SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021   Profiles of Vivid Reflections, Red Dog Gallery; Winston-Salem NC
2019    Colorful Memories, Waterworks Visual Arts Center; Salisbury NC
2017    Big, Small, & Sometimes Medium, The ArtsCenter; Carrboro NC
2016    Color Me Bad, Urban Grinders; Greensboro NC 
2014    American Dream, UNCC Student Union Art Gallery; Charlotte NC
2014    Pop-up Exhibit, Malo, Union EAV; Atlanta GA
2014    Pop-up Exhibit, Desechables, Right Proper Brewing Co; Washington DC. Featured on NPR Art Beat Segment with Lauren Landau.
2013    Juventud y Angustia, Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Tech; Atlanta GA  
2012    MALO as MALO, The Carrack Show; Durham NC
2012    Punto de Vista / Latino Perspectives, Milton Rhodes Center of the Arts; Winston-Salem NC

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023   Place of Encounters / Lugares de Encuentro, Cameron Museum of Art; May 2023 - Jan 2024                                                                  2023    Engage Us! Art for Social Change, Latino Muralists Small Group Show; Queen's University                                                               2020    Two-person Exhibition, Dreamers and Doers, Sozo Gallery; Charlotte NC                                                                                           2019-20 Small Works, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art; Charlotte NC, Oct 2019 - Feb                                                                                    2019   September Show, First Place Honor*, SouthEnd Arts; Charlotte NC                                                                                                                 2018   We See Heaven Upside Down, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art; Charlotte NC                                                                         
2017   Unbound and Unleashed, Red Dog Gallery; Winston-Salem NC                                                                                                             2017   Sensoria / We See Heaven Upside Down, CPCC Ross Gallery; Charlotte NC                                                                                 2016-18    Gateways / Portales, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum; Washington DC                                                                        2016    Unapologetic Negritude, Anacostia Community Arts Center; Washington DC                                                                                      2016    American Vices, Nonfiction Gallery; Savannah GA                                                          
2016    GMA's Biennial, Greenville Museum; Greenville NC                                                                                                                            2016    Hollywood Sound Recorders; Los Angeles CA, Jan 10                                                                                                                             2016    ArtSí, Mint Museum; Charlotte NC                                                                                                                                                           2016    Holiday Bazaar, Stone Malone Gallery; Los Angeles CA, Dec - Jan                                                                                                   2016    People, Places and Exchanges, McColl Center for Art, Charlotte NC, Jan 22 - April 9                                                                       2015    Castelatto, Art Basel; Miami FL                                                                                                                                                          
2015    Fletcher Exhibit, Reece Museum; Johnson City TN                                                                                                                              2015-16    NUEVOlution, The Levine Museum of the New South; Charlotte NC, Sept 2015 - Oct ‘16                                                              2015    Scrapel Hill Art Contest Winner*; Chapel Hill NC                                                                                                                                      2015    Art Expo New York, Pier 94                                                                                                                                                                       2015    Poetic Energy, Howard County Gallery II; Ellicott City MD                                                                                                                     2015    Contemporary South, 2nd Place Honor* for sculpture "El Músico" - juried by Chad Alligood. VAE; Raleigh NC                                   2014    Shadow Odyssey, Mahlstedt Gallery; New Rochelle NY                                                                                                                  
2014    Punto de Vista, Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts; Winston-Salem NC                                                                                                    2013    Arte Latino Now at Queens University; Charlotte NC                                                                                                                               2013    Espitia Gallery, Art Basel week; Miami FL                                                                                                                                                    2012    VAE Welcome to the South Show; Raleigh NC                                                                                                                                          2012    Carrack Gallery Show; Durham NC                                                                                                                                                        2012    VAE Found Show, 3rd Place Honor*; Raleigh NC                                                                                                                                  2012    Spring Into Art, Charlotte Art League & Merit Award*                                                                                                                     2012    UGallery of San Francisco, April 2012 - 2013                                                                                                                                        2012    Showdown at Hart-Witzen Gallery, 2nd Place Honor*                                                                                                                           2012    Pancake Show, Gallery 1523, Atlanta GA                                                                                                                                                2012    Two-person exhibition, Sertoma Arts Gallery; Raleigh NC                                                                                                                     2011    Taste of the World Art Competition & Exhibition, 2nd Place Honor*, Government Center; Charlotte NC

