Me Me Me, Luis de Jesus Gallery, San Diego, CA
Bag HEAD, Space Craft Gallery, San Diego, CA
No Rules Except… (1st Edition) The New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA
2007
Boxing-Love , Luis de Jesus Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA
2006
Supper (w/ Wendell Kling) Southwestern College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
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2001
“…and other things” Porter-Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
Making My Bed Sierra Nevada College Gallery, Incline, NV
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2000
Monsteraction.com Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
1999
Selected Photos Curators: Nadine Gandy & Nathalie Angles
Gandy Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2023
'Haunted House 2': An Experimental Halloween Art Experience, Bread and Salt, San Diego, CA
Faculty Exhibition, Clark Gallery, UTRGV, Edinburg, TX
2022
Sheitgeist; Haunted House Bread and Salt, San Diego CA
2020
Faculty Exhibition, Clark Gallery, UTRGV Edinburg Campus
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2019
Faculty Exhibition, Rusteburg Gallery, UTRGV Brownsville Campus
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2018
TASA Faculty Exhibition, UTRGV Visual Arts Building, Edinberg, Texas
A SHIP IN THE WOODS music and Arts festival, A Ship in the Woods, San Diego, CA
2017
Provoking Change, A Visual Arts Alumni Exhibition, University Art Gallery (UAG)
2016
IS Sociometry Faire, Los Angeles, CA
2013
The Very Large Array:
San Diego / Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection, MCA San Diego, San Diego, CA
Double Visions: Contemporary Collaborative Artists, Grossmont College Hyde Art Gallery
Teach-In: Teaching as a Tactic, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
Lewisburg Art Festival, Downtown Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, VA
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2012
IS Sociometry Faire, San Francisco, CA
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2011
Extraction (w/ Jay Stuckey), Space, Pittsburg, PA
A Place to Which We Can Come, Convent of Saint Cecilia, Brooklyn, NY
This Old House: A Group Exhibition Event, 2989 North Victoria Dr., Alpine, CA
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2010
Here Not There: San Diego Art Now, MCA, San Diego, CA
Party Animal, Sugar, Brooklyn, NY
Bushwick SITE ’09, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Childsplay No Rules Except…YARD (w/Allan Kaprow)
San Diego Children’s Museum, CA
Sociometry Faire, CO-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
Inside the Wave:
Six San Diego/Tijuana Artists Construct Social Art
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Paris/Berlin Recontres Internatrionales (film festival), Berlin, Germany
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2007
ALT Picture Show, MCA, San Diego, CA
2004
Super-8 film Festival, Aurora Picture Show, Huston, TX
Three Artist Exhibition (Making My Bed), Southwestern College, San Diego, CA
DAZE , University of Texas, Dallas, Texas.
2001
Off Broadway curators: E. Armstrong, T. Kamps, MCA, San Diego, California
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2000
ZAC (BASSE DEFINITION w/ Remi Marie), Musée d’art Moderne de la ville de Paris
1999
FIAC, Hotel Scribe, Paris, France
Video Programation, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
Group show, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
(No) WORK/ (No) SHOP, PUBLIC, Paris, France
Failure curator: Begoñia Munez, W 139, Amsterdam, Holland
Le Corps curator:Nathalie Viot, Kyoto Arts Festival, Kyoto, Japan
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1998
Réveillions-nous, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
B&B Unlimited: FAKE, Rhizome, Århus, Denmark
Fictions, Galerie des Archives, Paris, France
1997
Video Exhibition curator: Asier Perez Gonzales, Sala “H”, Vic, Spain
Ne pas avaler curator: Veronique Hubert, le Web bar, Paris, France
Your Home is an Ideal Place for Crying, B&B Gallery, Paris, France
video program curator: Nathalie Viot, Le Fúndation, Bilbo/ Bilbao, Spain
1995
Colisiones; curator: Corinne Diserens (cat), ARTELEKU, San Sebastián, Spain
