Born in 1977 in Reynosa, Mexico, lives and works in Miami, FL
2000
BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
1999
Ècole d’Art, Aix-en-Provence, France
2010
TIme Bomb, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
9 Solos, Meet Me at the Underground (Starring Quentin Crisp), The Moore Building, Miami, FL
2008
Who Needs Guitars Anymore?, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
Raw Sewage, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
2007
Shock Treatment, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
Pandemonium, The Art Gallery at Government Center, Miami, FL
2006
My Mirrors, David Castillo Gallery, Miami , FL
Hunga Bunga, Freight + Volume, New York, NY
2005
To Hell and Back Again, Nada Art Fair, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Guanajuato, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL
2002
You Better Be Pretty, Ambrosino Gallery, North Miami, FL
2001
I Live Here Now, “It Can Change,” San Francisco, CA
2000
Don’t Breathe Too Deep, Techoa Bruce Gallery, CCAC, San Francisco, CA
2010
Half Blue, Casino Metropolitano, Mexico City, Mexico
Mystic Visage, World Class Boxing: Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection, Miami, FL
Gallery Projects, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Spreading the Influence, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, OH
2009
Heads Up curated by Michael O. Gold, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
TIME + TEMP: Surveying the shifting climate of current painting in South Florida, Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
Set to Manual, Girls' Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
CUT: The Makings of Removal, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, San Bernardino, CA
Pivot Points 3, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Express Yourself: International Pow Wow, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami, FL
Gallery Projects, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
NEW/NOW: New Painting & Drawing, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Fourth All-Media Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
BEAUTIFUL/DECAY: A TO Z, Kopeikin Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2008
Troglodytes see better in the dark, David Castillo Annex
Under the Influence, Girl’s Club, curated by Michelle Weinberg, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum
Refraction, loop gallery, Berlin, Germany
Glogauer Residency, Berlin, Germany
Cut, Vincent Price Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Expanded Painting, curated by Paco Barragan & Nina Arias, Miami, FL
Reverie + Revolt: contemporary collage, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami
Real Time, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
All Is Well That Begins Well and Has No End, Eighty WSE Gallery, New York
Summer Residency exhibition, Cooper Union, New York, NY
All Media Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
CCA at 100: Alumni Looking Forward, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
2006
Destroy this City, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Native Seeds, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
Searching for Love & Fire, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
2005
La Frontera, Gescheidle,Chicago ,IL
FIAC Future Quake, Freigth + Volume, Paris, France
For Everyone and No One, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Op-ish, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Labyrinth, The Newton Building, Curated by Tyler Emerson, Miami, FL
2004
Nada Art Fair, Miami, FL
Animal Farm, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL
Piñata Party, Gavin Brown Enterprise, Organized by “It Can Change,” New York, NY
Visions of Now, J Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
Young Miami, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
Delinquent Boys, Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX
Drawing Conclusions 2, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL
Miami in N.Y., Budman Studios, New York, NY
The Stray Show, Worm Hole Laboratory, Chicago, IL
The Skull Show, Hanna Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
If You Believe Hard Enough, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL
By the Woods, Miami Light Project, Miami FL
Dirty South, Worm Hole Laboratory, Miami, FL
2003
Pepelandia, Rectangle Space, Miami, FL
Art Basel Miami Beach, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Haunted, Worm Hole Laboratory, Miami, FL
Butt Seriously, The Moore Space, Curated by Aja Albertson, Miami, FL
Gilligan’s Island, Ambrosino Gallery, North Miami, FL
Muestra 2, Adriana Schmidt Gallery, (Stuttgart, Germany) World Trade Center, Mexico
Shadow Cabinets, Kunstall Fridericianum, Organized by “It Can Change,” Germany
Cut and Paste 2, Ambrosino Gallery, North Miami, FL
Of Off Painting, Buick Building, Miami Design District, FL
2002
Art Basel Miami Beach, Ambrosino Gallery (North Miami, FL), Miami Beach, FL
Stomping Grounds I, ACSF, Curated by Carolina Salazar, Miami Beach, FL
The No Show Against Discrimination, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
Slide Jam, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2001
Tent, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Face 2 Face 2 Face, Pond Space, Organized by “It Can Change,” San Francisco, CA
2000
Point of Departure, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Jardin, Curated by Chris Perez, San Francisco, CA
1999
All College Honors, Oliver Art Center, CCAC, Oakland, CA
Batet, Janet, "Arte, ilusion y otros delirios cotidianos," El Nuevo Herald, May 2010.
