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Education
2021: MFA, University of California Los Angeles
2012: BA, Studio Art, Minor: Art History, Humboldt State University
Selected Exhibitions
2022
Solo Exhibition, Senescent Stone, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, California
Garden Universal, False Cast Gallery, San Diego, California
10 YEARS, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, California
Quadruple, Phase Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Sebastian Gladstone Los Angeles x Harkawik, NADA, New York
Solo Exhibition, Thin Wall Wrung Wraith, Alice and Nahum Lainer Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Earth Oracles, Mayten’s, Ontario, Canada
2021
Solo Exhibition, Of Meat More Than Flesh, UCLA Graduate Art Studios, Los Angeles, California
SD Practice, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California
2020
Glimpses of Life, Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, California
2019
UCLA Open Studios, UCLA Margot Levin Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, California
Shifting Aesthetics, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, California
Useless Man, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, California
SoCal MFA Exhibition, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, California, Juror: Helen Molesworth
UCLA Open Studios, UCLA Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, California
2018
UCLA Open Studios, UCLA Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, California
Juried Biennial, Cannon Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
Ogdoad, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, California
Solo Exhibition, Nothing Lasts but Nearly Everything Lingers, The Hill Street Country Club, Oceanside, California
Sculpture at the Garden, San Diego Botanic Garden, Encinitas, California
Campus Creatives, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California
2017
I’m Sorry, The Storage Room, Oceanside, California
Magic, Backfence Society, Vista, California
The Vine Affair, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California
Infinite Expression II, Booze Brothers, Vista, California
2016
Meditations, Sergott Contemporary, Rancho Santa Fe, California
Embody, Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, California
Infinite Expression, Bagby, Oceanside, California
2015
Printed Works, Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, California
Art Auction, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California
Art Alliance at the Museum, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California
Solo Exhibition, Endless Revisions, Blue Gate Gallery, Oceanside, California
Alumni Show, Blue Gate Gallery, Oceanside, California
2014
Art Auction, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California
Art Alliance II, Herbert B. Turner Gallery, Del Mar, California
2013
Vision, Pendleton Gallery, Oceanside, California
Transition, Blue Gate Gallery, Oceanside, California
Art Auction, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California Conduit, Blue Gate Gallery, Oceanside, California
Juried Biennial, Cannon Gallery, Carlsbad, California
2012
Fodder, Blue Gate Gallery, Oceanside, California
HSU Honors Show, CCACA, Davis, California
Sculpture Walk, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
Annual Teapot Show, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
An Introspective Look at Clay, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
Related Experience
Spring 2022: Instructor, Beginning Ceramics, CSUB
Spring 2021: Teaching Assistant, Arts Education (online), Christina Korn, UCLA
Winter 2021: Teaching Assistant, Beginning Ceramics (online), Laub, UCLA
Fall 2020: Teaching Assistant, Advanced Ceramics (online), Candice Lin, UCLA
Spring 2020: Teaching Assistant, Advanced Ceramics (online), Tia Pulitzer, UCLA
Fall 2020: Teaching Assistant, Strategies and Methods for Visual Arts Teaching Artistry, Charla Elizabeth, UCLA
Spring 2019: Teaching Assistant, Beginning Ceramics, Brad Miller, UCLA
Winter 2019: Teaching Assistant, Modernism, Sami Siegelbaum, UCLA
Fall 2018: Teaching Assistant, Advanced Ceramics, Ben Jackel, UCLA
2012 - 2018: Instructional Assistant/Ceramics Lab Technician, Mira Costa Community College 2012 - 2018: Assistant and liaison, Land Arts of the American West, Mira Costa Community College
2014: Studio Assistant, Hiroshi Ikehata
2012: Teaching Assistant, Nancy Frazier, Humboldt State University
2011 - 2012: Ceramics Lab Technician, Humboldt State University
Press
Sarah Rose Sharp, Fierce and Fantastical Experiments in Ceramics, Hyperallergic, 2022
Elizabeth Fazzare, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery Co-Owner Seth Curcio Collects Art to Mark His Own History, Cultured Mag, 2022
Lectures/Presentations
UCLA, Arts Education (online), Los Angeles, CA, April 14, 2021
UCLA, Beginning Ceramics (online), Los Angeles, CA, February 20, 2021 UCLA, Advanced Ceramics, Los Angeles, CA, May 5, 2020
UCLA, Beginning Ceramics, Los Angeles, CA, February 5, 2019
Mira Costa College, Professional Practices, Oceanside, CA, April 30, 2018 Hillstreet Country Club, Oceanside, CA, July 30, 2018
Mira Costa College, Ceramics, Oceanside, CA, April 23, 2018
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, March 11, 2017
Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, CA, October 27, 2016
Awards/Recognition
2020
Commission for permanent collection, City of San Diego
Department of Art Award (UCLA)
Clifton Webb Scholarship for the Arts
Adrian Saxe Ceramics Scholarship
2019
Graduate Division Award
UCLA Art Council Award
Mrs. Sydney A. Temple Art Scholarship
Laura F. Andreson Scholarship
2018
Martha Matthias Denny Scholarship
Laura F. Andreson Scholarship
Weiser Family Foundation Scholarship
D’Arcy Hayman Scholarship
2016
Commission, San Diego Art Institute
2015
Research and Travel Grant, Mira Costa Community College
2014
Research and Travel Grant, Mira Costa Community College
2013
Research and Travel Grant, Mira Costa Community College