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EDUCATION

2000 University of Southern California, MFA
1997 University of California, Berkeley, BA Art & BA Sociology

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2018
Sandra Low, Art Salon Chinatown at Realm, Los Angeles, CA

2015
Butter and Bone, McNish Gallery, Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA
GALA Exhibits, pop-up public art project curated by John David O’Brien, Glendale, CA

2014
Cultural Gumbo, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA

2006
Box Full of Happy, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
Troubled Times in Snooky City,
Gallery 478, San Pedro, CA

2003
Team Spirit, Overtones, Los Angeles, CA

2001
Latebreaking, Highways Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2000
It’s In the Pudding, USC Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Journeys Continued: LA Communities Through the Eyes of Artists, Union Station Passageway Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Love: What a Wonderful World, Munzón Gallery, Long Beach, CA

2022
Cure, Art Salon Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
Off-Kilter: Power and Pathos, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Let Me Talk, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA

2021
Everything Connected: Land, Body, Cosmos, Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA
Open Spaces, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA

2020
Scream, Long Beach City College Gallery (virtual exhibition)
LOADED
, Art Salon Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA

2019
Layered Lenses, GP3, Irvine, CA
Made in Asian America, Art Salon Chinatown at Realm, Los Angeles, CA
Utopia/Dystopia,
 Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA
Year of the Boar
, Art Salon Chinatown at Realm, Los Angeles, CA

2018
Art & Activism: Drawing the Line, Children’s Museum of Art, New York, NY
Complements, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA

2017
Endings & Beginnings, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Mother and Child, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
Reconstructions, Surrogate Gallery Projects, Charles White Gallery,
Eliot Arts Magnet School, Altadena, CA
60 Americans 2, Platform Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
With Liberty and Justice for Some, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
Personal Matters, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2016
We Are Los Angeles, Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA
60 Americans, Makeshift Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Studio Art Faculty Exhibition, 2016, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA

2015
Divergence: Faculty Biennial, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA
Setting Forth
, Boone Art Gallery, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
Mooncakes, Churros, and Apple Pie,
Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA

2014
Poor/Fancy, Part-Time Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Facts and Figures
, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
Conference Center
, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
L.A. Heat: Taste Changing Condiments
, Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Architecture Digested, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA

2013
Langeweile, SNP Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artists’ Book and Cookies,
Ooga Booga, Los Angeles, CA
Bite Me
, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, CA
Women’s Day Festival, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA (digital display)

2012
Arguments For and Against, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
All In for the 99%, Los Angeles, CA
¡Viva Las Mujeres! Women’s Day Festival, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA (digital display)
LBCC Art Faculty Show, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
Faculty Art Exhibition, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA

2011
Size Matters, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Picasso’s Dilemma,
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
A Dynamic Approach,
Galerie Rheeway, Los Angeles, CA

2010
Multiple Universes, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2009
Pandemic Show, Overtones, Los Angeles, CA
Here and Now: ARTRA Curatorial at T-Lofts
, Los Angeles, CA
News of the World
, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
You Are Here: Art by and about Los Angeles
, Los Angeles International Airport, Tom Bradley International Terminal, CA

2008
Reality Check, Overtones, Los Angeles, CA
We’re All In This Together, McNish Art Gallery, Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA

2007
humor us, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Nice Work If You Can Get It, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA

2006
Blips, Drips and Strips, Upfront Gallery, Ventura, CA
L.A. 225, Pico House Gallery, El Pueblo Historical Monument, Los Angeles, CA

2005
Next Door, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
Artifacts of Activism: Images of Peace, A Shenere Velt Gallery at the Workmen’s
Circle, Los Angeles, CA
We Put Our Love Where We Have Put Our Labor, Pasadena City College Art
Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Enter/Exit, Bamboo Lane/Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
Adventures in Illegal Art, Henry Fonda Theatre, Hollywood, CA

2004
From Scratch,, Crazyspace, Santa Monica, CA
Art & Democracy
, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Murmuration of Starlings, Overtones, Los Angeles, CA

2003
Throwing in the Kitchen Sink, Overtones, Los Angeles, CA
Rtea-Facts for Kids, Don O Melveny Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Breaking News, stART at Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
Open Haus, Haus, Pasadena, CA

2002
Ladyfest Los Angeles, Spring Street Bank Tower, Los Angeles, CA
Art Faculty Art Show, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA

2001
Wet Dreams, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
Mouse: An American Icon, The Alternative Museum, (virtual exhibition) www.alternativemuseum.org
A Fresh Pot of Gumbo, Gumbo Gardens, Hollywood, CA

2000
Spit & Polish, Artplace, Los Angeles, CA
Before & After Projections: intermission images IX, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Big Bang, Shoshana Wayne, Santa Monica, CA
Another Round, at the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
An Art Show with Too Many New Parts to List, Gumbo Garden, Hollywood, CA

1999
Naturalize, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

1998
No More Scapegoats! Nourse Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
Godzilla West Presents, Community Arts Gallery, Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Annual Members Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

1997
13th Annual National Juried Exhibition: Works on Paper, Juror: Gary Garrels, Curator of
Sculpture and Painting, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley,
CA
(the art show) *We love the university, the university is our friend. Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Tilt, The White Room, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

PUBLIC ART

2023
Journeys Continued: LA Communities Through the Eyes of Artists, Union Station Passageway Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2020
Through the Eyes of Artists poster series: San Gabriel, Los Angeles Metro buses, Los Angeles county, CA (Dec. 2019-Feb. 2020)
2016

Dream Connect Los Angeles, Little Tokyo Service Center, Los Angeles, CA
We Are Los Angeles
, Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA
2015
GALA Exhibits, pop-up public art project curated by John David O’Brien, Glendale, CA
2011
Picasso’s Dilemma, Old Town Shopping District, Pasadena, CA
2000
Force None of Your Reflections, Watt Hall, School of Fine Arts, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA

AWARDS

2022 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists

COLLECTIONS

L.A. Metro, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, CA
California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Sandra Tsing Loh, Los Angeles, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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