EDUCATION
2009 MFA, Art with a specialization in New Genres, University of California, Los Angeles
2006 BA, Visual Art, University of California, San Diego
CREATIVE ACTIVITY
Artist Projects
2022 LIQUID LIGHT
Multichannel video installation with 5.1 audio. 26 min.
2017 TEMPORARY STORAGE: The Belongings of Juan Manuel Montes
Installation. Wooden sculpture, 2 sawhorses, rope, and personal belongings of a DACA deportee.
2016 REFUGEES
Installation. Welcome signs, mural print of archival photograph depicting bracero laborers being fumigated at border crossing.
2014 TRAVELING DUST
Installation. Multichannel video, objects, sound.
2013 IN THE RING
Installation. Boxing ring, mirror, photographs, videos, sound.
2013 CAMIONETAS
Single-Channel Video Installation.
2012 EL PEDÓN
Installation. Wooden pallet sculpture, single channel video, and book documenting correspondence between FDA, Rufino Tamayo, and Hammer Museum.
2011 MEMORIAS
Participatory Performance. 3,000 candles installed at night on street of Toronto's financial district.
2011 ESTE ES MI PAIS
Ink-Jet Photograph, 3'x 6'.
2011 THE BURIAL OF ANASTACIO HERNANDEZ ROJAS
Installation. Ink-Jet photograph and candles.
2009 3500 POUNDS OF SCRAP METAL
Installation. Discarded washing machines held as a temporary sculpture before becoming scrap metal.
2009 LAVADORAS
Installation. Discarded washing machines, auto body paint.
2009 I AM A CITIZEN/WHAT IS A CITIZEN? (w/Imprenta)
1000 signs distributed at Los Angeles May Day Protest.
2009 DEPORTABLES
Sculptures. Discarded mattresses and rope.
2009 CURTAINS: A FILM IN THREE PARTS (w/Michelle Dizon)
Installation. Text, ink-jet photographs, and a curtain sewn from malongs burnt in a Cotabato City marketplace.
2008 CORNUCOPIA
Installation. Fruits and vegetables found in dumpsters and installed in public space.
2007 CUBO
Sound Archive/Installation/Sculpture/Radio Transmitter made out of pallets from Trader Joe's.
2005 CAUTION PROJECT
Public Intervention. Magnetic signage attached to I-5 freeway "CAUTION" signs on U.S. side of San Isidro border.
2006 EXCHANGE ALTERATION
Participatory Performance.
2006 NOMART
Art Space on Wheels.
2005 THE EAR OF THE POLLO
Single-channel video. 4:55 mins.
Artist-Run Spaces
2010-2012
SALON PROCESO, Los Angeles, California. Co-Founded with Michelle Dizon.
2009-2010
IMPRENTA, Los Angeles, California. Co-Founded with Michelle Dizon, Wu Tsang, and Nicolau Vergueiro.
2007-2009
LUI VELAZQUEZ, Tijuana, Mexico. Co-Founded with Shannon Spanhake and Sergio de la Torre.
2006-2010
CUBO, Southern California and Tijuana, Mexico. Founder. Sculptural Platform and Sound Exhibition Space on Wheels.
2004-2005
NOMART, San Diego, California. Co-Founded with Melanie Badalato and Sarah Ware. Wooden art space on wheels.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Liquid Light. Curated by Pilar Tomkins. Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Traveling Dust. 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2013 In the Ring. Curated by Idurre Alonso. Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
2010 Curtains: a film in three parts. Curated by Patrick Flores. Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines.