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REVIEWS/ PUBLICATIONS
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2023
Mobile Arte Museos: Creating Spaces Through Nepantla
Art Education,Volume 76,- issue 1
'Haunted House 2': An Experimental Halloween Art Experience, KPBS, Editors Picks
2022
RGV x Art For Change: An essay on a Juried Group Show in El Valle, Glasstire (Texas Visual Art), Kathy Busssert-Webb
2018
Times of San Diego “Juxtaposed Tires and Mattresses
Make for Playful Art Installation at Children’s Museum”, Chris Jennewein
EMANCIPATION, Peter M. Bergman
2016
Hyperallergic, “The Other LAPD Los Angeles Poverty
Department on Skid Row”, Alicia Eler
2014
Artnet news “Detroit Sent Mike Kelley’s
‘Mobile Homestead’ to Los Angeles”, Sarah Casone
Artbound, “Celebrating Visibility: The Los Angeles
Poverty Department Walks the Talk”, Lisa Locascio
The Sun Southwestern College
“Mascots Promoting Art Museums”, A. Perez
Interview with The Nationwide Museum Mascot Project
S. Battle, Bucknell University/ Samek Art Museum
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2012
Blouin’s ARTINFO 06/21 (image)
“Oddball Museum Mascot Project Hits the Road…”, Kyle Chayka
Art 21 Magazine, (image) Looking at Los Angeles
2011
The California Biannual:
Collectives, Conversations, and Collaborations, Lily Simonson
KCET 09/11 “Does MOCA need a Mascot?”, Robby Herbst
Art Forum International; The Califonia Biannual Vol. 49, NO. 5 Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
2010
Why are these artists wearing costumes? (image)
John Rabe, Off Ramp 89.3 KPCC
L.A. Weekly (image), Doug Harvey
Los Angeles Times (image), Christopher Knight
Orange County Register (image), Richard Chang
Los Angeles Times, Leah Ollman
San Diego Union-Tribune, Robert Pincus
2008
San Diego Union-Tribune “Social Engineering”, Robert Pincus
2003
Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life “Just Doing", Allan Kaprow
2001
Dallas Morning News (01/26/01) ‘DAZE’ (image), Mike Daniel, Dallas, Texas
2000
Night & Day: The Union-Tribune (2/24) “Off Broadway” Robert L. Pincus, San Diego, CA
1999
Télérama No. 2597 (7/20) “l’art et l’internet”, Rosita Boisseau, Paris, France
De Volkskrant (6/2) FAILURE, Anne van Driel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Radio Aligre: Transcontemporian (4/30), Fréderic Maufras, Paris, France
1998
Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, Helena Bak, Århus, Denmark
L’Express: Le Magazine (March) Guillaume Grallet, Paris, France
1997
The Drama Review (v.41) “Just Doing”, Allan Kaprow
Information (12/31), Tine Byckel, Copenhagen, Denmark
Flash Art (Nov/Dec), Matthew Rose
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1995
Trans Modern Files, Kunihiko Nakagawa, Japan
Nikkei Design (v.12) “Colisiones”, Iki Nakagawa
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RESIDENCIES
2017
SOVA Director designated Artist-In-Residence, Penn State University
2013
The Robert Caplan Artist-in-Residence, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Bucknell University, As the Nationwide Museum Mascot Project, Lewisburg, VA
Chloe Flores Facebook
(As the Nationwide Museum Mascot Project), Los Angeles, CA
2012
DEPE Space, MOCAD, Detroit, MI
1997
The American Center, Nathalie Angles, Paris, France
1995
Arteleku Center for Contemporary Art, Corrine Diserens, San Sebastian, Spain
WORKSHOPS/ COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
2017
Artist Talk on the Nationwide Museum Mascot Project, Penn State, PA
2013
Teen Arts Council, MCASD, San Diego, CA
Mascot Making Workshop, Cypress, College, Cypress, CA
Mascot Movement Workshop, MOCAD, Detroit, MI 2012
2010
Museum Theme Songs, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The POST-Card Show
Guest Curator, Sushi Visual Arts Space, San Diego, CA
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ARTIST TALK
2021
UCLA “Drawing to See: The Art of Sketchbook”
Prof. Patricia Wickman
UCLA, CA
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2009
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
2003
The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
​COMMUNITY SERVICE
2003-2017
Board Member, Sushi Visual Arts Space, San Diego, CA
2011-2016
Arts Advisory Board, HFC South Pasadena, CA