Curriculum Vitae
Exhibitions
Radar Productions/Dónde Está Mi Gente, San Francisco CA, 2017
Feminist Roundtable, San Jose Quilt Museum, San Jose CA, 2017
Photographic Documentarist for SFMoMA Performance in Progress Series “The Formaldehyde Trip,” video performance byNaomi Rincón Gallardo, hosted by Galeria de la Raza. Images exhibited by SFMoMA and Galeria de La Raza with video performance, San Francisco CA, 2017
“Pulse De Nuestrx Corazones” SOMArts’ 17th annual Día de los Muertos: “A Promise Not to Forget,” San Francisco CA, 2016
“Women Are Perfect!” Galería de la Raza, San Francisco CA, 2016
Ticka Arts Annual Exhibition, Gray Matters Gallery, Dallas TX, 2016
“Yaocihuatl: Warrior Womxn/Latina Photographers” Social Policy, San José CA, 2016
Society for Photographic Educators LGBTQ Caucus National Film Festival, Las Vegas NV, 2016 Chicana Latina Foundation
“Gathering The Embers” Historical Revision and CommunalEmpowerment Workshop and Performance, Marina Headlands CA, 2015
Glitter Bomb National Queer Arts Festival: Connections 2015, SOMArts Cultural Center Gallery, San Francisco CA, 2015
29th “Solo Mujeres” Exhibition Intersectionality, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco CA, 2015
“Society for Photographic Educators National Combined Caucus Exhibition,” University of Central Florida Gallery in conjunction with SNAP! You Are Here Orlando Photographic Festival, Orlando FL, 2015
“Society for Photographic Educators National Combined Caucus Exhibition,” Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans LA, 2015
Society for Photographic Educators LGBTQ Caucus National Film Festival, New Orleans LA, 2015
“Photo Alchemy: Alternative Processes in Photographic Media,” Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Watsonville CA, 2015
“Gathering the Embers: Spirit of Home, “ SOMArts Theater, San Francisco CA, 2014
"Photography Now?" Site-specific installation, California Polytechnic State University Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo CA, 2014
"⇧Ctrl/⌘Pwr" Digital performance, San José State University, San José CA, 2014
"Beyond Scope" Minna Gallery, San Francisco CA, 2014
"Lift Off 2014" Digital performance, Art Ark Gallery, San José CA, 2014
"Beyond Structure" Minna Gallery, San Francisco CA, 2014
"Expand" de Young Museum Student Showcase, de Young Museum, San Francisco CA, 2014 “Society for Photographic Educators Combined Caucus Exhibition,” Gormley Gallery, Baltimore MD, 2014
“Society for Photographic Educators LGBTQ Caucus Film Festival, Baltimore MD, 2014
“My Fucking Face” Video Installation, San José State University Herbert Sanders Gallery, San José CA, 2013
“Six Show” Group Exhibition, San José State University Herbert Sanders Gallery, San José CA, 2013
"Stark" Group Exhibition, Gallery III San José State University, San José CA, 2013
“My Fucking Face” Video Installation, San José State University Herbert Sanders Gallery, San José CA, 2012
"Mitt on Women’s Issues" John Pickelle Gallery San José State University, San José CA, 2012
“4x6” Photographic Group Exhibition, Gallery IV San José State University, San José CA, 2012
“MIXX Media” Video Installation, University of the Pacific Reynolds Gallery, Stockton CA, 2009
Solo Exhibition, Sparrow, Stockton CA, 2009
“From Our Hands,” Reynolds Gallery, Stockton CA, 2009
Juried Exhibition, Viewpoint Photography Gallery and Guild, Sacramento CA, 2009
Education
Masters of Fine Art in Photography from San José State University, Magna Cum Laude, 2014
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography with an Art History Double Major concentrating in Critical Theory and Critique Writing from the University of the Pacific, Magna Cum Laude, 2009
Awarded the Outstanding Senior Visual Artist Commendation and Scholarship for the University of the Pacific’s 2009 Graduating Class
Teaching
Contemporary Critical Issues, Lecturer, San José State University, San José CA, Fall 2017
Beginning Digital Photography, Lecturer, San José State University, San José CA, Fall 2017
Summit Public Charter School Visual Arts Expeditions Instructor, San José/Redwood City, CA, Spring 2017
Black and White Darkroom Photography (Advanced, Art 150) Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, Spring 2016
Black and White Darkroom Photography (Beginning, Art 50) Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, Spring 2016
Manager and Studio Arts Instructor, California Color Academy, Fremont CA, 2014-2016
Early Childhood Art Education, Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View CA, Fall 2016
Black and White Darkroom Photography, Lecturer, San José State University, San José CA, Fall 2015
Alternative Photographic Processes, Teaching Associate, San José State University, San José CA, Fall 2013
Beginning Digital Photography Teaching Associate, San José State University, San José CA, Fall 2012
Beginning Digital Photography, Teaching Assistant for Bob Dawson, San José State University, San José CA, Spring 2012
Contemporary Photographic Issues, Teaching Assistant for Valerie Mendoza, San José State University, San José CA, Fall 2011
Lectures
Radar Productions/Dónde Está Mi Gente Queer Feminist Reading, San Francisco CA, 2017
Queering the Artist Statement, LGBTQ Caucus Mentorship Session, Society for Photographic Educators Conference, Las Vegas NV, 2016
U.S. Social Forum Beehive Design Collective “Restore the Delta: Anti Water Privatization” Presentation and Workshop with Ryan Camero, 2015
"⇧Ctrl/⌘Pwr: Feminism, Queerness, y Cultura – Resistance and Reclamation in the Selfie Era," lecturer at the New York Film Academy, Burbank CA for the Western Society for Photographic Educators Conference, 2014
"⇧Ctrl/⌘Pwr: Feminism, Queerness, and Social Justice within Evolving Technologies," lecturer at the Northwestern Society for Photographic Educators Conference, 2014
“Gun Slingin’ Tarts and Sensitive Cowboys: ‘Johnny Guitar’ (1954)” Pacific Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference, 2009
“Marie-Antoinette and the Construction of Royal Feminine Identity in the Portraits of Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun” Pacific Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference, 2008
“Cindy Sherman’s ‘Madame de Pompadour (née Poisson)’ of 1990,” Pacific Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference, 2007
Publications
Kuratieren ALS Antirassistische Praxis (Edition Angewandte) (German Edition) Cover Art from The Formaldehyde Trip Performance Series, 2017
“Yaocihuatl: Warrior Womxn/Latina Photographers” Catalog, San José CA, 2016
29th “Solo Mujeres” Exhibition Catalog Intersectionality, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco CA, 2015
“Photo Alchemy: Alternative Processes in Photographic Media,” Exhibition Catalog Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Watsonville CA, 2015
"MFA Now” Compendium of Abstracts for the Root Division Archive, San Francisco CA, 2013-2015
"Society for Photographic Educators Combined Caucus Exhibition" Vasa Project e-book publication and online exhibition, vasa-project.com, 2014
Iconnu Magazine, Gold Issue, 2014
Placeholder Magazine, Visions In The Dark Issue, 2014
Pacific Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference Compendium of Abstracts 2007-2009
Organizing
At Large Member, National Society for Photographic Educators LGBTQ Caucus, elected 2017
Western Regional Representative for the National Society for Photographic Educators LGBTQ Caucus, elected 2013-2016
Beehive Design Collective, California Conservation Artistic Development Team, 2015
Body Positivity Project Founder, participatory community art virtual archive, 2012
United Gay Straight Alliance Youth Founder and Co-President, Stockton CA, 2004