SELECT PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS / COMMISSIONS 2024 Durham County; 1414 sq ft exterior mural (Location tba) 2024 Plaza-Midwood Library interior installation 8x12ft; Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
2022 El Gran Gigante, a tortoise sculpture 50lx40wx30h; The Center of Galápagos Studies at UNC Chapel Hill 2021 Daydreamers At Play, bench sculpture, 8.5ftx6ftx2.5ft; Installed for the City of Greensboro Greenway , NC
2021-22 Disco ‘Tang, mustang mascot sculpture, 7ftx4ftx5ft; Myers Park High School, Charlotte, NC 2018-19 Two interior installations, 9x40 & 9x16 at Gates B7 & B10; Charlotte Douglas International Airport
2017 Two interior murals 10x14 each; located at The Benton Convention Center for the City of Winston-Salem, NC 2016 & ‘17 Two murals on site, Abraham Hosteling Group;Tel Aviv & Jerusalem, Israel
2013-15 Right Proper Brewing Co: Raised By Wolves, 26x70 exterior mural. Cerveja, 96x84 mixed media on panel; Howard Nights, 15x12 interior brick mural; & in 2022 - two grain silos 360 degrees at 26ft tall; Washington, DC

SPECIAL PROJECTS 2025  SHOUT! Mini Golf installation
2024  CATS Bus Screens, design for 10 ft shelters; Charlotte Area Transit 2022  CD Cover Art for Ultima Nota album Soñando, produced in Charlotte NC 2020  Right Proper Brewing Co. Beer Label Designs (4), production year 2020-21; Washington DC

2019  Two-person art collaboration design commission for On the Table Civic Engagement Symposium & 2018 Winning Artist of the Design Challenge, On the Table; Charlotte NC

2019  Set design for Heaven, a play produced by Moving Poets of Charlotte, a Knight Foundation recipient. Professional development workshops provided by The Center of Puppetry Arts, Atlanta, GA.

2018  CD Cover Art for Oxford American Magazine’s 20th Annual Southern Music Issue featuring North Carolina; Little Rock AR

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS / SYMPOSIA 2021, ‘23-25 McColl Center Benefit Art Auction, selected participating artist; Charlotte NC
2019- 20 Arts & Science Council Artist Selection Panelist, Charlotte NC
2019 Old Salem Out of Bounds Artist Fellow (ceramics); Old Salem NC, fall
2019 McColl Center for Art, Open Studio Saturdays, Artist Workshop Facilitator, Charlotte NC 2017 NALAC Latinx Presenter; Charlotte NC, June 2

—> Artist Panel Talks: Cameron Museum; Smithsonian Anacostia Museum; Mint Museum; Queens University; UNCC

HONORS & GRANTS 2024 Artist Support Grant, Arts & Science Council; Charlotte NC 2023 Creative Mecklenburg Grant, Arts & Science Council; Charlotte NC
2022 City Placemaking Grant, City of Charlotte Urban Design + Development 2020 Regional Project Artist Grant, Arts & Science Council; Charlotte NC
2020 Selected Artist for ASC Community Supported Artist Program; Charlotte NC 2019 Featured Artist Award, Con A de Arte, ArtSí; Charlotte
2019 Creative Renewal Fellowship Grantee, Arts & Science Council; Charlotte NC 2013 Future Artist Award, Con A de Arte, ArtSí; Charlotte NC

RESIDENCIES & TRAINING 2024 Concrete Paradise Workshop Intensive with Teaching-Artist Sherri Warner Hunter; Puerto Vallarta México 2021 Artist in Residence, Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit, Lighthouse Immersive Productions with Blumenthal Performing Arts; Charlotte NC
2019 Claymakers Workshop (Artesanías de Barro); Oaxaca México 2016 Visiting Artist in Residence, McColl Center for Art, Charlotte NC

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS: Slate Interiors, Charlotte NC

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“An Immigrant Connection to a Country of Immigrants.” Smithsonian Private Collection, 2016