bio / cv

Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1955
Lives and works in Los Angeles since 1987

SOLO AND SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024Emes Truth, Yours Truly installation with twelve portraits, Backman Gallery, Heller Museum, New York, N.Y.
2022Conversations, twelve portraits from From Where The Sun Now Stands I Will Fight No More Forever, Range Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
2019Yiddishists, twenty-three portraits illustrating Jeffrey Shandler’s lecture, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.
2017Species of Faces and other Mayses, sixty portraits, Spiegel and Dortort galleries Hillel, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
2016Faces of Survival, four portraits introduced by Professor Paul Von Blum, Gindi Gallery. Hillel, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
2012Visual Variations, fifteen abstract paintings, Platt & Borstein Galleries, Los Angeles, CA.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026Critical Connections, four paintings from Mirrors, Range Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
2026Expressions of Peace, with Irene, LELA International, The Los Angeles Makery, Los Angeles, CA.
2026Alternative Art Fair, with The Hostel and Windward, TRYST – Range Projects, Torrance, CA.
2026Annual Community Exhibition, with Flow, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Manhattan Beach, CA.
2026A Place At The Table, with Victoria’s Own Hands and Amateru, Tag Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2026We Are The Land, with Is This Recyclable (Surfin USA) and (So Happy Together), The Compton Art & History Museum, Compton, CA.
2026Startup Art Fair, with All Work And No Play Makes Kristine A Dull Girl in collaboration with Kristine Schomaker for Perceive Me, Venice, CA.
2026The Middle Becomes Eclectic, juried by Camilla Tylor with Flow, Busy and Anatomy Of A Myth, The Middle Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2025Facets, four paintings from In Chorus, Range Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
2025See What You Can Find, with Elliot’s Myth, The BruHaus, Los Angeles, CA.
2025Enter The Goddesses, juried by Laura Brody with Isis and Ishta, The Los Angeles Makery, Los Angeles, CA.
2025Annual Community Exhibition, with One Of Us, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Manhattan Beach, CA.
2025Celebration, 50 years of SCWCA with The Song Of Arion, Betsy Lueke Art Center, Burbank, CA.
2025Freedom, juried by Melina Paris with Going Down, Range Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
2025The Gold Standard, with Quack Kingdom and In Liminal Position, Gallery 612, Santa Monica, CA.
2025Open Call, juried by Tylor Bythewood-Porter with Moroccan Pillow Manifestation, SCIArt, Camarillo, CA.
2025Alternative Art Fair, with In Liminal Position, TRYST – Range Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
2025Art + Ale, with five paintings from In Chorus, Dama Gallery, Ventura, CA.
2025Reflection Resilience, with A Flower’s Odyssey, The Arroyo Arts, Los Angeles, CA.
2025California Dreaming, with Waiting For The Show, El Dorado Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2025L.A. Open, curated by Gene Davis with Writer’s Block, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2024Tangents, critiqued by Shana Nys, four paintings from In Chorus, Range Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
2024Defining Legacies, curated by Consuelo Flores, Lobo and Regina, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA.
2024A Woman’s Place, curated by Shana Nys, Amy Scott and Tylor Bythewood-Porter, Amigas, The Ebell, Los Angeles, CA.
2024A Woman’s Voice In A Pivotal Time, curated by Kim Abeles, with No Fear, The Los Angeles Makery, Los Angeles, CA.
2024Expressions Of Peace, with Put it Out, LELA International, The Los Angeles Makery, Los Angeles, CA.
2024Impressions, with Rolling Voice and Midnight Reverie, The Los Angeles Makery, Los Angeles, CA.
2024Confluence, with Memory Reconstruction, The Los Angeles Makery, Los Angeles, CA.
2023The Next Big Thing, curated by Shana Nys, The World Outside, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA.
2023No Matter What, four paintings from Drops, Range Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
2023The Last CA 101, with The Semblance Of Form, RB Historical Library, Redondo Beach.
2023Dada, The Touch Of Justice, Seventy-Seven Gullible Years On Planet Earth, Stola Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2023Ancestral Connections, curated by Chelo Montoya with La Iaia, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA.
2023Sovereignty & Liberation, juried by Jaimie Isaac, with Wonsil Peak, Gallery 110, Seattle WA.
2023JAI of Southern California, Hillel UCLA, three portraits of Yiddishists, Los Angeles, CA.
2021Dialogues, critiqued by Kristina Newhouse, four location portraits, SoLA Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2021Fresh, juried by Anuradha Vikram, two location portraits, SoLA Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2021Reflection, juried by Sunook Park and Terrell Tilford, Campus Walk, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA.
2020Tarfest:Transition, juried by Holly Jerger, Nunc Aeternum and With Iaia, Launch LA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2020Habitat California, juried by Tulsa Kinney, Is This Recyclable, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA.
2020Art + Activism, Together Forever and Surfin USA, SoLA Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA.
2018California Open Exhibition, juried by Kim Abeles, Mother’s Beach, Tag Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
20184th Annual, juried by Tulsa Kinney, Jim Morphesis and Michael Arata, with Abuse, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA.
2013Silent Communication, Margarita, Avrun, and Sheldon, Linus Gallery, Pasadena, CA.
2013Honoring Women’s Rights, juried by Ruth Weisberg, two large portraits, Steinbeck Center, Salinas CA.
2012Song of the Land, juried by Ruth Weisberg, Hebrew Union College, Downtown Los Angeles, CA.
2001Ga Ga for LA LA, juried by Elsa Longhauser, Eye Five Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2000Jazz musician portraits, Art Sales Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, CA.

PUBLICATIONS

2026The Good, The Bad And The Gander, Maintenant 20, Three Rooms Press, New York, N.Y.
2025One Of Us, cover for August 2025 Manhattan Beach Art Center Magazine, Manhattan Beach, CA.
2025Profit See, Maintenant 19, Three Rooms Press, New York, N.Y.
2024Loosing Your Hedge, Maintenant 18, Three Rooms Press, New York, N.Y. (Pushcart Prize Nomination)
2023Bird Of A Feather, Maintenant 17, Three Rooms Press, New York, N.Y.
2023AnSelma illustrating Una dona en tres paraules by Maria Dolors Camós, Ediciones S&P, Barcelona (Spain)
2023This artist paints portraits of today’s Yiddishists by Zach Golden, The Forward, New York, N.Y.
2022Not Yet, Maintenant 16, Three Rooms Press, New York, N.Y.
2021End Of Spin, Maintenant 15, Three Rooms Press, New York, N.Y.
2021Iber Der Velt, illustrating Let The People Then Become Smarter by Sarah Biskowitz, In Geveb
2021Iber Der Velt, illustrating Zooming Home to Yiddish by Florence Berkowitz, Times of Israel
2020Is This Recyclable (Surfin USA), Maintenant 14, Three Rooms Press, New York, N.Y.
2019All In, Maintenant 13, Three Rooms Press, New York, N.Y.
2018I like Freud, Maintenant 12, Three Rooms Press, New York, N.Y.
2017The next gambit, Maintenant 11, Three Rooms Press, New York, N.Y.
2015Cold Calling, Maintenant 9, Three Rooms Press, New York, N.Y.
2000Una bruja en un pajar by Silvia Wagensberg, Vel Magazine, Barcelona (Spain).

EDUCATION

1979Masters of Arts in Philology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain).
1975Bachelors of Arts coursework in Painting, Facultad de Barcelona de Belles Arts (Barcelona University of Fine Arts), Barcelona (Spain).

contact

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