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EDUCATION

M.F.A., University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 1996
B.F.A., California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2008 -Aida Gamez and Linda Geary, Barry Sakata Gallery, Sacramento, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 - Day of the Dead exhibition, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
2007 - 7 / 07 - Seven Woman Artists, Barry Sakata Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2007 - I Want Sugar, Mama Buzz Café, Oakland, CA
2006 - See Jane Run, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2006 - Department of Art Practice Faculty Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2005 - MACLA, Changing Forms, San Jose, CA
2004 - Gallery Route One, Three-Person Juried Exhibition, Point Reyes, CA
2004 - Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle, Exhibits USA (5-city tour):
2004 - J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, College Station, TX
2004 - Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX
2004 - Milton Hershey School Art Museum, Hershey, PA
2004 - Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
2004 - Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
2003 - USF Visual Arts Exhibition, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2002 - Faculty Show, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA
2001 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 - Wendy Sussman Memorial Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2001 - CSSSA Faculty Show, CalArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 - Needle Art, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
1998 - Show Thirteen, Two-Person Exhibition, Gallery Oboy, San Francisco, CA
1998 - Hand and Hand, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1998 - Observations / Remembrance, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
1997 - Spiraling Through The Center, New College of California, San Francisco, CA
1997 - Astroturf, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1997 - Football, Memorial Stadium, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1996 - Berkeley Art Museum, MFA Show, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1996 - James Breslin Memorial Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1996 - Point of View, Lillian Paley Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
1196 - Artistas Mexicos / Americanos De San Francisco, Loteria Nacional, Mexico City, D.F.
1986 - New Perspective, Lillian Paley Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
1986 - Sangre Nueva (New Blood), Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA
1986 - Ocho Mujeres en las Artes Plasticas, Centro Bolivariano de Cultura, Casa Macondo, San Francisco, CA
1985 - Women By Women, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

Homegrown: Fields of Califas, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
Latin American Prints, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

PUBLICATIONS

Mentioned in the following:
Diablo Arts magazine, a publication of the Dean Lesher Center for the Arts, September 2006
Contra Costa Times, May 4, 2006
Oakland Tribune, May 1, 2006
Metro, Silicon Valley’s Weekly Newspaper, August 2005
San Jose Mercury News, July 31, 2005
El-Observador, Calendario, July 2005

AWARDS

1995 - Eisner Prize for Highest Achievement in the Creative Arts, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1995 - Art Practice Fellowship, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1994 - Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA