VISITING ARTIST LECTURE, MARIA DE LOS ANGELES – INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST:
Wed, Sept 18, 2024, 11 a.m.

Visual & Performing Arts Center
WCSU, Westside Campus, room 144
Free & Open to the Public
Limited Seating Available

Maria De Los Angeles is a Mexican-born, American artist. She addresses ideas of migration, belonging, and identity through drawing, painting, printmaking, and wearable sculptures. She holds an MFA from Yale and a BFA from Pratt. In 2015, she was awarded the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize by the Yale School of Art. In 2023, she received the William Aguilar Cultural Award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education for her artwork and role within her communities. Currently, she is Critic and Acting Director of Graduate Studies for Painting and Printmaking at Yale.

Maria has been an artist in residence at Sun Valley Museum of Art, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, MASS MOCA, El Museo del Barrio, LA County Museum of Art, Monira Foundation, and Schneider Museum of Art. Recent solo exhibitions include the Schneider Museum of Art, the Museum of Sonoma County, and Goggleworks. Recent group exhibitions include Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, LACMA, San Diego Mesa College, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, where her work was featured in “We the People: The Radical Notions of Democracy”.

Maria has created public murals in California for Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital, Santa Rosa Junior College, Glen Ellen, and Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. Her works are in the permanent collections of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Museum of Sonoma County, San Diego Mesa College, and Smith College, among others. @delosangelesart