2009 I Want Your Washing Machine. Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (From the Series Deportables). Curated by Andrew Berardini. Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Group Exhibitions
2023 Liquid Light. Mexicali Biennial. The Cheech Museum, Riverside, CA
2019 Temporary Storage: The Belongings of Juan Manuel Montes. When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art. Curated by Ruth Erickson and Eva RespiniInstitute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
Este Es Mi Pais. Kellogg University Art Gallery, Pomona, CA
2018 Traveling Dust. A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art in the Americas. Curated by Pilar Tomkins. Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, MA
Colchones II: From the Series Deportables. The Art of Protest: Epiphany and the Culture of Empowerment, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Temporary Storage: The Belongings of Juan Manuel Montes. Home - So Different, So Appealing. Curated by Mari Carmen Ramirez, Chon Noriega, and Pilar Tomkins. LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Traveling Dust. A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art in the Americas. Curated by Pilar Tomkins Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Refugees. Curated by Anja Franke. North Coast Art Triennial, Copenhagen, Denmark
Refugees. Customizing Language. Curated by Idurre Alonzo and Selena Presiado. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2012 El Pedon. Made in LA Biennial. Cureted by Cesar Garcia, Lauri Firstenberg, Malik Gains and Ali Subotnick. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Memorias. Nuit Blanche. Curated by Nicholas Brown. Toronto, Canada
2010 CAUTION Project. Off Fence. Art Laboratory Berlin, Germany
Westlake Theater. Never Very Far Apart. Curated by Ryan Inouye. REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Gol, MOVE. Curated by Shervin Shahbazi. Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pink Lady Kenmore, Think Pink. Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody. Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
I Want Your Washing Machine. ARCO Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2009 Free Entry. California Biennial. Curated by Sarah Bancroft, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Thesis Exhibition. Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
I AM A CITIZEN. Imprenta, Mac Arthur Park, Los Angeles, CA
CUBO: Media Womb, Calit2. UCSD, San Diego, CA
CUBO: Media Womb, Soundscapes. Curated by Tiffany Barber. Gallery 727, Los Angeles, CA
CAUTION Project. The Borders. Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at SUNY College, Old Westbury, NY
Cornucopia. Parientes de Ocasión, Atheneum, San Diego, CA
2008 Aleph. Resolution 3: Video Praxis for Global Spaces. LACE, Los Angeles, CA
BITCH: The Piñata Series with DoEAT Collective. Wight Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
Exchange/Alteration. CMKY Festival. BMOCA, Boulder, CO
Cornucopia. Parientes de Ocacion. Curated by Javier Ramirez Limon. CECUT, Tijuana B.C., Mexico
Cornucopia. Parientes de Ocacion. Curated by Javier Ramirez Limon. Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
Cornucopia. Parientes de Ocacion. Curated by Javier Ramirez Limon. Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico
CAUTION Project. National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
2007 It is Sweet to Play the Fool at Times. Sesto Senso. Bologna, Italy
CUBO. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Los Angeles, CA
CUBO. Festival Entijuanarte. Centro Cultural Tijuana, B.C. Mexico
CAUTION Family Silhouette, San Diego New Contemporaries Art Prize. Simayspace Art Academy, San Diego, CA
CAUTION: Migration. Ricardo Vela Gallery, San Diego, CA
2006 Cure Hunger Eat Poor People: Please Suck. Détourned Menu: Food in the Form of Activism. The Lab, San Francisco, CA
NOMART. Plaza Bonita: Best if used by 3.8.06. CHE CAFFEE, San Diego, CA
Luncheon on the Lawn. Fantastic-Domestic. Annex Gallery-Sun God Lawn @ UCSD, San Diego, CA
Exchange/Alteration. Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA
Exchange/Alteration. Queen Nails Annex Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Exchange/Alteration. Fair Exchange: LA County Fair. Pomona Museum, Pomona, CA
Exchange/Alteration. Festival Entijuanarte 2006. Centro Cultural Tijuana, B.C., México
2005 Sector 05: Non-Exemption. CALIT2, UCSD, San Diego, CA
CAUTION Project. Interstate 5 and 905, San Diego, CA
Cure Hunger, Eat Poor People. TNT. San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
The Ear of the Pollo. Traffic. Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY
The Ear of the Pollo. Surveying the Border. The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Digestion: Changing the Nature of Nature. Shopdropping. Pond Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pollo Project. Minuteman Rally, Naco, Arizona USA/Naco, Sonora, México
Original Art in Publication
Ontiveros, Camilo. "Guest Lecture." In Artillery, May-July 2013, Vol. 7, Issue, 5 pp.34- 35.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2012-2015
Artist Mentor, Visual Art Program, Vermont College of Fine Art
2007
Visiting Artist, Artes Plasticas. Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Workshops
2008 Workshop Leader, Resolution 3: Video Praxis in Global Spaces, Pitzer College and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
2007 Workshop Leader for Exchange Alteration at:
University of Colorado. Boulder, Colorado
CECUT, Tijuana, Mexico
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA
Workshop Leader for CUBO workshop at:
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Centro Cultural, Tijuana, Mexico
2006 Workshop Leader for Border Politics. Lui Velazquez, Tijuana, Mexico
Artist's Talks
2017 SalaSab, Bogotá, Colombia
2012 Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
2008 Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
Resolution 3. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2007 State of the Arts Conference. UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
2006 Alternative Universes Panel. Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
Biola University, La Mirada, CA
Pollos and Borders: Delete the Border. San Diego, CA
Radio Latina. San Diego, CA and Tijuana, B. C. México
Despierta San Diego, Univision, San Diego, CA
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
2010 Mentes QUO, $2,000
2010 Illy Prize, ARCO Madrid, Spain, $22,000
2010 University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, $10,000
2010 Arts Matters, $5,000
2009 Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Grant, $12,000
2008 Hispanic Scholarship Fund, McNamara Fellowship, $20,000
2007 UCLA Graduate Fellowship, $15,000
2007 Patronato de Arte Contemporaneo, $15,000
2006 Programa de Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales CONACULTA FONCA, $30,000