Mills, Michael, "The Girls' Club Exhibition 'Set to Manual' Celebrates the Human Touch," The Broward-Palm Beach New Times, December 2009.
Dougher, Colleen, "Worth the Effort," Metromix, October 2009.
Suarez de Jesus, Carlos, “Wynwood Wonder,” Miami New Times, May 27, 2009.
Albritton, Laura, "Miami: Sculpture in the Pleasure Dome", Sculpture Magazine, December 2008, pp. 20-21.
Chen, Scarlet, “The Joy of Paperwork”, LA Times, October 26, 2008, p. F4.
New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, no. 76, June/July 2008, vol. 13, issue 3, pp. 120-123.
Davidow, Julie & Paul Clemence, Miami Contemporary Artists, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2007.
Asper, Colleen, “Pepe Mar,” Beautiful/Decay, issue T, August 2007, pp. 66- 73.
Soler, Eileen, “Playful paintings tell a story,” Miami Herald, Broward edition.
Johnson, Ken, "Hunga Bunga review," New York Times, August 11, 2006, p. B28
The Brooklyn Rail, Art Basel Miami Beach 2006.
Weinberg, Michelle, Native Seeds, LegalArt grant finalists, ArtCenter South Florida exhibition catalogue, June 2006.
Buck, Luisa, “The Satellite Fair Comes of Age,” The Art Newspaper, Dec. 2005
Workman, Michael, “Border Patrol,” New City Chicago, 2005
Fontana, Lilia, “About Collections and Collectors,” Arte al Dia, 2004
Babcock, Mark, “Delinquent Boys,” Glasstire, Oct. 2004
Moreno, Gean, “If You Believe Hard Enough,” Art US, Oct. 2004
Martin, Marisol, “Art Chicago,” Art Nexus, Oct. 2004
Sommereys, Omar, "Electric Kool-Aid Overload," The Street, April 2004
Suarez de Jesus, Carlos, “Art Capsules,” The New Times, March 2004
Turner, Elisa, “Way Outside the Galleries,” The Miami Herald, Feb. 2004
Sirgado, Miguel, “Edge Zones,” El Nuevo Herald, Feb. 2004
Feinstein, Roni, “Expanding Horizons,” Art in America, Dec. 2003
Sirgado, M., “Muestras Paralelas de Downtown a Wynwood,” El Nuevo Herald, Dec. 2003
Hernandez, Amber, “Dark Days,” The Miami Hurricane, Dec. 2003
Triff, Alfredo, “Mortality Rules,” The New Times, Dec. 2003
Bayer, Brian, “South Florida Today,” PBS, Sept. 2003
Ocaňa, Damarys, “Cheeky Showing,” The Street, Aug. 2003
Turner, Elisa, “Galleries Put Focus On Home Grown Art,” The Miami Herald, Aug. 2003
Turner, E., “City Focus: Miami- A Dramatic Reinvention,” ARTnews, Feb. 2003
Ales, Reynaldo, “Arte y Aparte,” Travel and Leisure, Jan. 2003
Cotzee, Mark, Where Art is Happening, 2002
Ocaňa, Damarys, “Art Guide 2002,” The Street, Oct. 2002
Sultry, Lynn, “Newly Juried Artists,” Art on the Road, Summer 2000
Turner, Elisa, “As Reality Art, Tent Survives Camp Of Live-in Artist,” The Miami Herald, Sept. 2001
Webster College, St. Louis, MO
Miami Art Museum
Painting & Drawing Lecture Series, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008
Glogauer Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany
2007-2008
Deering Estate Residency, Miami, FL
2007
Summer Residency, Cooper Union, New York, NY
MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
Robert & Jereann Chaney, Houston
Joel & Sherry Hope Mallin, New York
Miami Art Museum
Solita Cohen de Mishaan, Miami
Miami-Dade Public Library System
Dennis & Debra Scholl, Miami, Florida
Francie Bishop Good and David Horowitz, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida