In collaboration with the Schneider Museum of Art's Art Beyond: Visiting Artist Lecture Maria de Los Angeles
Maria de Los Angeles (b. 1988, Mexico) is an interdisciplinary artist who addresses ideas of migration, belonging, and identity through her drawing, painting, printmaking, and wearable sculptures. She holds an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale School of Art (2015), a BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute (2013), and an Associate Degree in Fine Arts from Santa Rosa Junior College (2010). She was awarded the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize by Yale. University (2015) and the William Aguilar Cultural Arts Award by the AAHE (2023) for her artwork and her role within her community.
De Los Angeles has been an Artist in Residence at several notable institutions such as the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), El Museo del Barrio in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Mana Contemporary in New Jersey, Oregon Center for the Arts at and the Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon, where she had a solo exhibition in 2018. Followed by a 2019 solo exhibition at the Museum of Sonoma County in her hometown of Santa Rosa, CA.
Recent group exhibitions with Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Los Angeles County Museum, IPCNY, Every Woman Biennial, Self Help Graphics, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, St. Johnʼs University, Robert Mann Gallery, and E.TAY Gallery. Recent Public Projects for Glen Ellen, CA (2021), Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital (2022), Santa Rosa Junior College (2023), Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (2023) and University of Oregon ( 2023). Previous faculty at Pratt Institute, Fashion Institute of Technology, and Southern Oregon University. Currently a Critic and Assistant Director of Graduate Studies for the Painting and Printmaking Program at the Yale School of Art, Yale University. Upcoming exhibitions at the Sun Valley Art Museum and Fairfield University Art Museum. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artnet, New York Magazine, HelloGiggles, Harper's Bazaar and The Observer.